The Septuagint Audio Bible: Recent Episodes
Tom Bradford
The Septuagint version of the Bible was translated from Hebrew to Greek by 70 Jewish scribes fluent in both languages. This is likely the version of the Bible Jesus would have used.
1 And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let thy name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.
2 And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel. 3 And it shall be, that the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem, even all that are appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy. 4 For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgement, and the spirit of burning. 5 And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud over shadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence. 6 And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.
1 Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty men and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water, 2 the great and mighty men, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counsellor, and the elder, the captain of fifty also, and the honourable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer. 4 And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them. 5 And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbour: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honourable. 6 For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father’s household, saying, Thou hast raiment, be thou our ruler, and let my meat be under thee. 7 And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be thy ruler; for I have no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.
1 The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea, and concerning Jerusalem.
2 For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it. 3 And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.
5 And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. 6 For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them. 7 For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of their chariots.
1 The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.
2 Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 5 Why should ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad. 6 From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer are healed: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages. 7 Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations. 8 The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1 I would that thou, O my kinsman, wert he that sucked the breasts of my mother; when I found thee without, I would kiss thee: yea, they should not despise me. 2 I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.
3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
5 Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised thee up under an apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she that bore thee brought thee forth.
6 Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, even the flames thereof.
7 Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, men would utterly despise it.
8 Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister in the day wherein she shall be spoken for? 9 If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers; I was in their eyes as one that found peace.
1 What will ye see in the Sunamite? She comes as bands of armies.
Thy steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of thy thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman. 2 Thy navel is as a turned bowl, not wanting liquir; thy belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns. 4 Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the daughter of many: thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus. 5 Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries. 6 How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love! 7 This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose as apples; 9 and thy throat as good wine, going well with thy kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.
10 I am my kinsman’s and his desire is toward me.
1 My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 2 I am my kinsman’s, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.
3 Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array. 4 Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad. 5 Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely. 6 Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, being seen without thy veil.
7 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number. 8 My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her. 9 Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as armies set in array?
10 I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, if the pomegranates blossomed.
1 Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundandtly.
2 I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? 4 My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, and my belly was moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock. 6 I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not. 7 The watchmen that go their rounds in the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.
9 What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?
10 My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.
1 Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves, beside thy veil: thy hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad. 2 Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them. 3 Thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is thy cheek without thy veil. 4 Thy neck is as the tower of David, that was built for an armoury: a thousand shields hang upon it, and all darts of mighty men. 5 Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed among the lilies. 6 Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. 7 Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.
8 Come from Libanus, my bride, come from Libanus: thou shalt come and pass from the top of Faith, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the lion’s dens, from the mountains of the leopards. 9 My sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished my heart; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. 10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! how much more beautiful are thy breasts than wine, and the smell of thy garments than all spices!
1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me. 2 I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. I said, Have ye seen him whom my soul loves? 4 It was a little while after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
5 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please.
6 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfume with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer? 7 Behold, Solomon’s bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it. 8 They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.
9 King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon. 10 He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
1 I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.
2 As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.
3 As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat. 4 Bring me into the wine house; set love before me. 5 Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love. 6 His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
7 I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.
8 The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
9 My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices. 10 My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.
1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for thy breasts are better than wine. 3 And the smell of thine ointments is better than all spices: thy name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love thee. 4 They have drawn thee: we will will run after thee, for the smell of thine ointments: the king has brought me into his closet: let us rejoice and be glad in thee; we will love thy breasts more than wine: righteousness loves thee.
5 I am black, but beautiful, ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6 Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother’s sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.
7 Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions.
8 If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids by the shepherd’s tents. 9 I have likened thee, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao. 10 How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, thy neck as chains!
1 And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. 2 While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain: 3 in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding women cease because they have become few, and the women looking out at the windows be dark; 4 and they shall shut the doors in the market-place, because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds at the mill; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be brought low; 5 and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market: 6 before the silver cord be let go, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern; 7 before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity. 9 And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables. 10 The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, even words of truth.
1 Send for thy bread upon the face of the water: for thou shalt find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth. 3 If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour it out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be. 4 He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap. 5 Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones are hid in the womb of a pregnant woman, so thou shalt not know the works of God, even all things whatsoever he shall do. 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thine hand be slack: for thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.
7 Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun. 8 For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement. 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
1 Pestilent flies will corrupt a preparation of sweet ointment: and a little wisdom is more precious than great glory of folly.
2 A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left. 3 Yea, and whenever a fool walks by the way, his heart will fail him, and all that he thinks of is folly.
4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for soothing will put an end to great offences. 5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, wherein an error has proceeded from the ruler. 6 The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one. 7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth.
8 He that digs a pit shall fall into it: and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.
9 He that removes stones shall be troubled thereby; he that cleaves wood shall be endangered thereby. 10 If the axe-head should fall off, then the man troubles his countenance, and he must put forth more strength: and in that case skill is of no advantage to a man.
1 I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face. 2 Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.
3 There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one even to all: yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead. 4 For who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope of him: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5 For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yea, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.
7 Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works. 8 Let thy garments be always white; and let not oil be wanting on thine head. 9 And see life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which are given thee under the sun: for that is thy portion in thy life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.
10 Whatsoever thine hand shall find to do, do with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades whither thou goest.
1 Who knows the wise? and who knows the interpretation of a saying?
A man’s wisdom will lighten his countenance; but a man of shameless countenance will be hated.
2 Observe the commandment of the king, and that because of the word of the oath of God. 3 Be not hasty; thou shalt go forth out of his presence: stand not in an evil matter; for he will do whatsoever he shall please, 4 even as a king having power: and who will say to him, What doest thou?
5 He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgement. 6 For to every thing there is time and judgement; for the knowledge of a man is great to him. 7 For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?
8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.
9 So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him. 10 And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and that out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.
1 What advantage has a man? for who knows what is good for a man in his life, during the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
2 A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth. 3 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the banquet house: since this is the end of every man; and the living man will apply good warning to his heart. 4 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better. 5 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
6 It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man than for a man to hear the song of fools. 7 As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.
8 For oppression makes a wise man mad, and destroys his noble heart. 9 The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded. 10 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is abundant with man: 2 a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance and honour, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 4 For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness. 5 Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: there is no more rest to this one than another. 6 Though he has lived to the return of a thousand years, yet he has seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7 All the labour of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied. 8 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, since even the poor knows how to walk in the direction of life? 9 The sight of the eyes is better than that which wanders in soul: this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.
10 If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he. 11 For there are many things which increase vanity.
1 Be not hasty with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be swift to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven above, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 2 For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool’s voice is with a multitude of words.
3 Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed. 4 It is better that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 5 Suffer not thy mouth to lead thy flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the works of thy hands. 6 For there is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.
7 If thou shouldest see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgement and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them. 8 Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king is dependent on the tilled field.
9 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity. 10 In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding it with his eyes?
1 So I returned, and saw all the oppressions that were done under the sun: and behold the tear of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of them that oppressed them was power; but they had no comforter: 2 and I praised all the dead that had already died more than the living, as many as are alive until now. 3 Better also than both these is he who has not yet been, who has not seen all the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 And I saw all labour, and all the diligent work, that this is a man’s envy from his neighbour. This is also vanity and waywardness of spirit. 5 The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh. 6 Better is a handful of rest than two handfuls of trouble and waywardness of spirit.
7 So I returned, and saw vanity under the sun. 8 There is one alone, and there is a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother: yet there is no end to all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with wealth; and for whom do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? this is also vanity, and an evil trouble. 9 Two are better than one, seeing they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls, and there is not a second to lift him up.
1 To all things there is a time, and a season for every matter under heaven. 2 A time of birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up; 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to lament, and a time to dance; 5 a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing; 6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak; 8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What advantage has he that works in those things wherein he labours?
10 I have seen all the trouble, which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with.
1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, and behold thou good: and, behold, this is also vanity. 2 I said to laughter, Madness: and to mirth, Why doest thou this?
3 And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as with wine, (though my heart guided me in wisdom,) and I desired to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life. 4 I enlarged my work; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards. 5 I made me gardens and orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit-tree. 6 I made me pools of water, to water from them the timber-bearing wood. 7 I got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem. 8 Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers.
9 So I became great, and advanced beyond all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom was established to me. 10 And whatever mine eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth: for my heart rejoiced in all my labour; and this was my portion of all my labour.
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What advantage is there to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes: but the earth stands for ever. 5 And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place; 6 arising there it proceeds southward, and goes round toward the north. The wind goes round and round, and the wind returns to its circuits. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour; a man will not be able to speak of them: neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.
9 What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: and what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 10 Who is he that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.
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10 Who shall find a virtuous woman? for such a one is more valuable than precious stones. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her: such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils. 12 For she employs all her living for her husband’s good. 13 Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands. 14 She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood. 15 And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and appointed tasks to her maidens. 16 She views a farm, and buys it: and with the fruit of her hands she plants a possession. 17 She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work. 18 And she finds by experience that working is good; and her candle goes not out all night. 19 She reaches forth her arms to needful works, and applies her hands to the spindle,
1 A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy. 2 When the righteous are praised, the people will rejoice: but when the ungodly rule, men mourn. 3 When a man loves wisdom, his father rejoices: but he that keeps harlots will waste wealth. 4 A righteous king establishes a country: but a transgressor destroys it. 5 He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it. 6 A great snare is spread for a sinner: but the righteous shall be in joy and gladness. 7 A righteous man knowns how to judge for the poor: but the ungodly understands not knowledge; and the poor man has not an understanding mind.
8 Lawless men burn down a city: but wise men turn away wrath. 9 A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not. 10 Bloody men hate a holy person, but the upright will seek his soul.
1 The ungodly man flees when no one pursues: but the righteous is confident as a lion. 2 By reason of the sins of ungodly men quarrels rise; but a wise man will quell them. 3 A bold man oppresses the poor by ungodly deeds. As an impetuous and unprofitable rain, 4 so they that forsake the law praise ungodliness; but they that love the law fortify themselves with a wall. 5 Evil men will not understand judgement: but they that seek the Lord will understand everything.
6 A poor man walking in truth is better than a rich liar. 7 A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonours his father. 8 He that increases his wealth by usuries and unjust gains, gathers it for him that pities the poor. 9 He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even he has made his prayer abominable.
10 He that causes upright men to err in an evil way, himself shall fall into destruction: transgressors also shall pass by prosperity, but shall not enter into it.
1 Boast not of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what the next day shall bring forth. 2 Let thy neighbour, and not thine own mouth, praise thee; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and sand cumbersome; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than both. 4 Wrath is merciless, and anger sharp: but envy can bear nothing. 5 Open reproofs are better than secret love. 6 The wounds of a friend are more to be trusted than the spontaneous kisses of an enemy.
7 A full soul scorns honeycombs; but to a hungry soul even bitter things appear sweet. 8 As when a bird flies down from its own nest, so a man is brought into bondage whenever he estranges himself from his own place. 9 The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.
10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; and when thou art in distress go not into thy brother’s house: better is a friend that is near than a brother living far off.
1 As dew in harvest, and as rain in summer, so honour is not seemly for a fool. 2 As birds and sparrows fly, so a curse shall not come upon any one without a cause. 3 As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, so is a rod for a simple nation. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou become like him. 5 Yet answer a fool according to his folly, lest he seem wise in his own conceit. 6 He that sends a message by a foolish messenger procures for himself a reproach from his own ways. 7 As well take away the motion of the legs, as transgression from the mouth of fools. 8 He that binds up a stone in a sling, is like one that gives glory to a fool. 9 Thorns grow in the hand of a drunkard, and servitude in the hand of fools. 10 All the flesh of fools endures much hardship; for their fury is brought to nought.
1 These are the miscellaneous instructions of Solomon, which the friends of Ezekias king of Judea copied out.
2 The glory of God conceals a matter: but the glory of a king honours business. 3 Heaven is high, and earth is deep, and a king’s heart is unsearchable. 4 Beat the drossy silver, and it shall be made entirely pure. 5 Slay the ungodly from before the king, and his throne shall prosper in righteousness.
6 Be not boastful in the presence of the king, and remain not in the palaces of princes: 7 for it is better for thee that it should be said, Come up to me, than that one should humble thee in the presence of the prince; speak of that which thine eyes have seen.
8 Get not suddenly into a quarrel, lest thou repent at last. 9 Whenever thy friend shall reproach thee, retreat backward, despise him not; 10 lest thy friend continue to reproach thee, so thy quarrel and enmity shall not depart, but shall be to thee like death. Favour and friendship set a man free, which do thou keep for thyself, lest thou be made liable to reproach; but take heed to thy ways peaceably.
1 My words have been spoken by God—the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed.
2 What wilt thou keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to thee: what? son of my womb? what? son fo my vows? 3 Give not thy wealth to women, nor thy mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel. 4 Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine: 5 lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and be not able to judge the poor rightly. 6 Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain: 7 that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more. 8 Open thy mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly. 9 Open they mouth and judge justly, and plead the cause of the poor and weak.
1 These things says the man to them that trust in God; and I cease.
2 For I am the most simple of all men, and there is not in me the wisdom of men. 3 God has taught me wisdom, and I know the knowledge of the holy. 4 Who has gone up to heaven, and come down? who has gathered the winds in his bosom? who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? who has dominion of all the ends of the earth? what is his name? or what is the name of his children? 5 For all the words of God are tried in the fire, and he defends those that reverence him. 6 Add not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be made a liar.
7 Two things I ask of thee; take not favour from me before I die. 8 Remove far from me vanity and falsehood: and give me not wealth or poverty; but appoint me what is needful and sufficient: 9 lest I be filled and become false, and say, Who sees me? or be poor and steal, and swear vainly by the name of God.
10 Deliver not a servant into the hands of his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be utterly destroyed.
1 My son, envy not bad men, nor desire to be with them. 2 For their heart meditates falsehoods, and their lips speak mischiefs. 3 A house is built by wisdom, and is set up by understanding. 4 By discretion the chambers are filled with all precious and excellent wealth. 5 A wise man is better than a strong man; and a man who has prudence than a large estate. 6 War is carried on with generalship, and aid is supplied to the heart of a counsellor.
7 Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the wise: the wise turn not aside from the mouth of the Lord, but deliberate in council. 9 Death befalls uninstructed men. The fool also dies in sins; and uncleanness attaches to a pestilent man. 10 He shall be defiled in the evil day, and in the day of affliction, until he be utterly consumed.
1 If thou sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before thee: 2 and apply thine hand, knowing that it behoves thee to prepare such meats: but if thou art very insatiable, 3 desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
4 If thou art poor, measure not thyself with a rich man; but refrain thyself in thy wisdom. 5 If thou shouldest fix thine eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle’s are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master. 6 Sup not with an envious man, neither desire thou his meats: 7 so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to thyself, nor eat thy morsel with him: 8 for he will vomit it up, and spoil thy fair words.
9 Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at they wise words. 10 Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
1 A fair name is better than much wealth, and good favour is above sliver and gold. 2 The rich and the poor meet together; but the Lord made them both. 3 An intelligent man seeing a bad man severely punished is himself instructed, but fools pass by and are punished. 4 The fear of the Lord is the offspring of wisdom, and wealth, and glory, and life. 5 Thistles and snares are in perverse ways; but he that keeps his soul will refrain from them. 7 The rich will rule over the poor, and servants will lend to their own masters.
8 He that sows wickedness shall reap troubles; and shall fully receive the punishment of his deeds. God loves a cheerful and liberal man; but a man shall fully prove the folly of his works. 9 He that has pity on the poor shall himself be maintained; for he has given of his own bread to the poor. He that gives liberally secures victory and honour; but he takes away the life of them that possess them. 10 Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonours all.
1 As a rush of water, so is the king’s heart in God’s hand: he turns it whithersoever he may desire to point out. 2 Every man seems to himself righteous; but the Lord directs the hearts. 3 To do justly and to speak truth, are more pleasing to God than the blood of sacrifices. 4 A highminded man is stout-hearted in his pride; and the lamp of the wicked is sin. 6 He that gathers treasures with a lying tongue pursues vanity on to the snares of death. 7 Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly. 8 To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right. 9 It is better to dwell in a corner on the house-top, than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness, and in an open house. 10 The soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man.
1 Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them. 2 The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul. 3 It is a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters. 4 A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
5 Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out. 6 A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious; but it is hard to find a faithful man. 7 He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed. 8 Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence. 9 Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?
3 The folly of a man spoils his ways: and he blames God in his heart.
4 Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has. 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that accuses unjustly shall not escape. 6 Many court the favour of kings; but every bad man becomes a reproach to another man. 7 Every one who hates his poor brother shall also be far from friendship. Good understanding will draw near to them that know it, and a sensible man will find it. He that does much harm perfects mischief; and he that uses provoking words shall not escape. 8 He that procures wisdom loves himself; and he that keeps wisdom shall find good. 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished; and whosoever shall kindle mischief shall perish by it. 10 Delight does not suit a fool, nor is it seemly if a servant should begin to rule with haughtiness.
