I pour out my complaint to him, telling him all of my troubles.

"Take him, look after him, and don't do anything to harm him. Rather, do for him whatever he tells you."

They surrounded me like bees; but they will be extinguished like burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I will defeat them.

And who pursues them and moves on unscathed by a path that his feet don't know?

They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love.

They surround me with hate-filled words, attacking me for no reason.

Tremble then, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

for he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to deliver him from his accusers. A Davidic psalm

They forgot God their Savior, who performed great things in Egypt

My dishonor tortures me continuously; the shame on my face overwhelms me

For you are their strength's grandeur; by your favor you exalted our power.

God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

"At the time that I choose I will judge the righteous.

This Passover celebration was observed during the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.

This is how I'm going to afflict David's descendants because of what they have done, though I won't do it continuously.'"

Then he brought me out through the north gateway and around to the one outside that faces toward the east. To my amazement, water was trickling out from that part of the south side, too!

along with their relatives, descendants of Levi who had been appointed for all the service of the tent of the Temple of God.

Then give the money meant for ransom of their excess to Aaron and his sons."

The priest is to leave through the entrance to the house and seal the house for seven days.

Their sacrifice for a peace offering consisted of two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five one year old lambs. These were the offerings presented by Gideoni's son Abidan.

The total of those who were numbered from the descendants of Levi by Moses and Aaron; that is, from the leaders of Israel counted according to their tribes and ancestral houses

And he put the poles through rings on the sides of the altar to carry it. He made it hollow, out of boards.

Then the heavens and the earth and all that are in them will shout for joy about Babylon because the destroyers will come out of the north against her," declares the LORD.

He made a lattice, a netting of bronze, for the altar. It was under its ledge, extending halfway up.

I'll strike down the residents of this city, both people and animals, and they'll die from a terrible plague.

Assyria will be there, along with all of those who keep company with her, all of them killed violently.

"When I turn the land of Egypt into a desolation, and the land is emptied of everything that used to fill it, when I strike everyone who lives there, they will learn that I am the LORD.'

The fords have been captured, and the marshes burned with fire. The soldiers are terrified.

"Put salt on Moab for she will surely fall. Her towns will become desolate places, without any inhabitants in them.

This is what I'll do to this place and its residents," declares the LORD, "making this city like Topheth.

but surely those who harvest it will eat it and praise the name of the LORD, and those who gather it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary,' says your God."

He it is who remembered us in our lowly circumstances, for his gracious love is everlasting

All the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant agreed that each would set his male and female slaves free so that they would not enslave them any longer. They obeyed and they released them.

To the one who split the Reed Sea in two for his gracious love is everlasting

for he listens to me whenever I call.

With the LORD beside me as my helper, I will triumph over those who hate me.

and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Our feet are standing inside your gates, Jerusalem.

He led them in a straight way to find a city where they could live.

A mighty king who loves justice, you have established fairness. You have exercised justice and righteousness over Jacob.

They bound his feet with fetters and placed an iron collar on his neck,

Stand up, judge of the earth, and repay the proud.

He will drink from a stream on the way, then hold his head high.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and for his awesome deeds on behalf of mankind.

"Listen, you descendants of Israel! Come back to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may come back to those of you who have escaped and survived from domination by the kings of Assyria. Don't be like your ancestors and your relatives, who weren't faithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, who, as a result, made them a desolate horror, as you well know.

It will be established forever like the moon, a faithful witness in the sky." Interlude

You must neither have a foreign god over you or worship a strange god.

He rejected the clan of Joseph; and the tribe of Ephraim he did not choose.

I will say to the proud, "Don't brag," and to the wicked, "Don't vaunt your strength.

to make artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,

You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

All of the Temple Servants and descendants of Solomon's servants numbered 392.

She told her young men, "Go ahead of me, I'll be coming right behind you." But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

Be strong, be courageous on behalf of our people and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what he thinks is best."

He set five of the stands on the right side of the Temple and five on the left side of the Temple. He set the bronze sea on the right side of the Temple eastward facing the south.

David answered, "Against the Negev of Judah, against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites, and against the Negev of the Kenites." David did not leave a man or woman alive to bring to Gath. He told himself, "Otherwise, they'll say, "This is what David is doing, and this has been his practice all the time he has lived in Philistine territory.'"

The army of Israel turned around in the battle, and the army of Benjamin began to attack and kill about 30 soldiers, thinking, "Now we're really defeating them, just like before."

During the year of jubilee, the field is to be returned by the one who originally sold it that is, to the owner of the land.

Abimilech was told that all of the "lords" of the Shechem Tower had assembled there.

You are to appoint a leader from each tribe to divide the land for inheritance.

