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Thematic Bible



He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him.


which will not listen to the charmer's voice, a skillful caster of spells.


Issachar is a strong ass crouching down between the sheepfolds. And he saw that rest was good and that the land was pleasant. And he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tribute-slave.


Issachar is a strong ass crouching down between the sheepfolds.




For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.


For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.


Who has sent out the wild ass free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass,


He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places.


And behold another beast, a second, like a bear. And it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said this to it: Arise, eat up much flesh.


as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.


Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You.



I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are Mine.


But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals that perish. This way of theirs is their foolishness; yet their followers delight in their sayings. Selah. Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home. read more.
But God will redeem my soul from the hand of the grave; for He will take me. Selah.


but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.




in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the heaven.




When Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

However, the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are walled, very great. And also we saw the children of Anak there.


When you come to the land which Jehovah your God gives you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or a fortune-teller, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or one who calls to the dead.


And you have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them)


For the men of the land who were before you have done all these abominations, and the land is defiled.


Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.

By your servants you have mocked Jehovah and have said, by my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and its choice fir trees; and I will go to its greatest height, the forest of its Carmel.

So says the Lord Jehovah: I, even I, will also take of the top of the highest cedar and will set it; I will crop off from the first of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.


The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars.

In a mountain, in a high place of Israel, I will plant it. And it shall bear boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. And under it shall dwell every bird of every wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell.


Your lips, My spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.


The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars. It sent out its boughs to the sea, and its branches to the river.


The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with cut stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we use cedars instead.













But to those who indeed disobeying the truth out of self-seeking, and obeying unrighteousness, will be anger and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.


where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.


And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise up and go lusting after the gods of the strangers of the land into which they are going, into their midst. And they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I made with them.

He said these things; and after that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps. But I go so that I may awaken him out of sleep.



You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.






And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.


knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.


The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do any who go down into silence.




Then at once she fell down at his feet and expired. And the younger ones found her dead, and, carrying her out, buried her beside her husband.


For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.


He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.


He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.


He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground, where there was no water, who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint,

And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the command of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim. And there was no water for the people to drink.


Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us into this evil place? It is no place of seed or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates. And there is no water to drink.


He found him in a desert land, and in the deserted, howling wilderness. He led him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.


And when we pulled up stakes from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.


Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of dry places, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?


Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall sprout; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.


And I will stretch out My hand on them and make the land a waste, even more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all the places where they live; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.


Those of Jeroboam who die in the city, the dogs shall eat. And those who die in the field, the fowls of the air shall eat. For Jehovah has spoken.

And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. And they came again and told him. And he said, This is the Word of Jehovah which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.


And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and they washed his armor, according to the Word of Jehovah which He spoke.

And you shall speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah, Have you killed and also taken possession? And you shall speak to him saying, So says Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.


and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. But even the dogs came and licked his sores.

But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.


He who passes by enraging himself over strife not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears,


and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.


Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.


And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and cast them onto the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman being about to bear, so that when she bears he might devour her child.


I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich.




Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.


From there he seeks food, and his eyes see afar off.


But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to stand His fury.

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.






not by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King;


And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters. And the earth shone with His glory.




O Jehovah, the earth is full of Your mercy; teach me Your Precepts.




The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken; He uttered His voice, the earth melted.


The mountains quake from Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is lifted up from before Him; even the world and all who dwell in it.

















And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth for fear of Jehovah and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.


And they said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of His wrath has come, and who will be able to stand?


Trouble and pain shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come to him in peace.

Fear and dread shall fall upon them. By the greatness of Your arm they shall be still as a stone, until Your people pass over, O Jehovah; until the people whom You have purchased pass over.


And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned. For I have disobeyed the command of Jehovah, and your word, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.


but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.


And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods.


How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,


For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.



the flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;


His cheeks are like a bed of spices, a raised bed of aromatic herbs. His lips are as lilies dropping flowing myrrh.




Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture: "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner Stone, elect, precious, and he who believes on Him shall never be ashamed."


let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have come to Jerusalem, and are building the rebellious and the evil city, and have set up its walls, and have joined the foundations.


And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, cut stones, to lay the foundation of the house.


He is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation on a rock; and a flood occurring, the stream burst against that house and could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.


In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations of it be strongly laid. The height of it shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth of it shall be sixty cubits,


And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox goes up, he shall even break down their stone wall.


They shall fall by the sword; they shall be a serving for jackals.


And He said to them, You go and tell that fox, Behold, today and tomorrow, I cast out demons and I complete cures, and the third day I will be finished.


To the Chief Musician, on the harp. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens!