1 A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; but at all times he will be liable to reproach. 2 A senseless man feels no need of wisdom, for he is rather led by folly. 3 When an ungodly man comes into a depth of evils, he despises them; but dishonour and reproach come upon him. 4 A word in the heart of a man is a deep water, and a river and fountain of life springs forth. 5 It is not good to accept the person of the ungodly, nor is it holy to pervert justice in judgement.
6 The lips of a fool bring him into troubles, and his bold mouth calls for death. 7 A fool’s mouth is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul. 8 Fear casts down the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate shall hunger. 9 A man who helps not himself by his labour is brother of him that ruins himself. 10 The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous running to it are exalted.
1 Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace, than a house full of many good things and unjust sacrifices, with strife. 2 A wise servant shall have rule over foolish masters, and shall divide portions among brethren. 3 As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord. 4 A bad man hearkens to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man attends not to false lips. 5 He that laughs at the poor provokes him that made him; and that rejoices at the destruction of another shall not be held guiltless: but he that has compassion shall find mercy.
6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and their fathers are the glory of children. The faithful has the whole world full of wealth; but the faithless not even a farthing. 7 Faithful lips will not suit a fool; nor lying lips a just man. 8 Instruction is to them that use it a gracious reward: and withersoever it may turn, it shall prosper. 9 He that conceals injuries seeks love; but he that hates to hide them separates friends and kindred. 10 A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man; but a fool, though scourged, understands not.
5 Every one that is proud in heart is unclean before God, and he that unjustly strikes hands with hand shall not be held guiltless. The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices. He that seeks the Lord shall find knowledge with righteousness: and they that rightly seek him shall find peace. All the works of the Lord are done with righteousness; and the ungodly man is kept for the evil day.
10 There is an oracle upon the lips of a king; and his mouth shall not err in judgement.
1 Anger slays even wise men; yet a submissive answer turns away wrath: but a grievous word stirs up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise knows what is good: but the mouth of the foolish tells out evil things.
3 The eyes of the Lord behold both the evil and the good in every place. 4 The wholesome tongue is a tree of life and he that keeps it shall be filled with understanding. 5 A fool scorns his father’s instruction: but he that keeps his commandments is more prudent. In abounding righteousness is great strength: but the ungodly shall utterly perish from the earth.
6 In the houses of the righteous is much strength: but the fruits of the ungodly shall perish. 7 The lips of the wise are bound by discretion: but the hearts of the foolish are not safe. 8 The sacrifices of the ungodly are an abomination of the Lord; but the prayers of them that walk honestly are acceptable with him. 9 The ways of an ungodly man are an abomination to the Lord; but he loves those that follow after righteousness. 10 The instruction of the simple is known by them that pass by; but they that hate reproofs die disgracefuly.
1 Wise women build houses: but a foolish one digs hers down with her hands. 2 He that walks uprightly fears the Lord; but he that is perverse in his ways shall be dishonoured. 3 Out of the mouth of fools comes a rod of pride; but the lips of the wise preserve them. 4 Where no oxen are, the cribs are clean; but where there is abundant produce, the strength of the ox is apparent. 5 A faithful witness does not lie; but an unjust witness kindles falsehoods. 6 Thou shalt seek wisdom with bad men, and shalt not find it; but discretion is easily available with the prudent.
7 All things are adverse to a foolish man; but wise lips are the weapons of discretion. 8 The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways; but the folly of fools leads astray. 9 The houses of transgressors will need purification; but the houses of the just are acceptable.
10 If a man’s mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.
1 A wise son is obedient to his father: but a disobedient son will be destroyed. 2 A good man shall eat of the fruits of righteousness: but the lives of transgressors shall perish before their time. 3 He that keeps his own mouth keeps his own life: but he that is hasty with his lips shall bring terror upon himself. 4 Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent. 5 A righteous man hates an unjust word: but an ungodly man is ashamed, and will have no confidence. 7 There are some who, having nothing, enrich themselves: and there are some who bring themselves down in the midst of much wealth.
8 A man’s own wealth is the ransom of his life: but the poor endures not threatening. 9 The righteous always have light: but the light of the ungodly is quenched. Crafty souls go astray in sins: but just men pity and are merciful. 10 A bad man does evil with insolence: but they that are judges of themselves are wise.
1 He that loves instruction loves sense, but he that hates reproofs is a fool. 2 He that has found favour with the Lord is made better; but a transgressor shall be passed over in silence. 3 A man shall not prosper by wickedness; but the roots of the righteous shall not be taken up. 4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but as a worm in wood, so a bad woman destroys her husband.
5 The thoughts of the righteous are true judgements; but ungodly men devise deceits. 6 The words of ungodly men are crafty; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. 7 When the ungodly is overthrown, he vanishes away; but the houses of the just remain. 8 The mouth of an understanding man is praised by a man; but he that is dull of heart is had in derision. 9 Better is a man in dishonour serving himself, than one honouring himself and wanting bread.
10 A righteous man has pity for the lives of his cattle; but the bowels of the ungodly are unmerciful.
1 False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable unto him. 2 Wherever pride enters, there will also be disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom. When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy. 5 Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.
6 The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction. 7 At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes. 8 A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place. 9 In the mouth of ungodly men is a snare to citizens: but the understanding of righteous men is prosperous.
1 A wise son makes his father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. 2 Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death. 3 the Lord will not famish a righteous soul: but he will overthrow the life of the ungodly.
4 Poverty brings a man low: but the hands of the vigorous make rich. A son who is instructed shall be wise, and shall use the fool for a servant. 5 A wise son is saved from heat: but a lawless son is blighted of the winds in harvest.
6 The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the just: but untimely grief shall cover the mouth of the ungodly. 7 The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly man is extinguished. 8 A wise man in heart will receive commandments; but he that is unguarded in his lips shall be overthrown in his perverseness. 9 He that walks simply, walks confidently; but he that perverts his ways shall be known. 10 He that winks with his eyes deceitfully, procures griefs for men; but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker.
1 Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars. 2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wind in a bowl, and prepared her table. 3 She has sent forth her servants, calling with a loud proclamation to the feast, saying, 4 Whoso is foolish, let him turn aside to me: and to them that want understanding she says, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink wine which I have mingled for you.
6 Leave folly, that ye may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge. 7 He that reproves evil men shall get dishonour to himself; and he that rebukes ungodly man shall disgrace himself. 8 Rebuke not evil men, lest they should hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more instruction. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the counsel of saints is understanding: for to know the law is the character of a sound mind.
1 Thou shalt proclaim wisdom, that understanding may be obedient to thee. 2 For she is on lofty eminences, and stands in the midst of the ways. 3 For she sits by the gates of princes, and sings in the entrances, saying, 4 You, O men, I exhort; and utter my voice to the sons of men. 5 O ye simple, understand subtlety, and ye that are untaught, imbibe knowledge. 6 Hearken to me; for I will speak solemn truths; and will produce right sayings from my lips. 7 For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing in them wrong or perverse. 9 They are all evident to those that understand, and right to those that find knowledge.
1 My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. 2 My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him: keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes. 3 And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.
4 Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself; 5 that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
6 For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding, 7 passing by the corner in the passages near her house, 8 and speaking, in the dark of the evening, 9 when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:
1 My son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou shalt deliver thine hand to an enemy. 2 For a man’s own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth. 3 My son, do what I command thee, and deliver thyself; for on thy friend’s account thou art come into the power of evil men: faint not, but stir up even thy friend for whom thou art become surety. 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids; 5 that thou mayest deliver thyself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.
1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words; 2 that thou mayest keep good understanding, and discretion of my lips gives thee a charge.
Give no heed to a worthless woman; 3 for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate: 4 but afterwards thou wilt find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword. 5 For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established. 6 For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
7 Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect. 8 Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house: 9 lest thou give away thy life to others, and thy substance to the merciless: 10 lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into the houses of strangers. 11 and thou repent at last, when the flesh of thy body is consumed, 12 and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs! 13 I heard not the voice of him that instructed me, and taught me, neither did I apply mine ear. 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you a good gift; forsake ye not my law. 3 For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother: 4 who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not: 5 and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. 6 And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to thee: love it, and it shall keep thee. 8 Secure it, and it shall exalt thee: honour it, that it may embrace thee; 9 that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight.
1 My son, forget not my laws; but let thine heart keep my words: 2 for length of existence, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck: 4 so shalt thou find favour: and do thou provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.
5 Trust in God with all thine heart; and be not exalted in thine own wisdom. 6 In all thy ways acquaint thyself with her, that she may rightly direct thy paths. 7 Be not wise in thine own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil. 8 Then shall there be health to thy body, and good keeping to thy bones.
9 Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness: 10 that thy storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that thy presses may burst forth with wine.
11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord: nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 12 for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.
1 My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee; 2 thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son.
3 For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; 4 and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; 5 then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding, 7 and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; 8 that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgement; and shalt direct all thy course aright.
10 For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul, 11 good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee; 12 to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.
1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, who reigned in Israel; 2 to know wisdom and instruction, and to perceive words of understanding; 3 to receive also hard sayings, and to understand true justice, and how to direct judgement; 4 that he might give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man discernment and understanding. 5 For by the hearing of these a wise man will be wiser, and the man of understanding will gain direction; 6 and will understand a parable, and a dark speech; the sayings of the wise also, and riddles.
I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father’s house: I tended my father’s sheep. 2 My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery. 3 And who shall tell my Lord? the Lord himself, he himself hears. 4 He sent forth his angel, and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with the oil of his anointing. 5 My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord did not take pleasure in them. 6 I went forth to meet the Philistine; and he cursed me by his idols. 7 But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.
1 Sing to the Lord a new song: his praise is in the assembly of the saints. 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him; and let the children of Sion exult in their king. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with timbrel and psaltery. 4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.
5 The saints shall rejoice in glory; and shall exult on their beds. 6 The high praises of God shall be in their throat, and two-edged swords in their hands; 7 to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples; 8 to bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron; to execute on them the judgement written: this honour have all his saints.
1 Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the highest. 2 Praise ye him, all his angels: Praise ye him, all his hosts. 3 Praise him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and light. 4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens. 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. 6 He has established them for ever, even for ever and ever: he has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away.
7 Praise the Lord from the earth, ye serpents, and all deeps. 8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy wind; the things that perform his word. 9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: 10 wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds: 11 kings of the earth, and all peoples; princes, and all judges of the earth: 12 young men and virgins, old men with youths: 13 let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is exalted; his praise is above the earth and heaven, 14 and he shall exalt the horn of his people, there is a hymn for all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to him.
12 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Sion. 13 For he has strengthened the bars of thy gates; he has blessed thy children within thee. 14 He makes thy borders peaceful, and fills thee with the flour of wheat. 15 He sends his oracle to the earth: his word will run swiftly. 16 He gives snow like wool: he scatters the mist like ashes. 17 Casting forth his ice like morsels: who shall stand before his cold? 18 He shall send out his word, and melt them: he shall blow with his wind, and the waters shall flow. 19 He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgements to Israel. 20 He has not done so to any other nation; and he has not shewn them his judgements.
1 My soul, praise the Lord. 2 While I live will I Praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. 3 Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety. 4 His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
5 Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God: 6 who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever: 7 who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. the Lord looses the fettered ones: 8 the Lord gives wisdom to the blind:
the Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers; 9 he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners. 10 the Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Sion, to all generations.
1 I will exalt thee, my God, my king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. 2 Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 3 The Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; and there is no end of his greatness. 4 Generation after generation shall praise thy works, and tell of thy power. 5 And they shall speak of the glorious majesty of thy holiness, and recount thy wonders. 6 And they shall speak of the power of thy terrible acts; and recount thy greatness. 7 They shall utter the memory of the abundance of thy goodness, and shall exult in thy righteousness.
8 the Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy. 9 the Lord is good to those that wait on him;
1 Blessed be the Lord my God, who instructs my hands for battle, and my fingers for war. 2 My mercy, and my refjuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou takest account of him? 4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass as a shadow.
5 O Lord, bow the heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them. 7 Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;
1 O Lord, attend to my prayer: hearken to my supplication in thy truth; hear me in thy righteousness. 2 And enter not into judgement with thy servant, for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has brought my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in a dark place, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit was grieved in me; my heart was troubled within me. 5 I remembered the days of old; and I meditated on all thy doings: yea, I meditated on the works of thine hands. 6 I spread forth my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee, as a dry land. Pause.
1 I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. 2 I will pour out before him my supplication: I will declare before him mine affliction. 3 When my spirit was fainting within me, then thou knewest my paths; in the very way wherein I was walking, they hid a snare for me. 4 I looked on my right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge faile me; and there was none that cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said, Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living. 6 Attend to my supplication, for I am brought very low; deliver me from them that persecute me; for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to thy name, O Lord; the righteous shall wait for me, until thou recompense me.
1 O Lord, I have cried to thee; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice. 3 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with men who work iniquity: and let me not unite with their choice ones. 5 The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
1 Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man; deliver me from the unjust man. 2 Who have devised injustice in their hearts; all the day they prepared war. 3 They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause. 4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and have stretched out ropes for snares for my feet; they set a stumbling-block for me near the path. Pause.
1 O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before. 3 Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast forseen all my ways. 4 For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, 5 the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot attain to it. 7 Whither shall I go from my Spirit? and whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: If I should go down to hell, thou art present. 9 If I should spread my wings to fly straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, it would be vain,
1 I will give thee thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; and I will sing psalms to thee before the angels; for thou hast heard all the words of my mouth. 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and give thanks to thy name, on account of thy mercy and thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy holy name above every thing. 3 In whatsoever day I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily; thou shalt abundantly provide me with thy power in my soul. 4 Let all the kings of the earth, O Lord, give thanks unto thee; for they have heard all the words of thy mouth. 5 And let them sing in the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.
6 For the Lord is high, and yet regards the lowly; and he knows high things from afar off. 7 Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, thou wilt quicken me; thou hast stretched forth thine hands against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand has saved me. 8 O Lord, thou shalt recompense them on my behalf: thy mercy, O Lord, endures for ever: overlook not the works of thine hands.
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat; and wept when we remembered Sion. 2 We hung our harps on the willows in the midst of it. 3 For there they that had taken us captive asked us the words of a song; and they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4 How should we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. 6 May my tongue cleave to my throat, if I do not remember thee; if I do not prefer Jerusalem as the chief of my joy.
4 To him who alone has wrought great wonders: for his mercy endures for ever. 5 To him who made the heavens by understanding; for his mercy endures for ever. 6 To him who established the earth on the waters; for his mercy endures for ever. 7 To him who alone made great lights; for his mercy endures for ever. 8 The sun to rule the day; for his mercy endures for ever. 9 The moon and the stars to rule the night; for his mercy endures for ever.
10 To him who smote Egypt with their first-born; for his mercy endures for ever. 11 And brought Israel out of the midst of them; for his mercy endures for ever. 12 with a strong hand, and a high arm: for his mercy endures for ever. 13 To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever. 14 and brought Israel through the midst of it: for his mercy endures for ever: 15 and overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy endures for ever. 16 To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.
4 For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure. 5 For I know that the Lord is great, and our Lord is above all gods; 6 all that the Lord willed, he did in heaven, and on the earth, in the sea, and in all deeps. 7 Who brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth: he has made lightnings for the rain: he brings winds out of his treasures. 8 Who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and beast. 9 He sent signs and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, on Pharao, and on all his servants. 10 Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings; 11 Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan: 12 and gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance to Israel his people.
1 Behold now, bless ye the Lord, all the servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 2 Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord. 3 May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless the out of Sion.
1 See now! what is so good, or what so pleasant, as for brethren to dwell together? 2 It is as ointment on the head, that ran down to the beard, even the beard of Aaron; that ran down to the fringe of his clothing. 3 As the dew of Aermon, that comes down on the mountains of Sion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for ever.
11 the Lord sware in truth to David, and he will not annul it, saying, Of the fruit of thy body will I set a king upon thy throne. 12 If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon thy throne for ever. 13 For the Lord has elected Sion, he has chosen her for a habitation for himself, saying, 14 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have chosen it. 15 I will surely bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. 16 I will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall greatly exult. 17 There will I cause to spring up a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp for mine anointed
O Lord, my heart is not exalted, neither have mine eyes been haughtily raised: neither have I exercised myself in great matters, nor in things too wonderful for me. 2 I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exalted my soul: according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so wilt thou recompense my soul. 3 Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
1 Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O Lord. 2 O Lord, hearken to my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. 3 If thou, O Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? 4 For with thee is forgiveness: for thy name’s sake 5 have I waited for thee, O Lord, my soul has waited for thy word. 6 My soul has hoped in the Lord; from the morning watch till night.
