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bes Ecclesiastes:5:8-6:12



bes@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king is dependent on the tilled field.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has (note:)Gr. been content with(:note) loved gain, in the abundance q. d. of those things thereof? this is also vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the (note:)Gr. beginning, or, priority(:note) right of beholding it with his eyes?

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, namely, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and the man begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labour, that it should go with him in his hand.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labours?

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much (note:)Or, anger(:note) sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing for a man to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labour in which he may labour under the sun, all the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ Yea, and as for every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

bes@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ For he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the mirth of his heart.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is abundant (note:)Alex. epi, upon(:note) with man:

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance, and honour, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: there is no more rest to this one than another.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:6 @

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the labour of a man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite shall not be satisfied.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:8 @ For what advantage has the wise man over the fool, since even the poor knows how to walk (note:)Gr. before the face of(:note) in the direction of life?

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:9 @ The sight of the eyes is better than that which wanders in soul: this is also vanity, and waywardness of spirit.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:10 @ If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.

bes@Ecclesiastes:6:11 @ For there are many things which increase vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:1 @ What advantage has a man? for who knows what is good for a man in his life, during the number of the life of the days of his vanity? and he has spent them (note:)Gr. in(:note) as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:2 @ A good name is better than good oil; and the day of death than the day of birth.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:3 @ It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the banquet house: since this is the end of every man; and the living man will apply good warning to his heart.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:4 @ Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart will be made better.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:5 @ The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:6 @ It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:7 @ As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools: this is also vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:8 @ for oppression makes a wise man mad, and destroys his (note:)Gr. the heart of his nobility(:note) noble heart.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:9 @ The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:10 @ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger will rest in the bosom of fools.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Say not, What has happened, that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire in wisdom concerning this.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:12 @ Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:13 @ For wisdom in its shadow is as the shadow of silver: and the excellence of the knowledge of wisdom will give life to him that has it.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:14 @ Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:15 @ In the day of prosperity live joyfully, and consider in the day of adversity: consider, I say, God also has caused the one to agree with the other (note:)Lit. concerning speech; Hebrews. «in order that’(:note) for this reason, that man should find nothing after him.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:16 @ I have seen all things in the days of my vanity: there is a just man perishing in his justice, and there is an ungodly man remaining in his wickedness.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:17 @ Be not very just; neither be very wise: lest thou be confounded.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:18 @ Be not very wicked; and be not stubborn: lest thou shouldest die before thy time.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:19 @ It is well for thee to hold fast by this; also by this defile not thine hand: for (note:)Alex. he that fears God shall come forth well in all respects(:note) to them that fear God all things shall come forth well.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:20 @ Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:21 @ For there is not a righteous man in the earth, who will do good, and not sin

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:22 @ Also take no heed to all the words which ungodly men shall speak; lest thou hear thy servant cursing thee.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:23 @ For many times he shall trespass against thee, and repeatedly shall he afflict thine heart; for thus also hast thou cursed others.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:24 @ All these things have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:25 @ That which is far beyond what was, and a (note:)Comp. Hebrews. with Gr.(:note) great depth, who shall find it out?

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:26 @ I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account of things, and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:27 @ And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be more bitter than death the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, who has a band in her hands: he that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:28 @ Behold, this have I found, said the Preacher, seeking by one at a time to find out the account,

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:29 @ which my soul sought after, but I found not: for I have found one man of a thousand; but a woman in all these I have not found.

bes@Ecclesiastes:7:30 @ But, behold, this have I found, that God made man upright; but they have sought out many devices.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:1 @ Who knows the wise? and who knows the interpretation of a saying? A man’s wisdom will lighten his countenance; but a man of shameless countenance will be hated.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:2 @ Observe the commandment of the king, and that because of the word of the oath of God.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:3 @ Be not hasty; thou shalt go forth out of his presence: stand not in an evil matter; for he will do whatsoever he shall please,

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:4 @ even as a king having power: and who will say to him, What doest thou?

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:5 @ He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgement.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:6 @ For to every thing there is time and judgement; for the knowledge of a man is great to him.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:7 @ For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:8 @ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:9 @ So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:10 @ And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and that out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:11 @ Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:12 @ He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:13 @ but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, which are as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:14 @ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:15 @ Then I praised mirth, because there is no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry: and this shall attend him in his labour all the days of his life, which God has given him under the sun.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:16 @ Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.

bes@Ecclesiastes:8:17 @ And I beheld all the works of God, that a man shall not be able to discover the work which is wrought under the sun; whatsoever things a man shall endeavour to seek, however a man may labour to seek it, yet he shall not find it; yea, how much soever a wise man may speak of knowing it, he shall not be able to find it: for I applied all this to my heart, and my heart has seen all this.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:1 @ I saw that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, though all are before their face.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:2 @ Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:3 @ There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yea, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ for who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope of him: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:5 @ For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is (note:)Gr. forgotten(:note) lost.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:6 @ also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yea, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:7 @ Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:8 @ Let thy garments be always white; and let not oil be wanting on thine head.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:9 @ And (note:)So the Hebrews.(:note) see life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which are given thee under the sun: for that is thy portion in thy life, and in thy labour wherein thou labourest under the sun.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:10 @ Whatsoever thine hand shall find to do, do (note:)Gr. as thy power is(:note) with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither thou goest.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:11 @ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:12 @ For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:13 @ This I also saw to be wisdom under the sun, and it is great before me:

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:14 @ suppose there were a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:15 @ and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:16 @ And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nought, and his words not listened to.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:17 @ The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly.

bes@Ecclesiastes:9:18 @ Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:1 @ Pestilent flies will corrupt a preparation of sweet ointment: and a little wisdom is more precious than great glory of folly.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:2 @ A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:3 @ Yea, and whenever a fool walks by the way, his heart will fail him, and all that he (note:)Gr. will think of(:note) thinks of is folly.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:4 @ If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for soothing will put an end to great offences.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:5 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, wherein an error has proceeded from the ruler.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:6 @ The fool has been set in very high places, while rich men would sit in a low one.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:7 @ I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:8 @ He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:9 @ He that removes stones shall be troubled thereby; he that cleaves wood shall be endangered thereby.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:10 @ If the axe-head should fall off, then the man troubles his countenance, and he must put forth more strength: and in that case skill is of no advantage to a man. (note:)Alex. for tw andri ou reads tou andreiou; Wisdom is the advantage of an energetic man(:note)

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:11 @ If a serpent bite when there is no charmer’s (note:)Or, whistle(:note) whisper, then there is no advantage to the charmer.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:12 @ The words of a wise mouth are gracious: but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:13 @ The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly: and the end of his talk mischievous madness.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:14 @ A fool moreover multiplies words: man knows not what has been, nor what will be: who shall tell him what will come after him?

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:15 @ The labour of fools will afflict them, as that of one who knows not to go to the city.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:16 @ Woe to thee, O city, whose king is young, and thy princes eat in the morning!

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Blessed art thou, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, and shall not be ashamed.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:18 @ By slothful neglect a building will be brought low: and by idleness of the hands the house will fall to pieces.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:19 @ Men prepare bread for laughter, and wine and oil that the living should rejoice: but (note:)Hebrews. doubly translated(:note) to money all things will humbly yield obedience.

bes@Ecclesiastes:10:20 @ Even in thy conscience, curse not the king; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry thy voice, and that which has wings shall report thy speech.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:1 @ Send forth thy bread upon the face of the water: for thou shalt find it after many days.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:2 @ Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil there shall be upon the earth.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:3 @ If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour it out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:4 @ He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:5 @ Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones are hid in the womb of a pregnant woman, so thou shalt not know the works of God, even all things whatsoever he shall do.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:6 @ In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening let not thine hand be slack: for thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:7 @ Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:8 @ For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:9 @ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart blameless, but not in the sight of thine eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement.

bes@Ecclesiastes:11:10 @ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:1 @ And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:2 @ While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain:

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:3 @ in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding women cease because they have become few, and the women looking out at the windows be dark;

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:4 @ and they shall shut the doors in the market-place, because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds at the mill; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be brought low;

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:5 @ and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:6 @ before the silver cord (note:)Gr. be subverted(:note) be let go, or the Gr. flower of gold choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern;

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:7 @ before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:8 @ Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:9 @ And because the Preacher was wise above others, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:10 @ The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing, even words of truth.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:11 @ The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails firmly fastened, which have been given from one shepherd by agreement.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:12 @ And moreover, my son, guard thyself by means of them: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:13 @ Hear the end of the matter, the sum: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole man.

bes@Ecclesiastes:12:14 @ For God will bring every work into judgement, with everything that has been overlooked, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

bes@Songs:1:1 @ The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

bes@Songs:1:2 @ Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine.

bes@Songs:1:3 @ And the smell of thine ointments is (note:)Gr. beyond(:note) better than all spices: thy name is ointment poured forth; therefore do the young maidens love thee.

bes@Songs:1:4 @ They have drawn thee: we will run after thee, for the smell of thine ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in thee; we will love thy breasts more than wine: righteousness loves thee.

bes@Songs:1:5 @ I am black, but beautiful, ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the (note:)Lit. skins(:note) curtains of Solomon.

bes@Songs:1:6 @ Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother’s sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.

bes@Songs:1:7 @ Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, lest I become as one (note:)Or, that veils herself(:note) that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions.

bes@Songs:1:8 @ If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids by the shepherd’s tents.

bes@Songs:1:9 @ I have likened thee, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao.

bes@Songs:1:10 @ How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, thy neck as chains!

bes@Songs:1:11 @ We will make thee figures of gold with studs of silver.

bes@Songs:1:12 @ So long as the king was at table, my spikenard gave forth its smell.

bes@Songs:1:13 @ My kinsman is to me a bundle of myrrh; he shall lie between my breasts.

bes@Songs:1:14 @ My kinsman is to me a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engaddi.

bes@Songs:1:15 @ Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves.

bes@Songs:1:16 @ Behold, thou art fair, my kinsman, yea, beautiful, overshadowing our bed.

bes@Songs:1:17 @ The beams of our house are cedars, our (note:)Or, wainscots(:note) ceilings are of cypress.

bes@Songs:2:1 @ I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.

bes@Songs:2:2 @ As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

bes@Songs:2:3 @ As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

bes@Songs:2:4 @ Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

bes@Songs:2:5 @ Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.

bes@Songs:2:6 @ His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

bes@Songs:2:7 @ I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the (note:)Comp. Hebrews. and A. V.(:note) powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.

bes@Songs:2:8 @ The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

bes@Songs:2:9 @ My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the (note:)Lit. nets(:note) lattices.

bes@Songs:2:10 @ My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.

bes@Songs:2:11 @ For, behold, the winter is past, the rain is gone, it has departed.

bes@Songs:2:12 @ The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land.

bes@Songs:2:13 @ The fig-tree has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the tender grape, they yield a smell: arise, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yea, come.

bes@Songs:2:14 @ Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful.

bes@Songs:2:15 @ Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines put forth tender grapes.

bes@Songs:2:16 @ My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.

bes@Songs:2:17 @ Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be thou like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.

bes@Songs:3:1 @ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me.

bes@Songs:3:2 @ I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market-places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

bes@Songs:3:3 @ The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. I said, Have ye seen him whom my soul loves?

bes@Songs:3:4 @ It was as a little while after I parted from them, that I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and did not let him go, until I brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

bes@Songs:3:5 @ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the (note:)Comp. Hebrews. and A. V.(:note) powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please.

bes@Songs:3:6 @ Who is this that comes up from the wilderness as pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the perfumer?

bes@Songs:3:7 @ Behold Solomon’s bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.

bes@Songs:3:8 @ They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.

bes@Songs:3:9 @ King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.

bes@Songs:3:10 @ He made the pillars of it silver, the bottom of it gold, the covering of it scarlet, in the midst of it a pavement of love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

bes@Songs:3:11 @ Go forth, ye daughters of Sion, and behold king Solomon, with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

bes@Songs:4:1 @ Behold, thou art fair, my companion; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are doves, beside thy (note:)Lit. silence(:note) veil: thy hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad.

bes@Songs:4:2 @ Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.

bes@Songs:4:3 @ Thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: like the rind of a pomegranate is thy cheek without thy (note:)Lit. silence(:note) veil.

bes@Songs:4:4 @ Thy neck is as the tower of David, that was built for an armoury: a thousand shields hang upon it, and all darts of mighty men.

bes@Songs:4:5 @ Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns, that feed among the lilies.

bes@Songs:4:6 @ Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, I will betake me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

bes@Songs:4:7 @ Thou art all fair, my companion, and there is no spot in thee.

bes@Songs:4:8 @ Come from Libanus, my bride, come from Libanus: thou shalt come and pass from the top of (note:)Hebrews. Amana(:note) Faith, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

bes@Songs:4:9 @ My sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished my heart; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

bes@Songs:4:10 @

bes@Songs:4:11 @ Thy lips drop honeycomb, my spouse: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is as the smell of Libanus.

bes@Songs:4:12 @ My sister, my spouse is a garden enclosed; a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed.

bes@Songs:4:13 @ Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; camphor, with spikenard:

bes@Songs:4:14 @ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all woods of Libanus, myrrh, aloes, with all chief spices:

bes@Songs:4:15 @ a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

bes@Songs:4:16 @ Awake, O north wind; and come, O south; and blow through my garden, and let my spices flow out.

bes@Songs:5:1 @ Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly.

bes@Songs:5:2 @ I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

bes@Songs:5:3 @ I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

bes@Songs:5:4 @ My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, and my belly moved for him.

bes@Songs:5:5 @ I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

bes@Songs:5:6 @ I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul (note:)Gr. went forth(:note) failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.

bes@Songs:5:7 @ The watchman that go their rounds in the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

bes@Songs:5:8 @ I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.

bes@Songs:5:9 @ What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us?

bes@Songs:5:10 @ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads.

bes@Songs:5:11 @ His head is as very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven.

bes@Songs:5:12 @ His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools.

bes@Songs:5:13 @ His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.

bes@Songs:5:14 @ His hands are as (note:)Or, gold rings(:note) turned gold set with q. d. from Tarshish beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.

bes@Songs:5:15 @ His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars.

bes@Songs:5:16 @ His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.

bes@Songs:5:17 @ Whither is thy kinsman gone, thou beautiful among women? whither has thy kinsman (note:)Gr. looked aside(:note) turned aside? tell us, and we will seek him with thee.

bes@Songs:6:1 @ My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

bes@Songs:6:2 @ I am my kinsman’s, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies.

bes@Songs:6:3 @ Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as armies set in array.

bes@Songs:6:4 @ Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad.

bes@Songs:6:5 @ Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely.

bes@Songs:6:6 @ Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, being seen without thy veil.

bes@Songs:6:7 @ There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

bes@Songs:6:8 @ My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her.

bes@Songs:6:9 @ Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as armies set in array?

bes@Songs:6:10 @ I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, if the pomegranates blossomed.

bes@Songs:6:11 @ There I will give thee my breasts: my soul knew it not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.

bes@Songs:6:12 @ Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee. What will ye see in the Sunamite? (note:)Or, O thou that comest, etc.(:note) She comes as bands of armies.

bes@Songs:7:1 @ Thy steps are beautiful in shoes, O daughter of the prince: the joints of thy thighs are like chains, the work of the craftsman.

bes@Songs:7:2 @ Thy navel is as a turned bowl, not wanting liquor; thy belly is as a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

bes@Songs:7:3 @ Thy two breasts are as two twin fawns.

bes@Songs:7:4 @ Thy neck is as an ivory tower; thine eyes are as pools in Esebon, by the gates of the (note:)Hebrews. Bath-rabbim(:note) daughter of many: thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, looking toward Damascus.

bes@Songs:7:5 @ Thy head upon thee is as Carmel, and the curls of thy hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the (note:)Or, corridors(:note) galleries.

bes@Songs:7:6 @ How beautiful art thou, and how sweet art thou, my love!

bes@Songs:7:7 @ This is thy greatness in thy delights: thou wast made like a palm tree, and thy breasts to cluster.

bes@Songs:7:8 @ I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its high boughs: and now shall thy breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose of apples;

bes@Songs:7:9 @ and thy throat as good wine, going well with my kinsman, suiting my lips and teeth.

bes@Songs:7:10 @ I am my kinsman’s, and his (note:)Lit. turning(:note) desire is toward me.

bes@Songs:7:11 @ Come, my kinsman, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

bes@Songs:7:12 @ Let us go early into the vineyards; let us see if the vine has flowered, if the blossoms have appeared, if the pomegranates have blossomed; there will I give thee my breasts.

bes@Songs:7:13 @ The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept them for thee.

bes@Songs:8:1 @

bes@Songs:8:2 @ I would take thee, I would bring thee into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me; I would make thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

bes@Songs:8:3 @ His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

bes@Songs:8:4 @ I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the virtues of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

bes@Songs:8:5 @ Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised thee up under an apple-tree; there thy mother brought thee forth; there she that bore thee brought thee forth.

bes@Songs:8:6 @ Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, even the flames thereof.

bes@Songs:8:7 @ Much water will not be able to quench love, and rivers shall not drown it; if a man would give all his substance for love, men would utterly despise it.

bes@Songs:8:8 @ Our sister is little, and has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister, in the day wherein she shall be spoken for?

bes@Songs:8:9 @ If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.

bes@Songs:8:10 @ I am a wall, and my breasts are as towers; I was in their eyes as one that found peace.

bes@Songs:8:11 @ Solomon had a vineyard in Beelamon; he let his vineyard to keepers; every one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

bes@Songs:8:12 @ My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon shall have a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

bes@Songs:8:13 @ Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: make me hear it.

bes@Songs:8:14 @ Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.

bes@Isaiah:1:1 @ The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda, and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.

bes@Isaiah:1:2 @ Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have (note:)Or, «set me at nought’(:note) rebelled against me.

bes@Isaiah:1:3 @ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

bes@Isaiah:1:4 @ Ah sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children: ye have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:1:5 @ Why should ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

bes@Isaiah:1:6 @ From the feet to the head, there is no soundness in them; neither wound, nor bruise, nor festering ulcer are healed: it is not possible to apply a plaister, nor oil, nor bandages.

bes@Isaiah:1:7 @ Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.

bes@Isaiah:1:8 @ The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

bes@Isaiah:1:9 @

bes@Isaiah:1:10 @ Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodoma; attend to the law of God, thou people of Gomorrha.

bes@Isaiah:1:11 @ Of what value to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am full of whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats:

bes@Isaiah:1:12 @ neither shall ye come with these to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court.

bes@Isaiah:1:13 @ Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is an abomination to me; I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the great day;

bes@Isaiah:1:14 @ your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.

bes@Isaiah:1:15 @ When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

bes@Isaiah:1:16 @ Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

bes@Isaiah:1:17 @ learn to do well; diligently seek judgement, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

bes@Isaiah:1:18 @ And come, let us reason together, saith the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

bes@Isaiah:1:19 @ And if ye be willing, and hearken to me, ye shall eat the good of the land:

bes@Isaiah:1:20 @ but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

bes@Isaiah:1:21 @ How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgement, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

bes@Isaiah:1:22 @ Your silver is worthless, thy wine merchants mix the wine with water.

bes@Isaiah:1:23 @ Thy princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.

bes@Isaiah:1:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Woe to the mighty men of Israel; for my wrath shall not cease against mine adversaries, and I will execute judgement on mine enemies.

bes@Isaiah:1:25 @ And I will bring my hand upon thee, and purge thee (note:)Gr. to pureness(:note) completely, and I will destroy the rebellious, and will take away from thee all transgressors.

bes@Isaiah:1:26 @ And I will establish thy judges as before, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: and afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful mother-city of Sion.

bes@Isaiah:1:27 @ For her captives shall be saved with judgement, and with mercy.

bes@Isaiah:1:28 @ And the transgressors and the sinners shall be crushed together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be utterly consumed.

bes@Isaiah:1:29 @ For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

bes@Isaiah:1:30 @ For they shall be as a turpentine tree that has cast its leaves, and as a garden that has no water.

bes@Isaiah:1:31 @ And their strength shall be as a thread of tow, and their works as sparks, and the transgressors and the sinners shall be burnt up together, and there shall be none to quench them.

bes@Isaiah:2:1 @ The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea, and concerning Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:2:2 @ For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be (note:)Or, conspicuous(:note) glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.

bes@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:2:4 @ And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

bes@Isaiah:2:5 @ And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:2:6 @ For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the (note:)Or, aliens; The LXX generally render Mytslp by fulistieim or fulistiim till about the middle of Judges, after which the word almost always used is allofuloi; In this there was probably some accommodation of sound to sense(:note) Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.

bes@Isaiah:2:7 @ For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of chariots.

bes@Isaiah:2:8 @ And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshipped the works which their fingers made.

bes@Isaiah:2:9 @ And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.

bes@Isaiah:2:10 @ Now therefore enter ye into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

bes@Isaiah:2:11 @ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

bes@Isaiah:2:12 @ For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

bes@Isaiah:2:13 @ and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon every oak of Basan,

bes@Isaiah:2:14 @ and upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,

bes@Isaiah:2:15 @ and upon every high tower, and upon every high wall,

bes@Isaiah:2:16 @ and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine ships.

bes@Isaiah:2:17 @ And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

bes@Isaiah:2:18 @ And they shall hide all idols made with hands,

bes@Isaiah:2:19 @ having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and (note:)See verse 10(:note) by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

bes@Isaiah:2:20 @ For in that day a man shall cast forth his silver and gold abominations, which they made in order to worship vanities and bats;

bes@Isaiah:2:21 @ to enter into the caverns of the solid rock, and into the clefts of the rocks, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

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bes@Isaiah:3:1 @ Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,

bes@Isaiah:3:2 @ the great and mighty man, the warrior and the judge, and the prophet, and the counsellor, and the elder,

bes@Isaiah:3:3 @ the captain of fifty also, and the honourable counsellor, and the wise artificer, and the intelligent hearer.

bes@Isaiah:3:4 @ And I will make youths their princes, and mockers shall have dominion over them.

bes@Isaiah:3:5 @ And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbor: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honourable.

bes@Isaiah:3:6 @ For a man shall lay hold of his brother, as one of his father’s household, saying, Thou hast raiment, be thou our ruler, and let my meat be under thee.

bes@Isaiah:3:7 @ And he shall answer in that day, and say, I will not be thy ruler; for I have no bread in my house, nor raiment: I will not be the ruler of this people.

bes@Isaiah:3:8 @ For Jerusalem is (note:)Or, forsaken, or, let go(:note) ruined, and Judea has fallen, and their tongues have spoken with iniquity, disobedient as they are towards the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:3:9 @ Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

bes@Isaiah:3:10 @ Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.

bes@Isaiah:3:11 @ Woe to the transgressor! Evils shall happen to him according to the works of his hands.

bes@Isaiah:3:12 @ O my people, your exactors (note:)Gr. glean you(:note) strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

bes@Isaiah:3:13 @ But now the Lord will stand up for judgement, and will enter into judgement with his people.

bes@Isaiah:3:14 @ The Lord himself shall enter into judgement with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have ye set my vineyard on fire, and why is the spoil of the poor in your houses?

bes@Isaiah:3:15 @ Why do ye wrong my people, and shame the face of the poor?

bes@Isaiah:3:16 @ Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:

bes@Isaiah:3:17 @ therefore the Lord will humble the chief daughters of Sion, and the Lord will expose their form in that day;

bes@Isaiah:3:18 @ and the Lord will take away the glory of their raiment, the curls and the fringes, and the crescents,

bes@Isaiah:3:19 @ and the chains, and the ornaments of their faces,

bes@Isaiah:3:20 @ and the array of glorious ornaments, and the armlets, and the bracelets, and the wreathed work, and the finger-rings, and the ornaments for the right hand,

bes@Isaiah:3:21 @ and the ear-rings, and the garments with scarlet borders,

bes@Isaiah:3:22 @ and the garments with purple grounds, and the shawls to be worn in the house, and the Spartan transparent dresses,

bes@Isaiah:3:23 @ and those made of fine linen, and the purple ones, and the scarlet ones, and the fine linen, interwoven with gold and purple, and the light coverings for couches.

bes@Isaiah:3:24 @ And there shall be instead of a sweet smell, dust; and instead of a girdle, thou shalt gird thyself with a rope; and instead of a golden ornament for the head, thou shalt have baldness on account of thy works; and instead of a tunic with a scarlet ground, thou shalt gird thyself with sackcloth.

bes@Isaiah:3:25 @ And thy most beautiful son whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty men shall fall by the sword, and shall be brought low.

bes@Isaiah:3:26 @ And the (note:)Gr. cases, or, repositories(:note) stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be levelled with the ground.

bes@Isaiah:4:1 @ And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let thy name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.

bes@Isaiah:4:2 @ And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:4:3 @ And it shall be, that the remnant left in Sion, and the remnant left in Jerusalem, even all that are (note:)Gr. written for life(:note) appointed to life in Jerusalem, shall be called holy.

bes@Isaiah:4:4 @ For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Sion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgement, and the spirit of burning.

bes@Isaiah:4:5 @ And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence.

bes@Isaiah:4:6 @ And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.

bes@Isaiah:5:1 @ Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a (note:)Gr. horn, so in Hebrew(:note) high hill in a fertile place.

bes@Isaiah:5:2 @ And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.

bes@Isaiah:5:3 @ And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

bes@Isaiah:5:4 @ What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.

bes@Isaiah:5:5 @ And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be left to be trodden down.

bes@Isaiah:5:6 @ And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

bes@Isaiah:5:7 @ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and (note:)Gr. a man(:note) the men of Juda his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgement, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.

bes@Isaiah:5:8 @ Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor’s: will ye dwell alone upon the land?

bes@Isaiah:5:9 @ For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

bes@Isaiah:5:10 @ For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

bes@Isaiah:5:11 @ Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till evening: for the wine shall inflame them.

bes@Isaiah:5:12 @ For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands.

bes@Isaiah:5:13 @ Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water.

bes@Isaiah:5:14 @ Therefore (note:)Gr. hades(:note) hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it.

bes@Isaiah:5:15 @ And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.

bes@Isaiah:5:16 @ But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.

bes@Isaiah:5:17 @ And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

bes@Isaiah:5:18 @ Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:

bes@Isaiah:5:19 @ who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

bes@Isaiah:5:20 @ Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.

bes@Isaiah:5:21 @ Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

bes@Isaiah:5:22 @ Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:

bes@Isaiah:5:23 @ who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.

bes@Isaiah:5:24 @ Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:5:25 @ Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet (note:)Gr. high(:note) raised.

bes@Isaiah:5:26 @ Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.

bes@Isaiah:5:27 @ They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken.

bes@Isaiah:5:28 @ Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.

bes@Isaiah:5:29 @ They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion’s whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.

bes@Isaiah:5:30 @ And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.

bes@Isaiah:6:1 @ And it came to pass in the year in which king Ozias died, that I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory.

bes@Isaiah:6:2 @ And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered their face, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

bes@Isaiah:6:3 @ And one cried to the other, and they said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

bes@Isaiah:6:4 @ And the lintel (note:)Gr. was lifted(:note) shook at the voice they uttered, and the house was filled with smoke.

bes@Isaiah:6:5 @ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

bes@Isaiah:6:6 @ And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:

bes@Isaiah:6:7 @ and he touched my mouth, and said, Behold, this has touched thy lips, and will take away thine iniquities, and will purge off thy sins.

bes@Isaiah:6:8 @ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom (note:)Or, should I send?(:note) shall I send, and who will go to this people? And I said, behold, I am here, send me. And he said, Go, and say to this people,

bes@Isaiah:6:9 @ Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand; and ye shall see indeed, but ye shall not perceive.

bes@Isaiah:6:10 @

bes@Isaiah:6:11 @ And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until cities be deserted (note:)Compare use of para, Jer strkjv@33:10, 12; 1 Co strkjv@12:15, 16(:note) by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.

bes@Isaiah:6:12 @ And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.

bes@Isaiah:6:13 @ And yet there (note:)Gr. is(:note) shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out of its husk.

bes@Isaiah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joatham, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, there came up Rasim king of Aram, and Phakee son of Romelias, king of Israel, against Jerusalem to war against it, but they could not (note:)Lit. besiege; See Hebrew(:note) take it.

bes@Isaiah:7:2 @ And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.

bes@Isaiah:7:3 @ And the Lord said to Esaias, Go forth to meet Achaz, thou, and thy son Jasub who is left, to the pool of the upper way of the fuller’s field.

bes@Isaiah:7:4 @ And thou shalt say to him, Take care to be quiet, and fear not, neither let thy soul be disheartened because of these two smoking firebrands: for when my fierce anger is over, I will heal again.

bes@Isaiah:7:5 @ And as for the son of Aram, and the son of Romelias, forasmuch as they have devised an evil counsel, saying,

bes@Isaiah:7:6 @ We will go up against Judea, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabeel king of it;

bes@Isaiah:7:7 @ thus saith the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

bes@Isaiah:7:8 @ But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people.

bes@Isaiah:7:9 @ And the head of Ephraim is Somoron, and the head of Somoron the son of Romelias: but (note:)Compare Hebrew(:note) if ye believe not, neither will ye at all understand.

bes@Isaiah:7:10 @ And the Lord again spoke to Achaz, saying,

bes@Isaiah:7:11 @ Ask for thyself a sign of the Lord thy God, in the depth or in the height.

bes@Isaiah:7:12 @ And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:7:13 @ And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do ye contend against the Lord?

bes@Isaiah:7:14 @ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; (note:)Mt strkjv@1:23(:note) behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.

bes@Isaiah:7:15 @ Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil or choose the good.

bes@Isaiah:7:16 @ For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings.

bes@Isaiah:7:17 @ But God shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the house of thy father, days which have never come, from the day that Ephraim took away from Juda the king of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:7:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall hiss for the flies, (note:)Or, which part of the enemy, etc. shall rule over the river of Egypt; but according to Alex. the reading in the text is the right one(:note) which insect shall rule over a part of the river of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:7:19 @ And they all shall enter into the clefts of the land, and into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves, and into every ravine.

bes@Isaiah:7:20 @ In that day the Lord shall shave with the hired razor of the king of Assyria beyond the river the head, and the hairs of the feet, and will remove the beard.

bes@Isaiah:7:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a heifer, and two sheep.

bes@Isaiah:7:22 @ And it shall come to pass from their (note:)Alex. poiein, «giving’(:note) drinking an abundance of milk, that every one that is left on the land shall eat butter and honey.

bes@Isaiah:7:23 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become (note:)Gr. for land and for a thorn(:note) barren land and thorns.

bes@Isaiah:7:24 @ Men shall enter thither with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns.

bes@Isaiah:7:25 @ And every mountain shall be certainly ploughed: there shall no fear come thither: for there shall be from among the barren ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.

bes@Isaiah:8:1 @ And the Lord said to me, Take to thyself a volume of a great new (note:)Alex. paper, or, parchment(:note) book, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning the making a rapid plunder of spoils; for it is near at hand.

bes@Isaiah:8:2 @ And make me witnesses of faithful men, Urias, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

bes@Isaiah:8:3 @ And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.

bes@Isaiah:8:4 @ For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:8:5 @ And the Lord spoke to me yet again, saying,

bes@Isaiah:8:6 @ Because this people chooses not the water of Siloam that goes softly, but wills to have Rassin, and the son of Romelias to be king over you;

bes@Isaiah:8:7 @ therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon you the water of the river, strong and abundant, even the king of the Assyrians, and his glory: and he shall come up over every valley of yours, and shall walk over every wall of yours:

bes@Isaiah:8:8 @ and he shall take away from Juda every man who shall be able to lift up his head, and every one able to accomplish anything; and his camp shall fill the breadth of thy land, O (note:)Hebrews. Immanuel(:note) God with us.

bes@Isaiah:8:9 @ Know, ye Gentiles, and be conquered; hearken ye, even to the extremity of the earth: be conquered, after ye strengthened yourselves; for even if ye should again strengthen yourselves, ye shall again be conquered.

bes@Isaiah:8:10 @ And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought; and whatsoever word ye shall speak, it shall not stand among you: for God is with us.

bes@Isaiah:8:11 @ Thus saith the Lord, With a strong hand they (note:)Gr. disobey(:note) revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,

bes@Isaiah:8:12 @ Let them not say, It is hard, for whatsoever this people says, is hard: but fear not ye their fear, neither be dismayed.

bes@Isaiah:8:13 @ Sanctify ye the Lord himself; and (note:)Or, let him be(:note) he shall be thy fear.

bes@Isaiah:8:14 @ And if thou shalt trust in him, he shall be to thee for a sanctuary; and ye shall not come against him as against (note:)Ro strkjv@9:33(:note) a stumbling-stone, neither as against the falling of a rock: but the houses of Jacob are in a snare, and the dwellers in Jerusalem in a pit.

bes@Isaiah:8:15 @ Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.

bes@Isaiah:8:16 @ Then shall those who seal themselves that they may (note:)Alex.—’not’(:note) not learn the law be made manifest.

bes@Isaiah:8:17 @ And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in him.

bes@Isaiah:8:18 @

bes@Isaiah:8:19 @ And if they should say to you, Seek (note:)Gr. ventriloquists(:note) those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?

bes@Isaiah:8:20 @ For he has given the law for a help, that they should not speak according to this word, concerning which there are no (note:)See Hebrew(:note) gifts to give for it.

bes@Isaiah:8:21 @ And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, that when ye shall be hungry, ye shall be grieved, and ye shall speak ill of the prince and your fathers’ ordinances: and they shall look up to heaven above,

bes@Isaiah:8:22 @ and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and (note:)Or, a strait(:note) anguish, and darkness so that one cannot see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a time.

bes@Isaiah:9:1 @ Drink this first. (note:)Or, do it quickly, i. e. «drink’; See Hebrew(:note) Act quickly, Mt strkjv@4:15, 16 O land of Zabulon, land of Nephthalim, and the rest inhabiting the sea-coast, and the land beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

bes@Isaiah:9:2 @ O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

bes@Isaiah:9:3 @ The (note:)Gr. greatest part(:note) multitude of the people which thou hast brought down in thy joy, they shall even rejoice before thee as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

bes@Isaiah:9:4 @ Because the yoke that was laid upon them has been taken away, and the rod that was on their neck: for he has broken the rod of the exactors, as in the day of Madiam.

bes@Isaiah:9:5 @ For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all raiment with (note:)Gr. reconciliation, or, exchange(:note) restitution; and they shall be willing, even if they were burnt with fire.

bes@Isaiah:9:6 @ For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, whose government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called the Messenger of great counsel: (note:)Alex. +Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty One, Potentate, Prince of Peace, Father of the age to come; Compare Heb strkjv@2:2(:note) for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to him.

bes@Isaiah:9:7 @ His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgement and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

bes@Isaiah:9:8 @ The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.

bes@Isaiah:9:9 @ And all the people of Ephraim, and they that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,

bes@Isaiah:9:10 @ The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.

bes@Isaiah:9:11 @ And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on mount Sion, and shall scatter his enemies;

bes@Isaiah:9:12 @ even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.

bes@Isaiah:9:13 @ But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:9:14 @ So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:

bes@Isaiah:9:15 @ the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

bes@Isaiah:9:16 @ And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.

bes@Isaiah:9:17 @ Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

bes@Isaiah:9:18 @ And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.

bes@Isaiah:9:19 @ The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burnt by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

bes@Isaiah:9:20 @ But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.

bes@Isaiah:9:21 @ For Manasses shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasses; for they shall besiege Juda together. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

bes@Isaiah:10:1 @ Woe to them that write wickedness; for when they write they do write wickedness,

bes@Isaiah:10:2 @ perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgement of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.

bes@Isaiah:10:3 @ And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory,

bes@Isaiah:10:4 @ that ye may not fall into (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’and they shall fall under the slain’(:note) captivity? For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

bes@Isaiah:10:5 @ Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands.

bes@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

bes@Isaiah:10:7 @ But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few.

bes@Isaiah:10:8 @ And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler;

bes@Isaiah:10:9 @ then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?

bes@Isaiah:10:10 @ As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.

bes@Isaiah:10:11 @ For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.

bes@Isaiah:10:12 @ And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the (note:)Gr. great mind(:note) proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes.

bes@Isaiah:10:13 @ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

bes@Isaiah:10:14 @ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.

bes@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;

bes@Isaiah:10:16 @ but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonour upon thine honour, and burning fire shall be kindled upon thy glory.

bes@Isaiah:10:17 @ And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.

bes@Isaiah:10:18 @ In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and fire shall devour both soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame.

bes@Isaiah:10:19 @ And they that are left of them shall be a small number, and a child shall write them.

bes@Isaiah:10:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel shall no more (note:)Or, repeat their offence(:note) join themselves with, and the saved of Jacob shall no more trust in, them that injured them; but they shall trust in the Holy God of Israel, in truth.

bes@Isaiah:10:21 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall trust on the mighty God.

bes@Isaiah:10:22 @

bes@Isaiah:10:23 @

bes@Isaiah:10:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Be not afraid, my people who dwell in Sion, of the Assyrians, because he shall smite thee with a rod: for I am bringing a stroke upon thee, that thou mayest see the way of Egypt.

bes@Isaiah:10:25 @ For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease: but my wrath shall be against their (note:)sc. of their enemies(:note) council.

bes@Isaiah:10:26 @ And God will stir up enemies against them, according to the stroke of Madiam in the place of affliction: and his wrath shall be by the way of the sea, even to the way that leads to Egypt.

bes@Isaiah:10:27 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that his yoke shall be taken away from thy shoulder, and his fear from thee, and the yoke shall be destroyed from off your shoulders.

bes@Isaiah:10:28 @ For he shall arrive at the city of Angai, and shall pass on to Maggedo, and shall lay up his stores in Machmas.

bes@Isaiah:10:29 @ And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Angai: fear shall seize upon Rama, the city of Saul.

bes@Isaiah:10:30 @ The daughter of Gallim shall flee; Laisa shall hear; one shall hear in Anathoth.

bes@Isaiah:10:31 @ Madebena also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gibbir.

bes@Isaiah:10:32 @ Exhort ye them to-day to remain in the way: exhort ye beckoning with the hand the mountain, the daughter of Sion, even ye hills that are in Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:10:33 @ Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will mightily confound the glorious ones; and the haughty in pride shall be crushed, and the lofty shall be brought low:

bes@Isaiah:10:34 @ and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and the Libanus shall fall with his lofty ones.

bes@Isaiah:11:1 @

bes@Isaiah:11:2 @ and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;

bes@Isaiah:11:3 @ the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report:

bes@Isaiah:11:4 @ but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.

bes@Isaiah:11:5 @ And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.

bes@Isaiah:11:6 @ And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.

bes@Isaiah:11:7 @ And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

bes@Isaiah:11:8 @ And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.

bes@Isaiah:11:9 @ And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water (note:)Gr. may cover(:note) covers the seas.

bes@Isaiah:11:10 @ And in that day (note:)Ro strkjv@15:12(:note) there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.

bes@Isaiah:11:11 @ And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again shew his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.

bes@Isaiah:11:12 @ And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:11:13 @ And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not afflict Ephraim.

bes@Isaiah:11:14 @ And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the (note:)sc. the west(:note) sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them

bes@Isaiah:11:15 @ And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall (note:)q. d. form by smiting(:note) smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.

bes@Isaiah:11:16 @ And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.

bes@Isaiah:12:1 @ And in that day thou shalt say, I will bless thee, O Lord; for thou wast angry with me, but thou hast turned aside thy wrath, and hast pitied me.

bes@Isaiah:12:2 @ Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation.

bes@Isaiah:12:3 @ Draw ye therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation.

bes@Isaiah:12:4 @ And in that day thou shalt say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious deeds among the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted.

bes@Isaiah:12:5 @ Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great things: declare this in all the earth.

bes@Isaiah:12:6 @ Exalt and rejoice, ye that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. «of thee’(:note) of her.

bes@Isaiah:13:1 @ THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS SAW AGAINST BABYLON.

bes@Isaiah:13:2 @ Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open the gates, ye rulers.

bes@Isaiah:13:3 @ I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.

bes@Isaiah:13:4 @ A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a (note:)Lit. fighting with armour or weapons(:note) war-like nation,

bes@Isaiah:13:5 @ to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.

bes@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

bes@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

bes@Isaiah:13:8 @ The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

bes@Isaiah:13:9 @ For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be (note:)Gr. healed(:note) escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

bes@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.

bes@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.

bes@Isaiah:13:12 @ And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.

bes@Isaiah:13:13 @ For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.

bes@Isaiah:13:14 @ And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

bes@Isaiah:13:15 @ For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

bes@Isaiah:13:16 @ And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

bes@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

bes@Isaiah:13:18 @ They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.

bes@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.

bes@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

bes@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and (note:)See Job strkjv@30:29; Isa strkjv@34:13, etc.(:note) monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,

bes@Isaiah:13:22 @ and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. (note:)See Heb strkjv@10:37; Hab strkjv@2:3(:note) It will come soon, and will not tarry.

bes@Isaiah:14:1 @ And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yea, shall be added to the house of Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and (note:)i. e. the Israelites(:note) they shall inherit them, and i. e. the Gentiles they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.

bes@Isaiah:14:3 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them.

bes@Isaiah:14:4 @ And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, (note:)Alex. +’and thou shalt say in that day’(:note) How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

bes@Isaiah:14:5 @ The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.

bes@Isaiah:14:6 @ Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.

bes@Isaiah:14:7 @ All the earth cries aloud with joy:

bes@Isaiah:14:8 @ the trees also of Libanus rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Libanus, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.

bes@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

bes@Isaiah:14:10 @ All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us.

bes@Isaiah:14:11 @ Thy glory has come down to Hades, and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering.

bes@Isaiah:14:12 @ How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.

bes@Isaiah:14:13 @ But thou saidst in thine heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north:

bes@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.

bes@Isaiah:14:15 @ But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:14:16 @ They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, (note:)See Isa strkjv@5:25(:note) This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

bes@Isaiah:14:17 @ that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

bes@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations lie in honour, every man in his house.

bes@Isaiah:14:19 @ But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

bes@Isaiah:14:20 @ As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, —thou an evil seed.

bes@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

bes@Isaiah:14:22 @ And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:14:23 @ And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.

bes@Isaiah:14:24 @ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain:

bes@Isaiah:14:25 @ even to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.

bes@Isaiah:14:26 @ This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.

bes@Isaiah:14:27 @ For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

bes@Isaiah:14:28 @ In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.

bes@Isaiah:14:29 @ Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents,

bes@Isaiah:14:30 @ And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he shall destroy thy seed with hunger, and shall destroy thy remnant.

bes@Isaiah:14:31 @ Howl, ye gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, even all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no possibility (note:)Gr. of being(:note) of living.

bes@Isaiah:14:32 @ And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.

bes@Isaiah:15:1 @ THE WORD AGAINST THE LAND OF MOAB. By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.

bes@Isaiah:15:2 @ Grieve for yourselves; for even Debon, where your altar is, shall be destroyed: thither shall ye go up to weep, over Nabau of the land of Moab: howl ye: baldness shall be on every head, and all arms shall be (note:)Gr. cut to pieces(:note) wounded.

bes@Isaiah:15:3 @ Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.

bes@Isaiah:15:4 @ For Esebon and Eleale have cried: their voice was heard to Jassa: therefore the loins of the region of Moab cry aloud; her soul shall know.

bes@Isaiah:15:5 @ The heart of the region of Moab cries within her to Segor; for it is as a heifer of three years old: and on the ascent of Luith they shall go up to thee weeping by the way of Aroniim: she cries, Destruction, and trembling.

bes@Isaiah:15:6 @ The water of Nemerim shall be desolate, and the grass thereof shall fail: for there shall be no green grass.

bes@Isaiah:15:7 @ Shall Moab even thus be delivered? for I will bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

bes@Isaiah:15:8 @ For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, even of Agalim; and her howling has gone as far as the well of Ælim.

bes@Isaiah:15:9 @ And the water of Dimon shall be filled with blood: for I will bring Arabians upon Dimon, and I will take away the seed of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Adama.

bes@Isaiah:16:1 @ I will send as it were reptiles on the land: is not the mount of the daughter of Sion a desolate rock?

bes@Isaiah:16:2 @ For thou shalt be as a young bird taken away from a bird that has flown: even thou shalt be so, daughter of Moab: and then do thou, O Arnon,

bes@Isaiah:16:3 @ take farther counsel, and continually make thou a shelter from grief: they flee in darkness at mid-day; they are amazed; be not thou led captive.

bes@Isaiah:16:4 @ The fugitives of Moab shall sojourn with thee; they shall be to you a shelter from the face of the pursuer: for thine alliance has been taken away, and the oppressing ruler has perished from off the earth.

bes@Isaiah:16:5 @ And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgements, and hasting righteousness.

bes@Isaiah:16:6 @ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.

bes@Isaiah:16:7 @ Moab shall howl; for all shall howl in the land of Moab: but thou shalt care for them that dwell in Seth, and thou shalt not be ashamed.

bes@Isaiah:16:8 @ The plains of Esebon shall mourn, the vine of Sebama: swallowing up the nations, trample ye her vines, even to Jazer: ye shall not come together; wander ye in the desert: they that were sent are deserted, for they have gone over to the sea.

bes@Isaiah:16:9 @ Therefore will I weep as with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sebama; Esebon and Eleale have cast down thy trees; for I will trample on thy harvest and on thy vintages, and all thy plants shall fall.

bes@Isaiah:16:10 @ And gladness and rejoicing shall be taken away from the vineyards; and they shall not at all tread wine into the vats; for the vintage has ceased.

bes@Isaiah:16:11 @ Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and (note:)Compare the Hebrew(:note) thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.

bes@Isaiah:16:12 @ And it shall be to thy shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.

bes@Isaiah:16:13 @ This is the word which the Lord spoke against Moab, when he spoke.

bes@Isaiah:16:14 @ And now I say, in three years, of the years of an hireling, the glory of Moab shall be dishonoured with all his great wealth; and he shall be left few in number, and not honoured.

bes@Isaiah:17:1 @ THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;

bes@Isaiah:17:2 @ abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.

bes@Isaiah:17:3 @ And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus saith the Lord of hosts.

bes@Isaiah:17:4 @ There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.

bes@Isaiah:17:5 @ And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;

bes@Isaiah:17:6 @ and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:17:7 @ In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:17:8 @ And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.

bes@Isaiah:17:9 @ In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted theirs, because the of children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.

bes@Isaiah:17:10 @ Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a (note:)Gr. faithless(:note) false plant, and a false seed.

bes@Isaiah:17:11 @ In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if thou sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man’s father, thou shalt obtain an inheritance for thy sons.

bes@Isaiah:17:12 @ Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the (note:)Gr. back; Complut. reads hcov. «noise’(:note) force of many nations shall sound like water;

bes@Isaiah:17:13 @ many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.

bes@Isaiah:17:14 @ Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.

bes@Isaiah:18:1 @ Woe to you, ye wings of the land of ships, beyond the rivers of Ethiopia.

bes@Isaiah:18:2 @

bes@Isaiah:18:3 @ Now all the rivers of the land shall be inhabited as an inhabited country; their land shall be as when a signal is raised from a mountain; it shall be audible as the sound of a trumpet.

bes@Isaiah:18:4 @ For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

bes@Isaiah:18:5 @ Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;

bes@Isaiah:18:6 @ And he shall leave them together to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth: and the fowls of the sky shall be gathered upon them, and all the beasts of the land shall come upon him.

bes@Isaiah:18:7 @ In that time shall presents be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people afflicted and peeled, and from a people great from henceforth and for ever; a nation hoping and yet trodden down, which is in a part of a river of his land, to the place where is the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Sion.

bes@Isaiah:19:1 @ THE VISION OF EGYPT. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint within them.

bes@Isaiah:19:2 @ And the Egyptians shall be stirred up against the Egyptians: and a man shall fight against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, and (note:)Alex. «district,’ the accent being different(:note) law against law.

bes@Isaiah:19:3 @ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them; and I will frustrate their counsel: and they shall enquire of their gods and their images, and them that speak out of the earth, and (note:)Gr. the ventriloquists(:note) them that have in them a divining spirit.

bes@Isaiah:19:4 @ And I will deliver Egypt into the hands of men, of cruel lords; and cruel kings shall rule over them: thus saith the Lord of hosts.

bes@Isaiah:19:5 @ And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.

bes@Isaiah:19:6 @ And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every (note:)Lit. gathering; See Ge strkjv@1:9; Jer strkjv@51:32(:note) reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.

bes@Isaiah:19:7 @ And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

bes@Isaiah:19:8 @ And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn.

bes@Isaiah:19:9 @ And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that (note:)Gr. work at(:note) make fine linen.

bes@Isaiah:19:10 @ And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.

bes@Isaiah:19:11 @ And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king’s wise counsellors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will ye say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?

bes@Isaiah:19:12 @ Where are now thy wise men? and let them declare to thee, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?

bes@Isaiah:19:13 @ The princes of Tanis have failed, and the princes of Memphis are lifted up with pride, and they shall cause Egypt to wander by tribes.

bes@Isaiah:19:14 @ For the Lord has prepared for them a spirit of error, and they have caused Egypt to err in all their works, as one staggers who is drunken and vomits also.

bes@Isaiah:19:15 @ And there shall be no work to the Egyptians, which shall make head or tail, or beginning or end.

bes@Isaiah:19:16 @ But in that day the Egyptians shall be as women, in fear and in trembling because of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall bring upon them.

bes@Isaiah:19:17 @ And the land of the Jews shall be for a terror to the Egyptians: whosoever shall name it to them, they shall fear, because of the counsel which the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning it.

bes@Isaiah:19:18 @ In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the name of the Lord of hosts; one city shall be called the (note:)Hebrews. city of destruction(:note) city of Asedec.

bes@Isaiah:19:19 @ In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the land of the Egyptians, and a pillar to the Lord by its border.

bes@Isaiah:19:20 @ And it shall be for a sign to the Lord for ever in the land of Egypt: for they shall presently cry to the Lord by reason of them that afflict them, and he shall send them a man who shall save them; he shall judge and save them.

bes@Isaiah:19:21 @ And the Lord shall be known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day; and they shall offer sacrifices, and shall vow vows to the Lord, and pay them.

bes@Isaiah:19:22 @ And the Lord shall smite the Egyptians with a stroke, and shall completely heal them: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall hear them, and thoroughly heal them.

bes@Isaiah:19:23 @ In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptians shall go to the Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:19:24 @ In that day shall Israel be third with the Egyptians and the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of hosts has blessed,

bes@Isaiah:19:25 @ saying, Blessed be my people that is in Egypt, and that is among the Assyrians, and Israel mine inheritance.

bes@Isaiah:20:1 @ In the year when Tanathan came to Azotus, when he was sent by Arna king of the Assyrians, and warred against Azotus, and took it;

bes@Isaiah:20:2 @ then the Lord spoke to Esaias the son of Amos, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off thy loins, and loose thy sandals from off thy feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.

bes@Isaiah:20:3 @ And the Lord said, As my servant Esaias has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;

bes@Isaiah:20:4 @ for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

bes@Isaiah:20:5 @ And the Egyptians being defeated shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.

bes@Isaiah:20:6 @ And they that dwell in this island shall say in that day, Behold, we trusted to flee to them for help, who could not save themselves from the king of the Assyrians: and how shall we be saved?

bes@Isaiah:21:1 @ THE VISION OF THE DESERT. As though a whirlwind should pass through the desert, coming from a desert, even from such a land,

bes@Isaiah:21:2 @ so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.

bes@Isaiah:21:3 @ Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hasted that I might not see.

bes@Isaiah:21:4 @ My heart wanders, and transgression (note:)Lit. baptizes(:note) overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

bes@Isaiah:21:5 @ Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.

bes@Isaiah:21:6 @ For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.

bes@Isaiah:21:7 @ And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.

bes@Isaiah:21:8 @ Hearken with great attention, and call thou Urias to the watch-tower: the Lord has spoken. I stood continually during the day, and I stood in the camp all night:

bes@Isaiah:21:9 @ and, behold, he comes riding in a chariot and pair: and he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all her images and her idols have been crushed to the ground.

bes@Isaiah:21:10 @ Hear, ye that are left, and ye that are in pain, hear what things I have heard of the Lord of hosts which the God of Israel has declared to us.

bes@Isaiah:21:11 @ THE VISION OF IDUMEA. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.

bes@Isaiah:21:12 @ I watch in the morning and the night: if thou wouldest enquire, enquire, and dwell by me.

bes@Isaiah:21:13 @ Thou mayest lodge in the forest (note:)Hebrews. of Arabia(:note) in the evening, or in the way of Daedan.

bes@Isaiah:21:14 @ Ye that dwell in the country of Thaeman, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

bes@Isaiah:21:15 @ meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.

bes@Isaiah:21:16 @ For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of an hireling, and the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:

bes@Isaiah:21:17 @ and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

bes@Isaiah:22:1 @ THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?

bes@Isaiah:22:2 @ The city is filled with shouting men: thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died in battle.

bes@Isaiah:22:3 @ All thy princes have fled, and thy captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in thee have fled far away.

bes@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

bes@Isaiah:22:5 @ For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.

bes@Isaiah:22:6 @ And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle.

bes@Isaiah:22:7 @ And it shall be that thy choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up thy gates.

bes@Isaiah:22:8 @ And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.

bes@Isaiah:22:9 @ And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city;

bes@Isaiah:22:10 @ and that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city.

bes@Isaiah:22:11 @ And ye procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool: but ye looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it.

bes@Isaiah:22:12 @ And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and (note:)Gr. shaving(:note) baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:

bes@Isaiah:22:13 @ but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.

bes@Isaiah:22:14 @ And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until ye die.

bes@Isaiah:22:15 @ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the (note:)Or, steward(:note) treasurer, and say to him, Why art thou here?

bes@Isaiah:22:16 @ and what hast thou to do here, that thou hast here hewn thyself a sepulchre, and madest thyself a sepulchre on high, and hast graven for thyself a dwelling in the rock?

bes@Isaiah:22:17 @ Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away thy robe and thy glorious crown,

bes@Isaiah:22:18 @ and will cast thee into a great and unmeasured land, and there thou shalt die: and he will bring thy fair chariot to shame, and the house of thy prince to be trodden down.

bes@Isaiah:22:19 @ And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place.

bes@Isaiah:22:20 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Chelcias:

bes@Isaiah:22:21 @ and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda.

bes@Isaiah:22:22 @ And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him (note:)Re strkjv@3:7(:note) the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.

bes@Isaiah:22:23 @ And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne of his father’s house.

bes@Isaiah:22:24 @ And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.

bes@Isaiah:22:25 @ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: for the Lord has spoken it.

bes@Isaiah:23:1 @ THE WORD CONCERNING TYRE. Howl, ye ships of Carthage; for she has perished, and men no longer arrive from the land of the Citians: she is led captive.

bes@Isaiah:23:2 @ To whom are the dwellers in the island become like, the merchants of Phoenice, passing over the sea

bes@Isaiah:23:3 @ in great waters, a generation of merchants? as when the harvest is gathered in, so are these traders with the nations.

bes@Isaiah:23:4 @ Be ashamed, O Sidon: the sea has said, yea, the strength of the sea has said, I have not travailed, nor brought forth, nor have I brought up young men, nor reared virgins.

bes@Isaiah:23:5 @ Moreover when it shall be heard in Egypt, sorrow shall seize them for Tyre.

bes@Isaiah:23:6 @ Depart ye to Carthage; howl, ye that dwell in this island.

bes@Isaiah:23:7 @ Was not this your pride from the beginning, before she was given up?

bes@Isaiah:23:8 @ Who has devised this counsel against Tyre? Is she inferior? or has she no strength? her merchants were the glorious princes of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:23:9 @ The Lord of hosts has purposed to bring down all the pride of the glorious ones, and to disgrace every glorious thing on the earth.

bes@Isaiah:23:10 @ Till thy land; for ships no more come out of Carthage.

bes@Isaiah:23:11 @ And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which (note:)See Isa strkjv@5:25; strkjv@14:16(:note) troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Chanaan, to destroy the strength thereof.

bes@Isaiah:23:12 @ And men shall say, Ye shall no longer at all continue to insult and injure the daughter of Sidon: and if thou depart to the Citians, neither there shalt thou have rest.

bes@Isaiah:23:13 @ And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

bes@Isaiah:23:14 @ Howl, ye ships of Carthage: for your strong hold is destroyed.

bes@Isaiah:23:15 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man: and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot.

bes@Isaiah:23:16 @ Take a harp, go about, O city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

bes@Isaiah:23:17 @ And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:23:18 @ And her trade and her gain shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be gathered for them, but for those that dwell before the Lord, even all her trade, to eat and drink and be filled, and for a covenant and a memorial before the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:24:1 @ Behold, the Lord is about to lay waste the world, and will make it desolate, and will lay bare the surface of it, and scatter them that dwell therein.

bes@Isaiah:24:2 @ And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

bes@Isaiah:24:3 @ The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.

bes@Isaiah:24:4 @ The earth mourns, and the world is ruined, the lofty ones of the earth are mourning.

bes@Isaiah:24:5 @ And she has sinned by reason of her inhabitants; because they have transgressed the law, and changed the ordinances, even the everlasting covenant.

bes@Isaiah:24:6 @ Therefore a curse shall consume the earth, because the inhabitants thereof have sinned: therefore the dwellers in the earth shall be poor, and few men shall be left.

bes@Isaiah:24:7 @ The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.

bes@Isaiah:24:8 @ The mirth of timbrels has ceased, the sound of the harp has ceased.

bes@Isaiah:24:9 @ They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.

bes@Isaiah:24:10 @ All the city has become desolate: one shall shut his house so that none shall enter.

bes@Isaiah:24:11 @ There is a howling for the wine everywhere; all the mirth of the land has ceased, all the mirth of the land has departed.

bes@Isaiah:24:12 @ And cities shall be left desolate, and houses being left shall fall to ruin.

bes@Isaiah:24:13 @ All this shall be in the land in the midst of the nations, as if one should strip an olive tree, so shall they strip them; but when the vintage is done,

bes@Isaiah:24:14 @ these shall cry aloud; and they that are left on the land shall rejoice together in the glory of the Lord: the water of the sea shall be troubled.

bes@Isaiah:24:15 @ Therefore shall the glory of the Lord be in the isles of the sea; the name of the Lord shall be glorious.

bes@Isaiah:24:16 @ O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

bes@Isaiah:24:17 @ Fear, and a pit, and a snare, are upon you that dwell on the earth.

bes@Isaiah:24:18 @ And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,

bes@Isaiah:24:19 @ the earth shall be utterly confounded, and the earth shall be completely perplexed.

bes@Isaiah:24:20 @ It reels as a drunkard and one oppressed with wine, and the earth shall be shaken as a storehouse of fruits; for iniquity has prevailed upon it, and it shall fall, and shall not be able to rise.

bes@Isaiah:24:21 @ And God shall bring his hand upon the host of heaven, and upon the kings of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:24:22 @ And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.

bes@Isaiah:24:23 @ And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. «in’(:note) from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before his elders.

bes@Isaiah:25:1 @ O Lord God, I will glorify thee, I will sing to thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even an ancient and faithful counsel. So be it.

bes@Isaiah:25:2 @ For thou hast made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.

bes@Isaiah:25:3 @ Therefore shall the poor people bless thee, and cities of injured men shall bless thee.

bes@Isaiah:25:4 @ For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

bes@Isaiah:25:5 @ We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Sion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.

bes@Isaiah:25:6 @ And the Lord of hosts shall make a feast for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

bes@Isaiah:25:7 @ they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart thou all these things to the nations; for this is God’s counsel upon all the nations.

bes@Isaiah:25:8 @

bes@Isaiah:25:9 @ And in that day they shall say, behold our God in whom we have trusted, and he shall save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, and we have exulted, and will rejoice in our salvation.

bes@Isaiah:25:10 @ God will give rest on this mountain, and the country of Moab shall be trodden down, as they tread the floor with waggons.

bes@Isaiah:25:11 @ And he shall spread forth his hands, even as he also brings down man to destroy him: and he shall bring low his pride in regard to the thing on which he has laid his hands.

bes@Isaiah:25:12 @ And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.

bes@Isaiah:26:1 @ In that day they shall sing this song in the land of Judea; Behold a strong city; and he shall make salvation its wall and bulwark.