The tribes and the ancestral houses of the descendants of Gershon were numbered

Early the next morning, the men were sent on their way, along with their donkeys.

Because they kept serving them in the presence of their idols, becoming a sin-filled stumbling block to the house of Israel,' declares the Lord GOD.

After you've finished the cleansing, you are to present a young bull without defect and a ram from the flock without defect.

when we arrived at our overnight lodging place, we opened our sacks and discovered each man's money was still in the mouth of his sack. All of our money was there! We've brought it back with us in full.

I will turn you into an everlasting wasteland, and your cities will never be inhabited. Then you'll learn that I am the LORD!

Opposite the 20 cubits wide inner court, and opposite the paved area that comprised the outer court, there were three stories of galleries that faced each other.

They'll forget their shame and all of their unfaithfulness by which they behaved so unfaithfully toward me. They will live on their land in confidence, not in fear.

The slain will fall in the land of Chaldea, pierced through in her streets.

I'll terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek to kill them. I'll bring on them disaster and become fiercely angry at them," declares the LORD. "I'll send the sword after them, until I've made an end of them.

to the one who made the great lights, for his gracious love is everlasting

He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

Egypt is rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, "I'll rise and cover the land. I'll destroy the city and its inhabitants.'

LORD, after all this, can you hold yourself back? Can you keep silent and punish us so severely?

Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon as you have been. Don't fear him,' declares the LORD, "because I am with you to save you and deliver you from his control.

But I'll let the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him remain in its own land," declares the LORD, "and they'll work it and remain in it."'"

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, telling you: "The king of Babylon won't come against you or against this land'?

One other thing: have I really marched against this country to destroy it apart from the LORD's direction? The LORD himself ordered me, "March against this country to destroy it.'"

So they rejoiced that the waves became quiet, and he led them to their desired haven.

Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.

When they speak, they spew arrogance. Everyone who practices iniquity brags about it.

Having poured contempt on their nobles, causing them to err aimlessly in the way.

When he is judged, may he be found guilty; may his prayer be regarded as sin.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds to mankind.

Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath.

For their hearts weren't committed to him, and they weren't faithful to his covenant.

Your servant rejoices, because, Lord, I set my hope on you.

Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and horror has covered me.

As for me, you will maintain my just cause, and you will cause me to stand in your presence forever.

How long will you rage against someone? Would you attack him as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

The sin of their mouth is the word on their lips. They will be caught in their own conceit; for they speak curses and lies.

They paid it to the workmen who supervised the LORD's Temple, and the workmen who were employed in the LORD's Temple to supervise restoration and repair of the Temple.

Like a lion they desire to rip us to pieces, like a young lion waiting in ambush.

Look upon my distress and affliction; forgive all my sins.

They had 736 horses, 245 mules,

The inadvertent killer is to live in the town of refuge until the High Priest dies. After the death of the High Priest, the inadvertent killer is to return to the land of his inheritance.

Now, get up early in the morning along with your lord's servants who came with you. Get up early in the morning, and go as soon as you have light."

David replied, "Here's the king's spear. Have one of the young men come over and get it.

"For the second side of the tent to the north you are to make 20 boards

Then the LORD told Moses,

For the rear of the tent on the west he made six boards,

They made chains of pure gold twisted like cords for the breast piece.

They made two gold rings and attached them to the two edges of the breast piece, on the side of it which is toward the inner side of the ephod.

These were all the sons of Rachel, who were born for Jacob fourteen in all.

Furthermore, they are not to sell or exchange any part of it, nor transfer these first fruits of the land, because it is holy to the LORD.

"Alongside the border of the priests, the descendants of Levi are to be allotted 25,000 units in length and 10,000 units in width. The entire length is to be 25,000 units and its width 10,000 units.

""The grain offering for the festivals and appointed festivals is to include an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and as much grain with the lambs as the Regent Prince brings with him, along with a hin of oil with each ephah.

Next, he measured 100 cubits as the length of the structure toward the front of the courtyard that stood behind it, where it housed a gallery on each side of it. Then he measured the Temple and the inner porticos of the courtyard,

The entrance was ten cubits wide and its door jambs were five cubits wide on each side. He measured the length of the nave at 40 cubits and its width at 20 cubits.

It was because of their defilement and transgression that I treated them this way by hiding my presence from them.'"

On the day that he returns to the sanctuary's inner court to minister, he is to offer his own sin offering," declares the Lord GOD.

Gather together the best pieces of meat on it including the thighs and the shoulders and fill it with the choicest bones.

I turned it over to the leader of those nations, who dealt with it thoroughly. I have driven it away because of its wickedness.

They have prepared a bed for her and for her hordes that surround her graves. All of them are uncircumcised, having been killed violently, because they had spread terror throughout the land of the living. They will bear the shame of those who descend to the Pit and will take their place among the dead.