7 Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
1 Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say: 2 Many a time have they warred against me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me. 3 The sinners wrought upon my back: they prolonged their iniquity. 4 The righteous Lord has cut asunder the necks of sinners.
5 Let all that hate Sion be put to shame and turned back. 6 Let them be as the grass of the house-tops, which whithers before it is plucked up. 7 Wherewith the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom. 8 Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.
1 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in his ways. 2 Thou shalt eat labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee. 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of thy house: thy children as young olive-plants round about thy table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord. 5 May the Lord bless thee out of Sion; and mayest thou see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. 6 And mayest thou see thy children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.
1 Except the Lord build the house, they that build labour in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise early: ye rise up after resting, ye that eat the bread of grief; while he gives sleep to his beloved.
3 Behold, the inheritance of the Lord, children, the reward of the fruit of the womb. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man; so are the children of those who were outcasts. 5 Blessed is the man who shall satisfy his desire with them: they shall not be ashamed when they shall speak to their enemies in the gates.
1 When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion, we became as comforted ones. 2 Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation: then would they say among the Gentiles, 3 the Lord has done great things among them. the Lord has done great things for us, we became joyful.
4 Turn, O Lord, our captivity, as the streams in the south. 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6 They went on and wept as they cast their seeds; but they shall surely come with exultation, bringing their sheaves with them.
1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved. 2 The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth and even for ever. 3 For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.
4 Do good, O Lord, to them that are good, and to them that are upright in heart. 5 But them that turn aside to crooked ways the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
1 If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; 2 if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us; 3 verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent. 5 Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.
6 Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
1 Unto thee who dwellest in heaven have I lifted up mine eyes. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants are directed to the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maid servant to the hands of her mistress; so our eyes are directed to the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us. 3 Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Yea, our soul has been exceedingly filled with it: let the reproach be to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.
1 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete. 4 For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there are set thrones for judgement, even thrones for the house of David.
6 Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love thee. 7 Let peace, I pray, be within thine host, and prosperity in thy palaces. 8 For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning thee. 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God. I have diligently sought thy good.
1 I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come. 2 My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. 3 Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber. 4 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. 5 the Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand. 6 The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night. 7 May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul. 8 the Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.
1 In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, and he hearkened to me. 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for thy crafty tongue? 4 Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.
5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar. 6 My soul has long been a sojourner; 7 I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.
1 Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that search out his testimonies: they will diligently seek him with the whole heart. 3 For they that work iniquity have not walked in his ways. 4 Thou hast commanded us diligently to keep thy precepts. 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thine ordinances. 6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments. 7 I will give thee thanks with uprightness of heart, when I have learnt the judgments of thy righteousness. 8 I will keep thine ordinances: O forsake me not greatly.
9 Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping thy words.
Alleluia.
1 Give thanks to the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 2 Let now the house of Israel say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 3 Let now the house of Aaron say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever. 4 Let now all that fear the Lord say, that he is good: for his mercy endures for ever.
5 I called on the Lord out of affliction: and he hearkened to me, so as to bring me into a wide place. 6 the Lord is my
Alleluia.
1 Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye peoples. 2 For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.
1 I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication. 2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him while I live. 3 The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of the Lord: O Lord, deliver my soul.
5 the Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity. 6 the Lord preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he delivered me. 7 Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For he has delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I shall be well-pleasing before the Lord in the land of the living.
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to thy name give glory, because of thy mercy and thy truth; 2 lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God? 3 But our God has done in heaven and on earth, whatsoever he has pleased.
4 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men’s hands. 5 They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see: 6 they have ears, but they cannot hear; they have noses, but they cannot smell; 7 they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat. 8 Let those that make them become like to them, and all who trust in them.
9 The house of Israel trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 10 The house of Aaron trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 11 They that fear the Lord trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.
1 Blessed is the man that fears the Lord: he will delight greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty in the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures for evermore. 4 To the upright light has sprung in darkness: he is pitiful, and merciful and righteous. 5 The good man is he that pities and lends: he will direct his affairs with judgement. 6 For he shall not be moved for ever; the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. 7 He shall not be afraid of any evil report: his heart is ready to trust in the Lord. 8 His heart is established, he shall not fear, till he shall see his desire upon his enemies.
1 I will give thee thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. 2 The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all his will. 3 His work is worthy of thanksgiving and honour: and his righteousness endures for ever and ever. 4 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is merciful and compassionate. 5 He has given food to them that fear him: he will remember his covenant for ever. 6 He has declared to his people the power of his works, to give them the inheritance of the heathen. 7 The works of his hands are truth and judgement: all his commandments are sure: 8 established for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness. 9 He sent redemption to his people: he commanded his covenant for ever: holy and fearful is his name. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and all that act accordingly have a good understanding; his praise endures for ever and ever.
1 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 the Lord shall send out a rod of power for thee out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, in the splendours of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning. 4 The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec. 5 the Lord at thy right hand has dashed in pieces kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.
16 Because he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, and that to slay him that was pricked in his heart. 17 He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him. 18 Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it is come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones. 19 Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually. 20 This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 But thou, O Lord, Lord deal mercifully with me, for thy name’s sake: for thy mercy is good. 22 Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me. 23 I am removed as a shadow in its going down: I am tossed up and down like locusts. 24 My knees are weakened through fasting, and my flesh is changed by reason of the want of oil. 25 I became also a reproach to them: when they saw me they shook their heads.
O God, my heart is ready, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms with my glory. 2 Awake, psaltery and harp; I will awake early. 3 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people; I will sing praise to thee among the Gentiles. 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reaches to the clouds. 5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth. 6 That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and hear me. God has spoken in his sanctuary; 7 I will be exalted, and will divide Sicima, and will measure out the valley of tents. 8 Galaad is mine; and Manasses is mine; and Ephraim is the help of mine head; Judas is my king; 9 Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I cast my sandal; the Philistines are made subject to me.
This Psalm is arranged in four groupings describing a human condition of downcast and the corresponding deliverance of the Lord. The Psalmist encourages those who are delivered to sing God's praises and declare his mercies to the people.
The psalmist recounts all the wickedness of Israel and the glory of God and appeals to God to save them for his glory for his name's sake.
1 Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen. 2 Sing to him, yea, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works. 3 Glory in his holy name: let the heart of them that seek the Lord rejoice. 4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened; seek his face continually. 5 Remember his wonderful works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth; 6 ye seed of Abraam, his servants, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
7 He is the Lord our God; his judgements are in all the earth. 8 He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generations: 9 which he established as a covenant to Abraam, and he remembered his oath to Isaac. 10 And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: 11 saying, To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the line of your inheritance: 12 when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it. 13 And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people. 14 He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes: 15 saying, Touch not my anointed ones; and do my prophets no harm. 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole support of bread.
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou hast clothed thyself with praise and honour: 2 who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain. 3 Who covers his chambers with waters; who makes the clouds his chariot: who walks on the wings of the wind. 4 Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire.
5 Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: it shall not be moved for ever. 6 The deep, as it were a garment, is his covering: the waters shall stand on the hills. 7 At thy rebuke they shall flee; at the voice of thy thunder they shall be alarmed. 8 They go up to the mountains, and down to the plains, to the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass, neither shall they turn again to cover the earth.
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his praises. 3 who forgives all thy transgressions, who heals all thy diseases; 4 who redeems thy life from corruption; who crowns thee with mercy and compassion; 5 who satisfies thy desire with good things: so that thy youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.
6 the Lord executes mercy and judgement for all that are injured. 7 He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy. 9 He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities. 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear him. 14 For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust.
A prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord.
1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee. 2 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me; in the day when I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me.
3 For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. 4 I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning; my bone has cleaved to my flesh. 6 I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; 7 I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. 8 All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me. 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. 10 because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down.
11 My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass. 12 But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation.
1 I will sing to thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgement; I will sing a psalm, 2 and I will be wise in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. 3 I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors. 4 A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not know an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me. 5 Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from me: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart,—with him I have not eaten. 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me. 7 The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight. 8 Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.
1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation. 3 Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name. 5 For the Lord is good, his mercy is for ever; and his truth endures to generation and generation.
1 the Lord reigns;—let the people rage; it is he that sits upon the cherubs, let the earth be moved. 2 the Lord is great in Sion, and is high over all the people. 3 Let them give thanks to thy great name; for it is terrible and holy. 4 And the king’s honour loves judgement; thou hast prepared equity, thou hast wrought judgement and justice in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he heard them. 7 He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the ordinances which he gave them. 8 O Lord our God, thou heardest them; O God, thou
becamest propitious to them, though thou didst take vengeance on all their devices. 9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.
1 Sing to the Lord a new song; for the Lord has wrought wonderful works, his right hand, and his holy arm, have wrought salvation for him.
2 the Lord has made known his salvation, he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3 He has remembered his mercy to Jacob, and his truth to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
4 Shout to God, all the earth; sing, and exult, and sing psalms. 5 Sing to the Lord with a harp, with a harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6 With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king. 7 Let the sea be moved, and the fulness of it; the world, and they that dwell in it. 8 The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult. 9 For he is come to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the nations in uprightness.
1 the Lord reigns, let the earth exult, let many islands rejoice.
2 Cloud and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgement are the establishment of his throne. 3 Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round
about. 4 His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled. 5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 6 The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory.
7 Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all ye his angels.
1 Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name: proclaim his salvation from day to day. 3 Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people.
4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is terrible above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the heathen are devils: but the Lord made the heavens. 6 Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.
1 Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us
make a joyful noise to God our Saviour. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people. 4 For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his. 5 For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Come let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us. 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. 8 To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness: 9 where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. 10 Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
1 The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself. 2 Be thou exalted, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast? 4 They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak so. 5 They have afflicted thy people, O Lord, and hurt thine heritage. 6 They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger. 7 And they said, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand. 8 Understand now, ye simple among the people; and ye fools, at length be wise. 9 He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive? 10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, even he that teaches man knowledge? 11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.
1 The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honour: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved. 2 Thy throne is prepared of old: thou art from everlasting. 3 The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices, at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places. 5 Thy testimonies are made very sure: holiness becomes thine house, O Lord, for ever.
1 It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High; 2 to proclaim thy mercy in the mourning, and thy truth by night, 3 on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp. 4 For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work: and in the operations of thy hands will I exult.
5 How have thy works been magnified, O Lord! thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this. 7 When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; it is that they may be utterly destroyed for ever. 8 But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever.
1 He that dwells in the help of the highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. 2 He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him. 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, from every troublesome matter. 4 He shall overshadow thee with his shoulders, and thou shalt trust under his wings: his truth shall cover thee with a shield. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day; 6 nor of the evil thing that walks in the darkness; nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only thine eyes shalt thou observe and see the reward of sinners.
1 Lord, thou hast been our refuge in all generations. 2 Before the mountains existed, and before the earth and the world were formed, even from age to age, Thou art. 3 Turn not man back to his low place, whereas thou saidst, Return, ye sons of men? 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Years shall be vanity to them: let the morning pass away as grass. 6 In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up. 7 For we have perished in thine anger, and in thy wrath we have been troubled.
1 I will sing of thy mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare thy truth with my mouth to all generations. 2 For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy truth shall be established in the heavens. 3 I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I sware unto David my servant. 4 I will establish thy seed for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Pause.
5 The heavens shall declare thy wonders, O Lord; and thy truth in the assembly of the saints. 6 For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God? 7 God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him. 8 O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, and thy truth is round about thee. 9 Thou rulest the power of the sea; and thou calmest the tumult of its waves.
1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee. 2 Let my prayer come in before thee; incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.
3 For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn nigh to Hades. 4 I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help; 5 free among the dead, as the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; whom thou rememberest no more; and they are rejected from thy hand. 5 They laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, and in the shadow of death. 7 Thy wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and thou hast brought upon me all thy billows. Pause. 8 Thou hast removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth. 9 Mine eyes are dimmed from poverty; but I cried to thee, O Lord, all the day; I spread forth my hands to thee.
1 His foundations are in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loves the gates of Sion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob. 3 Glorious things have been spoken of thee, O City of God. Pause.
4 I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there. 5 A man shall say, Sion is my mother; and such a man was born in her; and the Highest himself has founded her. 6 The Lord shall recount it in the writing of the people, and of these princes that were born in her. Pause. 7 The dwelling of all within thee is as the dwelling of those that rejoice.
1 O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save thy servant, O God, who hopes in thee. 3 Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. 5 For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. 6 Give ear to my prayer, O Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication. 7 In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.
8 There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the gods; and there are no works like to thy works. 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come, and shall worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wonders: thou art the only and the great God. 11 Guide me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice, that I may fear thy name. 12 I will give thee thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify thy name for ever. 13 For thy mercy is great toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
1 O Lord, thou hast taken pleasure in thy land: thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven thy people their transgressions; thou hast covered all their sins. Pause. 3 Thou hast caused all thy wrath to cease: thou hast turned from thy fierce anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn thine anger away from us. 5 Wouldest thou be angry with us for ever? or wilt thou continue thy wrath from generation to generation? 6 O God, thou wilt turn and quicken us; and thy people shall rejoice in thee. 7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him.
1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 2 My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God. 3 yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. Pause. 5 Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up 6 the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for there the law-giver will grant blessings. 7 They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
2 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints. 4 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. 5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee; 6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
9 Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. 10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee
1 God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods. How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. 3 Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. 4 Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.
5 They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. 6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High. 7 But ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets. 7 Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause. 8 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me; 9 there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god. 10 For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me. 12 So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go in their own ways.
1 Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself; 2 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us. 3 Turn us, O God, and cause they face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
4 O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? 5 Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure. 6 Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us. 7 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. 2 They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. 3 They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
5 How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste.
he Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel. 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. 23 Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven. 24 and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. 25 Man ate angels’ bread; he sent them provision to the full.
1 I cried to the Lord with my voice, yea, my voice was addressed to God; and he gave heed to me. 2 In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. 4 All mine enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not.
1 God is known in Judea; his name is great in Israel. 2 And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion. 3 There he broke the power of the bows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause.
4 Thou dost wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains. 5 All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands. 6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered. 7 Thou art terrible; and who shall withstand thee, because of thine anger? 8 Thou didst cause judgement to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, 9 when God arose to judgment to save all the meek in heart. Pause.
10 For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to thee: and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to thee. 11 Vow and pay your vows to the Lord our God; all that are round about him shall bring gifts, even to him that is terrible, 12 and that takes away the spirits of princes; to him that is terrible among the kings of the earth.
1 We will give thanks to thee, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon thy name: I will declare all thy wonderful works. 2 When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously. 3 The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause.
4 I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn. 5 Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God. 6 For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. 7 For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another. 8 For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them.
9 But I will exult for ever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 And I will break all the horns of the sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.
8 They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. 9 We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more.
10 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name for ever? 11 Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever? 12 But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. 13 Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water. 14 Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations. 15 Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers. 16 The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon. 17 Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.
1 How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! 2 But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. 3 For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquillity of sinners.
4 For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction. 5 They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. 6 Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. 7 Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.
3 Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people: 4 he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. 5 And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever. 6 He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth. 7 In his days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed. 8 And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. 9 The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
1 O Lord, I have hoped in thee: let me never be put to shame. 2 In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me. 3 Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge. 4 Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man. 5 For thou art my support, O Lord; O Lord, thou art my hope from my youth. 6 On thee have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother thou art my protector: of thee is my praise continually.
1 Draw nigh, O God, to my help. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward
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and put to shame, that wish me evil. 3 Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. 4 Let all that seek thee exult and be glad in thee: and let those that love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. 5 But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: thou art my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.
1 Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. 2 I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me. 3 I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away.
Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death. 21 But God shall crush the heads of his enemies; the hairy crown of them that go on in their trespasses. 22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Basan, I will bring my people again through the depths of the sea. 23 That thy foot may be dipped in blood, and the tongue of thy dogs be stained with that of thine enemies. 24 Thy goings, O God, have been seen; the goings of my God, the king, in the sanctuary. 25 The princes went first, next before the players on instruments, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels. 26 Praise God in the congregations, the Lord from the fountains of Israel. 27 There is Benjamin the younger one in ecstasy, the princes of Juda their rulers, the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.
1 God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Pause. 2 That men may know thy way on the earth, thy salvation among all nations. 3 Let the nations, O God, give thanks to thee; Let all the nations give thanks to thee. 4 Let the nations rejoice and exult, for thou shalt judge the peoples in equity, and shalt guide the nations on the earth. Pause. 5 Let the peoples, O God, give thanks to thee; let all the peoples give thanks to thee. 6 The earth has yielded her fruit; let God, our God, bless us. 7 Let God bless us; and let all the ends of the earth fear him.
8 Bless our God, ye Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise to be heard; 9 who quickens my soul in life, and does not suffer my feet to be moved. 10 For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us with fire as silver is tried. 11 Thou broughtest us into the snare; thou laidest afflictions on our back. 12 Thou didst mount men upon our heads; we went through fire and water; but thou broughtest us out into a place of refreshment.