bes@Isaiah:26:2 @ Open ye the gates, let the nation enter that keeps righteousness, and keeps truth,

bes@Isaiah:26:3 @ supporting truth, and keeping peace: for on thee, O Lord,

bes@Isaiah:26:4 @ they have trusted with confidence for ever, the great, the eternal God;

bes@Isaiah:26:5 @ who hast humbled and brought down them that dwell on high thou shalt cast down strong cities, and bring them to the ground.

bes@Isaiah:26:6 @ And the feet of the meek and lowly shall trample them.

bes@Isaiah:26:7 @ The way of the godly is made straight: the way of the godly is also prepared.

bes@Isaiah:26:8 @ For the way of the Lord is judgement: we have hoped in thy name, and on the remembrance of thee,

bes@Isaiah:26:9 @ which our soul longs for: my spirit seeks thee very early in the morning, O God, for thy commandments are a light on the earth: learn righteousness, ye that dwell upon the earth.

bes@Isaiah:26:10 @ For the ungodly one is put down: no one who will not learn righteousness on the earth, shall be able to do the truth: let the ungodly be taken away, that he see not the glory of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:26:11 @ O Lord, thine arm is exalted, yet they knew it not: but when they know they shall be ashamed: jealousy shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

bes@Isaiah:26:12 @ O Lord our God, give us peace: for thou hast rendered to us all things.

bes@Isaiah:26:13 @ O Lord our God, take possession of us: O Lord, we know not any other beside thee: we name thy name.

bes@Isaiah:26:14 @ But the dead shall not see life, neither shall (note:)See Job strkjv@26:5(:note) physicians by any means raise them up: therefore thou hast brought wrath upon them, and slain them, and hast taken away every male of them. Bring more evils upon them, O Lord;

bes@Isaiah:26:15 @ bring more evils on the glorious ones of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:26:16 @ Lord, in affliction I remembered thee; thy chastening was to us with small affliction.

bes@Isaiah:26:17 @ And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved.

bes@Isaiah:26:18 @ We have conceived, O Lord, because of thy fear, and have been in pain, and have brought forth the breath of thy salvation, which we have wrought upon the earth: we shall not fall, but all that dwell upon the land shall fall.

bes@Isaiah:26:19 @ The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for (note:)See Ps 109(:note) the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

bes@Isaiah:26:20 @ Go, my people, enter into thy closets, shut thy door, hide thyself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.

bes@Isaiah:26:21 @ For, behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from his holy place upon the dwellers on the earth: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

bes@Isaiah:27:1 @ In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.

bes@Isaiah:27:2 @ In that day there shall be a fair vineyard, and a desire to commence a song concerning it.

bes@Isaiah:27:3 @ I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.

bes@Isaiah:27:4 @ There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside; therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.

bes@Isaiah:27:5 @ I am burnt up; they that dwell in her shall cry, Let us make peace with him, let us make peace,

bes@Isaiah:27:6 @ they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

bes@Isaiah:27:7 @ Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? and as he slew, shall he be thus slain?

bes@Isaiah:27:8 @ Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

bes@Isaiah:27:9 @ Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

bes@Isaiah:27:10 @ The flock that dwelt there shall be left, as a deserted flock; and the ground shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.

bes@Isaiah:27:11 @ And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, ye woman that come (note:)See Hebrew(:note) from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.

bes@Isaiah:27:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that God shall fence men off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do ye gather one by one the children of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:27:13 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that they shall blow the great trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:28:1 @ Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

bes@Isaiah:28:2 @ Behold, the anger of the Lord is strong and severe, as descending hail where there is no shelter, violently descending; as a great body of water sweeping away the soil, he shall make rest for the land.

bes@Isaiah:28:3 @ The crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, shall be beaten down with the hands and with the feet.

bes@Isaiah:28:4 @ And the fading flower of the (note:)Gr. hope of glory(:note) glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

bes@Isaiah:28:5 @ In that day the Lord of hosts shall be the crown of hope, the woven crown of glory, to the remnant of the people.

bes@Isaiah:28:6 @ They shall be left in the spirit of judgement for judgement, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.

bes@Isaiah:28:7 @ For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered (note:)Lit. from(:note) through drunkenness; they have erred: this is their vision.

bes@Isaiah:28:8 @ A curse shall devour this counsel, for this is their counsel for the sake of covetousness.

bes@Isaiah:28:9 @ To whom have we reported evils? and to whom have we reported a message? even to those that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

bes@Isaiah:28:10 @ Expect thou affliction on affliction, hope upon hope: yet a little, and yet a little,

bes@Isaiah:28:11 @

bes@Isaiah:28:12 @ This is the rest to him that is hungry, and this is the calamity: but they would not hear.

bes@Isaiah:28:13 @ Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.

bes@Isaiah:28:14 @ Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye princes of this people that is in Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:28:15 @ Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:

bes@Isaiah:28:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, (note:)Ro strkjv@9:33; 1 Pe strkjv@2:6(:note) Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious stone, for its foundations; and he that believes on him shall by no means be ashamed.

bes@Isaiah:28:17 @ And I will cause judgement to be for hope, and my compassion shall be for just measures, and ye that trust vainly in falsehood shall fall: for the storm shall by no means pass by you,

bes@Isaiah:28:18 @

bes@Isaiah:28:19 @ Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,

bes@Isaiah:28:20 @ ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.

bes@Isaiah:28:21 @ The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

bes@Isaiah:28:22 @ Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.

bes@Isaiah:28:23 @ Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.

bes@Isaiah:28:24 @ Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?

bes@Isaiah:28:25 @ Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in thy borders?

bes@Isaiah:28:26 @ So thou shalt be chastened by the judgement of thy God, and shalt rejoice.

bes@Isaiah:28:27 @ For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;

bes@Isaiah:28:28 @ for (note:)Gr. I am(:note) I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my Gr. bitterness trample you anger crush you.

bes@Isaiah:28:29 @ And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.

bes@Isaiah:29:1 @

bes@Isaiah:29:2 @ For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.

bes@Isaiah:29:3 @ And I will compass thee about like David, and will raise a mound about thee, and set up towers round thee.

bes@Isaiah:29:4 @ And thy words shall be brought down to the earth, and thy words shall sink down to the earth, and thy voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and thy voice shall (note:)Gr. become weak(:note) be lowered to the ground.

bes@Isaiah:29:5 @ But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress thee as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,

bes@Isaiah:29:6 @ from the Lord of Hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud (note:)Gr. voice(:note) noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.

bes@Isaiah:29:7 @ And the wealth of all the nations together, as many as have fought against Ariel, and all they that war against Jerusalem, and all who are gathered against her, and they that distress her, shall be as one that dreams in sleep by night.

bes@Isaiah:29:8 @ And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the mount Sion.

bes@Isaiah:29:9 @ Faint ye, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink nor with wine.

bes@Isaiah:29:10 @ For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and he shall close their eyes, and the eyes of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.

bes@Isaiah:29:11 @ And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed.

bes@Isaiah:29:12 @ And this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall say, I am not learned.

bes@Isaiah:29:13 @ And the Lord has said, (note:)Mt strkjv@8:9(:note) This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and they honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me: but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.

bes@Isaiah:29:14 @ Therefore behold I will proceed to remove this people, and I will remove them: and (note:)1 Co strkjv@1:19(:note) I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will hide the understanding of the prudent.

bes@Isaiah:29:15 @ Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works (note:)Gr. shall be(:note) are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? and who shall know us, or what we do?

bes@Isaiah:29:16 @ Shall ye not be counted as clay of the potter? (note:)Ro strkjv@9:20(:note) Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Thou didst not form me? or the work to the maker, Thou hast not made me wisely?

bes@Isaiah:29:17 @ Is it not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountains of Chermel, and Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest?

bes@Isaiah:29:18 @ And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and they that are in darkness, and they that are in mist: the eyes of the blind shall see,

bes@Isaiah:29:19 @ and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

bes@Isaiah:29:20 @ The lawless man has come to nought, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed:

bes@Isaiah:29:21 @ and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offence, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

bes@Isaiah:29:22 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set apart from Abraam, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance.

bes@Isaiah:29:23 @ But when their children shall have seen my works, they shall sanctify my name for my sake, and they sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:29:24 @ And they that erred in spirit shall know understanding, and the murmurers shall learn obedience, and the stammering tongues shall learn to speak peace.

bes@Isaiah:30:1 @ Woe to the apostate children, saith the Lord: ye have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:

bes@Isaiah:30:2 @ even they that proceed to go down into Egypt, but they have not enquired of me, that they might be helped by Pharao, and protected by the Egyptians.

bes@Isaiah:30:3 @ For the protection of Pharao shall be to you a disgrace, and there shall be a reproach to them that trust in Egypt.

bes@Isaiah:30:4 @ For there are princes in Tanes, evil messengers.

bes@Isaiah:30:5 @ In vain shall they labour in seeking to a people, which shall not profit them for help, but shall be for a shame and reproach.

bes@Isaiah:30:6 @ THE VISION OF THE QUADRUPEDS IN THE DESERT. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion’s whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

bes@Isaiah:30:7 @ The Egyptians shall help you utterly in vain: tell them, This your consolation is vain.

bes@Isaiah:30:8 @ Now then sit down and write these words on a tablet, and in a book; for these things shall be (note:)Gr. for days in time; Alex. seasons(:note) for many long days, and even for ever.

bes@Isaiah:30:9 @ For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:

bes@Isaiah:30:10 @ who say to the prophets, Report not to us; and to them that see visions, Speak them not to us, but speak and report to us another error;

bes@Isaiah:30:11 @ and turn us aside from this way; remove from us this path, and remove from us the oracle of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:30:12 @ Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye have refused to obey these words, and have trusted in falsehood; and because thou hast murmured, and been confident in this respect:

bes@Isaiah:30:13 @ therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.

bes@Isaiah:30:14 @ And the fall thereof shall be as the breaking of an earthen vessel, as small fragments of a pitcher, so that thou shouldest not find among them a sherd, with which thou mightest take up fire, and with which thou shouldest draw a little water.

bes@Isaiah:30:15 @ Thus saith the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When thou shalt turn and mourn, then thou shalt be saved; and thou shalt know where thou wast, when thou didst trust in vanities: then your strength became vain, yet ye would not hearken:

bes@Isaiah:30:16 @ but ye said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

bes@Isaiah:30:17 @ A thousand shall flee because of the voice of one, and many shall flee on account of the voice of five; until ye be left as a signal-post upon a mountain, and as one bearing an ensign upon a hill.

bes@Isaiah:30:18 @ And the Lord will again wait, that he may pity you, and will therefore be exalted that he may have mercy upon you: because the Lord your God is a judge: blessed are they that (note:)Or, wait for(:note) stay themselves upon him.

bes@Isaiah:30:19 @ For the holy people shall dwell in Sion: and whereas Jerusalem has (note:)Gr. with weeping(:note) wept bitterly, saying, Pity me; he shall pity thee: when he perceived the voice of thy cry, he hearkened to thee.

bes@Isaiah:30:20 @ And though the Lord shall give you the bread of affliction and scant water, yet they that cause thee to err shall no more at all draw nigh to thee; for thine eyes shall see those that cause thee to err,

bes@Isaiah:30:21 @ and thine ears shall hear the words of them that went after thee to lead thee astray, who say, This is the way, let us walk in it, whether to the right or to the left.

bes@Isaiah:30:22 @ And thou shalt pollute the plated idols, and thou shalt grind to powder the gilt ones, and shalt scatter them as the water of a removed woman, and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung.

bes@Isaiah:30:23 @ Then shall there be rain to the seed of thy land; and the bread of the fruit of thy land shall be plenteous and rich: and thy cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.

bes@Isaiah:30:24 @ Your bulls and your oxen that till the ground, shall eat chaff mixed with winnowed barley.

bes@Isaiah:30:25 @ And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.

bes@Isaiah:30:26 @ And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold in the day when the Lord shall heal the breach of his people, and shall heal the pain of thy wound.

bes@Isaiah:30:27 @ Behold, the name of the Lord comes after a long time, burning wrath: the word of his lips is with glory, a word full of anger, and the anger of his wrath shall devour as fire.

bes@Isaiah:30:28 @ And his breath, as rushing water in a valley, shall reach as far as the neck, and be divided, to confound the nations for their vain error: error also shall pursue them, and (note:)Gr. take them to their face(:note) overtake them.

bes@Isaiah:30:29 @ Must ye always rejoice, and go into my holy places continually, as they that keep a feast? and must ye go with a pipe, as those that rejoice, into the mountain of the Lord, to the God of Israel?

bes@Isaiah:30:30 @ And the Lord shall make his glorious voice to be heard, and the wrath of his arm, to make a display with wrath and anger and devouring flame: he shall lighten terribly, and his wrath shall be as water and violent hail.

bes@Isaiah:30:31 @ For by the voice of the Lord the Assyrians shall be overcome, even by the stroke wherewith he shall smite them.

bes@Isaiah:30:32 @ And it shall happen to him from every side, that they from whom their hope of assistance was, in which he trusted, themselves shall war against him in turn with drums and with harp.

bes@Isaiah:30:33 @ For thou shalt be required before thy time: has it been prepared for thee also to reign? nay, God has prepared for thee a deep trench, wood piled, fire and much wood: the wrath of the Lord shall be as a trench kindled with sulphur.

bes@Isaiah:31:1 @ Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, who trust in horses and chariots, for they are many; and in horses, which are a great multitude; and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:31:2 @ Therefore he has wisely brought evils upon them, and his word shall not be frustrated; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope,

bes@Isaiah:31:3 @ even an Egyptian, a man, and not God; the flesh of horses, and there is no help in them: but the Lord shall bring his hand upon them, and the helpers shall fail, and all shall perish together.

bes@Isaiah:31:4 @ For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion’s whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the animals are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, even upon her mountains.

bes@Isaiah:31:5 @ As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; he shall defend Jerusalem, and he shall rescue, and save and deliver.

bes@Isaiah:31:6 @ Turn, ye children of Israel, who devise a deep and sinful counsel.

bes@Isaiah:31:7 @ For in that day men shall renounce their silver idols and their golden idols, which their hands made.

bes@Isaiah:31:8 @ And the Assyrian shall fall: not the sword of a great man, nor the sword of a mean man shall devour him; neither shall he flee from the face of the sword: but the young men shall be overthrown:

bes@Isaiah:31:9 @ for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:32:1 @ For, behold, a righteous king shall reign, and princes shall govern with judgement.

bes@Isaiah:32:2 @ And a man shall hide his words, and be hidden, as from rushing water, and shall appear in Sion as a rushing river, glorious in a thirsty land.

bes@Isaiah:32:3 @ And they shall no more trust in men, but they shall incline their ears to hear.

bes@Isaiah:32:4 @ And the heart of the weak ones shall attend to hear, and the stammering tongues shall soon learn to speak peace.

bes@Isaiah:32:5 @ And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and thy servants shall no more at all say, Be silent.

bes@Isaiah:32:6 @ For the fool shall speak foolish words, and his heart shall meditate vanities, and to perform lawless deeds and to speak error against the Lord, to scatter hungry souls, and he will cause the thirsty souls to be empty.

bes@Isaiah:32:7 @ For the counsel of the wicked will devise iniquity, to destroy the poor with unjust words, and (note:)Gr. disperse the words(:note) ruin the cause of the poor in judgement.

bes@Isaiah:32:8 @ But the godly have devised wise measures, and this counsel shall stand.

bes@Isaiah:32:9 @ Rise up, ye rich women, and hear my voice; (note:)Gr. daughters in hope(:note) ye confident daughters, hearken to my words.

bes@Isaiah:32:10 @ Remember for a full year in pain, yet with hope: the vintage has been cut off; it has ceased, it shall by no means come again.

bes@Isaiah:32:11 @ Be amazed, be pained, ye confident ones: strip you, bare yourselves, gird your loins;

bes@Isaiah:32:12 @ and beat your breasts, because of the pleasant field, and the fruit of the vine.

bes@Isaiah:32:13 @ As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.

bes@Isaiah:32:14 @ As for the rich city, the houses are deserted; they shall abandon the wealth of the city, and the pleasant houses: and the villages shall be caves for ever, the joy of wild asses, shepherds’ pastures;

bes@Isaiah:32:15 @ until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Chermel shall be desert, and Chermel shall be counted for a forest.

bes@Isaiah:32:16 @ Then judgement shall abide in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.

bes@Isaiah:32:17 @ And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and the righteous shall be confident for ever.

bes@Isaiah:32:18 @ And his people shall inhabit a city of peace, and dwell in it in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.

bes@Isaiah:32:19 @ And if the hail should come down, it shall not come upon you; and they that dwell in the forests shall be in confidence, as those in the plain country.

bes@Isaiah:32:20 @ Blessed are they that sow by every water, where the ox and ass tread.

bes@Isaiah:33:1 @ Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

bes@Isaiah:33:2 @ Lord, have mercy upon us; for we have trusted in thee: the seed of the rebellious is gone to destruction, but our deliverance was in a time of affliction.

bes@Isaiah:33:3 @ By reason of the terrible sound the nations were dismayed for fear of thee, and the heathen were scattered.

bes@Isaiah:33:4 @ And now shall the spoils of your small and great be gathered: as if one should gather locusts, so shall they mock you.

bes@Isaiah:33:5 @ The God who dwells on high is holy: Sion is filled with judgement and righteousness.

bes@Isaiah:33:6 @ They shall be delivered up to the law: our salvation is our treasure: there are wisdom and knowledge and piety toward the Lord; these are the treasures of righteousness.

bes@Isaiah:33:7 @ Behold now, these shall be terrified with fear of you: those whom ye feared shall cry out because of you: messengers shall be sent, bitterly weeping, entreating for peace.

bes@Isaiah:33:8 @ For the ways of these shall be made desolate: the terror of the nations has been made to cease, and the covenant with these is taken away, and ye shall by no means deem them men.

bes@Isaiah:33:9 @ The land mourns; Libanus is ashamed: Saron is become marshes; Galilee shall be (note:)Gr. manifest(:note) laid bare, and Chermel.

bes@Isaiah:33:10 @ Now will I arise, saith the Lord, now will I be glorified; now will I be exalted.

bes@Isaiah:33:11 @ Now shall ye see, now shall ye perceive; the strength of your breath, shall be vain; fire shall devour you.

bes@Isaiah:33:12 @ And the nations shall be burnt up; as a thorn in the field cast out and burnt up.

bes@Isaiah:33:13 @ They that are afar off shall hear what I have done; they that draw nigh shall know my strength.

bes@Isaiah:33:14 @ The sinners in Sion have departed; trembling shall seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? Who will tell you of the eternal place?

bes@Isaiah:33:15 @ He that walks in righteousness, speaking rightly, hating transgression and iniquity, and shaking his hands from gifts, stopping his ears that he should not hear the judgement of blood, shutting his eyes that he should not see injustice.

bes@Isaiah:33:16 @ he shall dwell in a high cave of a strong rock: bread shall be given him, and his water shall be sure.

bes@Isaiah:33:17 @ Ye shall see a king with glory: your eyes shall behold a land from afar.

bes@Isaiah:33:18 @ Your soul shall meditate terror. Where are the scribes? where are the counsellors, where is he that numbers them that are growing up,

bes@Isaiah:33:19 @ even the small and great people? with whom he took not counsel, neither did he understand a people of deep speech, so that a despised people should not hear, and there is no understanding to him that hears.

bes@Isaiah:33:20 @ Behold the city of Sion, our (note:)Or, salvation(:note) refuge: thine eyes shall behold Jerusalem, a rich city, tabernacles which shall not be shaken, neither shall the pins of her tabernacle be moved for ever, neither shall her cords be at all broken:

bes@Isaiah:33:21 @ for the name of the Lord is great to you: ye shall have a place, even rivers and wide and spacious channels: thou shalt not go this way, neither a vessel with oars go thereby.

bes@Isaiah:33:22 @ For my God is great: the Lord our judge shall not pass me by: the Lord is our prince, the Lord is our king; the Lord, he shall save us.

bes@Isaiah:33:23 @ Thy cords are broken, for they had no strength: thy meat has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.

bes@Isaiah:33:24 @ And the people dwelling among them shall by no means say, (note:)Or, I am sick(:note) I am in pain: for their sin shall be forgiven them.

bes@Isaiah:34:1 @ Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.

bes@Isaiah:34:2 @ For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

bes@Isaiah:34:3 @ And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

bes@Isaiah:34:4 @ And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.

bes@Isaiah:34:5 @ My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgement upon the people doomed to destruction.

bes@Isaiah:34:6 @ The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.

bes@Isaiah:34:7 @ And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be (note:)Gr. made drunken(:note) soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

bes@Isaiah:34:8 @ For it is the day of judgement of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgement.

bes@Isaiah:34:9 @ And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

bes@Isaiah:34:10 @ and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

bes@Isaiah:34:11 @ and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and (note:)Vide supra, strkjv@13:22(:note) satyrs shall dwell in it.

bes@Isaiah:34:12 @ Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

bes@Isaiah:34:13 @ And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of (note:)Vide supra, Job strkjv@30:29; Isa strkjv@13:21, etc.(:note) monsters, and a court of ostriches.

bes@Isaiah:34:14 @ And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.

bes@Isaiah:34:15 @ There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another’s faces.

bes@Isaiah:34:16 @ They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.

bes@Isaiah:34:17 @ And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.

bes@Isaiah:35:1 @ Be glad, thou thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.

bes@Isaiah:35:2 @ And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God.

bes@Isaiah:35:3 @

bes@Isaiah:35:4 @ Comfort one another, ye fainthearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgement, and he will render it; he will come and save us.

bes@Isaiah:35:5 @ Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear.

bes@Isaiah:35:6 @ Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.

bes@Isaiah:35:7 @ And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall be poured into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

bes@Isaiah:35:8 @ There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.

bes@Isaiah:35:9 @ And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord’s behalf, shall walk in it,

bes@Isaiah:35:10 @

bes@Isaiah:36:1 @ Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Ezekias, that Sennacherim, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judea, and took them.

bes@Isaiah:36:2 @ And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabsaces out of Laches to Jerusalem to king Ezekias with a large force: and he stood by the (note:)Gr. in(:note) conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller’s field.

bes@Isaiah:36:3 @ And there went forth to him Heliakim the steward, the son of Chelcias, and Somnas the scribe, and Joach the son of Asaph, the recorder.

bes@Isaiah:36:4 @ And Rabsaces said to them, Say to Ezekias, Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians, Why art thou secure?

bes@Isaiah:36:5 @ Is war carried on with counsel and mere words of the lips? and now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

bes@Isaiah:36:6 @ Behold, thou trustest on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt: as soon as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharao king of Egypt and all that trust in him.

bes@Isaiah:36:7 @ But it ye say, We trust in the Lord our God;

bes@Isaiah:36:8 @ yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if ye shall be able to set riders upon them.

bes@Isaiah:36:9 @ And how can ye then turn to the face of the (note:)Or, local governors(:note) satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider, are our servants.

bes@Isaiah:36:10 @ And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

bes@Isaiah:36:11 @ Then Eliakim and Somnas and Joach said to him, Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and wherefore speakest thou in the ears of the men on the wall?

bes@Isaiah:36:12 @ And Rabsaces said to them, Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to speak these words? has he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink their water together with you?

bes@Isaiah:36:13 @ And Rabsaces stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians:

bes@Isaiah:36:14 @ thus says the king, Let not Ezekias deceive you with words: he will not be able to deliver you.

bes@Isaiah:36:15 @ And let not Ezekias say to you, That God will deliver you, and this city will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:36:16 @ Hearken not to Ezekias: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If ye wish to be blessed, come out to me: and ye shall eat every one of his vine and his fig-trees, and ye shall drink water out of your own cisterns:

bes@Isaiah:36:17 @ until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread, and vineyards.

bes@Isaiah:36:18 @ Let not Ezekias deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

bes@Isaiah:36:19 @ Where is the god of Emath, and Arphath? and where is the god of Eppharuaim? have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?

bes@Isaiah:36:20 @ Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

bes@Isaiah:36:21 @ And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.

bes@Isaiah:36:22 @ And Heliakim the son of Chelcias, the steward, and Somnas the military scribe, and Joach the son of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Ezekias, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabsaces.

bes@Isaiah:37:1 @ And it came to pass, when king Ezekias heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias,

bes@Isaiah:37:3 @ To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.

bes@Isaiah:37:4 @ May the Lord thy God hear the words of Rabsaces, which the king of the Assyrians has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: therefore thou shalt pray to thy Lord for these that are left.

bes@Isaiah:37:5 @ So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.

bes@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not thou afraid at the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me,

bes@Isaiah:37:7 @ Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.

bes@Isaiah:37:8 @ So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.

bes@Isaiah:37:9 @ And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to (note:)Gr. besiege(:note) attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

bes@Isaiah:37:10 @ Thus shall ye say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:37:11 @ Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shalt thou be delivered?

bes@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath?

bes@Isaiah:37:13 @ Where are the kings of Emath? and where is the king of Arphath? and where is the king of the city of Eppharuaim, and of Anagugana?

bes@Isaiah:37:14 @ And Ezekias received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:37:15 @ And Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying,

bes@Isaiah:37:16 @ O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who sittest upon the cherubs, thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the world: thou hast made heaven and earth.

bes@Isaiah:37:17 @ Incline thine ear, O Lord, hearken, O Lord; open thine eyes, O Lord, look, O Lord: and behold the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

bes@Isaiah:37:18 @ For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,

bes@Isaiah:37:19 @ and have cast their idols into the fire: for, they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.

bes@Isaiah:37:20 @ But now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hands, that every kingdom of the earth may know that thou art God alone.

bes@Isaiah:37:21 @ And Esaias the son of Amos was sent to Ezekias, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard thy prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:37:22 @ This is the word which God has spoken concerning him; The virgin daughter of Sion has despised thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

bes@Isaiah:37:23 @ Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice? and hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

bes@Isaiah:37:24 @ For thou hast reproached the Lord by messengers; for thou hast said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have (note:)Gr. cut(:note) cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:

bes@Isaiah:37:25 @ and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

bes@Isaiah:37:26 @ Hast thou not heard of these things which I did of old? I appointed them from ancient times; but now have I manifested my purpose of desolating nations in their strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.

bes@Isaiah:37:27 @ I weakened their hands, and they withered; and they became as dry grass on the house-tops, and as grass.

bes@Isaiah:37:28 @ But now I know thy rest, and thy going out, and thy coming in.

bes@Isaiah:37:29 @ And thy wrath wherewith thou hast been enraged, and thy rancour has come up to me; therefore I will put a hook in thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

bes@Isaiah:37:30 @ And this shall be a sign to thee, Eat this year what thou hast sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

bes@Isaiah:37:31 @ And they that are left in Judea shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

bes@Isaiah:37:32 @ for out of Jerusalem there shall be (note:)Lit. the left men(:note) a remnant, and the saved ones out of mount Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

bes@Isaiah:37:33 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, nor cast a weapon against it, nor bring a shield against it, nor make a rampart round it.

bes@Isaiah:37:34 @ But by the way by which he came, by it shall he return, and shall not enter into this city: thus saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:37:35 @ I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

bes@Isaiah:37:36 @ And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.

bes@Isaiah:37:37 @ And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and dwelt in Nineve.

bes@Isaiah:37:38 @ And while he was worshipping Nasarach his country’s god in the house, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons smote him with swords; and they escaped into Armenia: and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.

bes@Isaiah:38:1 @ And it came to pass at that time, that Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give orders concerning thy house: for thou shalt die, and not live.

bes@Isaiah:38:2 @ And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying,

bes@Isaiah:38:3 @ Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before thee in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in thy sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly.

bes@Isaiah:38:4 @ And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias,

bes@Isaiah:38:5 @ Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, and seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy time fifteen years.

bes@Isaiah:38:6 @ And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city.

bes@Isaiah:38:7 @ And this shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will do this thing;

bes@Isaiah:38:8 @ behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees of the dial by which ten degrees on the house of thy father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.

bes@Isaiah:38:9 @ THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE (note:)Gr. was sick(:note) HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS.

bes@Isaiah:38:10 @ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years.

bes@Isaiah:38:11 @ I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.

bes@Isaiah:38:12 @ My life has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down again: my breath was with me as a weaver’s web, when she that weaves draws nigh to cut off the thread.

bes@Isaiah:38:13 @ In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day even to night.

bes@Isaiah:38:14 @ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,

bes@Isaiah:38:15 @ and removed the sorrow of my soul.

bes@Isaiah:38:16 @ Yea, O Lord, for it was told thee concerning this; and thou hast revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live.

bes@Isaiah:38:17 @ For thou hast chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and thou hast cast all my sins behind me.

bes@Isaiah:38:18 @ For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy mercy.

bes@Isaiah:38:19 @ The living shall bless thee, as I also do: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare thy righteousness,

bes@Isaiah:38:20 @ O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing thee with the psaltery all the days of my life before the house of God.

bes@Isaiah:38:21 @ Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and thou shalt be well.

bes@Isaiah:38:22 @ And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.

bes@Isaiah:39:1 @ At that time Marodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylonia, sent letters and ambassadors and gifts to Ezekias: for he had heard that he (note:)Gr. was(:note) had been sick even to death, and was recovered.

bes@Isaiah:39:2 @ And Ezekias was glad of their coming, and he shewed them the house of his spices, and of silver, and gold, and myrrh, and incense, and ointment, and all the houses of his treasures, and all that he had in his stores: and there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, which Ezekias did not shew.

bes@Isaiah:39:3 @ And Esaias the prophet came to king Ezekias, and said to him, What say these men? and whence came they to thee? and Ezekias said, They are come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon.

bes@Isaiah:39:4 @ And Esaias said, What have they seen in thine house? and Ezekias said, They have seen everything in my house; and there is nothing in my house which they have not seen: yea, also the possessions in my treasuries.

bes@Isaiah:39:5 @ And Esaias said to him, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

bes@Isaiah:39:6 @ Behold, the days come, when they shall take all the things that are in thine house, and all that thy fathers have gathered until this day, shall go to Babylon; and they shall not leave anything at all: and God hath said,

bes@Isaiah:39:7 @ that they shall take also of thy children whom thou shalt beget; and they shall make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians.

bes@Isaiah:39:8 @ And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord, which he hath spoken: let there, I pray, be peace and righteousness in my days.

bes@Isaiah:40:1 @ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.

bes@Isaiah:40:2 @ Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.

bes@Isaiah:40:3 @

bes@Isaiah:40:4 @ Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: (note:)Lu strkjv@3:5, with which Alex. agrees(:note) and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.

bes@Isaiah:40:5 @ And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken it.

bes@Isaiah:40:6 @ The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? (note:)1 Pe strkjv@1:24(:note) All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:

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bes@Isaiah:40:8 @ The grass withers, and the flower fades: but the word of our God abides for ever.

bes@Isaiah:40:9 @ O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Juda, Behold your God!

bes@Isaiah:40:10 @ Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and his arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

bes@Isaiah:40:11 @ He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

bes@Isaiah:40:12 @ Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

bes@Isaiah:40:13 @

bes@Isaiah:40:14 @ Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgement, or who has taught him the way of understanding; (note:)1) Alex. +Or who has first given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again? Ro strkjv@11:35; Hebrews. omits(:note)

bes@Isaiah:40:15 @ since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?

bes@Isaiah:40:16 @ And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole-burnt offering:

bes@Isaiah:40:17 @ and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

bes@Isaiah:40:18 @ To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?

bes@Isaiah:40:19 @ Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?

bes@Isaiah:40:20 @ For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.

bes@Isaiah:40:21 @ Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth?

bes@Isaiah:40:22 @ It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:

bes@Isaiah:40:23 @ he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

bes@Isaiah:40:24 @ For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

bes@Isaiah:40:25 @ Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

bes@Isaiah:40:26 @ Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

bes@Isaiah:40:27 @ For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgement, and has departed?

bes@Isaiah:40:28 @ And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

bes@Isaiah:40:29 @ He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

bes@Isaiah:40:30 @ For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

bes@Isaiah:40:31 @ but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.

bes@Isaiah:41:1 @ Hold a feast to me, ye islands: for the princes shall renew their strength: let them draw nigh and speak together: then let them declare judgement.

bes@Isaiah:41:2 @ Who raised up righteousness from the east, and called it to his feet, so that it should go? shall appoint it an adversary of Gentiles, and shall dismay kings, and bury their swords in the earth, and cast forth their bows and arrows as sticks?

bes@Isaiah:41:3 @ And he shall pursue them; the way of his feet shall proceed in peace.

bes@Isaiah:41:4 @ Who has wrought and done these things? he has called it who called it from the generations of old; I God, (note:)Re strkjv@1:17(:note) the first and to all futurity, I AM.

bes@Isaiah:41:5 @ The nations saw, and feared; the ends of the earth drew nigh, and came together,

bes@Isaiah:41:6 @ every one judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother: and one will say,

bes@Isaiah:41:7 @ The artificer has become strong, and the coppersmith that smites with the hammer, and forges also: sometimes he will say, It is a piece well joined: they have fastened them with nails; they will fix them, and they shall not be moved.

bes@Isaiah:41:8 @ But thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob, and he whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraam, whom I have loved:

bes@Isaiah:41:9 @ whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and from the high places of it I have called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and I have not forsaken thee.

bes@Isaiah:41:10 @ Fear not; for I am with thee: wander not; for I am thy God, who have strengthened thee; and I have helped thee, and have established thee with my just right hand.

bes@Isaiah:41:11 @ Behold, all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as if they were not: and all thine opponents shall perish.

bes@Isaiah:41:12 @ Thou shalt seek them, and thou shalt not find the men who shall (note:)Lit. transgress by wine against(:note) insolently rage against thee: for they shall be as if they were not, and they that war against thee shall not be.

bes@Isaiah:41:13 @ For I am thy God, who holdeth thy right hand, who saith to thee,

bes@Isaiah:41:14 @ Fear not, Jacob, and thou Israel few in number; I have helped thee, saith thy God, he that redeems thee, O Israel.

bes@Isaiah:41:15 @ Behold, I have made thee as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a waggon; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff:

bes@Isaiah:41:16 @ and thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and a tempest shall scatter them: but thou shalt rejoice in the holy ones of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:41:17 @ And the poor and the needy shall exult; for when they shall seek water, and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord God, I the God of Israel will hear, and will not forsake them:

bes@Isaiah:41:18 @ but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.

bes@Isaiah:41:19 @ I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:

bes@Isaiah:41:20 @ that they may see, and know, and perceive, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord has wrought these works, and the Holy One of Israel has displayed them.

bes@Isaiah:41:21 @ Your judgement draws nigh, saith the Lord God; your counsel have drawn nigh, saith the King of Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:41:22 @ Let them draw nigh, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell us what things were of old, and we will apply our understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:

bes@Isaiah:41:23 @ tell us, declare ye to us the things that are coming on at the last time, and we shall know that ye are gods: do good, and do evil, and we shall wonder, and see at the same time

bes@Isaiah:41:24 @ whence ye are, and whence is your works: they have chosen you an abomination out of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:41:25 @ But I have raised up him that comes from the north, and him that comes from the rising of the sun: they shall be called by my name: let the princes come, and as potter’s clay, and as a potter treading clay, so shall ye be trodden down.

bes@Isaiah:41:26 @ For who will declare the things from the beginning, that we may know also the former things, (note:)Or, and say(:note) and we will say that they are true? there is no one that speaks beforehand, nor anyone that hears your words.

bes@Isaiah:41:27 @ I will give dominion to Sion, and will comfort Jerusalem by the way.

bes@Isaiah:41:28 @ For from among the nations, behold, there was no one; and of their idols there was none to declare anything: and if I should ask them, Whence are ye? they could not answer me.

bes@Isaiah:41:29 @ For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

bes@Isaiah:42:1 @ Jacob is (note:)Mt strkjv@12:18, etc.(:note) my servant, I will help him: Israel is my chosen, my soul has accepted him; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth judgement to the Gentiles.

bes@Isaiah:42:2 @ He shall not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor shall his voice be heard without.

bes@Isaiah:42:3 @ A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but he shall bring forth judgement to truth.

bes@Isaiah:42:4 @ He shall shine out, and shall not be (note:)Lit. broken(:note) discouraged, until he have set judgement on the earth: and in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

bes@Isaiah:42:5 @ Thus saith the Lord God, who made the heaven, and established it; who settled the earth, and the things in it, and gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to them that tread on it:

bes@Isaiah:42:6 @ I the Lord God have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will strengthen thee: and I have given thee for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles:

bes@Isaiah:42:7 @ to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house.

bes@Isaiah:42:8 @ I am the Lord God: that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, nor my praises to graven images.

bes@Isaiah:42:9 @ Behold, the ancient things have come to pass, and so will the new things which I tell you: yea, before I tell them they are made known to you.

bes@Isaiah:42:10 @ Sing a new hymn to the Lord: ye who are his dominion, glorify his name from the end of the earth: ye that go down to the sea, and sail upon it; the islands, and they that dwell in them.

bes@Isaiah:42:11 @ Rejoice, thou wilderness, and the villages thereof, the hamlets, and the dwellers in Kedar: the inhabitants of the rock shall rejoice, they shall shout from the top of the mountains.

bes@Isaiah:42:12 @ They shall give glory to God, and shall proclaim his praises in the islands.

bes@Isaiah:42:13 @ The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war: he shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout mightily against his enemies.

bes@Isaiah:42:14 @ I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.

bes@Isaiah:42:15 @ I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.

bes@Isaiah:42:16 @ And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.

bes@Isaiah:42:17 @ But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

bes@Isaiah:42:18 @ Hear, ye deaf, and look up, ye blind, to see.

bes@Isaiah:42:19 @ And who is blind, but my servants? and deaf, but they that rule over them? yea, the servants of God have been made blind.

bes@Isaiah:42:20 @ Ye have often seen, and have not taken heed; your ears have been opened, and ye have not heard.

bes@Isaiah:42:21 @ The Lord God has taken counsel that he might be justified, and might magnify his praise.

bes@Isaiah:42:22 @ And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.

bes@Isaiah:42:23 @ Who is there among you that will give ear to these things? hearken ye to the things which are coming to pass.

bes@Isaiah:42:24 @

bes@Isaiah:42:25 @ So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew it, neither did they lay it to heart.

bes@Isaiah:43:1 @ And now thus saith the Lord God that made thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

bes@Isaiah:43:2 @ And if thou pass through water, I am with thee; and the rivers shall not overflow thee: and if thou go through fire, thou shalt not be burned; the flame shall not burn thee.

bes@Isaiah:43:3 @ For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves thee: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia thy ransom, and given Soene for thee.

bes@Isaiah:43:4 @ Since thou becamest precious in my sight, thou hast become glorious, and I have loved thee: and I will give men for thee, and princes for thy (note:)Gr. head(:note) life.

bes@Isaiah:43:5 @ Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and will gather thee from the west.

bes@Isaiah:43:6 @ I will say to the north, Bring; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from the land afar off, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

bes@Isaiah:43:7 @ even all who are called by my name: for I have prepared him for my glory, and I have formed him, and have made him:

bes@Isaiah:43:8 @ and I have brought forth the blind people; for their eyes are alike blind, and they that have ears are deaf.

bes@Isaiah:43:9 @ All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them: who will declare these things? or who will declare to you things from the beginning? let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.

bes@Isaiah:43:10 @ Be ye my witnesses, and I too am a witness, saith the Lord God, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know, and believe, and understand that I am he: before me there was no other God, and after me there shall be none.

bes@Isaiah:43:11 @ I am God; and beside me there is no Saviour.

bes@Isaiah:43:12 @ I have declared, and have saved; I have reproached, and there was no strange god among you: ye are my witnesses, and I am the Lord God,

bes@Isaiah:43:13 @ even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands: I will work, and who shall turn it back?

bes@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus saith the Lord God that redeems you, the Holy One of Israel; for your sakes I will send to Babylon, and I will stir up all that flee, and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships.

bes@Isaiah:43:15 @ I am the Lord God, your Holy One, who have appointed for Israel your king.

bes@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus saith the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty water;

bes@Isaiah:43:17 @ who brought forth chariots and horse, and a mighty multitude: but they have (note:)Or, gone to sleep; See Ps strkjv@76:5, 6(:note) lain down, and shall not rise: they are extinct, as quenched flax.

bes@Isaiah:43:18 @ Remember ye not the former things, and consider not the ancient things.

bes@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, I will do new things, which shall presently spring forth, and ye shall know them: and I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land.

bes@Isaiah:43:20 @ the beasts of the field shall bless me, the owls and young ostriches; for I have given water in the wilderness, and rivers in the dry land, to give drink to my chosen race,

bes@Isaiah:43:21 @ my people whom I have preserved to tell forth my praises.

bes@Isaiah:43:22 @ I have not now called thee, O Jacob; neither have I made thee weary, O Israel.

bes@Isaiah:43:23 @ Thou hast not brought me the sheep of thy whole-burnt-offering; neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with sacrifices, neither have I wearied thee with frankincense.

bes@Isaiah:43:24 @ Neither hast thou purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou didst stand before me in thy sins, and in thine iniquities.

bes@Isaiah:43:25 @

bes@Isaiah:43:26 @ But do thou remember, and let us plead together: do thou first confess thy transgressions, that thou mayest be justified.

bes@Isaiah:43:27 @ Your fathers first, and your princes have transgressed against me.

bes@Isaiah:43:28 @ And the princes have defiled my sanctuaries: so I gave Jacob to enemies to destroy, and Israel to reproach.

bes@Isaiah:44:1 @ But now hear, Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen.

bes@Isaiah:44:2 @ Thus saith the Lord God that made thee, and he that formed thee from the womb; Thou shalt yet be helped: fear not, my servant Jacob; and beloved Israel, whom I have chosen.

bes@Isaiah:44:3 @ For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children:

bes@Isaiah:44:4 @ and they shall spring up as grass between brooks, and as willows on the banks of running water.

bes@Isaiah:44:5 @ One shall say, I am God’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand, I am God’s, and shall call himself by the name of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:44:6 @ Thus saith God the King of Israel, and the God of hosts that delivered him; (note:)Re strkjv@1:17(:note) I am the first, and I am hereafter: beside me there is no God.

bes@Isaiah:44:7 @ Who is like me? let him stand, and call, and declare, and prepare for me from the time that I made man for ever; and let them tell you the things that are coming before they arrive.

bes@Isaiah:44:8 @ Hide not yourselves, nor go astray: have ye not heard from the beginning, and have not I told you? ye are witnesses if there is a God beside me.

bes@Isaiah:44:9 @ But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

bes@Isaiah:44:10 @ that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:

bes@Isaiah:44:11 @ and all by whom they were made are withered: yea, let all the deaf be gathered from among men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together:

bes@Isaiah:44:12 @ For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.

bes@Isaiah:44:13 @ The artificer having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.

bes@Isaiah:44:14 @ He cuts wood out of the forest, which the Lord planted, even a pine tree, and the rain made it grow,

bes@Isaiah:44:15 @ that it might be for men to burn: and having taken part of it he warms himself; yea, they burn part of it, and bake loaves thereon; and of the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.

bes@Isaiah:44:16 @ Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.

bes@Isaiah:44:17 @ And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships, and prays, saying, Deliver me; for thou art my God.

bes@Isaiah:44:18 @ They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.

bes@Isaiah:44:19 @ And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burnt up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

bes@Isaiah:44:20 @ Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.

bes@Isaiah:44:21 @ Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant; I have formed thee to be my servant: and do thou, Israel, not forget me.

bes@Isaiah:44:22 @ For behold, I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgressions, and thy sin as darkness: turn to me, and I will redeem thee.

bes@Isaiah:44:23 @ Rejoice, ye heavens; for God has had mercy upon Israel: sound the trumpet, ye foundations of the earth: ye mountains, shout with joy, ye hills, and all the trees therein: for God has redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

bes@Isaiah:44:24 @ Thus saith the Lord that redeems thee, and who formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that performs all things: I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

bes@Isaiah:44:25 @ Who else will frustrate the tokens of (note:)Gr. ventriloquists(:note) those that have divining spirits, and prophecies See Hebrew from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

bes@Isaiah:44:26 @ and confirming the word of his servant, and verifying the counsel of his messengers: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Idumea, Ye shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

bes@Isaiah:44:27 @ Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

bes@Isaiah:44:28 @ Who bids Cyrus be wise, and he shall perform all my will: who says to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built, and I will lay the foundation of my holy house.

bes@Isaiah:45:1 @ Thus saith the Lord God to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed.

bes@Isaiah:45:2 @ I will go before thee, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and burst iron bars.

bes@Isaiah:45:3 @ And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, I will open to thee hidden, unseen treasures, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord thy God, that call thee by name, am the God of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:45:4 @ For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel mine elect, I will call thee by thy name, and accept thee: but thou hast not known me.

bes@Isaiah:45:5 @ For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened thee, and thou hast not known me.

bes@Isaiah:45:6 @ That they that come from the east and they that come from the west may know that there is no God but me. I am the Lord God, and there is none beside.

bes@Isaiah:45:7 @ I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.

bes@Isaiah:45:8 @ Let the heaven rejoice from above, and let the clouds rain righteousness: let the earth bring forth, and blossom with mercy, and bring forth righteousness likewise: I am the Lord that created thee.

bes@Isaiah:45:9 @ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the ploughman plough the earth all day? (note:)Ro strkjv@9:20(:note) shall the clay say to the potter, What art thou doing that thou dost not work, nor hast hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

bes@Isaiah:45:10 @ As though one should say to his father, What wilt thou beget me? and to his mother, What art thou bringing forth?

bes@Isaiah:45:11 @ For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Enquire of me concerning my sons, and concerning the works of my hands command me.

bes@Isaiah:45:12 @ I have made the earth, and man upon it: I with my hand have established the heaven; I have given commandment to all the stars.

bes@Isaiah:45:13 @ I have raised him up to be a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right: he shall build my city, and shall turn the captivity of my people, (note:)Gr. with(:note) not for ransoms, nor for rewards, saith the Lord of hosts.

bes@Isaiah:45:14 @ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Egypt has laboured for thee; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to thee, and shall be thy servants; and they shall follow after thee bound in fetters, and shall pass over to thee, and shall do obeisance to thee, and make supplication to thee: because God is in thee; and there is no God beside thee, O Lord.

bes@Isaiah:45:15 @ For thou art God, yet we knew it not, the God of Israel, the Saviour.

bes@Isaiah:45:16 @ All that are opposed to him shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall walk in shame: ye isles, (note:)See Isa strkjv@41:1(:note) keep a feast to me.

bes@Isaiah:45:17 @ Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation: they shall not be ashamed nor confounded for evermore.

bes@Isaiah:45:18 @ Thus saith the Lord that made the heaven, this God that (note:)Gr. shewed(:note) created the earth, and made it; he marked it out, he made it not in vain, but formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is none beside.

bes@Isaiah:45:19 @ I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity: (note:)Gr. I am, I am(:note) I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.

bes@Isaiah:45:20 @ Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, ye that escape of the nations: they that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.

bes@Isaiah:45:21 @ If they will declare, let them draw nigh, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning: then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none but me.

bes@Isaiah:45:22 @ Turn ye to me, and ye shall be saved, ye that come from the end of the earth: I am God, and there is none other.

bes@Isaiah:45:23 @ By myself (note:)Ro strkjv@4:11(:note) I swear, righteousness shall surely proceed out of my mouth; my words shall not be frustrated;

bes@Isaiah:45:24 @ that to me every knee shall bend, and every tongue shall swear by God,

bes@Isaiah:45:25 @ saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him: and all that remove them from their borders shall be ashamed.

bes@Isaiah:45:26 @ By the Lord shall they be justified, and in God shall all the seed of the children of Israel be glorified.

bes@Isaiah:46:1 @ Bel has fallen, Nabo is broken to pieces, their graven images are gone to the wild beasts and the cattle: ye take them packed up as a burden to the weary, exhausted, hungry, and at the same time helpless man;

bes@Isaiah:46:2 @ who will not be able to save themselves from war, but they themselves are led away captive.

bes@Isaiah:46:3 @ Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:

bes@Isaiah:46:4 @ I am he; and until ye shall have grown old, I am he: I bear you, I have made, and I will (note:)Or, put up with(:note) relieve, I will take up and save you.

bes@Isaiah:46:5 @ To whom have ye compared me? see, consider, ye that go astray.

bes@Isaiah:46:6 @ They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make (note:)Gr. things made with hands(:note) idols, and bow down, and worship them.

bes@Isaiah:46:7 @ They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.

bes@Isaiah:46:8 @ Remember ye these things, and groan: repent, ye that have gone astray, return in your heart;

bes@Isaiah:46:9 @ and remember the former things that were of old: for I am God, and there is none other beside me,

bes@Isaiah:46:10 @ telling beforehand the latter events before they come to pass, and they are accomplished together: and I said, all my counsel shall stand, and I will do all things that I have planned:

bes@Isaiah:46:11 @ calling a bird from the east, and from a land afar off, for the things which I have planned: I have spoken, and brought him; I have created and made him; I have brought him, and prospered his way.

bes@Isaiah:46:12 @ Hearken to me, ye senseless ones, that are far from righteousness:

bes@Isaiah:46:13 @ I have brought near my righteousness, and I will not be slow with the salvation that is from me: I have given salvation in Sion to Israel for glory.

bes@Isaiah:47:1 @ Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and luxurious.

bes@Isaiah:47:2 @ Take a millstone, grind meal: remove thy veil, uncover thy white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.

bes@Isaiah:47:3 @ Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall be brought to light: I will exact of thee due vengeance, I will no longer deliver thee to men.

bes@Isaiah:47:4 @ Thy deliverer is the Lord of hosts, the Holy One of Israel is his name.

bes@Isaiah:47:5 @ Sit thou down pierced with woe, go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: thou shalt no more be called the strength of a kingdom.

bes@Isaiah:47:6 @ I have been provoked with my people; thou hast defiled mine inheritance: I gave them into thy hand, but thou didst not extend mercy to them: thou madest the yoke of the aged man very heavy,

bes@Isaiah:47:7 @ and saidst, I shall be a princess for ever: thou didst not perceive these things in thine heart, nor didst thou remember the latter end.

bes@Isaiah:47:8 @ But now hear these words, thou luxurious one, who art the one that sits at ease, that is secure, that says in her heart, I am, and there is not another; I shall not sit a widow, neither shall I know bereavement.

bes@Isaiah:47:9 @ But now these two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee, for thy sorcery, for the strength of thine enchantments,

bes@Isaiah:47:10 @ for (note:)Gr. the hope of thy wickedness(:note) thy trusting in wickedness: for thou saidst, I am, and there is not another: know thou, the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame; for thou saidst in thy heart, I am, and there is not another.

bes@Isaiah:47:11 @ And destruction shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be aware; there shall be a pit, and thou shalt fall into it: and grief shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to be (note:)Or, pure(:note) clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon thee, and thou shalt not know.

bes@Isaiah:47:12 @ Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the abundance of thy sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth; if thou canst be profited.

bes@Isaiah:47:13 @ Thou art wearied in thy counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver thee, let them that see the stars tell thee what is about to come upon thee.

bes@Isaiah:47:14 @ Behold, they all shall be burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because thou hast coals of fire, sit thou upon them;

bes@Isaiah:47:15 @ these shall be thy help. Thou hast wearied thyself with traffic from thy youth: every man has wandered to his own home, but thou shalt have no deliverance.

bes@Isaiah:48:1 @ Hear these words, ye house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Juda, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention of it, but not with truth, nor with righteousness;

bes@Isaiah:48:2 @ maintaining also the name of the holy city, and staying themselves on the God of Israel: the Lord of hosts is his name. The former things I have already declared;

bes@Isaiah:48:3 @ and they that have proceeded out of my mouth, and it became well known; I wrought suddenly, and the events came to pass.

bes@Isaiah:48:4 @ I know that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brazen.

bes@Isaiah:48:5 @ And I told thee (note:)Alex. the ancient things before they came(:note) of old what should be before it came upon thee; I made it known to thee, lest thou shouldest say, My idols have done it for me; and shouldest say, My graven and molten images have commanded me.

bes@Isaiah:48:6 @ Ye have heard all this, but ye have not known: yet I have made (note:)Or, audible(:note) known to thee the new things from henceforth, which are coming to pass, and thou saidst not,

bes@Isaiah:48:7 @ Now they come to pass, and not formerly: and thou heardest not of them in former days: say not thou, Yea, I know them.

bes@Isaiah:48:8 @ Thou hast neither known, nor understood, neither from the beginning have I opened thine ears: for I knew that thou wouldest surely deal treacherously, and wouldest be called a transgressor even from the womb.

bes@Isaiah:48:9 @ For mine own sake will I shew thee my wrath, and will bring before thee my glorious acts, that I may not utterly destroy thee.

bes@Isaiah:48:10 @ Behold, I have sold thee, but not for silver; but I have rescued thee from the furnace of affliction.

bes@Isaiah:48:11 @ For mine own sake I will do this for thee, because my name is profaned; and I will not give my glory to another.

bes@Isaiah:48:12 @ Hear me, O Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I (note:)Gr. am(:note) endure for ever.

bes@Isaiah:48:13 @ My hand also has founded the earth, and my right hand has fixed the sky: I will call them, and they shall stand together.

bes@Isaiah:48:14 @ And all shall be gathered, and shall hear: who has told them these things? Out of love to thee I have fulfilled thy desire on Babylon, to abolish the seed of the Chaldeans.

bes@Isaiah:48:15 @ I have spoken, I have called, I have brought him, and made his way prosperous.

bes@Isaiah:48:16 @ Draw nigh to me, and hear ye these words; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: when it took place, there was I, and now the Lord, even the Lord, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

bes@Isaiah:48:17 @ Thus saith the Lord that delivered thee, the Holy One of Israel; I am thy God, I have shewn thee how thou shouldest find the way wherein thou shouldest walk.

bes@Isaiah:48:18 @ And if thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then would thy peace have been like a river, and thy righteousness as a wave of the sea.

bes@Isaiah:48:19 @ Thy seed also would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy belly as the dust of the ground: neither now shalt thou by any means be utterly destroyed, neither shall thy name perish before me.

bes@Isaiah:48:20 @ Go forth of Babylon, thou that fleest from the Chaldeans: utter aloud a voice of joy, and let this be made known, proclaim it to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath delivered his servant Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:48:21 @ And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.

bes@Isaiah:48:22 @ There is no (note:)See Isa strkjv@57:21(:note) joy, saith the Lord, to the ungodly.

bes@Isaiah:49:1 @ Hearken to me, ye islands; and attend, ye Gentiles; after a long time it shall come to pass, saith the Lord: from my mother’s womb he has called my name:

bes@Isaiah:49:2 @ and he has made my mouth as a sharp sword, and he has hid me under the shadow of his hand; he has made me as a choice shaft, and he has hid me in his quiver;

bes@Isaiah:49:3 @ and said to me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, and in thee I will be glorified.

bes@Isaiah:49:4 @ Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgement with the Lord, and my labour before my God.

bes@Isaiah:49:5 @ And now, thus saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his own servant, to gather Jacob to him and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

bes@Isaiah:49:6 @ And he said to me, It is a great thing for thee to be called my servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel: behold, (note:)Ac strkjv@13:47.(:note) I have given thee for the Or, a perpetual covenant; Hebrews. and Alex. omit covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:49:7 @ Thus saith the Lord that delivered thee, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes: kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord’s sake: for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen thee.

bes@Isaiah:49:8 @ Thus saith the Lord, (note:)2 Co strkjv@6:2(:note) In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I succored thee: and I have formed thee, and given thee for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages:

bes@Isaiah:49:9 @ saying to them that are in bonds, Go forth; and bidding them that are in darkness shew themselves. They shall be fed in all the ways, and in all the paths shall be their pasture.

bes@Isaiah:49:10 @

bes@Isaiah:49:11 @ And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.

bes@Isaiah:49:12 @ Behold, these shall come from far: and these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.

bes@Isaiah:49:13 @ Rejoice, ye heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth with joy; for the Lard has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people.

bes@Isaiah:49:14 @ But Sion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, The Lord has forgotten me.

bes@Isaiah:49:15 @ Will a woman forget her child, so as not to have compassion upon the offspring of her womb? but if a woman should even forget these, yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:49:16 @ Behold, I have painted thy walls on my hands, and thou art continually before me.

bes@Isaiah:49:17 @ And thou shalt soon be built by those by whom thou were destroyed, and they that made thee desolate shall go forth of thee.

bes@Isaiah:49:18 @ Lift up thine eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and are come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt clothe thyself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on as a bride her attire.

bes@Isaiah:49:19 @ For thy desert and marred and ruined places shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that devoured thee shall be removed far from thee.

bes@Isaiah:49:20 @ For thy sons whom thou hast lost shall say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me: make room for me that I may dwell.

bes@Isaiah:49:21 @ And thou shalt say in thine heart, Who has begotten me these? whereas I was childless, and a widow; but who has brought up these for me? and I was left alone; but whence came these to me?

bes@Isaiah:49:22 @ Thus saith the Lord, even the Lord, Behold, I lift up mine hand to the nations, and I will lift up my signal to the islands: and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and shall bear thy daughters on their shoulders.

bes@Isaiah:49:23 @ And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their princesses thy nurses, they shall bow down to thee on the face of the earth, and shall lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on me shall not be ashamed.

bes@Isaiah:49:24 @ Will any one take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

bes@Isaiah:49:25 @ For thus saith the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes them from a mighty man shall be delivered: for I will plead thy cause, and I will deliver thy children.

bes@Isaiah:49:26 @ And they that afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunken: and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers thee, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:50:1 @ Thus saith the Lord, Of what kind is your mother’s bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, ye are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.

bes@Isaiah:50:2 @ Why did I come, and there was no man? why did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not my hand strong to redeem? or can I not deliver? behold, by my rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die for thirst.

bes@Isaiah:50:3 @ I will clothe the sky with darkness, and will make its covering as sackcloth.

bes@Isaiah:50:4 @

bes@Isaiah:50:5 @ and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens mine ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.

bes@Isaiah:50:6 @ I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:

bes@Isaiah:50:7 @ but the Lord God became my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but I set my face as a solid rock; and I know that I shall never be ashamed,

bes@Isaiah:50:8 @ for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yea, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw nigh to me.

bes@Isaiah:50:9 @ Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.

bes@Isaiah:50:10 @ Who is among you that fears the Lord? let him hearken to the voice of his servant: ye that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God.

bes@Isaiah:50:11 @ Behold, ye all kindle a fire, and feed a flame: walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which ye have kindled. This has happened to you for my sake; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

bes@Isaiah:51:1 @ Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord: look to the solid rock, which ye have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which ye have dug.

bes@Isaiah:51:2 @ Look to Abraam your father, and to Sarrha that bore you: for he was alone when I called him, and blessed him, and loved him, and multiplied him.

bes@Isaiah:51:3 @ And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her (note:)Hebrews. bre ambiguous(:note) western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.

bes@Isaiah:51:4 @ Hear me, hear me, my people; and ye kings, hearken to me: for a law shall proceed from me, and my judgement shall be for a light of (note:)Or, the Gentiles(:note) the nations.

bes@Isaiah:51:5 @ My righteousness speedily draws nigh, and my salvation shall go forth (note:)Not in Hebrews. or Alex.(:note) as light, and on mine arm shall the Gentiles trust: the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

bes@Isaiah:51:6 @ Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.

bes@Isaiah:51:7 @ Hear me, ye that know judgement, the people in whose heart is my law: fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.

bes@Isaiah:51:8 @ For as a garment will be devoured by time, and as wool will be devoured by a moth, so shall they be consumed; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation for all generations.

bes@Isaiah:51:9 @ Awake, awake, O Jerusalem, and put on the strength of thine arm; awake as in (note:)Gr. the beginning of day(:note) the early time, as the ancient generation.

bes@Isaiah:51:10 @ Art thou not it that dried the sea, the water, even the abundance of the deep; that made the depths of the sea a way of passage for the delivered and redeemed?

bes@Isaiah:51:11 @ for by the help of the Lord they shall return, and come to Sion with joy and everlasting exultation, for praise and joy shall come upon their head: pain, and grief, and groaning, have fled away.

bes@Isaiah:51:12 @ I, even I, am he that comforts thee: consider who thou art, that thou wast afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who are withered as grass.