You are to bear the punishment of your wickedness and detestable practices," declares the LORD,

LORD, you listened to their insults all their plots against me,

Watch! Whether they sit down or stand up, they mock me with their songs.

They flee at your rebuke; they rush away at the sound of your thunders.

Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he exalted himself against the LORD.

"Therefore, look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll send those who tip over vessels to him, and they'll tip him over. They'll empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

Why are your warriors prostrate? They don't stand because the LORD has brought them down.

But if you disobey the LORD your God by saying, "We won't stay in this land,"

But the people remained silent and didn't respond to him with so much as a single word, because the king had commanded, "Don't answer him."

Israel asked, and quail came; food from heaven satisfied them.

He told them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says, to whom you sent me to take your request:

But I'll deliver you on that day," declares the LORD. "You won't be given into the hands of the men you fear.

until the time his prediction came true, as the word of the LORD refined him.

Who will lead me to the fortified city? Who will lead me as far as Edom?

He is the LORD our God; his judgments extend to the entire earth.

The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servant! I carry inside me all the insults of many people,

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Your servants take pleasure in its stones and delight in its debris.

You kept my eyes open; I was troubled and couldn't speak.

I will cut down the strength of the wicked, but the strength of the righteous will be lifted up. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.

435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

Deliver us, LORD! Answer us, our King, on the day we cry out! To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

Shaphan the scribe also informed the king, "Hilkiah the priest gave me a book." Shaphan read from its contents to the king.

as well as the priests who were enrolled in the genealogies according to their ancestral households.

Four supports stood at the four corners of each cart, built into the carts themselves.

Then the clothing (whether it is woven or knitted material) or any article made of leather that you've washed, if the contagion has been removed from it and it's washed a second time, then it's clean.

But if he won't redeem the field, but instead sells it to another person, then it is not to be redeemed anymore.

Their four pillars and their four sockets were made of bronze, and their hooks were made of silver. Their tops were overlaid with silver and their bands were made of silver.

The north side was 100 cubits long, and its 20 pillars and 20 sockets were made of bronze, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were made of silver.

Nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or large, sons or daughters, spoil, or anything that they had taken for themselves David brought back everything.

They made two gold rings and attached them in front, on the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, close to the place where it's joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

The length of each curtain was 30 cubits, and the width of each curtain was two cubits; the measurements of each of the eleven curtains was the same.

the table and its furnishings, the lamp stand of pure gold, all its furnishings, the altar of incense,

So Israel's sons did what they were asked to do, and Joseph provided wagons for them, as Pharaoh had commanded. He also gave them provisions for the journey.

""He'll direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and will breach your fortified towers with axes.

One of them left me, so I concluded "I'm certain that he has been torn to pieces," and I haven't seen him since then.

They imprisoned him in a cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babel. Then they placed him in their dungeon where his voice would no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.

There were 96 pomegranates open to view. In all, there were 100 pomegranates all around the latticework.

Then the angel brought me in through an entrance beside the gate into the north-facing chambers dedicated to the priests. As I looked toward the rear of the far western end, I saw a place

I'll smash man and woman with you. I'll smash old man and young boy with you. I'll smash young man and young woman with you.

A destroyer will come to every town and no town will escape. The valley will be ruined and the plateau destroyed." This is what the LORD has said!

Ebed-melech the Ethiopian told Jeremiah, "Put the worn out rags and clothes under your armpits under the ropes," and Jeremiah did as he said.

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.

There they'll cry out, "Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is just a big noise. He has let the appointed time pass by.'

All the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and went back to Kareah's son Jonathan.

Jeremiah said, "There is," and then he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon." Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What offense have I committed against you, your officials, or these people that you have put me in prison?

For at that time, everyone will throw away their idols of silver and their idols of gold that your hands have sinfully made for yourselves.

And now, why didn't you rebuke Jeremiah from Anathoth who prophesies to you?

Has the LORD struck them down, just as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been killed, just as their killers were killed?

Since I am your servant, give me understanding, so I will know your decrees.

Why should the nations ask "Where now is their God?"

then I will punish their disobedience with a rod and their iniquity with lashes.

for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Ascribe power to God, whose glory is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.

Let the sea and everything in it shout, along with the world and its inhabitants;

Just as we have heard, so have we seen; in the city of the LORD of the heavenly armies even in the city of our God God will establish her forever. Interlude

Brave men were plundered while they slumbered in their sleep. All the men of the army were immobilized.

then the priest is to command that they wash whatever has the contagion and then isolate it for seven days a second time.

his son Meraioth, his son Amariah, his son Ahitub,

and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings."

along with these corresponding grain offerings of fine flour mixed with olive oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,

The Israelis returned from pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camp.