Jehovah is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens.




The glory of Jehovah shall endure forever; Jehovah shall rejoice in His works.


Yea, they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah; for great is the glory of Jehovah.


And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into one target. And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

And they beat the gold into thin plates, and cut threads to work it into the blue, and into the purple, and into the scarlet, and into the bleached linen, the work of an artisan.


and twenty basins of gold of a thousand drams, and two vessels of fine copper as desirable as gold.

I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir.


And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. And he took them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool. And he made it a molten calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.


Pure gold cannot be given in its stead, and silver be weighed as its price. It cannot be weighed against the gold of Ophir, against precious onyx, or sapphire;


When you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its pinions with the shimmer of gold.











and in their prayer for you, who long after you, because of the exceeding grace of God on you.






so that as sin has reigned to death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.




And the sons of Israel ate, all who had come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the uncleanness of the nations of the land, in order to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel.


For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.


and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.


The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.





I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers plot together, against Jehovah and against His anointed, saying,



Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil.


But I say that the things which the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And I do not desire that you should have fellowship with demons.






Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the nations before our eyes by the revenging of the blood of Your servants which is shed.



and shall cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.


he also will drink of the wine of the anger of God, having been mixed undiluted in the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented by fire and brimstone before the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.


And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.






whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.


The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has surprised profane ones. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?


The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has surprised profane ones. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?


Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,










His horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar. They shall fly like the eagle hurrying to eat.

But you said, No; for we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. And you said, We will ride on the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!





He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes on to meet the weapons.

I listened and heard, but they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned in their own courses, as the horse rushes into the battle.


He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; he goes on to meet the weapons.

He swallows the ground with quivering and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.


Can you make him leap like a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrifying.

He mocks at fear, and is not terrified; and he does not turn back from the sword.


Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also.

Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?



And He opened His mouth and taught them, saying,

But they do all their works in order to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.


And why do you look on the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye? Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull the splinter out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First cast the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to cast the splinter out of your brother's eye.

And answering, the synagogue ruler, being angry because Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, said to the crowd, There are six days in which it is right to work. Therefore in them come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. And the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the sabbath loosen his ox or ass from the stall and lead it away, to give it drink?



"This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.





and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Do not trust in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah are these.


who say, Keep to yourself, do not come near me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burns all the day.

The Pharisee stood and prayed within himself in this way: God, I thank You that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector.


For we do not commend ourselves again to you, but are giving you occasion to glory on our behalf, so that you may have it to answer those boasting in appearance, and not in heart.


Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone. Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!


And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their unjust gain. And lo, you are to them as a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, and able to play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.


Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. But He answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?


And they love the first couch at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the market-places, and to be called, Rabbi! Rabbi! by men.




Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.


Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.


Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and one who did not forget the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.


For the fool will speak folly, and his heart work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will take away the drink of the thirsty.


And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness.


And none thinks within his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not hear; they have noses, but they do not smell; read more.
they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat. The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.


Nor shall you set up an image, which Jehovah your God hates.

But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!


then I said to them, Let each man throw away the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.

So I poured My fury on them, because of the blood that they had shed on the land, and for their idols by which they defiled it.


Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination.

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.


Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.


You shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You shall not desire the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourself, so that you may not be snared in it. For it is an abomination to Jehovah your God.


And when they had slain their sons to their idols, then they came into My sanctuary in that day to profane it. And lo, this they have done in the midst of My house.




His bones are like tubes of bronze; his bones are like bars of iron.

And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron. Since iron crushes and smashes all things; and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter.


As they gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.


And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.


Beautiful on high, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?


O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as inspiring as an army with banners.


All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?


And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had fourteen hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. And the king made silver like stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars like the sycamore trees in the valley for abundance.


How alone sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations, but now has become a tribute-payer.


How alone sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations, but now has become a tribute-payer.


And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each one to his neighbor, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?


All your rulers fled together; they were bound without the bow; all found in you are bound together; they have fled from afar.


Jerusalem is built like a city that is all joined together as one;


Beautiful on high, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.


You shall not eat anything that dies of itself. You shall give it to the stranger that is in your gates, so that he may eat it. Or you may sell it to a stranger. For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.



And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth is Mine.



For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God, and Jehovah has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are on the earth.


For Jehovah's portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.








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

O mountains that skipped like rams, O little hills like lambs?




And it happened, the sun went down, and it was dark and behold, a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp passed between those pieces.


He was a burning and shining light, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.





Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your Law is the truth.


I have seen an end to all perfection; Your Commandment is exceedingly broad.












Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many and their backslidings are multiplied.


His horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar. They shall fly like the eagle hurrying to eat.






Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?


For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?


Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.





For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God.






is as the light of the morning, as the sun rises, a morning without clouds. The tender grass springs out of the earth through shining after rain.

His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.


Is there any number of His armies? And on whom does not His light arise?

Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea.


Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.


Also the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun;


For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God.




And now men cannot look upon the light; it is in the clouds; but the wind passes and clears them.


And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey, and what stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.

a lion is mighty among beasts and does not turn away for any;


For so has Jehovah spoken to me: As the lion roars, even the young lion on his prey when a multitude of shepherds are gathered against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor fret himself because of their noise. So Jehovah of Hosts shall come down to fight for Mount Zion, and on its hill.

Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, and the lion's cub, and no one made them afraid?


For it increases! You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous on me.

the sons of pride have not walked on it, the lion has not passed by.


There are three things which go well in a march, yea, four that go well in walking: a lion is mighty among beasts and does not turn away for any;


And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp. He shall leap from Bashan.


And also he, the son of valor, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt. For all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and they who are with him are mighty men.


their likeness is like a lion that longs to tear, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.


the locusts have no king, yet they go forth by bands, all of them;

Four things are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:


And the shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle. And on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

As the appearance of horses is its appearance; and as war horses, so they run.


For they covered the face of the whole earth so that the land was darkened. And they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. And there did not remain any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.


And your spoil shall be gathered as the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run on them.


But because Jehovah loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn to your fathers, Jehovah has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as it is today.


Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have carved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are forever before Me.








nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as those who take off the yoke on their jaws, and I gently give food to him.


Set out Your wonderful loving-kindness, O Savior of those seeking refuge in You, by Your right hand, from those who rise up against me.

Blessed is Jehovah; for He has worked His mercy wondrously in a besieged city.


And they refused to obey, neither were they mindful of Your wonders which You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.


I will mention the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah has benefited for us, and the great good to the house of Israel by which He benefited them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His loving-kindnesses.


In a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you, says Jehovah your Redeemer.




Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.




How precious is Your loving-kindness, O God! And the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of Your wing.


And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it was like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey.

And the manna was like coriander seed, and the color of it was like the color of bdellium.


And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it was like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey.


And the manna was like coriander seed, and the color of it was like the color of bdellium.


The people went around and gathered, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked in pans, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.


And when the layer of dew had gone up, behold, there was a small round thing upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoar-frost upon the ground.


And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna. And it was like coriander seed, white. And the taste of it was like wafers with honey.


I will keep My mercy for him forever, and My covenant shall stand fast with him.


O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.

O give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever.




Remember, O Jehovah, Your tender mercies and Your loving-kindnesses; for they are from eternity.


for though He causes grief, yet He will have pity according to the multitude of His kindnesses.

And You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who troubled them. And in the time of their trouble, they cried to You, and You heard from Heaven. And according to Your manifold mercies, You gave them deliverers, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.


Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

For a little moment I have left you; but with great mercies I will gather you.



For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is His mercy toward those who fear Him.


You will give faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Bow down your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.









O Jehovah, the earth is full of Your mercy; teach me Your Precepts.


Jehovah is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works.
















and have brought forth Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror.


therefore, behold, I will go on doing among this people, a wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden.

Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,


He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.


And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who came to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

As for you, do not listen to your prophets, nor to your fortune tellers, nor to your dreamers, nor to your conjurers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon.


We have heard of the pride of Moab; very proud; even of his vanity, and his pride, and his rage; not so are his babblings.

We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and his elevated heart.


Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile. Therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.


How do you say, We are mighty and strong men for war?


For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be captured. And Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his rulers.


Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill which is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon.


Who is she who looks forth like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as armies with banners?


if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,



For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any strength, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.



in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ,

And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.





Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been joined together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection; knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.






But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.












Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their evil has come up before Me.

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am declaring to you.


This is the rejoicing city, dwelling confidently, who says in her heart, I am, and no other still is. How she has become a ruin, a resting-place for animals! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss; he shall wag his hand.


And Jehovah has commanded concerning you, Not one of your name shall be sown any more; I will cut off the graven image and the molten image out of the house of your gods. I will make your grave; for you are despised.


You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away.


And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred and twenty thousand men who do not know between their right and their left hand, besides much cattle?


All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first fruits; if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.


And Jehovah has commanded concerning you, Not one of your name shall be sown any more; I will cut off the graven image and the molten image out of the house of your gods. I will make your grave; for you are despised.




because of the many harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.


And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a very great city of three days' journey.


Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their evil has come up before Me.