bes@Isaiah:51:13 @ And thou hast forgotten God who made thee, who made the sky and founded the earth; and thou wert continually afraid because of the wrath of him that afflicted thee: for whereas he counselled to take thee away, yet now where is the wrath of him that afflicted thee?

bes@Isaiah:51:14 @ For in thy deliverance he shall not halt, nor tarry;

bes@Isaiah:51:15 @ for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

bes@Isaiah:51:16 @ I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of mine hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and the Lord shall say to Sion, Thou art my people.

bes@Isaiah:51:17 @ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

bes@Isaiah:51:18 @ and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thine hand, not even of all the children whom thou has reared.

bes@Isaiah:51:19 @ Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?

bes@Isaiah:51:20 @ Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

bes@Isaiah:51:21 @ Therefore hear, thou afflicted one, and drunken, but not with wine;

bes@Isaiah:51:22 @ thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more.

bes@Isaiah:51:23 @ And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.

bes@Isaiah:52:1 @ Awake, awake, Sion; put on thy strength, O Sion; and do thou put on thy glory, Jerusalem the holy city: there shall no more pass through thee, the uncircumcised and unclean.

bes@Isaiah:52:2 @ Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, Jerusalem: put off the band of thy neck, captive daughter of Sion.

bes@Isaiah:52:3 @ For thus saith the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought; and ye shall not be ransomed with silver.

bes@Isaiah:52:4 @ Thus saith the Lord, My people went down before to Egypt to sojourn there; and were carried away forcibly to the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:52:5 @ And now why are ye here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people was taken for nothing, wonder ye and howl. Thus saith the Lord, On account of you (note:)Ro strkjv@2:24(:note) my name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

bes@Isaiah:52:6 @ Therefore shall my people know my name in that day, for I am he that speaks: I am present,

bes@Isaiah:52:7 @ as (note:)Ro strkjv@10:15; Another reading is «How beautiful are the feet,’ etc.; lit. Why have the feet been made beautiful? See also Joe strkjv@2:2, «the morning spread upon the mountains’(:note) a season of beauty upon the mountains, as the feet of one preaching glad tidings of peace, as one preaching good news: for I will publish thy salvation, saying, O Sion, thy God shall reign.

bes@Isaiah:52:8 @ For the voice of them that guard thee is exalted, and with the voice together they shall rejoice: for eyes shall look to eyes, when the Lord shall have mercy upon Sion.

bes@Isaiah:52:9 @ Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth in joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:52:10 @ And the Lord shall reveal his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation that comes from our God.

bes@Isaiah:52:11 @

bes@Isaiah:52:12 @ For ye shall not go forth with tumult, neither go by flight: for the Lord shall go first in advance of you; and the God of Israel shall be he that (note:)Gr. gathers you(:note) brings up your rear.

bes@Isaiah:52:13 @ Behold, my servant shall understand, and be exalted, and glorified exceedingly.

bes@Isaiah:52:14 @ As many shall be amazed at thee, so shall thy face be without glory from men, and thy glory shall not be honoured by the sons of men.

bes@Isaiah:52:15 @ Thus shall many nations wonder at him; and kings shall keep their mouths shut: (note:)Ro strkjv@15:21(:note) for they to whom no report was brought concerning him, shall see; and they who have not heard, shall consider.

bes@Isaiah:53:1 @ O Lord, (note:)Joh strkjv@12:38; Ro strkjv@10:16(:note) who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

bes@Isaiah:53:2 @ We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.

bes@Isaiah:53:3 @ But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; he was a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned from us: he was dishonoured, and not esteemed.

bes@Isaiah:53:4 @

bes@Isaiah:53:5 @ But he was wounded on account of our sins, and was (note:)Or, made sick(:note) bruised because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his Gr. bruise; 1 Pe strkjv@2:24 bruises we were healed.

bes@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins.

bes@Isaiah:53:7 @ And he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth: (note:)Gr. Ac strkjv@8:32, 33(:note) he was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth.

bes@Isaiah:53:8 @ In his humiliation his judgement was taken away: who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken away from the earth: because of the iniquities of my people he was led to death.

bes@Isaiah:53:9 @ And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death; (note:)1 Pe strkjv@2:22(:note) for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

bes@Isaiah:53:10 @ The Lord also is pleased to purge him from his stroke. If ye can give an offering for sin, your soul shall see a long-lived seed:

bes@Isaiah:53:11 @ the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to shew him light, and to form him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins.

bes@Isaiah:53:12 @ Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and (note:)Mk strkjv@15:28(:note) he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.

bes@Isaiah:54:1 @

bes@Isaiah:54:2 @ Enlarge the placed of thy tent, and of thy curtains: fix the pins, spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy pins;

bes@Isaiah:54:3 @ spread forth thy tent yet to the right and the left: for thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and thou shalt make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

bes@Isaiah:54:4 @ Fear not, because thou has been put to shame, neither be confounded, because thou was reproached: for thou shalt forget thy (note:)Gr. ancient, or, everlasting(:note) former shame, and shalt no more at all remember the reproach of thy widowhood.

bes@Isaiah:54:5 @ For it is the Lord that made thee; the Lord of hosts is his name: and he that delivered thee, he is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth.

bes@Isaiah:54:6 @ The Lord has not called thee as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, saith thy God.

bes@Isaiah:54:7 @ For a little while I left thee: but with great mercy will I have compassion upon thee.

bes@Isaiah:54:8 @ In a little wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon thee, saith the Lord that delivers thee.

bes@Isaiah:54:9 @ From the time of the water of Noe this is my purpose: as I sware to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be wroth with thee, neither when thou art threatened,

bes@Isaiah:54:10 @ shall the mountains depart, nor shall thy hills be removed: so neither shall my mercy fail thee, nor shall the covenant of thy peace be at all removed: for (note:)Alex. kuriov for kurie adopted here; Compare Mt strkjv@16:22, with this passage(:note) the Lord who is gracious to thee has spoken it.

bes@Isaiah:54:11 @ Afflicted and outcast thou has not been comforted: behold, I will prepare carbuncle for thy stones, and sapphire for thy foundations;

bes@Isaiah:54:12 @ and I will make thy buttresses jasper, and thy gates crystal, and thy border precious stones.

bes@Isaiah:54:13 @

bes@Isaiah:54:14 @ And thou shalt be built in righteousness: abstain from injustice, and thou shalt not fear; and trembling shall not come nigh thee.

bes@Isaiah:54:15 @ Behold, strangers shall come to thee by me, and shall sojourn with thee, and shall run to thee for refuge.

bes@Isaiah:54:16 @ Behold, I have created thee, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created thee, not for ruin, that I should destroy thee.

bes@Isaiah:54:17 @ I will not suffer any (note:)Gr. instrument(:note) weapon formed against thee to prosper; and every voice that shall rise up against thee for judgement, thou shalt vanquish them all; and thine adversaries shall be condemned thereby. There is an inheritance to them that serve the Lord, and ye shall be righteous before me, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:55:1 @ Ye that thirst, go to the water, and all that have no money, go and buy; and eat and drink wine and fat without money or price.

bes@Isaiah:55:2 @ Wherefore do ye value at the price of money, and give your labour (note:)See Col 2; ult.(:note) for that which will not satisfy? hearken to me, and ye shall eat that which is good, and your soul shall feast itself on good things.

bes@Isaiah:55:3 @ Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: hearken to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, (note:)Ac strkjv@13:34(:note) the sure mercies of David.

bes@Isaiah:55:4 @ Behold I have made him a testimony among the Gentiles, a prince and commander to the Gentiles.

bes@Isaiah:55:5 @ Nations which know thee not, shall call upon thee, and peoples which are not acquainted with thee, shall flee to thee for refuge, for the sake of the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified thee.

bes@Isaiah:55:6 @ Seek ye the Lord, and when ye find him, call upon him; and when he shall draw nigh to you,

bes@Isaiah:55:7 @ let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels: and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for he shall abundantly pardon your sins.

bes@Isaiah:55:8 @ For my counsels are not as your counsels, nor are my ways as your ways, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:55:9 @ But as the heaven is distant from the earth, so is my way distant from your ways, and your thoughts from my mind.

bes@Isaiah:55:10 @ For as rain shall come down, or snow, from heaven, and shall not return until it have saturated the earth, and it bring forth, and bud, and (note:)2 Co strkjv@9:10(:note) give seed to the sower, and bread for food:

bes@Isaiah:55:11 @ so shall my word be, whatever shall proceed out of my mouth, it shall by no means turn back, until all the things which I willed shall have been accomplished; and I will make thy ways prosperous, and will effect my commands.

bes@Isaiah:55:12 @ For ye shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.

bes@Isaiah:55:13 @ And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.

bes@Isaiah:56:1 @ Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgement, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my mercy to be revealed.

bes@Isaiah:56:2 @ Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.

bes@Isaiah:56:3 @ Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separate me from his people: and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.

bes@Isaiah:56:4 @ Thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, as many as shall keep my sabbaths, and choose the things which I take pleasure in, and take hold of my covenant;

bes@Isaiah:56:5 @ I will give to them in my house and within my walls an honourable place, better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, and it shall not fail.

bes@Isaiah:56:6 @ And I will give it to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; and as for all that keep my sabbaths from profaning them, and that take hold of my covenant;

bes@Isaiah:56:7 @ I will bring them to my holy mountain, and gladden them in my house of prayer: their whole-burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon mine altar; for (note:)Mt strkjv@21:13(:note) my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations,

bes@Isaiah:56:8 @ saith the Lord that gathers the dispersed of Israel; for I will gather to him a congregation.

bes@Isaiah:56:9 @ All ye beasts of the field, come, devour, all ye beasts of the forest.

bes@Isaiah:56:10 @ See how they are all blinded: they have not known; they are dumb dogs that will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

bes@Isaiah:56:11 @ Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that known not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding: all have followed their own ways, each according to his will.

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bes@Isaiah:57:1 @ See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.

bes@Isaiah:57:2 @ His burial shall be in peace: he has been removed out of the way.

bes@Isaiah:57:3 @ But draw ye near hither, ye lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.

bes@Isaiah:57:4 @ Wherein have ye been rioting? and against whom have ye opened your mouth, and against whom have ye loosed your tongue? are ye not children of perdition? a lawless seed?

bes@Isaiah:57:5 @ who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying (note:)Gr. their(:note) your children in the valleys among the rocks?

bes@Isaiah:57:6 @ That is thy portion, this is thy lot: and to them hast thou poured forth drink-offerings, and to these hast thou offered meat-offerings. Shall I not therefore be angry for these things?

bes@Isaiah:57:7 @ On a lofty and high mountain, there is thy bed, and thither thou carriedst up thy meat-offerings:

bes@Isaiah:57:8 @ and behind the posts of thy door thou didst place thy memorials. Didst thou think that if thou shouldest depart from me, thou wouldest gain? thou hast loved those that lay with thee;

bes@Isaiah:57:9 @ and thou hast multiplied thy whoredom with them, and thou hast increased the number of them that are far from thee, and hast sent ambassadors beyond thy borders, and hast been debased even to hell.

bes@Isaiah:57:10 @ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy many ways; yet thou saidst not, I will cease to strengthen myself: for thou has done these things; therefore thou has not supplicated me.

bes@Isaiah:57:11 @ Through dread of whom hast thou feared, and lied against me, and has not remembered, nor (note:)Gr. taken me into thy mind, nor into thine heart(:note) considered me, nor regarded me, yea, though when I see thee I pass they by, yet thou hast not feared me.

bes@Isaiah:57:12 @ And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.

bes@Isaiah:57:13 @ When thou criest out, let them deliver thee in thine affliction: for all these the wind shall take, and the tempest shall carry them away: but they that cleave to me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

bes@Isaiah:57:14 @ And they shall say, (note:)Lit. purge(:note) Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling-blocks out of the way of my people.

bes@Isaiah:57:15 @ Thus saith the Most High, who dwells on high for ever, (note:)Or, Most Holy(:note) Holy in the holies, is his name, the Most High resting in the holies, and giving patience to the faint-hearted, and giving life to the broken-hearted:

bes@Isaiah:57:16 @ I will not take vengeance on you for ever, neither will I be always angry with you: for my Spirit shall go forth from me, and I have created all breath.

bes@Isaiah:57:17 @ On account of sin for a little while I grieved him, and smote him, and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved, and he went on sorrowful in his ways.

bes@Isaiah:57:18 @ I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;

bes@Isaiah:57:19 @ peace upon peace to them that are far off, and to them that are nigh: and the Lord has said, I will heal them.

bes@Isaiah:57:20 @ But the unrighteous shall be tossed as troubled waves, and shall not be able to rest.

bes@Isaiah:57:21 @ There is no (note:)See Isa strkjv@48:22(:note) joy to the ungodly, said God.

bes@Isaiah:58:1 @ Cry aloud, and spare not; lift up thy voice as with a trumpet, and declare to my people their sins, and to the house of Jacob their iniquities.

bes@Isaiah:58:2 @ They seek me day by day, and desire to know my ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgement of their God: they now ask of me righteous judgement, and desire to draw nigh to God,

bes@Isaiah:58:3 @ saying, Why have we fasted, and thou regardest not? why have we afflicted our souls, and thou didst not know it? Nay, in the days of your fasts ye find your pleasures, and all them that are under your power ye wound.

bes@Isaiah:58:4 @ If ye fast for quarrels and strifes, and smite the lowly with your fists, wherefore do ye fast to me as ye do this day, so that your voice may be heard in crying?

bes@Isaiah:58:5 @ I have not chosen this fast, nor such a day for a man to afflict his soul; neither though thou shouldest bend down thy neck as a ring, and spread under thee sackcloth and ashes, neither thus shall ye call a fast acceptable.

bes@Isaiah:58:6 @ I have not chosen such a fast, saith the Lord; but do thou loose every burden of iniquity, do thou untie the knots of hard bargains, set the bruised free, and cancel every unjust account.

bes@Isaiah:58:7 @ Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed.

bes@Isaiah:58:8 @ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily spring forth: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of God shall compass thee.

bes@Isaiah:58:9 @ Then shalt thou cry, and God shall hearken to thee; while thou art yet speaking he will say, Behold, I am here. If thou remove from thee the band, and the stretching forth of the hands, and murmuring speech;

bes@Isaiah:58:10 @ and if thou give bread to the hungry from thy heart, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light spring up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as noon-day:

bes@Isaiah:58:11 @ and thy God shall be with thee continually, and thou shalt be satisfied according as thy soul desires; and thy bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which the water has not failed.

bes@Isaiah:58:12 @ And thy old waste desert places shall be built up, and thy foundations shall last through all generations; and thou shalt be called a repairer of breaches, and thou shalt cause thy paths between to be in peace.

bes@Isaiah:58:13 @ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, so as not to do thy (note:)Gr. pleasures(:note) pleasure on the holy days, and shalt call the sabbaths delightful, holy to God; if thou shalt not lift up thy foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of thy mouth,

bes@Isaiah:58:14 @ then shalt thou trust on the Lord; and he shall bring thee up to the good places of the land, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

bes@Isaiah:59:1 @ Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?

bes@Isaiah:59:2 @ Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away his face from you, so as not to have mercy upon you.

bes@Isaiah:59:3 @ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

bes@Isaiah:59:4 @ None speaks justly, neither is there true judgement: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

bes@Isaiah:59:5 @ They have hatched asps’ eggs, and weave a spider’s web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

bes@Isaiah:59:6 @ Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

bes@Isaiah:59:7 @ And (note:)Ro strkjv@8:15-17.(:note) their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts Gr. from murders; but Alex. reads afronwn of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

bes@Isaiah:59:8 @ and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgement in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.

bes@Isaiah:59:9 @ Therefore has judgement departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.

bes@Isaiah:59:10 @ They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.

bes@Isaiah:59:11 @ They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgement, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

bes@Isaiah:59:12 @ For our iniquity is great before thee, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.

bes@Isaiah:59:13 @ We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.

bes@Isaiah:59:14 @ And we have turned judgement back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight path.

bes@Isaiah:59:15 @ And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside their mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgement.

bes@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and stablished them with his mercy.

bes@Isaiah:59:17 @ And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,

bes@Isaiah:59:18 @ as one about to render a recompence, even reproach to his adversaries.

bes@Isaiah:59:19 @ So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they that come from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.

bes@Isaiah:59:20 @ And (note:)Ro strkjv@11:26(:note) the deliverer shall come for Sion’s sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:59:21 @ And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon thee, and the words which I have put in thy mouth, shall never fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.

bes@Isaiah:60:1 @

bes@Isaiah:60:2 @ Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and there shall be gross darkness on the nations: but the Lords shall appear upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

bes@Isaiah:60:3 @ And kings shall walk in thy light, and nations in thy brightness.

bes@Isaiah:60:4 @ Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold thy children gathered: all thy sons have come from far, and thy daughters shall be borne on men’s shoulders.

bes@Isaiah:60:5 @ Then shalt thou see, and fear, and be amazed in thine heart; for the wealth of the sea shall come round to thee, and of nations and peoples; and herds of camels shall come to thee,

bes@Isaiah:60:6 @ and the camels of Madiam and Gaepha shall cover thee: all from Saba shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall publish the salvation of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:60:7 @ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered, and the rams of Nabaeoth shall come; and acceptable sacrifices shall be offered on my altar, and my house of prayer shall be glorified.

bes@Isaiah:60:8 @ Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to me?

bes@Isaiah:60:9 @ The isles have waited for me, and the ships of Tharsis among the first, to bring thy children from afar, and their silver and their gold with them, and that for the sake of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorified.

bes@Isaiah:60:10 @ And strangers shall build thy walls, and their kings shall wait upon thee: for by reason of my wrath I smote thee, and by reason of mercy I loved thee.

bes@Isaiah:60:11 @ And thy gates shall be opened continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; to bring in to thee the power of the Gentiles, and their kings as captives.

bes@Isaiah:60:12 @ For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.

bes@Isaiah:60:13 @ And the glory of Libanus shall come to thee, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify my holy place.

bes@Isaiah:60:14 @ And the sons of them that afflicted thee, and of them that provoked thee, shall come to thee (note:)Lit. having feared(:note) in fear; and thou shalt be called Sion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:60:15 @ Because thou has become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make thee a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.

bes@Isaiah:60:16 @ And thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt eat the wealth of kings: and shalt know that I am the Lord that saves thee and delivers thee, the Holy One of Israel.

bes@Isaiah:60:17 @ And for brass I will bring thee gold, and for iron I will bring thee silver, and instead of wood I will bring thee brass, and instead of stones, iron; and I will make thy princes peaceable, and thine overseers righteous.

bes@Isaiah:60:18 @ And injustice shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction nor misery in thy coasts; but thy walls shall be called Salvation, and thy gates Sculptured Work.

bes@Isaiah:60:19 @

bes@Isaiah:60:20 @ For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be completed.

bes@Isaiah:60:21 @ Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, preserving that which they have planted, even the works of their hands, for glory.

bes@Isaiah:60:22 @ The (note:)Or, people few in number(:note) little one shall become thousands, and the least a great nation; I the Lord will gather them in due time.

bes@Isaiah:61:1 @ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent (note:)Lu strkjv@4:18(:note) me to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind;

bes@Isaiah:61:2 @ to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompence; to comfort all that mourn;

bes@Isaiah:61:3 @ that there should be given to them that mourn in Sion glory instead of ashes, the (note:)Or, anointing(:note) oil of joy to the mourners, Alex. reads katastolhn as one word the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness: and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.

bes@Isaiah:61:4 @ And they shall build the old waste places, they shall raise up those that were before made desolate, and shall renew the desert cities, even those that had been desolate for many generations.

bes@Isaiah:61:5 @ And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks, and aliens shall be thy ploughmen and vine-dressers.

bes@Isaiah:61:6 @ But ye shall be called priests of the Lord, the ministers of God: ye shall eat the strength of nations, and shall be admired because of their wealth.

bes@Isaiah:61:7 @ Thus shall they inherit the land a second time, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.

bes@Isaiah:61:8 @ For I am the Lord who love righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labour to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.

bes@Isaiah:61:9 @ And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: every one that sees them shall (note:)Or, acknowledge(:note) take notice of them, that they are a seed blessed of God;

bes@Isaiah:61:10 @ and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

bes@Isaiah:61:11 @ And as the earth putting forth her flowers, and as a garden its seed; so shall the Lord, even the Lord, cause righteousness to spring forth, and exultation before all nations.

bes@Isaiah:62:1 @ For Sion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not (note:)Gr. relax(:note) rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch.

bes@Isaiah:62:2 @ And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and kings thy glory: and one shall call thee by a new name, which the Lords shall name.

bes@Isaiah:62:3 @ And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

bes@Isaiah:62:4 @ And thou shalt no more be called Forsaken; and thy land shall no more be called Desert: for thou shalt be called My Pleasure, and thy land Inhabited: for the Lord has taken pleasure in thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.

bes@Isaiah:62:5 @ And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall thy sons dwell in thee: and it shall come to pass that as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.

bes@Isaiah:62:6 @ And on thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:62:7 @ For there is none like you, when he shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.

bes@Isaiah:62:8 @ For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy provisions to thine enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou has laboured.

bes@Isaiah:62:9 @ But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered the grapes shall drink thereof in my holy courts.

bes@Isaiah:62:10 @ Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.

bes@Isaiah:62:11 @ For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, (note:)Mt strkjv@21:5(:note) say ye to the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy Saviour has come to thee, having his reward and his work before his face.

bes@Isaiah:62:12 @ And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.

bes@Isaiah:63:1 @ Who is this that is come from Edom, with red garments from Bosor? thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I (note:)Gr. discourse, reason about(:note) speak of righteousness and saving judgement.

bes@Isaiah:63:2 @ Wherefore are thy garments red, and thy raiment as if fresh from a trodden winepress?

bes@Isaiah:63:3 @ I am full of trodden grape, and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

bes@Isaiah:63:4 @ For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.

bes@Isaiah:63:5 @ And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld: therefore my arm delivered them, and mine anger drew nigh.

bes@Isaiah:63:6 @ And I trampled them in mine anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

bes@Isaiah:63:7 @ I remembered the mercy of the Lord, the (note:)1 Pe strkjv@2:9(:note) praises of the Lord in all things wherein he recompenses us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel; he deals with us according to his mercy, and according to the abundance of his righteousness.

bes@Isaiah:63:8 @ And he said, Is it not my people? the children surely will not be rebellious: and he became to them deliverance

bes@Isaiah:63:9 @ out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up (note:)Gr. all the days of the age(:note) all the days of old.

bes@Isaiah:63:10 @ But they disobeyed, and provoked his Holy Spirit: so he turned to be an enemy, he himself contended against them.

bes@Isaiah:63:11 @ Then he remembered the ancient days, saying, Where is he that brought up from the sea the shepherd of the sheep? where is he that put his Holy Spirit in them?

bes@Isaiah:63:12 @ who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water to separate from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.

bes@Isaiah:63:13 @ He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,

bes@Isaiah:63:14 @ and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them: thus thou leddest thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

bes@Isaiah:63:15 @ Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

bes@Isaiah:63:16 @ For thou art our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning.

bes@Isaiah:63:17 @ Why hast thou caused us to err, O Lord, from thy way? and has hardened our hearts, that we should not fear thee? Return for thy servants’ sake, for the sake of the tribes of thine inheritance,

bes@Isaiah:63:18 @ that we may inherit a small part of thy holy mountain. (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.’(:note)

bes@Isaiah:63:19 @ We are become as at the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and thy name was not called upon us.

bes@Isaiah:64:1 @ If thou wouldest open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from thee, and they shall melt,

bes@Isaiah:64:2 @ as wax melts before the fire; and fire shall burn up the enemies, and thy name shall be manifest among the adversaries: at thy presence the nations shall be troubled,

bes@Isaiah:64:3 @ whenever thou shalt work gloriously; trembling from thee shall take hold upon the mountains.

bes@Isaiah:64:4 @ From of old (note:)1 Co strkjv@2:9(:note) we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God beside thee, and thy works which thou wilt perform to them that wait for mercy.

bes@Isaiah:64:5 @ For these blessings shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember thy ways: behold, thou wast angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,

bes@Isaiah:64:6 @ and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have (note:)Lit. flowed out(:note) fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us away.

bes@Isaiah:64:7 @ And there is none that calls upon thy name, or that remembers to take hold on thee: for thou hast turned thy face away from us, and hast delivered us up because of our sins.

bes@Isaiah:64:8 @ And now, O Lord, thou art our Father, and we are clay, all of us the work of thine hands.

bes@Isaiah:64:9 @ Be not very wroth with us, and remember not our sins (note:)The Gr. en kairw is a Hebraism(:note) for ever; but now look on us, for we are all thy people.

bes@Isaiah:64:10 @ The city of thy holiness has become desolate, Sion has become as a wilderness, Jerusalem a curse.

bes@Isaiah:64:11 @ The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burnt with fire: and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

bes@Isaiah:64:12 @ And for all these things thou, O Lord, has withholden, thyself, and been silent, and hast brought us very low.

bes@Isaiah:65:1 @

bes@Isaiah:65:2 @ I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

bes@Isaiah:65:3 @ This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.

bes@Isaiah:65:4 @ They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:

bes@Isaiah:65:5 @ who say, Depart from me, draw not nigh to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually.

bes@Isaiah:65:6 @ Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom,

bes@Isaiah:65:7 @ their sins and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.

bes@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the Lord, As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for his sake I will not destroy them all.

bes@Isaiah:65:9 @ And I will lead forth the seed that came of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and mine elect and my servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.

bes@Isaiah:65:10 @ And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor shall be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me.

bes@Isaiah:65:11 @ But ye are they that have left me, and forget my holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the (note:)Gr. mixture(:note) drink-offering to Fortune.

bes@Isaiah:65:12 @ I will deliver you up to the sword, ye shall all fall by slaughter: for I called you, and ye hearkened not; I spoke, and ye refused to hear; and ye did evil in my sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.

bes@Isaiah:65:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

bes@Isaiah:65:14 @ behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

bes@Isaiah:65:15 @ For ye shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you: but my servants shall be called by a new name,

bes@Isaiah:65:16 @ which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, it shall not come into their mind.

bes@Isaiah:65:17 @ For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

bes@Isaiah:65:18 @ But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.

bes@Isaiah:65:19 @ And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.

bes@Isaiah:65:20 @ Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:

bes@Isaiah:65:21 @ and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.

bes@Isaiah:65:22 @ They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labours.

bes@Isaiah:65:23 @ My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.

bes@Isaiah:65:24 @ And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?

bes@Isaiah:65:25 @ Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:66:1 @ Thus saith the Lord, (note:)Ac strkjv@7:49, 50(:note) Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what kind of a house will ye build me? and of what kind is to be the place of my rest?

bes@Isaiah:66:2 @ For all these things are mine, saith the Lord: and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the man that trembles at my words?

bes@Isaiah:66:3 @ But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as one that offers swine’s blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

bes@Isaiah:66:4 @ I also will choose their mockeries, and will recompense their sins upon them; because I called them, and they did not hearken to me; I spoke, and they heard not: and they did evil before me, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.

bes@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the words of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; speak ye, (note:)Alex. hmwn, but Hebrews. and Vat. «your’(:note) our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear Or, your their joy; but they shall be ashamed.

bes@Isaiah:66:6 @ A voice of a cry from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord rendering recompence to his adversaries.

bes@Isaiah:66:7 @ Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail-pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.

bes@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Sion has travailed, and brought forth her children?

bes@Isaiah:66:9 @ But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.

bes@Isaiah:66:10 @ Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all ye that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her:

bes@Isaiah:66:11 @ that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.

bes@Isaiah:66:12 @ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I (note:)i. e. turn myself(:note) turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

bes@Isaiah:66:13 @ As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

bes@Isaiah:66:14 @ And ye shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall (note:)Gr. spring up(:note) thrive like grass: and the hand of the Lord shall be known to them that fear him, and he shall threaten the disobedient.

bes@Isaiah:66:15 @ For, behold, the Lord will come as fire, and his chariots as a storm, to render his vengeance with wrath, and his rebuke with a flame of fire.

bes@Isaiah:66:16 @ For with the fire of the Lord all the earth shall be judged, and all flesh with his sword: many shall be slain by the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:66:17 @ They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, and eat swine’s flesh in the porches, and the abominations, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:66:18 @ And I know their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

bes@Isaiah:66:19 @ And I will leave a sign upon them, and I will send forth them that have escaped of them to the nations, to Tharsis, and Phud, and Lud, and Mosoch, and to Thobel, and to Greece, and to the isles afar off, to those who have not heard my name, nor seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

bes@Isaiah:66:20 @ And they shall bring your brethren out of all nations for a gift to the Lord with horses, and chariots, in litters drawn by mules with awnings, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord, as though the children of Israel should bring their sacrifices to me with psalms into the house of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:66:21 @ And I will take of them priests and Levites, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:66:22 @ For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.

bes@Isaiah:66:23 @ And it shall come to pass from month to month, and from sabbath to sabbath, that all flesh shall come to worship before me in Jerusalem, saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:66:24 @ And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.

bes@Jeremiah:1:1 @ The word of God which came to Jeremias the son of Chelcias, of the priests, who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

bes@Jeremiah:1:2 @ accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

bes@Jeremiah:1:3 @ And it was in the days of Joakim, son of Josias king of Juda, until the eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda, even until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

bes@Jeremiah:1:4 @ And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:1:5 @ Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee; I appointed thee a prophet to the nations.

bes@Jeremiah:1:6 @ And I said, O Lord, (note:)See Hebrew(:note) thou that art supreme Lord, behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child.

bes@Jeremiah:1:7 @ And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all to whomsoever I shall send thee, and according to all the words that I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.

bes@Jeremiah:1:8 @ Be not afraid before them: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:1:9 @ And the Lord stretched forth his hand to me, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words into thy mouth.

bes@Jeremiah:1:10 @ Behold, I have appointed thee this day over nations and over kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to rebuild, and to plant.

bes@Jeremiah:1:11 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A rod of an (note:)Or, rather nut-tree(:note) almond tree.

bes@Jeremiah:1:12 @ And the Lord said to me, Thou hast well seen: for I have watched over my words to perform them.

bes@Jeremiah:1:13 @ And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the north.

bes@Jeremiah:1:14 @ And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land.

bes@Jeremiah:1:15 @ For, behold, I call together all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and shall set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls round about her, and against all the cities of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:1:16 @ And I will speak to them in judgement, concerning all their iniquity, forasmuch as they have forsaken me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

bes@Jeremiah:1:17 @ And do thou gird up thy loins, and stand up, and speak all the words that I shall command thee: be not afraid of their face, neither be thou alarmed before them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:1:18 @ Behold, I have (note:)Gr. set(:note) made thee this day as a strong city, and as a brazen wall, strong against all the kings of Juda, and the princes thereof, and the people of the land.

bes@Jeremiah:1:19 @ And they shall fight against thee; but they shall by no means prevail against thee; because I am with thee, to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:2:1 @ And he said, Thus saith the Lord,

bes@Jeremiah:2:2 @ I remember the (note:)Gr. mercy(:note) kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals,

bes@Jeremiah:2:3 @ in following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord, Israel was the holy people to the Lord, and the first-fruits of his increase: al that devoured him shall offend; evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:2:4 @ Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and every family of the house of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:2:5 @ Thus saith the Lord, What trespass have your fathers found in me, that they have revolted far from me, and gone after vanities, and become vain?

bes@Jeremiah:2:6 @ And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?

bes@Jeremiah:2:7 @ And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

bes@Jeremiah:2:8 @ The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

bes@Jeremiah:2:9 @ Therefore I will yet plead with you, (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’saith the Lord’(:note) and will plead with your children’s children.

bes@Jeremiah:2:10 @ For go to the isles of the Chettians, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

bes@Jeremiah:2:11 @

bes@Jeremiah:2:12 @ The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:2:13 @ For my people has committed two faults, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

bes@Jeremiah:2:14 @ Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?

bes@Jeremiah:2:15 @ The lions roared upon him, and uttered their voice, which have made his land a wilderness: and his cities are broken down, that they should not be inhabited.

bes@Jeremiah:2:16 @ Also the children of Memphis and Taphnas have known thee, and mocked thee.

bes@Jeremiah:2:17 @ Has not thy forsaking me brought these things upon thee? saith the Lord thy God.

bes@Jeremiah:2:18 @ And now what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the water of Geon? and what hast thou to do with the way of the Assyrians, to drink the water of rivers?

bes@Jeremiah:2:19 @ Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.

bes@Jeremiah:2:20 @ For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou has said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I (note:)Lit. be spread abroad(:note) indulge in my fornication.

bes@Jeremiah:2:21 @ Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, (note:)Gr. all true(:note) entirely of the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!

bes@Jeremiah:2:22 @ Though thou shouldest wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself soap, still thou art stained by thine iniquities before me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How wilt thou say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold thy ways in the (note:)Hebrews. valley, i. e. probably that of Hinnom(:note) burial-ground, and know what thou hast done: her voice has howled in the evening:

bes@Jeremiah:2:24 @ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.

bes@Jeremiah:2:25 @ Withdraw thy foot from a rough way, and thy throat from thirst: but she said I will (note:)Gr. act like a man(:note) strengthen myself: for she loved strangers, and went after them.

bes@Jeremiah:2:26 @ As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.

bes@Jeremiah:2:27 @ They said to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou has begotten me: and they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us.

bes@Jeremiah:2:28 @ And where are thy gods, which thou madest for thyself? will they arise and save in the time of thine affliction? for according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.

bes@Jeremiah:2:29 @ Wherefore do ye speak unto me? ye all have been ungodly, and ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:2:30 @ In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.

bes@Jeremiah:2:31 @ Hear ye the word of the Lord: thus saith the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? wherefore has my people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to thee any more?

bes@Jeremiah:2:32 @ Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin (note:)Gr. the girdle of her bosom(:note) her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.

bes@Jeremiah:2:33 @ What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou has done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;

bes@Jeremiah:2:34 @ and in thine hands has been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them (note:)q. d. by diligent search(:note) in holes, but on every oak.

bes@Jeremiah:2:35 @ Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.

bes@Jeremiah:2:36 @ For (note:)Lit. «thou hast exceedingly scorned to repeat’(:note) thou has been so exceedingly contemptuous as to repeat thy ways; but thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assur.

bes@Jeremiah:2:37 @ For thou shalt go forth thence also with thine hands upon thine head; for the Lord has rejected thine hope, and thou shalt not prosper in it.

bes@Jeremiah:3:1 @ If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him any more at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:3:2 @ Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.

bes@Jeremiah:3:3 @ And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling-block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.

bes@Jeremiah:3:4 @ Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin-time?

bes@Jeremiah:3:5 @ Will God’s anger continue for ever, or be preserved (note:)See Hebrews. also other similar passages(:note) to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.

bes@Jeremiah:3:6 @ And the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the king, Hast thou seen what things the house of Israel has done to me? they have gone on every high mountain, and under every shady tree, and have committed fornication there.

bes@Jeremiah:3:7 @ And I said after she had committed all these acts of fornication, Turn again to me. Yet she returned not. And faithless Juda saw her faithlessness.

bes@Jeremiah:3:8 @ And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement,) yet faithless Juda feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.

bes@Jeremiah:3:9 @ And her fornication was nothing accounted of; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.

bes@Jeremiah:3:10 @ And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.

bes@Jeremiah:3:11 @ And the Lord said to me, Israel has justified himself more than faithless Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:3:12 @ Go and read these words toward the north, and thou shalt say, Return to me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not set my face against you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry with you for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:3:13 @ Nevertheless, know thine iniquity, that thou hast sinned against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every shady tree, but thou didst not hearken to my voice, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:3:14 @ Turn, ye children that have revolted, saith the Lord; for I will rule over you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you in to Sion:

bes@Jeremiah:3:15 @ and I will give you shepherds after my heart, and they shall certainly tend you with knowledge.

bes@Jeremiah:3:16 @ And it shall come to pass that (note:)Gr. if(:note) when ye are multiplied and increased upon the land, saith the Lord, in those days they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Holy One of Israel: it shall not come to mind; it shall not be named; neither shall it be visited; nor shall this be done any more.

bes@Jeremiah:3:17 @ In those days and at that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered to it: and they shall not walk any more after the imaginations of their evil heart.

bes@Jeremiah:3:18 @ In those days the house of Juda, shall come together to the house of Israel, and they shall come, together, from the land of the north, and from all the countries, to the land, which I caused their fathers to inherit.

bes@Jeremiah:3:19 @ And I said, So be it, Lord, for thou saidst I will set thee among children, and will give thee a choice land, the inheritance of the Almighty God of the Gentiles: and I said, Ye shall call me Father; and ye shall not turn away from me.

bes@Jeremiah:3:20 @ But as a wife acts treacherously against her husband, so has the house of Israel dealt treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:3:21 @ A voice from the lips was heard, even of weeping and supplication of the children of Israel: for they have dealt unrighteously in their ways, they have forgotten God their Holy One.

bes@Jeremiah:3:22 @ Turn, ye children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be thy servants; for thou art the Lord our God.

bes@Jeremiah:3:23 @ Truly the hills and the strength of the mountains were a lying refuge: but by the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:3:24 @ But shame has consumed the labours of our fathers from our youth; their sheep and their calves, and their sons and their daughters.

bes@Jeremiah:3:25 @ We have lain down in our shame, and our disgrace has covered us: because we and our fathers have sinned before our God, from our youth until this day; and we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God.

bes@Jeremiah:4:1 @ If Israel will return to me, saith the Lord, he shall return: and if he will remove his abominations out of his mouth, and fear before me, and swear,

bes@Jeremiah:4:2 @ The Lord lives, with truth, in judgement and righteousness, then shall nations (note:)Gr. in him(:note) bless by him, and by him they shall praise God in Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:4:3 @ For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among thorns.

bes@Jeremiah:4:4 @ Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, ye men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.

bes@Jeremiah:4:5 @ Declare ye in Juda, and let it be heard in Jerusalem: say ye, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry ye aloud: say ye, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.

bes@Jeremiah:4:6 @ Gather up your wares and flee to Sion: hasten, stay not: for I will bring evils from the north, an great destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:4:7 @ The lion is gone up from his lair, he has roused himself to the destruction of the nations, and has gone forth out of his place, to make the land desolate; and the cities shall be destroyed, so as to be without inhabitant.

bes@Jeremiah:4:8 @ For these things gird yourselves with sackclothes, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.

bes@Jeremiah:4:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be amazed, and the prophets shall wonder.

bes@Jeremiah:4:10 @ And I said, O sovereign Lord, verily thou hast deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, There shall be peace; whereas behold, the sword has reached even to their soul.

bes@Jeremiah:4:11 @ At that time they shall say to this people and to Jerusalem, There is a spirit of error in the wilderness: the way of the daughter of my people is not to purity, nor to holiness.

bes@Jeremiah:4:12 @ But a spirit of (note:)Gr. accomplishment(:note) full vengeance shall come upon me; and now I declare my judgements against them.

bes@Jeremiah:4:13 @ Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are in misery.

bes@Jeremiah:4:14 @ Cleanse thine heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayest be saved: how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee?

bes@Jeremiah:4:15 @ For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of mount Ephraim shall be heard of.

bes@Jeremiah:4:16 @ Remind ye the nations; behold, they are come: proclaim it in Jerusalem, that bands are approaching from a land afar off, and have uttered their voice against the cities of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:4:17 @ As keepers of a field, they have surrounded her; because thou, saith the Lord, has neglected me.

bes@Jeremiah:4:18 @ Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee; this is thy wickedness, for it is bitter, for it has reached to thy heart.

bes@Jeremiah:4:19 @ I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;

bes@Jeremiah:4:20 @ for all the land is distressed: suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been rent asunder.

bes@Jeremiah:4:21 @ How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

bes@Jeremiah:4:22 @ For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known.

bes@Jeremiah:4:23 @ I looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was not; and to the sky, an there was no light in it.

bes@Jeremiah:4:24 @ I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.

bes@Jeremiah:4:25 @ I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky were scared.

bes@Jeremiah:4:26 @ I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.

bes@Jeremiah:4:27 @ Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate; but I will not make a full end.

bes@Jeremiah:4:28 @ For these things let the earth mourn, and let the sky be dark above: for I have spoken, and I will not repent; I have (note:)Lit. rushed forward(:note) purposed, and I will not turn back from it.

bes@Jeremiah:4:29 @ The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man dwelt in them.

bes@Jeremiah:4:30 @ And what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe thyself with scarlet, and adorn thyself with golden ornaments; though thou adorn thine eyes with stibium, thy (note:)Lit. beautifying(:note) beauty will be in vain: thy lovers have rejected thee, they seek thy life.

bes@Jeremiah:4:31 @ For I have heard thy groaning as the voice of a woman in travail, as of her that brings forth her first child; the voice of the daughter of Zion shall fail through weakness, and she shall lose the strength of her hands, saying, Woe is me! for my soul faints because of the slain.

bes@Jeremiah:5:1 @ Run ye about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find one, if there is any one that does judgement, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:5:2 @ The Lord lives, they say; do they not therefore swear falsely?

bes@Jeremiah:5:3 @ O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

bes@Jeremiah:5:4 @ Then I said, It may be they are poor; for they are weak, for they know not the way of the Lord, or the judgement of God.

bes@Jeremiah:5:5 @ I will go to the rich men, and will speak to them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgement of God: but, behold, with one consent they have broken the yoke, they have burst the bonds.

bes@Jeremiah:5:6 @ Therefore has a lion out of the forest smitten them, and a wolf has destroyed them (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.

bes@Jeremiah:5:7 @ In what way shall I forgive thee for these things? Thy sons have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: and I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and lodged in harlots’ houses.

bes@Jeremiah:5:8 @ They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour’s wife.

bes@Jeremiah:5:9 @ Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.

bes@Jeremiah:5:10 @ Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses: for they are the Lord’s.

bes@Jeremiah:5:11 @ For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, saith the Lord: the house of Juda also

bes@Jeremiah:5:12 @ have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.

bes@Jeremiah:5:13 @ Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.

bes@Jeremiah:5:14 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because ye have spoken this word, behold, I have made my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

bes@Jeremiah:5:15 @ Behold, I will bring upon you a nation from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord; a nation the sound of whose language one shall not understand.

bes@Jeremiah:5:16 @ They are all mighty men:

bes@Jeremiah:5:17 @ and they shall devour you harvest, and your bread; and shall devour your sons, and your daughters; and they shall devour your sheep, and your calves, and devour your vineyards, and your fig-plantations, and your olive yards: and they shall (note:)Gr. thresh as corn(:note) utterly destroy your strong cities, wherein ye trusted, with the sword.

bes@Jeremiah:5:18 @ And it shall come to pass in those days, saith the Lord thy God, that I will not utterly destroy you.

bes@Jeremiah:5:19 @ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that thou shalt say to them, Because ye served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

bes@Jeremiah:5:20 @ Proclaim these things to the house of Jacob, and let them be heard in the house of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:5:21 @ Hear ye now these things, O foolish and senseless people; who have eyes, and see not; and have ears, and hear not:

bes@Jeremiah:5:22 @ will ye not be afraid of me? saith the Lord; and will ye not fear before me, who have set the sand for a bound to the sea, as a perpetual ordinance, and it shall not pass it: yea, it shall (note:)Gr. be troubled(:note) rage, but not prevail; and its waves shall roar, but not pass over it.

bes@Jeremiah:5:23 @ But this people has a disobedient and rebellious heart; and they have turned aside and gone back:

bes@Jeremiah:5:24 @ and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.

bes@Jeremiah:5:25 @ Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

bes@Jeremiah:5:26 @ For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

bes@Jeremiah:5:27 @ As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

bes@Jeremiah:5:28 @ and they have transgressed the rule of judgement; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

bes@Jeremiah:5:29 @ Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

bes@Jeremiah:5:30 @ Shocking and horrible deeds have been done on the land;

bes@Jeremiah:5:31 @ the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future.

bes@Jeremiah:6:1 @ Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.

bes@Jeremiah:6:2 @ And thy pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.

bes@Jeremiah:6:3 @ The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.

bes@Jeremiah:6:4 @ Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.

bes@Jeremiah:6:5 @ Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.

bes@Jeremiah:6:6 @ For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, (note:)Gr. pour out a force(:note) array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.

bes@Jeremiah:6:7 @ As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.

bes@Jeremiah:6:8 @ Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.

bes@Jeremiah:6:9 @ For thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back your hands as a grape-gatherer to his basket.

bes@Jeremiah:6:10 @ To whom shall I speak, and testify, that he may hearken? behold, thine ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear: behold, the word of the Lord is become to them a reproach, they will not at all desire it.

bes@Jeremiah:6:11 @ And I (note:)Gr. filled my wrath(:note) allowed my wrath to come to full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.

bes@Jeremiah:6:12 @ And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:6:13 @ For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all wrought falsely.

bes@Jeremiah:6:14 @ And they healed the breach of my people imperfectly, making light of it, and saying, Peace, peace, and where is peace?

bes@Jeremiah:6:15 @ They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:6:16 @ Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths of the Lord; and see what is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find purification for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in them.

bes@Jeremiah:6:17 @ I have set watchmen over you, saying, Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear it.

bes@Jeremiah:6:18 @ Therefore have the nations heard, and they that feed their flocks.

bes@Jeremiah:6:19 @ Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, even the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.

bes@Jeremiah:6:20 @ Wherefore do ye bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole-burnt-offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.

bes@Jeremiah:6:21 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring weakness upon this people, and the fathers and sons shall be weak together; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

bes@Jeremiah:6:22 @ Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. «a great nation’(:note) nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:6:23 @ They shall lay hold on bow and spear; the people is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against thee as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.

bes@Jeremiah:6:24 @ We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

bes@Jeremiah:6:25 @ Go not forth into the field, and walk not in the ways; for the sword of the enemy lingers round about.

bes@Jeremiah:6:26 @ O daughter of my people, gird thyself with sackcloth: sprinkle thyself with ashes; make for thyself pitiable lamentation, as the mourning for a beloved son: for misery will come suddenly upon you.

bes@Jeremiah:6:27 @ I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.

bes@Jeremiah:6:28 @ They are all disobedient, walking perversely: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.

bes@Jeremiah:6:29 @ The bellows have failed from the fire, the lead has failed: the silversmith works at his trade in vain; their wickedness (note:)Gr. has not been melted away(:note) is not consumed.

bes@Jeremiah:6:30 @ Call ye them reprobate silver, because the Lord has rejected them.

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bes@Jeremiah:7:2 @ Hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judea.

bes@Jeremiah:7:3 @ Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Correct your ways and your devices, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

bes@Jeremiah:7:4 @ Trust not in yourselves with lying words, for they shall not profit you at all, saying, It is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:7:5 @ For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgement between a man and his neighbour;

bes@Jeremiah:7:6 @ and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:

bes@Jeremiah:7:7 @ then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:7:8 @ But whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be profited;

bes@Jeremiah:7:9 @ and ye murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom ye know not,

bes@Jeremiah:7:10 @ so that it is evil with you; yet have ye come, and stood before me in the house, whereon my name is called, and ye have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.

bes@Jeremiah:7:11 @ Is my house, whereon my name is called, (note:)Mt strkjv@21:13(:note) a den of robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen it, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:7:12 @ For go ye to my place with is in Selo, where I caused my name to dwell before, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:7:13 @ And now, because ye have done all these deeds, and I spoke to you, but ye hearkened not to me; and I called you, but ye answered not;

bes@Jeremiah:7:14 @ therefore I also will do to the house whereon my name is called, wherein ye trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Selo.

bes@Jeremiah:7:15 @ And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast away your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.

bes@Jeremiah:7:16 @ Therefore pray not thou for this people, and intercede not for them to be pitied, yea, pray not, and approach me not for them: for I will not hearken unto thee.

bes@Jeremiah:7:17 @ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

bes@Jeremiah:7:18 @ Their children gather wood, and their fathers kindle a fire, and their women knead dough, to make cakes to the host of heaven; and they have poured out drink-offerings to strange gods, that they might provoke me to anger.

bes@Jeremiah:7:19 @ Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves, that their faces may be ashamed?

bes@Jeremiah:7:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, my anger and wrath (note:)Gr. is being poured(:note) shall be poured out upon this place, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon every tree of their field, and upon the fruits of the land; and it shall burn, and not be quenched.

bes@Jeremiah:7:21 @ Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your (note:)Or, sacrifices(:note) meat-offerings, and eat flesh.

bes@Jeremiah:7:22 @ For I spoke not to your fathers, and commanded them not in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, concerning whole-burnt-offerings and sacrifice:

bes@Jeremiah:7:23 @ but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear ye my voice, and I will be to you a God, and ye shall be to me a people: and walk ye in all my ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.

bes@Jeremiah:7:24 @ But they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;

bes@Jeremiah:7:25 @ from the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even until this day. And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, by day and early in the morning: yea, I sent them,

bes@Jeremiah:7:26 @ but they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.

bes@Jeremiah:7:27 @ Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;

bes@Jeremiah:7:28 @ This is the nation which has not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.

bes@Jeremiah:7:29 @ Cut off thine hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.

bes@Jeremiah:7:30 @ For the children of Juda have wrought evil before me, saith the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.

bes@Jeremiah:7:31 @ And they have built the altar of Tapheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their daughters with fire; which I did not command them to do, neither did I design it in my heart.

bes@Jeremiah:7:32 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The altar of Tapheth, and the valley of the son of Ennom, but, The valley of the slain; and they shall bury in Tapheth, for want of room.

bes@Jeremiah:7:33 @ And the dead bodies of this people shall be for food to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to drive them away.

bes@Jeremiah:7:34 @ And I will destroy out of the cities of Juda, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a desolation.

bes@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

bes@Jeremiah:8:2 @ and they shall (note:)Lit. cool or refresh; See 2 Sa strkjv@17:19(:note) spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,

bes@Jeremiah:8:3 @ because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.

bes@Jeremiah:8:4 @ For thus saith the Lord, (note:)Gr. does not(:note) Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?

bes@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?

bes@Jeremiah:8:6 @ Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

bes@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgements of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How will ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.

bes@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

bes@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord.

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bes@Jeremiah:8:13 @ There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and the leaves have fallen off.

bes@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.

bes@Jeremiah:8:15 @ We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.

bes@Jeremiah:8:16 @ We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the (note:)Gr. of the riding of his horses(:note) neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

bes@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you

bes@Jeremiah:8:18 @ mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.

bes@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.

bes@Jeremiah:8:20 @ The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.

bes@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.

bes@Jeremiah:8:22 @ And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

bes@Jeremiah:9:1 @ Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? then would I weep for this my people day and night, even for the slain of the daughter of my people.

bes@Jeremiah:9:2 @ Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.

bes@Jeremiah:9:3 @ And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:9:4 @ Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

bes@Jeremiah:9:5 @ Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, (note:)sc. the right way(:note) so as to return.

bes@Jeremiah:9:6 @ There is usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.

bes@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: one speaks peaceably to his neighbour, but in himself retains enmity.

bes@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?

bes@Jeremiah:9:10 @ Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.

bes@Jeremiah:9:11 @ And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.

bes@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord addressed to him, let him tell you wherefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.

bes@Jeremiah:9:13 @ And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to my voice;

bes@Jeremiah:9:14 @ but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship:

bes@Jeremiah:9:15 @ therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:

bes@Jeremiah:9:16 @ and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.

bes@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;

bes@Jeremiah:9:18 @ and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.

bes@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Sion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!

bes@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbour a dirge.

bes@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.

bes@Jeremiah:9:22 @ And the carcases of the men shall be (note:)Gr. warning(:note) for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the Or, reaper mower, and there shall be none to gather them.

bes@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;

bes@Jeremiah:9:24 @

bes@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their (note:)Gr. plural, q. d. their moral uncircumcision(:note) uncircumcision;

bes@Jeremiah:9:26 @ on Egypt, and on Idumea, and on Edom, and on the children of Ammon, and on the children of Moab, and on every one that shaves his face round about, even them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts.

bes@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear ye the word of the Lord, which he has spoken to you, O house of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus saith the Lord, Learn ye not (note:)Gr. according to the ways(:note) the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, falling on their faces.

bes@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

bes@Jeremiah:10:4 @ They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;

bes@Jeremiah:10:5 @ they will set them up (note:)Lit. and they shall not be moved(:note) that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk, it is forged silver(10:5) They must certainly be borne, for they Gr. will not mount cannot ride of themselves. Fear them not; for they cannot do any evil, and there is no good in them.

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bes@Jeremiah:10:9 @ brought from Tharsis, gold will come from Mophaz, and the work of goldsmiths: they are all the works of craftsmen, they will clothe themselves with blue and scarlet.