The palace manager searched for the cup, beginning with the oldest brother's sack and ending with the youngest brother's sack, and there it was! in Benjamin's sack.

You are to put the two gold cords on the two gold rings at the edges of the breast piece,

You are to set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.

It is to have two shoulder-pieces attached to its two edges so it can be joined together.

We've also brought along some more money to buy supplies, but we don't know who put our money back into our sacks."

Just be sure to bring your youngest brother back to me so what you've claimed can be verified. That way, you won't die."

The Regent Prince is to present an ephah of grain along with the bull, an ephah of grain along with the ram, a grain offering consisting of as much as he is able to give and a hin of olive oil with each ephah of grain.

However, the priests are not to eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or that has been torn apart."

Nevertheless, I will appoint them to take care of my Temple, including all of its service and everything that is to be done inside of it.'"

Then I'll turn the land into a desolate ruin and her arrogant strength will come to an abrupt end. The mountains of Israel will become so desolate that no one will be able to travel over them."

He also measured the width from the front lower gate to the front of the exterior inner court at 100 cubits to the east and to the north.

"So who's more beautiful than you? You'll be buried with the uncircumcised.

"Because this is what the LORD says: "At the end of 40 years I'll gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they have been scattered.

Those who are both near and far away from you will scoff at you, because your reputation will be infamous and full of turmoil.

He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the other kings who were in Babylon with him.

And he will redeem Israel from all its sins. A Davidic Song of Ascents

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard arrested them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

and cast Pharaoh and his armies into the Reed Sea, for his gracious love is everlasting.

The king of Babylon has heard the news about them, and his hands hang limp. Distress has seized him, like a woman in labor.

May the LORD who fashions heaven and earth bless you from Zion.

May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, because I desire to do so.

Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

I keep your precepts and your decrees because all of my ways are before you. Tav

the mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like lambs.

He loved to curse may his curses return upon him! He took no delight in blessing others so may blessings be far from him.

But they deceived him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.

I will find strength in God, for he will trample on our foes. To the Director. A Davidic psalm.

My faithfulness and gracious love will be with him, and in my name his power will be exalted.

a decree that he prescribed for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt, speaking a language I did not recognize.

Answer me, LORD, for your gracious love is good; Turn to me in keeping with your great compassion,

He blazed a path for his anger; he did not stop short from killing them, but handed them over to pestilence.

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

Righteousness will go before him to prepare a path for his steps. A Davidic prayer

"Kings of armies retreat and flee, while the lady of the house divides the spoil.

But the Israeli army not counting the tribe of Benjamin numbered 400,000 expert swordsmen, all of them battle-hardened soldiers.

David told Achish, "What have I done, and what have you found in your servant from the time I came before you until this very moment, that I shouldn't go out and fight the enemies of your majesty?"

along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances,

and one tenth for each of the fourteen lambs,

"The priest is to examine the contagion and isolate the clothing for seven days.

the lamp stand of pure gold, its lamps (with the lamps in order), its furnishings, its oil for lighting,

With it he made the sockets for the doorway to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze lattice for it, all the furnishings for the altar,

He cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze lattice as holders for the poles.

Each board was ten cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide.

"Your Excellency," they replied, "Why do you speak like this? Far be it from your servants to act like this.

So he went after them and made that accusation.

We're all sons of a common father. We're honest men, your majesty. We're not spies!"

But the man who was in charge of the land responded, "I'm going to test your honesty. Leave one of your brothers with me, take some grain for the famine that's afflicting your households, and leave.

Intermarry with us. Give your daughters to us and take our sons for yourselves.

But you'll continue to bear your own reproach and be humiliated for everything that you've done. You'll be a comfort to them.

The side chambers consisted of three stories, each above the other, with 30 chambers in each story. The side chambers extended out from the wall that faced the inside of the chambers where the chambers were fastened together, but the chamber walls were not fastened directly into the Temple walls themselves.

He told me, "This is where the ministers of the Temple will be preparing the sacrifices that will be presented by the people.

When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the world, they will learn that I am the LORD.'"

The nations have heard of your disgrace, and your cry of distress fills the earth. Indeed, one warrior stumbles over another, and both of them fall down together."

Birds of the sky live beside them and chirp a song among the foliage.

"How can you say, "We're strong warriors, and soldiers ready for battle'?

Pray that the LORD your God may inform us as to how we should live and what we should do."

who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain.

Indeed, I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

May you be exalted above the heavens, God, and your glory be over all the earth.

they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

so they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Hallelujah!

God, arrogant men rise up against me, while a company of ruthless individuals want to kill me. They do not have regard for you.

Return to me and have mercy on me; clothe your servant with your strength and deliver the son of your maid servant.