6 who dost establish the mountains in thy strength, being girded about with power; 7 who troublest the depth of the sea, the sounds of its waves. 8 The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of thy signs; thou wilt cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.
9 Thou hast visited the earth, and saturated it; thou hast abundantly enriched it. The river of God is filled with water; thou hast prepared their food, for thus is the preparation of it.
Hear my prayer, O God, when I make my petition to thee; deliver my soul from fear of the enemy. 2 Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly; from the multitude of them that work iniquity; 3 who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously; 4 to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear.
For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and smitten in the valley of salt twelve thousand.
For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him.
1 If ye do indeed speak righteousness, then do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men. 2 For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness. 3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies. 4 Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears; 5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
he gave to reproach them that trampled on me; God has sent forth his mercy and his truth; 4 and he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions; whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, and their tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth.
1 Have mercy upon me, O God; for man has trodden me down; all the day long he warring has afflicted me. 2 Mine enemies have trodden me down all the day from the dawning of the day; for there are many warring against me.
3 They shall be afraid, but I will trust in thee. 4 In God I will praise my words; all the day have I hoped in God; I will not fear what flesh shall do to me.
12 For if an enemy had reproached me, I would have endured it; and if one who hated me had spoken vauntingly against me, I would have hid myself from him. 13 But thou, O man likeminded, my guide, and my acquanitance, 14 who in companionship with me sweetened our food: we walked in the house of God in concord. 15 Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy might. 2 O God, hear my prayer; hearken to the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.
4 For lo! God assists me; and the Lord is the helper of my soul. 5 He shall return evil to mine enemies; utterly destroy them in thy truth. 6 I will willingly sacrifice to thee: I will give thanks to thy name, O Lord; for it is good. 7 For thou hast delivered me out of all affliction, and mine eye has seen my desire upon mine enemies.
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that does good. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God. 3 They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.
1 Why dost thou, O mighty men, boast of iniquity in thy mischief? All the day 2 thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit. 3 Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. 4 Thou hast loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.
3 For I am conscious of mine iniquity; and my sin is continually before me. 4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done evil before thee: that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged 5 For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.
1 The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. 2 Out of Sion comes the excellence of his beauty. 3 God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest. 4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall compass me. 6 They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth—7 A brother does not redeem, shall a man redeem? he shall not give to God a ransom for himself, 8 or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labour for ever, 9 and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.
10 When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers. 11 And their sepulchres are their houses for ever, even their tabernacles to all generation
4 For, behold, the kings of the earth were assembled, they came together. 5 They saw, and so they wondered: they were troubled, they were moved. 6 Trembling took hold on them: there were the pangs as of a woman in travail. 7 Thou wilt break the ships of Tharsis with a vehement wind. 8 As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God has founded it for ever. Pause.
1 Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout to God with a voice of exultation. 2 For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth. 3 He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. 4 He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause.
5 God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet. 6 Sing praises to our God, sing praises: sing praises to our King, sing praises. 7 For God is king of all the earth: sing praises with understanding. 8 God reigns over the nations: God sits upon the throne of his holiness. 9 The rulers of the people are assembled with the God of Abraam: for God’s mighty ones of the earth have been greatly exalted.
1 God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us. 2 Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas. 3 Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause. 4 The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle. 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her with his countenance. 6 The nations were troubled, the kingdoms tottered: he uttered his voice, the earth shook.
3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O Mighty One, in thy comeliness, and in thy beauty; 4 and bend thy bow, and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall guide thee wonderfully. 5 Thy weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under thee) they are in the heart of the king’s enemies.
6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness. 7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, has anointed (Christ) thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy fellows.
David is confused as to why the Lord abandoned his people when they've done nothing wrong.
1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 2 For thou, O God, art my strength: wherefore hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me? 3 Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles. 4 And I will go in to the altar of God, to God who gladdens my youth: I will give thanks to thee on the harp, O God, my God.
5 Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
1 As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for thee, O God. 2 My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God? 4 I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of thy wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.
Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner. 7 All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt. 8 They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again?
5 O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require. 7 Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me, 8 I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
2 I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; and my grief was renewed. 3 My heart grew hot within me, and a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,
9 But all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hidden from thee. 10 My heart is troubled, my strength has failed me; and the light of mine eyes is not with me. 11 My friends and my neighbours drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest kin stood afar off. 12 While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and was as a dumb man not opening his mouth. 14 And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself so as to do evil. 9 For evil-doers shall be destroyed: but they that wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the land. 10 And yet a little while, and the sinner shall not be, and thou shalt seek for his place and shalt not find it. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
5 O Lord, thy mercy is in the heaven; and thy truth reaches to the clouds. 6 Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgements are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts. 7 How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings. 8 They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of thine house; and thou shalt cause them to drink of the full stream of thy delights. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light we shall see light.
4 Let them that seek my soul be ashamed and confounded: let them that devise evils against me be turned back and put to shame. 5 Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.
let us exalt the Lord together! The angel of the Lord will encamp round about them that fear him, and will deliver them.
1 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee. 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and aid thee out of Sion. 3 Remember all thy sacrifice, and enrich thy whole-burnt-offering. Pause.
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes. 8 The ordinances of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bright, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgements of the Lord are true, and justified together. 10 To be desired more than gold, and much precious stone: sweeter also than honey and honey-comb. 11 For thy servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them there is great reward.
In anguish David calls out to God for deliverance and promises he will sing praise to God for delivering him
God decides to intervene because of the cries of his children against the proud arrogant men who exploit them.
In utter frustration with persecution David calls for God to rise up and execute judgement both on David and his enemy. He cries for mercy and deliverance and justice.
My soul also is grievously vexed by my enemies... O Lord, how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for thy mercy’s sake.
David cries out to God begging him to judge the wicked and promising to walk in the way of righteousness.
The Lord has done wondrous things for his holy one: the Lord will hear me when I cry to him. 4 Be ye angry, and sin not; feel compunction upon your beds for what ye say in your hearts.
Why are they that afflict me multiplied? many rise up against me. I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy mountain.
BLESSED is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in his law will he meditate day and night.
God informs the three kings that were it not for Job's sake, God would have destroyed them for what they said to Job. Then Job prays for them, and they offer a sacrifice and God blessed Job with double and restored all that he lost.
God describes the most terrible of his creation: the dragon, which he created to be a plaything for his angels.
God continues proclaiming who he is, but explains that allowed this so Job's righteousness would be proclaimed to all.
Elius declares to Job the wonder and might of God. Commanding and controlling the weather and the waves. And judging and even listening in righteousness.
Elius doesn't believe Job is blameless. And even if he is, he wonders who Job thinks he is.
Elius doesn't believe Job spoke correctly and cautions the older men not to think more highly of themselves than they ought. Because God will judge. And even afterwards, yet men will recognize he was merciful.
Elius tells Job that God sends visions and terrifies men in the night when they are guilty and should repent for evil. To save their souls.
Job describes more of what God did when he created the earth and how he ordained wisdom and understanding to work.
Job clings to his innocence and warns his friends they are adding vanity upon vanity which is the behavior of the wicked. And then he describes the end of the wicked.
Job glorified God by explaining some of what he did at creation. And asks his friends who they think they are talking to.
Baldad says the Lord is not fearful of the wicked. Even the moon obeys him, and the wicked will not escape.
Job is upset that the righteous are tried by fire, but even when the wicked are judged they make the best of it, and like it. He wants the judgement of the wicked to equal their crimes.
Job would like a hearing with the Lord where he could plead his case and receive instruction and bring an end to the matter.
After hearing his friends tell him what God does to the unrighteous Job asks the question: why then do I see ungodly men die in prosperity? Men who hated the Lord? Generally he agrees God will deal with them, but he disagrees that circumstances and friends are a method by which one can measure goodness.
Job is beginning to equate his friends with enemies who were sent against him. He acknowledges his guilt and encourages them to pity rather than judge.
Baldad erupts in anger toward Job for his attitude given the circumstances of his situation.
Job seriously contemplates his death. Wondering how this could be his end. Confused that after he thought he had done good, his end will come in Hades.
Eliphaz thinks Job went too far talking to the Lord and fires a warning shot across his bow.
Job wants to understand what God expects from man. And if God understands the temporary nature of man and his imperfections. And his weakness compared to God.
Job is confused and wants to know what his sin is. And he wants his friends to stop interrupting him.
Sophar the Minaean clearly disbelieves everything Job has said. He sees Job's condition and is certain it must be because he is guilty before God.
Job cries out in anguish to God for his situation. Requesting a little pity before he dies.
Baldad tells Job God is not unjust and if Job is truly pure and righteous his end will be great. But that if he is ungodly he should fear the Lord.
Job tells his friends they're not helping. And wants them to go away planning to die by morning.
Eliphaz continues his rebuke of Job, but then offers to intercede in prayer for him with God on his behalf. Yet he encourages Job to consider his actions to determine if he has done wrong.
Eliphaz tells Job God does not rebuke the innocent and is sure Job deserves his trouble. He then tells him of a visitation that came from a spirit in the night.
Job lives among the worms scraping away the puss from his boils with a potsherd while his wife travels from house to house. She encourages him to curse God and die. Then his three friends come and weep for him.
This chapter concludes the book of Esther honoring Mordecai (Mardochaeus) for being a great man and viceroy to Artaxerxes. And he interprets the dream he described in chapter one and gives credit to God for saving his people, Israel.
When the day arrived, the Jews slaughtered their enemies with impunity and rested the next day and established a perpetual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar
The king gave Esther Aman's property and his ring to write a declaration to all the provinces in defense of the Jews. This translation includes the actual letter.
Queen Esther asked King Artaxerxes to spare her life and that of her people from the decree of Aman, who she called an evil man. When the king went outside to think Aman begged the queen for his life and fell onto her bed just as the king entered. Then the chamberlain suggested the gallows Aman had build for Mardochaeus. And he was hanged on it.
Due to his concern for Esther the king was unable to sleep so he called for reading material and recalled that Mordecai had saved him from a conspiracy. So he asked Aman what he recommended and believing the king planned to honor him, he suggested a parade. And the king commanded Haman to do so for Mordecai.
When Esther sees the king in his glory with an angry countenance she faints fearing for her life. And God changed the heart of the king, filling him with compassion. And he rushed to her side and asked her to declare her request. To which she responded: let the king come to the banquet I have prepared for him and Aman.
Mordecai persuaded Esther to speak to the king on behalf of Israel at the risk of her life; reminding her of her previously low estate and suggesting that her royal position may have come from the Lord for this very purpose. And if she fails to do her part, salvation will come from another quarter and her and her family will perish.
King Artaxerxes marries Esther making her queen. Mardochaeus (Mordecai) discovers the conspiracy to kill the king and reports it to Esther who relays the message to the king. He hanged the conspirators
The Septuagint records Mordecai's dream prophecy of Israel consuming her enemies by Esther and Mordecai.
Neemias rebuked the people of Israel for failing to observe God's laws on various occasions in various ways and closes his book asking God to remember both his good deeds and the bad deeds of his enemies.
After returning from captivity they had to decide who got to live in Jerusalem. They cast lots and one out of every ten moved to Judea. Many were selected from the descendants of Juda and Benjamin and were listed
After assigning their seal to their written testament of obedience to the Lord their God, Israel binds themselves under a curse for disobedience. Forbidding marriage with outsiders. And making themselves caretakers for the house of God.
Israel came before the Lord in sackcloth and ashes to confess their sins to God recognizing that he was faithful and they and their fathers were disobedient. The land of milk and honey which he gave them was now ruled over by foreign kings who had dominion even over their bodies.
Esdras read the book of the law to the people. Who discovered they were guilty of breaking God's commandments. However, this was a holy day (likely celebration in anticipation of the birth of Christ). They were told to rejoice and to keep the feast of booths. (Is this a celebration of the savior being born in a manger?)
Sanaballat and Tobias attempted to set many traps for Neemias particularly as the work neared completion. And after it was done fear overcame the enemies of Israel because they understood the work was complete because of God.
Nehemiah confronted the nobles and the princes and demanded they put an end to extorting their own brethren.
King Arthasastha sees Nehemiah's sorrow of heart and granted him permission to go and rebuild Jerusalem. He sends an authorization letter ahead and letters granting him the lumber for the work.
Nehemiah mourns for Jerusalem and weeps and fasts and prays to God for forgiveness for Israel, favor in God's eyes, and mercy in the sight of the king
All Israel meets to discuss the matter of the strange wives and their children and agree to divorce them and put them away
While in captivity the children of Israel forsook the commandments of God and took strange wives. This matter was brought before Ezra who rent his garments and wept for Israel.
Ezra and a large company carrying treasure to the house of the Lord humbled themselves and prayed to God for protection before traveling through enemy territory to Jerusalem.
King Arthasastha decrees that Ezra is to return to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices and appoint scribes and judges and proclaim the law of God to the people.
After receiving the letter from the governor, king Darius made a search and discovered the words of the Hebrews repairing the house of the Lord to be true. And so he replied with the decree that all hindrances were to stop immediately and anyone who frustrated the work would be impaled on timber from his own house and his property confiscated.
The governor (Thanthanai) attempts to undermine the building of the house of the Lord by sending word to king Darius suggesting he make a search through the records to confirm it was ordered to be built by king Cyrus of Persia.
After the children of the captivity returned to build the house of the Lord, the people in the land, came and offered to help rebuild the house of the Lord. When they refused the help, the people of the land began undermining it until they halted it completely.
The people of Israel came to restore the house of the Lord and built an altar and conducted feasts and sacrifices and cheered and wept over their work of rebuilding.
Cyrus issued a proclamation to all the kingdoms of the earth informing them that God gave him all the kingdoms of the earth and commissioned him to build him a temple in Jerusalem.
God used the Chaldeans to bring judgment upon Israel for the wickedness of Manasses exiling them to Babylon for seventy years to give the land it's sabbath time of rest.
King Josias kept the greatest passover to the Lord in Israel's history. And was loved so deerly, that when he died, the wrote a Lamentation for him and recorded it in the book of Lamentations.
After purging the land of wickedness and idolatry and while cleaning the house of the Lord, the book of the Law was discovered and read in the ears of the king. God forgave the king and let him go to his grave in peace before judging the people.
After Hezekias died, his son Manasses became an evil king who rebuilt the high places and the groves and made a gold idol he worshipped. God sent the king of the Assyrians to defeat Manasses and he repented in chains and fetters and was forgiven. He truly repented, but failed to undo all the harm he'd caused.
The wealth that came from the tithe enriched Jerusalem so much it attracted the king of the Assyrians who intended to defeat Jerusalem to plunder them. But Hezekiah and Isaiah prayed to God who destroyed the Assyrians and sent their king home in humiliation.
The tithes of the people produced abundance so that they began to heap their wealth up in large piles. Seven months later, the house of the Lord was full.
Hezekiah king of Juda uncharacteristically invites Israel to celebrate the passover in Jerusalem. It had been many years since all Israel celebrated the passover together in Jerusalem, the city of David dwelling-place of God. After much cleansing and purification, they had the feast, albeit a little late.
On behalf of all Israel, Hezekiah (Ezekias) repents and purifies the people and the house of the Lord.
God caused Israel to share his wrath for Juda and thus attack and conquer them, but afterwards the prophet of the Lord told Israel to release their captives or suffer God's wrath. And these good Samaritans clothed the naked, fed the hungry, and set them free.
Ozias constructed elaborate weapons of war and became strong in the land. He then went to burn incense to the Lord which is only for the priests to do. After being warned he becomes angry, and so God smote him for his anger making him a leper. His son reigned over his kingdom.
After defeating Idumea, Amasias takes their gods and then decides to war against Israel. So God humiliated him before his enemies for trusting in the gods of Seir.
After many years of kindness and council to king Joas, Jodae the priest died. And when Juda went astray his son, Azarias rebuked them in the name of the Lord. Forgetting the kindness of his father, king Joas kills the son of Jodae and the people buried Jodae the priest with the kings in honor, and king Joas in dishonor among the people in the city of David.
When Joas was old enough, Jodae the priest leads a coup to install him as king and slay Gothalia
Ochozias was the son of a daughter of Ahab and because she was his counsellor, she raised him to do evil as the house of Ahab. So God sent Jehu to slay Joram king of Israel and Ochozias king of Juda. And Gotholia, upon hearing of her son's death, slew all the king's sons except the youngest who was secreted away. And she reigned over Juda.
After Josaphat died, his first-born son, Joram became king of Juda and he slew all his brothers. He was married to a daughter of Ahab and walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. So God smote him in his bowels and he died a slow painful death.
The inhabitants of mount Seir and the children of Moab and the children of Ammon came to battle Jerusalem and Juda and Josaphat. Who called out to the Lord for deliverance and received it.
Jeu the prophet informs Josaphat that wrath came upon him for joining with a sinner. Josaphat repents and appoints righteous judges in the land.