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bes@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say to them, Let the gods which have not made heaven and earth perish from off the earth, and from under this sky.

bes@Jeremiah:10:12 @ It is the Lord that made the earth by his strength, who set up the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the sky,

bes@Jeremiah:10:13 @ and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.

bes@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man (note:)Or, too foolish to know(:note) is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

bes@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They are vain works, (note:)Or, worthy of(:note) wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

bes@Jeremiah:10:16 @ Such is not the portion of Jacob; for he that formed all things, he is (note:)sc. Jacob’s(:note) his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

bes@Jeremiah:10:17 @ He has gathered thy substance from without the lodged in choice vessels.

bes@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will overthrow the inhabitants of this land with affliction, that thy plague may be discovered.

bes@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Alas for thy ruin! thy plague is grievous: and I said, Surely this is thy wound, and it has overtaken thee.

bes@Jeremiah:10:20 @ Thy tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all thy curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, nor place for my curtains.

bes@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and the sheep have been scattered.

bes@Jeremiah:10:22 @ Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Juda a desolation, and a resting-place for ostriches.

bes@Jeremiah:10:23 @ I know, O Lord, that man’s way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

bes@Jeremiah:10:24 @ Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgement; and not in wrath, lest thou make us few.

bes@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the families that have not called upon thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, and consumed him, and have made his pasture desolate.

bes@Jeremiah:11:1 @ The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:11:2 @ Hear ye the words of this covenant, and thou shalt speak to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem;

bes@Jeremiah:11:3 @ and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Cursed is the man, who shall not hearken to the words of this covenant,

bes@Jeremiah:11:4 @ which I commanded your fathers, in the day wherein I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to my voice, and do all things that I shall command you; so shall ye be to me a people, and I will be to you a God;

bes@Jeremiah:11:5 @ that I may confirm mine oath, which I sware to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then I answered and said, So be it, O Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:11:6 @ And the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

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bes@Jeremiah:11:8 @ But they did them not.

bes@Jeremiah:11:9 @ And the Lord said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Juda, and among the dwellers in Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:11:10 @ They are turned aside to the iniquities of their fathers that were of old, who would not hearken to my words: and, behold, they go after strange gods, to serve them: and the house of Israel and the house of Juda have broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers.

bes@Jeremiah:11:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I bring evils upon this people, out of which they shall not be able to come forth; and they shall presently cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.

bes@Jeremiah:11:12 @ And the cities of Juda and the dwellers in Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense; which shall not deliver them in the time of their troubles.

bes@Jeremiah:11:13 @ For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to burn incense to Baal.

bes@Jeremiah:11:14 @ And thou, pray not for this people, and intercede not for them in supplication and prayer: for I will not hear in the day in which they call upon me, in the day of their affliction.

bes@Jeremiah:11:15 @ Why has my beloved wrought abomination in my house? will prayers and (note:)Gr. holy flesh, pl.(:note) holy offerings take away thy wickedness from thee, or shalt thou escape by these things?

bes@Jeremiah:11:16 @ The Lord called thy name a fair olive tree, of a goodly shade in appearance, at the noise of its being lopped, fire was kindled against it; great is the affliction coming upon thee: her branches are become good for nothing.

bes@Jeremiah:11:17 @ And the Lord that planted thee has pronounced evils against thee, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Juda, whatsoever they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger by burning incense to Baal.

bes@Jeremiah:11:18 @ O Lord, teach me, and I shall know: then I saw their practices.

bes@Jeremiah:11:19 @ But I as an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, knew not: against me they devised an evil device, saying, Come and let us (note:)See Hebrew(:note) put wood into his bread, and let us utterly destroy him from off the land of the living, and let his name not be remembered any more.

bes@Jeremiah:11:20 @ O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.

bes@Jeremiah:11:21 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek my life, that say, Thou shalt not prophesy at all in the name of the Lord, but if thou dost, thou shalt die by our hands:

bes@Jeremiah:11:22 @ behold, I will visit (note:)Gr. upon them(:note) them: their young men shall die by the sword; and their sons and their daughters shall die of famine:

bes@Jeremiah:11:23 @ and there shall be no remnant left of them; for I will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.

bes@Jeremiah:12:1 @ Righteous art thou, O Lord, that I may make my defence to thee, yea, I will speak to thee of judgements. Why is it that the way of ungodly men prospers? that all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

bes@Jeremiah:12:2 @ Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root; they have begotten children, and become fruitful; thou art near to their mouth, and far from their reins.

bes@Jeremiah:12:3 @ But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

bes@Jeremiah:12:4 @ How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of the field wither, for the wickedness of them, that dwell in it? the beasts and birds are utterly destroyed; because the people said, God shall not see our ways.

bes@Jeremiah:12:5 @ Thy feet run, and they cause thee to faint; how wilt thou prepare (note:)Or, flight(:note) to ride upon horses? and thou hast been confident in the land of thy peace? how wilt thou do in the roaring of Jordan?

bes@Jeremiah:12:6 @ For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even these have (note:)Or, set thee at nought(:note) dealt treacherously with thee; and they have cried out, they are gathered together in pursuit of thee; trust not thou in them, though they shall speak fair words to thee.

bes@Jeremiah:12:7 @ I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given (note:)Gr. my beloved soul(:note) my beloved one into the hands of her enemies.

bes@Jeremiah:12:8 @ My inheritance has become to me as a lion in a forest; she has uttered her voice against me; therefore have I hated her.

bes@Jeremiah:12:9 @ Is not my inheritance to me a (note:)Alex. cave of robbers(:note) hyaena’s cave, or a cave round about her? Go ye, gather together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to devour her.

bes@Jeremiah:12:10 @ Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have defiled my portion, they have made my desirable portion a trackless wilderness;

bes@Jeremiah:12:11 @ it is made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that lays the matter to heart.

bes@Jeremiah:12:12 @ The ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh has any peace.

bes@Jeremiah:12:13 @ Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them: be ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:12:14 @ For thus saith the Lord, concerning all the evil neighbours that touch mine inheritance, which I have divided to my people Israel; Behold, I will draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Juda from the midst of them.

bes@Jeremiah:12:15 @ And it shall come to pass, after I have cast them out, that I will return, and have mercy upon them, and will cause them to dwell every one in his inheritance, and every one is his land.

bes@Jeremiah:12:16 @ And it shall be, if they will indeed learn the way of my people, to swear by my name, saying, The Lord lives; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall that nation be built in the midst of my people.

bes@Jeremiah:12:17 @ But if they will not return, then will I cut off that nation with utter ruin and destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:13:1 @ Thus saith the Lord, Go and procure for thyself a linen girdle, and put it about thy loins, and let it not be put in water.

bes@Jeremiah:13:2 @ So I procured the girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.

bes@Jeremiah:13:3 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:13:4 @ Take the girdle that is upon thy loins, and arise, and go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

bes@Jeremiah:13:5 @ So I went, and hid it (note:)Gr. in(:note) by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me.

bes@Jeremiah:13:6 @ And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take thence the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.

bes@Jeremiah:13:7 @ So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.

bes@Jeremiah:13:8 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord,

bes@Jeremiah:13:9 @ Thus will I mar the pride of Juda, and the pride of Jerusalem;

bes@Jeremiah:13:10 @ even this great pride of the men that will not hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.

bes@Jeremiah:13:11 @ For as a girdle cleaves about the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house of Juda; that they might be to me a famous people, and a praise, and a glory: but they did not hearken to me.

bes@Jeremiah:13:12 @ And thou shalt say to this people, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Shall we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? that thou shalt say to them,

bes@Jeremiah:13:13 @ Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill the inhabitants of this land, and their kings the sons of David that sit upon their throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and Juda and all the dwellers in Jerusalem, with strong drink.

bes@Jeremiah:13:14 @ And I will scatter them a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons together: I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, and I will not spare, neither will I pity to save them from destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:13:15 @ Hear ye, and give ear, and be not proud: for the Lord has spoken.

bes@Jeremiah:13:16 @ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

bes@Jeremiah:13:17 @ But if ye will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord’s flock is sorely bruised.

bes@Jeremiah:13:18 @ Say ye to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.

bes@Jeremiah:13:19 @ The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open them: Juda is removed into captivity, they have (note:)Lit. finished, or, accomplished(:note) suffered a complete removal.

bes@Jeremiah:13:20 @ Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?

bes@Jeremiah:13:21 @ What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?

bes@Jeremiah:13:22 @ And if thou shouldest say in thine heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thine heels might be exposed.

bes@Jeremiah:13:23 @ If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.

bes@Jeremiah:13:24 @ So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.

bes@Jeremiah:13:25 @ Thus is thy lot, and the (note:)Gr. portion(:note) reward of your disobedience to me, saith the Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,

bes@Jeremiah:13:26 @ I also will expose thy (note:)See verse 22(:note) skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen;

bes@Jeremiah:13:27 @ thine adultery also, and thy neighing, and the (note:)Gr. estrangement(:note) looseness of thy fornication: on the hills and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, for thou hast not been purified Gr. after me so as to follow me; how long yet shall it be?

bes@Jeremiah:14:1 @ AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS CONCERNING THE DROUGHT.

bes@Jeremiah:14:2 @ Judea has mourned, and her gates are emptied, and are darkened upon the earth; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

bes@Jeremiah:14:3 @ And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

bes@Jeremiah:14:4 @ And the labours of the land failed, because there was no rain: the husbandmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

bes@Jeremiah:14:5 @ And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

bes@Jeremiah:14:6 @ The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

bes@Jeremiah:14:7 @ Our sins have risen up against us: O Lord, do thou for us for thine own sake; for our sins are many before thee; for we have sinned against thee.

bes@Jeremiah:14:8 @ O Lord, thou art the hope of Israel, and deliverest us in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting-place?

bes@Jeremiah:14:9 @ Wilt thou be as a man asleep, or as a strong man that cannot save? yet thou art among us, O Lord, and thy name is called upon us; forget us not.

bes@Jeremiah:14:10 @ Thus saith the Lord to this people, They have loved (note:)Gr. to move their feet(:note) to wander, and they have not spared, therefore God has not prospered Gr. in them; Hebraism them; now will he remember their iniquity.

bes@Jeremiah:14:11 @ And the Lord said to me, Pray not for this people for their good:

bes@Jeremiah:14:12 @ for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole-burnt-offerings and (note:)Or, meat-offerings(:note) sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with Lit. death pestilence.

bes@Jeremiah:14:13 @ And I said, O ever living Lord! behold, their prophets prophesy, and say, Ye shall not see a sword, nor shall famine be among you; for I will give truth and peace on the land, and in this place.

bes@Jeremiah:14:14 @ Then the Lord said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, and I commanded them not, and I spoke not to them: for they prophesy to you false visions, and divinations, and auguries, and devices of their own heart.

bes@Jeremiah:14:15 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy lies in my name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a (note:)Gr. sickly(:note) grievous death, and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.

bes@Jeremiah:14:16 @ And the people to whom they prophesy, they also shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because of the sword and famine; and there shall be none to bury them: their wives also, and their sons, and their daughters shall die thus; and I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

bes@Jeremiah:14:17 @ And thou shalt speak this word to them; Let your eyes shed tears day and night, and let them not cease: for the daughter of my people has been sorely bruised, and her plague is very grievous.

bes@Jeremiah:14:18 @ If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

bes@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected Juda? and has thy soul departed from Sion? wherefore has thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we waited for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, and behold trouble!

bes@Jeremiah:14:20 @ We know, O Lord, our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers: for we have sinned before thee.

bes@Jeremiah:14:21 @ Refrain for thy name’s sake, destroy not the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

bes@Jeremiah:14:22 @ Is there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and will the sky yield his fulness at their bidding? Art not thou he? we will even wait on thee, O Lord: for thou hast made all these things.

bes@Jeremiah:15:1 @ And the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before my face, my soul could not be toward them: dismiss this people, and let them go forth.

bes@Jeremiah:15:2 @ And it shall be, if they say to thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As many as are for death, to death; and as many as are for famine, to famine; and as many as are for the sword, to the sword; and as many as are for captivity, to captivity.

bes@Jeremiah:15:3 @ And I will punish them with four kinds of death, saith the Lord, the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the sky to devour and destroy.

bes@Jeremiah:15:4 @ And I will deliver them up for distress to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasses son of Ezekias king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:15:5 @ Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will turn back to (note:)See Hebrew(:note) ask for thy welfare?

bes@Jeremiah:15:6 @ Thou hast turned away from me, saith the Lord, thou wilt go back: therefore I will stretch out my hand, and will destroy thee, and will no more spare them.

bes@Jeremiah:15:7 @ And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities.

bes@Jeremiah:15:8 @ Their widows have been multiplied more than the sand of the sea: I have brought young men against the mother, even distress at noon-day: I have suddenly cast upon her trembling and anxiety.

bes@Jeremiah:15:9 @ She that bore seven is (note:)Gr. emptied, possibly, bereft of children(:note) spent; her soul has fainted under trouble; her sun is gone down while it is yet noon; she is ashamed and disgraced: I will give the remnant of them to the sword before their enemies.

bes@Jeremiah:15:10 @ Woe is me, my mother! thou hast born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.

bes@Jeremiah:15:11 @ Be it so, Lord, in their prosperity; surely I stood before thee in the time of their calamities, and in the time of their affliction, for their good against the enemy.

bes@Jeremiah:15:12 @ Will iron be known? whereas thy strength is a brazen covering.

bes@Jeremiah:15:13 @ Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all thy sins and that in all thy borders.

bes@Jeremiah:15:14 @ And I will enslave thee to thine enemies round about, in a land which thou hast not known; for a fire has been kindled out of my wrath; it shall burn upon you.

bes@Jeremiah:15:15 @ O Lord, remember me, and visit me, and vindicate me before them that persecute me; do not bear long with them; know how I have met with reproach for thy sake, from those who set at nought thy words;

bes@Jeremiah:15:16 @ consume them; and thy word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

bes@Jeremiah:15:17 @ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of thy power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.

bes@Jeremiah:15:18 @ Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no (note:)sc. as to healing(:note) faithfulness.

bes@Jeremiah:15:19 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou wilt return, then will I restore thee, and thou shalt stand before my face: and if thou wilt bring forth the precious from the worthless, thou shalt be as my mouth: and they shall return to thee; but thou shalt not return to them.

bes@Jeremiah:15:20 @ And I will make thee to this people as a strong brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but they shall by no means prevail against thee;

bes@Jeremiah:15:21 @ for I am with thee to save thee, and to deliver thee out of the hand of wicked men; and I will ransom thee out of the hand of pestilent men.

bes@Jeremiah:16:1 @ And thou shalt not take a wife, saith the Lord God of Israel:

bes@Jeremiah:16:2 @ and there shall be no son born to thee, nor daughter in this place.

bes@Jeremiah:16:3 @ For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that have born them, and concerning their fathers that have begotten them in this land;

bes@Jeremiah:16:4 @ They shall die of grievous death; they shall not be lamented, nor buried; they shall be for an example on the face of the earth; and they shall be for the wild beasts of the land, and for the birds of the sky: they shall fall by the sword, and shall be consumed with famine.

bes@Jeremiah:16:5 @ Thus saith the Lord, Enter not into their mourning feast, and go not to lament, and mourn not for them: for I have removed my peace from this people.

bes@Jeremiah:16:6 @ They shall not bewail them, nor make cuttings for them, and they shall not shave themselves for them:

bes@Jeremiah:16:7 @ and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead: they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.

bes@Jeremiah:16:8 @ Thou shalt not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

bes@Jeremiah:16:9 @ For thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will make to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

bes@Jeremiah:16:10 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt report to this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced against us all these evils? what is our unrighteousness? and what is our sin which we have sinned before the Lord our God?

bes@Jeremiah:16:11 @ Then thou shalt say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, saith the Lord, and went after strange gods and served them, and worshipped them, and forsook me, and kept not my law;

bes@Jeremiah:16:12 @ (and ye sinned worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the lusts of your own evil heart, so as not to hearken to me);

bes@Jeremiah:16:13 @ therefore I will cast you off from this good land into (note:)Gr. the land(:note) a land which neither ye nor your fathers have known; and ye shall serve there other gods, who shall have no mercy upon you.

bes@Jeremiah:16:14 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

bes@Jeremiah:16:15 @ but, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel from the land of the north, and from all countries whither they were thrust out: and I will restore them to their own land, which I gave to their fathers.

bes@Jeremiah:16:16 @ Behold, I will send (note:)Gr. the many(:note) many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

bes@Jeremiah:16:17 @ For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from mine eyes.

bes@Jeremiah:16:18 @ And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcases of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.

bes@Jeremiah:16:19 @ O Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.

bes@Jeremiah:16:20 @ Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?

bes@Jeremiah:16:21 @ Therefore, behold, I will at this time manifest my hand to them, and will make known to them my power; and they shall know that my name is the Lord.

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bes@Jeremiah:17:5 @ Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and will lean his arm of flesh upon him, while his heart departs from the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:17:6 @ And he shall be as the wild tamarisk in the desert: he shall not see when good comes; but he shall dwell in (note:)Gr. salt(:note) barren places, and in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.

bes@Jeremiah:17:7 @ But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord shall be.

bes@Jeremiah:17:8 @ And he shall be as a thriving tree by the waters, and he shall cast forth his root toward a moist place: he shall not fear when heat comes, and there shall be upon him shady branches: he shall not fear in a year of drought, and he shall not fail to bear fruit.

bes@Jeremiah:17:9 @ The heart is deep beyond all things, and (note:)Pr strkjv@27:19(:note) it is the man, and who can know him?

bes@Jeremiah:17:10 @ I (note:)Re strkjv@2:23(:note) the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

bes@Jeremiah:17:11 @ The partridge utters her voice, she gathers eggs which she did not lay; so is a man gaining his wealth unjustly; in the midst of his days his riches shall leave him, and at his latter end he will be a fool.

bes@Jeremiah:17:12 @ An exalted throne of glory is our sanctuary.

bes@Jeremiah:17:13 @ O Lord, the hope of Israel, let all that have left thee be ashamed, let them that have revolted be written on the earth, because they have forsaken the fountain of life, the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:17:14 @ Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved; for thou art my boast.

bes@Jeremiah:17:15 @ Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come.

bes@Jeremiah:17:16 @ But I have not been weary of following thee, nor have I desired the day of man; thou knowest; the words that proceed out of my lips are before thy face.

bes@Jeremiah:17:17 @ Be not to me a stranger, but spare me in the evil day.

bes@Jeremiah:17:18 @ Let them that persecute me bee ashamed, but let me not be ashamed: let them be alarmed, but let me not be alarmed: bring upon them the evil day, crush them with double destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:17:19 @ Thus saith the Lord; Go and stand in the gates of the children of thy people, by which the kings of Juda enter, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:

bes@Jeremiah:17:20 @ and thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and all Judea, and all Jerusalem, all who go in at these gates:

bes@Jeremiah:17:21 @ thus saith the Lord; Take heed to your souls, and take up no burdens on the sabbath-day, and go not forth through the gates of Jerusalem;

bes@Jeremiah:17:22 @ and carry forth no burdens out of your houses on the sabbath-day, and ye shall do no work: sanctify the sabbath-day, as I commanded your fathers.

bes@Jeremiah:17:23 @ But they hearkened not, and inclined not their ear, but stiffened their neck more than their fathers did, so as not to hear me, and not to receive (note:)Or, instruction(:note) correction.

bes@Jeremiah:17:24 @ And it shall come to pass, if ye will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to carry in no burdens through the gates of this city on the sabbath-day, and to sanctify the sabbath-day, so as to do no work upon it,

bes@Jeremiah:17:25 @ that there shall enter through the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on the throne of David, and riding on their chariots and horses, they, and their princes, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem: and this city shall be inhabited for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:17:26 @ And men shall come out of the cities of Juda, and from round about Jerusalem, and out of the land of Benjamin, and out of the plain country, and from the hill country, and from the south country, bringing whole-burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and incense, and manna, and frankincense, bringing praise to the house of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:17:27 @ But it shall come to pass, if ye will not hearken to me to sanctify the sabbath-day, to bear no burdens, nor go in with them by the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath-day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the streets of Jerusalem, and shall not be quenched.

bes@Jeremiah:18:1 @ The word that came from the Lord to

bes@Jeremiah:18:2 @ Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words.

bes@Jeremiah:18:3 @ So I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making a vessel on the stones.

bes@Jeremiah:18:4 @ And the vessel which he was making with his hands fell: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to him to make it.

bes@Jeremiah:18:5 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:18:6 @ Shall I not be able, O house of Israel, to do to you as this potter? behold, as the clay of the potter are ye in my hands.

bes@Jeremiah:18:7 @ If I shall pronounce (note:)Lit. end(:note) a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy them;

bes@Jeremiah:18:8 @ and that nation turn from all their (note:)Gr. evils(:note) sins, then will I repent of the evils which I purposed to do to them.

bes@Jeremiah:18:9 @ And if I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant it;

bes@Jeremiah:18:10 @ and they do evil before me, so as not to hearken to my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.

bes@Jeremiah:18:11 @ And now say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Behold, I prepare evils against you, and devise a device against you: let every one turn now from his evil way, and amend your practices.

bes@Jeremiah:18:12 @ And they said, (note:)See Hebrew(:note) We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.

bes@Jeremiah:18:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Enquire now among the nations, who has heard such very horrible things as the virgin of Israel has done?

bes@Jeremiah:18:14 @ Will (note:)Gr. breasts; See Hebrew, possibly «crags’(:note) fertilising streams fail to flow from a rock, or snow fail from Libanus? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?

bes@Jeremiah:18:15 @ For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient (note:)Or, limits(:note) tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;

bes@Jeremiah:18:16 @ to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.

bes@Jeremiah:18:17 @ I will scatter them before their enemies like (note:)Gr. burning(:note) an east wind; I will shew them the day of their destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:18:18 @ Then they said, Come, and let us devise a device against Jeremias; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and we will hear all his words.

bes@Jeremiah:18:19 @ Hear me, O Lord, and hear the voice of my pleading.

bes@Jeremiah:18:20 @ Forasmuch as evil is rewarded for good; for they have spoken words against my soul, and they have hidden the punishment they meant for me; remember that I stood before thy face, to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

bes@Jeremiah:18:21 @ Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

bes@Jeremiah:18:22 @ Let there be a cry in their houses: thou shalt bring upon them robbers suddenly: for they have formed a plan to take me, and have hidden snares for me.

bes@Jeremiah:18:23 @ And thou, Lord, knowest all their deadly counsel against me: account not their iniquities guiltless, and blot not out their sins from before thee: let their weakness come before thee; deal with them in the time of thy wrath.

bes@Jeremiah:19:1 @ Then said the Lord to me, Go and get an earthen bottle, the work of the potter, and thou shalt bring some of the elders of the people, and of the priests;

bes@Jeremiah:19:2 @ and thou shalt go forth to the burial-place of the sons of their children, which is at the entrance of the gate of Charsith; and do thou read there all these words which I shall speak to thee:

bes@Jeremiah:19:3 @ and thou shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates; thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, so that the ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.

bes@Jeremiah:19:4 @ Because they forsook me, and (note:)Gr. estranged(:note) profaned this place, and burnt incense in it to strange gods, which they and their fathers knew not; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with innocent blood,

bes@Jeremiah:19:5 @ and built high places for Baal, to burn their children in the fire, which things I commanded not, (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’nor did I speak it’(:note) neither did I design them in my heart:

bes@Jeremiah:19:6 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when this place shall no more be called, The fall and burial-place of the son of Ennom, but, The burial-place of slaughter.

bes@Jeremiah:19:7 @ And I will destroy the counsel of Juda and the counsel of Jerusalem in this place; and I will cast them down with the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the sky and to the wild beasts of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:19:8 @ And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; every one that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

bes@Jeremiah:19:9 @ And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbour in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.

bes@Jeremiah:19:10 @ And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with thee,

bes@Jeremiah:19:11 @ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.

bes@Jeremiah:19:12 @ Thus will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.

bes@Jeremiah:19:13 @ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be as a ruinous place, because of their uncleannesses in all the houses, wherein they burnt incense upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to strange gods.

bes@Jeremiah:19:14 @ And Jeremias came from (note:)Hebrews. from Tophet; Alex. «the fall of the place of Tapheth’(:note) the place of the Fall, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house: and said to all the people, Thus saith the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:19:15 @ Behold I bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, and upon the villages of it, all the evils which I have spoken against it, because they have hardened their neck, that they might not hearken to my commands.

bes@Jeremiah:20:1 @ Now Paschor the son of Emmer, the priest, who also had been appointed chief of the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.

bes@Jeremiah:20:2 @ And he smote him, and cast him into the (note:)Or, possibly stocks(:note) dungeon which was by the gate of the upper house that was set apart, which was by the house of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:20:3 @ And Paschor brought Jeremias out of the dungeon: and Jeremias said to him, The Lord has not called thy name Paschor, but Exile.

bes@Jeremiah:20:4 @ For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give thee up to captivity with all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall see it: and I will give thee and all Juda into the hands of the king of Babylon, and they shall carry them captives, and cut them in pieces with swords.

bes@Jeremiah:20:5 @ And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labours of it, and all the treasures of the king of Juda, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:20:6 @ And thou and all the dwellers in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt die in Babylon, and there thou and all thy friends shall be buried, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

bes@Jeremiah:20:7 @ Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived: thou hast been strong, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock, I am continually mocked every day.

bes@Jeremiah:20:8 @ For I will laugh with my bitter speech, I will call upon rebellion and misery: for the word of the Lord is become a reproach to me and a mockery all my days.

bes@Jeremiah:20:9 @ Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and cannot bear up.

bes@Jeremiah:20:10 @ For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire ye, and let us (note:)Compare 2 Co strkjv@11:28(:note) conspire together against him, even all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.

bes@Jeremiah:20:11 @ But the Lord was with me as a mighty man of war: therefore they persecuted me, but could not perceive anything against me; they were greatly confounded, for they perceived not their disgrace, which shall never be forgotten.

bes@Jeremiah:20:12 @ O Lord, that provest just deeds, understanding the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance upon them: for to thee I have revealed my (note:)Gr. defences(:note) cause.

bes@Jeremiah:20:13 @ Sing ye to the Lord, sing praise to him: for he has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers.

bes@Jeremiah:20:14 @ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.

bes@Jeremiah:20:15 @ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee.

bes@Jeremiah:20:16 @ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;

bes@Jeremiah:20:17 @ because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb (note:)Gr. of everlasting conception(:note) always great with me.

bes@Jeremiah:20:18 @ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

bes@Jeremiah:21:1 @ THE WORD THAT CAME FROM THE LORD TO JEREMIAS, WHEN KING SEDEKIAS SENT TO HIM PASCHOR THE SON OF MELCHIAS, AND SOPHONIAS SON OF BASAEAS, THE PRIEST, SAYING,

bes@Jeremiah:21:2 @ Enquire of the Lord for us; for the king of Babylon has risen up against us; if the Lord will do according to all his wonderful works, and the king shall depart from us.

bes@Jeremiah:21:3 @ And Jeremias said to them, Thus shall ye say to Sedekias king of Juda,

bes@Jeremiah:21:4 @ Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

bes@Jeremiah:21:5 @ And I will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, with wrath and great anger.

bes@Jeremiah:21:6 @ And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous (note:)Lit. death(:note) pestilence: and they shall die.

bes@Jeremiah:21:7 @ And after this, thus saith the Lord; I will give Sedekias king of Juda, and his servants, and the people that is left in this city from the pestilence, and from the famine, and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies, that seek their lives: and they shall cut them in pieces with the edge of the sword: I will not spare them, and I will not have compassion upon them.

bes@Jeremiah:21:8 @ And thou shalt say to this people, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

bes@Jeremiah:21:9 @ He that remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by famine: but he that goes forth to (note:)Or, go over to; Alex. proscwrhsai(:note) advance to the Chaldeans that have besieged you, shall live, and his life shall be to him for a spoil, and he shall live.

bes@Jeremiah:21:10 @ For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good: it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall consume it with fire.

bes@Jeremiah:21:11 @ O house of the king of Juda, hear ye the word of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:21:12 @ O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Judge judgement in the morning, and act rightly, and rescue the spoiled one from the hand of him that wrongs him, lest mine anger be kindled like fire, and it (note:)Gr. shall burn(:note) burn, and there be none to quench it.

bes@Jeremiah:21:13 @ Behold, I am against thee that dwellest in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, even against them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?

bes@Jeremiah:21:14 @ And I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

bes@Jeremiah:22:1 @ Thus saith the Lord; Go thou, and go down to the house of the king of Juda, and thou shalt speak there this word,

bes@Jeremiah:22:2 @ and thou shalt say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sittest on the throne of David, thou, and thy house, and thy people, and they that go in at these gates:

bes@Jeremiah:22:3 @ thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgement and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

bes@Jeremiah:22:4 @ For if ye will indeed perform this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses, they, and their servants, and their people.

bes@Jeremiah:22:5 @ But if ye will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, that this house shall be brought to desolation.

bes@Jeremiah:22:6 @ For thus saith the Lord (note:)Or, against(:note) concerning the house of the king of Juda; Thou art Galaad to me, and the head of Libanus: yet surely I will make thee a desert, even cities that shall not be inhabited:

bes@Jeremiah:22:7 @ and I will bring upon thee a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

bes@Jeremiah:22:8 @ And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?

bes@Jeremiah:22:9 @ And they shall say Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.

bes@Jeremiah:22:10 @ Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.

bes@Jeremiah:22:11 @ For thus saith the Lord (note:)Gr. against(:note) concerning Sellem the son of Josias, who reigns in the place of Josias his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:

bes@Jeremiah:22:12 @ but in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.

bes@Jeremiah:22:13 @ He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgement, (note:)Complut. reads, «his neighbour works with him,’ etc.(:note) who works by means of his neighbour for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.

bes@Jeremiah:22:14 @ Thou hast built for thyself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

bes@Jeremiah:22:15 @ Shalt thou reign, because thou art provoked with thy father Achaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for thee to execute judgement and justice.

bes@Jeremiah:22:16 @ They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor: is not this thy not knowing me? saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:22:17 @ Behold, thine eyes are not good, nor thine heart, but they go after thy covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

bes@Jeremiah:22:18 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord (note:)Or, to, or, against(:note) concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, saying, Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, saying, Alas Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:22:19 @ He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:22:20 @ Go up to Libanus, and cry; and (note:)Gr. give(:note) utter thy voice to Basan, and cry aloud Alex. reads eiv to peran, to the country beyond the sea to the extremity of the sea: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

bes@Jeremiah:22:21 @ I spoke to thee (note:)Possibly «concerning thy fall’(:note) on occasion of thy trespass, but thou saidst, I will not hearken. This has been thy way from thy youth, thou hast not hearkened to my voice.

bes@Jeremiah:22:22 @ The wind shall tend all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; for then shalt thou be ashamed and disgraced because of all thy lovers.

bes@Jeremiah:22:23 @ O (note:)Fem. gen(:note) thou that dwellest in Libanus, making thy nest in the cedars, thou shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon thee.

bes@Jeremiah:22:24 @ As I live, saith the Lord, though Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck thee;

bes@Jeremiah:22:25 @ and I will deliver thee into the hands of them that seek thy life, before whom thou art afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.

bes@Jeremiah:22:26 @ And I will cast forth thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a land where thou wast not born; and there ye shall die.

bes@Jeremiah:22:27 @ But they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their souls.

bes@Jeremiah:22:28 @ Jechonias is dishonoured as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.

bes@Jeremiah:22:29 @ Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:22:30 @ Write ye this man (note:)Gr. one cried out as by a common crier(:note) an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, or as a prince yet in Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:23:1 @

bes@Jeremiah:23:2 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord against them that tend my people; Ye have scattered my sheep, and driven them out, and ye have not visited them: behold, I will take vengeance upon you according to your evil practices.

bes@Jeremiah:23:3 @ And I will gather in the remnant of my people (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. «from’(:note) in every land, whither I have driven them out, and will set them in their pasture; and they shall increase and be multiplied.

bes@Jeremiah:23:4 @ And I will raise up shepherds to them, who shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be alarmed, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:23:5 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and (note:)See Hebrew(:note) understand, and shall execute judgement and righteousness on the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:23:6 @ In his days both Juda shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell (note:)Gr. secure, or, trusting(:note) securely: and this is his name, which the Lord shall call him, Josedec among the prophets.

bes@Jeremiah:23:7 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The Lord lives, who brought up the house of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

bes@Jeremiah:23:8 @ but The Lord lives, who has gathered the whole seed of Israel from the north land, and from all the countries whither he had driven them out, and has restored them into their own land.

bes@Jeremiah:23:9 @ My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a broken-down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.

bes@Jeremiah:23:10 @ For because of these (note:)Gr. prophets(:note) things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and Hebrews. and Alex. not so so also their strength.

bes@Jeremiah:23:11 @ For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.

bes@Jeremiah:23:12 @ Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.

bes@Jeremiah:23:13 @ And in the prophets of Samaria I have seen lawless deeds; they prophesied by Baal, and led my people Israel astray.

bes@Jeremiah:23:14 @ Also in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen horrible things: as they committed adultery, and walked in lies, and strengthened (note:)Alex. the hands of evil-doers(:note) the hands of many, that they should not return each from his evil way: they are all become to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha.

bes@Jeremiah:23:15 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth into all the land.

bes@Jeremiah:23:16 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken not to the words of the prophets: for they frame a vain vision for themselves; they speak from their own heart, and not from the mouth of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:23:17 @ They say to them that reject the word of the Lord, There shall be peace to you; and to all that walk after their own lusts, and to everyone that walks in the error of his heart, they have said, No evil shall come upon thee.

bes@Jeremiah:23:18 @ For who has stood in the counsel of the Lord, and seen his word? who has hearkened, and heard?

bes@Jeremiah:23:19 @ Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come (note:)Gr. whirled round as from a sling, etc.(:note) violently upon the ungodly.

bes@Jeremiah:23:20 @ And the Lord’s wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.

bes@Jeremiah:23:21 @ I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.

bes@Jeremiah:23:22 @ But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had hearkened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.

bes@Jeremiah:23:23 @ I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.

bes@Jeremiah:23:24 @ Shall any one hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:23:25 @ I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.

bes@Jeremiah:23:26 @ How long shall these things be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, when they prophesy the purposes of their own heart?

bes@Jeremiah:23:27 @ who devise that men may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbour, as their fathers forgot my name in the worship of Baal.

bes@Jeremiah:23:28 @ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is my word spoken to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:23:29 @ Behold, are not my words as fire? saith the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

bes@Jeremiah:23:30 @ Behold, I am therefore against the prophets, saith the Lord God, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

bes@Jeremiah:23:31 @ Behold, I am against the prophets that put forth prophecies of mere words, and slumber their sleep.

bes@Jeremiah:23:32 @ Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. omit the negative(:note) not told them truly, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.

bes@Jeremiah:23:33 @ And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then thou shalt say to them, Ye are the burden, and I will dash you down, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:23:34 @ As for the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.

bes@Jeremiah:23:35 @ Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What has the Lord answered? and, what has the Lord said?

bes@Jeremiah:23:36 @ And do ye name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man’s burden.

bes@Jeremiah:23:37 @ But wherefore, say ye, has the Lord our God spoken?

bes@Jeremiah:23:38 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord our God; Because ye have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, ye shall not say, The burden of the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:23:39 @ therefore, behold, I will seize, and dash down you and the city which I gave to you and your fathers.

bes@Jeremiah:23:40 @ And I will bring upon you an everlasting reproach, and everlasting disgrace, which shall not be forgotten.

bes@Jeremiah:24:1 @ The Lord shewed me two baskets of figs, lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes, and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:24:2 @ The one basket was full of very good figs, as the early figs; and the other basket was full of very bad figs, which could not be eaten, for their badness.

bes@Jeremiah:24:3 @ And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? and I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for their badness.

bes@Jeremiah:24:4 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:24:5 @ Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs, so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.

bes@Jeremiah:24:6 @ And I will fix mine eyes upon them for good, and I will restore them into this land for good: and I will build them up, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

bes@Jeremiah:24:7 @ And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God: for they shall turn to me with all their heart.

bes@Jeremiah:24:8 @ And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.

bes@Jeremiah:24:9 @ And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.

bes@Jeremiah:24:10 @ And I will send against them famine, and pestilence, and the sword, until they are consumed from off the land which I gave them.

bes@Jeremiah:25:1 @ THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS concerning all the people of Juda in the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josias, king of Juda;

bes@Jeremiah:25:2 @ which he spoke to all the people of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:25:3 @ In the thirteenth year of Josias, son of Amos, king of Juda, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,

bes@Jeremiah:25:4 @ and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,

bes@Jeremiah:25:5 @ Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:25:6 @ Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.

bes@Jeremiah:25:7 @ But ye hearkened not to me.

bes@Jeremiah:25:8 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since ye believed not my words,

bes@Jeremiah:25:9 @ behold I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and (note:)Gr. give them to(:note) make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

bes@Jeremiah:25:10 @ And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.

bes@Jeremiah:25:11 @ And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

bes@Jeremiah:25:12 @ And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

bes@Jeremiah:25:13 @ And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have spoken against it, even all things that are written in this book.

bes@Jeremiah:25:34 @

bes@Jeremiah:25:35 @ Thus saith the Lord, The bow of Ælam is broken, even the chief of their power.

bes@Jeremiah:25:36 @ And I will bring upon Ælam the four winds from the four corners of heaven, and I will disperse them (note:)Gr. in(:note) toward all these winds; and there shall be no nation to which they shall not come—even the outcasts of Ælam.

bes@Jeremiah:25:37 @ And I will put them in fear before their enemies that seek their life; and I will bring evils upon them according to my great anger; and I will send forth my sword after them, until I have utterly destroyed them.

bes@Jeremiah:25:38 @ And I will set my throne in Ælam, and will send forth thence king and rulers.

bes@Jeremiah:25:39 @ But it shall come to pass (note:)Or, in the latter days(:note) at the end of days, that I will turn the captivity of Ælam, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:26:1 @ In the beginning of the reign of king Sedekias, there came this word concerning Ælam.

bes@Jeremiah:26:2 @ FOR EGYPT, AGAINST THE POWER OF PHARAO NECHAO KING OF EGYPT, who was by the river Euphrates in Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:26:3 @ Take up (note:)Or, shields(:note) arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;

bes@Jeremiah:26:4 @ and harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breast-plates.

bes@Jeremiah:26:5 @ Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not (note:)Or, lit. returned(:note) rallied, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:26:6 @ Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the forces at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.

bes@Jeremiah:26:7 @ Who is this that shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll their (note:)Gr. water(:note) waves?

bes@Jeremiah:26:8 @ The waters of Egypt shall come up like a river: and he said, I will go up, and will cover the earth, and will destroy the dwellers in it.

bes@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Mount ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, ye warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with (note:)See verse 3; oplon apparently means shield in LXX(:note) shields; and mount, ye Lydians, bend the bow.

bes@Jeremiah:26:10 @ And that day shall be to the Lord our God a day of vengeance, to take vengeance on his enemies: and the sword of the Lord shall devour, and be glutted, and be drunken with their blood: for the Lord has a sacrifice from the land of the north at the river Euphrates.

bes@Jeremiah:26:11 @ Go up to Galaad, and take (note:)Or, balsam(:note) balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no help in thee.

bes@Jeremiah:26:12 @ The nations have heard thy voice, and the land has been filled with thy cry: for the warriors have fainted fighting one against another, and both are fallen together.

bes@Jeremiah:26:13 @ THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE by Jeremias, concerning the coming of the king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt.

bes@Jeremiah:26:14 @ Proclaim it at Magdol, and declare it at Memphis: say ye, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured thy yew-tree.

bes@Jeremiah:26:15 @ Wherefore has Apis fled from thee? thy choice calf has not remained; for the Lord has (note:)Gr. paralyzed(:note) utterly weakened him.

bes@Jeremiah:26:16 @ And thy multitude has fainted and fallen; and each one said to his neighbour, Let us arise, and return into our country to our people, from the Grecian sword.

bes@Jeremiah:26:17 @ Call ye the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, (note:)The Hebrew words untranslated—’a noise—he has passed the appointed time’(:note) Saon esbeie moed.

bes@Jeremiah:26:18 @ As I live, saith the Lord God, he shall come as Itabyrion among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.

bes@Jeremiah:26:19 @ O daughter of Egypt dwelling at home, prepare thee stuff for removing: for Memphis shall be utterly desolate, and shall be called Woe, because there are no inhabitants in it.

bes@Jeremiah:26:20 @ Egypt is a fair heifer, but destruction from the north is come upon her.

bes@Jeremiah:26:21 @ Also her hired soldiers in the midst of her are as fatted calves fed in her; for they also have turned, and fled with one accord: they stood not, for the day of destruction was come upon them, and the time of their retribution.

bes@Jeremiah:26:22 @ Their voice is as that of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.

bes@Jeremiah:26:23 @ They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.

bes@Jeremiah:26:24 @ The daughter of Egypt is confounded; she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north.

bes@Jeremiah:26:25 @ Behold, I will avenge (note:)See Hebrew(:note) Ammon her son upon Pharao, and upon them that trust in him.

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bes@Jeremiah:26:27 @ But fear not thou, my servant Jacob, neither be thou alarmed, Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be at ease, and sleep, and there shall be no one to trouble him.

bes@Jeremiah:26:28 @ Fear not thou, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; for I am with thee: she that was without fear and in luxury, has been delivered up: for I will make a full end of every nation among whom I have thrust thee forth; but I will not cause thee to fail: yet will I chastise thee in the way of judgement, and will not hold thee entirely guiltless.

bes@Jeremiah:27:1 @ THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.

bes@Jeremiah:27:2 @ Proclaim ye among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress them not: say ye, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.

bes@Jeremiah:27:3 @ For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.

bes@Jeremiah:27:4 @ In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.

bes@Jeremiah:27:5 @ They shall ask the way till they come to Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

bes@Jeremiah:27:6 @ My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.

bes@Jeremiah:27:7 @ All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers had a pasture of righteousness.

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bes@Jeremiah:27:9 @ For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return (note:)See 2 Sa strkjv@1:22(:note) empty.

bes@Jeremiah:27:10 @ And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.

bes@Jeremiah:27:11 @ Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, while plundering mine heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.

bes@Jeremiah:27:12 @ Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: she is the last of the nations, desolate,

bes@Jeremiah:27:13 @ by reason of the Lord’s anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall (note:)Or, looked sad(:note) scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.

bes@Jeremiah:27:14 @ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

bes@Jeremiah:27:15 @ and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.

bes@Jeremiah:27:16 @ Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, and him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

bes@Jeremiah:27:17 @ Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria firsts devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.

bes@Jeremiah:27:18 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.

bes@Jeremiah:27:19 @ And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.

bes@Jeremiah:27:20 @ In those days, and at that time, (note:)Alex. +’saith the Lord’(:note) they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left

bes@Jeremiah:27:21 @ on the land, saith the Lord. Go up against it (note:)Gr. bitterly(:note) roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I command thee.

bes@Jeremiah:27:22 @ A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!

bes@Jeremiah:27:23 @ How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

bes@Jeremiah:27:24 @ They shall come upon thee, and thou shalt not know it, Babylon, that thou wilt even be taken captive: thou art found and taken, because thou didst resist the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:27:25 @ The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God has a work in the land of the Chaldeans.

bes@Jeremiah:27:26 @ For her times are come: open ye her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.

bes@Jeremiah:27:27 @ Dry ye up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.

bes@Jeremiah:27:28 @ A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance that comes from the Lord our God.

bes@Jeremiah:27:29 @ Summon many against Babylon, even every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her people escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:27:30 @ Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:27:31 @ Behold, I am against thee the haughty one, saith the Lord: for thy day is come, and the time of thy retribution.

bes@Jeremiah:27:32 @ And thy pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.

bes@Jeremiah:27:33 @ Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.

bes@Jeremiah:27:34 @ But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgement with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;

bes@Jeremiah:27:35 @ and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;

bes@Jeremiah:27:36 @ a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:

bes@Jeremiah:27:37 @ a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,

bes@Jeremiah:27:38 @ and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven images; and in the islands, where they boasted.

bes@Jeremiah:27:39 @ Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the (note:)Gr. darkness of sirens; See Job strkjv@30:29; Isa strkjv@13:21, etc.(:note) young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:27:40 @ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, saith the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.

bes@Jeremiah:27:41 @ Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:

bes@Jeremiah:27:42 @ the people is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:27:43 @ The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.

bes@Jeremiah:27:44 @ Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to (note:)Hebrews. Ntya hwn; Alex. the place of Ætham(:note) Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

bes@Jeremiah:27:45 @ Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting it: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.

bes@Jeremiah:27:46 @ For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.

bes@Jeremiah:28:1 @ Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.

bes@Jeremiah:28:2 @ And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about her in the day of her affliction.

bes@Jeremiah:28:3 @ Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.

bes@Jeremiah:28:4 @ And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and men pierced through shall fall without it.

bes@Jeremiah:28:5 @ For Israel and Juda have not been (note:)Gr. widowed(:note) forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:28:6 @ Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every one his soul: and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord; he is rendering to her a recompence.

bes@Jeremiah:28:7 @ Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, causing all the earth to be drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.

bes@Jeremiah:28:8 @ And Babylon is fallen suddenly, and is broken to pieces: lament for her; take balm for her deadly wound, if by any means she may be healed.

bes@Jeremiah:28:9 @ We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed: let us forsake her, and depart every one to his own country: for her judgement has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.

bes@Jeremiah:28:10 @ The Lord has brought forth his judgement: come, and let us declare in Sion the works of the Lord our God.

bes@Jeremiah:28:11 @ Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes: for his wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord’s vengeance, it is the vengeance of his people.

bes@Jeremiah:28:12 @ Lift up a standard on the walls of Babylon, prepare the quivers, rouse the guards, prepare the weapons: for the Lord has taken the work in hand, and will execute what he has spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon,

bes@Jeremiah:28:13 @ dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; thine end is come verily into thy bowels.

bes@Jeremiah:28:14 @ For the Lord has sworn by his arm, saying, I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against thee.

bes@Jeremiah:28:15 @ The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.

bes@Jeremiah:28:16 @ At his voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.

bes@Jeremiah:28:17 @ Every man has (note:)Gr. become foolish from knowledge; See Jer strkjv@10:14(:note) completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images: for they have cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

bes@Jeremiah:28:18 @ They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

bes@Jeremiah:28:19 @ Not such is Jacob’s portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.

bes@Jeremiah:28:20 @ Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee.

bes@Jeremiah:28:21 @ And by thee I will scatter the horse and his rider; and by thee I will scatter chariots and them that ride in them.

bes@Jeremiah:28:22 @ And by thee I will scatter youth and maid; and by thee I will scatter man and woman.

bes@Jeremiah:28:23 @ And by thee I will scatter the shepherd and his flock; and by thee I will scatter the husbandman and his husbandry; and by thee I will scatter leaders and the captains.

bes@Jeremiah:28:24 @ And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell there all their mischiefs that they have done to Sion before your eyes, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:28:25 @ Behold, I am against thee, the ruined mountain, that destroys the whole earth; and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will roll thee down upon the rocks, and will make thee as a burnt mountain.

bes@Jeremiah:28:26 @ And they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for a foundation: for thou shalt be a desolation for ever, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:28:27 @ Lift up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, (note:)See Ex strkjv@32:29.(:note) consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by me, and that for the people of Achanaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her Or, horsemen horses as a multitude of locusts.

bes@Jeremiah:28:28 @ Bring up nations against her, even the king of the Medes and of the whole earth, his rulers, and all his captains. (note:)Alex. +’and all the land of his dominion’(:note)

bes@Jeremiah:28:29 @ The earth has quaked and been troubled, because the purpose of the Lord has risen up against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, and uninhabitable.

bes@Jeremiah:28:30 @ The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.

bes@Jeremiah:28:31 @ One shall rush, running to meet another runner, and one shall go with tidings to meet another with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.

bes@Jeremiah:28:32 @ At the end of his passages they were taken, and his cisterns they have burnt with fire, and his warriors are going forth.

bes@Jeremiah:28:33 @ For thus saith the Lord, The houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed as a floor in the season; yet a little while, and her harvest shall come.

bes@Jeremiah:28:34 @ He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.

bes@Jeremiah:28:35 @ My troubles and my distresses have driven me out into Babylon, shall she that dwells in Sion say; and my blood shall be upon the Chaldeans dwelling there, shall Jerusalem say.

bes@Jeremiah:28:36 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will judge thine adversary, and I will execute vengeance for thee; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

bes@Jeremiah:28:37 @ And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.

bes@Jeremiah:28:38 @ For they rose up together as lions, and as lions’ whelps.

bes@Jeremiah:28:39 @ In their heat I will give them a draught, and make them drunk, that they may be stupified, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:28:40 @ And bring thou them down as lambs to the slaughter, and rams with kids.

bes@Jeremiah:28:41 @ How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

bes@Jeremiah:28:42 @ The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered.

bes@Jeremiah:28:43 @ Her cities are become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one man shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.

bes@Jeremiah:28:44 @ And I will take vengeance on Babylon, and bring forth out of her mouth what she has swallowed down, and the nations shall no more be gathered to her:

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bes@Jeremiah:28:49 @ and in Babylon the slain men of all the earth shall fall.

bes@Jeremiah:28:50 @ Go forth of the land, ye that escape, and stay not; ye that are afar off, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem come into your (note:)Gr. heart(:note) mind.

bes@Jeremiah:28:51 @ We are ashamed, because we have heard our reproach; disgrace has covered our face; aliens are come into our sanctuary, even into the house of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:28:52 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will take vengeance upon her graven images: and slain men shall fall in all her land.

bes@Jeremiah:28:53 @ For though Babylon should go up as the heaven, and though she should strengthen her walls with her power, from me shall come they that shall destroy her, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:28:54 @ A sound of a cry in Babylon, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans:

bes@Jeremiah:28:55 @ for the Lord has utterly destroyed Babylon, and cut off from her the great voice sounding as many waters: he has consigned her voice to destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:28:56 @ For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.

bes@Jeremiah:28:57 @ The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, saith the King, the Lord Almighty is his name.

bes@Jeremiah:28:58 @ Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; and the peoples shall not labour in vain, nor the nations fail in their rule.

bes@Jeremiah:28:59 @ THE WORD WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THE PROPHET JEREMIAS to say to Saraeas son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, when he went from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. And Saraeas was over the bounties.

bes@Jeremiah:28:60 @ And Jeremias wrote in a book all the evils which should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:28:61 @ And Jeremias said to Saraeas, When thou art come to Babylon, and shalt see and read all these words;

bes@Jeremiah:28:62 @ then thou shalt say, (note:)See 1 Ki strkjv@8:53, note(:note) O Lord God, thou hast spoken against this place, to destroy it, and that there should be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desolation for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:28:63 @ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt cease from reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone upon it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates;

bes@Jeremiah:28:64 @ and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and not rise, because of the evils which I bring upon it.

bes@Jeremiah:29:1 @ THUS SAITH THE LORD AGAINST THE PHILISTINES;

bes@Jeremiah:29:2 @ Behold, waters come up from the north, and shall become a sweeping torrent, and it shall sweep away the land, and its fulness; the city, and them that dwell in it: and men shall cry and all that dwell in the land shall howl,

bes@Jeremiah:29:3 @ at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

bes@Jeremiah:29:4 @ in the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines: and I will utterly destroy Tyre and Sidon and all the rest of their allies: for the Lord will destroy the remaining inhabitants of the islands.

bes@Jeremiah:29:5 @ Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ascalon is cast away, and the remnant of the Enakim.

bes@Jeremiah:29:6 @ How long wilt thou smite, O sword of the Lord? how long will it be ere thou art quiet? return into thy sheath, rest, and (note:)Gr. be elated(:note) be removed. - How shall it be quiet, whereas the Lord has given it a commission against Ascalon, and against the regions on the sea-coast, to awake against the remaining Or, cities countries!

bes@Jeremiah:29:7 @ CONCERNING IDUMEA, thus saith the Lord; There is no longer wisdom in Thaeman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

bes@Jeremiah:29:8 @ their place has been deceived. Dig deep for a dwelling, ye that inhabit Daedam, for he has wrought grievously: I brought trouble upon him in the time at which I visited him.

bes@Jeremiah:29:9 @ For grape-gatherers are come, who shall not leave thee a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon thy possessions.

bes@Jeremiah:29:10 @ For I have stripped Esau, I have uncovered their secret places; they shall have no power to hide themselves, they have perished each by the hand of his brother, my neighbour, and it is impossible

bes@Jeremiah:29:11 @ for thy fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in me.

bes@Jeremiah:29:12 @ For thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk it; and thou shalt by no means be cleared: (note:)Alex. +for thou shalt surely drink it(:note)

bes@Jeremiah:29:13 @ for by myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, that thou shalt be in the midst of her an impassable land, and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be desert for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:29:14 @ I have heard a report from the lord, and he has sent messengers to the nations, saying, Assemble yourselves, and come against her; rise ye up to war.

bes@Jeremiah:29:15 @ I have made thee small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

bes@Jeremiah:29:16 @ Thine (note:)Lit. sport(:note) insolence has risen up against thee, the fierceness of thine heart has burst the holes of the rocks, it has seized upon the strength of a lofty hill; for as an eagle he set his nest on high: thence will I bring thee down.

bes@Jeremiah:29:17 @ And Idumea shall be a desert: every one that passes by shall hiss at it.

bes@Jeremiah:29:18 @ As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha and they that sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.

bes@Jeremiah:29:19 @ Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of Jordan to the place of (note:)See Jer strkjv@24:27(:note) Ætham: for I will speedily drive them from it, and do ye set the young men against her: for who is like me? and who will withstand me? and who is this shepherd, who shall confront me?

bes@Jeremiah:29:20 @ Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Idumea; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Thaeman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.

bes@Jeremiah:29:21 @ For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

bes@Jeremiah:29:22 @ Behold, he shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth his wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Idumea shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

bes@Jeremiah:30:1 @ CONCERNING THE SONS OF AMMON thus saith the Lord, Are there no sons in Israel? or have they no one to succeed them? wherefore has Melchol inherited Galaad, and why shall their people dwell in their cities?

bes@Jeremiah:30:2 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will cause to be heard (note:)Or, at, as far as, or against(:note) in Rabbath a tumult of wars; and they shall become a waste and ruined place, and her altars shall be burned with fire; then shall Israel succeed to his dominion.

bes@Jeremiah:30:3 @ Howl, O Esebon, for Gai has perished; cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with sack-clothes, and lament; for Melchol shall go into banishment, his priests and his princes together.

bes@Jeremiah:30:4 @ Why do ye exult in the plains of the Enakim, thou haughty daughter, that trustest in thy treasures, that sayest, Who shall come in to me?

bes@Jeremiah:30:5 @ Behold, I will bring terror upon thee, saith the Lord, from all the country round about thee; and ye shall be scattered every one right before him, and there is none to gather you.

bes@Jeremiah:30:23 @ CONCERNING DAMASCUS. Emath is brought to shame, and Arphath: for they have heard an evil report: they are amazed, they are angry, they shall be utterly unable to rest.

bes@Jeremiah:30:24 @ Damascus is utterly weakened, she is put to flight; trembling has seized upon her.

bes@Jeremiah:30:25 @ How has she not left my city, they have loved the village?

bes@Jeremiah:30:26 @ Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:30:27 @ And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the streets of the son of Ader.

bes@Jeremiah:30:28 @ CONCERNING KEDAR (note:)Hebrews. the kingdoms of Hazor(:note) THE QUEEN OF THE PALACE, WHOM NABUCHODONOSOR KING OF BABYLON SMOTE, thus saith the Lord; Arise ye, and go up to Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem.

bes@Jeremiah:30:29 @ They shall take their tents and their sheep, they shall take for themselves their garments, and all their (note:)Gr. vessels(:note) baggage and their camels; and summon ye destruction against them from every side.

bes@Jeremiah:30:30 @ Flee ye, dig very deep for a dwelling-place, ye that dwell in the palace; for the king of Babylon has framed a counsel, and devised a device against you.

bes@Jeremiah:30:31 @ Rise up, and go up against a nation settled and dwelling at ease, who have no doors, nor (note:)Lit. acorns; q. d. nuts, as of screws(:note) bolts, nor bars, who dwell alone.

bes@Jeremiah:30:32 @ And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads, I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:30:33 @ And the palace shall be a resting-place for ostriches, and desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, and no son of man shall dwell there.

bes@Jeremiah:31:1 @ Thus has the Lord said concerning MOAB, Woe to Nabau! for it has perished: Cariathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.

bes@Jeremiah:31:2 @ There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;

bes@Jeremiah:31:3 @ for there is a voice of men crying out of Oronaim, destruction and great ruin.

bes@Jeremiah:31:4 @ Moab is ruined, proclaim it to Zogora:

bes@Jeremiah:31:5 @ for Aloth is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Oronaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.

bes@Jeremiah:31:6 @ Flee ye, and save your lives, and ye shall be as a wild ass in the desert.

bes@Jeremiah:31:7 @ Since thou hast trusted in thy strong-hold, therefore thou shalt be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.

bes@Jeremiah:31:8 @ And destruction shall come upon every city, it shall by no means escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain country shall be completely destroyed, as the Lord has said.

bes@Jeremiah:31:9 @ Set marks upon Moab, for she shall be (note:)Or, kindled; q. d. with carbuncle(:note) touched with a plague-spot, and all her cities shall become desolate; whence shall there be an inhabitant for her?

bes@Jeremiah:31:10 @ Cursed is the man that does the works of the Lord carelessly, keeping back his sword from blood.

bes@Jeremiah:31:11 @ Moab has been at ease from a child, and trusted in his glory; he has not poured out his liquor from vessel to vessel, and has not gone into banishment, therefore his taste remained in him, and his smell departed not.

bes@Jeremiah:31:12 @ Therefore, behold, his days come, saith the Lord, when I shall send upon him bad leaders, and they shall lead him astray, and they shall utterly break in pieces his possessions, and shall cut his horns asunder.

bes@Jeremiah:31:13 @ And Moab shall be ashamed of Chamos, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Baethel their hope, having trusted in them.

bes@Jeremiah:31:14 @ How will ye say, We are strong, and men strong for war?

bes@Jeremiah:31:15 @ Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

bes@Jeremiah:31:16 @ The day of Moab is near at hand, and his iniquity moves swiftly to vengeance.

bes@Jeremiah:31:17 @ Shake the head at him, all ye that are round about him; all of you utter his name; say ye, How is the glorious staff broken to pieces, the rod of magnificence!

bes@Jeremiah:31:18 @ Come down from thy glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against thee one to ravage thy strong-hold.

bes@Jeremiah:31:19 @ Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

bes@Jeremiah:31:20 @ Moab is put to shame, because he is broken: howl and cry; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab has perished.

bes@Jeremiah:31:21 @ And judgement is coming against the land of Misor, upon Chelon, and Rephas, and Mophas,

bes@Jeremiah:31:22 @ and upon Daebon, and upon Nabau, and upon the house of Daethlathaim,

bes@Jeremiah:31:23 @ and upon Cariathaim, and upon the house of Gaemol, and upon the house of Maon,

bes@Jeremiah:31:24 @ and upon Carioth, and upon Bosor, and upon all the cities of Moab, far and near.

bes@Jeremiah:31:25 @ The horn of Moab is broken, and his arm is crushed.

bes@Jeremiah:31:26 @ Make ye him drunk; for he has magnified himself against the Lord: and Moab shall clap with his hand, and shall be also himself a laughing-stock.

bes@Jeremiah:31:27 @ For surely Israel was to thee a laughing-stock, and was found among thy thefts, because thou didst fight against him.

bes@Jeremiah:31:28 @ The inhabitants of Moab have left the cities, and dwelt in rocks; they have become as doves nestling in rocks, at the mouth of a cave.

bes@Jeremiah:31:29 @ And I have heard of the pride of Moab, he has greatly heightened his pride and his haughtiness, and his heart has been lifted up.

bes@Jeremiah:31:30 @ But I know his works: is it not enough for him? has he not done thus?

bes@Jeremiah:31:31 @ Therefore howl ye for Moab on all sides; cry out against the shorn men in a gloomy place. I will weep for thee,

bes@Jeremiah:31:32 @ O vine of Aserema, as with the weeping of Jazer: thy branches are gone (note:)Gr. through(:note) over the sea, they reached the cities of Jazer: destruction has come upon thy Or, harvest, or, corn fruits, and upon thy grape-gatherers.

bes@Jeremiah:31:33 @ Joy and gladness have been utterly swept off the land of Moab: and though there was wine in thy presses, in the morning they trod it not, neither in the evening did they raise the cry of joy.

bes@Jeremiah:31:34 @ From the cry of Esebon even to (note:)Alex. Eleale(:note) Ætam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings as a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be Gr. be for parching, or, burning dried up.

bes@Jeremiah:31:35 @ And I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, as he comes up to the altar, and burns incense to his gods.

bes@Jeremiah:31:36 @ Therefore the heart of Moab shall sound as pipes, my heart shall sound as a pipe for the shorn men; forasmuch as what every man has gained has perished from him.

bes@Jeremiah:31:37 @ They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall (note:)Or, be cut(:note) beat the breasts, and on all loins shall be sackcloth.

bes@Jeremiah:31:38 @ And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets shall be mourning: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.

bes@Jeremiah:31:39 @ How has he (note:)See Hebrew(:note) changed! how has Moab turned his back! Moab is put to shame, and become a laughing-stock, and an object of anger to all that are round about Gr. her him.

bes@Jeremiah:31:40 @ For thus said the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:31:41 @ Carioth is taken, and the strong-holds have been taken together.

bes@Jeremiah:31:42 @ And Moab shall perish from being a multitude, because he has magnified himself against the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:31:43 @ A snare, and fear, and the pit, are upon thee, O inhabitant off Moab.

bes@Jeremiah:31:44 @ he that flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he that comes up out of the pit shall even be taken in the snare: for I will bring these things upon Moab in the year of their visitation.

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bes@Jeremiah:32:15 @ Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of this unmixed wine from mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send thee.

bes@Jeremiah:32:16 @ And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them.

bes@Jeremiah:32:17 @ So I took the cup out of the Lord’s hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:

bes@Jeremiah:32:18 @ Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing;

bes@Jeremiah:32:19 @ and Pharao king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people;

bes@Jeremiah:32:20 @ and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ascalon, and Gaza, and Accaron, and the remnant of Azotus,

bes@Jeremiah:32:21 @ and Idumea, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,

bes@Jeremiah:32:22 @ and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the country beyond the sea,

bes@Jeremiah:32:23 @ and Daedan, and Thaeman, and Ros, and every one that is shaved round about the face,

bes@Jeremiah:32:24 @ and all the mingled people lodging in the wilderness,

bes@Jeremiah:32:25 @ and all the kings of Ælam, and all the kings of the Persians,

bes@Jeremiah:32:26 @ and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdom s which are on the face of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:32:27 @ And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty; Drink ye, be ye drunken; and ye shall vomit, and shall fall, and shall in nowise rise, because of the sword which I send (note:)Gr. between(:note) among you.

bes@Jeremiah:32:28 @ And it shall come to pass, when they (note:)Gr. shall not be willing(:note) refuse to take the cup out of thine hand, Gr. so as to to drink it, that thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; Ye shall surely drink.

bes@Jeremiah:32:29 @ For I am beginning to afflict the city whereon my name is called, and ye shall by no means (note:)Gr. be cleansed with cleansing(:note) be held guiltless: for I am calling a sword upon all that dwell upon the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:32:30 @ And thou shalt prophesy against them these words, and shalt say, The Lord shall (note:)q. d. oracularly(:note) speak from on high, from his sanctuary he will utter his voice; he will pronounce a declaration on his place; and these shall answer like men gathering grapes: and destruction is coming on them that dwell on the earth,

bes@Jeremiah:32:31 @ even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:32:32 @ Thus said the Lord; Behold, evils are proceeding from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind goes forth from the end of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:32:33 @ And the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be buried; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:32:34 @ Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and lament, ye rams of the flock: for your days have been completed for slaughter, and ye shall fall as the choice rams.

bes@Jeremiah:32:35 @ And flight shall perish from the shepherds, and safety from the rams of the flock.

bes@Jeremiah:32:36 @ A voice of the crying of the shepherds, and a moaning of the sheep and the rams: for the Lord has destroyed their pastures.

bes@Jeremiah:32:37 @ And (note:)Gr. the remnants of peace(:note) the peaceable abodes that remain shall be destroyed before the fierceness of my anger.

bes@Jeremiah:32:38 @ He has forsaken his lair, as a lion: for their land is become desolate before the great sword.

bes@Jeremiah:33:1 @ IN THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN OF KING JOAKIM SON OF JOSIAS THERE CAME THIS WORD FROM THE LORD.

bes@Jeremiah:33:2 @ Thus said the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and thou shalt declare to all the Jews, and to all that come to worship in the house of the Lord, all the words which I commanded thee to speak to them; abate not one word.

bes@Jeremiah:33:3 @ Peradventure they will hear, and turn every one from his evil way: then I will cease from the evils which I purpose to do to them, because of their evil practices.

bes@Jeremiah:33:4 @ And thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my statutes which I set before you,

bes@Jeremiah:33:5 @ to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you early in the morning; yea, I sent them, but ye hearkened not to me;

bes@Jeremiah:33:6 @ then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:33:7 @ And the priests, and the false prophets, and all the people heard Jeremias speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:33:8 @ And it came to pass, when Jeremias had ceased speaking all that the Lord had ordered him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the false prophets and all the people took him, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:33:9 @ Thou shalt surely die, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, This house shall be as Selo, and this city shall be made quite destitute of inhabitants. And all the people assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:33:10 @ And the princes of Juda heard this word, and they went up out of the house of the king to the house of the Lord, and sat in the entrance of the new gate.

bes@Jeremiah:33:11 @ Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgement of death is due to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

bes@Jeremiah:33:12 @ Then Jeremias spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which ye have heard.

bes@Jeremiah:33:13 @ And now amend your ways and your works, and hearken to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord shall cease from the evils which he has pronounced against you.

bes@Jeremiah:33:14 @ And behold, I am in your hands; do to me as is expedient, and as it is best for you.

bes@Jeremiah:33:15 @ But know for a certainty, that if ye slay me, ye bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon them that dwell in it; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words.

bes@Jeremiah:33:16 @ Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the false prophets; Judgment of death is not due to this man; for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.

bes@Jeremiah:33:17 @ And there rose up men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people,

bes@Jeremiah:33:18 @ Michaeas the Morathite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and said to all the people of Juda, Thus saith the Lord; Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become a desolation, and the mountain of the house shall be a thicket of trees.

bes@Jeremiah:33:19 @ Did Ezekias and all Juda in any way slay him? (note:)Or, did they not fear, etc.(:note) Was it not that they feared the Lord, and they made supplication before the Lord, and the Lord ceased from the evils which he had pronounced against them? whereas we have wrought great evil against our own souls.

bes@Jeremiah:33:20 @ And there was another man prophesying in the name of the Lord, Urias the son of Samaeas of Cariathiarim; and he prophesied concerning this land according to all the words of Jeremias.

bes@Jeremiah:33:21 @ And king Joakim and all the princes heard all his words, and sought to slay him; and Urias heard it and went into Egypt.

bes@Jeremiah:33:22 @ And the king sent men into Egypt;

bes@Jeremiah:33:23 @ and they brought him thence, and brought him into the king; and he smote him with the sword, and cast him into the sepulchre of the children of his people.

bes@Jeremiah:33:24 @ Nevertheless the hand of Achicam son of Saphan was with Jeremias, to prevent his being delivered into the hands of the people, or being killed.

bes@Jeremiah:34:1 @ Thus said the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:34:2 @ Make to thyself bonds and yokes, and put them about thy neck,

bes@Jeremiah:34:3 @ and thou shalt send them to the king of Idumea, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Sedekias king of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:34:4 @ And thou shalt commission them to say to their lords, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to your lords;

bes@Jeremiah:34:5 @ I have made the earth by my great power, and with my high arm, and I will give it to whomsoever it shall seem good in mine eyes.

bes@Jeremiah:34:6 @ I gave the earth to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to serve him, and the wild beasts of the field to labour for him.