Seize the silver; seize the gold; for there is no end to the treasures; riches from all precious vessels.


And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak. And his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heavens and the earth. And the mule under him went away.

Then you shall know that I am Jehovah, when their dead shall be among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.


But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return and be consumed like the terebinth and like the oak being felled, yet has its stump; the holy seed is its stump.


Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.


From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

And coming near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;


As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.


The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.


Jehovah called your name, a green olive tree, fair, with fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.

Can the fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries; or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.


His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

Jehovah called your name, a green olive tree, fair, with fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.


And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them,

But the olive tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness with which they honor God and man by me, and go to be promoted over the trees?


Jehovah called your name, a green olive tree, fair, with fine fruit. With the sound of a great storm He has set fire to it, and its branches are worthless.


She treats her young roughly, as if not hers; for her labor is vanity without fear;


because God has caused her to forget wisdom, and He has not given her a share in understanding.


and forgets that a foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may break them.


At the time she lifts herself up on high, she scorns the horse and its rider.


There the snake shall nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.


I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.


Therefore I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like jackals, mourn like the daughters of an ostrich.


And Ephraim is like a trained heifer, trying to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck. I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a stinger from the north surely comes.



and our oxen may be loaded; there is no breaking in nor going out and no crying in our streets.




so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;


And hyenas shall cry along with his widows, and jackals in palaces of delight. Yea, her time is coming near, and her days shall not be prolonged.


And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever.


Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes.


They are like a rounded post, and they cannot speak. They must surely be lifted, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil nor good, for it is not in them.






O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, who is a strong Jehovah like You? And Your faithfulness is round about You?


O, Jehovah God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness, and Your mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven or in earth who can do according to Your works, and according to Your might?

Who is like You, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them.


Your right hand, O Jehovah, has become glorious in power. Your right hand, O Jehovah, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

who led them by the right hand of Moses with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name?





He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.



And all the people of the earth are counted as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the people of the earth. And none can strike His hand, or say to Him, What are You doing?







He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;


Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,



with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm; for His mercy endures forever;



who is doing great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number?


Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?



which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies, far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age.







who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.






And all the people of the earth are counted as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the people of the earth. And none can strike His hand, or say to Him, What are You doing?



He has made everything beautiful in His time; also He has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.






Your right hand, O Jehovah, has become glorious in power. Your right hand, O Jehovah, has dashed the enemy in pieces.

who led them by the right hand of Moses with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name?



with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm; for His mercy endures forever;





Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,



He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against Him and been blessed;



who is doing great things past finding out; yea, marvelous things without number?


Who is like You, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, the earth swallowed them.


Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?


And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.


Then I called on the name of Jehovah; O Jehovah, I beseech You, deliver my soul.



And I, it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in Jehovah God, to declare all Your works.


It may be they will present their prayer before Jehovah, and will return, each one from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah has spoken against this people.

if you would seek earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty;



Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice; and have mercy on me, and answer me.


And for this reason Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to Heaven.


Let us lift up our heart and hands to God in Heaven.




And Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have neither drunk wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before Jehovah.


And Moses prayed to Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, why does Your wrath become hot against Your people whom You have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?






A Psalm of David. To You, O Jehovah, I lift up my soul.




if you would seek earnestly to God and make your prayer to the Almighty;


I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. They also strengthen to the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his evil; they are all of them like Sodom to Me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.


Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have defiled the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law.




But they also have sinned through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have sinned through drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.




His head is like refined gold; His locks are bushy, black as a raven.




But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of shame, and the stones of emptiness.






Let Israel hope in Jehovah; for with Jehovah there is mercy, and with Him is plentiful redemption.


for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever,


And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.










until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High. And the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.


that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?






in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.





even as You have given Him authority over all flesh so that He should give eternal life to all You have given Him. And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and, in the world to come everlasting life.





























And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us.










And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.


The sun will no more be your light by day; nor the brightness of the moon give light to you; but Jehovah will be to you for everlasting light, and your God your glory.














There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.




and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off.


knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers,



Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like flutes, and my heart shall sound like flutes for the men of Kirheres, because the riches that he has gotten have perished.










Shall not all these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?


For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

What shall we say then? That the nations, who did not follow after righteousness have taken on righteousness, but a righteousness of faith.

But the righteousness of faith says this: "Do not say in your heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven?" that is, to bring Christ down;








But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;


Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your Law is the truth.


My mouth shall show forth Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day; for I do not know how many they are.




And Your righteousness, O God, is very high, who have done great things. O God, who is like You,


According to Your name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness; let mount Zion rejoice!