Ahab asks Josaphat to join him in war against Syria. Josaphat asks to hear from a prophet of the Lord. Michaias prophecies the death of Ahab by Syria. And, as prophesied, he is slain.
Josaphat had peace all around him and was offered gifts by other kingdoms. He had many might men of war.
The king of Israel started to build a stronghold in Rama to block the kingdom of Juda from Israel so Asa, king of Juda hires the Syrians to fight Israel displeasing God. The prophet Anani is imprisoned for informing Asa he was foolish to trust the Syrians. And Asa contracts a foot disease and dies.
Adad the prophet, prophecied to Asa king of Juda and his kingdoms that God would be with them if they would be with God.
Ethiopia came up to war against Jerusalem. Asa went out with a force half the size and destroyed and pursued and then spoiled Ethiopia.
Abia went to war against Israel and with a force half Israel's destroyed most of them because Juda trusted in God and Jeroboam trusted in his idols.
God stopped Roboam when he went up to war against Israel to recapture the kingdom. He informed him, the separation was of him. And Roboam obeyed. Jeroboam deposes the priests of the Lord, creating new high places and new priests.
Kings from all over the world brought tribute to Solomon and asked him questions. The Queen of Sheeba was enthralled by his kingdom.
After spending twenty years building God's house and Solomon's house. He turned his attention to the kingdom and fortified and built that.
Solomon dedicates the house of the Lord in prayer proposing the manner in which the people repent and God responds. And God comes to him in a dream and informs him that he agrees with his prayer.
Solomon brought the Levites to collect the ark of the covenant to bring it into the house he built for God.
This chapter describes the metals used to build the various instruments of the house of the Lord.
Solomon contacts the king of Tyre to request help from his kingdom in building the house of God. And they agree to terms and work together for the construction.
Solomon takes over for his father David, as king over Israel. And after making a generous sacrifice, God came to Solomon and asked him what he wanted for himself. And Solomon asked for wisdom to judge God's people Israel. Because his request was selfless, God granted him the wisdom, riches, glory and long life.
David made elaborate generous preparations for the house of the Lord. His provisions were detailed in this chapter
This chapter lists those who had responsibility to care for the possessions of the king.
This chapter is again genealogy and duties. In this case primarily that of Asaph whose family was praisers.
Although David was forbidden to build God's temple, he made preparations for it. Creating the plans and acquiring the money and supplies for it.
Because Satan told David to number Israel and he obeyed, God made David choose among three plagues. And sent his destroying angel to Israel until he repented and showed mercy to David who was clothed in sackcloth along with the elders of Israel appealing to God that he turn his wrath on the house of David.
Anan responded to David sending him comforters (because of his father's death) by humiliating them, stripping them, shaving them, and sending them away. And then he hired the Syrians to war against Israel. David, Joab, and Abesai each took men and defeated the children of Ammon and Syria on three fronts.
David defeats his enemies on every side and captures enough brass to make Solomon's brazen sea for the temple.
David told the Nathan the prophet of his desire to build God a house. And God sent a contradiction back to David, saying that David would not build God's house. God would build David's house.
David remembers that the Levites are charged with bearing the ark of the covenant and so charges them to retrieve it and bring it to the city of David.
The Philistines came to battle David twice and were defeated both times. The second time God sent his angel before David and beat them so badly, it struck the nations round about with terror.
David decides to retrieve the ark of the covenant and bring it in to himself. Along the way Oza touched the ark to steady it and God was displeased and struck him dead. David then feared the ark and left it with Abeddara.
Saul and his sons were slain in mount Gelbue by the Philistines in battle because of his transgressions against God in seeking the council of a wizard.
This chapter continues the theme of genealogy and also describes the allotments of land in particular for the Levites.
This chapter is mostly genealogy though it also tells us where Israel dwelt and there was a battle against the Agaraeans.
The remnant left in Jerusalem were attacked by the Chaldeans and the king's house was burned down and the bronze was carried away from the Lord's house.
Jerusalem was taken captive because of the sins of Manasses who worshipped false gods and profaned God's people worse than the Canaanites who were purged from the land for their wickedness. Nebachadnezzar conquered them by siege and carried away their mighty men.
King Josias read the book of the law to the people and then tore down all the high places, altars, and groves to false gods and burned the priests and the bones of the priests on the altar as the man of God had prophesied many years earlier.
Josias decreed that the breaches in the house of the Lord were to be repaired. While the work was being done the book of the law was found and read to Josias who rent his garments and wept and sent to enquire of the Lord. Utter destruction was prophesied, but after the days of Josias due to the condition of his heart.
Hezekiah died and his sons rebuilt the altars and exceeded the wickedness of the Amelakites who God purged from the land by Israel.
God decreed to Hezekiah (Ezekias) through Esaias (Isaiah), that he should put his house in order because death is upon him. Before Isaiah left the middle courtyard God sent him back to declare to Hezekiah that he had been granted 15 more years of life and as a sign the shadow on the sundial would travel back ten degrees. The king of Babylon sent messengers to Hezekiah due to his sickness and he showed them the whole kingdom and all his wealth. And as a result Isaiah prophesied Babylon would return to take it.
The Assyrians came against Ezekias king of Juda who sent to Isaiah to enquire of the Lord. God responded to the blasphemy of the Assyrians by sending his angel into their camp and he smote one hundred eighty-five thousand before morning.
A good and righteous king rose up in Israel and attempted to break free from the Assyrians. The Assyrian commander was then sent to intimidate them and threaten them.
Because Israel worshipped idols, God sent their enemies in to conquer and displace them. After the Assyrians moved in, God sent lions among them killing them. Then a small group of Israelites was sent back to teach the Assyrians the ways of the God of Israel.
Phakee and Raasson besieged Achaz, but could not defeat him. Achaz called in the king of the Assyrians to help and though Syria defeated AElath, Assyria defeated Damascus and slew king Raasson of Syria.
After winning a battle with Edom, Amessias becomes arrogant and calls out the king of Israel who warns him he will lose. Amessias insists and Joas defeats Juda in battle and then plunders them.
In this chapter, before Elisha dies he commands the king of Israel to fire a bow out the window and then smite the bow and the arrows on the ground. He does only three times. Elisha commented, had you smote five or six times you would have beaten Syria until you defeated them, but now you will only win three battles.
Joas decreed that the offerings gathered by the priests should be used to repair the house of the Lord in order to repair its breeches. Syria came to war against Jerusalem and Joas paid him to leave.
In this chapter, Gothalia attempts to make her son king by slaying all he kings children except hers. However, her plan failed and she was executed.
Jehu slays the whole house of Ahab and ever worshipper of Baal in Israel. And because he obeyed God and reverenced the word of the Lord, God promised his sons would reign over Israel to the fourth generation. But he did not put an end to the calf worship began by Jeroboam and so his heart was not perfect before the Lord, and he followed after the sins of Jeroboam.
Elisha sends a prophet to anoint Jehu king over Israel and the prophet prophecies that he is to cut off the house of Ahab according to the word of the Lord because of their wickedness. Jehu rides in haste immediately and slays Joram and then proceeds to Jezrael to slay Queen Jezabel the wife of Ahab.
After a seven year famine ended, Elisha goes to the king of Syria and prophecies to Azael, his servant, that he will be made king of Syria and he will come to war against Israel in a desperately wicked manner. Elisha wept having seen the prophecy. The next day Azael murders his master, ascends to the throne, and later wars against Israel.
Elisha told the messenger that the king sent (to kill him) that on the morrow prices would return to normal and everyone in Samaria would eat. Because the man disbelieved he was condemned to die only seeing the miracle without partaking of it. And that night lepers plotted to surrender themselves to Samaria in hopes they would be spared. But God made the Syrians to hear an army and they fled leaving all their possessions behind in panic. The lepers then told Samaria who entered the enemy camp collected the plunder and were thus saved.
This chapter opens with several miracles of Elisha, but closes with the story of Samaria being besieged by Syria as a judgement from God for Israel's wickedness; particularly that of her king. Two mothers plead to the king of Israel for help arbitrating the case wherein one mother suggested to the other that they eat their sons. The second mother agreed and afterwards the first mother hid her son. So tThe king of Israel dispatches an emissary to behead Elisha.
Naaman they Syrian hears there is a prophet in Israel who can heal leprosy and so he obtains permission and provision from the king to go and be healed of his uncleanness. Elisha sends a servant who informs him to dip himself in the Jordan river and be healed. Afterward Elisha refuses to accept a reward from Naaman, but Gehazi pursues him and lies and thus is cursed to carry Naaman's leprosy for ever.
The chapter begins with Elisha telling a woman to gather empty vessels and to miraculously pour out oil into them from one vessel until all the others are full. Afterwards she sells the oil, pays the creditors and retires on the rest. The second woman cared for Elisha and he thus blessed her with both a miraculous birth and resurrection.
Moab stopped paying tribute to Israel after Ahab died. So the kings of Israel, Edom and Jerusalem went to war against Moab. They enquired of Elisha as to whether they would succeed and also asked for a miracle to preserve the armies in the midst of the desert with no water. He commanded them to dig trenches and God would fill them with water and give Moab into their hands.
The day came when Elijah was to be taken up to heaven and all the prophets knew and Elisha knew and he remained with him. Elijah then asked Elisha what he could do for him. And he asked for a double portion of Elijah's spirit, which he received.
Elijah calls fire down on 100 men and 2 captains sent to collect him and bring him to the king. When he goes with the third man who humbled himself, he tells the king he will die and so he does.
Jehosaphat and Ahab form an alliance to go up against Syria to recover Ramath Giliad, but first enquire of the Lord by the prophets. Only one prophet knew the truth, all the others had been deceived by a lying spirit to advise Ahab to go into battle to be slain fulfilling prophecy. Ahab convinced Jehosphat to wear his clothes and he then dresses as a warrior going into battle and is shot in the chest by an expert marksman. Ahab dies, and when his chariot is washed out, the dogs lick up the blood and the harlots washed themselves in his blood at the well as foretold.
Syria comes against Israel with 32 kings and two great armies and loses once in the hill country and again later in the valley. Afterwards, Ader asks for mercy and Ahab releases him and his men. A prophet of the Lord then tells Ahab because he released a man appointed for destruction, God will take him and his people in their place.
After Ahab tried to convince Naboth to give him his vineyard, he allowed Jezebel to solve the problem by appointing false witnesses to kill him. When Ahab went to take possession of the vineyard, Elijah informed him that his family would be cut off and the dogs would like their blood in the same place where Naboth's blood was spilled.
After defeating the prophets of Baal, Elijah runs from Jezebel who swears she will kill him when she finds him. An angel feeds Elijah twice restoring his strength and sends him on a forty day journey to anoint two kings (one of Syria and the other for Israel) and Elisha the son of Shaphat to assist him as a prophet.
After many years of draught, Elijah returned to tell Ahab to gather his prophets together for a showdown between the God of Israel and Baal. The false prophets were to offer a bullock and call down fire from heaven by Baal and whichever God responded by fire was to be Israel's God. They agreed and after losing were marched to the brook Kisson where Elijah slew them all. Afterwards Elijah prayed for rain to end the draught and a great storm came.
God sends Elijah to Ahab, and he prophecies a drought in the land due to the wickedness of Ahab. He declares no more rain but by his word and then God sends him into hiding by the brook where the ravens feed him. After the water dries up God sends Elijah to the widow of Saraphat who is preparing one last meal before their family dies. Elijah tell her to fear not and to first make a cake for him and then the meal and the cruse of oil will not fail until after the drought ends. Still her son dies, but Elijah resurrects him.
God executes judgement of the house of Baasa destroying them and cutting them off. Israel's kings civil war against each other and fight over who is king of who. Ahab, the most evil king in Israel's history comes into power and marries Jezebel, an evil witch.
A record of several kings of Juda and Israel. Asa did good in the sight of the Lord as did his father David. While the others noted did evil in God's sight. Asa gave away the treasures to the people and also made a covenant with the king of Syria to get his help fighting against Israel.
Jerusalem was plundered by Susakim, king of Egypt who carried away much of the gold objects in the temple of the Lord, which Roboam replaced with similar objects of brass. Jeroboam and Roboam warred against each other throughout both of their lives.
Because Jeroboam built high places and instituted false priests, God decreed that the priests themselves would be sacrificed on their false altar. The message was delivered by a prophet of God who was commanded to afterwards leave immediately and eat no bread and drink no water. He obeyed and another prophet of God found him and lied to him luring him back to his house for dinner. Because the prophet did not heed God's command he was devoured by a lion and buried in the tomb of the prophet who deceived him.
Because Solomon turned his heart from the Lord, God fulfills the promise to split the kingdom, leaving his son Roboam with only two tribes of Israel. The other ten appoint Jeroboam king who then fears losing his kingdom during the feasts when the people go to Jerusalem to the temple. Consequently he erects two heifers for Israel to worship and brings the curse of God on his family line.
Because Solomon's heart turned away from serving the Lord and he married strange women and worshipped and served their gods to please them, God tore the kingdom from the hands of his son. Ten tribes were given to Jeroboam and two went to Roboam, son of Solomon.
The queen of Sheeba was utterly amazed at Solomon by his kingdom in its glory. She gave him gifts and he answered every question she had and solved all her riddles. She blessed him and returned home. Solomon exceeded all of the kings in the earth in wealth and wisdom
King Solomon sent for the king of Tyre and made him the primary supplier of materials for the temple and for his own house. He gave him 21 cities and compensated him with food and money.
In this chapter Solomon dedicates the house that he built for God in prayer, making it God's temple in Israel by prayer.
Solomon asks Hiram, king of Tyre, to help build God's temple. Hiram anoints Solomon in David's house. And they make a covenant with each other to supply each other with goods. And Solomon pays the king of Tyre well for the service of his kingdom in building God's temple.
This chapter identifies the names of Solomon's princes and officers and the daily food requirements for his household.
David gave Solomon instructions about sending his enemies to an early grave before he died. Semei cursed David and so Solomon commanded him to stay in Jerusalem or face execution. Semei thanked Solomon and remained in Jerusalem for three years until his servants left and he went to retrieve them. God gave Solomon a dream wherein he granted him one request. Solomon asked for wisdom to judge God's great people and because he didn't ask for something selfish, God granted his request and gave him conditions for receiving what selfish men usually seek. Finally, two women came to Solomon and presented a complicated question which he resolved with ease giving rise to an incredible reputation for governing with the wisdom of God.
After Adonias tried to steal the kingdom he asks Bathsheeba for Abishag the Shunamite to wife. She was the virgin wife given to king David for warmth in his old age. Bathsheeba then relays the request to Solomon who viewed this as another attempt to seize the throne and had him killed that same day. He also had Joab slain and he banished Abiathar the priest for supporting him.
Nathan the prophet warned Bathsheeba that Adonias was trying to steal the throne. And they both spoke to king David, who that same day had Solomon anointed as king as he had promised.
God became angry when David obeyed the suggestion of Satan that David number the fighting men of Israel. David then asked to be cleansed of his guilt and God gave him three options: 3 years of famine, three months of being pursued by his enemies, or 3 days of mortality. David chose the mortality and God sent a destroying angel. God then repented about the time David begged God to visit himself and his family instead of the innocent people of Israel. And God commanded David to build an altar to the Lord in the place where he commanded the destroying angel to stop.
This chapter details the name of David's thirty-seven mighty men noting many of their accomplishments.
After defeating Goliath's brothers in battle, and being saved by one of his men. David pours out his heart to God in these early Psalm drafts in this chapter.
To quench a famine sent by the Lord, David is forced to ask the Gibeonites what atonement Israel can make for Saul's attack on them in violation of their peace treaty. They demand seven of Saul's male descendent's to cut off his name and David agrees. Later, David collects the bones of Saul and Jonathan and he and his men are pursued by the sons of Rapha: Goliath and his brothers. In this Scripture, it says Eleanan son of Ariorgim the Bethleemite slew Goliath the Gittite. And this is true of the other Bible translations as well. It would seem that scholars debate whether David slew Goliath or Eleanan did.
David becomes concerned about a subsequent uprising after Abessalom at the hands of Sabee the Benjamite. He declares Amesai is his new captain of the host and sends him after Sabee with the army. Joab slays Amesai retaking command and pursues Sabee to Abel where they build a mound and plan to tear down the cities wall. A wise woman asks what they want and later that day Sabee's head is thrown over the wall and the army departs in peace.
After defeating Absalom, the king crosses the river Jordan on his way to Jerusalem prompting the question, will David remain king over Israel and Juda? Israel objects when Juda conducts David over the Jordan without first seeking Israel's counsel or allowing them to participate.
Absalom gets his head wedged between the limbs of an oak while riding his ass and a messenger brings word to Joab who slays him for betraying his father the king. David weeps when he hears the news.