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bes@Jeremiah:34:8 @ And the nation and kingdom, all that shall not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with sword and famine will I visit them, saith the Lord, until they are consumed by his hand.

bes@Jeremiah:34:9 @ And hearken ye not to your false prophets, nor to them that divine to you, nor to them that foretell events by dreams to you, nor to your auguries, nor your sorcerers, that say, Ye shall by no means work for the king of Babylon:

bes@Jeremiah:34:10 @ for they prophesy lies to you, to remove you far from your land.

bes@Jeremiah:34:11 @ But the nation which shall put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, I will even leave it upon its land, and it shall serve him, and dwell in it.

bes@Jeremiah:34:12 @ I spoke also to Sedekias king of Juda according to all these words, saying, Put your neck into the yoke, and serve the king of Babylon.

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bes@Jeremiah:34:14 @ For they prophesy (note:)i. e. false(:note) unrighteous words to you,

bes@Jeremiah:34:15 @ for I sent them not, saith the Lord; and they prophesy in my name unjustly, that I might destroy you, and ye should perish, and your prophets, who unrighteously prophesy lies to you.

bes@Jeremiah:34:16 @ I spoke to you, and to all this people, and to the priests, saying, Thus said the Lord; Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord’s house shall return from Babylon: for they prophesy to you unrighteous words.

bes@Jeremiah:34:17 @ I sent them not.

bes@Jeremiah:34:18 @ If they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is in them, let them meet me, for thus has the Lord said.

bes@Jeremiah:34:19 @ And as for the remaining vessels,

bes@Jeremiah:34:20 @ which the king of Babylon took not, when he carried Jechonias prisoner out of Jerusalem,

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bes@Jeremiah:34:22 @ they shall go into Babylon, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:35:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of Sedekias king of Juda, in the fifth month, that Ananias the false prophet, the son of Azor, from Gabaon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:35:2 @ Thus saith the Lord; I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:35:3 @ Yet two full years, and I will return into this place the vessels of the house of the Lord,

bes@Jeremiah:35:4 @ and Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:35:5 @ Then Jeremias spoke to Ananias in the sight of all the people, and in the sight of the priests that stood in the house of the Lord,

bes@Jeremiah:35:6 @ and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm thy word which thou dost prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.

bes@Jeremiah:35:7 @ Nevertheless hear ye the word of the Lord which I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all the people.

bes@Jeremiah:35:8 @ The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over (note:)Or, many a country(:note) much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.

bes@Jeremiah:35:9 @ As for the prophet that has prophesied for peace, when the word has come to pass, they shall know the prophet whom the Lord has sent them in (note:)Gr. faithfulness(:note) truth.

bes@Jeremiah:35:10 @ Then Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jeremias in the sight of all the people, and broke them to pieces.

bes@Jeremiah:35:11 @ And Ananias spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus said the Lord; Thus will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the necks of all the nations. And Jeremias went his way.

bes@Jeremiah:35:12 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after that Ananias had broken the yokes off his neck, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:35:13 @ Go and speak to Ananias, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron.

bes@Jeremiah:35:14 @ For thus said the Lord, I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all the nations, that they may serve the king of Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:35:15 @ And Jeremias said to Ananias, The Lord has not sent thee; and thou hast caused this people to trust in unrighteousness.

bes@Jeremiah:35:16 @ Therefore thus said the Lord: Behold, I will cast thee off from the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die.

bes@Jeremiah:35:17 @ So he died in the seventh month.

bes@Jeremiah:36:1 @ And these are the words of the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people;

bes@Jeremiah:36:2 @ (after the departure of Jechonias the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem;)

bes@Jeremiah:36:3 @ by the hand of Eleasan son of Saphan, and Gamarias son of Chelcias, (whom Sedekias king of Juda sent to the king of Babylon to Babylon) saying,

bes@Jeremiah:36:4 @ Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;

bes@Jeremiah:36:5 @ Build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruits thereof;

bes@Jeremiah:36:6 @ and take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and be multiplied, and be not diminished.

bes@Jeremiah:36:7 @ And seek the peace of the land into which I have carried you captive, and ye shall pray to the Lord for (note:)Gr. them(:note) the people: for in its peace ye shall have peace.

bes@Jeremiah:36:8 @ For thus saith the Lord; Let not the false prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which ye dream.

bes@Jeremiah:36:9 @ For they prophesy to you unrighteous words in my name; and I sent them not.

bes@Jeremiah:36:10 @ For thus said the Lord; When seventy years shall be on the point of being accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will confirm my words to you, to bring back your people to this place.

bes@Jeremiah:36:11 @ And I will devise for you a device of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these good things.

bes@Jeremiah:36:12 @ And do ye pray to me, and I will hearken to you: and do ye earnestly seek me, and ye shall find me;

bes@Jeremiah:36:13 @ for ye shall seek me with your whole heart.

bes@Jeremiah:36:14 @ And I will appear to you:

bes@Jeremiah:36:15 @ whereas ye said, The Lord has appointed for us prophets in Babylon:

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bes@Jeremiah:36:21 @ Thus saith the Lord concerning Achiab, and concerning Sedekias; Behold, I will deliver them into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall smite them in your sight.

bes@Jeremiah:36:22 @ And they shall (note:)Gr. take(:note) make of them a curse in all the captivity of Juda in Babylon, saying, The Lord do to thee as he did to Sedekias, and as he did to Achiab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire;

bes@Jeremiah:36:23 @ because of the iniquity which they wrought in Israel, and because they committed adultery with the wives of their fellow-citizens; and spoke a word in my name, which I did not command them to speak, and I am witness, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:36:24 @ And to Samaeas the Ælamite thou shalt say,

bes@Jeremiah:36:25 @ I sent thee not in my name: and to Sophonias the priest the son of Maasaeas say thou,

bes@Jeremiah:36:26 @ The Lord has made thee priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and thou shalt put them in prison, and into the dungeon.

bes@Jeremiah:36:27 @ And now wherefore have ye reviled together Jeremias of Anathoth, who prophesied to you?

bes@Jeremiah:36:28 @ Did he not send for this purpose? for in the course of this month he sent to you to Babylon, saying, It is far off: build ye houses, and inhabit them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

bes@Jeremiah:36:29 @ And Sophonias read the book in the ears of Jeremias.

bes@Jeremiah:36:30 @ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:36:31 @ Send to the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Samaeas the Ælamite, Since Samaeas has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he has made you to trust in iniquity,

bes@Jeremiah:36:32 @ therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will visit Samaeas, and his family: and there shall not be a man of them in the midst of you to see the good which I will do to you: they shall not see it.

bes@Jeremiah:37:1 @ THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS FROM THE LORD, SAYING,

bes@Jeremiah:37:2 @ Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write all the words which I have spoken to thee in a book.

bes@Jeremiah:37:3 @ For, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.

bes@Jeremiah:37:4 @ AND THESE ARE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD SPOKE CONCERNING ISRAEL AND JUDA;

bes@Jeremiah:37:5 @ Thus said the Lord: Ye shall hear a sound of fear, there is fear, and there is not peace.

bes@Jeremiah:37:6 @ Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and ask concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and look for safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to (note:)i. e. that produced by scorching(:note) paleness.

bes@Jeremiah:37:7 @ For that day is great, and there is not such another; and it is a time of straitness to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it.

bes@Jeremiah:37:8 @ In that day, said the Lord, I will break the yoke off their neck, and will burst their bonds, and they shall no longer serve strangers:

bes@Jeremiah:37:9 @ but they shall serve the Lord their God; and I will raise up to them David their king.

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bes@Jeremiah:37:12 @ Thus saith the Lord; I have brought on thee destruction; thy stroke is painful.

bes@Jeremiah:37:13 @ There is none to judge thy cause: thou hast been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for thee.

bes@Jeremiah:37:14 @ All thy friends have forgotten thee; they shall not ask about thee at all, for I have smitten thee with he stroke of an enemy, even severe correction: thy sins have abounded above all thine iniquity.

bes@Jeremiah:37:15 @ Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities, therefore they have done these things to thee. Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and all thine enemies shall eat all their own flesh.

bes@Jeremiah:37:16 @ And they that spoil thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up (note:)Gr. to plunder, subs(:note) to be plundered all that have plundered thee.

bes@Jeremiah:37:17 @ For I will bring about thy healing, I will heal thee of thy grievous wound, saith the Lord; for thou art called Dispersed: she is your prey, for no one seeks after her.

bes@Jeremiah:37:18 @ Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her (note:)Gr. height(:note) hill, and the people shall settle after their Or, lit. judgement; See Isa strkjv@5:17 manner.

bes@Jeremiah:37:19 @ And there shall go forth from them singers, even the sound of men making merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not at all be diminished.

bes@Jeremiah:37:20 @ And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before me, and I will visit them that afflict them.

bes@Jeremiah:37:21 @ And their mighty ones shall be over them, and their prince shall proceed of themselves; and I will gather them, and they shall return to me: for who is this that has set his heart to return to me? saith the Lord.

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bes@Jeremiah:37:23 @ For the wrathful anger of the lord has gone forth, even a whirlwind of anger has gone forth: it shall come upon the ungodly.

bes@Jeremiah:37:24 @ The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he shall execute it, and until he shall establish the purpose of his heart: in the latter days ye shall know these things.

bes@Jeremiah:38:1 @ At that time, saith the Lord, (note:)2 Co strkjv@6:17, 18(:note) I will be a God to the family of Israel, and they shall be to me a people.

bes@Jeremiah:38:2 @ Thus saith the Lord, I found him (note:)q. d. still living(:note) warm in the wilderness with them that were slain with the sword: go ye and destroy not Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:38:3 @ The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.

bes@Jeremiah:38:4 @ For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.

bes@Jeremiah:38:5 @

bes@Jeremiah:38:6 @ For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.

bes@Jeremiah:38:7 @ For thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise ye: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.

bes@Jeremiah:38:8 @ Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.

bes@Jeremiah:38:9 @ They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for (note:)2 Co strkjv@6:17, 18(:note) I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

bes@Jeremiah:38:10 @ Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations, and proclaim them to the islands afar off; say, He that scattered Israel will also gather him, and keep him as one that feeds his flock.

bes@Jeremiah:38:11 @ For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, he has rescued him out of the hand of them that were stronger than he.

bes@Jeremiah:38:12 @ And they shall come, and shall rejoice in the mount of Sion, and shall come to the good things of the Lord, even to a land of corn, and wine, and fruits, and cattle, and sheep: and their soul shall be as a fruitful tree; and they shall hunger no more.

bes@Jeremiah:38:13 @ Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

bes@Jeremiah:38:14 @ I will (note:)Gr. enlarge(:note) expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests the sons of Levi, and my people shall be satisfied with my good things: thus saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:38:15 @

bes@Jeremiah:38:16 @ Thus saith the Lord; Let thy voice cease from weeping, and thine eyes from thy tears: for there is a reward for thy works; and they shall return from the land of thine enemies.

bes@Jeremiah:38:17 @ There shall be an abiding home for thy children.

bes@Jeremiah:38:18 @ I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, and saying, Thou hast chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not willingly taught: turn thou me, and I shall turn; for thou art the Lord my God.

bes@Jeremiah:38:19 @ For after my captivity I repented; and after I knew, I groaned for the day of shame, and shewed thee that I (note:)Gr. received(:note) bore reproach from my youth.

bes@Jeremiah:38:20 @ Ephraim is a beloved son, a pleasing child to me: for because my words are in him, I will surely remember him: therefore I made haste to help him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:38:21 @

bes@Jeremiah:38:22 @ How long, O disgraced daughter, wilt thou turn away? for the Lord has created safety for a new plantation: men shall go about in safety.

bes@Jeremiah:38:23 @ For thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Juda, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!

bes@Jeremiah:38:24 @ And there shall be dwellers in the cities of Juda, and in all his land, together with the husbandman, and the shepherd shall (note:)More lit. be carried away(:note) go forth with the flock.

bes@Jeremiah:38:25 @ For I have saturated every thirsting soul, and filled every hungry soul.

bes@Jeremiah:38:26 @ Therefore I awake, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

bes@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.

bes@Jeremiah:38:28 @ And it shall come to pass, that as I watched over them, to pull down, and to afflict, so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:38:29 @ In those days they shall certainly not say, The fathers ate a sour grape, and the children’s teeth were set on edge.

bes@Jeremiah:38:30 @ But every one shall die in his own sin; and the teeth of him that eats the sour grape shall be set on edge.

bes@Jeremiah:38:31 @

bes@Jeremiah:38:32 @ not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day when I took hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they abode not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:38:33 @ For this is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, (note:)Gr. giving I will give(:note) I will surely put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

bes@Jeremiah:38:34 @ And they shall not at all teach every one his fellow citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

bes@Jeremiah:38:35 @ Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:

bes@Jeremiah:38:36 @ if these ordinances cease from before me, saith the Lord, then shall the family of Israel cease to be a nation before me forever.

bes@Jeremiah:38:37 @ Though the sky should be raised to a greater height, saith the Lord, and though the ground of the earth should be sunk lower beneath, yet I will not cast off the family of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they have done.

bes@Jeremiah:38:38 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of the corner.

bes@Jeremiah:38:39 @ And the measurement of it shall proceed in front of them as far as the hills of Gareb, and it shall be compassed (note:)More lit. with a circle out of(:note) with a circular wall of choice stones.

bes@Jeremiah:38:40 @ And all the Asaremoth even to Nachal Kedron, as far as the corner of the horse-gate eastward, shall be (note:)Or, a consecration(:note) holiness to the Lord; and it shall not fail any more, and shall not be destroyed for ever.

bes@Jeremiah:39:1 @ The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias in the tenth year of king Sedekias, this is the eighteenth year of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:39:2 @ and the host of the king of Babylon had made a rampart against Jerusalem: and Jeremias was kept in the court of the prison, which is in the king’s house;

bes@Jeremiah:39:3 @ in which king Sedekias had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

bes@Jeremiah:39:4 @ and Sedekias shall by no means be delivered out of the hand of the Chaldeans, for he shall certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and his mouth shall speak to his mouth, and his eyes shall look upon his eyes;

bes@Jeremiah:39:5 @ and Sedekias shall go into Babylon, and (note:)Complut. kayieitai, adopted here(:note) dwell there?

bes@Jeremiah:39:6 @ AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JEREMIAS, SAYING,

bes@Jeremiah:39:7 @ Behold, Anameel the son of Salom thy father’s brother is coming to thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for thou hast the right to take it as a purchase.

bes@Jeremiah:39:8 @ So Anameel the son of Salom my father’s brother came to me into the court of the prison, and said, Buy thee my field that is in the land of Benjamin, in Anathoth: for thou hast a right to buy it, and thou art the elder. So I knew that it was the word of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:39:9 @ And I bought the field of Anameel the son of my father’s brother, and I weighed him seventeen shekels of silver.

bes@Jeremiah:39:10 @ And I wrote it in a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses, and weighed the money in the balance.

bes@Jeremiah:39:11 @ And I took the book of the purchase that was sealed;

bes@Jeremiah:39:12 @ and I gave it to Baruch son of Nerias, son of Maasaeas, in the sight of Anameel my father’s brother’s son, and in the sight of the men that stood by and wrote in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of the Jews that were in the court of the prison.

bes@Jeremiah:39:13 @ And I charged Baruch in their presence, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty;

bes@Jeremiah:39:14 @ Take this book of the purchase, and the book that has been read; and thou shalt put it into an earthen vessel, that it may remain many days.

bes@Jeremiah:39:15 @ For thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be (note:)The Alex. reading kthyhsontai, has been substituted here(:note) bought fields and houses and vineyards in this land.

bes@Jeremiah:39:16 @ And I prayed to the Lord after I had given the book of the purchase to Baruch the son of Nerias, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:39:17 @ O ever living Lord! thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and with thy high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from thee.

bes@Jeremiah:39:18 @

bes@Jeremiah:39:19 @ the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in deeds, the great Almighty God, and Lord of great name: thine eyes are upon the ways of the children of men, to give to every one according to his way:

bes@Jeremiah:39:20 @ who hast wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt even to this day, and in Israel, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and thou didst make for thyself a name, as at this day;

bes@Jeremiah:39:21 @ and thou didst bring out thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great (note:)Or, visions(:note) sights;

bes@Jeremiah:39:22 @ and thou gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to give to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey;

bes@Jeremiah:39:23 @ and they went in, and took it; but they hearkened not to thy voice, and walked not in thine ordinances; they did none of the things which thou didst command them, and they caused all these calamities to happen to them.

bes@Jeremiah:39:24 @ Behold, a multitude is come against the city to take it; and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans that fight against it, by the power of the sword, and the famine: as thou hast spoken, so has it happened.

bes@Jeremiah:39:25 @ And thou sayest to me, Buy thee the field for (note:)Lit. silver(:note) money; and I wrote a book, and sealed it, and took the testimony of witnesses: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.

bes@Jeremiah:39:26 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:39:27 @ I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: shall anything be hidden from me!

bes@Jeremiah:39:28 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

bes@Jeremiah:39:29 @ and the Chaldeans shall come to war against this city, and they shall burn this city with fire, and shall burn down the houses wherein they burnt incense on the roofs thereof to Baal, and poured drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me.

bes@Jeremiah:39:30 @ For the children of Israel and the children of Juda alone did evil in my sight from their youth.

bes@Jeremiah:39:31 @ For this city was obnoxious to my anger and my wrath, from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from my presence,

bes@Jeremiah:39:32 @ because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and Juda, which they wrought to provoke me, they and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the dwellers in Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:39:33 @ And they turned the back to me, and not the face: whereas I taught them early in the morning, but they hearkened no more to receive instructions.

bes@Jeremiah:39:34 @ And they set their pollutions in the house, on which my name was called, by their uncleannesses.

bes@Jeremiah:39:35 @ And they built to Baal the altars that are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to offer their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; which things I commanded them (note:)Or, not to do(:note) not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Juda to sin.

bes@Jeremiah:39:36 @ And now thus has the Lord God of Israel said concerning this city, of which thou sayest, it shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by famine, and banishment.

bes@Jeremiah:39:37 @ Behold, I will gather them out of every land, where I have scattered them in my anger, and my wrath, and great fury; and I will bring them back into this place, and will cause them to dwell safely:

bes@Jeremiah:39:38 @ and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a god.

bes@Jeremiah:39:39 @ And I will give them another way, and another heart, to fear me continually, and that for good to them and their children after them.

bes@Jeremiah:39:40 @ And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put my fear into their heart, that they may not depart from me.

bes@Jeremiah:39:41 @ And I will visit them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, and with all my heart, and with all my soul.

bes@Jeremiah:39:42 @ For thus saith the Lord; As I have brought upon this people all these great evils, so will I bring upon them all the good things which I pronounced upon them.

bes@Jeremiah:39:43 @ And there shall yet be fields bought in the land, of which thou sayest, it shall be destitute of man and beast; and they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.

bes@Jeremiah:39:44 @ And they shall buy fields for (note:)Gr. silver(:note) money, and thou shalt write a book, and seal it, and shalt take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.

bes@Jeremiah:40:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the second time, when he was yet bound in the court of the prison, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:40:2 @ Thus saith the Lord, who made the earth and formed it, to establish it; the Lord is his name;

bes@Jeremiah:40:3 @ Cry to me, and I will answer thee, and I will declare to thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

bes@Jeremiah:40:4 @ For thus saith the Lord concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the king of Juda, which have been pulled down (note:)q. d. to make(:note) for mounds and fortifications,

bes@Jeremiah:40:5 @ to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:

bes@Jeremiah:40:6 @ Behold, I bring upon her healing and cure, and I will show myself to them, and will heal her, and make both peace and (note:)Gr. faithfulness(:note) security.

bes@Jeremiah:40:7 @ And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.

bes@Jeremiah:40:8 @ And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and will not remember their sins, whereby they have sinned against me, and revolted from me.

bes@Jeremiah:40:9 @ And it shall be for joy and praise, and for glory to all the people of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I will do: and they shall fear and be provoked for all the good things and for all the peace which I will bring upon them.

bes@Jeremiah:40:10 @ Thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this place, of which ye say, it is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Juda, and (note:)Lit. outside of(:note) in the streets of Jerusalem, the places that have been made desolate for want of men and cattle,

bes@Jeremiah:40:11 @ the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endures for ever: and they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord; for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:40:12 @ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet be in this place, that is desert for want of man and beast, in all the cities thereof, resting-places for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

bes@Jeremiah:40:13 @ In the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the cities round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, flocks shall yet pass under the hand of him that numbers them, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:41:1 @ The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord (now Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the country of his dominion, were warring against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda,) saying,

bes@Jeremiah:41:2 @ Thus has the Lord said; Go to Sedekias king of Juda, and thou shalt say to him, Thus has the Lord said, This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it, and shall burn it with fire:

bes@Jeremiah:41:3 @ and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt certainly be taken, and shalt be given into his hands; and thine eyes shall see his eyes, (note:)Alex. +and thy mouth shall speak with his mouth(:note) and thou shalt enter into Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:41:4 @ But hear the word of the Lord, O Sedekias king of Juda; Thus saith the Lord,

bes@Jeremiah:41:5 @ Thou shalt die in peace: and as they wept for thy fathers that reigned before thee, they shall weep also for thee, saying, Ah lord! and they shall lament for thee (note:)Gr. as far as Hades(:note) down to the grave: for I have spoken the word, said the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:41:6 @ And Jeremias spoke to king Sedekias all these words in Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:41:7 @ And the host of the king of Babylon warred against Jerusalem, and against the cities of Juda, (note:)Alex. that were left(:note) and against Lachis, and against Azeca: for these strong cities were left among the cities of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:41:8 @ The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after king Sedekias had concluded a covenant with the people, (note:)Alex. in Jerusalem(:note) to proclaim a release;

bes@Jeremiah:41:9 @ That every one should set at liberty his servant, and every one has handmaid, the Hebrew man and Hebrew woman, that no man of Juda should be a bondman.

bes@Jeremiah:41:10 @

bes@Jeremiah:41:11 @ and gave them over to be men-servants and maid-servants.

bes@Jeremiah:41:12 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:41:13 @ Thus saith the Lord; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day wherein I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:41:14 @ When six years are accomplished, thou shalt set free thy brother the Hebrew, who shall be sold to thee: for he shall serve thee six years, and then thou shalt let him go free: but they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear.

bes@Jeremiah:41:15 @ And this day they turned to do that which was right in my sight, to proclaim every one the release of his neighbour; and they had concluded a covenant before me, in the house whereon my name is called.

bes@Jeremiah:41:16 @ But ye turned and profaned my name, to bring back every one his servant, and every one his handmaid, whom ye had sent forth free and (note:)Probably a Hebraism(:note) at their own disposal, to be to you men-servants and maid-servants.

bes@Jeremiah:41:17 @ Therefore thus said the Lord; Ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim a release every one to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a release to you, to the sword, and to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will give you up to dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:41:18 @ And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, who have not (note:)Or, confirmed, or, set(:note) kept my covenant, which they made before me, the calf which they prepared to sacrifice with it,

bes@Jeremiah:41:19 @ the princes of Juda, and the men in power, and the priests, and the people;

bes@Jeremiah:41:20 @ I will even give them to their enemies, and their carcases shall be food for the birds of the sky and for the wild beasts of the earth.

bes@Jeremiah:41:21 @ And I will give Sedekias king of Judea, and their princes, into the hands of their enemies, and the host of the king of Babylon shall come upon them that run away from them.

bes@Jeremiah:41:22 @ Behold, I will give command, saith the Lord, and will bring them back to this land; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire, and the cities of Juda; and I will make them desolate without inhabitants.

bes@Jeremiah:42:1 @ THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS from the Lord in the days of Joakim, king of Juda, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:42:2 @ Go to the house of the Archabin, and thou shalt bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.

bes@Jeremiah:42:3 @ So I brought forth Jechonias the son of Jeremin the son of Chabasin, and his brethren, and his sons, and all the family of the Archabin;

bes@Jeremiah:42:4 @ and I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Joanan, the son of Ananias, the son of Godolias, a man of God, who (note:)Gr. is(:note) dwells near the house of the princes that are Hebrews. and Alex. «above’ referring to the place over the house of Maasaeas the son of Selom, who kept the court.

bes@Jeremiah:42:5 @ And I set before them a jar of wine, and cups, and I said, Drink ye wine.

bes@Jeremiah:42:6 @ But they said, We will on no account drink wine, for our father Jonadab the son of Rechab commanded us, saying, Ye shall on no account drink wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

bes@Jeremiah:42:7 @ nor shall ye at all build houses, nor sow any seed, nor shall ye have a vineyard: for ye shall dwell in tents all your days; that ye may live many days upon the land, in which ye sojourn.

bes@Jeremiah:42:8 @ And we hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our father, so as to drink no wine all our days, we, and our wives, and our sons, and our daughters;

bes@Jeremiah:42:9 @ and so as to build no houses to dwell in: and we have had no vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

bes@Jeremiah:42:10 @ but we have dwelt in tents, and have hearkened, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

bes@Jeremiah:42:11 @ And it came to pass, when Nabuchodonosor came up against the land, that we said we would come in; and we entered into Jerusalem, for fear of the host of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the host of the Assyrians: and we dwelt there.

bes@Jeremiah:42:12 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:42:13 @ Thus saith the Lord, Go, and say to the (note:)Gr. man(:note) men of Juda, and to them that dwell in Jerusalem, Will ye not receive Or, instruction correction to hearken to my words?

bes@Jeremiah:42:14 @ The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the word which he commanded his children, that they should drink no wine; and they have not drunk it: but I spoke to you early, and ye hearkened not.

bes@Jeremiah:42:15 @ And I sent to you my servants the prophets, saying, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and amend your practices, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to you and to your fathers: but ye inclined not your ears, and hearkened not.

bes@Jeremiah:42:16 @ But the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command of their father; but this people has not hearkened to me.

bes@Jeremiah:42:17 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring upon Juda and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I pronounced against them.

bes@Jeremiah:42:18 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have hearkened to the command of their father, to do as their father commanded them:

bes@Jeremiah:42:19 @ there shall never be wanting a man of the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab (note:)Gr. standing(:note) to stand before my face Gr. all the days of the earth while the earth remains.

bes@Jeremiah:43:1 @ IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF JOAKIM son of Josias king of Juda, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Take thee a (note:)Or, paper, or, parchment(:note) roll of a book, and write upon it all the words which I spoke to thee against Jerusalem, and against Juda, and against all the nations, from the day when I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias king of Juda, even to this day.

bes@Jeremiah:43:3 @ Perhaps the house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to them; that they may turn from their evil way; and so I will be merciful to their iniquities and their sins.

bes@Jeremiah:43:4 @ So Jeremias called Baruch the son of Nerias: and he wrote from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken to him, on a roll of a book.

bes@Jeremiah:43:5 @ And Jeremias commanded Baruch, saying, I am in prison; I cannot enter into the house of the Lord:

bes@Jeremiah:43:6 @ so thou shalt read in this roll in the ears of the people in the house of the Lord, on the fast day; and in the ears of all Juda that come out of their cities, thou shalt read to them.

bes@Jeremiah:43:7 @ Peradventure their supplication will come before the Lord, and they will turn from their evil way: for great is the wrath and the anger of the Lord, which he has pronounced against this people.

bes@Jeremiah:43:8 @ And Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded him—reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.

bes@Jeremiah:43:9 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Alex. fifth(:note) eighth year of king Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem, and the house of Juda, proclaimed a fast before the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:43:10 @ And Baruch read in the book the words of Jeremias in the house of the Lord, in the house of Gamarias son of Saphan the scribe, in the upper court, in the entrance of the new gate of the house of the Lord, and in the ears of all the people.

bes@Jeremiah:43:11 @ And Michaeas the son of Gamarias the son of Saphan heard all the words of the Lord, out of the book.

bes@Jeremiah:43:12 @ And he went down to the king’s house, into the house of the scribe: and, behold, there were sitting there all the princes, Elisama the scribe, and Dalaeas the son of Selemias, and Jonathan the son of Acchobor, and Gamarias the son of Saphan, and Sedekias the son of Ananias, and all the princes.

bes@Jeremiah:43:13 @ And Michaeas reported to them all the words which he had heard Baruch reading in the ears of the people.

bes@Jeremiah:43:14 @ And all the princes sent to Baruch son of Nerias Judin the son of Nathanias, the son of Selemias, the son of Chusi, saying, Take in thine hand the roll in which thou readest in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch took the roll, and went down to them.

bes@Jeremiah:43:15 @ And they said to him, Read it again in our ears. And Baruch read it.

bes@Jeremiah:43:16 @ And it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, that they took counsel each with his neighbour, and said, Let us by all means tell the king all these words.

bes@Jeremiah:43:17 @ And they asked Baruch, saying, Where didst thou write all these words?

bes@Jeremiah:43:18 @ And Baruch said, Jeremias told me from his own mouth all these words, and I wrote them in a book.

bes@Jeremiah:43:19 @ And they said to Baruch, Go, and hide, thou and Jeremias; let no man know where ye are.

bes@Jeremiah:43:20 @ And they went in to the king into the court, and gave the roll to one to keep in the house of Elisama; and they told the king all these words.

bes@Jeremiah:43:21 @ And the king sent Judin to fetch the roll: and he took it out of the house of Elisama: and Judin read in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood round the king.

bes@Jeremiah:43:22 @ Now the king was sitting in the winter house: and there was a fire on the hearth before him.

bes@Jeremiah:43:23 @ And it came to pass when Judin (note:)Gr. was reading(:note) had read three or four leaves, he cut them off with Gr. a scribe’s razor, or, scraper a penknife, and cast them into the fire that was on the hearth, until the whole roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

bes@Jeremiah:43:24 @ And the king and his servants that heard all these words sought not the Lord, and rent not their garments.

bes@Jeremiah:43:25 @ But Elnathan and Godolias (note:)Alex. +and Gamarias(:note) suggested to the king that Alex. that he should not burn the roll he should burn the roll.

bes@Jeremiah:43:26 @ And the king commanded Jeremeel the king’s son, and Saraeas the son of Esriel, to take Baruch and Jeremias: but they were hidden.

bes@Jeremiah:43:27 @ Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, after the king had burnt the roll, even all the words which Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremias, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:43:28 @ Again take thou another roll, and write all the words that were on the roll, (note:)sc. which words(:note) which king Joakim has burnt.

bes@Jeremiah:43:29 @ And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burnt this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come in, and destroy this land, (note:)Alex. +and shall destroy man, etc.(:note) and man and cattle shall fail from off it?

bes@Jeremiah:43:30 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim king of Juda; He shall not have a man to sit on the throne of David: and his carcass shall be cast forth in the heat by day, and in the frost by night.

bes@Jeremiah:43:31 @ And I will visit him, and his family, and his servants: and I will bring upon him, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the land of Juda, all the evils which I spoke of to them; and they hearkened not.

bes@Jeremiah:43:32 @ And Baruch took another roll, and wrote upon it from the mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book (note:)Gr. which words(:note) which Joakim had burnt: and there were yet more words added to it like the former.

bes@Jeremiah:44:1 @ And Sedekias the son of Josias reigned instead of (note:)Alex. Jechonias son of Joakim(:note) Joakim, whom Nabuchodonosor appointed to reign over Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:44:2 @ And he and his servants and the people of the land hearkened not to the words of the Lord, which he spoke by Jeremias.

bes@Jeremiah:44:3 @ And king Sedekias sent Joachal son of Selemias and Sophonias the priest son of Maasaeas to Jeremias, saying, Pray now for us to the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:44:4 @ Now Jeremias (note:)i. e. as he pleased(:note) came and went through the midst of the city: for they had not put him into the house of the prison.

bes@Jeremiah:44:5 @ And the host of Pharao was come forth out of Egypt; and the Chaldeans heard the report of them, and they went up (note:)The Alex reading apo has been adopted here(:note) from Jerusalem.

bes@Jeremiah:44:6 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:44:7 @ Thus said the Lord; Thus shalt thou say to the king of Juda who sent to thee, to seek me; Behold, the army of Pharao which is come forth to help you: they shall return to the land of Egypt:

bes@Jeremiah:44:8 @ and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

bes@Jeremiah:44:9 @ For thus saith the Lord; Suppose not in your hearts, saying, The Chaldeans will certainly depart from us: for they shall not depart.

bes@Jeremiah:44:10 @ And though ye should smite the whole host of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left a few wounded men, these should rise up each in his place, and burn this city with fire.

bes@Jeremiah:44:11 @ And it came to pass, when the host of the Chaldeans had gone up from Jerusalem for fear of the host of Pharao,

bes@Jeremiah:44:12 @ that Jeremias went forth from Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, (note:)See Hebrew(:note) to buy thence a property in the midst of the people.

bes@Jeremiah:44:13 @ And he was in the gate of Benjamin, and there was there a man with whom he lodged, Saruia the son of Selemias, the son of Ananias; and he caught Jeremias, saying, Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans.

bes@Jeremiah:44:14 @ And he said, It is false; I do not flee to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; and Saruia caught Jeremias, and brought him to the princes.

bes@Jeremiah:44:15 @ And the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and smote him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made this a prison.

bes@Jeremiah:44:16 @ So Jeremias came into the (note:)Gr. the house of the pit(:note) dungeon, and into the cells, and he remained there many days.

bes@Jeremiah:44:17 @ Then Sedekias sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? and he said, There is: thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:44:18 @ And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged thee, or thy servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison?

bes@Jeremiah:44:19 @ And where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against this land?

bes@Jeremiah:44:20 @ Now therefore, my lord the king, let my (note:)Gr. mercy; See Jer strkjv@48:7(:note) supplication come before thy face: and why dost thou send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe? and let me not on any account die there.

bes@Jeremiah:44:21 @ Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremias continued in the court of the prison.

bes@Jeremiah:45:1 @ And Saphanias the son of Nathan, and Godolias the son of Paschor, and Joachal the son of Semelias, heard the words which Jeremias spoke to the people, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:45:2 @ Thus saith the Lord; He that (note:)Gr. dwells(:note) remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine: but he that goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; and his soul shall be given him for a q. d. a prize found treasure, and he shall live.

bes@Jeremiah:45:3 @ For thus saith the Lord; This city shall certainly be delivered into the hands of the host of the king of Babylon, and (note:)Gr. singular(:note) they shall take it.

bes@Jeremiah:45:4 @ And they said to the king. Let that man, we pray thee, be slain, for he weakens the hands of the fighting men that are left in the city, and the hands of all the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man does not prophesy peace to this people, but evil.

bes@Jeremiah:45:5 @ Then the king said, Behold, he is in your hands. For the king could not resist them.

bes@Jeremiah:45:6 @ And they cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the king’s son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire: and he was in the mire.

bes@Jeremiah:45:7 @ And Abdemelech the Ethiopian heard, (now he was in the king’s household,) that they had put Jeremias into the dungeon; and the king was in the gate of Benjamin:

bes@Jeremiah:45:8 @ and he went forth to him, and spoke to the king and said,

bes@Jeremiah:45:9 @ Thou hast done evil in what thou hast done to slay this man with hunger: for there is no more bread in the city.

bes@Jeremiah:45:10 @ And the king commanded Abdemelech, saying, Take with thee hence thirty men, and bring him up out of the dungeon, that he die not.

bes@Jeremiah:45:11 @ So Abdemelech took the men and went into the underground part of the king’s house, and took thence old rags and old ropes, and threw them to Jeremias into the dungeon.

bes@Jeremiah:45:12 @ And he said, Put these under the ropes. And Jeremias did so.

bes@Jeremiah:45:13 @ And they drew him with the ropes, and lifted him out of the dungeon: and Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.

bes@Jeremiah:45:14 @ Then the king sent, and called him to himself into the house of Aselisel, which was in the house of the Lord: and the King said to him, I will ask thee a question, and I pray thee hide nothing from me.

bes@Jeremiah:45:15 @ And Jeremias said to the king, If I tell thee, wilt thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not at all hearken to me.

bes@Jeremiah:45:16 @ And the king swore to him, saying, As the Lord lives who (note:)Gr. made(:note) gave us this Or, life soul, I will not slay thee, neither will I give thee into the hands of these men.

bes@Jeremiah:45:17 @ And Jeremias said to him, Thus saith the Lord; If thou wilt indeed go forth to the captains of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live, and this city shall certainly not be burnt with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.

bes@Jeremiah:45:18 @ But if thou wilt not go forth this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt by no means escape.

bes@Jeremiah:45:19 @ And the king said to Jeremias, I (note:)i. e. fear(:note) consider the Jews that have gone over to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hands, and they mock me.

bes@Jeremiah:45:20 @ And Jeremias said, They shall in no wise deliver thee up. Hear the word of the Lord which I speak to thee; and it shall be better for thee, and thy soul shall live.

bes@Jeremiah:45:21 @ But if thou wilt not go forth, this is the word which the Lord has shewn me.

bes@Jeremiah:45:22 @ And, behold, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Juda were brought forth to the princes of the king of Babylon; and they said, The men who were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and will prevail against thee; and they shall cause thy foot to slide and fail, they have turned back from thee.

bes@Jeremiah:45:23 @ And they shall bring forth thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt by no means escape, for thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burnt.

bes@Jeremiah:45:24 @ Then the king said to him, Let no man know any of these words, and certainly thou shalt not die.

bes@Jeremiah:45:25 @ And if the princes shall hear that I have spoken to thee, and they come to thee, and say to thee, Tell us, what said the king to thee? hide it not from us, and we will in no wise slay thee, and what said the king to thee?

bes@Jeremiah:45:26 @ Then thou shalt say to them, (note:)Gr. I do cast my mercy; See Jer strkjv@43:7; strkjv@44:20(:note) I brought my supplication before the presence of the king, that he would not send me back into the house of Jonathan, that I should die there.

bes@Jeremiah:45:27 @ And all the princes came to Jeremias, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words, which the king had commanded him. And they were silent, because the word of the Lord was not heard.

bes@Jeremiah:45:28 @ And Jeremias remained in the court of the prison, until the time when Jerusalem was taken.

bes@Jeremiah:46:1 @ And it came to pass in the ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

bes@Jeremiah:46:2 @ And in the eleventh year of Sedekiass, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

bes@Jeremiah:46:3 @ And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,

bes@Jeremiah:46:4 @ and they sent, and took Jeremias out of the court of the prison, and gave him in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan: and they brought him out, and he sat in the midst of the people.

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bes@Jeremiah:46:15 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in the court of the prison, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:46:16 @ Go and say to Abdemelech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good.

bes@Jeremiah:46:17 @ But I will save thee in that day, and I will by no means deliver thee into the hands of the men before whom thou art afraid.

bes@Jeremiah:46:18 @ For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt by no means fall by the sword; and (note:)See Jer strkjv@45:2(:note) thou shalt find thy life, because thou didst trust in me, saith the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:47:1 @ The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the (note:)Lit. chief cook; See Ge strkjv@39:1(:note) captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, even those who were carried to Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:47:2 @ And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord thy God has pronounced all these evils upon this place:

bes@Jeremiah:47:3 @ and the Lord has done it; because ye sinned against him, and hearkened not to his voice.

bes@Jeremiah:47:4 @ Behold, I have loosed thee from the manacles that were upon thine hands. If it seem good to thee to go with me to Babylon, then will I set mine eyes upon thee.

bes@Jeremiah:47:5 @ But if not, (note:)Gr. run away(:note) depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to whatsoever places it seems good in thine eyes to go, do thou even go. And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.

bes@Jeremiah:47:6 @ And he came to Godolias to Massepha, and dwelt in the midst of his people that was left in the land.

bes@Jeremiah:47:7 @ And all the leaders of the host that was in the country, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Godolias governor in the land, and they committed to him the men and their wives, whom Nabuchodonosor had not removed to Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:47:8 @ And there came to Godolias to Massepha Ismael the son of Nathanias, and Joanan son of Caree, and Saraeas the son of Thanaemeth, and the sons of Jophe the Netophathite, and Ezonias son of the Mochathite, they and their men.

bes@Jeremiah:47:9 @ And Godolias swore to them and to their men, saying, Be not afraid before the children of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be better for you.

bes@Jeremiah:47:10 @ And, behold, I dwell in your presence at Massepha, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come against you: and do ye gather grapes, and fruits, and oil, and put them into your vessels, and dwell in the cities which ye have obtained possession of.

bes@Jeremiah:47:11 @ And all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and those that were in Idumea, and those that were in all the rest of the country, heard that the king of Babylon had granted a remnant to Juda, and that he had appointed over them Godolias the son of Achicam.

bes@Jeremiah:47:12 @ And they came to Godolias into the land of Juda, to Massepha, and gathered grapes, and very much summer fruit, and oil.

bes@Jeremiah:47:13 @ And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host, who were in the fields, came to Godolias to Massepha,

bes@Jeremiah:47:14 @ and said to him, Dost thou indeed know that king Beleissa son of Ammon has sent Ismael to thee to slay thee? But Godolias believed them not.

bes@Jeremiah:47:15 @ And Joanan said to Godolias secretly in Massepha, I will go now and smite Ismael, and let no man know it; lest he slay thee, and all the Jews that are gathered to thee be dispersed, and the remnant of Juda perish.

bes@Jeremiah:47:16 @ But Godolias said to Joanan, Do not the thing, for thou speakest lies concerning Ismael.

bes@Jeremiah:48:1 @ Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ismael the son of Nathanias the son of Eleasa of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, to Godolias to Massepha: and they ate bread there together.

bes@Jeremiah:48:2 @ And Ismael rose up, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Godolias, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor over the land,

bes@Jeremiah:48:3 @ and all the Jews that were with him in Massepha, and all the Chaldeans that were found there.

bes@Jeremiah:48:4 @ And it came to pass on the second day after he had smitten Godolias, and no man knew of it,

bes@Jeremiah:48:5 @ that there came men from Sychem, and from Salem, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and beating their breasts, and they had manna and frankincense in their hands, to bring them into the house of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:48:6 @ And Ismael went out to meet them; and they went on and wept: and he said to them, Come in to Godolias.

bes@Jeremiah:48:7 @ And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, that he slew them and cast them into a pit.

bes@Jeremiah:48:8 @ But ten men were found there, and they said to Ismael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he passed by, and slew them not in the midst of their brethren.

bes@Jeremiah:48:9 @ Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he smote, (note:)Gr. this is(:note) is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: even this Ismael filled with slain men.

bes@Jeremiah:48:10 @ And Ismael (note:)Or, carried off(:note) brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king’s daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon.

bes@Jeremiah:48:11 @ And Joanan the son of Caree, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, heard of all the evil deeds which Ismael had done.

bes@Jeremiah:48:12 @ And they brought all their army, and went to fight against him, and found him near (note:)Or, the great water(:note) much water in Gabaon.

bes@Jeremiah:48:13 @ And it came to pass, when all the people that was with Ismael saw Joanan, and the leaders of the host that was with him,

bes@Jeremiah:48:14 @ that they returned to Joanan.

bes@Jeremiah:48:15 @ But Ismael escaped with eight men and went to the children of Ammon.

bes@Jeremiah:48:16 @ And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host that were with him, took all the remnant of the people, whom he had brought back from Ismael, mighty men in war, and the women, and the other property, and the eunuchs, whom they had brought back from Gabaon:

bes@Jeremiah:48:17 @ and they departed, and dwelt in Gaberoch-amaa, that is by Bethleem, to go into Egypt, for fear of the Chaldeans:

bes@Jeremiah:48:18 @ for they were afraid of them, because Ismael had smitten Godolias, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

bes@Jeremiah:49:1 @ Then came all the leaders of the host, and Joanan, and Azarias the son of Maasaeas, and all the people great and small,

bes@Jeremiah:49:2 @ to Jeremias the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before thy face, and pray thou to the Lord thy God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as thine eyes see.

bes@Jeremiah:49:3 @ And let the Lord thy God declare to us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing which we should do.

bes@Jeremiah:49:4 @ And Jeremias said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God, according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever word the Lord God shall answer, I will declare it to you; I will not hide (note:)Gr. a word(:note) anything from you.

bes@Jeremiah:49:5 @ And they said to Jeremias, Let the Lord be between us for a just and faithful witness, if we do not according to every word which the Lord shall send to us.

bes@Jeremiah:49:6 @ And whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will hearken to the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, because we shall hearken to the voice of the Lord our God.

bes@Jeremiah:49:7 @ And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came to Jeremias.

bes@Jeremiah:49:8 @ And he called Joanan, and the leaders of the host, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

bes@Jeremiah:49:9 @ and he said to them, Thus saith the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:49:10 @ If ye will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull you down, but will plant you, and in no wise pluck you up: for I have (note:)Gr. rested upon, but Alex. reads apo, «from’(:note) ceased from the calamities which I brought upon you.

bes@Jeremiah:49:11 @ Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the Lord: for I am with you, to deliver you, and save you out of their hand.

bes@Jeremiah:49:12 @ And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.

bes@Jeremiah:49:13 @ But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, that we may not hearken to the voice of the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:49:14 @ for we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and there we will dwell:

bes@Jeremiah:49:15 @ then hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord;

bes@Jeremiah:49:16 @ If ye set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be, that the sword which ye fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine to which ye have regard, shall overtake you, coming after you in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

bes@Jeremiah:49:17 @ And all the men, and all the (note:)Lit. aliens by birth(:note) strangers who have set their face toward the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall be consumed by the sword, and by the famine: and there shall not one of them escape from the evils which I bring upon them.

bes@Jeremiah:49:18 @ For thus saith the Lord; As my wrath has dropped upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath drop upon you, when ye have entered into Egypt: and ye shall be a desolation, and under the power of others, and a curse and a reproach: and ye shall no more see this place.

bes@Jeremiah:49:19 @ These are the words which the Lord has spoken concerning you the remnant of Juda; Enter ye not into Egypt: and now know ye for a certainty,

bes@Jeremiah:49:20 @ that ye have wrought wickedness (note:)Or, against your souls(:note) in your hearts, when ye sent me, saying, Pray thou for us to the Lord; and according to all that the Lord shall speak to thee we will do.

bes@Jeremiah:49:21 @ And ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, with which he sent me to you.

bes@Jeremiah:49:22 @ Now therefore ye shall perish by sword and by famine, in the place which ye desire to go into to dwell there.

bes@Jeremiah:50:1 @ And it came to pass, when Jeremias ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, for which the Lord had sent him to them, even all these words,

bes@Jeremiah:50:2 @ that Azarias son of Maasaeas spoke, and Joanan, the son of Caree, and all the men who had spoken to Jeremias, saying, It is (note:)Lit. falsehoods(:note) false: the Lord has not sent thee to us, saying, Enter not into Egypt to dwell there:

bes@Jeremiah:50:3 @ but Baruch the son of Nerias sets thee against us, that thou mayest deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans, to kill us, and that we should be carried away captives to Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:50:4 @ So Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, and all the people, refused to hearken to the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:50:5 @ And Joanan, and all the leaders of the host, took (note:)Gr. the remaining ones of Juda(:note) all the remnant of Juda, who had returned to dwell in the land;

bes@Jeremiah:50:6 @ the mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the souls which Nabuzardan and left with Godolias the son of Achicam and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.

bes@Jeremiah:50:7 @ And they came into Egypt: for they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord: and they entered into Taphnas.

bes@Jeremiah:50:8 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias in Taphnas, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:50:9 @ Take thee great stones, and hide them in the entrance, at the gate of the house of Pharao in Taphnas, in the sight of the men of Juda:

bes@Jeremiah:50:10 @ and thou shalt say, Thus has the Lord said; Behold, I will send, and will bring Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and he shall place his throne upon these stones which thou hast hidden, and he shall (note:)Or, such as are, and so on(:note) lift up weapons against them.

bes@Jeremiah:50:11 @ And he shall enter in, and smite the land of Egypt, delivering some for death to death; and some for captivity to captivity; and some for the sword to the sword.

bes@Jeremiah:50:12 @ And he shall kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and shall burn (note:)i. e. the temples(:note) them, and shall carry i. e. the men them away captives: and shall Lit. search for vermin in, etc. search the land of Egypt, as a shepherd searches his garment; and he shall go forth in peace.

bes@Jeremiah:50:13 @ And he shall break to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire.

bes@Jeremiah:51:1 @ THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAS for all the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt, and for those settled in Magdolo and in Taphnas, and in the land of Pathura, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:51:2 @ Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye have seen all the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; and, behold, they are desolate without inhabitants,

bes@Jeremiah:51:3 @ because of their wickedness, which they have wrought to provoke me, by going to burn incense to other gods, whom ye knew not.

bes@Jeremiah:51:4 @ yet I sent to you my servants the prophets early in the morning, and I sent, saying, Do not ye (note:)Gr. the thing of this pollution(:note) this abominable thing which I hate.

bes@Jeremiah:51:5 @ But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.

bes@Jeremiah:51:6 @ So mine anger and my wrath dropped upon them, and was kindled in the gates of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and (note:)Lit. inaccessible(:note) a waste, as at this day.

bes@Jeremiah:51:7 @ And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit these great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Juda, to the end that not one of you should be left;

bes@Jeremiah:51:8 @ by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

bes@Jeremiah:51:9 @ Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Juda, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Juda, and (note:)See verse 6(:note) in the streets of Jerusalem?

bes@Jeremiah:51:10 @ And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers.

bes@Jeremiah:51:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold I do set my face against you

bes@Jeremiah:51:12 @ to destroy all the remnant that are in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword, and by famine, and shall be consumed small and great: and they shall be for reproach, and for destruction, and for a curse.

bes@Jeremiah:51:13 @ And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine: (note:)Alex. +’and pestilence’(:note)

bes@Jeremiah:51:14 @ and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Juda that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Juda, to which they hope in their hearts to return: they shall not return, but only they that escape.

bes@Jeremiah:51:15 @ Then all the men that knew that their wives burned (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’to other gods’(:note) incense, and all the women, a great Lit. assembly multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathura, answered Jeremias, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:51:16 @ As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee.

bes@Jeremiah:51:17 @ For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

bes@Jeremiah:51:18 @ But (note:)Gr. as(:note) since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, we have all been brought low, and have been consumed by sword and by famine.

bes@Jeremiah:51:19 @ And whereas we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured drink-offerings to her, did we make cakes to her, and pour drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?

bes@Jeremiah:51:20 @ Then Jeremias answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the people that returned him these words for answer, saying,

bes@Jeremiah:51:21 @ Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?

bes@Jeremiah:51:22 @ And the Lord could no longer bear you, because of the wickedness of your doings, and because of your abominations which ye wrought; and so your land became a desolation and a waste, and a curse, as at this day;

bes@Jeremiah:51:23 @ because of your burning incense, and because of the things wherein ye sinned against the Lord: and ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his ordinances, and in his law, and in his testimonies; and so these evils have (note:)Lit. taken hold of you(:note) come upon you.

bes@Jeremiah:51:24 @ And Jeremias said to the people, and to the women, Hear ye the word of the Lord.

bes@Jeremiah:51:25 @ Thus has the Lord God of Israel said; Ye women have spoken with your mouth, and ye fulfilled it with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink-offerings to her: full well did ye keep to your vows, and ye have indeed performed them.

bes@Jeremiah:51:26 @ Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all (note:)Gr. Juda(:note) Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, my name shall no longer be in the mouth of every Jew to say, The Lord lives, in all the land of Egypt.

bes@Jeremiah:51:27 @ For I have watched over them, to hurt them, and not to do them good: and all (note:)Gr. Juda(:note) the Jews dwelling in the land of Egypt shall perish by sword and by famine, until they are utterly consumed.

bes@Jeremiah:51:28 @ And they that escape the sword shall return to the land of Juda few in number, and the remnant of Juda, (note:)Alex. «who go down to«(:note) who have continued in the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand.

bes@Jeremiah:51:29 @ And this shall be a sign to you, that I will visit you for evil.

bes@Jeremiah:51:30 @ Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will give Uaphres king of Egypt into the hands of his enemy, and into the hands of (note:)Alex. «them that seek’(:note) one that seeks his life; as I gave Sedekias king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

bes@Jeremiah:52:1 @ THE WORD WHICH JEREMIAS THE PROPHET spoke to Baruch son of Nerias, when he wrote these words in the book from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda.

bes@Jeremiah:52:2 @ Thus has the Lord said (note:)Or, for, or, concerning thee(:note) to thee, O Baruch.

bes@Jeremiah:52:3 @ Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

bes@Jeremiah:52:4 @ say thou to him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I pull down those whom I have built up, and I pluck up those whom I have planted. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built (note:)Or, forts(:note) a wall round about it with large stones.

bes@Jeremiah:52:5 @ And wilt thou seek great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but I will give to thee thy life (note:)Gr. for a finding(:note) for a spoil in every place whither thou shalt go. - It was the twenty-first ear of Sedekias, when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Amitaal, the daughter of Jeremias, of Lobena. So the city was besieged, until the eleventh year of king Sedekias,

bes@Jeremiah:52:6 @ on the ninth day of the month, and then the famine was severe in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

bes@Jeremiah:52:7 @ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went out by night by the way of the gate, between the wall and the outworks, which were by the king’s garden; and the Chaldeans were by the city round about; and they went by the way leading to the wilderness.

bes@Jeremiah:52:8 @ But the host of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the country beyond Jericho; and all his servants were dispersed from about him.

bes@Jeremiah:52:9 @ And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Deblatha, and he judged him.

bes@Jeremiah:52:10 @ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes; and he slew all the princes of Juda in Deblatha.

bes@Jeremiah:52:11 @ And he put out the eyes of Sedekias, and bound him in fetters; and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon, and put him into the grinding-house, until the day when he died.

bes@Jeremiah:52:12 @ And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;

bes@Jeremiah:52:13 @ and he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house; and all the houses of the city, and every great house he burnt with fire.

bes@Jeremiah:52:14 @ And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.

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bes@Jeremiah:52:16 @ But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

bes@Jeremiah:52:17 @ And the Chaldeans broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, and they took the brass thereof, and carried it away to Babylon.

bes@Jeremiah:52:18 @ Also the rim, and the bowls, and the flesh-hooks, and all the brazen vessels, wherewith they ministered;

bes@Jeremiah:52:19 @ and the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the (note:)Or, lamp-stands(:note) candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.

bes@Jeremiah:52:20 @ And the two pillars, and the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen under the sea, which things king Solomon made for the house of the Lord; the brass of which articles was without weight.

bes@Jeremiah:52:21 @ And as for the pillars, the height of one pillar was thirty-five cubits; and a line of twelve cubits compassed it round; and the thickness of it all round was four fingers.

bes@Jeremiah:52:22 @ And there was a brazen chapter upon them, and the length was five cubits, even the height of one Chapiter; and there were on the chapiter round about (note:)Gr. a net(:note) network and pomegranates, all of brass: and correspondingly the second pillar had eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits.

bes@Jeremiah:52:23 @ And the pomegranates were ninety-six on a (note:)Gr. part(:note) side; and all the pomegranates on the network round about were a hundred.

bes@Jeremiah:52:24 @ And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;

bes@Jeremiah:52:25 @ and one eunuch, who was (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’he took out of the city’(:note) over the men of war, and seven men of renown, who were in the king’s Gr. face presence that were found in the city; and the scribe of the forces, who did the part of a scribe to the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

bes@Jeremiah:52:26 @ And Nabuzardan the captain of the king’s guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.

bes@Jeremiah:52:27 @ And the king of Babylon smote them in Deblatha, in the land of Æmath.

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bes@Jeremiah:52:31 @ And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Joakim king of Juda had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth day of the month, that Ulaemadachar king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Joakim king of Juda, and (note:)Or, cut his hair; not in Alex.(:note) shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

bes@Jeremiah:52:32 @ and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne (note:)Alex. +’the thrones of’(:note) above the kings that were with him in Babylon,

bes@Jeremiah:52:33 @ and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

bes@Jeremiah:52:34 @ And his appointed portion was given him continually by the king of Babylon from day to day, until the day when he died.

bes@Lamentations:1:1 @

bes@Lamentations:1:2 @ BETH. She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; and there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: all that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, they are become her enemies.

bes@Lamentations:1:3 @ GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude: she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.

bes@Lamentations:1:4 @ DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, (note:)See use of para, 1 Co strkjv@12:15, 16(:note) because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.

bes@Lamentations:1:5 @ HE. Her oppressors are become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her (note:)Gr. ungodlinesses(:note) sins: her young children are gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.

bes@Lamentations:1:6 @ VAU. And all her beauty has been taken away from the daughter of Sion: her princes were as rams finding no pasture, and are gone away in weakness before the face of the pursuer.

bes@Lamentations:1:7 @ ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her (note:)Gr. plural(:note) rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at Hebrews. q. d. her sabbatism; A. V. her sabbaths; Alex. her captivity her habitation.

bes@Lamentations:1:8 @ HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a great sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honour her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.

bes@Lamentations:1:9 @ TETH. Her uncleanness is before her feet; she remembered not her last end; she has lowered her (note:)Gr. plural(:note) boasting tone, there is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

bes@Lamentations:1:10 @ JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things: for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

bes@Lamentations:1:11 @ CHAPH. All her people groan, seeking bread: they have given their desirable things for meat, to restore their soul: behold, Lord, and look; for she is become dishonoured.

bes@Lamentations:1:12 @ LAMED. All ye that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, which has happened to me. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

bes@Lamentations:1:13 @ MEM. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and mourning all the day.

bes@Lamentations:1:14 @ NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.

bes@Lamentations:1:15 @ SAMECH. The Lord has cut off all my strong men from the midst of me: he has summoned against me a time for crushing my choice men: the Lord has trodden a wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep.

bes@Lamentations:1:16 @ AIN. Mine eye has poured out water, because he that should comfort me, that should restore my soul, has been removed far from me: my sons have been destroyed, because the enemy has prevailed.

bes@Lamentations:1:17 @ PHE. Sion has spread out her hand, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, his oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman.

bes@Lamentations:1:18 @ TSADE. The Lord is righteous; for I have provoked his mouth: hear, I pray you, (note:)Or, peoples(:note) all people, and behold my grief: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

bes@Lamentations:1:19 @ KOPH. I called my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders failed in the city; for they sought meat that they might restore their souls, and found it not.

bes@Lamentations:1:20 @ RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned within me; for I (note:)Or, have provoked and been provoked(:note) have been grievously rebellious: abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death at home.

bes@Lamentations:1:21 @ CHSEN. Hear, I pray you, for I groan: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of mine afflictions, and rejoice because thou hast done it: thou hast brought on the day, thou hast called the time: they are become like to me.

bes@Lamentations:1:22 @ THAU. Let all their wickedness come before thy face; and strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: for my groans are many, and my heart is grieved.

bes@Lamentations:2:1 @ ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool.

bes@Lamentations:2:2 @ BETH. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed her as in the sea, and not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has (note:)Lit. glued to(:note) brought down to the ground the strong-holds of the daughter of Juda; he has profaned her kings and her princes.

bes@Lamentations:2:3 @ GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.

bes@Lamentations:2:4 @ DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.

bes@Lamentations:2:5 @ HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strong-holds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda.

bes@Lamentations:2:6 @ VAU. And he has (note:)Gr. spread abroad(:note) scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.

bes@Lamentations:2:7 @ ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

bes@Lamentations:2:8 @ HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he has stretched out the measuring line, he has not turned back his hand from afflicting her: therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.

bes@Lamentations:2:9 @ TETH. Her gates (note:)Gr. were fixed into(:note) are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.

bes@Lamentations:2:10 @ JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.

bes@Lamentations:2:11 @ CHAPH. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is (note:)Gr. poured out(:note) cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

bes@Lamentations:2:12 @ LAMED. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother’s bosom.

bes@Lamentations:2:13 @ MEM. What shall I testify to thee, or what shall I compare to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? who shall save and comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for the cup of thy destruction is enlarged: who shall heal thee?

bes@Lamentations:2:14 @ NUN. Thy prophets have seen for thee vanities and folly: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn back thy captivity; but they have seen for thee vain burdens, and worthless (note:)Lit. burdens(:note) visions.

bes@Lamentations:2:15 @ SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at thee; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

bes@Lamentations:2:16 @ AIN. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

bes@Lamentations:2:17 @ PHE. The Lord has done that which he purposed; he has accomplished his word, even the things which he commanded from the ancient days: he has thrown down, and has not spared: and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted thee.

bes@Lamentations:2:18 @ TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, Ye walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the (note:)Gr. daughter(:note) apple of thine eyes cease.

bes@Lamentations:2:19 @ KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of thy watch: pour out thy heart as water before the face of the Lord lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the (note:)Gr. outlets(:note) streets.

bes@Lamentations:2:20 @ RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom thou has gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? wilt thou slay the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?

bes@Lamentations:2:21 @ CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: thou hast slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of thy wrath thou hast mangled them, thou has not spared.

bes@Lamentations:2:22 @ THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.

bes@Lamentations:3:1 @ ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.

bes@Lamentations:3:2 @ He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light.

bes@Lamentations:3:3 @ Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

bes@Lamentations:3:4 @ He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

bes@Lamentations:3:5 @ BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and (note:)Lit. laboured(:note) brought travail upon me.

bes@Lamentations:3:6 @ He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.

bes@Lamentations:3:7 @ He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my (note:)Gr. brass(:note) brazen chain heavy.

bes@Lamentations:3:8 @ GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

bes@Lamentations:3:9 @ DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

bes@Lamentations:3:10 @ he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places.

bes@Lamentations:3:11 @ He pursued me (note:)See Hebrew(:note) after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.

bes@Lamentations:3:12 @ HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

bes@Lamentations:3:13 @ He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

bes@Lamentations:3:14 @ I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

bes@Lamentations:3:15 @ VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has (note:)Lit. made me drunk(:note) drenched me with gall.

bes@Lamentations:3:16 @ And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

bes@Lamentations:3:17 @ He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

bes@Lamentations:3:18 @ Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.

bes@Lamentations:3:19 @ ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

bes@Lamentations:3:20 @ and my soul shall meditate with me.

bes@Lamentations:3:21 @ This will I (note:)Gr. commit to(:note) lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

bes@Lamentations:3:22 @ HETH. It is the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.

bes@Lamentations:3:23 @ They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

bes@Lamentations:3:24 @ The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him.

bes@Lamentations:3:25 @ TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him

bes@Lamentations:3:26 @ is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

bes@Lamentations:3:27 @ TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.

bes@Lamentations:3:28 @ He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne it upon him.

