having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

And above the expanse that is over their head, as an appearance of a sapphire stone, is the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man upon it from above.

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: -- the damsel, because that she hath not cried, being in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

for a covenant over dead victims is stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth,

And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai;

And at last come up before me hath Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar -- according to the name of my god -- and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and the dream before him I have told:

And Moses speaketh unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar his sons, who are left, 'Take ye the present that is left from the fire-offerings of Jehovah, and eat it unleavened near the altar, for it is most holy,

And he goeth in also unto Rachel, and he also loveth Rachel more than Leah; and he serveth with him yet seven other years.

Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,

And Hiram sendeth unto Solomon, saying, I have heard that which thou hast sent unto me, I do all thy desire concerning cedar-wood, and fir-wood,

And they make for her sides, and she entereth the way of the entering in of the horses to the house of the king, and is put to death there.

Jesus answered him, 'If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'

and crieth unto Jehovah, and saith, 'Jehovah my God, also on the widow with whom I am sojourning hast Thou done evil -- to put her son to death?'

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

High is thy hand above thine adversaries, And all thine enemies are cut off.

And they send and gather all the princes of the Philistines unto them, and say, 'What do we do to the ark of the God of Israel?' and they say, 'To Gath let the ark of the God of Israel be brought round;' and they bring round the ark of the God of Israel;

The copy of a letter that Tatnai, governor beyond the river, hath sent, and Shethar-Boznai and his companions, the Apharsachites who are beyond the river, unto Darius the king.

And when there is in a man a sin -- a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,

And the woman saith unto Elijah, 'Now, this I have known, that a man of God thou art, and the word of Jehovah in thy mouth is truth.'

and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

and the watchers see a man coming out from the city, and say to him, 'Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance of the city, and we have done with thee kindness.'

we are building for ourselves an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to cause to go up on it burnt-offering and present, and if to make on it peace-offerings -- Jehovah Himself doth require it.

And Ziba saith unto the king, 'According to all that my lord the king commandeth his servant, so doth thy servant;' as to Mephibosheth, 'he is eating at my table (saith the king) as one of the sons of the king.'

And they answer them and say, 'He is; lo, before thee! haste, now, for to-day he hath come in to the city, for the people hath a stated sacrifice in a high place.

Serug, Nahor, Terah,

And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

Not like these is the Portion of Jacob, For framer of all things is He, And Israel is the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh -- if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

but thou dost not build the house, for thy son who cometh forth out from thy loins, he doth build the house for My name.

Lo, to Jehovah thy God are the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that is in it;

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

And Amnon hateth her -- a very great hatred -- that greater is the hatred with which he hath hated her than the love with which he loved her, and Amnon saith to her, 'Rise, go.'

Of the sons of Simeon -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

all the heave-offerings of the holy things which the sons of Israel lift up to Jehovah I have given to thee and to thy sons, and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute age-during, a covenant of salt, age-during it is before Jehovah, to thee and to thy seed with thee.'

I have surely built a house of habitation for Thee; a fixed place for Thine abiding to the ages.'

And it hath been, when he saith unto thee, I go not out from thee -- because he hath loved thee, and thy house, because it is good for him with thee --

Sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

and the sons of Israel journey in their journeyings from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud doth tabernacle in the wilderness of Paran;

and he who is armed is going before the priests blowing the trumpets, and he who is gathering up is going after the ark, going on and blowing with the trumpets;

And Pharaoh chargeth men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, an all that he hath.

'Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;

And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin see, and lo, the multitude hath melted away, and it goeth on, and is beaten down.

And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.

And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him,

for it is better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

And again he said, 'To what shall I liken the reign of God?

Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

And he saith to them, 'Have ye not known this simile? and how shall ye know all the similes?

I have cut off nations, Desolated have been their chief ones, I have laid waste their out-places without any passing by, Destroyed have been their cities, Without man, without inhabitant.

And if the man have no redeemer to restore the guilt to, the guilt which is restored is Jehovah's, the priest's, apart from the ram of the atonements, whereby he maketh atonement for him.

If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

and Paul said, 'I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am -- except these bonds.'

In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

And ye have known that I am Jehovah, For in My statutes ye have not walked, And My Judgments ye have not done, And according to the judgments of the nations Who are round about you -- ye have done!'

A day of wrath is that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness.

And the scribes of the king are called, at that time, in the third month -- it is the month of Sivan -- in the three and twentieth of it, and it is written, according to all that Mordecai hath commanded, unto the Jews, and unto the lieutenants, and the governors, and the heads of the provinces, that are from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces -- province and province according to its writing, and people and people according to its tongue, and unto the Jews according to their writing, and according to their tongue.