Chusi disconcerts the counsel of Achitophel who anxiously sought to pursue David to take his life and deliver the kingdom to Abessalom. The sons of Sadoc the priest bring word to David concerning the counsel of both Achitophel and Chusi warning David to cross the Jordan soon. And more men bring David supplies.
Chusi comes to Absalom to disrupt the counsel of Achitophel as David requested. Achitophel counsels Absalom to sleep with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel in order to disgrace David and strengthen his rebellion.
David received word that the hearts of Israel are with Absalom, and so he fled Jerusalem with the mighty men and his servants leaving ten concubines behind to keep his house. David sends a spy into Absalom's midst to disconcert the counsel he was receiving and report his plans back to David.
Two years after Joab restores Absalom to the kingdom, he repays him by setting his field on fire to get his attention -- for the sake of getting an audience with the king. Joab complied and David met with him.
Amnon continually lusted after Tamar until he raped her. Absalom waited two years and invited all the king's sons banquet and slew Amnon and then fled.
Nathan told David a parable from the Lord that exposed his guilt and informed him, Bathsheeba's child would die by the hand of God. David confessed his sin and his life was spared. After their son died, David comforted Bathsheeba and she later bore Solomon.
David sees Bathsheeba bathing on her roof from his palace and takes her and later she informs him she is with child. He sends for her husband hoping he will sleep with her to conceal the matter. But her husband nobly refuses to comfort himself while Israel battles. After getting him drunk and keeping him a few days, he sends a letter by his hand to Joab instructing Joab to ensure he dies in battle. Afterwards David takes his wife.
Naas, the king of the Ammonites died and so David sent comforters to his son. However, his advisors cautioned him these men were sent to spy out the land, so he humiliated them, sent them back and hired mercenaries who arrayed themselves in battle against Israel. Joab, his brother, and David then humiliated and subjugated the armies that came against them. And Syria refused to fight against Israel afterwards.
David enquires whether anyone from the house of Saul is yet living that he may show them the mercy of God. Siba explained that Mephibosheth was lamed while escaping with his servants from a young age. He was in Lodebar. David brings him up and restores all of Saul's land to him and invites him to eat at his table.
David led Israel in many battles and began amassing great wealth that would later be used in the temple of the Lord.
David tells Nathan the prophet he wants to build a temple for the Lord. At first Nathan agrees, but God comes to Nathan at night and corrects him. David is not to build the house of the Lord, but his seed after him will.
David brings the ark of the Lord to the city of David, but along the way, his friend dies steadying the ark after the ox causes it to teeter.
Melchol the daughter of Saul sees David dancing naked before the ark of the Lord and confronts him. He admonishes her and she dies childless (eventually).
David was anointed king over all Israel. And after defeating Saul, The Philistines came up to battle against Israel twice, and were defeated twice by David and his army.
After word of Abenner's death spread, Jebothse' men snuck in and beheaded him while he slept and brought his head to David seeking a reward. He killed them and placed their hands and feet as a warning to others not to touch the house of Saul.
Jobosthe, son of Saul offends Abenner causing him to decided to make a covenant with David to give Israel over to him to reign over it. David and Abenner agree to terms and Joab learns of it afterwards. Because Abenner slew his brother Joab imagines that Abenner has mischief planned for the king and secretly meets with Abenner and slays him. David then causes all Israel to mourn for Israel and gives him a proper burial. And David washes his hands of Abenner's blood and curses Joab's family line.
Saul's commander Abenner wars with David's commander, Joab. And after a sound defeat, turns and leaves, but is pursued by Asael. He warns him to back off, and when Asael refuses, Abenner slays him. Joab and his men pursue and the fighting continues until Abenner warns Joab that if they don't stop soon, this civil war will be perpetual. And so they depart and go separate ways.
In this chapter David learns from an Amelekite that Saul and Jonathan are dead. The man claims he slew Saul at his request and so David kills him for touching the Lord's anointed. And then he takes up a lamentation which is recorded in the book of the Right (AKA: The book of the Just and AKA The book of Jasher).
When David and his return to Ziklag they discover their homes were burned and their families carried away captive with their possessions. They weep until they run out of strength and then David enquires of the Lord and God tells him to pursue. And they recover all that was taken in addition to plunder from other cities.
The lords of the Philistines command Anchus, grandson of the king of Geth, to send David away before the battle with Israel. He objects, but complies. And David objects, but complies.
The Philistines array themselves in battle against Israel and Saul, having been cut off from the Lord, appeals to the witch of Endor to raise Samuel from the dead that he might get counsel. Samuel tells Saul that the end of his kingdom and his life is upon him and his sons. They will die in battle against the Philistines. And Saul turns pale.
David decided to dwell among the Philistines to put an end to running from Saul. And under Anchus, the grandson of the king of Geth, David plundered and slaughtered towns down to the last man and women to avoid the rumor circulating that David served the Philistines. Anchus gave David Ziklag as a dwelling place.
God put Saul's army into a stupor of sleep and David and Abessa went into their camp and collected Saul's spear and cruse which were at his head and returned to their mountain and called out to Abenner and Saul. David revealed that a second time the Lord delivered Saul into his hand and David refused to strike down the Lord's anointed. And Saul blessed David and left in peace.
After David's men guarded Nabal's servants in Carmel, he sent messengers to Nabal to bless him and request an offering for his men. Nabal refused making David so angry he swore to kill all of the men in Nabal's household. Along the way he was met by Abigaia who apologized and brought an offering, and with her words appeased David turning him back. Afterwards she informed Nabal she had saved him from being slain and his heart died within him and Abigail became David's wife.
Saul entered into the shallow part of a cave where David and his men were hiding. And they encouraged David to slay Saul. And David cut a piece of Saul's garment and then later called out to him and waived the garment and informed Saul he held his life in his hand and chose not to slay him. Saul then prophesied to David's future and asked him to sware not to cut off his family line, when David came into his kingdom. David agreed and Saul departed.
Saul pursued David from Keila to Ziph. In Keila God warned David Saul was coming. And so he and his men fled and Saul relented. Later the Ziphites came to Saul to trap David, and just before he was ready to attack David he received word the Philistines were invading and so he left.
Saul commands the execution of Abimelech's house because he gave David bread and a sword. He then commands his men to fall on and kill he priests of the Lord, but all refuse except Doec the Syrian who kills them all and then goes to their city to continue the slaughter. David protects Abiathar and confesses his guilt toward his father's house.
David came to Abimelech the priest and requested five loaves and a weapon. The priest asked why he was alone and David said he was sent on an urgent matter by king Saul. Doec the Syrian overheard the conversation. Abimelech gives him five of the holy loaves and the sword of Goliath.
Jonathan and David arrange a test and a signal. The test to discern if Saul is lying and a signal to advise David whether he's safe or he should leave because Saul seeks his life.
Saul sets his mind to killing David and begins making attempts on his life. He sends three sets of messengers to Rama in Navath and the Spirit of the Lord comes upon them and they prophesy instead. So Saul goes and ends up prophesying naked all night before the people.
Saul hates David because of the songs the women sing about him. He devises to give his daughter Melchol to David to be a stumbling stone to him. David slays 100 Philistines and delivers their foreskins to Saul for a bride price.
Goliath defies the armies of Israel to send out a champion to fight him. David volunteers and slays the Philistine in the name of the God of Israel using a sling and a stone. The Philistines then fled before the armies of Israel and suffered a great slaughter that day.
God commands Samuel to anoint David as king of Israel, but Samuel fears for his life and so God tells him to go to Bethleem to make a sacrifice and anoint the son of Jesse while there.
Saul warns the Kinites to depart from living among the Amelakites who the Lord has sent Israel to slay. Because the Kinites were kind to Israel coming out of Egypt. After being clearly told to slay the Amalekites down to every man, child, woman and beast, Saul preserved the best and so lost his kingdom that day. Samuel prophesied the end of Saul's kingdom, that it would be torn in two.
During the day of a great battle, Saul issued a curse upon anyone who ate, and his son ate that day, and Saul had planned to put him to death, but the people prayed for him because Jonathan had saved Israel that day and thus saved his life.
After fighting a battle Saul looks for Samuel and then makes the sacrifice because he feared the people. Samuel informs Saul that because he violated the office of priest, he has lost his kingdom and God will take it and give it to a man after his own heart.
After defeating Naas the Ammonite, Samuel anoints Saul as king again. And in his old age he asks the people to bring any outstanding charges they have against him and he will pay his debts before he dies. And they absolve him of any debts he may have toward them, saying he has taken nothing and owes nothing.
The people of Jabis suggest a covenant with Naas the Ammanite who demands their right eyes and tells them he will make them a reproach. They send word to Saul who raises up 600,000 to war against Naas and delivers the people the next day when the sun is hot.
Samuel anoints Saul as king over Israel privately, God gives him a new heart and signs: men exulting Rachel's grave (the mother of his tribe). Saul meets three wise men who give him gifts. And later, his kingship is announced publicly.
Saul's father sent him out looking for their animals and after searching, they sought Samuel the prophet. Samuel was going to Bama to prepare the sacrifice and eat with the people and Saul intercepted him on the way. Samuel expected Saul and told him his animals were recovered and to eat dinner and the spend the night, and Samuel told Saul he was chosen by God to be king over Israel (privately).
Israel demanded that Samuel appoint a king over them. Samuel consults God who tells him to submit to the request because they are rejecting God, not Samuel. He warns them their king will oppress them, but they insisted anyway.
The men of Cariathiarim came and retrieved the ark of the covenant and Israel put away their strange gods, and God delivered them from the Philistines and their cities were restored.
The Philistines hooked two mother cows to a wagon and placed the ark of the Lord on it along with trespass offerings and followed it to see where it would go. It followed the coast to Israel. The people of Baethsamys kept it until it plagued them killing over fifty thousand. And then they called for the elders of Cariatharim to come collect it.
After capturing the ark of God, the Philistines place it in their temple next to Dagon, but the ark caused the statue to fall over until the head and hands broke off. And the ark smote the Philistines everywhere it went.
As Samuel prophesied, judgement came upon the house of Eli. The man and his sons all died the same day and the ark was captured by the Philistines.
God comes to Samuel in the night, calls to him and speaks to him of the destruction he has planned for Eli's house due to their wickedness toward him.
Eli's sons were wicked in the eyes and were therefore marked for destruction. They were taking the first-fruits off the sacrifices offered to God before God could receive them, effectively causing Israel to sin by intercepting the sacrifice.
For many years Hannah was baren and so she vowed to dedicate her first-born son to the Lord. She gave birth to Samuel the prophet of Israel.
Boaz speaks to his brother and they agree Boaz will redeem Ruth together with the field of Elimelech. The elders of the city speak a blessing over them and she bears him Obed, the grandfather of king David.
Ruth meets Boaz late at night seeking for him to do the part of kinsman to her. He informs her there is a nearer relation he must first meet with. And she departs in the morning with six measures of barley for Naomi
While gleaning, Ruth stumbles onto the field of Boaz a near kinsman of Naomi. He meets her and commands his servants to be good to her.
Noami's sons and husband died in the land Moab and so she returned to her home in Bethlehem and Ruth insisted she come along.
After making a covenant to curse any tribe of Israel who gave of their daughters to Benjamin, Israel relented desiring not to cut off a tribe. They then came up with a way for Benjamin to get wives, by kidnapping them, from Selom.
Israel confronted Benjamin and demanded they produce the transgressors so they could be slain for their crime, but Benjamin refused throwing Israel into civil war. Israel lost the first two battles (the first two days), but on the third day, Israel nearly wiped out all of Benjamin, leaving a remnant hiding in the rocks of Remmon
While a stranger was sojourning in Gabaa, men came to the door of a house insisting that the owner let him out that they might know him. His concubine was sent out in his stead and the people of the city raped her until morning so that she died. He became so angry he divided her body into twelve parts and sent them throughout all Israel. And each of the twelve tribes came together to decide how to judge the matter.
The Tribe of dan conquers Laisa and plunders Michaias, the man who hired a Levite priest to be a father to him and his household.
After confessing he stole from his mother, Michaias returns the silver. His mother then takes two-hundred pieces and has a molten image made for him. And later a Levite priest looking for a place to sojourn speaks with Michaias who entreats him to stay with him and hires him as a father and priest.
Delilah repeatedly enticed Samson to tell her the secret of his strength in order to sell him into the hands of his enemy. After Samson revealed his weakness to her, the Philistines took him, gouged out his eyes and enslaved him. After his hair grew back they called him to come out and entertain them in a great house filled with many guests, where three thousand were on the roof. And after being humiliated by his enemies, he brought the house down.
When Samson discovered his wife had been given to one of his friends he became angry and tied thirty foxes by the tail and set them on fire and they destroyed fields and vineyards angering the Philistines who confronted him. He killed one thousand of them with the jaw-bone of an ass. He then went to dwell in a cave until Judah came to him.
Samson convinces his parents to get him a wife from the Philistines in Thamnatha. During the wedding feast he tells a riddle to thirty men in exchange for thirty changes of clothing. They threaten his wife to discover the answer, which she told them. Samson became furious and attacked a nearby village to collect plunder to pay his debt. In his anger he left, and the father of the bride gave her to Samson's friend.
An angel of the Lord appeared to Saraa and Manoe proclaiming they would give birth to a son who would save Israel from the Philistines
Because Jephthae didn't call Ephraim to war against Ammon, they attacked him and he smote them. He smote 42,000 men.
After Jephthae, the son of a concubine, was banished from his family, and the people of Ammon came to war with Israel, the men of Galaad offered to make him ruler over them if he would lead them into battle. He agreed and vowed to the Lord that if he would deliver the men of Ammon into his hand, he would sacrifice the first person to greet him from his house upon his return. His only daughter ran out to meet him, and so he sacrificed her to fulfill his vow.
Israel turned away from god repeatedly after whoring after other gods, and this time God refused to save them. They put away their other gods.
Abimelech, son of Gideon, made an agreement with the men of Sychem and then slew his seventy brothers in order to become King of Israel. The men of Sychem gave him 70 pieces of silver to slay his family and become king, but Joathim escaped to Mount Garizin (the mountain of blessing) and proclaimed a curse over the Abimelech and the men of Sychem, that they would annihilate each other. Three years later it came to pass.
While pursuing Madiam, Gideon made requests of two towns for food for his three hundred who were hungry and both requests were refused. After slaughtering over hundred thousand of Madiam, Gideon slaughtered the elders of Socchor and the men of Phanuel (the towns who refused to strengthen his men with food).
God thins Gideon's ranks to ensure he receives the glory for the battle victory against Madiam, reducing the Israelite Army from over thirty-thousand to three hundred. Gideon hears one enemy speaking to another about a dream he had wherein Gideon rolled into camp, turned a tent upside down and defeated Madiam. This encouraged Gideon and he rallied his men and they defeated an army as large as the sand by the sea.
In this chapter The Ange of the Lord meets with Gideon and tells him he will save Israel from The Madianites. Gideon objects that he is the least of his family, but God calls him a might man. And Gideon tests the word of the Lord with a fleece seeking a confirmation miracle before engaging the enemy in battle.
In this chapter Debbora the prophetess and judge over Israel tells Barac to take ten thousand men and attack Sisera the captain of Jabin's host, a man who commanded an army with nine hundred chariots of iron.
God rebukes Israel for whoring after other gods by allowing them to fall into captivity. And after they cried out to God each time, he raised up three saviors to deliver them from each of the three enemies (all three times).
Because Israel began whoring after other gods, God stopped giving them victory over their enemies and allowed their enemies to rule over them and afflict them. But when the afflictions became severe he raised up judges to deliver them.
In this chapter Israel resumes the war against Canaan driving them out more, but also making them tributary and dwelling among them, which was against God's commands.
Jesus the son of Nun died and was buried with the stones he used to circumcise all of Israel in the wilderness. He warned Israel to remain faithful to God, but they began worshipping Astarte and Astoreth and as a result went into captivity to the king of Moab for 18 years.
Jesus tells Israel he's old and about to die. And he reminds them of all the good that God has done concerning them. How he has fought their battles. And he warns them to remain faithful. Because God will be true to his word, that should they serve other Gods, he will do to Israel, as he did to these nations before them.
The two and a half tribes on the other side Jordan built an altar that provoked the rest of Israel to battle. However, they explained this was not an altar for sacrifice to another God, but a memorial altar as a testimony to future generations, that though they were separated by water, they serve the same God. This pleased Israel and civil war was averted.
Since God is the inheritance of the Levites, they did not receive an inheritance. But he gave them cities to dwell in and to perform their priestly duties.
Jesus selected and appointed six cities of refuge for the unintentional manslayer to flee to to be heard and judged by the congregation of Israel.
A description of the inheritances of the remaining six tribes of Israel: Symeon, Zabulon, Issachar, Aser, Naphthali, Dan
After Jesus described their inheritance, Ephraim and Manasse objected that they were a great people. And Jesus countered: If you are a great people, then clear the forest and conquer the Cananite and you will have the two lots you seek.