And I will make you like a shining rock. You shall be a place to spread nets on; you shall be built no more; for I Jehovah have spoken, says the Lord Jehovah.

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like a shining rock.


O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.


Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!


And of the Gadites mighty men separated themselves to David into the stronghold in the wilderness, men of the army for battle, setting in order shield and buckler, and their faces were the faces of a lion, and as gazelles on the heights for swiftness:


Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.


And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was swift with his feet, like one of the gazelles in the field.



Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.

But Israel shall be saved in Jehovah with an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed nor blush to the forevers of eternity.


Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.




For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My righteousness shall be forever, and My salvation from generation to generation.


how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by those who heard Him;


Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.











more to be desired than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.




and our storehouses may be full, furnishing kind to kind; and our flocks may breed thousands and ten thousands outside;

But He raises up the poor from affliction and sets families like a flock.

Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, which came up from the washing; they all are bearing twins and not one is barren among them.

So says the Lord Jehovah: yet this, I will be sought by the house of Israel to act for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.


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

O mountains that skipped like rams, O little hills like lambs?


And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? I pray You, let Your hand be against me and against my father's house.


And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him. For they know his voice. And they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.


if his loins have not blessed me, and he warmed himself with the fleece of my flock;


But there the glorious Jehovah will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars shall go, nor shall mighty ship pass by it.


Howl, ships of Tarshish! For your strength is laid waste.


Behold also the ships being so great, and driven by fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small rudder, where the impulse of him steering desires.


They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.


And therefore gather the rest of the people together, and camp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called after my name.

After these things done in faithfulness, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, came and entered into Judah, and camped against the fortified cities, and commanded to break them open to himself.


And he sent there horses and chariots and a great army. And they came by night and surrounded the city.



And I will send aliens to Babylon who will sift her and will empty her land. For in the day of trouble they shall be against her all around.


For, lo, I am stirring up and bringing up against Babylon a company of great nations from a northern land. And they shall array themselves against her. She shall be captured there. Their arrows shall be as those of a skillful, mighty man; none shall return in vain.


And it happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came. He and all his army came against Jerusalem and pitched against it, and built a siege-mound all around it.


As they gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the middle of the furnace, to blow the fire on it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.

As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you shall be melted in the middle of it; and you shall know that I Jehovah have poured out My fury on you.


When you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its pinions with the shimmer of gold. When the Almighty scatters kings in it, it snows on Salmon.


Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith. Violet and purple is their clothing; they are all the work of skillful ones.


So Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, says this: Behold, I will set My face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

The way of the wicked is hateful to Jehovah, but He loves him who pursues righteousness.

But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!


Remember, and do not forget, how you provoked Jehovah your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you departed out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Jehovah.

Whoever rebels against your command and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of a good courage.


And he took the calf which they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and dropped it upon the water, and made the sons of Israel drink of it.

And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.


For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.



Remember this, the enemy has cursed, O Jehovah, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

But the soul who acts with a high hand, whether of the native or of the alien, the same blasphemes Jehovah. And that soul shall be cut off from among his people.



Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment. And some they also follow after.







For her sins joined together, even up to Heaven, and God has remembered her unjust deeds.


Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment. And some they also follow after.














and keep Your servant back from presumptuous sins; do not let them rule over me; then I shall be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.








But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.


The boar out of the wood wastes it, and the wild beast of the field eats it.


Do not give that which is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you.


If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.

One draws it, and treads it from behind, even lightning from his gall; terror is on him.


He made many fall; yea, one fell on another. And they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressing sword.


It is You who gives salvation to kings; who delivers David His servant from the hurtful sword.


My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.


The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the lightning of the spear. And many are slain, and there are a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses; they stumble on their dead bodies,





For Your mercy is great to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.








For Your mercy is great to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.


Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or spend the night by your feed-trough? Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?

Will you trust him, that he will return your seed and gather it to your grain-floor?


Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?



I know a man in Christ fourteen years before (whether in the body, I do not know; or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows) such a one was caught up to the third Heaven.








Who has gone up to Heaven and has come down? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in His garments? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son's name? Surely you know.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.



You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have held back bread from the hungry.




Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it. He went up to my couch.


As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.


The waters wear away the stones; the outpouring of it washes the dust of the earth; and You cause the hope of man to perish.



All His works are known to God from eternity.

For He looks to the end of the earth, and sees under all the heavens;





Who would not fear You, O King of nations? For fear belongs to You, because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me, since I placed the people of old? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them declare to them.





Shall any teach God knowledge, since He shall judge the exalted?

With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the path of judgment, and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him?


Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

For truly my words are not false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.


Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot go up to it.


Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot go up to it.


Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise; He is mighty in strength of heart.