In response, she replied:

These men also supervised the heavy lift workers and supervised all the workmen from job to job, while some of the descendants of Levi served as scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.

and his other activities from first to last, are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

There was great joy throughout Jerusalem, because nothing had happened like this in Jerusalem since the days of David's son Solomon, king of Israel.

The tribes of Reuben and Gad, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh east of the Jordan supplied 120,000 men armed with every kind of war weapon.

delivering me from my enemies. You exalted me above those who rebelled against me, delivering me from violent men.

The gold for the raised offering that they brought to the LORD totaled 16,750 shekels,

So 1,000 men from every tribe 12,000 from the thousands of Israel were mustered and equipped for war.

Kedemoth with its surrounding suburbs, and Mephaath with its surrounding suburbs.

"If the priest examines the item and determines that the contagion has become dull after it has been washed, tear it away from the garment, leather, woven material, or knitted material.

They made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece.

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

and he made two boards for the rear corners of the tent.

He cast four gold rings for it and put the rings on the four corners where its four feet were.

He joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Go ahead and execute whichever one of your servants is discovered to have it, and we'll remain as your master's slaves."

But if you won't listen to us, then we're going to take our daughter and leave."

But then you told your servants, "Unless your youngest brother comes back with you, you won't see my face again.'

"The holy Terumah is to be reserved for these, the priests: Toward the north, 25,000 units in length; toward the west, 10,000 units in width; toward the east, 10,000 units in width; and toward the south, 25,000 units in length. The LORD's sanctuary is to be in its midst.

It was equipped with three guardhouses on each side. Its side pillars and porches had measurements identical to the first gate: 50 cubits long and 25 cubits wide.

It stood 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide, with a door in the middle.

Then he measured the open air porch at 60 cubits from the doorjamb of the courtyard that encompassed the gate.

You examined their plans for vengeance, all of their plots against me.

That is, suppose he doesn't eat at the mountain shrines, doesn't look to the idols of Israel's house, doesn't defile his neighbor's wife,

I know his gall," declares the LORD, "and it's futile; the boasting that they do is futile.

Now on the day after Gedaliah was killed, when as yet no one knew about it,

Then Jeremiah spoke a message to all the people, to the young men, to the women, and to all the people who were answering him:

So he called Kareah's son Jonathan, all the military leaders who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

Then this message from the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

to the one who spread out the earth over the waters, for his gracious love is everlasting

They say, "The LORD cannot see, and the God of Jacob will not notice."

LORD, all the kings of the earth will give you thanks, for they have heard what you have spoken.

Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

Fire goes out from his presence to consume his enemies on every side.

God had promised in his sanctuary: "I will triumph and divide Shechem, then I will measure the valley of Succoth!

The one who disciplines nations can rebuke them, can he not? The one who teaches mankind can discern, can he not?

Those who watch me all day have harassed me, for there are many who fight against me out of conceit.

Little Benjamin is there, leading them, and the princes of Judah all together with the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

The wicked stalks the righteous person, seeking to kill him,

But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude

However, as all human beings do, you will die, and like other rulers, you will fall.'

and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings."

The fields adjacent to the city and its villages were allotted to Jephunneh's son Caleb.

They were numbered under the supervision of Moses according to what the LORD had said. Each person was assigned a responsibility to carry out, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

the table and all its utensils, the bread of the presence,

One cherub was at one end and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim at the two ends of the Mercy Seat and of one piece with it.

"However," they added, "only on this condition will the men consent to live with us and be united as a single people with us: every male among us will have to be circumcised just as they are.

running along the border of the tribe of Naphtali from the eastern perimeter to the western perimeter, the tribe of Manasseh with one portion;

The Terumah that you are to give to the LORD is to be 25,000 units wide."

An area 25,000 cubits long by 10,000 cubits wide is to be set aside for use by the Levite servants of the Temple, 20 parcels for their residential properties.

He measured its length at 20 cubits, its width at 20 cubits in front of the structure, and then he told me, "This is the most holy area."

Who among all the gods of these countries has delivered their land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from me?'"

On that day, the Regent Prince is to provide, both for himself and for all the people who live in the land, a bull for a sin offering.

Next, he measured the Temple walls at six cubits high and the width of the side chambers at four cubits around all four sides of the Temple.

If your sons keep my covenant and my statutes that I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

and when the wicked turn away from their wickedness and do what is just and right, he will certainly live because of that.

I have resided too long with those who hate peace.

They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless.

I have given my word and affirmed it, to keep your righteous judgments.

Rescue me and deliver me from the control of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hand deceives.

like the covenant he made with Abraham, and his promise to Isaac.

I do not avoid your judgments, for you pointed them out to me.

They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, "Who will see them?"