And Jeroboam cometh in, and all the people, unto Rehoboam on the third day, as the king spake, saying, 'Return unto me on the third day.'

and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him -- unto his face, He repayeth to him --

Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.

And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,

many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,

ye are witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

and Hadad fleeth, he and certain Edomites, of the servants of his father, with him, to go in to Egypt, and Hadad is a little youth,

Better is humility of spirit with the poor, Than to apportion spoil with the proud.

'And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God,

Thou -- thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou -- thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine -- and thou drinkest not wine.

and the inscription of his accusation was written above -- 'The King of the Jews.'

By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.

and the ass seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his drawn sword in his hand, and the ass turneth aside out of the way, and goeth into a field, and Balaam smiteth the ass to turn it aside into the way.

A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth backward.

And Cain saith unto Jehovah, 'Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It -- it spoileth a treasure -- every desirable vessel.

and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters become no more a deluge to destroy all flesh;

whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards -- the best -- he doth take, and hath given to his servants.

The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin.

I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

And they give to Caleb Hebron, as Moses hath spoken, and he dispossesseth thence the three sons of Anak.

for a zealous God is Jehovah thy God in thy midst -- lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.

All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,

then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

and David seeketh God for the youth, and David keepeth a fast, and hath gone in and lodged, and lain on the earth.

the name of the one is Pison, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of the Havilah where the gold is,

and Baasha king of Israel goeth up against Judah, and buildeth Ramah, not to permit any one going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah.

and these are their names: Ben-Hur in the hill-country of Ephraim;

and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

And ye come near unto me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search for us the land, and they bring us back word concerning the way in which we go up into it, and the cities unto which we come in;

lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

His hand spread out hath an adversary On all her desirable things, For she hath seen -- Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which Thou didst command, 'They do not come into the assembly to thee.'

for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

'But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face,

and, if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive your trespasses.'

and it hath been for a token on thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes, for by strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out of Egypt.'

'And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

Of the sons of Judah -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you.

and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

And now, not as in the former days am I to the remnant of this people, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

Therefore king Darius hath signed the writing and interdict.

And also, those having familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah, and in Jerusalem, hath Josiah put away, in order to establish the words of the law that are written on the book that Hilkiah the priest hath found in the house of Jehovah.

and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

A lion hath roared -- who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken -- who doth not prophesy?

for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

by faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that He who is destroying the first-born might not touch them.

Dark am I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.

if from my lord the king this thing hath been, then thou hast not caused thy servant to know who doth sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.'

And Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses.

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And the roller of a stone, to him it turneth.

whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,

And he saith to them, 'Of my cup indeed ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with ye shall be baptized; but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but -- to those for whom it hath been prepared by my father.'

then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

And I also -- I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.

'A woman thou dost betroth, and another man doth lie with her; a house thou dost build, and dost not dwell in it; a vineyard thou dost plant, and dost not make it common;

For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

The day to build thy walls! That day -- removed is the limit.

and the house of Joseph cause men to spy about Beth-El (and the name of the city formerly is Luz),

and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,

The shield of his mighty ones is become red, Men of might are in scarlet, With fiery torches is the chariot in a day of his preparation, And the firs have been caused to tremble.

Lo, I am stirring them up out of the place Whither ye have sold them, And I have turned back your recompence on your head,

Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and entreating grace before his God;

Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

And they take each his censer, and put on them fire, and lay on them perfume, and they stand at the opening of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days,

And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That is with the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that is with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.

And Jehoiada maketh the covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, to be for a people to Jehovah, and between the king and the people.

Jesus saith to her, 'I am he, who am speaking to thee.'

and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea -- and they were about two thousand -- and they were choked in the sea.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Now, lo, thou hast trusted for thee on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it! -- so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

and the men turn from thence, and go towards Sodom; and Abraham is yet standing before Jehovah.

And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth.

and what they are needing -- both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil according to the saying of the priests who are in Jerusalem -- let be given to them day by day without fail,

and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What is this service ye have?

And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, 'So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!

And Balak saith unto Balaam, 'Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all;'

'And that sown on the good ground: this is he who is hearing the word, and is understanding, who indeed doth bear fruit, and doth make, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.'

And if ye do not hearken to the voice of Jehovah -- then ye have provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of Jehovah hath been against you, and against your fathers.

for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'

and the dead sat up, and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother;

And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel is standing.

His parents answered them and said, 'We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.

hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.

They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe it,

who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,

And their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not drink their wine.

and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them -- they have made to themselves a molten thing!

and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- 'Thou art the Son of God;'

And the king sweareth and saith, 'Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity;

and in his name shall nations hope.'