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bes@Lamentations:3:30 @ JOD. He will give his cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

bes@Lamentations:3:31 @ For the Lord will not reject for ever.

bes@Lamentations:3:32 @ CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy.

bes@Lamentations:3:33 @ He has not answered in anger from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man.

bes@Lamentations:3:34 @ LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

bes@Lamentations:3:35 @ to turn aside the judgement of a man before the face of the Most High,

bes@Lamentations:3:36 @ to condemn a man unjustly in his judgement, the Lord has not given commandment.

bes@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.

bes@Lamentations:3:38 @ Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.

bes@Lamentations:3:39 @ MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin?

bes@Lamentations:3:40 @ NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

bes@Lamentations:3:41 @ Let us lift up our hearts (note:)Gr. on(:note) with our hand to the lofty One in heaven.

bes@Lamentations:3:42 @ We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not (note:)Or, been propitious(:note) pardoned.

bes@Lamentations:3:43 @ SAMECH. Thou has visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied.

bes@Lamentations:3:44 @ Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, (note:)See use of kammuw in Isa strkjv@29:10(:note) that I might be blind,

bes@Lamentations:3:45 @ and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us alone in the midst of the nations.

bes@Lamentations:3:46 @ All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

bes@Lamentations:3:47 @ Fear and wrath are come upon us, (note:)Gr. lifting up; See Lu strkjv@12:29(:note) suspense and destruction.

bes@Lamentations:3:48 @ Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

bes@Lamentations:3:49 @ PHE. Mine eye is drowned with tears, and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,

bes@Lamentations:3:50 @ until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

bes@Lamentations:3:51 @ Mine eye shall (note:)Gr. gather(:note) prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.

bes@Lamentations:3:52 @ TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, (note:)Hebrews. and Alex.—all(:note) all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,

bes@Lamentations:3:53 @ and laid a stone upon me.

bes@Lamentations:3:54 @ Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

bes@Lamentations:3:55 @ KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

bes@Lamentations:3:56 @ Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.

bes@Lamentations:3:57 @ Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not.

bes@Lamentations:3:58 @ RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life.

bes@Lamentations:3:59 @ Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause.

bes@Lamentations:3:60 @ Thou hast seen all their vengeance, thou hast looked on all their devices against me.

bes@Lamentations:3:61 @ CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach and all their devices against me;

bes@Lamentations:3:62 @ the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;

bes@Lamentations:3:63 @ their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.

bes@Lamentations:3:64 @ Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

bes@Lamentations:3:65 @ THAU. Thou wilt give them as (note:)q. d. callousness(:note) a covering, the grief of my heart.

bes@Lamentations:3:66 @ Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

bes@Lamentations:4:1 @ ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured forth at the top (note:)Gr. of all outlets(:note) of all the streets.

bes@Lamentations:4:2 @ BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were (note:)Gr. exalted in, or, weighed with gold(:note) equalled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!

bes@Lamentations:4:3 @ GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

bes@Lamentations:4:4 @ DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, and there is none to break it to them.

bes@Lamentations:4:5 @ HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.

bes@Lamentations:4:6 @ VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, the city that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her with their hands.

bes@Lamentations:4:7 @ ZAIN. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified as with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.

bes@Lamentations:4:8 @ HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.

bes@Lamentations:4:9 @ TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.

bes@Lamentations:4:10 @ JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

bes@Lamentations:4:11 @ CHAPH. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations.

bes@Lamentations:4:12 @ LAMED. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.

bes@Lamentations:4:13 @ MEM. For the sins of her prophets, and iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,

bes@Lamentations:4:14 @ NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment with it.

bes@Lamentations:4:15 @ SAMECH. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

bes@Lamentations:4:16 @ AIN. The (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) presence of the Lords was their portion; but he will not again look upon them: they Lit. accepted not regarded not the person of the priests, they pitied not the Heb. and Alex. elders prophets.

bes@Lamentations:4:17 @ PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

bes@Lamentations:4:18 @ We have hunted for our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

bes@Lamentations:4:19 @ Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.

bes@Lamentations:4:20 @ RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

bes@Lamentations:4:21 @ CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.

bes@Lamentations:4:22 @ THAU. O daughter of Sion, thine iniquity has come to an end; he shall no more carry thee captive: he has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; he has discovered thy sins.

bes@Lamentations:5:1 @ Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

bes@Lamentations:5:2 @ Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

bes@Lamentations:5:3 @ we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

bes@Lamentations:5:4 @ We have drunk our water for money; our wood is (note:)Lit. has come upon our neck in exchange(:note) sold to us for a burden on our neck:

bes@Lamentations:5:5 @ we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

bes@Lamentations:5:6 @ Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) own satisfaction.

bes@Lamentations:5:7 @ Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.

bes@Lamentations:5:8 @ Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

bes@Lamentations:5:9 @ We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

bes@Lamentations:5:10 @ Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

bes@Lamentations:5:11 @ They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

bes@Lamentations:5:12 @ Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

bes@Lamentations:5:13 @ The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

bes@Lamentations:5:14 @ And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their (note:)Or, psalms, or songs(:note) music.

bes@Lamentations:5:15 @ The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

bes@Lamentations:5:16 @ The crown has fallen from our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

bes@Lamentations:5:17 @ For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

bes@Lamentations:5:18 @ Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

bes@Lamentations:5:19 @ But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.

bes@Lamentations:5:20 @ Wherefore wilt thou (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

bes@Lamentations:5:21 @ Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

bes@Lamentations:5:22 @ For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.

bes@Ezekiel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was in the midst of the captivity by the river of Chobar; and the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

bes@Ezekiel:1:2 @ On the fifth day of the month; this was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joakim.

bes@Ezekiel:1:3 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river of Chobar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me. (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +there(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:1:4 @ And I looked, and, behold, a sweeping wind came from the north, and a great cloud on it, and there was brightness round about it, and gleaming fire, and in the midst of it as it were the appearance of amber in the midst of the fire, and brightness in it.

bes@Ezekiel:1:5 @ And in the midst as it were the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; the likeness of a man was upon them.

bes@Ezekiel:1:6 @ And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.

bes@Ezekiel:1:7 @ And their legs were straight; and their feet were winged, and there were sparks, like gleaming brass, and their wings were light.

bes@Ezekiel:1:8 @ And the hand of a man was under their wings on their four (note:)Gr. parts(:note) sides.

bes@Ezekiel:1:9 @

bes@Ezekiel:1:10 @ And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right of the four; and the face of a calf on the left of the four; and the face of an eagle to the four.

bes@Ezekiel:1:11 @ And the four had their wings spread out above; each one had two joined to one another, and two covered (note:)Lit. over their body(:note) their bodies.

bes@Ezekiel:1:12 @ And each one went straight forward: wherever the spirit was going they went, and turned not back.

bes@Ezekiel:1:13 @ And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps (note:)i. e. revolving(:note) turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.

bes@Ezekiel:1:14 @

bes@Ezekiel:1:15 @ And I looked, and, behold, the four had each one wheel on the ground near the living creatures.

bes@Ezekiel:1:16 @ And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness: and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel.

bes@Ezekiel:1:17 @ They went on their four (note:)Or, parts(:note) sides: they turned not as they went;

bes@Ezekiel:1:18 @ neither did their backs turn: and they were high: and I beheld them, and the backs of them four were full of eyes round about.

bes@Ezekiel:1:19 @ And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth. the wheels were lifted off.

bes@Ezekiel:1:20 @ Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit (note:)Or, with power(:note) ready to go: the wheels went and were lifted up with sc. the living creatures probably them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.

bes@Ezekiel:1:21 @ When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

bes@Ezekiel:1:22 @ And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.

bes@Ezekiel:1:23 @ And their wings were spread out under the firmament, (note:)Or, clapping or making a noise; Alex. +sunezeugmenai, joined with(:note) reaching one to the other; two wings to each, covering their bodies.

bes@Ezekiel:1:24 @ And I heard the sound of their wings when they went, as the sound of much water: (note:)Alex. +’as the sound of the Mighty One, when they went there was the sound of speech as the sound of an army,’ nearly according to the Hebrews.(:note) and when they stood, their wings Gr. ceased were let down.

bes@Ezekiel:1:25 @ And lo! a voice from above the firmament

bes@Ezekiel:1:26 @ that was over their head, (note:)Alex. +’when they stood their wings were let down.’(:note) there was as the appearance of a sapphire stone, and the likeness of a throne upon it: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as an appearance of a man above.

bes@Ezekiel:1:27 @ And I saw as it were the resemblance of amber (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. «as the appearance of fire within it round about.’(:note) from the appearance of the loins and upwards, and from the appearance of the loins and under I saw an appearance of fire, and the brightness thereof round about.

bes@Ezekiel:1:28 @ As the appearance of the bow when it is in the cloud in days of rain, so was the (note:)Gr. standing, or, condition; Ald. orasiv(:note) form of brightness round about.

bes@Ezekiel:2:1 @ This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And I saw and fell upon my face, and heard the voice of one speaking: and he said to me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak to thee.

bes@Ezekiel:2:2 @ And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet: and I heard him speaking to me.

bes@Ezekiel:2:3 @ And he said to me, Son of Man, I send thee forth to the house of Israel, them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers to this day.

bes@Ezekiel:2:4 @

bes@Ezekiel:2:5 @ Whether then indeed they shall hear or fear. (for it is a provoking house,) yet they shall know that thou art a prophet in the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:2:6 @ And thou, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will (note:)See 2 Co strkjv@11:28(:note) rise up against thee round about, and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:2:7 @ And thou shalt speak my words to them, whether they will hear or fear: for it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:2:8 @ And thou, son of man, hear him that speaks to thee; be not thou provoking, as the provoking house: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.

bes@Ezekiel:2:9 @ And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it a volume of a book.

bes@Ezekiel:2:10 @ And he unrolled it before me: and in it the front and the back were written upon: and there was written in it Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.

bes@Ezekiel:3:1 @ And he said to me, Son of Man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:3:2 @ So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And he said to me, Son of man,

bes@Ezekiel:3:3 @ thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

bes@Ezekiel:3:4 @ And he said to me, Son of man, go thy way, and go in to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

bes@Ezekiel:3:5 @ For thou art not sent to a people (note:)Gr. of deep tongue(:note) of hard speech, but to the house of Israel;

bes@Ezekiel:3:6 @ neither to many nations of other speech and other tongues, nor of harsh language, whose words thou wouldest not understand: although if I had sent thee to such, they would have hearkened to thee.

bes@Ezekiel:3:7 @ But the house of Israel will not be willing to hearken to thee; for they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are stubborn and hard-hearted.

bes@Ezekiel:3:8 @ And, behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen thy (note:)Gr. victory, see Hebrews.(:note) power against their power.

bes@Ezekiel:3:9 @ And it shall be continually stronger than a rock: be not afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their faces, because it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:3:10 @ And he said to me, Son of man, receive into thine heart all the words that I have spoken to thee, and hear them with thine ears.

bes@Ezekiel:3:11 @ And go thy way, go in to the captivity, to the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

bes@Ezekiel:3:12 @ Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me the voice as of a great earthquake, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place.

bes@Ezekiel:3:13 @ And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake.

bes@Ezekiel:3:14 @ And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.

bes@Ezekiel:3:15 @ Then I (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round to them that dwelt by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:3:16 @ And after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man,

bes@Ezekiel:3:17 @ I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou shalt hear a word of my mouth, and shalt threaten them from me.

bes@Ezekiel:3:18 @ When I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou hast not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

bes@Ezekiel:3:19 @ But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul.

bes@Ezekiel:3:20 @ And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring (note:)Lit. torment, Basanov in Old Testament seems to signify punishment, as kolasiv in New Testament does torment, 1 Jo strkjv@4:18(:note) punishment before him, he shall die, because thou didst not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

bes@Ezekiel:3:21 @ But if thou warn the righteous not to sin, and he sin not, the righteous shall surely live, because thou hast warned him; and thou shalt deliver thine own soul.

bes@Ezekiel:3:22 @ And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shalt thou be spoken to.

bes@Ezekiel:3:23 @ And I arose, and went forth to the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, according to the vision, and according to the glory of the Lord, which I saw by the river of Chobar: and I fell on my face.

bes@Ezekiel:3:24 @ Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thine house.

bes@Ezekiel:3:25 @ And thou, son of man, behold, bonds are prepared for thee, and they shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not come forth of the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:3:26 @ Also I will bind thy tongue, and thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: because it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:3:27 @ But when I speak to thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, He that hears, let him hear; and he that is disobedient, let him be disobedient: because it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:4:1 @ And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and thou shalt set it before thy face, and shalt portray on it the city, even Jerusalem.

bes@Ezekiel:4:2 @ And thou shalt besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.

bes@Ezekiel:4:3 @ And take thou to thyself an iron pan, and thou shalt set it for an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face against it, and it shall be in a siege, and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign to the children of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:4:4 @ And thou shalt lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the hundred and fifty days during which thou shalt lie upon it: and thou shalt bear their iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:4:5 @ For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And thou shalt accomplish (note:)Lit. these things(:note) this, and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days: I have appointed thee a day for a year.

bes@Ezekiel:4:7 @ So thou shalt set thy face to the siege of Jerusalem, and shalt strengthen thine arm, and shalt prophesy against it.

bes@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And, behold, I have prepared bonds for thee, land thou mayest not turn from thy one side to the other, until the days of thy siege shall be accomplished.

bes@Ezekiel:4:9 @ Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and (note:)Or, oats(:note) bread-corn; and thou shalt cast them into one earthen vessel, and shalt make them into loaves for thyself; and thou shalt eat them a hundred and ninety days, according to the number of the days during which thou sleepest on thy side.

bes@Ezekiel:4:10 @ And thou shalt eat thy food by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat them.

bes@Ezekiel:4:11 @ And thou shalt drink water by measure, even from time to time thou shalt drink the sixth part of a hin.

bes@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And thou shalt eat them as a barley cake: thou shalt (note:)Lit. hide, whence egkrufiav, a cake(:note) bake them before their eyes in man’s dung.

bes@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Thus shall the children of Israel eat unclean things among the Gentiles.

bes@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then I said, (note:)See Ac strkjv@10:14(:note) Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten, that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.

bes@Ezekiel:4:15 @ And he said to me, Behold, I have given thee dung of oxen instead of man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy loaves upon it.

bes@Ezekiel:4:16 @ And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:

bes@Ezekiel:4:17 @ that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:5:1 @ And thou, son of man, take thee a sword sharper than a barber’s razor; thou shalt procure it for thyself, and shalt bring it upon thine head, and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take a pair of scales, and shalt separate the hair.

bes@Ezekiel:5:2 @ A fourth part thou shalt burn in the fire in the midst of the city, at the fulfillment of the days of the siege: and thou shalt take a fourth part, and burn it up in the midst of it: (note:)Of the city(:note) and a fourth part thou shalt cut with a sword round about it: and a fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind; and I will Gr. empty, or, exhaust draw out a sword after them.

bes@Ezekiel:5:3 @ And thou shalt take thence a few in number, and shalt wrap them in the fold of thy garment.

bes@Ezekiel:5:4 @ And thou shalt take of these again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them up with fire: from thence shall come forth fire; and thou shalt say to the whole house of Israel,

bes@Ezekiel:5:5 @ Thus saith the Lord; This is Jerusalem: I have set her and the countries round about her in the midst of the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And thou shalt declare mine ordinances to the lawless one from out of the nations; and my statutes to the sinful one of the countries round about her: because they have rejected mine ordinances, and have not walked in my statutes.

bes@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus saith the Lord;

bes@Ezekiel:5:8 @ Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgement in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, (note:)Gr. according to(:note) for all thine abominations.

bes@Ezekiel:5:10 @ Therefore the fathers shall eat their children in the midst of thee, and children shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgements in thee, and I will scatter all that are left of thee to every wind.

bes@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord; surely, because thou hast defiled my holy things with all thine abominations, I also will reject thee; mine eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.

bes@Ezekiel:5:12 @ A fourth part of thee shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of thee shall be consumed in the midst of thee with famine: and as for another fourth part of thee, I will scatter them to every wind; and a fourth part of thee shall fall by sword round about thee, and I will draw out a sword after them.

bes@Ezekiel:5:13 @ And my wrath and mine anger shall be accomplished upon them: and thou shalt know that I the Lord have spoken in my jealousy, when I have accomplished mine anger upon them.

bes@Ezekiel:5:14 @ And I will make thee desolate, and thy daughters round about thee, in the sight of every one that passes through.

bes@Ezekiel:5:15 @ And thou shalt be mourned over and miserable among the nations round about thee, when I have executed judgements in thee in the vengeance of my wrath. I the Lord have spoken.

bes@Ezekiel:5:16 @ And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of thy bread.

bes@Ezekiel:5:17 @ So I will send forth against thee famine and evil beasts, and I will take vengeance upon thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through upon thee; and I will bring a sword upon thee round about. I the Lord have spoken.

bes@Ezekiel:6:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:6:2 @ Son of man, set thy face against the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them;

bes@Ezekiel:6:3 @ and thou shalt say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests; Behold, I bring a sword upon you, and your high places shall be utterly destroyed.

bes@Ezekiel:6:4 @ And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

bes@Ezekiel:6:5 @ And I will scatter your bones round about your altars,

bes@Ezekiel:6:6 @ and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.

bes@Ezekiel:6:7 @ And slain men shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:6:8 @ When there are some of you escaping from the sword among the Gentiles, and when ye are scattered in the countries;

bes@Ezekiel:6:9 @ then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over (note:)Gr. their faces, or, persons(:note) themselves for all their abominations.

bes@Ezekiel:6:10 @

bes@Ezekiel:6:11 @ Thus saith the Lord; (note:)Or, make a noise(:note) Clap with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot and say, See Ps strkjv@35:21 Aha, aha! for all the abominations of the house of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.

bes@Ezekiel:6:12 @ He that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that is far off shall die by the pestilence; and he that is in the siege shall be consumed with famine: and I will accomplish mine anger upon them.

bes@Ezekiel:6:13 @ Then ye shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savour to all their idols.

bes@Ezekiel:6:14 @ And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:7:1 @ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Also, thou, son of man, say,

bes@Ezekiel:7:2 @ Thus saith the Lord; An end is come to the land of Israel, the end is come on the four corners of the land.

bes@Ezekiel:7:3 @ The end is come on thee,

bes@Ezekiel:7:4 @ the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs.

bes@Ezekiel:7:5 @ Now I will pour out my anger upon thee near at hand, and I will accomplish my wrath on thee: and I will judge thee for thy ways, and recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

bes@Ezekiel:7:6 @ Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy way upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:7:7 @ Now the end is come to thee, and I will send judgement upon thee: and I will take vengeance on thy ways, and will recompense all thine abominations upon thee.

bes@Ezekiel:7:8 @ Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy: for I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord that smite thee.

bes@Ezekiel:7:9 @ For thus saith the Lord; Behold, the end is come.

bes@Ezekiel:7:10 @ Behold, the day of the Lord! although the rod has blossomed,

bes@Ezekiel:7:11 @ pride has sprung up, and will break the staff of the wicked one, and that not with tumult, nor with haste.

bes@Ezekiel:7:12 @ The time is come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.

bes@Ezekiel:7:13 @ For the buyer shall never again return to the seller, neither shall a man cleave with the eye of hope to his life.

bes@Ezekiel:7:14 @ Sound ye the trumpet, and pass sentence on all together.

bes@Ezekiel:7:15 @ There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.

bes@Ezekiel:7:16 @ But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will slay all the rest, every one for his iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:7:17 @ All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.

bes@Ezekiel:7:18 @ And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head.

bes@Ezekiel:7:19 @ Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the (note:)Gr. torment(:note) punishment of their iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:7:20 @ As for their choice ornaments, they employed them for pride, and they made of them images of their abominations: therefore have I made them uncleanness to them.

bes@Ezekiel:7:21 @ And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to (note:)Or, tear asunder(:note) make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

bes@Ezekiel:7:22 @ And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.

bes@Ezekiel:7:23 @ And they shall work uncleanness: because the land is full of strange nations, and the city is full of iniquity.

bes@Ezekiel:7:24 @ And I will turn back the (note:)Gr. raging(:note) boasting of their strength; and their holy things shall be defiled.

bes@Ezekiel:7:25 @ And though propitiation shall come, and one shall seek peace, yet there shall be none.

bes@Ezekiel:7:26 @ There shall be woe upon woe, and there shall be message upon message; and a vision shall be sought from a prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

bes@Ezekiel:7:27 @ The prince shall clothe himself with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be made feeble: I will do to them according to their ways, and according to their judgements will I punish them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:8:1 @ And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Juda were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came upon me.

bes@Ezekiel:8:2 @ And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downwards there was fire, and from his loins (note:)Gr. above him(:note) upwards there was as the appearance of amber.

bes@Ezekiel:8:3 @ And he stretched forth the likeness of a hand, and took me by the crown of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and sky, and brought me to Jerusalem in a vision of God, to the porch of the (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. inner gate(:note) gate that looks to the north, where was the pillar of the Heb. ambiguous Purchaser.

bes@Ezekiel:8:4 @ And, behold, the glory of the Lord God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I saw in the plain.

bes@Ezekiel:8:5 @ And he said to me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes toward the north, and, behold, I looked from the north toward the eastern gate.

bes@Ezekiel:8:6 @ And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what these do? They commit great abominations here so that I should keep away from my sanctuary: and thou shalt see yet greater iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:8:7 @ And he brought me to the porch of the court.

bes@Ezekiel:8:8 @ And he said to me, Son of man, dig: so I dug, and behold a door.

bes@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And he said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practise here.

bes@Ezekiel:8:10 @ So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon (note:)Alex. autou(:note) them round about.

bes@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jechonias the son of Saphan stood in their presence in the midst of them, and each one held his censer in his hand; and the smoke of the incense went up.

bes@Ezekiel:8:12 @ And he said to me, Thou hast seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber: because they have said, The Lord see not; The Lord has forsaken the earth.

bes@Ezekiel:8:13 @ And he said to me, Thou shalt see yet greater iniquities which these do.

bes@Ezekiel:8:14 @ And he brought me in to the porch of the house of the Lord that looks to the north; and, behold there were women sitting there lamenting for Thammuz.

bes@Ezekiel:8:15 @ And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen; but thou shalt yet see evil practices greater then these.

bes@Ezekiel:8:16 @ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty men, with their back parts toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces turned the (note:)Hebrews. ambiguous(:note) opposite way; and these were worshipping the sun.

bes@Ezekiel:8:17 @ And he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen this. Is it a little thing to the house of Juda to practise the iniquities which they have practised here? for they have filled the land with iniquity: and, behold, these are as scorners.

bes@Ezekiel:8:18 @ Therefore will I deal with them in wrath: mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have any mercy.

bes@Ezekiel:9:1 @ And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, The judgement of the city has drawn nigh; and each had the weapons of destruction in his hand.

bes@Ezekiel:9:2 @ And, behold, six men came from the way of the high gate that looks toward the north, and each one’s axe was in his hand; and there was one man in the midst of them clothed with a long robe down to the feet, and a sapphire girdle was on his loins: and they came in and stood near the brazen altar.

bes@Ezekiel:9:3 @ And the glory of the God of Israel, that was upon them, went up (note:)Alex. on the cherubs(:note) from the cherubs to the porch See Eze 47 of the house. And he called the man that was clothed with the long robe, who had the girdle on his loins;

bes@Ezekiel:9:4 @ And said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:9:5 @ And he said to the first in my hearing, Go after him into the city, and smite: and let not your eyes spare, and have no mercy.

bes@Ezekiel:9:6 @ Slay (note:)Gr. to abolition(:note) utterly old man and youth, and virgin, and infants, and women: but go ye not nigh any on whom is the mark: begin at my Or, holy things, or, persons sanctuary. So they began with the elder men who were within in the house.

bes@Ezekiel:9:7 @ And he said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and smite.

bes@Ezekiel:9:8 @ And it came to pass as they were smiting, that I fell upon my face, and cried out, and said, Alas, O Lord! (note:)Gr. art thou destroying(:note) wilt thou destroy the remnant of Israel, in pouring out thy wrath upon Jerusalem?

bes@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is become very exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness: because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon it.

bes@Ezekiel:9:10 @ Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.

bes@Ezekiel:9:11 @ And, behold, the man clothed with the long robe, and girt with the girdle about his loins, answered and said, I have done as thou didst command me.

bes@Ezekiel:10:1 @ Then I looked, and, behold, over the firmament that was above the head of the cherubs there was a likeness of a throne over them, as a sapphire stone.

bes@Ezekiel:10:2 @ And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill thine hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.

bes@Ezekiel:10:3 @ And the cherubs stood on the right hand of the house, as the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

bes@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the Lord departed from the cherubs to the porch of the house; and the cloud filled the house, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:10:5 @ And the sound of the cherubs’ wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice (note:)Hebrew word in Greek letters(:note) of the Almighty God speaking.

bes@Ezekiel:10:6 @ And it came to pass, when he gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubs, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.

bes@Ezekiel:10:7 @ And he stretched forth his hand into the midst of the fire that was between the cherubs, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with the sacred robe: and he took it, and went out.

bes@Ezekiel:10:8 @ And I saw the cherubs having the likeness of men’s hands under their wings.

bes@Ezekiel:10:9 @ And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.

bes@Ezekiel:10:10 @ And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.

bes@Ezekiel:10:11 @ When they went, they went on their four (note:)Gr. parts(:note) sides; they turned not when they went, for whichever way the first head looked, they went; and they turned not as they went.

bes@Ezekiel:10:12 @ And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.

bes@Ezekiel:10:13 @ And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing.

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bes@Ezekiel:10:15 @ And the cherubs were the same living creature which I saw by the river of Chobar.

bes@Ezekiel:10:16 @ And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.

bes@Ezekiel:10:17 @ When they stood, the wheels stood; and when they mounted up, the wheels mounted up with them: because the spirit of life was in them.

bes@Ezekiel:10:18 @ Then the glory of the Lord departed from (note:)Alex. the porch of the house(:note) the house, and went up on the cherubs.

bes@Ezekiel:10:19 @ And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also (note:)Or, joined to them(:note) beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the Gr. opposite front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.

bes@Ezekiel:10:20 @ This is the living creature which I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chobar; and I knew that they were (note:)Or, the cherubs(:note) cherubs.

bes@Ezekiel:10:21 @ Each one had four faces, and each one had eight wings; and under their wings was the likeness of men’s hands.

bes@Ezekiel:10:22 @ And as for the likeness of their faces, these are the same faces which I saw under the glory of the God of Israel by the river of Chobar: and they went each straight forward.

bes@Ezekiel:11:1 @ Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of the Lord, that looks eastward: and behold at the entrance of the gate were about five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jechonias the son of Ezer, and Phaltias the son of Banaeas, the leaders of the people.

bes@Ezekiel:11:2 @ And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and take evil counsel in this city:

bes@Ezekiel:11:3 @ who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

bes@Ezekiel:11:4 @ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

bes@Ezekiel:11:5 @ And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, say; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: and I know the devices of your spirit.

bes@Ezekiel:11:6 @ Ye have multiplied your dead in this city, and ye have filled (note:)Gr. their, but Alex. authv, sc. the city, autwn perhaps for umwn autwn(:note) your ways with slain men.

bes@Ezekiel:11:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Your dead whom ye have smitten in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and city this is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

bes@Ezekiel:11:8 @ Ye fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:11:9 @ And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgements among you.

bes@Ezekiel:11:10 @ Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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bes@Ezekiel:11:13 @ And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Phaltias the son of Banaeas died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Lord! wilt thou utterly destroy the remnant of Israel?

bes@Ezekiel:11:14 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:11:15 @ Son of man, thy brethren, and the men of thy captivity, and all the house of Israel are come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep ye far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance.

bes@Ezekiel:11:16 @ Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will cast them off among the nations, and will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary in the countries which they shall enter.

bes@Ezekiel:11:17 @ Therefore say thou, Thus saith the Lord; I will also take them from the heathen, and gather them out of the lands wherein I have scattered them, and will give them the land of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:11:18 @ And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations of it, and all its iniquities from it.

bes@Ezekiel:11:19 @ And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh:

bes@Ezekiel:11:20 @ that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

bes@Ezekiel:11:21 @ And as for the heart set upon their abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:11:22 @ Then the cherubs lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

bes@Ezekiel:11:23 @ And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which was in front of the city.

bes@Ezekiel:11:24 @ And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision which I saw.

bes@Ezekiel:11:25 @ And I spoke to the captivity all the words of the Lord which he had shewed me.

bes@Ezekiel:12:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:12:2 @ Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the iniquities of those, who have eyes to see, and see not; and have ears to hear, and hear not: because it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:12:3 @ Thou therefore, son of man, prepare thyself baggage (note:)Lit. of captivity(:note) for going into captivity by day in their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is a provoking house.

bes@Ezekiel:12:4 @ And thou shalt carry forth thy baggage, baggage for captivity, by day before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth at even, as a captive goes forth, in their sight.

bes@Ezekiel:12:5 @ Dig for thyself into the wall of the house, and thou shalt pass through it in their sight:

bes@Ezekiel:12:6 @ thou shalt be lifted up on men’s shoulders, and shalt go forth (note:)Gr. hidden(:note) in secret: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: because I have made thee a sign to the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:12:7 @ And I did thus according to all that he commanded me; and I carried forth my baggage for captivity by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall for myself, and went out secretly; I was taken up on men’s shoulders before them.

bes@Ezekiel:12:8 @ And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:12:9 @ Son of man, have not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee, What doest thou?

bes@Ezekiel:12:10 @ Say to them, Thus saith the Lord God, (note:)Alex. Say to the prince and the ruler in Israel and to all the house, etc.(:note) the Prince and the Ruler in Israel, even to all the house of Israel who are in the midst of them:

bes@Ezekiel:12:11 @ say, I am performing signs: as I have done, so shall it be to him: they shall go into banishment and captivity.

bes@Ezekiel:12:12 @ And the prince in the midst of them shall be borne upon shoulders, and shall go forth in secret through the wall, and shall dig so that he may go forth thereby: he shall cover his face, that he may not be seen by any eye, and he himself shall not see the ground.

bes@Ezekiel:12:13 @ And I will spread out my net upon him, and he shall be caught in my (note:)Lit. siege, hemming in, etc.(:note) toils: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.

bes@Ezekiel:12:14 @ And I will scatter to every wind all his assistants round about him, and all that help him; and I will draw out a sword after them;

bes@Ezekiel:12:15 @ And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have scattered them among the nations; and I will disperse them in the countries.

bes@Ezekiel:12:16 @ And I will leave of them a few men in number spared from the sword, and from famine, and pestilence; that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations whither they have gone; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:12:17 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:12:18 @ Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.

bes@Ezekiel:12:19 @ And thou shalt say to the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, on the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread in scarcity, and shall drink their water in desolation, that the land may be desolate with all that it contains: for all that dwell in it are (note:)Gr. in ungodliness(:note) ungodly.

bes@Ezekiel:12:20 @ And their inhabited cities shall be laid utterly waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:12:21 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:12:22 @ Son of man, what is your parable on the land of Israel, that ye say, The days are long, the vision has perished?

bes@Ezekiel:12:23 @ Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord; I will even set aside this parable, and the house of Israel shall no more at all use this parable: for thou shalt say to them, The days are at hand, and the import of every vision.

bes@Ezekiel:12:24 @ For there shall no more be any false vision, nor any one prophesying flatteries in the midst of the children of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:12:25 @ For I the Lord will speak my words; I will speak and perform them, and will no more delay, for in your days, O provoking house, I will speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:12:26 @ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:12:27 @ Son of man, behold, the provoking house of Israel boldly say, The vision which this man sees is for many days, and he prophesy for times afar off.

bes@Ezekiel:12:28 @ Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Henceforth none of my words shall linger, which I shall speak: I will speak and do, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:13:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:13:2 @ Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, (note:)Alex. +’that prophesy, and thou shalt say to the prophets that prophesy out of their own heart.’(:note) and thou shalt prophesy, and shalt say to them, Hear ye the word of the Lord:

bes@Ezekiel:13:3 @ Thus saith the Lord, Woe to them that prophesy out of their own heart, and who see nothing at all.

bes@Ezekiel:13:4 @ Thy prophets, O Israel, are like foxes in the deserts.

bes@Ezekiel:13:5 @ They have not continued steadfast, and they have gathered flocks against the house of Israel, they that say,

bes@Ezekiel:13:6 @ In the day of the Lord, have not (note:)Or, stood up, or, risen up(:note) stood, seeing false visions, prophesying vanities, who say, The Lord saith, and the Lord has not sent them, and they began to try to confirm the word.

bes@Ezekiel:13:7 @ Have ye not seen a false vision? and spoken vain prophecies?

bes@Ezekiel:13:8 @ And therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Because your words are false, and your prophecies are vain, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:13:9 @ And I will stretch forth my hand against the prophets that see false visions, and those that utter vanities: they shall not partake of the (note:)Or, correction(:note) instruction of my people, neither shall they be written in the roll of the house of Israel, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because they have caused my people to err, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and one builds a wall, and they plaster it, —it shall fall.

bes@Ezekiel:13:11 @ Say to them that plaster it, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.

bes@Ezekiel:13:12 @ And lo! the wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, (note:)Or, What is become of? See 2 Pe strkjv@3:4(:note) Where is your plaster wherewith ye plastered it?

bes@Ezekiel:13:13 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; I will even cause to burst forth a sweeping blast with fury, and there shall be a flooding rain in my wrath; and in my fury I will bring on great stones for complete destruction.

bes@Ezekiel:13:14 @ And I will break down the wall which ye have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be discovered, and it shall fall; and ye shall be consumed with rebukes: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:13:15 @ And I will accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that plaster it; it shall fall: and I said to you, The wall is not, nor they that plaster it,

bes@Ezekiel:13:16 @ even the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:13:17 @ And thou, son of man, set thy face firmly against the daughters of thy people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy against them.

bes@Ezekiel:13:18 @ And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

bes@Ezekiel:13:19 @ And they have (note:)Gr. profaned(:note) dishonoured me before my people for a handful of barley, and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls which should not die, and to save alive the souls which should not live, while ye speak to a people hearing vain speeches.

bes@Ezekiel:13:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillows, (note:)Or, on which ye gather(:note) whereby ye there confound souls, and I will tear them away from your arms, and will set at liberty their souls which ye pervert to scatter them.

bes@Ezekiel:13:21 @ And I will tear your Kerchiefs, and will rescue my people out of your hands, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because ye have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and that in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:

bes@Ezekiel:13:23 @ therefore ye shall not see false visions, and ye shall no more utter prophecies: but I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:14:1 @ And there came to me men of the people of Israel, of the elders, and sat before me.

bes@Ezekiel:14:2 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:14:3 @ Son of man, these men have conceived their devices in their hearts, and have set before their faces the punishment of their iniquities: shall I indeed answer them?

bes@Ezekiel:14:4 @ Therefore speak to them, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Any man of the house of Israel, who shall conceive his devices in his heart, and shall set the punishment of his iniquity before his face, and shall come to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him according to the things in which his mind is entangled,

bes@Ezekiel:14:5 @ that he should turn aside the house of Israel, according to their hearts that are estranged from me (note:)Or, through their devices(:note) in their thoughts.

bes@Ezekiel:14:6 @ Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Be converted, and turn from your evil practices, and from all your sins, and turn your faces back again.

bes@Ezekiel:14:7 @ For any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who shall (note:)Gr. have been alienated(:note) separate himself from me, and conceive his imaginations in his heart, and set before his face the punishment of his iniquity, and come to the prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him, according to the things wherein he is entangled.

bes@Ezekiel:14:8 @ And I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate and ruined, and will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:14:9 @ And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:14:10 @ And they shall bear their iniquity according to the trespass of him that asks; and it shall be in like manner to the prophet according to the trespass:

bes@Ezekiel:14:11 @ that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, and that they may no more defile themselves with any of their transgressions: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:14:12 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:14:13 @ Son of man, if a land shall sin against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast.

bes@Ezekiel:14:14 @ And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they alone should be delivered by their righteousness, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:14:15 @ If again I bring evil beasts upon the land, and take vengeance upon it, and it be ruined, and there be no one to pass through for fear of the wild beasts:

bes@Ezekiel:14:16 @ and if these three men should be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be saved, but these only shall be saved, and the land shall be destroyed.

bes@Ezekiel:14:17 @ Or again if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let the sword go through the land; and I cut off from them man and beast:

bes@Ezekiel:14:18 @ though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, they shall not deliver sons or daughters, but they only shall be saved themselves.

bes@Ezekiel:14:19 @ Or if again I send pestilence upon that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to destroy from off it man and beast:

bes@Ezekiel:14:20 @ and should Noe, and Daniel, and Job, be in the midst of it, as I live, saith the Lord, there shall be left them neither sons nor daughters; only they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.

bes@Ezekiel:14:21 @ Thus saith the Lord, And if I even send upon Jerusalem my four sore (note:)Lit. vengeances(:note) judgements, sword, and famine, and evil beasts, and pestilence, to destroy from out of it man and beast;

bes@Ezekiel:14:22 @ yet, behold, there shall be men left in it, the escaped thereof, who shall lead forth of it sons and daughters: behold, they shall go forth to you, land ye shall see their ways and their thoughts: and ye shall (note:)Gr. repent over(:note) mourn over the evils which I have brought upon Jerusalem, even all the evils which I have brought upon it.

bes@Ezekiel:14:23 @ And they shall comfort you, because ye shall see their ways and their thoughts: and ye shall know that I have not done in vain all that I have done in it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:15:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:15:2 @ And thou, son of man—of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?

bes@Ezekiel:15:3 @ Will they take wood of it to make it fit for work? will they take of it a peg to hang any vessel upon it?

bes@Ezekiel:15:4 @ It is only given to the fire to be consumed; the fire consumes that which is yearly pruned (note:)Or, from off it(:note) of it, and it is utterly gone. Will it be useful for any work?

bes@Ezekiel:15:5 @ Not even while it is yet whole will it be useful for any work: if the fire shall have utterly consumed it, will it still be fit for work?

bes@Ezekiel:15:6 @ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given up to the fire to be consumed, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

bes@Ezekiel:15:7 @ And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth of the fire, and yet fire shall devour them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set my face against them.

bes@Ezekiel:15:8 @ And I will give up the land to ruin, because they have utterly transgressed, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:16:1 @ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:16:2 @ Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;

bes@Ezekiel:16:3 @ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord to Jerusalem; Thy root and thy birth are of the land of Chanaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Chettite.

bes@Ezekiel:16:4 @ And as for thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands.

bes@Ezekiel:16:5 @ Nor did mine eye pity thee, to do for thee one of all these things, to feel at all for thee; but thou wast cast out on the face of the field, because of the deformity of thy person, in the day wherein thou wast born.

bes@Ezekiel:16:6 @ And I passed by to thee, and saw thee polluted in thy blood; and I said to thee, Let there be life out of thy blood:

bes@Ezekiel:16:7 @ increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

bes@Ezekiel:16:8 @ And I passed by thee and saw thee, and, behold, it was thy time and a time of resting; and I spread my wings over thee, and covered thy shame, and swear to thee: and I entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine.

bes@Ezekiel:16:9 @ And I washed thee in water, and washed thy blood from thee, and anointed thee with oil.

bes@Ezekiel:16:10 @ And I clothed thee with embroidered garments, and (note:)Alex. «shod thee,’ by the change of h for u(:note) clothed thee beneath with purple, and girded thee with fine linen, and clothed thee with silk,

bes@Ezekiel:16:11 @ and decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thine hands, and a necklace on thy neck.

bes@Ezekiel:16:12 @ And I put (note:)Lit. an earring(:note) a pendant on thy nostril, and rings in thine ears, and a crown of glory on thine head.

bes@Ezekiel:16:13 @ So thou wast adorned with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and variegated work: thou didst eat fine flour, and oil, and honey, and didst become extremely beautiful.

bes@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And thy name went forth among the nations for thy beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:16:15 @ Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by.

bes@Ezekiel:16:16 @ and thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them; therefore thou shalt never come in, nor shall the like take place.

bes@Ezekiel:16:17 @ And thou tookest (note:)Gr. the ornaments of thy boasting(:note) thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them.

bes@Ezekiel:16:18 @ And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and thou didst set before them mine oil and mine incense.

bes@Ezekiel:16:19 @ And thou tookest my bread which I gave thee, (yea I fed thee with fine flour and oil and honey) and didst set them before them for a sweet-smelling savour: yea, it was so, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:16:20 @ And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, land didst sacrifice these to them to be destroyed. (note:)Or, as if thou hadst committed fornication but a little, thou didst also, etc(:note) Thou didst go a-whoring as if that were little,

bes@Ezekiel:16:21 @ and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering (note:)Alex. omits «them’(:note) them to them for an expiation.

bes@Ezekiel:16:22 @ This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, and didst live though defiled in thy blood.

bes@Ezekiel:16:23 @ And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith the Lord,

bes@Ezekiel:16:24 @ that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;

bes@Ezekiel:16:25 @ and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passer by, and didst multiply thy fornication.

bes@Ezekiel:16:26 @ And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger.

bes@Ezekiel:16:27 @ And if I stretch out my hand against thee, then will I abolish thy (note:)Perhaps ordinary food, as in A. V.(:note) statutes, and deliver thee up to the wills of them that hate thee, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned thee aside from the way wherein thou sinned.

bes@Ezekiel:16:28 @ And thou didst go a-whoring to the daughters of Assur, and not even thus wast thou satisfied; yea, thou didst go a-whoring, and wast not satisfied.

bes@Ezekiel:16:29 @ And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these wast thou satisfied.

bes@Ezekiel:16:30 @ Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.

bes@Ezekiel:16:31 @ Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thine high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.

bes@Ezekiel:16:32 @ An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.

bes@Ezekiel:16:33 @ She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication.

bes@Ezekiel:16:34 @ And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus (note:)Or, was it contrary with thee(:note) perverseness happened in thee.

bes@Ezekiel:16:35 @ Therefore, harlot, hear the word of the Lord:

bes@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast poured forth thy (note:)Gr. brass(:note) money, therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers, and with regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood of thy children which thou hast given to them.

bes@Ezekiel:16:37 @ Therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast consorted, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou didst hate; and I will gather them against thee round about, and will expose thy wickedness to them, and they shall see all thy shame.

bes@Ezekiel:16:38 @ And I will be avenged on thee with the vengeance (note:)i. e. due to(:note) of an adulteress, and I will Lit. lay thee in bring upon thee blood of fury and jealousy.

bes@Ezekiel:16:39 @ And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thine high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take (note:)Gr. the vessels or articles of thy glory(:note) thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.

bes@Ezekiel:16:40 @ and they shall bring multitudes upon thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and pierce thee with their swords.

bes@Ezekiel:16:41 @ And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from harlotry, and (note:)Alex. thou shalt no more give rewards(:note) I will no more give thee Or, hires rewards.

bes@Ezekiel:16:42 @ So will I slacken my fury against thee, and my jealousy shall be removed from thee, and I will rest, and be no more careful for thee.

bes@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon thine head, saith the Lord: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all thine other iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:16:44 @ These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a (note:)The most obvious meaning of parabolh seems to be comparison; The word is so translated, Mr strkjv@4:30; in Heb strkjv@9:9; strkjv@11:19 it is rendered figure; in Lu strkjv@4:23, proverb, which is the word employed by the English translators in this passage of the New Testament, amounting to upwards of forty, it is uniformly rendered parable; See note on Job strkjv@25:2; For the more classical use of the word, see Aristotle’s Rhetoric, book 3(:note) proverb, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:16:45 @ As is the mother, so is thy mother’s daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite.

bes@Ezekiel:16:46 @ Your elder sister who dwells on thy left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and thy younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

bes@Ezekiel:16:47 @ Yet notwithstanding thou hast not walked in their ways, neither hast thou done according to their iniquities within a little, but thou hast exceeded them in all thy ways.

bes@Ezekiel:16:48 @ As I live, saith the Lord, this Sodom (note:)Alex. +thy sister(:note) and her daughters have not done as thou and thy daughters have done.

bes@Ezekiel:16:49 @ Moreover this was the sin of thy sister Sodom, pride: she and her daughters (note:)See 1 Ti strkjv@5:6(:note) lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread and in abundance: this belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor and needy.

bes@Ezekiel:16:50 @ And they boasted, and wrought iniquities before me: so I cut them off as I saw fit.

bes@Ezekiel:16:51 @ Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine iniquities beyond them, and thou hast justified thy sisters in all thine iniquities which thou hast committed.

bes@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Thou therefore bear thy punishment, for that thou hast corrupted thy sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; and thou hast made them appear more righteous than thyself: thou therefore be ashamed, and bear thy dishonour, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

bes@Ezekiel:16:53 @ And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn thy captivity in the midst of them:

bes@Ezekiel:16:54 @ that thou mayest bear thy punishment, and be dishonoured (note:)Gr. out of(:note) for all that thou hast done in provoking me to anger.

bes@Ezekiel:16:55 @ And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were at the beginning, and thou and thy daughters shall be restored as ye were at the beginning.

bes@Ezekiel:16:56 @ And surely thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the days of thy pride:

bes@Ezekiel:16:57 @ before thy wickedness was discovered, even now thou art the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, even of the daughters of the Philistines that compass thee round about.

bes@Ezekiel:16:58 @ As for thine ungodliness and thine iniquities, thou hast borne them, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:16:59 @ Thus saith the Lord; I will even do to thee as thou hast done, as thou hast dealt shamefully in these things to transgress my covenant.

bes@Ezekiel:16:60 @ And I will remember my covenant made with thee in the days of thine infancy, and I will (note:)Lit. raise up(:note) establish to thee an everlasting covenant.

bes@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then thou shalt remember thy way, and shalt be utterly dishonoured when thou receivest thine elder sisters with thy younger ones: and I will give them to thee for (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) building up, but not by thy covenant.

bes@Ezekiel:16:62 @ And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:

bes@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and mayest no more be able to open thy mouth for thy shame, when I am reconciled to thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:17:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:17:2 @ Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:

bes@Ezekiel:17:3 @ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; (note:)Gr. the great eagle(:note) A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus—and he took the choice branches of the cedar:

bes@Ezekiel:17:4 @ he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of (note:)Alex. of the Chaldeans(:note) Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.

bes@Ezekiel:17:5 @ And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.

bes@Ezekiel:17:6 @ And it sprang up, and became a (note:)Alex. euyhnousan, flourishing(:note) weak and little vine, so that the branches thereof appeared upon it, and its roots were under it: and it became a vine, and put forth shoots, and sent forth its tendrils.

bes@Ezekiel:17:7 @ And there was another great eagle, with great wings and many claws: and, behold, this vine bent itself round toward him, and her roots were turned towards him, and she sent forth her branches towards him, that he might water her together with the growth of her plantation.

bes@Ezekiel:17:8 @ She thrives in a fair field by much water, to produce shoots and bear fruit, that she might become a great vine.

bes@Ezekiel:17:9 @ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yea, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and that not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots.

bes@Ezekiel:17:10 @ And, behold, it thrives: shall it prosper? shall it not wither as soon as the east wind touches it? it shall be withered together with the growth of its shoots.

bes@Ezekiel:17:11 @ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying,

bes@Ezekiel:17:12 @ Son of man, say now to the provoking house, Know ye not what these things were? say to them, Whenever the king of Babylon shall come against Jerusalem, then he shall take her king and her princes, and shall take them (note:)Or, with him(:note) home to Babylon.

bes@Ezekiel:17:13 @ And he shall take of the seed royal, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath: and he shall take the princes of the land:

bes@Ezekiel:17:14 @ that it may become a weak kingdom, so as never to lift itself up, that he may keep his covenant, and establish it.

bes@Ezekiel:17:15 @ And if he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that they may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? shall he that (note:)Or, acts perversely(:note) acts as an adversary be preserved? and shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?

bes@Ezekiel:17:16 @ As I live, saith the Lord, verily in the place (note:)Alex. en w o basileuv, in which the king is(:note) where the king is that made him king, who dishonoured my oath, and who broke my covenant, shall he die with him in the midst of Babylon.

bes@Ezekiel:17:17 @ And Pharao shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of (note:)Or, warlike engines(:note) forts, to cut off souls.

bes@Ezekiel:17:18 @ Whereas he has (note:)Lit. dishonoured(:note) profaned the oath so as to break the covenant, when, behold, I engage his hand, and he has done all these things to him, he shall not escape.

bes@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord; As I live, surely mine oath which he has profaned, and my covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.

bes@Ezekiel:17:20 @ And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.

bes@Ezekiel:17:21 @

bes@Ezekiel:17:22 @ For thus saith the Lord; I will even take of the choice branches of the cedar from the top thereof, I will crop off their hearts, and I will plant it on a high mountain:

bes@Ezekiel:17:23 @ and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yea, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.

bes@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord that bring low the high tree, and exalt the low tree, and wither the green tree, and cause the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

bes@Ezekiel:18:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:18:2 @ Son of man, what mean ye by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth have been set on edge?

bes@Ezekiel:18:3 @ As I live, saith the Lord, surely this parable shall no more be spoken in Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:18:4 @ For all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, they are mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.

bes@Ezekiel:18:5 @ But the man who shall be just, who executes judgement and righteousness,

bes@Ezekiel:18:6 @ who shall not eat upon the mountains, and shall not at all lift up his eyes to the devices of the house of Israel, and shall not defile his neighbor’s wife, and shall not draw nigh to her that is removed,

bes@Ezekiel:18:7 @ and shall not oppress any man, but shall return the pledge of the debtor, and shall be guilty of no plunder, shall give his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked;

bes@Ezekiel:18:8 @ and shall not lend his money upon usury, and shall not receive usurious increase, and shall turn back his hand from injustice, shall execute righteous judgement between a man and his neighbor,

bes@Ezekiel:18:9 @ and has walked in my commandments and kept mine ordinances, to do them; he is righteous, he shall surely live, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:18:10 @ And if he beget a mischievous son, shedding blood and committing sins,

bes@Ezekiel:18:11 @ who has not walked in the way of his righteous father, but has even eaten upon the mountains, and has defiled his neighbor’s wife,

bes@Ezekiel:18:12 @ and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,

bes@Ezekiel:18:13 @ has lent upon usury, and taken usurious increase; he shall by no means live: he has wrought all these iniquities; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

bes@Ezekiel:18:14 @ And if he beget a son, and the son see all his father’s sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them,

bes@Ezekiel:18:15 @ and if he has not eaten on the mountains, and has not set his eyes on the devices of the house of Israel, and has not defiled his neighbor’s wife,

bes@Ezekiel:18:16 @ and has not oppressed a man, and has not retained the pledge, nor committed robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has clothed the naked,

bes@Ezekiel:18:17 @ and has turned back his hand from unrighteousness, has not received interest or usurious increase, has wrought righteousness, and walked in mine ordinances; he shall not die for the iniquities of his father, he shall surely live.

bes@Ezekiel:18:18 @ But if his father grievously afflict, or plunder, he has wrought (note:)Or, transgression(:note) enmity in the midst of my people, and shall die in his iniquity.

bes@Ezekiel:18:19 @ But ye will say, Why has not the son borne the iniquity of the father? Because the son has wrought judgement and mercy, has kept all my statues, and done them, he shall surely live.

bes@Ezekiel:18:20 @ But the soul that sins shall die: and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the iniquity of the transgressor shall be upon him.

bes@Ezekiel:18:21 @ And if the transgressor turn away from all his iniquities which he has committed, and keep all my commandments, and do justice and mercy, he shall surely live, and shall no means die.

bes@Ezekiel:18:22 @ None of his trespasses which he has committed shall be remembered: in his righteousness which he has done he shall live.

bes@Ezekiel:18:23 @ Shall I at all desire death of the sinner, saith the Lord, as I desire that he should turn from his evil way, and live?

bes@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But when the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, according to all the transgressions which the transgressor has wrought, none of his righteousness which he has wrought shall be at all remembered: in his trespass wherein he has trespassed, and in his sins wherein he has sinned, in them shall he die.

bes@Ezekiel:18:25 @ Yet ye have said, The way of the Lord is not straight. Hear now, all the house of Israel; will not my way be straight? (note:)Gr. is not, etc. Alex. Will not your way be not straight?(:note) Is your way straight?

bes@Ezekiel:18:26 @ When the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits a trespass, and dies in the trespass he has committed, he shall even die in it.

bes@Ezekiel:18:27 @ And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgement and justice, he has kept his soul,

bes@Ezekiel:18:28 @ and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

bes@Ezekiel:18:29 @ Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not my way right, O house of Israel? is not your way wrong?

bes@Ezekiel:18:30 @

bes@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness wherein ye have sinned against me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why (note:)Gr. do ye die(:note) should ye die, O house of Israel?

bes@Ezekiel:18:32 @ For I desire not the death of him that dies, saith the Lord. (note:)Alex. +’therefore turn and live.’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:19:1 @ Moreover do thou take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,

bes@Ezekiel:19:2 @ and say, Why is thy mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.

bes@Ezekiel:19:3 @ And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

bes@Ezekiel:19:4 @ And the nations heard a report (note:)Lit. against(:note) of him; he was caught in their Lit. destruction pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

bes@Ezekiel:19:5 @ And she saw that he was driven away from her, and her (note:)See Heb strkjv@11:1(:note) hope of him perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.

bes@Ezekiel:19:6 @ And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.

bes@Ezekiel:19:7 @ And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

bes@Ezekiel:19:8 @ Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

bes@Ezekiel:19:9 @ And they put him in chains and in a cage, and he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:19:10 @ Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.

bes@Ezekiel:19:11 @ And she became (note:)A rod of strength(:note) a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of other trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.

bes@Ezekiel:19:12 @ But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice branches: (note:)Lit. they were avenged(:note) vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.

bes@Ezekiel:19:13 @ And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.

bes@Ezekiel:19:14 @ And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

bes@Ezekiel:20:1 @ And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the (note:)Alex. 5th month, 10th day of the month(:note) fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to enquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.

bes@Ezekiel:20:2 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:20:3 @ Son of man, speak to the elders of the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, I will not be enquired of by you, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:20:4 @ Shall I utterly take vengeance on them, son of man? testify to them of the iniquities of their fathers:

bes@Ezekiel:20:5 @ and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; From the day that I chose the house of Israel, and became known to the seed of the house of Jacob, and was known to them in the land of Egypt, and helped them with my hand, saying, I am the Lord your God;

bes@Ezekiel:20:6 @ in that day I helped them with my hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into the land which I (note:)Hebrews. spied; Alex. sware(:note) prepared for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is Gr. a honeycomb abundant beyond every land.

bes@Ezekiel:20:7 @ And I said to them, Let every one cast away the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the devices of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

bes@Ezekiel:20:8 @ But they revolted from me, and would not hearken to me: they cast not away the abominations of their eyes, and forsook not the devices of Egypt: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my wrath upon them in the midst of Egypt.

bes@Ezekiel:20:9 @ But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. (note:)Alex. +’and I brought them out of the land of Egypt.’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:20:10 @ And I brought them into the wilderness.

bes@Ezekiel:20:11 @ And I gave them my commandments, and made known to them mine ordinances, all which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them.

bes@Ezekiel:20:12 @ And I gave them my sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

bes@Ezekiel:20:13 @ And I said to the house of Israel in the wilderness, Walk ye in my commandments: but they walked not in them, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them; and they grievously profaned my sabbaths: and I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

bes@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned before the Gentiles, before whose eyes I brought them out.

bes@Ezekiel:20:15 @ But I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness once for all, that I would not bring them into the land which I gave them, a land flowing with milk and honey, it is (note:)Gr. a honeycomb(:note) sweeter than all lands:

bes@Ezekiel:20:16 @ because they rejected mine ordinances, and walked not in my commandments, but profaned my sabbaths, and went after the imaginations of their hearts.

bes@Ezekiel:20:17 @ Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

bes@Ezekiel:20:18 @ And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not ye in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves with them.

bes@Ezekiel:20:19 @ I am the Lord your God; walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

bes@Ezekiel:20:20 @ and hallow my sabbaths, and let them be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

bes@Ezekiel:20:21 @ But they provoked me, and their children walked not in my commandments, and they took no heed to mine ordinances to do them, which if a man shall do, he shall even live in them, and they profaned my sabbaths: then I said that I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to accomplish mine anger upon them.

bes@Ezekiel:20:22 @ But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.

bes@Ezekiel:20:23 @ I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles, and disperse them in the countries;

bes@Ezekiel:20:24 @ because they kept not mine ordinances, and rejected my commandments, and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes went after the imaginations of their fathers.

bes@Ezekiel:20:25 @ So I gave them commandments that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live.

bes@Ezekiel:20:26 @ And I will defile them by their own (note:)Alex. gifts; so Hebrews.(:note) decrees, when I pass through upon every one that opens the womb, that I may destroy them.

bes@Ezekiel:20:27 @ Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord: Hitherto have your fathers provoke me in their trespasses in which they transgressed against me.

bes@Ezekiel:20:28 @ Whereas I brought them into the land concerning which I lifted up mine hand to give it them; and they looked upon every high hill, and every shady tree, and they sacrificed there to their gods, and offered there sweet-smelling savour, and there they poured out their drink-offerings.

bes@Ezekiel:20:29 @ And I said to them, What is Abama, that ye go in thither? and they called its mane Abama, until this day.

bes@Ezekiel:20:30 @ Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Do ye pollute yourselves with the iniquities of your fathers, and do ye go a-whoring after their abominations,

bes@Ezekiel:20:31 @ and do ye pollute yourselves with the first-fruits of your gifts, in the offerings wherewith ye pollute yourselves in all your imaginations, until this day; and shall I answer you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you, neither shall this thing come upon your spirit.