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds for mankind.

Since my youth I have been oppressed and in danger of death. I bear your dread and am overwhelmed.

He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

When the Hebrews were few in number so very few and were sojourners in it,

My God, deliver me from the power of the wicked and the grasp of ruthless practicers of evil.

You made the earth quake; you broke it open. Repair its fractures, because it has shifted.

Each of my friends raises his hand against his allies; each of my friends breaks his word.

You, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, God of Israel, stir yourself up to punish all the nations. Show no mercy to those wicked transgressors. Interlude

Why should I eat the flesh of oxen or drink the blood of goats?

Don't forsake me, LORD. My God, do not be so distant from me.

King Sennacherib's spokesmen said even worse things against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.

Redeem Israel, God, from all its troubles. Davidic

Shaphan took the book to the king and gave an additional report to the king, telling him "Everything that you've entrusted to your servants is being carried out.

What god, out of all the gods of those nations that my predecessors utterly destroyed, has been able to deliver his people from my control or from the control of my predecessors?

Now they have encircled our paths and are determined to cast us down to the ground.

but if the cloud was not lifted up, they would not set out until it was lifted up,

He cast four rings for it on its four feet, two rings on one side of it and two rings on its other side.

Their sacrifice for a peace offering consisted of two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five one year old lambs. These were the offerings presented by Pedahzur's son Gamaliel.

They fastened a blue cord to it in order to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then we'll give our daughters to you and take your daughters for ourselves, live among you, and be as a united people.

Leah also approached, and she and her children bowed low. After this, Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed low.

the north side at 500 reeds, according to the length of the measuring stick,

Shielded windows and palm trees were visible on both sides; that is, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the Temple, and on its thresholds.

The city was under siege until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah.

Then the people told me, "Are you going to explain what these things that you're doing should mean to us?"

I'll give them to their enemies who are seeking to kill them, and their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the land.

He set them in place to last forever and ever; he gave the command and will not rescind it.

The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude

Jeremiah the prophet told them, "I've heard, and I'm going to pray to the LORD your God just as you have requested. Whatever the LORD answers, I'll tell you. I won't withhold anything from you."

Deliver me from my enemies, LORD. I have taken refuge in you.

In their mockery they speak evil; from their arrogant position they speak oppression.

As a result, I am determined to carry out your statutes forever. Samek

The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD is victorious!"

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

Confirm your promise to your servant, which is for those who fear you.

The LORD's anger burned against his people, so that he despised his own inheritance.

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

Look at your enemies, LORD! Look at your enemies, for they are destroyed; everyone who practices iniquity will be scattered.

In your name they rejoice all day long; they exult in your justice.

May those who seek to kill me be publicly humiliated. May those who take pleasure in my harm be turned back in humiliation.

Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,

for he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have seen the end of my enemies. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction.

But as for me, I walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be gracious to me!

"Put the holy ark in the Temple that Solomon, the son of Israel's King David, built. It will no longer be a burden on their shoulders. Now go serve the LORD your God and his people Israel. Prepare yourselves by divisions according to your ancestral households, keeping to what King David of Israel and his son Solomon wrote about this.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, even their offspring from the ranks of mankind.

After this, because the priests, who were descendants of Aaron, were busy offering the burnt offerings and fat portions until evening, the descendants of Levi prepared the Passover for themselves and their fellow-descendants of Aaron, the priests.

"Look! I'm going to take you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in your grave in peace so that you won't have to see all the evil that I'm going to bring to this place and to its inhabitants."'" So they all brought back this message to the king.

The rings were close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

She kept his outer garment by her side until Joseph's master came home,

30,500 donkeys,

The poles for it are to be put through the rings, so the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it's carried.

Each board had two pegs, joined to one another, and he did this for all the boards of the tent.

Furthermore, each New Moon there is to be a young bull presented without defect, six male lambs, and a ram without defect.

A low wall built of masonry surrounded each courtyard, with boiling places set in rows in the wall.

The priest is to place some of the blood from the sin offering on the door posts of the Temple, on the four corners of the ledge around the altar, and on the posts of the gate leading to the inner court.

and its outer chambers 20 cubits in width, surrounding the Temple on each side.

"Men will be assigned to travel continuously throughout the land, exploring for seven full months as they go about burying the bodies that remain from the battle on the surface of the ground, so that the land may be sterilized.

You will fall dead in the open fields, because I have ordered this to happen,' declares the Lord GOD.

"Beautiful because it was so great, with its long branches, it was rooted in many bodies of water.

Indeed, I'll make you the least of the nations, despised among men.

therefore you will no longer devour human beings or leave their nation childless,' declares the Lord GOD.