And Jehovah saith unto me, 'Cast it unto the potter;' the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty silverlings, and cast them to the house of Jehovah, unto the potter.

and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.

because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

Sons of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy and two.

and Israel transgresseth against the house of David unto this day.

When thou comest in unto the vineyard of thy neighbour, then thou hast eaten grapes, according to thy desire, thy sufficiency; but into thy vessel thou dost not put any.

And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, 'Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'

'Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.

for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

from the battles, even from the spoil they sanctified to strengthen the house of Jehovah;

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.

which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

And a man thence answereth and saith, 'And who is their father?' therefore it hath been for a simile, 'Is Saul also among the prophets?'

And Jehovah saith unto Aaron, 'In their land thou dost not inherit, and a portion thou hast not in their midst: I am thy portion, and thine inheritance in the midst of the sons of Israel;

Bread of his God -- of the most holy things, and of the holy things -- he doth eat;

and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.

And declared you happy have all the nations, For ye are a delightful land, said Jehovah of Hosts.

for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

and those using this world, as not using it up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;

Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.

'And no one doth put a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment, for its filling up doth take from the garment, and a worse rent is made.

and in those times many do stand up against the king of the south, and sons of the destroyers of thy people do lift themselves up to establish the vision -- and they have stumbled.

Thus said Jehovah concerning all my evil neighbours, who are striking against the inheritance that I caused my people -- Israel -- to inherit: 'Lo, I am plucking them from off their ground, And the house of Judah I pluck out of their midst.

Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,

And the men of Israel go out from Mizpeh, and pursue the Philistines, and smite them unto the place of Beth-Car.

and thou hast brought near the Levites before the tent of meeting, and thou hast assembled the whole company of the sons of Israel,

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

And have not said, Where is Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land -- none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

And under the expanse their wings are straight, one toward the other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two covering on that side -- their bodies.

And let Jehovah be zealous for His land, And have pity on His people.

and not as through one who did sin is the free gift, for the judgment indeed is of one to condemnation, but the gift is of many offences to a declaration of 'Righteous,'

for he did heal many, so that they threw themselves on him, in order to touch him -- as many as had plagues;

The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger,

And if his hand reach not to the sufficiency of a lamb, then he hath brought in his guilt-offering -- he who hath sinned -- two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to Jehovah, one for a sin-offering, and one for a burnt-offering;

they were willing then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.

And I have set the halting for a remnant, And the far-off for a mighty nation, And reigned hath Jehovah over them in mount Zion, From henceforth, and unto the age.

a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,

whereas messengers, in strength and power being greater, do not bear against them before the Lord an evil speaking judgment;

and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

And Pharaoh also calleth for wise men, and for sorcerers; and the scribes of Egypt, they also, with their flashings, do so,

Gather from the land thy merchandise, O dweller in the bulwark,

and the people serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.

And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.

with whomsoever thou findest thy gods -- he doth not live; before our brethren discern for thyself what is with me, and take to thyself:' and Jacob hath not known that Rachel hath stolen them.

And Zebah and Zalmunna are in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who are left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those falling are a hundred and twenty thousand men, drawing sword.

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

And he sheweth them the entrance of the city, and they smite the city by the mouth of the sword, and the man and all his family they have sent away;

And all Israel see that the king hath not hearkened unto them, and the people send the king back word, saying, 'What portion have we in David? yea, there is no inheritance in the son of Jesse; to thy tents, O Israel; now see thy house, O David!' and Israel goeth to its tents.

And the woman saith unto the serpent, 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,

Jesus answered and said to them, 'One work I did, and ye all wonder,

and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth -- as a fig-tree doth cast her winter figs, by a great wind being shaken --

these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

And the Levites are keeping all the people silent, saying, 'Be silent, for to-day is holy, and be not grieved.'

Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

a several tenth deal to the one lamb, for the seven lambs;

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

for the king doth hearken to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man seeking to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God,

and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages,

And Solomon saith, 'Thou hast done with Thy servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before Thee in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee, and Thou dost keep for him this great kindness, and dost give to him a son sitting on his throne, as at this day.

and more abundantly do I call upon you to do this, that more quickly I may be restored to you.

A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.

And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

'Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, a perfect scribe of the law of the God of heaven, and at such a time:

And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.

And lo, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins is the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, 'I have done as Thou hast commanded me.'

and looketh, and lo, the king is standing by the pillar, according to the ordinance, and the heads, and the trumpets, are by the king, and all the people of the land are rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets, and Athaliah rendeth her garments, and calleth, 'Conspiracy! conspiracy!'