bes@Ezekiel:20:32 @ And it shall not be as ye say, We will be as the nations, and as the tribes of the earth, to worship stocks and stones.

bes@Ezekiel:20:33 @ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath:

bes@Ezekiel:20:34 @ I will bring you out from the nations, and will take you out of the lands wherein ye were dispersed, with a strong hand, and with a high arm, and with outpoured wrath.

bes@Ezekiel:20:35 @ And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and will plead with you there face to face.

bes@Ezekiel:20:36 @ As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:20:37 @ And I will cause you to pass under my rod, and I will bring you in by number.

bes@Ezekiel:20:38 @ And I will (note:)Gr. choose out from you(:note) separate from among you the ungodly and the revolters; for I will lead them forth out of their place of sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord, even the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:20:39 @ And as to you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord, even the Lord; Put away each one his evil practices, and hereafter if ye hearken to me, then shall ye no more profane my holy name by your gifts and by devices.

bes@Ezekiel:20:40 @ For upon my holy mountain, on the high mountain, saith the Lord, even the Lord, there shall all the house of Israel serve me for ever: and there will I accept you, and there will I have respect to your first-fruits, and the first-fruits of your (note:)perhaps, wave-offerings(:note) offerings, in all your holy things.

bes@Ezekiel:20:41 @ I will accept you with a sweet-smelling savour, when I bring you out from the nations, and take you out of the countries wherein ye have been dispersed; and I will be sanctified among you in the sight of the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:20:42 @ And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers.

bes@Ezekiel:20:43 @ And ye shall there remember your ways, and your devices wherewith ye defiled yourselves; and ye shall (note:)Lit. beat your faces(:note) bewail yourselves for all your wickedness.

bes@Ezekiel:20:44 @ And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have done thus to you, that my name may not be profaned in your evil ways, and in your corrupt devices, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:20:45 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:20:46 @ Son of man, set thy face against (note:)Hebrews. words(:note) Thaeman, and look toward Darom, and prophesy against the chief forest of Nageb,

bes@Ezekiel:20:47 @ and thou shalt say to the forest of Nageb, Hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord, even the Lord; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame that is kindled shall not be quenched, and every face shall be scorched with it from the south to the north.

bes@Ezekiel:20:48 @ And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

bes@Ezekiel:20:49 @ And I said, (note:)See Ac strkjv@10:14(:note) Not so, O Lord God! they say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable?

bes@Ezekiel:21:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:21:2 @ Therefore prophesy, son of man, set thy face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel,

bes@Ezekiel:21:3 @ and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my (note:)Gr. dagger(:note) sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous.

bes@Ezekiel:21:4 @ Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

bes@Ezekiel:21:5 @ and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more.

bes@Ezekiel:21:6 @ And thou, son of man, groan with the breaking of thy loins; thou shalt even groan heavily in their sight.

bes@Ezekiel:21:7 @ And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:21:8 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:21:9 @ Son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,

bes@Ezekiel:21:10 @ that thou mayest slay victims; be sharpened that thou mayest be bright, ready for (note:)Gr. paralyzing, or, weakening(:note) slaughter, slay, set at nought, despise every tree.

bes@Ezekiel:21:11 @ And he made it ready for his hand to hold: the sword is sharpened, it is ready to put into the hand of the slayer.

bes@Ezekiel:21:12 @ Cry out and howl, son of man: for this sword is come upon my people, this sword is come upon all the princes of Israel: they shall (note:)Gr. sojourn(:note) be as strangers: judgement with the sword is come upon my people: therefore clap thine hands, for Gr. it has been justified sentence has been passed:

bes@Ezekiel:21:13 @ and what if even the tribe be rejected? it shall not be, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:21:14 @ And thou, son of man, prophesy, and clap thine hands, and take a second sword: the third sword is the sword of the slain, the great sword of the slain: and thou shalt strike them with amazement, (note:)Alex. that their heart should be broken(:note) lest the heart should faint

bes@Ezekiel:21:15 @ and the weak ones be multiplied at every gate—they are given up to the slaughter of the sword: it is well fitted for slaughter, (note:)Lit. it has happened well(:note) it is well fitted for glittering.

bes@Ezekiel:21:16 @ And do thou go on, sharpen thyself on the right and on the left whithersoever thy face may (note:)Gr. stir itself up(:note) set itself.

bes@Ezekiel:21:17 @ And I also will clap my hands, and (note:)Or, relax(:note) let loose my fury: I the Lord have spoken it.

bes@Ezekiel:21:18 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:21:19 @ and thou, son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the city, thou shalt set it at the top of the way,

bes@Ezekiel:21:20 @ that the sword may enter in upon Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and upon Judea, and upon Jerusalem in the midst thereof.

bes@Ezekiel:21:21 @ For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to (note:)Perhaps, send forth(:note) make bright the arrow, and to enquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims.

bes@Ezekiel:21:22 @ On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to (note:)Or, set up engines(:note) build forts.

bes@Ezekiel:21:23 @ And he was to them as one using divination before them, and he himself recounting his iniquities, that they might be borne in mind.

bes@Ezekiel:21:24 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because ye have caused your iniquities to be remembered, in the discovery of your wickedness, so that your sins should be seen, in all your wickedness and in your evil practices; because ye have caused remembrance of them, in these shall ye be taken.

bes@Ezekiel:21:25 @ And thou profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day, even an end, is come in a sea of iniquity, thus saith the Lord;

bes@Ezekiel:21:26 @ Thou hast taken off the mitre and put on the crown, it shall not have such another after it: thou hast abased that which was high, and exalted that which was low.

bes@Ezekiel:21:27 @ Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it: woe to it: such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver it to him.

bes@Ezekiel:21:28 @ And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, O sword, sword, drawn for (note:)Gr. victims(:note) slaughter, and drawn for destruction, awake, that thou mayest gleam.

bes@Ezekiel:21:29 @

bes@Ezekiel:21:30 @ Turn, rest not in this place wherein thou wert (note:)Gr. begotten(:note) born: in thine own land will I judge thee.

bes@Ezekiel:21:31 @ And I will pour out my wrath upon thee, I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver thee into the hands of barbarians skilled in working destruction.

bes@Ezekiel:21:32 @ Thou shalt be fuel for fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of thy land; there shall be no remembrance at all of thee: for I the Lord have spoken it.

bes@Ezekiel:22:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:22:2 @ And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, declare thou to her all her iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:22:3 @ And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord God: (note:)Or, Alas for(:note) O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;

bes@Ezekiel:22:4 @ in their blood which thou hast shed, thou hast transgressed; and in thy devices which thou hast formed, thou hast polluted thyself; and thou hast brought nigh thy days, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all the countries,

bes@Ezekiel:22:5 @ to those near thee, and to those far distant from thee; and they shall mock thee, thou that art notoriously unclean, and abundant in iniquities.

bes@Ezekiel:22:6 @ Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in thee each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

bes@Ezekiel:22:7 @ In thee they have reviled father and mother; and in thee they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

bes@Ezekiel:22:8 @ And they have set at nought my holy things, and in thee they have profaned my sabbaths.

bes@Ezekiel:22:9 @ There are robbers in thee, to shed blood in thee; and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains: they have wrought ungodliness in the midst of thee.

bes@Ezekiel:22:10 @ In thee they have uncovered the father’s shame; and in thee they have humbled her that was set apart for uncleanness.

bes@Ezekiel:22:11 @ They have dealt unlawfully each one with his neighbor’s wife; and each one in ungodliness has defiled his daughter-in-law: and in thee they have humbled each one his sister, the daughter of his father.

bes@Ezekiel:22:12 @ In thee they have received gifts to shed blood; they have received in thee interest and usurious increase; and by oppression thou hast brought thy wickedness to the full, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:22:13 @ And if I shall smite my hand at thine iniquities which thou hast accomplished, which thou hast wrought, and at thy blood that has been shed in the midst of thee,

bes@Ezekiel:22:14 @ shall thy heart endure? shall thine hands be strong in the days (note:)Or, wherein I deal with thee?(:note) which I bring upon thee? I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

bes@Ezekiel:22:15 @ And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and thy uncleanness shall be removed out of thee.

bes@Ezekiel:22:16 @ And I will give heritages in thee in the sight of the nations, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:22:17 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:22:18 @ Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.

bes@Ezekiel:22:19 @ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have become one mixture, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

bes@Ezekiel:22:20 @ As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you.

bes@Ezekiel:22:21 @ And I will blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

bes@Ezekiel:22:22 @ As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.

bes@Ezekiel:22:23 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:22:24 @ Son of man, say to her, Thou art the land that is not rained upon, neither has rain come upon thee in the day of wrath;

bes@Ezekiel:22:25 @ whose princes in the midst of her are as roaring lions seizing prey, devouring souls by oppression, and taking bribes; and thy widows are multiplied in the midst of thee.

bes@Ezekiel:22:26 @ Her priests also have set at nought my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:22:27 @ Her princes in the midst of her are as wolves ravening to shed blood, that they may get dishonest gain.

bes@Ezekiel:22:28 @ And her prophets that daub them shall fall, that see vanities, that prophesy falsehoods, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord has not spoken.

bes@Ezekiel:22:29 @ That sorely oppress the people of the land with injustice, and commit robbery; oppressing the poor and needy, and not dealing justly with the stranger.

bes@Ezekiel:22:30 @ And I sought from among them a man behaving uprightly, and standing before me perfectly in the time of wrath, so that I should not utterly destroy her: but I found him not.

bes@Ezekiel:22:31 @ So I have poured out my wrath upon her in the fury of mine anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:23:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:23:2 @ Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

bes@Ezekiel:23:3 @ and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth: there their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.

bes@Ezekiel:23:4 @ And their names were Oola the elder, and Ooliba her sister: and they were (note:)Or, married to me(:note) mine, and bore sons and daughters: and as for their names, Samaria was Oola, and Jerusalem was Ooliba.

bes@Ezekiel:23:5 @ And Oola went a-whoring from me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that were her neighbors,

bes@Ezekiel:23:6 @ clothed with purple, princes and captains; they were young men and choice, all horseman riding on horses.

bes@Ezekiel:23:7 @ And she bestowed her fornication upon them; all were choice sons of the Assyrians: and on whomsoever she doted herself, with them she defiled herself in all their devices.

bes@Ezekiel:23:8 @ And she forsook not her fornication with the Egyptians: for in her youth they committed fornication with her, and they deflowered her, and poured out their fornication upon her.

bes@Ezekiel:23:9 @ Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

bes@Ezekiel:23:10 @ They uncovered her shame: they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women: and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.

bes@Ezekiel:23:11 @ And her sister Ooliba saw it, and she indulged in her fondness more corruptly than she, and in her fornication more than the fornication of her sister.

bes@Ezekiel:23:12 @ She doted upon the sons of the Assyrian, princes and captains, her neighbours, clothed with fine linen, horsemen riding on horses; they were all choice young men.

bes@Ezekiel:23:13 @ And I saw that they were defiled, that the two had one way.

bes@Ezekiel:23:14 @ And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,

bes@Ezekiel:23:15 @ having variegated girdles on their loins, having also richly dyed attire upon their heads; all had a (note:)See Hebrews.(:note) princely appearance, the likeness of the children of the Chaldeans, of their Alex. autwn native land.

bes@Ezekiel:23:16 @ And she doted upon them (note:)Gr. in the sight of her eyes(:note) as soon as she saw them, and sent forth messengers to them into the land of the Chaldeans.

bes@Ezekiel:23:17 @ And the sons of Babylon came to her, into the bed of rest, and they defiled her in her fornication, and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.

bes@Ezekiel:23:18 @ And she exposed her fornication, and exposed her shame: and my soul was alienated from her, even as my soul was alienated from her sister.

bes@Ezekiel:23:19 @ And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,

bes@Ezekiel:23:20 @ and thou didst dote upon the Chaldeans, whose flesh is as the flesh of the asses, and their members as the members of horses.

bes@Ezekiel:23:21 @ And thou didst look upon the iniquity of thy youth, the things which thou wroughtest in Egypt in thy lodgings, where were the breasts of thy youth.

bes@Ezekiel:23:22 @ Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will stir up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them upon thee round about,

bes@Ezekiel:23:23 @ the children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Phacuc, and Sue, and Hychue, and all the sons of the Assyrians with them; choice young men, governors and captains, all (note:)See verse 15(:note) princes and renowned, riding on horses.

bes@Ezekiel:23:24 @ And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgement before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgements.

bes@Ezekiel:23:25 @ And I will bring upon thee my jealousy, and they shall deal with thee in great wrath: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and shall cast down thy remnant with the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy remnant fire shall devour.

bes@Ezekiel:23:26 @ And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take away (note:)Gr. vessels of thy glory, or, boasting(:note) thine ornaments.

bes@Ezekiel:23:27 @ So I will turn back thine ungodliness from thee, and thy fornication from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes upon them, and shalt no more remember Egypt.

bes@Ezekiel:23:28 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of those whom thou hatest, from whom thy soul is alienated.

bes@Ezekiel:23:29 @ And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

bes@Ezekiel:23:30 @ brought this upon thee, in that thou wentest a-whoring after the nations, and didst defile thyself with their devices.

bes@Ezekiel:23:31 @ Thou didst walk in the way of thy sister; and I will put her cup into thine hands.

bes@Ezekiel:23:32 @ Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister’s cup, deep and large, (note:)Alex+’it shall be for derision, or, scorn.’(:note) and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

bes@Ezekiel:23:33 @ And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of thy sister Samaria,

bes@Ezekiel:23:34 @ drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:23:35 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou has forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore receive thou the reward of thine ungodliness and thy fornication.

bes@Ezekiel:23:36 @ And the Lord said to me, Son of man wilt thou not judge Oola and Ooliba? and declare to them their iniquities?

bes@Ezekiel:23:37 @ For they have committed adultery, and blood was in their hands, they committed adultery with their (note:)i. e. idols(:note) devices, and they passed through the fire to them their children which they bore to me.

bes@Ezekiel:23:38 @ So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my sabbaths.

bes@Ezekiel:23:39 @ And when they (note:)Lit. slew(:note) sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house;

bes@Ezekiel:23:40 @ and whereas they did thus to the men that came from afar, to whom they sent messengers, and as soon as they came, immediately thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thine eyes and adorn thyself with ornaments,

bes@Ezekiel:23:41 @ and satest on a prepared bed, and before it there was a table set out, and as for mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them,

bes@Ezekiel:23:42 @ and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, (note:)Alex. +’inflamed with wine.’ See A. V. margin(:note) and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of Gr. boasting glory on their heads;

bes@Ezekiel:23:43 @ Therefore I said, Do they not commit adultery with these? and has she also gone a-whoring after the manner of a harlot?

bes@Ezekiel:23:44 @ And they went in to her, as men go in to a harlot; so they went in to Oola and to Ooliba to work iniquity.

bes@Ezekiel:23:45 @ And they are just men, and shall take vengeance on them with the judgement of an adulteress and the judgement of blood: for they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

bes@Ezekiel:23:46 @ Thus saith the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:23:47 @ And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.

bes@Ezekiel:23:48 @ And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.

bes@Ezekiel:23:49 @ And your ungodliness shall be recompensed upon you, and ye shall bear the guilt of your devices: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:24:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:24:2 @ Son of man, write for thyself daily from this day, on which the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem, even from this day.

bes@Ezekiel:24:3 @ And speak a parable to the provoking house, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord; Set on the caldron, and pour water into it:

bes@Ezekiel:24:4 @ and put the pieces into it, every prime piece, the leg and shoulder taken off from the bones,

bes@Ezekiel:24:5 @ which are taken from choice cattle, and burn the bones under them: her bones are boiled and cooked in the midst of her.

bes@Ezekiel:24:6 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is (note:)Gr. blight, or, rust(:note) scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.

bes@Ezekiel:24:7 @ For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock: I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it;

bes@Ezekiel:24:8 @ that my wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken: I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it.

bes@Ezekiel:24:9 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also make the firebrand great,

bes@Ezekiel:24:10 @ and I will multiply the wood, and kindle the fire, that the flesh may be consumed, and the liquor boiled away;

bes@Ezekiel:24:11 @ and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be (note:)Gr. burnt and heated(:note) thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,

bes@Ezekiel:24:12 @ and her abundant scum may not come forth of her.

bes@Ezekiel:24:13 @ Her scum shall become shameful, because thou didst defile thyself: and what if thou shalt be purged no more until I have accomplished my wrath?

bes@Ezekiel:24:14 @ I the Lord have spoken; and it shall come, and I will do it; I will not delay, neither will I have any mercy: I will judge thee, saith the Lord, according to thy ways, and according to thy devices: therefore will I judge thee according to thy bloodshed, and according to thy devices will I judge thee, thou unclean, notorious, and abundantly provoking one.

bes@Ezekiel:24:15 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:24:16 @ Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thine eyes (note:)Lit. in battle array(:note) by violence: thou shalt not lament, neither shalt thou weep.

bes@Ezekiel:24:17 @ Thou shalt groan for blood, and have mourning upon thy loins; thy hair shall not be braided upon thee, and thy sandals shall be on thy feet; thou shalt in no wise be comforted by their lips, and thou shalt not eat the bread of men.

bes@Ezekiel:24:18 @ And I spoke to the people in the morning, as he commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.

bes@Ezekiel:24:19 @ And the people said to me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are that thou doest?

bes@Ezekiel:24:20 @ Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:24:21 @ Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls (note:)Gr. spare(:note) are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom ye have left, shall fall by the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:24:22 @ And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not be comforted at their mouth, and ye shall not eat the bread of men.

bes@Ezekiel:24:23 @ And your hair shall be upon your head, and your shoes on your feet: neither shall ye at all lament or weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and shall comfort every one his brother.

bes@Ezekiel:24:24 @ And Jezekiel shall be for a sign to you: according to all that I have done shall ye do, when these things shall come; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:24:25 @ And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters,

bes@Ezekiel:24:26 @ that in that day he that escapes shall come to thee, to tell it thee in thine ears?

bes@Ezekiel:24:27 @ In that say thy mouth shall be opened to him that escapes; thou shalt speak, and shalt be no longer (note:)More lit. «made dumb’(:note) dumb: and thou shalt be for a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:25:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:25:2 @ Son of man, set thy face steadfastly against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

bes@Ezekiel:25:3 @ and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon, Hear ye the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord; Forasmuch as ye have rejoiced against my sanctuary, because it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, because it was laid waste; and against the house of Juda, because they went into captivity;

bes@Ezekiel:25:4 @ therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of (note:)i. e. the east(:note) Kedem for an inheritance, and they shall lodge in thee with their stuff, and they shall pitch their tents in thee: they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy Gr. fatness milk.

bes@Ezekiel:25:5 @ And I will give up the city of Ammon for camels’ pastures, and the children of Ammon for a pasture of sheep: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:25:6 @ For thus saith the Lord; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with thy foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel;

bes@Ezekiel:25:7 @ therefore I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and I will completely cut thee off from out of the countries: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:25:8 @ Thus saith the Lord; Because Moab has said, Behold, are not the house of Israel and Juda like all the other nations?

bes@Ezekiel:25:9 @ Therefore, behold, I will (note:)Gr. paralyse(:note) weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Bethasimuth above the fountain of the city, by the sea-side.

bes@Ezekiel:25:10 @ I have given him the children of Kedem in addition to the children of Ammon for an inheritance, that there may be no remembrance of the children of Ammon. (note:)Alex. +’among the nations’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:25:11 @ And I will execute vengeance on Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:25:12 @ Thus saith the Lord; Because of what (note:)Gr. Idumea(:note) the Idumeans have done in taking vengeance on the house of Juda, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;

bes@Ezekiel:25:13 @ therefore thus saith the Lord; I will also stretch out my hand upon Idumea, and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Thaeman shall fall by the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:25:14 @ And I will execute my vengeance on Idumea by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall deal in Idumea according to mine anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:25:15 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because the Philistines have wrought revengefully, and raised up vengeance rejoicing from their heart to destroy the Israelites (note:)Alex. for ever(:note) to a man;

bes@Ezekiel:25:16 @ therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and will utterly destroy (note:)Alex. the judges (kritav) of Sidon(:note) the Cretans, and will cut off the remnant that dwell by the sea-coast.

bes@Ezekiel:25:17 @ And I will execute great vengeance upon them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought my vengeance upon them.

bes@Ezekiel:26:1 @ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:26:2 @ Son of man, because Sor has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed: the nations are destroyed: she is turned to me: she that was full is made desolate:

bes@Ezekiel:26:3 @ therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea comes up with its waves.

bes@Ezekiel:26:4 @ And they shall cast down the walls of Sor, and shall cast down thy towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock.

bes@Ezekiel:26:5 @ She shall be in the midst of the sea (note:)Lit. a refreshing of nets(:note) a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord: and it shall be a spoil for the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:26:6 @ And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:26:7 @ For thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring up against thee, O Sor, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations.

bes@Ezekiel:26:8 @ He shall slay thy daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against thee, and build forts around thee, and carry a rampart round against thee, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against thee.

bes@Ezekiel:26:9 @ He shall cast down with his swords thy walls and thy towers.

bes@Ezekiel:26:10 @ By reason of thy multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.

bes@Ezekiel:26:11 @ With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy streets: he shall slay thy people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength.

bes@Ezekiel:26:12 @ And he shall prey upon thy power, and plunder thy substance, and shall cast down thy walls, and break down thy pleasant houses: and he shall cast thy stones and thy timber and thy dust into the midst of thy sea.

bes@Ezekiel:26:13 @ And he shall destroy the multitude of thy musicians, and the sound of thy psalteries shall be heard no more.

bes@Ezekiel:26:14 @ And I will make thee a bare rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:26:15 @ For thus saith the Lord God to Sor; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of thee?

bes@Ezekiel:26:16 @ And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their (note:)Lit. mitres(:note) crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over thee.

bes@Ezekiel:26:17 @ And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and shall say to thee, How art thou destroyed from out of the sea, the renowned city, (note:)Alex. +’which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants’(:note) that brought her terror upon all Or, perhaps, her traders her inhabitants.

bes@Ezekiel:26:18 @ And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of thy fall.

bes@Ezekiel:26:19 @ For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make (note:)Alex. thee a desolate city(:note) the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon thee,

bes@Ezekiel:26:20 @ and great waters shall cover thee; and I shall bring thee down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause thee to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that thou mayest not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;

bes@Ezekiel:26:21 @ I will make thee a destruction, and thou shalt be no more for ever, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:27:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

bes@Ezekiel:27:2 @ And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation against Sor;

bes@Ezekiel:27:3 @ and thou shalt say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus saith the Lord to Sor; Thou hast said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.

bes@Ezekiel:27:4 @ In the heart of the sea thy sons have put beauty upon thee for Beelim.

bes@Ezekiel:27:5 @ Cedar in Senir was employed for thee in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make thee masts of fir.

bes@Ezekiel:27:6 @ They made thine oars of wood out of the land of Basan; thy sacred utensils they made of ivory, thy shady houses of wood from the isles of Chetiim.

bes@Ezekiel:27:7 @ Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honour upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became thy coverings.

bes@Ezekiel:27:8 @ And thy princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Sor, who were in thee, these were thy pilots.

bes@Ezekiel:27:9 @ The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in thee, these helped thy counsel: and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for thee to the utmost west.

bes@Ezekiel:27:10 @ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army: thy warriors hung in thee shields and helmets; these gave thee thy glory.

bes@Ezekiel:27:11 @ The sons of the Aradians and thine army were upon the walls; there were guards in thy towers: they hung their quivers on thy battlements round about; these completed thy beauty.

bes@Ezekiel:27:12 @ The Carthaginians were thy merchants because of the abundance of all thy strength; they furnished thy market with silver, and gold, and iron, and tin, and lead.

bes@Ezekiel:27:13 @ Greece, both (note:)lbwt «Tubal’ read for lbt «world’(:note) the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with thee in the See Re 18 persons of men, and they gave as thy merchandise vessels of brass.

bes@Ezekiel:27:14 @ Out of the house of Thogarma horses and horsemen furnished the market.

bes@Ezekiel:27:15 @ The sons of the (note:)Alex. Arabians(:note) Rhodians were thy merchants; from the islands they multiplied thy merchandise, even elephants’ teeth: and to them that came in thou didst return thy prices,

bes@Ezekiel:27:16 @ even men as thy merchandise, from the multitude of thy trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tharsis: Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished thy market.

bes@Ezekiel:27:17 @ Juda and the children of Israel, these were thy merchants; in the sale of corn and ointments and cassia: and they gave the best honey, and oil, and resin, to thy (note:)Gr. mixed(:note) trading population.

bes@Ezekiel:27:18 @ The people of Damascus were thy merchants by reason of the abundance of all thy power; wine out of Chelbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought (note:)Alex. oinon(:note) wine into thy market.

bes@Ezekiel:27:19 @ Out of Asel came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population.

bes@Ezekiel:27:20 @ The people of Daedan were thy merchants, with choice cattle for chariots.

bes@Ezekiel:27:21 @ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were thy traders with thee, bringing camels, and lambs, and rams, in which they trade with thee.

bes@Ezekiel:27:22 @ The merchants of Sabba and Ramma, these were thy merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones: and they brought gold to thy market.

bes@Ezekiel:27:23 @ Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:

bes@Ezekiel:27:24 @ bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood.

bes@Ezekiel:27:25 @ Ships were thy merchants, in abundance, with thy trading population: and thou wast filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea.

bes@Ezekiel:27:26 @ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind has broken thee in the heart of the sea.

bes@Ezekiel:27:27 @ Thy forces, and thy gain, and that of thy traders, and thy rowers, and thy pilots, and thy counselors, and they that traffic with thee, and all thy warriors that are in thee: and all thy company in the midst of thee shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of thy fall.

bes@Ezekiel:27:28 @ At the cry of thy voice thy pilots shall be greatly terrified.

bes@Ezekiel:27:29 @ And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.

bes@Ezekiel:27:30 @ And they shall wail over thee with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them.

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bes@Ezekiel:27:32 @ And their sons shall take up a lament for thee, even a lamentation for Sor, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:27:33 @ How large a reward hast thou gained from the sea? thou hast filled nations out of thine abundance; and out of thy mixed merchandise thou hast enriched all the kings of the earth.

bes@Ezekiel:27:34 @ Now art thou broken in the sea, thy (note:)Gr. mixed, or, foreign population(:note) traders are in the deep water, and all thy company in the midst of thee: all thy rowers have fallen.

bes@Ezekiel:27:35 @ All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over thee, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept.

bes@Ezekiel:27:36 @ Merchants from the nations have hissed at thee; thou art utterly destroyed, and shalt not be any more for ever.

bes@Ezekiel:28:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:28:2 @ And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord; Because thine heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and not God, though thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

bes@Ezekiel:28:3 @ art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with their knowledge?

bes@Ezekiel:28:4 @ Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?

bes@Ezekiel:28:5 @ By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.

bes@Ezekiel:28:6 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since thou hast set thine heart as the hart of God;

bes@Ezekiel:28:7 @ because of this, behold, I will bring on thee strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the beauty of thy knowledge,

bes@Ezekiel:28:8 @ and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea.

bes@Ezekiel:28:9 @ Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas thou art man, and not God. (note:)Alex. +’in the multitude of them that wound thee’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:28:10 @ Thou shalt perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, saith he Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:28:11 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:28:12 @ Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty.

bes@Ezekiel:28:13 @ Thou wast (note:)Hebrews. in Eden the garden of God(:note) in the delight of the paradise of God; thou hast bound upon thee every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and thou hast filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold.

bes@Ezekiel:28:14 @ From the day that thou wast created thou wast with the cherub: I set thee on the holy mount of God; thou wast in the midst of the stones of fire.

bes@Ezekiel:28:15 @ Thou wast faultless in thy days, from the day that thou wast created, until (note:)Gr. the iniquities(:note) iniquity was found in thee.

bes@Ezekiel:28:16 @ Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of the stones of fire.

bes@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before kings.

bes@Ezekiel:28:18 @ Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee to be ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.

bes@Ezekiel:28:19 @ And all that know thee among the nations shall groan over thee: thou art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist any more.

bes@Ezekiel:28:20 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:28:21 @ Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,

bes@Ezekiel:28:22 @ and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought judgements in thee, and I will be sanctified in thee.

bes@Ezekiel:28:23 @ Blood and death shall be in thy streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:28:24 @ And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:28:25 @ Thus saith the Lord God; I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

bes@Ezekiel:28:26 @ Yea, they shall dwell upon it (note:)Gr. in hope(:note) safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgement on all that have dishonoured them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.

bes@Ezekiel:29:1 @ In the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:29:2 @ Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt:

bes@Ezekiel:29:3 @ and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against Pharao, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

bes@Ezekiel:29:4 @ And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy river to stick to thy (note:)Gr. wings(:note) sides, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy river:

bes@Ezekiel:29:5 @ and I will quickly cast down thee and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall on the face of the plain, and shalt by no means be gathered, and shalt not be brought together: I have given thee for food to the wild beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the sky.

bes@Ezekiel:29:6 @ And all the dwellers in Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:29:7 @ When they took hold of thee with their hand, thou didst break: and when every hand was clapped against them, and when they leaned on thee, thou wast utterly broken, and didst crush the loins of them all.

bes@Ezekiel:29:8 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast;

bes@Ezekiel:29:9 @ and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.

bes@Ezekiel:29:10 @ Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

bes@Ezekiel:29:11 @ No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.

bes@Ezekiel:29:12 @ And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will (note:)Gr. pulverise(:note) utterly scatter them into the countries.

bes@Ezekiel:29:13 @ Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered;

bes@Ezekiel:29:14 @ and I will (note:)See Eph strkjv@4:8. A. V. margin(:note) turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Phathore, in the land whence they were taken;

bes@Ezekiel:29:15 @ and it shall be a base kingdom beyond all other kingdoms; it shall not any more be exalted over the nations; and I will make them few in number, that they may not be great among the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:29:16 @ And they shall no more be to the house of Israel a confidence bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they follow after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:29:17 @ And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:29:18 @ Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was bald, and every shoulder (note:)Hebrews. word in Greek letters(:note) peeled; yet there was no reward to him or to his army serving against Tyre, nor for the service wherewith they served against it.

bes@Ezekiel:29:19 @ Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. +’and he shall take her multitude’(:note) and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army.

bes@Ezekiel:29:20 @ In return for his service wherewith he served against Tyre, I have given him the land of Egypt; (note:)Alex. +’for all they did for me’(:note) thus saith the Lord God:

bes@Ezekiel:29:21 @ In that day shall a horn spring forth for all the house of Israel, and I will give thee an (note:)Lit. opened(:note) open mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:30:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:30:2 @ Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Woe, woe worth the day!

bes@Ezekiel:30:3 @ For the day of the Lord is nigh, a day of cloud; it shall be the end of the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:30:4 @ And the sword shall come upon the Egyptians, and there shall be tumult in Ethiopia, and in Egypt men shall fall down slain together, (note:)Alex. +’and they shall take her multitude’(:note) and her foundations shall fall.

bes@Ezekiel:30:5 @ Persians, and Cretans, and Lydians, and Libyans, and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of my covenant, shall fall by the sword therein.

bes@Ezekiel:30:6 @ And the supports of Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her strength shall come down from Magdol to Syene: they shall fall by the sword in it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:30:7 @ And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of desolate cities:

bes@Ezekiel:30:8 @ and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall send fire upon Egypt, and when all that help her shall be broken.

bes@Ezekiel:30:9 @ In that day shall messengers go forth hasting to destroy Ethiopia utterly, and there shall be tumult among them in the day of Egypt: for, behold it (note:)Or, is come(:note) comes.

bes@Ezekiel:30:10 @ Thus saith he Lord God; I will also destroy the multitude of the Egyptians by the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon,

bes@Ezekiel:30:11 @ his hand and his people’s; they are plagues sent forth from the nations to destroy the land: and they all shall unsheath their swords against Egypt, and the land shall be filled with slain.

bes@Ezekiel:30:12 @ And I will make their rivers desolate, (note:)Alex. +’and I will sell the land into the hand of the wicked’(:note) and will destroy the land and the fulness of it by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken.

bes@Ezekiel:30:13 @ For thus saith the Lord God; I will also (note:)Alex. destroy the idols, and put down the princes(:note) destroy the nobles from Memphis, and the princes of Memphis out of the land of Egypt; and they shall be no more. Alex. +’and I will put fear in the land of Egypt’

bes@Ezekiel:30:14 @ And I will destroy the land of Phathore, and will send fire upon Tanis, and will execute vengeance on Diospolis.

bes@Ezekiel:30:15 @ And I will pour out my wrath upon Sais the strength of Egypt, and will destroy the multitude of Memphis.

bes@Ezekiel:30:16 @ And I will send fire upon Egypt; and Syene shall be sorely troubled; and there shall be a breaking in Diospolis, and waters shall be poured out.

bes@Ezekiel:30:17 @ The youths of Heliopolis and Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

bes@Ezekiel:30:18 @ And the day shall be darkened in Taphnae, when I have broken there the scepters of Egypt: and the pride of her strength shall perish there: and a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be taken prisoners.

bes@Ezekiel:30:19 @ And I will execute judgement on Egypt; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:30:20 @ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:30:21 @ Son of man, I have broken the arms of Pharao, king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up to be healed, to have a plaster put upon it, or to be strengthened to lay hold of the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:30:22 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break his (note:)Alex. +’his strong arms, both the outstretched and the broken’(:note) strong and outstretched arms, and will smite down his sword out of his hand.

bes@Ezekiel:30:23 @ And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and will utterly scatter them among the countries.

bes@Ezekiel:30:24 @ And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his hand: and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils.

bes@Ezekiel:30:25 @ Yea, I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fail: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have put my sword into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out over the land of Egypt.

bes@Ezekiel:30:26 @ And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations, and utterly scatter them among the countries; and they all shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:31:1 @ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:31:2 @ Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom hast thou compared thyself in thy haughtiness?

bes@Ezekiel:31:3 @ Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, (note:)Alex. +’and thick with shady leaves,’ lit. shade(:note) and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds.

bes@Ezekiel:31:4 @ The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.

bes@Ezekiel:31:5 @ Therefore, was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.

bes@Ezekiel:31:6 @ All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow.

bes@Ezekiel:31:7 @ And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water.

bes@Ezekiel:31:8 @ And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,

bes@Ezekiel:31:9 @ because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.

bes@Ezekiel:31:10 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;

bes@Ezekiel:31:11 @ therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.

bes@Ezekiel:31:12 @ And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.

bes@Ezekiel:31:13 @ All the birds of the sky have settled on his (note:)Gr. fall(:note) fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:

bes@Ezekiel:31:14 @ in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size: whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

bes@Ezekiel:31:15 @ Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.

bes@Ezekiel:31:16 @ At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of (note:)Hebrews. Eden(:note) Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of plants of Libanus, all that drink water.

bes@Ezekiel:31:17 @ For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.

bes@Ezekiel:31:18 @ To whom art thou compared? descend, and be thou debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:32:1 @ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. twelfth month(:note) tenth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:32:2 @ Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as a serpent that is in the sea: and thou (note:)Let. butt, or push with the horn(:note) didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers.

bes@Ezekiel:32:3 @ Thus saith the Lord; I will also cast over thee the nets of many nations, and will bring thee up with my hook:

bes@Ezekiel:32:4 @ and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the fields shall be (note:)Gr. filled(:note) covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth.

bes@Ezekiel:32:5 @ And I will cast thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate them with thy blood.

bes@Ezekiel:32:6 @ And the land shall be drenched with thy dung, because of thy multitude upon the mountains: I will fill the valleys (note:)Gr. from thee(:note) with thee.

bes@Ezekiel:32:7 @ And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

bes@Ezekiel:32:8 @ All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:32:9 @ And I will provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall lead thee captive among the nations, to a land which thou hast not know.

bes@Ezekiel:32:10 @ And many nations shall (note:)Or, scowl at thee(:note) mourn over thee, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when my sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their own fall from the day of thy fall.

bes@Ezekiel:32:11 @ For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,

bes@Ezekiel:32:12 @ with the swords of mighty men; and I will cast down thy strength: they are all destroying ones from the nations, and they shall destroy the pride of Egypt, and all her strength shall be crushed.

bes@Ezekiel:32:13 @ And I will destroy all her cattle from beside the great water; and the foot of man shall not trouble it any more, and the step of cattle shall no more trample it.

bes@Ezekiel:32:14 @ Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, saith the Lord,

bes@Ezekiel:32:15 @ when I shall give up Egypt to destruction, and the land shall be made desolate with the fullness thereof; when I shall scatter all that dwell in it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:32:16 @ There is a lamentation, and thou shalt utter it; and the daughters of the nations shall utter it, even for Egypt, and they shall mourn for it over all the strength thereof, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:32:17 @ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:32:18 @ Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.

bes@Ezekiel:32:19 @ They shall fall with him in the midst of them that are slain with the sword, and all his strength shall perish: the giants also shall say to thee,

bes@Ezekiel:32:20 @ Be thou in the depth of the pit: to whom art thou superior? yea, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised,

bes@Ezekiel:32:21 @ in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:32:22 @ There are Assur and all his company: all his slain have been laid there:

bes@Ezekiel:32:23 @ and their burial is in the depth of the pit, and his company are set around about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them to be upon the land of (note:)Gr. life(:note) the living.

bes@Ezekiel:32:24 @ There is Ælam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,

bes@Ezekiel:32:25 @ in the midst of the slain.

bes@Ezekiel:32:26 @ There were laid Mosoch, and Thobel, and all his strength round about his tomb: all his slain men, all the uncircumcised, slain with the sword, who caused their fear to be in the land of the living.

bes@Ezekiel:32:27 @ And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.

bes@Ezekiel:32:28 @ And thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that have been slain by the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:32:29 @ There are laid the princes of Assur, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword: these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit.

bes@Ezekiel:32:30 @ There are the princes of the north, even all the captains of Assur, who go down slain to Hades: they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.

bes@Ezekiel:32:31 @ King Pharao shall see them, and shall be comforted over all their force, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:32:32 @ For I have caused his fear to be upon the land of the living yet he shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharao, and all his multitude with him, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:33:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:33:2 @ Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and thou shalt say to them, On whatsoever land I shall bring a sword, and the people of the land take one man of them, and set him for their watchman:

bes@Ezekiel:33:3 @ and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people;

bes@Ezekiel:33:4 @ and he that hears the sound of the trumpet shall hear indeed, and yet not take heed, and the sword shall come upon him, and overtake him, his blood shall be upon his own head.

bes@Ezekiel:33:5 @ Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him: but the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

bes@Ezekiel:33:6 @ But if the watchman see the sword coming, and do not sound the trumpet, and the people do not watch; and the sword come, and take a soul from among them, that soul is taken because of its iniquity; but the blood thereof will I require at the watchman’s hand.

bes@Ezekiel:33:7 @ And thou, son of man, I have set thee as a watchman to the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear a word from my mouth.

bes@Ezekiel:33:8 @ When I say to the sinner, Thou shalt surely die; if thou speak not to warn the wicked from his way, the wicked himself shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

bes@Ezekiel:33:9 @ But if thou forewarn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way, he shall die in his ungodliness; but thou hast delivered thine own soul.

bes@Ezekiel:33:10 @ And thou, son of man, say to the house of Israel; Thus have ye spoken, saying, Our errors, and our iniquities weigh upon us, and we pine away in them, and how then shall we live?

bes@Ezekiel:33:11 @ Say to them, Thus saith the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn ye (note:)Gr. with turning(:note) heartily from your way; for why Gr. do ye die will ye die, O house of Israel?

bes@Ezekiel:33:12 @ Say to the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him, in the day wherein he errs: and the iniquity of the ungodly shall not harm him, in the day wherein he turns from his iniquity, but the righteous erring shall not be able to deliver himself.

bes@Ezekiel:33:13 @ When I say to the righteous, (note:)The words in italics are found in Alex.(:note) Thou shalt live; and he trusts in his righteousness, and shall commit iniquity, none of his righteousnesses shall be remembered; in his unrighteousness which he has wrought, in it shall he die.

bes@Ezekiel:33:14 @ And when I say to the ungodly, Thou shalt surely die; and he shall turn from his sin, and do judgement and justice,

bes@Ezekiel:33:15 @ and return the pledge, and repay that which he has robbed, and walk in the ordinances of life, so as to do no wrong; he shall surely live, and shall not die.

bes@Ezekiel:33:16 @ None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered: because he has wrought judgement and righteousness; (note:)Alex. autoiv(:note) by them shall he live.

bes@Ezekiel:33:17 @ Yet the children of thy people will say, The way of the Lord is not straight: whereas this their way is not straight.

bes@Ezekiel:33:18 @ When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.

bes@Ezekiel:33:19 @ And when the sinner turns from his iniquity, and shall do judgement and righteousness, he shall live by them.

bes@Ezekiel:33:20 @ And this is that which ye said, The way of the Lord is not straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one for his ways.

bes@Ezekiel:33:21 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. twelfth year(:note) tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken.

bes@Ezekiel:33:22 @ Now the hand of the Lord had come upon me in the evening, before he came; and he opened my mouth, when he came to me in the morning: and my mouth was open, it was no longer kept closed.

bes@Ezekiel:33:23 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:33:24 @ Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abram was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

bes@Ezekiel:33:25 @

bes@Ezekiel:33:26 @

bes@Ezekiel:33:27 @ Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord God, As I live, surely they that are in the desolate places shall fall by swords and they that are in the open plain shall be given for food to the wild beasts of the field, and them that are in the fortified cities and them that are in the caves I will slay with pestilence.

bes@Ezekiel:33:28 @ And I will make the land desert, and the pride of her strength shall perish; and the mountains of Israel shall be made desolate by reason of no man passing through.

bes@Ezekiel:33:29 @ And they shall know that I am the Lord; and I will make their land desert, and it shall be made desolate because of all their abominations which they have wrought.

bes@Ezekiel:33:30 @ And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people are they that speak concerning thee by the walls, and in the porches of the houses, and they talk (note:)Gr. a man to his brother(:note) one to another, saying, Let us come together, and let us hear the words that proceed from the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:33:31 @ They approach thee as a people comes together, and sit before thee, and hear thy words, but they will not do them: for there is falsehood in their mouth, and their heart goes after their pollutions.

bes@Ezekiel:33:32 @ And thou art to them as a sound of a sweet, well-tuned psaltery, and they will hear thy words, but they will not do them.

bes@Ezekiel:33:33 @ But whenever it shall come to pass, they will say, Behold, it is come: and they shall know that there was a prophet in the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:34:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:34:2 @ Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord God; O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? do not the shepherds feed the sheep?

bes@Ezekiel:34:3 @ Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep.

bes@Ezekiel:34:4 @ The weak one ye have not strengthened, and the sick ye have not cherished, and the bruised ye have not bound up, and the stray one ye have not turned back, and the lost ye have not sought; and the strong ye have wearied with labour.

bes@Ezekiel:34:5 @ And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field.

bes@Ezekiel:34:6 @ And my sheep were scattered on every mountain, and on every high hill: yea, they were scattered on the face of the earth, and there was none to seek them out, nor to bring them back.

bes@Ezekiel:34:7 @ Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:34:8 @ As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep.

bes@Ezekiel:34:9 @ For this cause, O shepherds,

bes@Ezekiel:34:10 @

bes@Ezekiel:34:11 @ For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will seek out my sheep, and will visit them.

bes@Ezekiel:34:12 @ As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated: so will I seek out my sheep, and will (note:)Lit. drive them away; Alex. gather(:note) bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness.

bes@Ezekiel:34:13 @ And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land.

bes@Ezekiel:34:14 @ I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:34:15 @ I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to rest; and they shall know that I am the Lord: thus saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:34:16 @ I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgement.

bes@Ezekiel:34:17 @ And as for you, ye sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats.

bes@Ezekiel:34:18 @ And is it not enough for you that ye fed on the good pasture, that ye trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and that ye drank the standing water, that ye disturbed the residue with your feet?

bes@Ezekiel:34:19 @ So my sheep fed on that which ye had trampled with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.

bes@Ezekiel:34:20 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep.

bes@Ezekiel:34:21 @ Ye did thrust with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and ye cruelly treated all the (note:)Gr. fainting(:note) sick.

bes@Ezekiel:34:22 @ Therefore I will save my sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram.

bes@Ezekiel:34:23 @ And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, even my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd;

bes@Ezekiel:34:24 @ and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it.

bes@Ezekiel:34:25 @ And I will make with David a covenant of peace and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.

bes@Ezekiel:34:26 @ And I will settle them round about my mountain; and I will give you the rain, the rain of blessing.

bes@Ezekiel:34:27 @ And the trees that are in the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her strength, and they shall dwell in the confidence of peace on their land, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke; and I will deliver them out of the hand of those that enslaved them.

bes@Ezekiel:34:28 @ And they shall no more be a spoil to the nations, and the wild beasts of the land shall no more at all devour them; and they shall dwell safely, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

bes@Ezekiel:34:29 @ And I will raise up for them a plant of peace, and they shall no more perish with hunger upon the land, and they shall no more bear the reproach off the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:34:30 @ And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they my people. O house of Israel, saith the Lord God,

bes@Ezekiel:34:31 @ ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:35:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:35:2 @ Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

bes@Ezekiel:35:3 @ and say to it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and will make thee a waste, and thou shalt be made desolate.

bes@Ezekiel:35:4 @ And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:35:5 @ Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy, and hast laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

bes@Ezekiel:35:6 @ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, verily thou hast sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.

bes@Ezekiel:35:7 @ And I will (note:)Gr. give(:note) make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:

bes@Ezekiel:35:8 @ and I will fill thy hills and thy valleys with slain men, and in all thy plains there shall fall in thee men slain with the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:35:9 @ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:35:10 @ Because thou saidst, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there:

bes@Ezekiel:35:11 @ therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will even deal with thee according to thine enmity, (note:)Alex. +’and according to they jealousy which thou hast vented in they hatred against them’(:note) and I will be made known to thee when I shall judge thee:

bes@Ezekiel:35:12 @ and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of thy blasphemies, whereas thou hast said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food;

bes@Ezekiel:35:13 @ and thou hast spoken swelling words against me with thy mouth: I have heard them.

bes@Ezekiel:35:14 @ Thus saith the Lord; (note:)Lit. in the joy of, etc.(:note) When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make thee desert.

bes@Ezekiel:35:15 @ Thou shalt be desert, O mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord their God.

bes@Ezekiel:36:1 @ And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear ye the word of the Lord:

bes@Ezekiel:36:2 @ Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us:

bes@Ezekiel:36:3 @ therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonoured, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a by-word, and a reproach to the nations:

bes@Ezekiel:36:4 @ therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;

bes@Ezekiel:36:5 @ therefore, thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, (note:)Lit. having dishonoured(:note) disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:

bes@Ezekiel:36:6 @ therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the reproaches of the heathen:

bes@Ezekiel:36:7 @ therefore I will lift up my hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach.

bes@Ezekiel:36:8 @ But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall my people eat; for they are hoping to come.

bes@Ezekiel:36:9 @ For, behold, I am toward you, and I will have respect to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

bes@Ezekiel:36:10 @ and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel to the end: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon.

bes@Ezekiel:36:11 @ And I will multiply men and cattle upon you; and I will cause you to dwell as at (note:)Lit. your beginning(:note) the beginning, and will treat you well, as in your former times: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:36:12 @ And I will increase men upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and ye shall be to them for a possession; and ye shall no more be bereaved of them.

bes@Ezekiel:36:13 @ Thus saith the Lord God: Because they said to thee, Thou land devourest men, and hast been bereaved of thy nation;

bes@Ezekiel:36:14 @ therefore thou shalt no more devour men, and thou shalt no more bereave thy nation, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:36:15 @ And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations, and ye shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:36:16 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:36:17 @ Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before me like the uncleanness of a removed woman.

bes@Ezekiel:36:18 @ So I poured out my wrath upon them: (note:)Alex. +’for the blood which they shed in the land, and they defiled it with their idols’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:36:19 @ and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries: I judged them according to their way and according to their sin.

bes@Ezekiel:36:20 @ And they went in among the nations, among which they went, and they profaned my holy name, while it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they came forth out of his land.

bes@Ezekiel:36:21 @ but I spared them for the sake of my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went.

bes@Ezekiel:36:22 @ Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; I do not this, O house of Israel, (note:)Lit. for, or, to you(:note) for your sakes, but because of my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, among whom ye went.

bes@Ezekiel:36:23 @ And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes.

bes@Ezekiel:36:24 @ And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land:

bes@Ezekiel:36:25 @ and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.

bes@Ezekiel:36:26 @ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

bes@Ezekiel:36:27 @ And I will put my Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in mine ordinances, and to keep my judgements, and do them.

bes@Ezekiel:36:28 @ And ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

bes@Ezekiel:36:29 @ And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you.

bes@Ezekiel:36:30 @ And I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the produce of the field, that ye may not bear the reproach of famine among the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:36:31 @ And ye shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good, and ye shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for (note:)Alex. umwn(:note) your abominations.

bes@Ezekiel:36:32 @ Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, (note:)Alex. be it known to you(:note) as it is known to you: be ye ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:36:33 @ Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built upon:

bes@Ezekiel:36:34 @ and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by.

bes@Ezekiel:36:35 @ And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are (note:)Lit. have sat(:note) inhabited.

bes@Ezekiel:36:36 @ And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined cities and planted the waste lands: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

bes@Ezekiel:36:37 @ Thus saith the Lord God; Yet (note:)Possibly, this time(:note) for this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them even men as sheep;

bes@Ezekiel:36:38 @ as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:37:1 @ And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones.

bes@Ezekiel:37:2 @ And he led me round about them (note:)Gr. in a circle(:note) every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry.

bes@Ezekiel:37:3 @ And he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, thou knowest this.

bes@Ezekiel:37:4 @ And he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and thou shalt say to them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:37:5 @ Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life:

bes@Ezekiel:37:6 @ and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and will spread skin upon you, and will put my Spirit into you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:37:7 @ So I prophesied as the Lord commanded me: and it came to pass while I was prophesying, that, behold, there was a shaking, and the bones approached each one to his joint.

bes@Ezekiel:37:8 @ And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and (note:)Lit. skins came up upon(:note) skin came upon them above: but there was not breath in them.

bes@Ezekiel:37:9 @ And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead men, and let them live.

bes@Ezekiel:37:10 @ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath entered into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great congregation.

bes@Ezekiel:37:11 @ And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.

bes@Ezekiel:37:12 @ therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will open your tombs, and will bring you up out of your tombs, and will bring you into the land of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:37:13 @ And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up my people from their graves.

bes@Ezekiel:37:14 @ And I will put my Spirit within you, and ye shall live, and I will place you upon your own land: and ye shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and will do it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:37:15 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:37:16 @ Son of man, take for thyself a rod, and write upon it, Juda, and the children of Israel his adherents; and thou shalt take for thyself another rod, and thou shalt inscribe it for Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel (note:)Gr. that are added to him(:note) that belong to him.

bes@Ezekiel:37:17 @ And thou shalt joint them together for thyself, so as that they should bind themselves into one stick; and they shall be in thine hand.

bes@Ezekiel:37:18 @ And it shall come to pass, when the children of thy people shall say to thee, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these things?

bes@Ezekiel:37:19 @ Then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith the Lord; behold, I will take the tribe of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that belong to him, and I will add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall become one rod in the hand of Juda.

bes@Ezekiel:37:20 @ And the rods on which thou didst write shall be in thine hand in their presence.

bes@Ezekiel:37:21 @ And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:37:22 @ And I will make them a nation in my land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they shall have one prince: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall (note:)Gr. there shall be one prince of them(:note) they be divided any more at all into two kingdoms:

bes@Ezekiel:37:23 @ that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.

bes@Ezekiel:37:24 @ And my servant David shall be a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd of them all; for they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my judgements, and do them.

bes@Ezekiel:37:25 @ And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to my servant Jacob, where their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it: (note:)Alex. +’and their children and their children’s children for ever’(:note) and David my servant shall be their prince forever.

bes@Ezekiel:37:26 @ And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

bes@Ezekiel:37:27 @

bes@Ezekiel:37:28 @ And the nations shall know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for ever.

bes@Ezekiel:38:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Ezekiel:38:2 @ Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and prophesy against him,

bes@Ezekiel:38:3 @ and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, (note:)Or, chief prince; Alex. Gog and the prince of Rhos, etc.(:note) Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:

bes@Ezekiel:38:4 @ and I will gather thee, and all thine host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breast-plates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords:

bes@Ezekiel:38:5 @ Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.

bes@Ezekiel:38:6 @ Gomer, and all belonging to him; the house of Thorgama, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and many nations with thee.

bes@Ezekiel:38:7 @ Be thou prepared, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy multitude that is assembled with thee, and thou shalt be to me for a guard.

bes@Ezekiel:38:8 @ He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when the people are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely.

bes@Ezekiel:38:9 @ And thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and (note:)Gr. thou shalt be(:note) there shall be thou, and all that are about thee, and many nations with thee.

bes@Ezekiel:38:10 @ Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass in that day, that (note:)Lit. words; i. e. things(:note) thoughts shall come up into thine heart, and thou shalt devise evil devices.

bes@Ezekiel:38:11 @ And thou shalt say, I will go up to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquility, and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor bars, nor have they doors;

bes@Ezekiel:38:12 @ to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.

bes@Ezekiel:38:13 @ Sabba, and Daedan, and (note:)Hebrews. merchants of Tarshish; Alex. of Chalcedon(:note) Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.

bes@Ezekiel:38:14 @ Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, Thus saith the Lord; Wilt thou not arise in that day, when my people Israel are dwelling securely,

bes@Ezekiel:38:15 @ and come out of thy place from the farthest north, and many nations with thee? all of them mounted on horses, a great gathering, and a large force?

bes@Ezekiel:38:16 @ And thou shalt come up upon my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the last days, that I will bring thee up upon my land, that all the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in thee before them.

bes@Ezekiel:38:17 @ Thus saith the Lord God, to Gog; Thou art he concerning whom I spoke (note:)Gr. before the former days(:note) in former times, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring thee up against them.

bes@Ezekiel:38:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the Land of Israel, saith the Lord God,

bes@Ezekiel:38:19 @ that my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of mine anger, verily in that day there shall be a great (note:)Or, earthquake(:note) shaking in the land of Israel;

bes@Ezekiel:38:20 @ and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the (note:)Or, land(:note) earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.

bes@Ezekiel:38:21 @ And I will summon against (note:)i. e. the land(:note) it even every fear, saith the Lord: the sword of every man shall be against his brother.

bes@Ezekiel:38:22 @ And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him.

bes@Ezekiel:38:23 @ And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:39:1 @ And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:

bes@Ezekiel:39:2 @ and I will assemble thee, and guide thee, and raise thee up on the extremity of the north, and I will bring thee up upon the mountains of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:39:3 @ And I will destroy the bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel;

bes@Ezekiel:39:4 @ and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured.

bes@Ezekiel:39:5 @ Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:39:6 @ And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:39:7 @ And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:39:8 @ Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, saith the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken.

bes@Ezekiel:39:9 @ And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years:

bes@Ezekiel:39:10 @ and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:39:11 @ And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, (note:)See Jer strkjv@2:23.(:note) the burial-place of them that approach Alex. thn yalassan the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and the place shall then be called the Alex. the valley, the burial place, etc. burial-place of Gog.

bes@Ezekiel:39:12 @ And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.

bes@Ezekiel:39:13 @ Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a place of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:39:14 @ And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out.

bes@Ezekiel:39:15 @ And every one that goes through the land, and sees a man’s bone, shall set up a mark by it, until the buriers shall have buried it in the valley, the burial place of Gog.

bes@Ezekiel:39:16 @ For the name of the city shall be Burial-place: so shall the land be cleansed.

bes@Ezekiel:39:17 @ And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood.

bes@Ezekiel:39:18 @ Ye shall eat the flesh of (note:)Lit. giants(:note) mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves.

bes@Ezekiel:39:19 @ And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.

bes@Ezekiel:39:20 @ And ye shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:39:21 @ And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgement which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them.

bes@Ezekiel:39:22 @ And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from this day and onwards.

bes@Ezekiel:39:23 @ And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they (note:)i. e. treacherously(:note) rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

bes@Ezekiel:39:24 @ According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them.

bes@Ezekiel:39:25 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name.

bes@Ezekiel:39:26 @ And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify them

bes@Ezekiel:39:27 @ when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations: and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:39:28 @ And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations.

bes@Ezekiel:39:29 @ And I will no more turn away my face from them, because I have poured out my wrath upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:40:1 @ And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me

bes@Ezekiel:40:2 @ in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it there was as it were the frame of a city before me.

bes@Ezekiel:40:3 @ And he brought me in thither, and, behold, there was a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder’s line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate.

bes@Ezekiel:40:4 @ And the man said to me, Look with thine eyes at him whom thou hast seen, son of man, and hear with thine ears, and lay up in thine heart all things that I show thee; for thou hast come in hither that I might show thee, and thou shalt show all things that thou seest to the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:40:5 @ And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man’s hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the (note:)Or, first or outer wall(:note) front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.

bes@Ezekiel:40:6 @ And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.

bes@Ezekiel:40:7 @ And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:8 @ And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.

bes@Ezekiel:40:9 @ And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate) eight cubits; and the posts there of two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward:

bes@Ezekiel:40:10 @ and the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front were three on one side and three on the other, and there was one measure to the three: there was one measure to the porches on this side and on that.

bes@Ezekiel:40:11 @ And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:12 @ And the space before the chambers was narrowed to a cubit in front of the chambers on this side and on that side: and the chamber was six cubits this way, and six cubits that way.

bes@Ezekiel:40:13 @ And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber: the breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate.

bes@Ezekiel:40:14 @ And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate.

bes@Ezekiel:40:15 @ And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:16 @ And there were secret windows to the (note:)Gr. singular; Hebrews. plural(:note) chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within: and on the porch there were palm-trees on this side and on that side.

bes@Ezekiel:40:17 @ And he brought me into the inner court, and, behold, there were chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns.

bes@Ezekiel:40:18 @ And the porticos were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.

bes@Ezekiel:40:19 @ And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;

bes@Ezekiel:40:20 @ and behold a gate looking northwards belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;

bes@Ezekiel:40:21 @ and the (note:)Gr. singular(:note) chambers, three on this side and three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm-trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:22 @ And its windows, and its porches, and its palm-trees, were according to the dimensions of the gate looking eastward; and they went up (note:)i. e. the gate(:note) to it by seven steps; and the porches were within.

bes@Ezekiel:40:23 @ And there was a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:24 @ And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.

bes@Ezekiel:40:25 @ And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was five and twenty cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:26 @ And it had seven steps, and porches within: and it had palm-trees on the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side.

bes@Ezekiel:40:27 @ And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth (note:)Or, possibly, at the south(:note) southward.

bes@Ezekiel:40:28 @ And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

bes@Ezekiel:40:29 @ and the chambers, and the posts,

bes@Ezekiel:40:30 @ and the porches, according to these measures: and there were windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, (note:)Or, perhaps, «and the breadth of the porch 24 cubits extending to,’ etc.(:note) and its breadth twenty-five cubits,

bes@Ezekiel:40:31 @ from the porch to the outer court: and there were palm-trees to the post thereof, and eight steps.

bes@Ezekiel:40:32 @ And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures:

bes@Ezekiel:40:33 @ and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and there were windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty-five cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:34 @ And there were porches opening into the inner court, and palm-trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps.

bes@Ezekiel:40:35 @ And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures;

bes@Ezekiel:40:36 @ and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches: and it had windows round about, and it had its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:40:37 @ And its porches were toward the inner court; and there were palm-trees to the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps.

bes@Ezekiel:40:38 @ Its chambers and its door-ways, and its porches at the second gate served as a drain, (note:)Alex. +’and there they shall wash the whole-burnt-offering, and in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side and two tables on that side’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:40:39 @ that they might slay in it the sin-offerings, and the (note:)i. e. for sins of ignorance(:note) trespass-offerings.

bes@Ezekiel:40:40 @ And behind the drain for the whole-burnt-offerings at the north gate, two tables eastward behind the second gate; and behind the porch of the gate two tables eastward.