This chapter explains the borders and possessions of the inheritance of Ephraim and Manasse
Because Caleb son of Jephonne was obedient and trusted the Lord, he received a special inheritance at the hand of Jesus.
God commanded Jesus son of Nun to divide Israel's inheritance by lot to Israel before he dies. In this chapter, he reaffirms the inheritance given by Moses to Ruben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasse.
An army in multitude as the sand of the sea came against Israel and Jesus and God fought for Israel and together they utterly destroyed their enemy in a single day. And the next day they burned their chariots and crippled their horses.
Israel defeated the five kings that attacked the people of Gabaon who had become Israel's servants through a treaty covenant of deception.
After hearing about Israel, the inhabitants of Gabaon deceived Israel into making a covenant of alliance with them for general protection and non-aggression. They pretended to be from a far country, but were only a three-days journey from Israel.
After their first defeat Jesus planned an ambush for the city of Gai. They armed thirty-thousand for war, placed men behind the city, and after attacking retreated as before. Gai was so excited they pursued leaving their gates open and their city empty. Jesus then raised his spear and the men lieing in wait entered and burned the city and then surrounded Gai, utterly killing everyone and hanging the king on a tree until nightfall.
After a clear warning from God about a specific accursed object in Jericho, that Israel should avoid looking at it, to avoid being tempted, Achar took the object and hid it in his tent. As a result of his disobedience, God withdrew his spirit from the camp and Israel was defeated in battle by Gai. As a result Israel stoned Achar.
Jesus and Israel were commanded to encircle the city for six days and on the seventh day they are to shout with the sound of trumpets and the Lord will level the walls and the sons of Israel charge into the city. They destroyed everyone save Rahab the harlot and her family in accordance with the oath made by the two spies.
In this chapter, before battling Jericho Jesus first circumcises all those who were born in the way by the wilderness during the forty years of wandering.
When the priests carrying the Ark of God enter the Jordan it immediately dries up and the ground becomes hard. They wait in the middle until Israel crosses over and then set up twelve memorial stones and after they leave the river bed, the water rushes back in.
Jesus and Israel cross the Jordan on dry ground. God dries up the water during the wet season as a miracle designed to exalt Jesus before Israel.
Jesus dispatched two spies to Jericho to spy out the land. The king of Jericho heard of it and sent to have them captured. But they were hidden by Rahab (Raab) the harlot who charged them to save her and her family because the inhabitants of Jericho fear Israel greatly and their hearts melted upon hearing the news that Israel was coming for them.
In this chapter, God tells Jesus that he will divide up Israel's inheritance and give it to them.
God brings Moses up on a mountain to see the land of Canaan before dying and joining his fathers.
In this chapter God teaches Moses a song filled with the history of Israel with the warnings of the curses that would come upon them for disobedience. That when they sing it in their latter days they should repent and return and worship the God of their fathers: Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.
Even on the day Israel is about to go into the promised land, God tells Moses that he knows what some of them are doing, provoking him to anger. And he prophecies that Israel will turn away from him and serve strange gods. And so he charges Moses to write a song before he dies that will stand as a witness against them bringing their future generations to awareness of their guilt before God.
Moses charges Jesus (Joshua) to be courageous and take Israel across the Jordan, where God will fight their enemies and bring them into their inheritance, which Jesus will give to them.
This chapter explains how that after Israel rebels, the nations of the world will view Israel as a parable of warning they tell their children. That these evils came upon her because she spurned the commands of the Lord her God.
In this chapter God through Moses explains to Israel the blessings of serving him and the consequences of the curses associated with disobedience to God's law.
This chapter proclaims that there are curses for specific types of disobedience. But in a future chapter the curses are described.
In this chapter God not only commanded Israel to give him a thank offering for their inheritance, but he gave them the word declarations they were to use to proclaim it.
In this chapter God makes provision for the kinsman redeemer. When a man's brother dies he is required to raise up seed for Israel. And if he refuses, he is disgraced before Israel.
In this chapter God articulates his laws of mercy for the poor among Israel and the strangers.
Because Israel's brothers: the Ammanite and Moabite tried to curse Israel, they are forever banned from the assembly of the Lord. And because God walks in the midst of the camp of Israel, they are to cover their nuisance after relieving themselves in the city. And God refuses tithe offerings made with money from ill-gotten gains
This chapter describes how to handle situations that involve property, adultery, rape and false accusations among the children of Israel.
This chapter covers several war related conditions:
Atonement for the unknown slayer
The law for the captive bride
The inheritance for the first-born son of the hated wife
The law for death to disobedient sons
And cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree
In this chapter God opens with the pep talks his priests are to give his people, then he thins the ranks with the message from the scribes to the people. And finally, he gives instructions for purging seven nations, but plundering and making prisoners from all others.
God appointed cities of refuge for accidental deaths. These are cities where a man from Israel could flee after accidentally killing someone. Provided they could make it to the city, they could make a defense for themselves and live lest the avenger of blood pursue, overtake and slay them.
In this chapter God explains why he established prophets in Israel. They set a precedent at Mt. Sinai, when they begged Moses to be an intermediary, because God's voice and presence caused them to fear for their lives.
It also warns them about listening to diviners and false prophets and how they can know the difference.
In this chapter, God teaches Israel how to handle evil in their nation. How to judge it, carry out sentence. How to appoint a ruler and how that ruler should govern.
This chapter primarily focuses on the passover feast. How and when it should be done. It also touches on the feast of tabernacles and at the end God commands Israel to institute honest judges over the people.
In this chapter, God explains who to eliminate poverty in Israel so they will dominate all the nations of the world and rule over them.
This chapter contains laws about what Israel can and can't eat among animals. And concludes with some surprising laws about tithing. Bear in mind, this is not the complete law, but it is a portion of the law. More laws can be found in Leviticus 27 and Numbers 18.
God warns Israel that he will test them to see if they love him. They are even to reject if they try to lead Israel to worship other gods. And those who lead Israel astray are to die so that all Israel will hear and fear God.
Israel warned not to worship other gods. They are to utterly destroy all the remnants of idolatry of the nations they are destroying. And then God will identify a city and put his name on it. And they are to then make their offerings in that city only.
In this chapter Moses tells Israel they are about to go before two mountains where he will issue commands connected with blessings and curses. If they obey the commands, they will be blessed, and if they disobey, they will be cursed. He warns them to be careful to obey these commands.
In this chapter Moses reminds Israel of when he delivered them the Ten Commandments; he says that God only wants their love and worship and will respond with his blessing. He chose Israel because he loved their fathers. And so Moses implores Israel to submit and not to stiffen their necks.
In this chapter Moses reminds Israel of their history sharing with them his perspective. Explaining the number of times he prayed and fasted for them for their disobedient stiff-knecked behavior that nearly made them an extinct people to be replaced by the line of Moses. Essentially the message is that God didn't save and bless Israel because they are good. He did so because he is good.
As a father chastens his children so also God afflicts his children to bring to the surface their sinfulness that it can be rooted and to produce a holy people.
God commands Israel to destroy their enemies utterly. They are to go against seven nations that are stronger and more numerous. God chose Israel, not because of their number (they were the smallest nation), he chose them because he loved them.
After reminding Israel what God did for them in Egypt, he charges them to obey God's ordinances which were written for their good. That he should give them their inheritance and they not squander it in sin.
In this account, we get details about the day Israel received the Ten Commandments from God in Horeb at Mount Sinai. When they heard the voice of the Lord they feared they would die and begged Moses to be an intermediary.
Moses reminds Israel of what they've been through and warns them to avoid idolatry or they will become like the nations they have destroyed. He reminds them that God is merciful and will have pity upon them if they return to him, but charges them not to turn away lest they become like Og King of Basan and Seon king of the Amorites.
This chapter contains a log of the battles that Israel fought against the giants in the wilderness.
This chapter gives a history of the peoples and nations that Israel fought in the wilderness. It also identifies the nations and territories they were forbidden to war against (the desendants of Lot and Esau).
In this chapter Moses recounts Israel's history of disobedience. It is a reminder to them before they cross the river Jordan that the reason they wandered forty years in the wilderness was because they failed to trust in the Lord. Suggesting they better not repeat their mistake this time.
Due to Israel's permanent inheritance laws, special provisions were made for the daughters of Salpaad (who had no brother). They could inherit their father's property, but must marry within their tribe so that inheritances didn't transfer from tribe to tribe.
In this chapter, God describes how Israel is to handle situations involving both accidental death and murder. Accidental death allows for the perpetrator to flee to a city of refuge and live there until the death of the high-priest. But murderers are to die by the hand of the avenger of blood.
In this chapter God explains the borders for Israel's inheritance. Afterwards he appoints the elders to divide the land by lot and population.
This chapter contains an account of the wandering of Israel in the wilderness for forty years.
Gad and Ruben make a request that alarms Moses because it sounds like they are refusing to enter Chanaan as their fathers before them did. They request the pasture lands of Seon for their flocks and herds and its walled cities. They agree to fight until all of Israel receives its possession before returning to their inheritance on the other side of the Jordan.
Because Balaam encouraged Balac king of Moab to cause the women of Moab to fornicate with the children of Israel and to cause them to serve their gods, God commanded Moses to send in twelve thousand warriors to attack and plunder the Madianites. All the men were killed and only the animals and virgin females were spared.
In this chapter God explains that a father can veto his daughter's oaths, and a husband can veto his wife's oaths. God says that silence is agreement, and disagreement is necessary to cancel oaths.
Moses transferred the leadership of the congregation of Israel to Jesus son of Naue by the laying on of hands.
This chapter contains the subtotals for each tribe of Israel, which is totaled at the end.
Israel went whoring after Moab's women who also seduced them into worshipping their gods. God sends a plague on his people that is stayed when Aaron's grandson: Phinees slays two people near the tabernacle of witness, one of which was the daughter of a Madianite prince seducing men into following Phogor.
After the third blessing, Balaam prophecies the futures of several nations including Israel, Moab and the Amorites. He prophecies of the Christ.
Balac brings Balaam to three locations attempting to get him to curse Israel. But each time God forces Balaam to bless his people, Israel.
Upon seeing the great multitude of Israel passing his borders, the king of Moab becomes fearful and calls for Balaam to put a curse on the people of Israel. Upon seeing the angel of the Lord, with his sword drawn, Balaam's ass refuses to follow Balaam's instructions. God opens the mouth of the donkey to speak.
The giants in the land begin engaging Israel. Initially Israel vows that if God gives them victory they will dedicate their land to God. And God gives them victory. Later Israel engages the Amorites and Og of Bashan
God commanded Moses and Aaron to speak to a rock to provide water to Israel, but they struck the rock. As punishment Moses was forbidden to enter the promised land and Aaron was returned to his people in Mount Or where he died.
God commands all the heads of the tribes of Israel to put their rods in the tabernacle of witness. The next day Aaron's rod buds and blossoms producing almonds. This was the sign for the children of the disobedient, that God chose Aaron from the tribe of Levi
After having received a place of honor, Core / Korah and his brothers want more. They want the priesthood and so they come against Moses, who explains the terms of the showdown between him and Aaaron and the other Levites attempting a power grab. Later the people complain that Moses struck down the sons of Core, and for more murmuring, God sends a plague that consumes them.
There is one law for Israel and the strangers and sojourners among them. On the sabbath day a man was found gathering wood. The children of Israel brought him to Moses who sought direction from the Lord. God commanded the congregation of Israel to stone him.
Because the children of Israel doubted God, and murmured for the tenth time, he answered the prayer of their words — that they would die in the wilderness. He appoints one year of punishment for ever day the spies spied out the land. And they would bear their iniquity forty years until the entire faithless generation perished for lack of belief.
Moses sends twelve men, one from each tribe, into Chanaan to spy out the land and return with a report. Ten men feared the inhabitants and transferred that fear to the children of Israel, refusing to go in and fight. Only Caleb and Joshua / Jesus wanted to proceed.
Miriam and Aaron spoke ill of Moses and the Lord heard it and made Mariam a leper. Moses prayed for her and she was healed seven days later.
The people of Israel long for Egypt because of its meat and murmur against the Lord and demand meat from Moses. Moses turns to God who causes a wind to send quail two feet high for miles. Enough meat for a month. And then God strikes down those who lusted after the meat.
In this chapter, God explains to Israel the signals that direct troop movements. He directs Moses to make trumpets and blow them four times, once for each wing of the congregation. With a final sound to signify the last encampment deployed.
Moses and Aaron were commanded to prepare the Levites, to consecrate them as gifts to the service of the Lord and his Tabernacle for Aaron and his sons to direct.
This chapter describes the gift offerings given from Israel to God for the consecration of his tabernacle. These gifts were given daily for twelve days by each of the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.
This chapter is a record of the offerings given to God from the leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel for the sake of the altar and temple maintenance.
God prescribes the way a vow should be handled. How to make oneself holy to the Lord for the term of the vow. How it begins, how it ends, and how it is defiled and aborted.
This chapter opens with the instruction that lepers and those with reins be quarantined outside the camp. And continues to describe a test for adultery that can be administered when a spirit of jealousy alerts a husband to the adulterous actions of a wife. The test exhonerates the innocent and curses the guilty.
In this chapter God assigns duties concerning erecting, dismantling and moving His tabernacle to specific Levite families
God establishes the order of Israel's march. And how they will camp around the tabernacle.
God commands Moses and Aaron to number Israel and establishes heads of each tribe to assist them.
This podcast warns the Numbers chapter 1 is very repetitive and summarizes it into the main points and even calls out some mysteries that may have been burried in the text for us to notice.
God describes how he will correct his people if they should stray from his ordinances and laws.
God explains that he bought Israel for himself for his possession out of the land of Egypt. So they are his servants and attendants. Therefore they are to give each other release for their brethren. And they are to redeem and buy their brothers from sojourners and strangers (and then release them).
In this chapter, God explains the punishments for those who bring harm to others. It opens with a man who cursed using God's name. The penalty was death by stoning
In this chapter God names some of Israel's feasts and how they are to be observed. Including the passover, the feast of unleavened bread, the day of atonement, and the feast of trumpets and tents.
In this chapter God explains that he doesn't want Israel offering the least of their livestock as an offering to him (which would be insulting). He wants sacrifices that are whole and without blemish. Meaning he wants a real sacrifice to be made.
In this chapter God explains all of the sexual relations that are inappropriate for his people.
After God struck down two of Aaron's sons with fire, Aaron was commanded to make atonement for them and for the congregation of Israel once a year perpetually for their sins
In this chapter God explains how to treat those who have an STD and how to react so that it does not spread among his people.
In this chapter God explains he will send a plauge upon the inhabitants in the land of Chanaan and how to purge a plague of leprousy in a house.
After giving birth a woman undergoes a period of purification from her blood and is reqired to make a sin offering for her children.
In this chapter God explains which animals Israel is free to eat, and which are forbidden.
Two of Aaron's sons offered unauthorized fire before God and so he sent fire down and consumed them. Aaron and his remaining sons were commanded not to mourn for them because they were judged and sinned. But the rest of Israel could mourn.
In this chapter Moses anoints Aaron and his sons to perform the duties of priest in the tabernacle of the Lord.
This chapter explains the sacrifice of praise offering and then concludes the series of offerings that began with Leviticus chapter 1.
This chapter describes the penalties and procedures for making a trespass offering to the Lord.
This chapter identifies the sin penalties and procedures for offerings for sins later discovered, previously unknown.
In this last book of Exodus, the tabernacle is complete and assembled. This would enable the priests to perform sacrifices for Israel and worship and serve the Lord.
This chapter gives an accounting of the money that went into the artifacts of the tabernacle.
Beseleel and Eliab build the tent part of the tabernacle according to the designs explained in this chapter.
The children of Israel bring donations to the tabernacle and deliver them so that Beseleel and Eliab can being the work of making tabernacle artifacts.
After delivering some laws, Moses calls all those who feel the desire to donate to the tabernacle of God. And Beseleel and Eliab received a spirit of wisdom to form the raw materials into craftsmanship for God's tabernacle
When Moses comes up on Mount Sina, he sees God who makes several proclamations and then gives Moses the Ten Commandments to deliver to Israel. When Moses returns, his face is glowing and he is glorified and Israel fears him.
Because Israel is a stiff-necked people God planned to send his angel with them, but Moses insisted that God go with them himself. God agreed and then afterward Moses asked God to reveal himself.
While God spoke to Moses in the mount giving him instructions for the tabernacle and the sacrifices, Israel becomes impatient and concludes Moses must be dead or gone. They ask Aaron to make them gods to worship and he takes their jewelry and makes a molten calf. Moses comes down from the mountain with the ten commandments and breaks the tablets in his anger and calls upon the sons of Levi to cut down friends and family transgressing against God.
In this chapter God tells Moses who he has appointed to build certain temple objects because he has given them skill and understanding. He reminds Moses of the importance of keeping the sabbath holy. Those who do not will be put to death.
God gives Moses the procedures for making various kinds of offerings including one called the ransom for the soul.