These are of the sons of Gad, heads of the host, one of a hundred is the least, and the greatest, of a thousand;

and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;

Also -- He is to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.

and now, come, and I send thee unto Pharaoh, and bring thou out My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.'

the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, 'Where is this -- he hath passed over -- the Spirit of Jehovah -- from me to speak with thee?'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

'These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

so that Jehovah doth establish His word which He spake unto me, saying, If thy sons observe their way to walk before Me in truth, with all their heart, and with all their soul; saying, There is not cut off a man of thine from the throne of Israel.

Gather the people, sanctify an assembly, Assemble the aged, Gather infants and sucklings of the breasts, Go out let a bridegroom from his inner chamber, And a bride out of her closet.

And Mephibosheth hath a young son, and his name is Micha, and every one dwelling in the house of Ziba are servants to Mephibosheth.

Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:

And He saith to me, 'Go in, and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.'

and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, 'Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

And Elijah saith to him, 'Elisha, abide, I pray thee, here, for Jehovah hath sent me to Jericho;' and he saith, 'Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they come in to Jericho.

And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household -- a month in the year is on each one for sustenance;

Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye do eat unleavened things until the one and twentieth day of the month, at evening;

And the house of Joseph go up -- even they -- to Beth-El, and Jehovah is with them;

and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.

and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.

and I say to you, I am Jehovah your God, ye do not fear the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling: -- and ye have not hearkened to My voice.'

And the prey, the residue of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is of the flock six hundred thousand, and seventy thousand, and five thousand;

In the lips of the intelligent is wisdom found, And a rod is for the back of him who is lacking understanding.

Rehum counsellor, and Shimshai scribe have written a letter concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king, thus:

And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,

O Lord, according to all Thy righteous acts, let turn back, I pray Thee, Thine anger and Thy fury from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mount, for by our sins, and by the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are for a reproach to all our neighbours;

And strengthen himself doth Solomon son of David over his kingdom, and Jehovah his God is with him, and maketh him exceedingly great.

and the woman taketh and spreadeth the covering over the face of the well, and spreadeth on it the ground corn, and the thing hath not been known.

And he saith, 'Catch them alive;' and they catch them alive, and slaughter them at the pit of the shearing-house, forty and two men, and he hath not left a man of them.

And he answering said to them, 'One of the twelve who is dipping with me in the dish;

And the sons of Noah who are going out of the ark are Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is father of Canaan.

Turn back to a fenced place, Ye prisoners of the hope, Even to-day a second announcer I restore to thee.

And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great millstone, and did cast it to the sea, saying, 'Thus with violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be found any more at all;

of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

Her uncleanness is in her skirts, She hath not remembered her latter end, And she cometh down wonderfully, There is no comforter for her. See, O Jehovah, mine affliction, For exerted himself hath an enemy.

Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one is profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

and thou hast said unto them: Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates,

saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'

and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.

And he calleth me, and speaketh unto me, saying, 'See, those coming forth unto the land of the north have caused My Spirit to rest in the land of the north.'

Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.

'And in the day of raw flesh being seen in him he is unclean;

And he answering him, said, 'O generation unbelieving, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I suffer you? bring him unto me;'

and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel -- he is dwelling in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-Meon;

do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star,

and it cometh to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smiteth every male in Edom --

and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.

their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

and whoso doth not fall down and do obeisance, in that hour he is cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'

And they answering said, 'John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Lo, he is in thy hand; only his life take care of.'

Now, shortly I pour out My fury on thee, And have completed Mine anger against thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations.

and I have come down and spoken with thee there, and have kept back of the Spirit which is upon thee, and have put on them, and they have borne with thee some of the burden of the people, and thou dost not bear it thyself alone.

and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,

And Elijah saith to the prophets of Baal, 'Choose for you the one bullock, and prepare first, for ye are the multitude, and call ye in the name of your god, and place no fire.'

For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, And have been an adversary to them, So that they are found out.

'And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say,

And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against it,

and their sons He raised up in their stead, them hath Joshua circumcised, for they have been uncircumcised, for they have not circumcised them in the way.

For from the voice of Jehovah broken down is Asshur, With a rod He smiteth.

As to an ox or a sheep enlarged or dwarfed -- a willing-offering ye do make it, but for a vow it is not pleasing.