"This is what the LORD God of Israel says to you, Baruch:

Look, I'm in command of them,' declares the LORD, "and I'll bring them back to this city. They'll capture it and burn it with fire, and I'll turn the towns of Judah into desolate places without inhabitants.'"

Then the officials told Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, both you and Jeremiah, and don't let anyone know where you are."

They will sing about the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD!

I will clothe its priests with salvation and its godly ones will shout for joy.

And it was credited to him as a righteous act, from generation to generation to eternity.

He will die in the place where they exiled him, and he won't ever see this land again.'"

how he swore an oath to the LORD, vowing to the Mighty One of Jacob,

You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land.

They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

Those far from you will perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

You withdrew all your wrath and turned away from your burning anger.

For God will deliver Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah so they may live there and possess them.

because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the wicked. They bring down evil upon me, and in anger they hate me.

Foreigners will wilt away; they will come trembling out of their stronghold.

"Now tell the king of Judah who sent you to ask the LORD about this: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says about what you've heard:

Sennacherib also wrote letters like this that insulted and slandered the LORD God of Israel: "Just as the gods of the nations in other lands haven't delivered their people from my control, so also the god of Hezekiah won't deliver his people from me!"

They've removed the money that was found in the LORD's Temple and have passed it on to the supervisors and the workmen."

Even so, the people continued to sacrifice in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

Everyone in the assembly of Judah rejoiced, as did the priests, the descendants of Levi, and the people who gathered together from throughout Israel, including those who came from the land of Israel and those who lived in Judah.

and "I won't let Israel's foothold slip on the land that I've given to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to keep everything that I commanded them in the Law, in the statutes, and in the ordinance through Moses."

the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands,

the sockets for all around the court, the sockets for the gate to the court, all the pegs for the sanctuary, and all the pegs for all around the court.

But those thin, gaunt cows gobbled up the first seven healthy cows!

So Moses numbered all the firstborn from the sons of Israel just as the LORD commanded him.

After all, if we hadn't delayed, we could have been there and back twice by now!"

Our father has twelve sons, but one of us isn't alive anymore, and our youngest brother is with our father today back home in Canaan.'

Its windows, porches, and palm tree ornaments had measurements identical to the east-facing gate. Reached by seven ascending steps, its porch lay to the front of the steps.

I saw that she was defiled, because the two of them both were on the same path.

There were chambers built into the thick part of the wall of the court facing the east; that is, facing the separate area toward the front of the building,

All the Chaldean troops who were with the captain of the guard tore down all the walls around Jerusalem.

"You have said, "How terrible for me, for the LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I'm weary with my groaning, and I haven't found rest."'

They'll remain desolate among desolate lands, their cities will be named among those that are ruined.

I'm going to destroy all of its livestock along its many riverbanks. Human feet won't muddy the rivers anymore, nor will the hooves of livestock stir up the water.

The surrounding nations attacked. They tossed their net over him, and he was caught in their trap.

This message came to me from the LORD:

"Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! This is what the king of Assyria says: "Don't let Hezekiah deceive you for he cannot save you!

The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction.

"As for the sacrifices that you, your ancestors, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land offered in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, the LORD remembered them, did he not? And they came to his attention, did they not?

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessing your children within you.

Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, "Don't let anyone know about these words and you won't die.

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel says about the vessels that remain in the LORD's Temple, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem,

Wicked people ploughed over my back, creating long-lasting wounds."

Let not the slanderer become established in the land. May evil quickly hunt down the violent man.

For the sake of my relatives and friends I will now say, "May there be peace within you."

May my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

All of your commands are reliable. I am persecuted without cause help me!

Even though the arrogant utterly deride me, I do not turn away from your instruction.

When the sun rises, they gather and lie down in their dens.

because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High.

But we will bless the LORD from now to eternity. Hallelujah!

He opened a rock, and water gushed out flowing like a river in the desert.

I will give many thanks to the LORD with my mouth, praising him publicly,

Why did you break down its walls so that those who pass by pluck its fruits?

They were destroyed at En-dor and became as dung on the ground.

Its branches spread out to the Mediterranean Sea and its shoots to the Euphrates River.

He brought the people to the border of his holy mountain, which he acquired by his might.

They plan to cast him down from his exalted position. They delight in lies; their mouth utters blessings, while their heart is cursing. Interlude

Like a dream when one awakens, Lord, you will despise their image when you arise.

Rescue and deliver me, because you are righteous. Turn your ear to me and save me.

Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD who is the fountain of Israel.

Deliver me from all my transgressions, and do not let fools scorn me."

"On the third day, you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, and he did not continue to search for him.

That's how 18,000 men from the tribe of Benjamin fell in battle, all of whom were valiant soldiers.

Then he is to slaughter one bird on an earthen vessel over flowing water.