God gives Moses details about the sacrifices to be made to him in the tabernacle Israel is building for God to dwell among his people in the wilderness.
God describes the robes to be worn by the priests when they minister to the Lord and atone for the sins of Israel.
In this chapter Moses continues receiving instructions for the tabernacle of the testimony.
God gives Moses a detailed set of instructions for making the Tabernacle of testimonies.
Moses receives instructions for building the Ark of the Covenant and the tabernacle of testimonies so God can dwell among his people.
Moses and the elders of Israel go upon mount Sinai to meet with God. They eat with him and he calls Moses and Joshua to receive the Ten Commandments.
In this chapter various laws continue including the laws pertaining to keeping the feasts. God then informs Israel that if they will keep these laws, God will fight their battles. Making Israel's enemies God's enemies. And he will send his angel and his hornets before them driving the inhabitants out of the land little by little until Israel can occupy it.
This chapter contains a collection of laws pertaining to the compensation required when theft is suspected, or confirmed.
This chapter contains a series of ordinances concerning ownership, and accidental deaths and various irresponsibilities of owners.
The first thing God does when he meets the children of Israel is to give them the Ten Commandments. Israel begs Moses to ask God to stop talking fearing death. And so God ceases to speak to Israel and brings Moses up into the mountain to gather his word and bring it to his people.
God descends onto mount Sinai like a smoking furnace. And calls Moses to come up to meet with him on the mountain and charges Moses to warn the people not to touch the mountain lest they die. And to keep their cattle secure, lest they die. The people hear the voice of God thundering from the fire and the smoke and tremble.
Moses' father-in-law meets Moses in the wilderness bringing him his wife and children and hears the story of the Exodus first-hand. Then he observes the burden Moses endured hearing the disputes from the people of Israel and explained the importance of establishing righteous judges to give judgement on small matters to relieve the burden on Moses.
The children of Israel murmur for lack of water and so Moses receives instruction from God to smite a rock to bring forth water for Israel. Amalec came out to war against Israel and so long as Moses raised the staff of God, Joshua and Israel prevailed.
The children of Israel became hungry and murmurred against God who sent them manna and quail to eat to test their obedience and sustain them in the wilderness.
After defeating the Egyptians using the Red Sea, All of Israel sings praise songs and glorifies God for releasing them from bondage and defeating Egypt mightily.
The Egyptians regret letting Israel go and so pursue them to recapture them. Moses leads Israel to the sea and the people fear and complain he led them to their deaths. God commands Moses to lift his staff and part the Red Sea and causes a strong wind to blow and Moses leads the people across on dry land. The Egyptians pursue Israel and when God slows them down they fear for their lives, and before they can retreat Moses raises his hand and God causes the water to wipeout the Egyptians.
Because the angel of death passed over Israel, God claimed their first-born for himself and explained the feast of the passover.
The angel of death passed over Israel and killed the first-born of Egypt from Pharaoh to the maid in the dungeon and all cattle. Israel plundered the Egyptians and they were sent away in haste with great plunder.
God tells Moses he is about to send the last plague on Egypt, one that will cause Pharaoh to release Israel. And he tells Moses to tell his people to go and plunder the Egyptians quietly asking for gold and silver before the plague comes that they may leave with plunder
God sends the following plagues on Egypt:
Locusts lay waste to all that which is left in Egypt
Three days of deep darkness
Pharaoh threatens Moses with death if he should ever see him again.
Pharaoh's heart remained hard that God could reveal his glory to the world through Pharaoh. God struck Egypt with many plagues: wiping out only Egyptian cattle, afflicting the people with boils, a warning was issued that a great hail was coming and all those not indoors would die. The next day God struck Egypt with hailstones mixed with fire killing all those who were not inside their homes.
Moses works more miracles to get Pharaoh to release Israel to make sacrifices to God. In this chapter, he unleashes frogs, lice and gadflies on Egypt. And after the plague of the frogs, the plagues cease affecting the children of Israel. Only Egypt is afflicted that they may know this is the hand of God.
Because Pharao refused to hearken to the voice of the Lord Moses and Aaron begin working signs and wonders delivering Egypt's first plauge: water turned to blood.
After being scouraged the accountants of Israel questioned God's plan to Moses. And when Moses relays their concerns and reminds God he has not delivered his people. God reminds Moses of his promises and who he is. And he sends Moses back to Pharaoh.
Because Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh to request a 3 day journey into the wilderness to worship God, he refused to supply straw for brick making, but demanded the same quota be met. As a result, the children of Israel were upset with Moses and Aaron.
God instructed Moses in the wilderness. Moses asked God to send someone else smoother of speech, which made God angry. He then said he would send Aaron with Moses to Egypt to be his mouth.
While tending Jothor's flocks Moses sees a bush that's burning but not consumed. After going to investigage, God calls to him from the bush and commissions Moses to deliver his people from their bondage to the Egyptians.
Moses slew an Egyptian man for abusing one of his Hebrew brothers and after the matter became known he flees from Egypt. Pharaoh intended to kill Moses for the crime. Moses meets the daugthers of Jethro at the well in Midian and after helping them water their flock, he is made part of the family through marriage to Sepphora
After Joseph and his generation died, a new king of Egypt arose who was unfamiliar with Joseph. He observed that the Hebrew nation grew larger than his own and so decreed they were to be enslaved and controlled. He put taskmasters over them and commanded the midwives to slay male children.
At the beginning of the chapter, Jacob died and was buried in the double cave of Ephrom the Chettite. Afterwards his brothers came to him and told him it was their father's dying wish that Joseph forgive his brothers their sins against him. He comforted them and provided for them and their families until he died himself at one hundred ten.
Jacob called his sons together to give them a blessing. After prophesying to their future and blessing them, he pulled up his feet on the bed and died.
Jacob became ill and called for Joseph so that he could bless his sons, Ephraim and Manasse. He blesses them both abundantly, but the younger he blesses to be greater than the older.
Joseph's family arrived in Egypt and settled in Gesem (Goshen).
The famine prevailed in Egypt. After spending all their money, the Egyptians traded all their cattle and possessions. When that was spent, they sold themselves and their land to be servants to Pharao in exchange for seed and food to live. Joseph accepts and requires one fifth of their productivity allowing them to keep four-fifths for themselves and their families to survive.
After learning that Joseph, his son is alive, Jacob and his whole family, all seventy-three of them pack their belongings to move to Goshen for five more years of famine are coming.
Joseph was moved by Judah's offer to become his servant on behalf of Benjamin and wept openly and sent away his servants leaving only himself and his brothers. He then explained to his brothers that God put him in this position to save many lives and to spare a remanant of Jacob and even grow his household in the midst of a terrible famine. They were speechless, but were sent away with chariots and waggons to collect Jacob and his belongings and transport them to the land of Goshen.
Joseph commanded his servants to plant his silver cup in the sack of Benjamin and then to intercept his brothers on there way home and discover the cup in Benjamin's possession and to bring him back as a servant. He did and all of Joseph's brothers return prepared to be servants. Joseph offers to let the other ten go, but Judah requests to himself remain as Pharaoh's servant so Benjamin can return to his father.
Having run out of food again, Jacob was finally willing to send Benjamin to Egypt with his brothers to trade for more food and collect Symeon and bring him home. He sent them with gifts for Pharaoh's second and strict instructions to return with Benjamin. Upon arriving they were brought to Joseph's home for lunch. Benjamin was given a portion of food five times larger than everyone else's
Jacob sent his sons to Egypt to buy grain and Joseph saw them, questioned them, and accused them of being spies. They denied the accusation and told them they are twelve brothers come to buy grain due to the famine. He imprisoned them for three days and then sent ten home keeping Simeon behind until they should bring their youngest brother Benajamin as truth they spoke honest words.
Pharaoh had two dreams he explained to his servants, but no one could interpret them. The chief cup-bearer remembered Joseph interpreted two dreams correctly. Pharaoh called for Joseph who indicated that God revealed to Pharaoh what he planned to do. A seven year famine was coming. He recommended that Pharaoh choose a wise man to store up crops during the seven years of plenty that would precede the seven years of famine and immediately received a promotion to Pharaoh's second.
The chief cup-bearer and baker were thrown into prison where Joseph was. They both had similar dreams. Joseph correctly interpreted both dreams and asked to be remembered and shown mercy for being wrongfully imprisoned.
Potipher's wife developed a crush on Joseph and tore his clothes off, which he left in her possession and ran. Because she feared being caught, she falsely accused him to her husband who through Joseph into the Pharao's prison.
Judah married a Chanaanite woman who gave birth to three sons. The first one was wicked and so God struck him dead. The second did a deed God viewed as evil, causing God to smite him also.
Because Jacob loved Joseph more than his other sons they became jealous, and when Joseph told them his dreams about them worshipping him, they hated him all the more. They plotted to kill him, but instead sold him to Ishmaelites on their way to trade in Egypt. Jacob mourned for his son and would not be comforted.
God commands Jacob to go to Bethlehem and blesses him there. Rachel dies in childbirth with Benjamin.
Dina went to the city to observe the girls and was raped by the king's son. Afterwards they approached Jacob willing to pay whatever price he set for his daughter. They enticed him and his sons to stay and trade and dwell together exchanging their daughters as wives for their sons. But Jacob's sons deceived the men of Sychem demanding they first be circumcised and then cutting them down and plundering them when they were too weak to defend themselves.
Jacob sends gifts ahead of himself and his family to placate his brother Esau who approached with four hundred men. Esau kisses his brother and offers to escort him to Seir. Jacob declines the offer so that his company can move slowly at a relaxed pace.
Jacob sent word to Esau that he was coming through messengers. They returned and informed Jacob that Esau was riding out to meet him with four hundred of his men. Jacob became greatly afraid and prayed to God for protection and then divided his camp up into waves of blessing for his brother. Afterwards Jacob wrestles with God.
Jacob took his family and undertook a journey to return to his home at God's instruction. Three days later Laban discovers Jacob and his wives and children fled and pursues them for seven days. He overtakes them at the mount of Galaad and is warned in a dream by God not to speak evil to Jacob. They argue and ultimately make an agreement to do each other no harm.
Jacob wishes to return home, but Laban recognizes that he was blessed by Jacob and tells him to name his price and he will pay. Jacob begins serving Laban for a share in the cattle and indicates that his wages will be whatsoever comes forth speckled and spotted or gray. Laban then swindles Jacob by giving most of them to his sons and sending them off a distance of three days and Jacob retaliates by conniving a way to cause the cattle to yield speckled and spotted offspring.
Jacob finds his brother Laban in Charan through Rachel. He is welcomed and asked what his wages will be for his work. Jacob offers to serve Laban seven years for his daughter Rachel. Laban deceives him and first gives him Lea and demands seven additional years for Rachel. Lea begins bearing Jacob children and hopes that her fruitfulness will cause him to love her.
Isaac gives Jacob another blessing before sending him to Mesopotamia to dwell with Laban and marry one of his daughters. On his journey God meets him in a dream and repeats the promise he made to Abraam. Jacob erects a pillar and calls the place the house of God.
Isaac tells Esau to bring him venison so he may bless him before the lord before he dies. Esau leaves and Rebecca calls Jacob and tells him about her plan to steal the blessing of Esau for her son Jacob. She prepares a meal for him and clothes Jacob in Esau's clothes. He then steals the blessing and incurs the rath of his brother Esau. Rebecca then plans to send Jacob to Laban her brother for a wife and her son's safety
A famine ensues, but Isaac is rewarded with a crop that produces one hundred fold. King Abimelech fears how prosperous Isaac has become and bids him leave, but later comes to him seeking an oath of mutual safety.
Rebecca conceives and gives birth to twins: Jacob and Esau. Because they battled in her stomach she inquired of the Lord who explained they would be the father of two nations and the older would serve the younger. Later when the men are grown Esau traded his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup.
After the death of Sarah, Abraam commissioned his servant, Eliezer to return to his home land and locate a wife for his son Isaac. The angel of the Lord, goes before Eliezer who arranged a test: whatever woman gives him and his camels water, she is to be Isaac's wife. Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel appeared before he even completed the test in his mind.
Sarah gives birth to Isaac. Abimelech and two others meet with Abraam to suggest a covenant between them that spans generations.
God rebukes Abimelech for taking Sarah to wife because she belongs to Abraam. Abimelech returns her and gives plunder to Abraham and tells him to select any place he likes
The Lord repeats his promise to bear a son named Isaac in one year's time. Sarah laughs and is rebuked for it. Afterwards God informs Abraham that he plans to overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah if the prayers he has heard against them ring true. And Abraham negotiates on behalf of the righteous.
God promises to multiply Abraham through Isaac and requires him to circumcise himself and his children and servants. And afterwards, anyone born on the eighth day throughout every generation as a sign of the covenant between Abraham and God.
Sara is frustrated that she is unable to bear Abram a son and so she gives him her handmaid to wife. And they conceive and bare a son named Ishmael.
God promises Abraham he will give him an heir and multiply his seed into a great nation as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sands.
Abram rescues his nephew lot from the kings that took him prisoner and he meets with Melchisedec king of Salem and honors him with a tithe for giving him victory over his enemies.
Abraham and Lot separate because the land isn't big enough for both of them. Lot goes and dwells in Sodom. Abraham is told by God that all the land, he could see as far as they eye could see would be a perpetual home for him and his descendants.
A famine causes Abraham and Sarah to travel to Egypt where she is taken as a wife by Pharaoh because he believed her to be Abraham's sister. Upon discovering the truth, he gives to them generously provided they leave.
Account of the Tower of Babel. Nimrod leads men into constructing a tower to heaven in defiance of the Lord. So God confounds their speech and disperses man over the face of the earth
This podcast highlights the differences between the King James Version of the Bible and Septuagint comparing Genesis chapter 1 - 10.
The family genealogy of Noah and his sons. With some detail about the more prominent cities built by some
Noah curses his sons descendents due to the disrespect his son showed by mocking him to his brothers.
Noah and the ark come to rest on mount Ararat and he and his family disembark from their journey
God is grieved that he created mankind and wipes out all land based inhabitants of the earth with a flood
Ignore the publish dates, which I set for the purpose of sorting podcasts in the right order.
This podcast was posted on Aug 4, 2020
It is full of proofs from the Bible alone that creation was one-thousand year days!
Adam and Eve have children. Cain slays his brother Abel out of jealousy and is driven away by God and cursed to suffer hardship in his trade.
This podcast has in it the answer to the questions asked in the last challenge:
1 - Do Adam and Eve partake of the fruit?
2 - Did the snake say anything that was true?
3 - Did Eve go get Adam and offer him the fruit?
The account of the fall of mankind.
Eve is deceived by the serpent into disobeying God. And she causes Adam also to eat and then they hide from God because they are naked.
After God asks them what they have done he reveals both the punishment and a foreshadow to his plan for forgiveness and redemption.
And for those who are interested in my other channels, they are:
The Bible Why Guy (www.thebiblewhyguy.com)
The Revelator (www.tomprophet.com)
The Book Matrix (www.thebookmatrix.com)
In this episode, I answer the soulmates question and supply the next challenge.
For those who want more information on what the Bible says about Soulmates, I have a detailed podcast posted here -> https://www.thebookmatrix.com/p/genesis-adam-and-eve-exposition.html
Will Adam and Eve partake of the forbidden fruit?
Does the snake say anything that's true? and
Does Eve find Adam after partaking of the fruit, or was he with her the whole time?
And for those who are interested in my other channels, they are:
The Bible Why Guy (www.thebiblewhyguy.com)
The Revelator (www.tomprophet.com)
The Book Matrix (www.thebookmatrix.com)
On creation day 6 God created man. He was told he could eat from all the trees freely except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam was told to name the animals of the earth, which he did and afterwards God took Adam's rib and created woman.
In this podcast I give the challenge: what evidence do you see in Genesis chapter 2 that would suggest that Eve was Adam's soulmate?
And for those who are interested in my other channels, they are:
The Bible Why Guy (www.thebiblewhyguy.com)
The Revelator (www.tomprophet.com)
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This is Genesis chapter 1 from the Septuagint translation of the Bible.
The creation account.
You may recall that the Bible was written in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. It's obvious why it was written in Hebrew. The Aramaic writings came due to the captivity in Babylon, and later Israel and the known world were conquered by Alexander the Great of the Greeks. Hundreds of years elapsed (during the time of the Macabbees) and eventually the Jews spoke Greek.
The Greek name for the Son of God is Jesus Christ. But the Hebrew equivalent is Joshua (pronounced Yeshua) Messiah AKA Anointed Messiah. Meaning that the Book of Joshua (son of Nun) in the Greek would have been called Jesus Nun, which is something Eusebius commented on matter of factly in his writings.
Part 1 of the Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History -> https://www.thebookmatrix.com/p/transcript-eusebius-ecclesiastical.html
Part 11 of the Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History -> https://www.thebookmatrix.com/p/transcript-ecclesiastical-history-of.html