And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

And a daughter of Pharaoh cometh down to bathe at the River, and her damsels are walking by the side of the River, and she seeth the ark in the midst of the weeds, and sendeth her handmaid, and she taketh it,

And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as in a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.

and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

and the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

and he was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

And I have sent distress to men, And they have walked as the blind, For against Jehovah they have sinned, And poured out is their blood as dust, And their flesh is as dung.

that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And Bath-Sheba boweth -- face to the earth -- and doth obeisance to the king, and saith, 'Let my lord, king David, live to the age.'

And Jehovah God appointeth a gourd, and causeth it to come up over Jonah, to be a shade over his head, to give deliverance to him from his affliction, and Jonah rejoiceth because of the gourd with great joy.

and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news is through all the assemblies,

Jehovah reigneth -- to the age, and for ever!'

and Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who are found with them, are abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin, and the Philistines have encamped in Michmash.

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

Is it nothing to you, all ye passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom Jehovah hath afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

Be diligent to come unto me quickly,

And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, 'How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God!

And on the twenty and third day of the seventh month he hath sent the people to their tents, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for the goodness that Jehovah hath done to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel His people.

Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.

And Jesus answering said to him -- 'It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

For then thou liftest up thy face from blemish, And thou hast been firm, and fearest not.

And there hath not been like that day before it or after it, for Jehovah's hearkening to the voice of a man; for Jehovah is fighting for Israel.

And he said unto his disciples, 'Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold it;

and fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, saying -- 'A great prophet hath risen among us,' and -- 'God did look upon His people.'

and the rest of the matters of Amaziah, the first and the last, lo, are they not written on the books of the kings of Judah and Israel?

that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

From the day that I brought out My people, even Israel, from Egypt, I have not fixed on a city out of all the tribes of Israel, to build a house for My name being there; and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

for if the ministration of the condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

Give attention, O Jehovah, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me.

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --

but when the stronger than he, having come upon him, may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

A sepulchre opened is their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps is under their lips.

And be it so, I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

The fool -- in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little,

And they find written in the law that Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, that the sons of Israel dwell in booths in the feast, in the seventh month,

and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

but according as it hath been written, 'To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus,

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

Now, without Jehovah have I come up against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'

He also said, 'Let them set a pure diadem on his head. And they set the pure diadem on his head, and clothe him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah is standing,

'And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, A holy anointing oil is this to Me, to your generations;

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.

Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.

and his brethren, heads of fathers, two hundred forty and two; and Amashsai son of Azareel, son of Ahazai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,

And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson's wife, 'Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?'

and he saith to them, 'I am he, be not afraid;'

A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah.

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

Therefore, wait for Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, For the day of My rising for prey, For My judgment is to gather nations, To assemble kingdoms, To pour out on them Mine indignation, All the heat of Mine anger, For by the fire of My jealousy consumed is all the earth.

that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.

If iniquity is in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is on the flanks, and the redundance above the liver, (beside the kidneys he doth turn it aside),

He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.

Come in doth all their evil before Thee, And one is doing to them as Thou hast done to me, For all my transgressions, For many are my sighs, and my heart is sick!

'And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;

'Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

And if not now, who doth prove me a liar, And doth make of nothing my word?

And in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel -- and Jehoshaphat is king of Judah -- hath Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah reigned;

and to the sons of Kohath he hath not given, for the service of the sanctuary is on them: on the shoulder they bear.

For Gaza is forsaken, And Ashkelon is for a desolation, Ashdod! at noon they do cast her forth, And Ekron is rooted up.

whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.

saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity.

and they asked them, saying, 'Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of thy hand, -- Alone I have sat, For with indignation Thou hast filled me.

And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

Jesus answered and said to him, 'Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

And Hazael saith, 'But what, is thy servant the dog, that he doth this great thing?' And Elisha saith, 'Jehovah hath shewed me thee -- king of Aram.'

Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few words I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.

Others said -- 'It is Elijah,' and others said -- 'It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;

Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,

and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed -- even as they.

Abram -- he is Abraham.

Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

And in that hour he cured many from sicknesses, and plagues, and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.

He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

And it cometh to pass, at Zimri's seeing that the city hath been captured, that he cometh in unto a high place of the house of the king, and burneth over him the house of the king with fire, and dieth,

and Jesus went up to the mount, and he was there sitting with his disciples,

and having sent them to Beth-Lehem, he said, 'Having gone -- inquire ye exactly for the child, and whenever ye may have found, bring me back word, that I also having come may bow to him.'

Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them is his portion fertile, and his food fat.

and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

for if that which is being made useless is through glory, much more that which is remaining is in glory.

And Jesus having risen, did follow him, also his disciples,

ye, then, coming together at the same place -- it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

and Mordecai declareth to him all that hath met him, and the explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them,

and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.

for she said within herself, 'If only I may touch his garment, I shall be saved.'

He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.