Likewise for the length of the north side there are to be hangings 100 cubits long, and it is to have 20 pillars with 20 bronze sockets, and the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be made of silver.

He overlaid the boards with gold, and made gold rings for them as holders for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

the hangings for the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court,

You'll eat until you're fat and satiated. You'll drink blood until you're drunk from the sacrifice that I'm going to make for all of you.

Later, I also dreamed about seven plump, fruit-filled ears of grain that grew up out of a single stalk.

I'll increase the yields of your fruit trees and crops so that you'll never again experience the disgrace of famine that occurs in other nations.

"Then they'll learn that I am the LORD, when I've turned their land into a desolate wasteland because of all of the loathsome deeds that they've committed.'"

"The one who flees from the terror will fall into a pit. And the one who comes up out of the pit will be caught in a trap. For I'll bring upon her, that is upon Moab, the time of her punishment," declares the LORD.

Furthermore, her citizens who live on the mainland will be executed with swords. That's how they'll learn that I am the LORD.'"

Moab will be destroyed, and the enemy will come up against her cities. Her finest young men will go down to slaughter," declares the King, whose name is the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Don't listen to them! Serve the king of Babylon and you'll live. Why should this city become a ruin?

And may you see your children's children! Peace be on Israel! A Song of Ascents

I despise and hate falsehood, but I love your instruction.

Moab is my washbasin; I will fling my shoe on Edom and shout over Philistia."

Who can fully describe the mighty acts of the LORD or proclaim all his praises?

You delivered your people the descendants of Jacob and Joseph with your power. Interlude

Your burning anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.

if they profane my statutes; and do not keep my commands,

Those who hate the LORD will cringe before him; their punishment will be permanent.

Zion hears and rejoices; the towns of Judah rejoice on account of your justice, LORD.

God of hosts, restore to us the light of your favor. Then we'll be delivered. For the Director: On the Gittith. By Asaph.

to deliver them from death; to keep them alive in times of famine.

He drove out nations before them and allotted their tribal inheritance, settling the tribes of Israel in their tents.

When he heard me starting to scream, he left his outer garment with me and fled outside."

Because they do not understand the deeds of the LORD or the work of his hands, He will tear them down and never build them up.

For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude

They made connecting shoulder pieces for the ephod and attached them to its two edges.

He made 40 silver sockets under the 20 boards: two sockets under one board for its two pegs and two sockets under the next board for its two pegs.

On the west side, 4,500 units by measurement, there are to be three gates: one named the Gad Gate, one named the Asher Gate, and one named the Naphtali Gate.

After he had finished measuring the inner temple, he brought me out through the east-facing gate and measured it all around.

The inner court contained a south-facing gate measuring 100 cubits from gate to gate toward the south.

The retaining wall in front of the guardhouses measured one cubit wide. It stood one cubit from the wall to the guardhouses, which were six cubits square.

This will be a sign to you,' declares the LORD, "that I'll punish you in this place so that you may know that my words concerning disaster against you will surely stand.'

Give them an anguished heart; may your curse be upon them!

I have talked about my ways, and you have answered me; Teach me your statutes.

They murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to the voice of the LORD.

You opened both the spring and the river; you dried up flowing rivers.

And you gave them this land which you had promised their ancestors that you would give them a land flowing with milk and honey.

In order that those you love may be rescued, deliver with your power and answer me!

Blessed is the LORD forever! Amen and amen! A prayer by Moses, the godly man

As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

You give your mouth free reign for evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

You have dishonored the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown on the ground.

included: From Iezer, the family of the descendants of Iezer; from Helek, the family of the descendants of Helek;

and they attached the other two ends of the two cords to the filigree settings, and then attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod in front.

The hangings for one section were fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and three sockets,

from the tribes of the descendants of Gershon, everyone who would be serving at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to what the LORD had said.

"But then you ordered your servants, "Bring him here to me so I can see him for myself.'

"Every day for a week, you are to prepare a goat for a sin offering, a young bull, and a ram from the flock, each without defect.

And be sure to take your brother, too. So get up, return to the man,

Furthermore, you haven't paid attention to the requirements for my holy things. Instead, you placed foreigners in charge of my sanctuary."'

The distance from the front entrance gate to the vestibule of the inner gate measured 50 cubits.

as they bring retribution to nations and punishment to nations,

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see.

LORD, you observed how I have been wronged; now make your ruling in my case.

Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and regularly dined with the king as long as he lived.

Reach down your hand from your high place; rescue me and deliver me from mighty waters, from the control of foreigners.

then you are to say to them, "I was presenting my request to the king that I not be taken back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

May peace be within your ramparts, and prosperity within your fortresses."

May burning coals fall on them; may they be cast into fire, and into miry pits, never to rise again.