bes@Ezekiel:40:41 @ Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices.

bes@Ezekiel:40:42 @ And there were four tables of hewn stone for whole-burnt-offerings, the breadth of them was a cubit and a half, and the length of them two cubits and a half, and their height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole-burnt-offerings and the victims.

bes@Ezekiel:40:43 @ And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.

bes@Ezekiel:40:44 @ And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.

bes@Ezekiel:40:45 @ And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house.

bes@Ezekiel:40:46 @ And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar: they are the sons of Sadduc, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord to serve him.

bes@Ezekiel:40:47 @ And he measured the court, the length whereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.

bes@Ezekiel:40:48 @ And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door was fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch were three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.

bes@Ezekiel:40:49 @ And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and they went up to it by ten steps; and there were pillars to the porch, one on this side and one on that side.

bes@Ezekiel:41:1 @ And he brought me into the temple, the porch of which he measured, six cubits the breadth on one side, and six cubits the breadth of the porch on the other side.

bes@Ezekiel:41:2 @ And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forth cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:41:3 @ And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the side-pieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side.

bes@Ezekiel:41:4 @ And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple: and he said, (note:)Alex. +’to me’(:note) This is the holy of holies.

bes@Ezekiel:41:5 @ And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.

bes@Ezekiel:41:6 @ And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house.

bes@Ezekiel:41:7 @ And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground-sills to the third story.

bes@Ezekiel:41:8 @ And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;

bes@Ezekiel:41:9 @ and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house,

bes@Ezekiel:41:10 @ and between the chambers, were a width of twenty cubits, the circumference of the house.

bes@Ezekiel:41:11 @ And the doors of the chambers were toward the space left by the one door that looked northward, and there was one door southward; and the breadth of the remaining (note:)Gr. light(:note) open space was five cubits in extent round about.

bes@Ezekiel:41:12 @ And the partition wall in front of the remaining space, toward the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the breadth of the partition wall was five cubits round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:41:13 @ And he measured in front of the house a length of a hundred cubits, and the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length a hundred cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:41:14 @ And the breadth in front of the house, and the remaining spaces before it were a hundred cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:41:15 @ And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length a hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were (note:)Or, wainscoted(:note) ceiled.

bes@Ezekiel:41:16 @ And the windows were latticed, giving light round about to the three stories, so as to look through: and the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and so was the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window shutters folded back in three parts for one to look through.

bes@Ezekiel:41:17 @ And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,

bes@Ezekiel:41:18 @ were carved cherubs and palm-trees between the cherubs, and each cherub had two faces.

bes@Ezekiel:41:19 @ The face of a man was toward one palm-tree on this side and on that side, and the face of a lion toward another palm-tree on this side and on that side: the house was carved all round.

bes@Ezekiel:41:20 @ From the floor to the ceiling were cherubs and palm-trees carved.

bes@Ezekiel:41:21 @ And the holy place and the temple opened on four sides; in front of the holy places the appearance was as the look of

bes@Ezekiel:41:22 @ a wooden altar, the height of it three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the sides of it were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:41:23 @ And the temple had two doors, and the sanctuary had two doors, with two turning leaves apiece;

bes@Ezekiel:41:24 @ two leaves to the one, and two leaves to the other door.

bes@Ezekiel:41:25 @ And there was carved work upon them, and cherubs on the doors of the temple, and palm-trees according to the carving of the (note:)Gr. plural(:note) sanctuary; and there were stout planks in front of the porch without.

bes@Ezekiel:41:26 @ And there were secret windows; and he measured from side to side, to the roofing of the porch; and the sides of the house were (note:)Alex. exulwmena(:note) closely planked.

bes@Ezekiel:42:1 @ And he brought me into the (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. outer(:note) inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he brought me in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition,

bes@Ezekiel:42:2 @ a hundred cubits in length toward the north, and in breadth fifty,

bes@Ezekiel:42:3 @

bes@Ezekiel:42:4 @ And in front of the chambers was a walk ten cubits in breadth, the length reaching to a hundred cubits; and their doors were northward.

bes@Ezekiel:42:5 @ And the upper walks were in like manner: for the peristyle projected from it, even from the range of columns below, and there was a space between; so were there a peristyle and a space between, and so were there two porticos.

bes@Ezekiel:42:6 @ For they were triple, and they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer ones: therefore they projected from the lower ones and the middle ones from the ground.

bes@Ezekiel:42:7 @ And there was light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length of them was fifty cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:42:8 @ For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.

bes@Ezekiel:42:9 @ And there were doors of these chambers for an outlet toward the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,

bes@Ezekiel:42:10 @ by the opening of the walk at the (note:)Or, entrance; Gr. arch(:note) corner; and the south parts were toward the south, toward the remaining space, and toward the partition, and so were the chambers.

bes@Ezekiel:42:11 @ And the walk was in front of them, according to the measures of the chambers toward the north, both according to the length of them, and according to the breadth of them, and according to all their openings, and according to all their turnings, and according to their lights, and according to their doors.

bes@Ezekiel:42:12 @ So were the measures of the chambers toward the south, and according to the doors at the entrance of the walk, as it were the distance of a reed for light, and eastward as one went in by them.

bes@Ezekiel:42:13 @ And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons of Sadduc, who draw night to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offerings, and the (note:)i. e. for sins of ignorance(:note) trespass-offerings; because the place is holy.

bes@Ezekiel:42:14 @ None shall go in thither except the priests, and they shall not go forth of the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw nigh to me may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister, with defilement, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they come in contact with the people.

bes@Ezekiel:42:15 @ So the measurement of the house within was accomplished: and he brought me forth by the way of the gate that looks eastward, and measured the plan of the house round about in order.

bes@Ezekiel:42:16 @ And he stood behind the gate looking eastward, and measured five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

bes@Ezekiel:42:17 @ And he turned to the north and measured in front of the north side five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

bes@Ezekiel:42:18 @ And he turned to the west, and measured in front (note:)Gr. of the sea(:note) of the west side, five hundred cubits with the measuring reed.

bes@Ezekiel:42:19 @ And he turned to the south, and measured in front of the south side, five hundred cubits by the measuring reed.

bes@Ezekiel:42:20 @ The four sides he measured by the same reed, and he marked out the house and the circumference of the parts round about, a space of five hundred cubits eastward, and a breadth of five hundred cubits, to make a division between the sanctuary and the outer wall, that belonged to the design of the house.

bes@Ezekiel:43:1 @ Moreover he brought me to the gate looking eastward, and led me forth.

bes@Ezekiel:43:2 @ And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came by the eastern way; and there was a voice of an army, as the sound of many redoubling their shouts, and the earth shone like light from the glory round about.

bes@Ezekiel:43:3 @ And the vision which I saw was like the vision which I saw when I went in to anoint the city: and the vision of the chariot which I saw was like the vision which I saw at the river Chobar; and I fell upon my face.

bes@Ezekiel:43:4 @ And the glory of the Lord came into the house, by the way of the gate looking eastward.

bes@Ezekiel:43:5 @ And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory.

bes@Ezekiel:43:6 @ And I stood, and behold there was a voice out of the house of one speaking to me, and a man stood near me,

bes@Ezekiel:43:7 @ and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the (note:)Gr. footstep(:note) soles of my feet, in which my name Alex. kataskhnwsei shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;

bes@Ezekiel:43:8 @ when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining (note:)Lit. itself to me and them(:note) myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.

bes@Ezekiel:43:9 @ And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

bes@Ezekiel:43:10 @ And thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and shew its aspect and the arrangement of it.

bes@Ezekiel:43:11 @ And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done: and thou shalt describe the house, and its (note:)Alex. its goings out and its comings in(:note) entrances, and the plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and thou shalt make known to them all the regulations of it, and describe them before them: and they shall keep all my commandments, and all my ordinances, and do them.

bes@Ezekiel:43:12 @ And thou shalt shew the plan of the house on the top of the mountain: all its limits round about shall be most holy.

bes@Ezekiel:43:13 @

bes@Ezekiel:43:14 @ from the bottom at the commencement of the hollow part to this great mercy-seat, from beneath was two cubits, and the breadth was a cubit; and from the little mercy-seat to the great mercy-seat, four cubits, and the breadth was a cubit.

bes@Ezekiel:43:15 @ And the (note:)Gr. Ariel, Hebrews. Arel, i. e. the mountain of God(:note) altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and above the horns a cubit.

bes@Ezekiel:43:16 @ And the altar shall be of the length of twelve cubits, by twelve cubits in breadth, square upon its four sides.

bes@Ezekiel:43:17 @ And the mercy-seat shall be fourteen cubits in length, by fourteen cubits in breadth on its four sides; and there shall be a border to it carried round about it of half a cubit; and the rim of it shall be a cubit round about; and the steps thereof looking eastward.

bes@Ezekiel:43:18 @ And he said to me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God of Israel; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day of its being made, to offer upon it whole-burnt-offerings, and to pour blood upon it.

bes@Ezekiel:43:19 @ And thou shalt appoint to the priests the Levites of the seed of Sadduc, that draw nigh to me, saith the Lord God, to minister to me, a calf of the heard (note:)Lit. for sin(:note) for a sin-offering.

bes@Ezekiel:43:20 @ And they shall take of its blood, and shall put it on the four horns of the altar, and upon the four corners of the propitiatory, and upon the base round about, and they shall make atonement for it.

bes@Ezekiel:43:21 @ And they shall take the calf of the sin-offering, and it shall be consumed by fire in the separate place of the house, outside the sanctuary.

bes@Ezekiel:43:22 @ And on the second day they shall take two kids of the goats without blemish (note:)Gr. for sin(:note) for a sin-offering; and they shall make atonement for the altar, as they made atonement with the calf.

bes@Ezekiel:43:23 @ And after (note:)Alex. thou hast finished(:note) they have finished the atonement, they shall bring an unblemished calf of the herd, and an unblemished ram of the flock.

bes@Ezekiel:43:24 @ And ye shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall sprinkle salt upon them, and shall offer them up as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:43:25 @ Seven day shalt thou offer a kid daily for a sin-offering, and a calf of the herd, and a ram out of the flock: they shall sacrifice them unblemished for seven days:

bes@Ezekiel:43:26 @ and they shall make atonement for the altar, and shall purge it; and they shall (note:)Gr. fill their hands(:note) consecrate themselves.

bes@Ezekiel:43:27 @ And it shall come to pass from the eighth day and onward, that the priests shall offer your whole-burnt-offerings on the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:44:1 @ Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that looks eastward; and it was shut.

bes@Ezekiel:44:2 @ And the Lord said to me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no one shall pass through it; for the Lord God of Israel shall enter by it, and it shall be shut.

bes@Ezekiel:44:3 @ For the prince, he shall sit in it, to eat bread before the Lord; he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go forth by the way of the same.

bes@Ezekiel:44:4 @ And he brought me in by the way of the gate that looks northward, in front of the house: and I looked, and, behold, the house was full of the glory of the Lord: and I fell upon my face.

bes@Ezekiel:44:5 @ And the Lord said to me, Son of man, attend with thine heart, and see with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say to thee, according to all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the regulations thereof; and thou shalt attend well to the entrance of the house, according to all its outlets, in all the holy things.

bes@Ezekiel:44:6 @ And thou shalt say to the provoking house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you to have committed all your iniquities, O house of Israel!

bes@Ezekiel:44:7 @ that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my (note:)Gr. plural(:note) sanctuary, and to profane it, when ye offered Alex. my bread bread, flesh, and blood; and ye transgressed my covenant by all your iniquities;

bes@Ezekiel:44:8 @

bes@Ezekiel:44:9 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; No alien, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of all the children of strangers that are in the midst of the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:44:10 @ But as for the Levites who departed far from me when Israel went astray from me after their imaginations, they shall even bear their iniquity.

bes@Ezekiel:44:11 @ yet they shall minister in my sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slay the victims and the whole-burnt-offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.

bes@Ezekiel:44:12 @ Because they ministered to them before their idols, and it became to the house of Israel a punishment of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God. (note:)Alex. +’so shall they receive their dishonour’(:note)

bes@Ezekiel:44:13 @ And they shall not draw nigh to me to minister to me in the priests’ office, nor to approach the (note:)Or, sanctuary(:note) holy things of the children of Israel, nor to approach my holy of holies: but they shall bear their reproach for the error wherein they erred.

bes@Ezekiel:44:14 @

bes@Ezekiel:44:15 @ The priests the Levites, the sons of Sadduc, who kept the charges of my sanctuary when the house of Israel when astray from me, these shall draw night to me to minister to me, and shall stand before my face, to offer sacrifice to me, the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:44:16 @ These shall enter into my sanctuary, and these shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charges.

bes@Ezekiel:44:17 @ And it shall come to pass when they enter the gates of the inner court, (note:)Alex. +’and within’(:note) that they shall put on linen robes; and they shall not put on woollen garments when they minister at the gate of the inner court.

bes@Ezekiel:44:18 @ And they shall have linen mitres upon their heads, and shall have linen drawers upon their loins; and they shall not tightly gird themselves.

bes@Ezekiel:44:19 @ And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their robes, in which they minister; and they shall lay them up in the chambers of the sanctuary, and shall put on other robes, and they shall not sanctify the people with their robes.

bes@Ezekiel:44:20 @ And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pluck off their hair; they shall carefully cover their heads.

bes@Ezekiel:44:21 @ And no priest shall drink any wine, when they go into the inner court.

bes@Ezekiel:44:22 @ Neither shall they take to themselves to wife a widow, or one that is put away, but a virgin of the seed of Israel: but if there should happen to be a priest’s widow, they shall take her.

bes@Ezekiel:44:23 @ And they shall teach my people to distinguish between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between unclean and clean.

bes@Ezekiel:44:24 @ And these shall attend at (note:)Or, capital cases(:note) a judgement of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgements, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

bes@Ezekiel:44:25 @ And they shall not go in to the (note:)Gr. lit. soul(:note) dead body of a man to defile themselves: only a priest may defile himself for a father, or for a mother, or for a son, or for a daughter, or for a brother, or for his sister, who has not been married.

bes@Ezekiel:44:26 @ And after he has been cleansed, let him number to himself seven days.

bes@Ezekiel:44:27 @ And on whatsoever day they shall enter into the inner court to minister in the holy place, they shall bring a propitiation, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:44:28 @ And it shall be to them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and no possession shall be given them among the children of Israel; for I am their possession.

bes@Ezekiel:44:29 @ And these shall eat the meat-offerings, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; and every special offering in Israel shall be theirs.

bes@Ezekiel:44:30 @ And the first-fruits of all things, and the first-born of all animals and all offerings, of all your first-fruits there shall be a share for the priests; and ye shall give your earliest produce to the priest, to bring your blessings upon your houses.

bes@Ezekiel:44:31 @ And the priests shall eat no bird or beast that dies of itself, or is taken of wild beasts.

bes@Ezekiel:45:1 @ And when ye measure thee land for inheritance, ye shall set apart first-fruits to the Lord, a holy space of the land, in length twenty and five thousand reeds, and in breadth twenty thousand; it shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

bes@Ezekiel:45:2 @ And there shall be (note:)Gr. plural(:note) a sanctuary out of this, five hundred reeds in length by five hundred in breadth, a square round about; and there shall be a vacant space beyond this Gr. them of fifty cubits round about.

bes@Ezekiel:45:3 @ And out of this measurement shalt thou measure the length five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and in it shall be the holy of holies.

bes@Ezekiel:45:4 @ Of the land shall be a portion for the priests that minister in the holy place, and it shall be for them that draw nigh to minister to the Lord: and it shall be to them a place for houses set apart for their (note:)Gr. sanctification(:note) sacred office;

bes@Ezekiel:45:5 @ the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand: and the Levites that attend the house, they shall have cities to dwell in for a possession.

bes@Ezekiel:45:6 @ And ye shall appoint for the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and in length twenty-five thousand: after the manner of the first-fruits of the holy portion, they shall be for all the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:45:7 @ And the prince shall have a portion out of this, (note:)Gr. perhaps, «and from the part next to this(:note) and out of this there shall be a portion for the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and for the possession of the city, in front of the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and in front of the possession of the city Lit. seaward westward, and from the western parts eastward: and the length shall be equal to one of the parts of the western borders, and the length shall be to the eastern borders of the land.

bes@Ezekiel:45:8 @ And he shall have it for a possession in Israel: and the princes of Israel shall no more oppress my people; but the house of Israel shall inherit the land according to their tribes.

bes@Ezekiel:45:9 @ Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you, ye princes of Israel: remove injustice and misery, execute judgement and justice; take away oppression from my people, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:45:10 @ Ye shall have a just balance, and a just measure, and a just choenix for measure.

bes@Ezekiel:45:11 @ And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the gomor shall be the choenix, and the tenth of the gomor shall be in fair proportion to the gomor.

bes@Ezekiel:45:12 @ And the weights shall be twenty oboli, your pound shall be five shekels, fifteen shekels and fifty shekels.

bes@Ezekiel:45:13 @ And these are the first-fruits which ye shall offer; a sixth part of a gomor of wheat, and the sixth part of it shall consist of an ephah of a core of barley.

bes@Ezekiel:45:14 @ And ye shall give as the (note:)Gr. ordinance(:note) appointed measure of oil one bath of oil out of ten baths; for ten baths are a gomor.

bes@Ezekiel:45:15 @ And one sheep from the flock out of ten, as an oblation from all the tribes of Israel, for sacrifices, and for whole-burnt-offerings, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for you, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:45:16 @ And all the people shall give these first-fruits to the prince of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:45:17 @ And through the prince shall be offered the whole-burnt-offerings and the meat-offerings, and the drink-offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin-offerings, and the meat-offering, and the whole-burnt-offerings, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:45:18 @ Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, on the first day of the month, ye shall take a calf without blemish out of the herd, to make atonement for the holy place.

bes@Ezekiel:45:19 @ And the priest shall take of the blood of the atonement, and put it on the (note:)Gr. posts, or, lintels(:note) thresholds of the house, and upon the four corners of the temple, and upon the altar, and upon the thresholds of the gate of the inner court.

bes@Ezekiel:45:20 @ And thus shalt thou do in the seventh month; on the first day of the month thou shalt take a rate (note:)Alex. +’from every one that errs (in ignorance) and from him that is simple’(:note) from each one; and ye shall make atonement for the house.

bes@Ezekiel:45:21 @ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have (note:)Lit. the passover, a feast(:note) the feast of the passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.

bes@Ezekiel:45:22 @ And the prince shall offer it that day a calf for a sin-offering for himself, and (note:)Or, his house(:note) the house, and for all the people of the land.

bes@Ezekiel:45:23 @ And for the seven days of the feast he shall offer as whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin-offering, and a meat-offering.

bes@Ezekiel:45:24 @ And thou shalt prepare a cake for the calf, and (note:)q. d. a baked, or, cooked-offering(:note) cakes for the ram, and a hin of oil for the cake.

bes@Ezekiel:45:25 @ And in the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, thou shalt sacrifice in the feast in the same way seven days, as they sacrificed the sin-offerings, and (note:)Gr. «as’ repeated(:note) the whole-burnt-offerings, and the freewill-offering, and the oil.

bes@Ezekiel:46:1 @ Thus saith the Lord God; The gate that is in the inner court, that looks eastward, shall be shut the six working days; but let it be opened on the sabbath-day, and it shall be opened on the day of the new moon.

bes@Ezekiel:46:2 @ And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the (note:)Hebrews. and Alex. «outer’(:note) inner gate, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his whole-burnt-offerings and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the entrance of the gate: then shall he come forth; but the gate shall not be shut till evening.

bes@Ezekiel:46:3 @ And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate, both on the sabbaths and at the new moons, before the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:46:4 @ And the prince shall offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord on the sabbath-day, six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish;

bes@Ezekiel:46:5 @ and a freewill-offering, a meat-offering for the ram, and a meat-offering for the lambs, the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for the meat-offering.

bes@Ezekiel:46:6 @ And on the day of the new moon a calf without blemish, and six lambs, and there shall be a ram without blemish;

bes@Ezekiel:46:7 @ and a meat-offering for the ram, and there shall be a meat-offering for the calf as a freewill-offering, and for the lambs, according as his hand can furnish, and there shall be a hin of oil for the cake.

bes@Ezekiel:46:8 @ And when the prince goes in, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of the gate.

bes@Ezekiel:46:9 @ And whenever the people of the land shall go in before the Lord at the feasts, he that goes in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that goes in by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the gate by which he entered, but he shall go forth opposite it.

bes@Ezekiel:46:10 @ And the prince shall enter with them in the midst of them when they go in; and when they go forth, he shall go forth.

bes@Ezekiel:46:11 @ And in the feasts and in the general assemblies the freewill oblation shall be a meat-offering for the calf, and a meat-offering for the ram, and for the lambs, as his hand can furnish, and a hin of oil for the meat-offering.

bes@Ezekiel:46:12 @ And if the prince should prepare as a thanksgiving a whole-burnt-peace-offering to the Lord, and should open for himself the gate looking eastward, and offer his whole-burnt-offering, and his peace-offerings, as he does on the sabbath-day; then shall he go out, and shall shut the doors after he has gone out.

bes@Ezekiel:46:13 @ And he shall prepare daily as a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord a lamb of a year old without blemish: in the morning shall he prepare it.

bes@Ezekiel:46:14 @ And he shall prepare a freewill-offering for it in the morning, the sixth part of a measure of flour, and a third part of a hin of oil to mix therewith the fine flour, as a freewill-offering to the Lord, a perpetual ordinance.

bes@Ezekiel:46:15 @ Ye shall prepare the lamb, and the freewill-offering, and the oil in the morning, for a perpetual whole-burnt-sacrifice.

bes@Ezekiel:46:16 @ Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince shall give a gift to one of his sons out of his inheritance, this shall be to his sons a possession as an inheritance.

bes@Ezekiel:46:17 @ But if he give a gift to one of his servants, then it shall belong to him until the year of release; and then he shall restore it to the prince: but of the inheritance of his sons the possession shall continue to them.

bes@Ezekiel:46:18 @ And the prince shall by no means take of the inheritance of the people, to oppress them: he shall give an inheritance to his sons out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered, every one from his possession.

bes@Ezekiel:46:19 @ And he brought me into the entrance of the place behind the gate, into the chamber of the sanctuary belonging to the priests, that looks toward the north: and, behold, there was a place set apart.

bes@Ezekiel:46:20 @ And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offerings and the sin-offerings, and there shall they bake the meat-offering always; so as not to carry them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

bes@Ezekiel:46:21 @ And he brought me into the outer court, and led me round upon the four sides of the court; and, behold, there was a court on each of the sides of the court,

bes@Ezekiel:46:22 @ on every side a court, even a court for all the four sides, and each little court belonging to the court was in length forty cubits, and in breadth thirty cubits, there was one measure to the four.

bes@Ezekiel:46:23 @ And there were chambers in them round about, round about the four, and cooking-places formed under the chambers round about.

bes@Ezekiel:46:24 @ And he said to me, These are the cooks’ houses, where they that serve the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.

bes@Ezekiel:47:1 @ And he brought me to the (note:)Gr. plural(:note) entrance of the house; and, behold, water issued from under the porch eastward, for the front of the house looked eastward; and the water came down from the right side, from the south to the altar.

bes@Ezekiel:47:2 @ And he brought me out by the way of the northern gate, and he led me round by the way outside to the gate of the court that looks eastward; and, behold, water came down from the right side,

bes@Ezekiel:47:3 @

bes@Ezekiel:47:4 @ and he passed through the water; it was water (note:)Hebrews. of ankles, q. d. up to the ankles(:note) of a fountain: and again he measured a thousand, and passed through the water; and the water was up to the thighs: and again he measured a thousand; and he passed through water up to the loins.

bes@Ezekiel:47:5 @ and again he measured a thousand; and he could not pass through: for the water (note:)Lit. acted proudly(:note) rose as of a torrent which men cannot pass over.

bes@Ezekiel:47:6 @ And he said to me, Hast thou seen this, son of man? Then he brought me, and led me back to the brink of the river

bes@Ezekiel:47:7 @ as I returned; and, behold, on the brink of the river there were very many trees on this side and on that side.

bes@Ezekiel:47:8 @ And he said to me, This is the water that goes forth to Galilee that lies eastward, and it is gone down to Arabia, and has reached as far as to the sea to the outlet of the water: and it shall heal the waters.

bes@Ezekiel:47:9 @ And it shall come to pass, that every animal of living and moving creatures, all on which the river shall come, shall live: and there shall be there very many fish; for this water (note:)Gr. comes, or, is come(:note) shall go thither, and it shall heal them, and they shall live: everything on which the river shall come shall live.

bes@Ezekiel:47:10 @ And fishers shall stand there from Ingadin to Enagallim; it shall be a place to spread out nets upon; it shall be distinct; and the fishes thereof shall be as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude.

bes@Ezekiel:47:11 @ But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.

bes@Ezekiel:47:12 @ And every fruit tree shall grow by the river, even on the bank of it on this side and on that side: (note:)Gr. singular(:note) they shall not decay upon it, neither shall their fruit fail: they shall bring forth the first-fruit Gr. of its newness; See Hebrew of their early crop, for these their waters come forth of the sanctuary: and their fruit shall be for meat, and their foliage for health.

bes@Ezekiel:47:13 @ Thus saith the Lord God; Ye shall inherit these borders of the land; (note:)Gr. they are the addition of a line(:note) they are given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:47:14 @ And ye shall inherit it, each according to his brother’s portion, even the land concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you by lot.

bes@Ezekiel:47:15 @ And these are the borders of the land that lies northward, from the great sea that comes down, and divides the entrance of Emaseldam;

bes@Ezekiel:47:16 @ Maabthera, Ebrameliam, between the coasts of Damascus and the coasts of Emathi, the habitation of Saunan, which places are above the coasts of Auranitis.

bes@Ezekiel:47:17 @ These are the borders from the sea, from the habitations of Ænan, the coasts of Damascus, and the northern coasts.

bes@Ezekiel:47:18 @ And the eastern coasts between Loranitis, and Damascus, and the land of Galaad, and the land of Israel, (note:)Alex. +’and the border of Amath shall be the northern border’(:note) the Jordan divides to the sea that is east of the city of palm-trees. These are the eastern coasts.

bes@Ezekiel:47:19 @ And the southern and south-western coasts are from Thaeman and the city of palm-trees, to the water of Marimoth Cadem, reaching forth to the great sea. This part is the south and south-west.

bes@Ezekiel:47:20 @ This part of the great sea forms a border, till one comes opposite the entrance of Emath, even as far as the entrance thereof. These are the parts west of Emath.

bes@Ezekiel:47:21 @ So ye shall divide this land to them, even to the tribes of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:47:22 @

bes@Ezekiel:47:23 @ And they shall be in the tribe of proselytes among the proselytes that are with them: there shall ye give them an inheritance, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:48:1 @ And these are the names of the tribes from the northern (note:)Or, end(:note) corner, on the side of the decent that draws a line to the entrance of Emath the Hebrews. Hazarenan; Alex. the palace, or court of Ænan palace of Ælam, the border of Damascus northward on the side of Emath the palace; and they shall have the eastern parts as far as the sea, for Dan, one portion.

bes@Ezekiel:48:2 @ And from the borders of Dan eastward as far as the west sea-coast, for Asser, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:3 @ And from the borders of Asser, from the eastern parts as far as the (note:)Or, sea-coasts(:note) west coasts, for Nephthalim, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:4 @ And from the borders of Nephthalim, from the east as far as the west coasts, for Manasse, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:5 @ And from the borders of Manasse, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Ephraim, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:6 @ And from the borders of Ephraim, from the eastern parts to the west coasts, for Ruben, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:7 @ And from the borders of Ruben, from the eastern parts as far as the west coasts, for Juda, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:8 @ And from the borders of Juda, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of first-fruits, in the breadth twenty-five thousand reeds, and in length as one of the portions measured from the east even to the western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.

bes@Ezekiel:48:9 @ As for the first-fruits which they shall (note:)Lit. separate(:note) offer to the Lord, it shall be in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth twenty-five thousand.

bes@Ezekiel:48:10 @ Out of this shall be the first-fruits of the holy things to the priests, northward, five and twenty-thousand, (note:)Alex. +’in length’(:note) and towards the west, ten thousand, Alex. +’in breadth’ and southward, five and twenty thousand: and the mountain of the sanctuary, shall be in the midst of it,

bes@Ezekiel:48:11 @ for the priests, for the consecrated sons of Sadduc, who keep the charges of the house, who erred not in the error of the children of Israel, as the Levites erred.

bes@Ezekiel:48:12 @ And the first-fruits shall be given to them out of the first-fruits of the land, even a most holy portion from the borders of the Levites.

bes@Ezekiel:48:13 @ And the Levites shall have the part, next to the borders of the priests, in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth ten thousand: the whole length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.

bes@Ezekiel:48:14 @ No part of it shall be sold, nor measured as for sale, neither shall the first-fruits of the land be taken away: for they are holy to the Lord.

bes@Ezekiel:48:15 @ But concerning the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the five and twenty thousand, they shall be a (note:)Lit. outwork of a wall(:note) suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

bes@Ezekiel:48:16 @ And these shall be its dimensions; from the northern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the southern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the eastern side four thousand and five hundred, and from the western side they shall measure four thousand five hundred.

bes@Ezekiel:48:17 @ And there shall be a space to the city northward two hundred and fifty, and southward two hundred and fifty, and eastward two hundred and fifty, and westward two hundred and fifty.

bes@Ezekiel:48:18 @ And the remainder of the length that is next to the first-fruits of the holy (note:)Gr. plural(:note) portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and they shall be the first-fruits of the sanctuary; and the fruits sc. the land thereof shall be for bread to them that labour for the city.

bes@Ezekiel:48:19 @ And they that labour for the city shall labour for it out of all the tribes of Israel.

bes@Ezekiel:48:20 @ The (note:)sc. of land(:note) whole offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: ye shall separate again part of it, the first-fruits of the sanctuary, from the possession of the city.

bes@Ezekiel:48:21 @ And the prince shall have the remainder on this side and on that side from the first-fruits of the sanctuary, and there shall be (note:)Or, a space for a possession(:note) a possession of the city, for five and twenty thousand cubits in length, to the eastern and western borders, for five and twenty thousand to the western borders, next to the portions of the prince; and the first-fruits of the holy things and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.

bes@Ezekiel:48:22 @ And there shall be a portion taken from the Levites, from the possession of the city in the midst of the princes between the borders of Juda and the borders of Benjamin, and it shall be the portion of the princes.

bes@Ezekiel:48:23 @ And as for the rest of the tribes, from the eastern parts as far as the western, Benjamin shall have one portion.

bes@Ezekiel:48:24 @ And from the borders of Benjamin, from the eastern parts to the western, Symeon, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:25 @ And from the borders of Symeon, from the eastern parts to the western, Issachar, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:26 @ And from the borders of Issachar, from the eastern parts to the western, Zabulon, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:27 @ And from the borders of Zabulon, from the east to the western parts, Gad, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:28 @ And from the borders of Gad, (note:)Alex.—’from the eastern’(:note) from the eastern parts to the south-western parts; his coasts shall even be from Thaeman, and the water of Barimoth Cades, Gr. of for an inheritance, unto the great sea.

bes@Ezekiel:48:29 @ This is the land, which ye shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.

bes@Ezekiel:48:30 @ And these are the goings out of the city northward, four thousand and five hundred by measure.

bes@Ezekiel:48:31 @ And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; the gate of Ruben, one, and the gate of Juda, one, and the gate of Levi, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:32 @ And eastward four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; the gate of Joseph, one, and the gate of Benjamin, one, and the gate of Dan, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:33 @ And southward, four thousand and five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of Symeon, one, and the gate of Issachar, one, and the gate of Zabulon, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:34 @ And westward, four thousand and five hundred by measure: and three gates; the gate of Gad, one, and the gate of Asser, one, and the gate of Nephthalim, one.

bes@Ezekiel:48:35 @ The circumference, eighteen thousand (note:)Or, reeds(:note) measures: and the name of the city, from the day that it shall be finished, Hebrews. Jehovah Shammah, «the Lord is there;’ Alex. gives both renderings shall be the name thereof.

bes@Daniel:1:1 @ In the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, came Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.

bes@Daniel:1:2 @ And the Lord gave into his hand Joakim king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he brought them into the land of Sennaar (note:)Gr. of(:note) to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.

bes@Daniel:1:3 @ And the king told Asphanez his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the (note:)Hebrew word(:note) princes;

bes@Daniel:1:4 @ young men in whom was no blemish, and beautiful in appearance, and skilled in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and acquainted with prudence, and who had ability to stand in the house before the king, and the king gave commandment to teach them the learning and language of the Chaldeans.

bes@Daniel:1:5 @ And the king appointed them a daily portion from the king’s table, and from the wine which he drank; and gave orders to nourish them three years, and that afterwards they should stand before the king.

bes@Daniel:1:6 @ Now these were among them of the children of Juda, Daniel, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael.

bes@Daniel:1:7 @ And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Baltasar; and to Ananias, Sedrach; and to Misael, Misach; and to Azarias, Abdenago.

bes@Daniel:1:8 @ And Daniel purposed in his heart, that he would not defile himself with the king’s table, nor with the wine of his drink: and he intreated the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

bes@Daniel:1:9 @ Now God had brought Daniel into favour and compassion with the chief of the eunuchs.

bes@Daniel:1:10 @ And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your meat and your drink, lest he see your countenances gloomy in comparison of the young men your equals; also shall ye endanger my head to the king.

bes@Daniel:1:11 @ And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias.

bes@Daniel:1:12 @ Prove now thy servants ten days; and let them give us (note:)Gr. of seeds(:note) pulse, and let us eat, and let us drink water:

bes@Daniel:1:13 @ And let our countenances be seen by thee, and the countenances of the children that eat at the king’s table; and deal with thy servants according as thou shalt see.

bes@Daniel:1:14 @ And he hearkened to them, and proved them ten days.

bes@Daniel:1:15 @ And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh, than the children that fed at the king’s table.

bes@Daniel:1:16 @ So Amelsad took away their supper and the wine of their drink, and gave them (note:)Gr. seeds(:note) pulse.

bes@Daniel:1:17 @ And (note:)Alex. to these four children(:note) as for these four children, God gave them understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

bes@Daniel:1:18 @ And at the end of the days, after which the king had given orders to bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nabuchodonosor.

bes@Daniel:1:19 @ And the king spoke with them; and there were not found out of them all any like Daniel, and Ananias and Misael, and Azarias: and they stood before the king.

bes@Daniel:1:20 @ And in every matter of wisdom and knowledge wherein the king questioned them, he found them ten times wiser than all the enchanters and sorcerers that were in all his kingdom.

bes@Daniel:1:21 @ And Daniel continued till the first year of king Cyrus.

bes@Daniel:2:1 @ In the second year of his reign Nabuchodonosor dreamed a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.

bes@Daniel:2:2 @ And the king gave orders to call the enchanters, and the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king.

bes@Daniel:2:3 @ And the king said to them, I have dreamed, and my spirit was (note:)Gr. amazed(:note) troubled to know the dream.

bes@Daniel:2:4 @ And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, saying, O king, live for ever: do thou tell the dream to thy servants, and we will declare the interpretation.

bes@Daniel:2:5 @ The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing has departed from me: if ye do not make known to me the dream and the interpretation, ye shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.

bes@Daniel:2:6 @ But if ye make known to me the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and presents and much honour: only tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

bes@Daniel:2:7 @ They answered the second time, and said, Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.

bes@Daniel:2:8 @ And the king answered and said, I verily know that ye are (note:)Gr. redeeming time; or, watching to buy it; See Eph strkjv@5:16(:note) trying to gain time, because ye see that the thing has gone from me.

bes@Daniel:2:9 @ If then ye do not tell me the dream, I know that ye have concerted to utter before me a false and corrupt tale, until the time shall have past: tell me my dream, and I shall know that ye will also declare to me the interpretation thereof.

bes@Daniel:2:10 @ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is no man upon the earth, who shall be able to make known the king’s matter: forasmuch as no great king or ruler asks such a question of an enchanter, magician, or Chaldean.

bes@Daniel:2:11 @ For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.

bes@Daniel:2:12 @ Then the king in rage and anger commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

bes@Daniel:2:13 @ So the decree went forth, and they began to slay the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to slay them.

bes@Daniel:2:14 @ Then Daniel answered with counsel and prudence to Arioch the (note:)See note on Ge strkjv@39:1(:note) captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; saying,

bes@Daniel:2:15 @ Chief magistrate of the king, wherefore has the preemptory command proceeded from the king? So Arioch made known the matter to Daniel.

bes@Daniel:2:16 @ And Daniel intreated the king to give him time, and that he might thus declare to the king the interpretation of it.

bes@Daniel:2:17 @ So Daniel went into his house, and made known the matter to Ananias, and Misael, and Azarias, his friends.

bes@Daniel:2:18 @ And they sought mercies from the God of heaven concerning this mystery; that Daniel and his friends might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

bes@Daniel:2:19 @ Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night; and Daniel blessed the God of heaven, and said,

bes@Daniel:2:20 @ May the name of God be blessed from everlasting and to everlasting: for wisdom and understanding are his.

bes@Daniel:2:21 @ And he changes times and seasons: he appoints kings, and removes them, giving wisdom to the wise, and prudence to them that have understanding:

bes@Daniel:2:22 @ he reveals deep and secret matters; knowing what is in darkness, and the light is with him.

bes@Daniel:2:23 @ I give thanks to thee, and praise thee, O God of my fathers, for thou has given me wisdom and power, and has made known to me the things which we asked of thee; and thou has made known to me the king’s vision.

bes@Daniel:2:24 @ And Daniel came to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon, but bring me in before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.

bes@Daniel:2:25 @ Then Arioch in haste brought in Daniel before the king, and said to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judea, who will declare the interpretation to the king.

bes@Daniel:2:26 @ And the king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Baltasar, Canst thou declare to me the dream which I saw, and the interpretation thereof?

bes@Daniel:2:27 @ And Daniel answered before the king, and said, The mystery which the king asks the explanation of is not in the power of the wise men, magicians, enchanters, or soothsayers to declare to the king.

bes@Daniel:2:28 @ But there is a God in heaven revealing mysteries, and he has made known to king Nabuchodonosor what things must come to pass in the last days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are as follows,

bes@Daniel:2:29 @ O king: thy thoughts upon thy bed arose as to what must come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals mysteries has made known to thee what must come to pass.

bes@Daniel:2:30 @ Moreover, this mystery has not been revealed to me by reason of wisdom which is in me beyond all others living, but for the sake of making known the interpretation to the king, that thou mightest know the thoughts of thine heart.

bes@Daniel:2:31 @ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold (note:)Lit. one image(:note) an image: that image was great, and the appearance of it excellent, standing before thy face; and the form of it was terrible.

bes@Daniel:2:32 @ It was an image, the head of which was of fine gold, its hands and breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of brass,

bes@Daniel:2:33 @ its legs of iron, its feet, part of iron and part of earthenware.

bes@Daniel:2:34 @ Thou sawest until a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it smote the image upon its feet of iron and earthenware, and utterly reduced them to powder.

bes@Daniel:2:35 @ Then once for all the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold, were ground to powder, and became as (note:)Or, dust, or, cloud of dust(:note) chaff from the summer threshingfloor; and the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them: and the stone which had smitten the image became a great mountain, and filled all the earth.

bes@Daniel:2:36 @ This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

bes@Daniel:2:37 @ Thou, O king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given a powerful and strong and honourable kingdom,

bes@Daniel:2:38 @ in every place where the children of men dwell: and he has given into thine hand the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and he has made thee lord of all.

bes@Daniel:2:39 @ Thou art the head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and a third kingdom which is the brass, which shall have dominion over all the earth;

bes@Daniel:2:40 @ and a fourth kingdom, which shall be strong as iron: as iron beats to powder and subdues all things, so shall it beat to powder and subdue.

bes@Daniel:2:41 @ And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, part of earthenware and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet there shall be in (note:)Gr. of the iron root(:note) it of the strength of iron, as thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware.

bes@Daniel:2:42 @ And whereas the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of earthenware, part of the kingdom shall be strong, and part of it shall be broken.

bes@Daniel:2:43 @ Whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with earthenware, they shall be mingled with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave together, as the iron does not mix itself with earthenware.

bes@Daniel:2:44 @ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and his kingdom shall not be left to another people, but it shall beat to pieces and grind to powder all other kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

bes@Daniel:2:45 @ Whereas thou sawest that a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold; the great God has made known to the king what must happen hereafter: and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof sure.

bes@Daniel:2:46 @ Then king Nabuchodonosor fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and gave orders to offer to him gifts and incense.

bes@Daniel:2:47 @ And the king answered and said to Daniel, Of a truth your God is a God of gods, and Lord of kings, who reveals mysteries; for thou has been able to reveal this mystery.

bes@Daniel:2:48 @ And the king promoted Daniel, and gave him great and abundant gifts, and set him over the whole province of Babylon, and made him chief satrap over all the wise men of Babylon.

bes@Daniel:2:49 @ And Daniel asked of the king, and he appointed Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the king’s palace.

bes@Daniel:3:1 @ In his eighteenth year Nabuchodonosor the king made a golden image, its height was sixty cubits, its breadth six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Deira, in the province of Babylon.

bes@Daniel:3:2 @ And he sent forth to gather the governors, and the captains, and the heads of provinces, chiefs, and princes, and those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, to come to the dedication of the image.

bes@Daniel:3:3 @ So the heads of provinces, the governors, the captains, the chiefs, the great princes, those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, were gathered to the dedication of the image which king Nabuchodonosor had set up; and they stood before the image.

bes@Daniel:3:4 @ Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, ye peoples, tribes, and languages,

bes@Daniel:3:5 @ at what hour ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and every kind of music, ye shall fall down and worship the golden image which king Nabuchodonosor has set up.

bes@Daniel:3:6 @ And whosoever shall not fall down and worship, in the same hour he shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.

bes@Daniel:3:7 @ And it came to pass when the nations heard the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the nations, tribes, and languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.

bes@Daniel:3:8 @ Then came near certain Chaldeans, and accused the Jews to the king, saying,

bes@Daniel:3:9 @ O king, live for ever.

bes@Daniel:3:10 @ Thou, O king, has made a decree that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and all kinds of music,

bes@Daniel:3:11 @ and shall not fall down and worship the golden image, shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace.

bes@Daniel:3:12 @ There are certain Jews whom thou has appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who have not obeyed thy decree, O king: they serve not thy gods, and worship not the golden image which thou hast set up.

bes@Daniel:3:13 @ Then Nabuchodonosor in wrath and anger commanded to bring Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and they were brought before the king.

bes@Daniel:3:14 @ And Nabuchodonosor answered and said to them, Is it true, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, that ye serve not my gods, and worship not the golden image which I have set up?

bes@Daniel:3:15 @ Now then if ye be ready, whensoever ye shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and pipe, and harp, and sackbut, and psaltery, and harmony, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the golden image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, in the same hour ye shall be cast into the burning fiery furnace; and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand?

bes@Daniel:3:16 @ Then answered Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago and said to king Nabuchodonosor, We have no need to answer thee concerning this matter.

bes@Daniel:3:17 @ For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will rescue us from thy hands, O king.

bes@Daniel:3:18 @ But if not, be it known to thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the image which thou hast set up.

bes@Daniel:3:19 @ Then Nabuchodonosor was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago: and he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times more than usual, until it should burn to the uttermost.

bes@Daniel:3:20 @ And he commanded mighty men to bind Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

bes@Daniel:3:21 @ Then those men were bound with their (note:)Chaldee word(:note) coats, and caps, and hose, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace,

bes@Daniel:3:22 @ forasmuch as the king’s word prevailed; and the furnace was made exceeding hot.

bes@Daniel:3:23 @ Then these three men, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, fell bound into the midst of the burning furnace, and walked in the midst of the flame, singing praise to God, and blessing the Lord.

bes@Daniel:3:24 @ And Nabuchodonosor heard them singing praises; and he wondered, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles, Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? and they said to the king, Yes, O king.

bes@Daniel:3:25 @ And the king said, But I see four men loose, and walking in the midst of the fire, and (note:)Lit. there is no destruction in them(:note) there has no harm happened to them; and the appearance of the fourth is like the Son of God.

bes@Daniel:3:26 @ Then Nabuchodonosor drew near to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said, Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high God, proceed forth, and come hither. So Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, came forth out of the midst of the fire.

bes@Daniel:3:27 @ Then were assembled the satraps, and captains, and heads of provinces, and the royal princes; and they saw the men, and perceived that the fire had not had power against their (note:)Gr. singular; compare 1 Co strkjv@6:19.(:note) bodies, and the hair of their head was not burnt, and their coats were not Gr. changed scorched, nor was the smell of fire upon them.

bes@Daniel:3:28 @ And king Nabuchodonosor answered and said, Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants, because they trusted in him; and they have changed the king’s word, and delivered their bodies to be burnt, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

bes@Daniel:3:29 @ Wherefore I publish a decree: Every people, tribe, or language, that shall speak reproachfully against the God of Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago shall be destroyed, and their houses shall be plundered: because there is no other God who shall be able to deliver thus.

bes@Daniel:3:30 @ Then the king promoted Sedrach, Misach, and Abdenago, in the province of Babylon, and advanced them, and (note:)Or, made, or, pronounced them worthy(:note) gave them authority to rule over all the Jews who were in his kingdom.

bes@Daniel:3:31 @ King Nabuchodonosor to all nations, tribes, and tongues, who dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied to you.

bes@Daniel:3:32 @ It seemed good to me to declare to you the signs and wonders which the most high God has wrought with me,

bes@Daniel:3:33 @ how great and mighty they are: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power to all generations.

bes@Daniel:4:1 @ I Nabuchodonosor was thriving in my house, and prospering.

bes@Daniel:4:2 @ I saw a vision, and it terrified me, and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.

bes@Daniel:4:3 @ And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

bes@Daniel:4:4 @ So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers, and Chaldeans came in: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof;

bes@Daniel:4:5 @ until Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God; to whom I said,

bes@Daniel:4:6 @ O Baltasar, chief of the enchanters, of whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in thee, and no mystery is too hard for thee, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me the interpretation of it.

bes@Daniel:4:7 @ I had a vision upon my bed; and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

bes@Daniel:4:8 @ The tree grew large and strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its extent to the extremity of the whole earth:

bes@Daniel:4:9 @ its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed of it.

bes@Daniel:4:10 @ I beheld in the night vision upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven and cried aloud, and thus he said,

bes@Daniel:4:11 @ Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.

bes@Daniel:4:12 @ Only leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and bind it with an iron and brass band; and it shall lie in the grass that is without and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with the wild beasts in the grass of the field.

bes@Daniel:4:13 @ His heart shall be changed from that of man, and the heart of a wild beast shall be given to him; and seven times shall pass over him.

bes@Daniel:4:14 @ The matter is by the decree of the watcher, and the demand is a word of the holy ones; that the living may known that the Lord is most high over the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whomsoever he shall please, and will set up over it that which is set at nought of men.

bes@Daniel:4:15 @ This is the (note:)Gr. dream(:note) vision which I king Nabuchodonosor saw: and do thou, Baltasar, declare the interpretation, for none of the wise men of my kingdom are able to shew me the interpretation of it: but thou, Daniel, art able; for the Holy Spirit of God is in thee.

bes@Daniel:4:16 @ Then Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was amazed about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. And Baltasar answered and said, My lord, let the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation of it to thine enemies.

bes@Daniel:4:17 @ The tree which thou sawest, that grew large and strong, whose height reached to the sky and its extent to all the earth;

bes@Daniel:4:18 @ and whose leaves were flourishing, and its fruit abundant, (and it was meat for all; under it the wild beasts lodged, and the birds of the sky took shelter in its branches:)

bes@Daniel:4:19 @ is thyself, O king; for thou art grown great and powerful, and thy greatness has increased and reached to heaven, and thy dominion to the ends of the earth.

bes@Daniel:4:20 @ And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and he said, Strip the tree, and destroy it; only leave the stump of its roots in the ground, and bind it with a band of iron and brass; and it shall lie in the grass that is without, and in the dew of heaven, and its portion shall be with wild beasts, until seven times have passed over it;

bes@Daniel:4:21 @ this is the interpretation of it, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High, which (note:)Gr. come by anticipation(:note) has come upon my lord the king.

bes@Daniel:4:22 @ And they shall drive thee forth from men, and thy dwelling shall be with wild beasts, and they shall feed thee with grass as an ox, and thou shall have thy lodging under the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou known that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whom he shall please.

bes@Daniel:4:23 @ And whereas they said, Leave the stumps of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom abides sure to thee from the time that thou shalt know the power of the heavens.

bes@Daniel:4:24 @ Therefore, O king, let my counsel please thee, and atone for thy sins by alms, and thine iniquities by compassion on the poor: it may be God will be long-suffering to thy trespasses.

bes@Daniel:4:25 @ All these things came upon king Nabuchodonosor.

bes@Daniel:4:26 @ After a twelvemonth, as he walked in his palace in Babylon,

bes@Daniel:4:27 @ the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for (note:)Gr. a house of a kingdom(:note) a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honour of my glory?

bes@Daniel:4:28 @ While the word was yet in the king’s mouth, there came a voice from heaven, saying, To thee, king Nabuchodonosor, they say, The kingdom has departed from thee.

bes@Daniel:4:29 @ And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the wild beasts of the field, and they shall feed thee with grass as an ox: and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High is Lord of the kingdom of men, and he will give it to whomsoever he shall please.

bes@Daniel:4:30 @ In the same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor: and he was driven forth from men, and he ate grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until his hairs were grown like lions’ hairs, and his nails as birds’ claws.

bes@Daniel:4:31 @ And at the end of the time I Nabuchodonosor lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised him that lives for ever, and gave him glory; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom lasts to all generations:

bes@Daniel:4:32 @ and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he does according to his will in the (note:)Lit. force, or power(:note) army of heaven, and Gr. in the habitation of the earth among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none who shall withstand his power, and say to him, What has thou done?

bes@Daniel:4:33 @ At the same time my reason returned to me, and I came to the honour of my kingdom; and my natural form returned to me, and my princes, and my nobles, sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and more abundant majesty was added to me.

bes@Daniel:4:34 @ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosor praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all his works are true, and his paths are judgement: and all that walk in pride he is able to abase.

bes@Daniel:5:1 @ Baltasar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and there was wine before the thousand.

bes@Daniel:5:2 @ And Baltasar drinking gave orders as he tasted the wine that they should bring the gold and silver vessels, which Nabuchodonosor his father had brought forth from the temple in Jerusalem; that the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, should drink out of them.

bes@Daniel:5:3 @ So the gold and silver vessels were brought which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines, drank out of them.

bes@Daniel:5:4 @ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.

bes@Daniel:5:5 @ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king’s house: and the king saw the (note:)Or, joints(:note) knuckles of the hand that wrote.

bes@Daniel:5:6 @ Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one another.

bes@Daniel:5:7 @ And the king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; and he said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation, shall be clothed with scarlet, and there shall be a golden chain upon his neck, and he shall be the third ruler in my kingdom.

bes@Daniel:5:8 @ Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known the interpretation to the king.

bes@Daniel:5:9 @ And king Baltasar was troubled, and his countenance changed upon him, and his nobles were troubled with him.

bes@Daniel:5:10 @ Then the queen came into the banquet house, and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, and let not thy countenance be changed.

bes@Daniel:5:11 @ There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the Spirit of God; and in the days of thy father watchfulness and understanding were found in him; and king Nabuchodonosor thy father made him chief of the enchanters, magicians, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

bes@Daniel:5:12 @ For there is an excellent spirit in him, and sense and understanding in him, interpreting dreams as he does, and answering hard questions, and solving difficulties: it is Daniel, and the king gave him the name of Baltasar: now then let him be called, and he shall tell thee the interpretation (note:)Gr. of it, or of him(:note) of the writing.

bes@Daniel:5:13 @ Then Daniel was brought in before the king: and the king said to Daniel, Art thou Daniel, of the children of the captivity of Judea, which the king my father brought?

bes@Daniel:5:14 @ I have heard concerning thee, that the Spirit of God is in thee, and that watchfulness and understanding and excellent wisdom have been found in thee.

bes@Daniel:5:15 @ And now, the wise men, magicians, and soothsayers, have come in before me, to read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation: but they could not tell it me.

bes@Daniel:5:16 @ And I have heard concerning thee, that thou art able to make interpretations: now then if thou shalt be able to read the writing, and to make known to me the interpretation of it, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and there shall be a golden chain upon thy neck, and thou shalt be third ruler in my kingdom.

bes@Daniel:5:17 @ And Daniel said, before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give the present of thine house to another; but I will read the writing, and will make known to thee the interpretation of it.

bes@Daniel:5:18 @ O king, the most high God gave to thy father Nabuchodonosor a kingdom, and majesty, and honour, and glory:

bes@Daniel:5:19 @ and by reason of the majesty which he gave to him, all nations, tribes, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he smote; and whom he would he exalted; and whom he would he abased.

bes@Daniel:5:20 @ But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his honour was taken from him.

bes@Daniel:5:21 @ And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whomsoever he shall please.

bes@Daniel:5:22 @ And thou accordingly, his son, O Baltasar, has not humbled thine heart before God: knowest thou not all this?

bes@Daniel:5:23 @ And thou has been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before thee the vessels of his house, and thou, and thy nobles, and thy mistresses, and thy concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and thou has praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are thy breath, and all thy ways has thou not glorified.

bes@Daniel:5:24 @ Therefore from his presence has been sent forth the (note:)Or, joint(:note) knuckle of a hand; and he has ordered the writing.

bes@Daniel:5:25 @ And this is the ordered writing, Mane, Thekel, Phares.

bes@Daniel:5:26 @ This is the interpretation of the (note:)Gr. Word(:note) sentence: Mane; God has measured thy kingdom, and Gr. fulfilled it finished it.

bes@Daniel:5:27 @ Thekel; it has been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.

bes@Daniel:5:28 @ Phares; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

bes@Daniel:5:29 @ Then Baltasar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put the golden chain about his neck, and proclaimed concerning him that he was the third ruler in the kingdom.

bes@Daniel:5:30 @ In the same night was Baltasar the Chaldean king slain.

bes@Daniel:5:31 @ And Darius the Mede succeeded to the kingdom, being sixty-two years old.

bes@Daniel:6:1 @ And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;

bes@Daniel:6:2 @ and over them three governors, of whom one was, Daniel; for the satraps to give account to them, that the king should not be troubled.

bes@Daniel:6:3 @ And Daniel was over them, for there was an excellent spirit in him; and the king set him over all his kingdom.

bes@Daniel:6:4 @ Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.

bes@Daniel:6:5 @ And the governors said, We shall not find occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God.

bes@Daniel:6:6 @ Then the governors and satraps stood by the king, and said to him, King Darius, live for ever.

bes@Daniel:6:7 @ All who preside over thy kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statue and to confirm a decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into (note:)Gr. pit(:note) the den of lions.

bes@Daniel:6:8 @ Now then, O king, establish the decree, and publish a writ, that the decree of the Persians and Medes be not changed.

bes@Daniel:6:9 @ Then king Darius commanded the decree to be written.

bes@Daniel:6:10 @ And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his (note:)Lit. upper chambers(:note) chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.

bes@Daniel:6:11 @ Then these men watched, and found Daniel praying and supplicating to his God.

bes@Daniel:6:12 @ And they came and said to the king, O king, has thou not made a decree, that whatsoever man shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? And the king said, The word is true, and the decree of the Medes and Persians shall not pass.

bes@Daniel:6:13 @ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judea, has not submitted to thy decree; and three times in the day he makes his requests of his God.

bes@Daniel:6:14 @ Then the king, when he heard the saying, was much grieved for (note:)Gr. «him,’ possibly, «himself’(:note) Daniel and he greatly exerted himself for Daniel to deliver him: and he exerted himself till evening to deliver him.

bes@Daniel:6:15 @ Then those men said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is that we must not change any decree of statue which the king shall make.

bes@Daniel:6:16 @ Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. But the king said to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

bes@Daniel:6:17 @ And they brought a stone, and put it on the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his ring, and with the ring of his nobles; that the case might not be altered with regard to Daniel.

bes@Daniel:6:18 @ And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they not molest Daniel.

bes@Daniel:6:19 @ Then the king arose very early in the morning, and came in hast to the den of lions.

bes@Daniel:6:20 @ And when he drew near to the den, he cried with a loud voice, Daniel, servant of the living God, has thy God, whom thou servest continually, been able to deliver thee from the lion’s mouth?

bes@Daniel:6:21 @ And Daniel said to the king, O king, live for ever.

bes@Daniel:6:22 @ My God has sent his angel, and stopped the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me: for uprightness was found in me before him; and moreover before thee, O king, I have committed no trespass.

bes@Daniel:6:23 @ Then the king was very glad for him, and he commanded to bring Daniel out of the den. So Daniel was brought out of the den, and there was found no hurt upon him, because he believed in his God.

bes@Daniel:6:24 @ And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.

bes@Daniel:6:25 @ Then king Darius wrote to all nations, tribes, and languages, who dwell in all the earth, saying, Peace be multiplied to you.

bes@Daniel:6:26 @ This decree has been set forth by me in every dominion of my kingdom, that men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living and eternal God, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his dominion is for ever.

bes@Daniel:6:27 @ He helps and delivers, and works signs and wonders in the heaven and on the earth, who has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.

bes@Daniel:6:28 @ And Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

bes@Daniel:7:1 @ In the first year of Baltasar, king of the Chaldeans Daniel (note:)Gr. saw(:note) had a dream, and Gr. there were, etc. visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.

bes@Daniel:7:2 @ I Daniel beheld, and, lo, the four winds of heaven blew violently upon the great sea.

bes@Daniel:7:3 @ And there came up four great beasts out of the sea, differing from one another.

bes@Daniel:7:4 @ The first was as a lioness, and her wings as an eagle’s; I beheld until her wings were plucked, and she was lifted off from the earth, and she stood on (note:)Gr. feet of a man(:note) human feet, and a man’s heart was given to her.

bes@Daniel:7:5 @ And, behold, a second beast like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth: and thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.

bes@Daniel:7:6 @ After this one I looked, and behold another wild beast as a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird upon it: and the wild beast had four heads, and power was given to it.

bes@Daniel:7:7 @ After this one I looked, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceedingly strong, and its teeth were of iron; devouring and crushing to atoms, and it trampled the remainder with its feet: and it was altogether different from the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

bes@Daniel:7:8 @ I noticed his horns, and behold, another little horn came up in the midst of them, and before it three of the former horns were rooted out: and, behold, there were eyes as the eyes of a man in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

bes@Daniel:7:9 @ I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head, as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, and his wheels burning fire.

bes@Daniel:7:10 @ A stream of fire (note:)Lit. drew(:note) rushed forth before him: thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousands of myriads, attended upon him: the judgement sat, and the books were opened.

bes@Daniel:7:11 @ I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke, until the wild beast was slain and destroyed, and his body given (note:)Gr. to the burning of fire(:note) to be burnt with fire.

bes@Daniel:7:12 @ And the dominion of the rest of the wild beasts was taken away; but a prolonging of life was given them for (note:)Lit. time and time(:note) certain times.

bes@Daniel:7:13 @ I beheld in the night vision, and, lo, one coming with the clouds of heaven as the Son of man, and he came on to the Ancient of days, and was brought near to him.

bes@Daniel:7:14 @ And to him was given the dominion, and the honour, and the kingdom; and all nations, tribes, and languages, shall serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed.

bes@Daniel:7:15 @ As for me Daniel, my spirit in my body trembled, and the visions of my head troubled me.

bes@Daniel:7:16 @ And I drew near to one of them that stood by, and I sought to learn of him the (note:)Or, certainty(:note) truth of all these things: and he told me the truth, and made known to me the interpretation of the things.

bes@Daniel:7:17 @ These four beasts are four kingdoms that shall rise up on the earth:

bes@Daniel:7:18 @ which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever.

bes@Daniel:7:19 @ Then I enquired carefully concerning the fourth beast; for it differed from every other beast, exceeding dreadful: its teeth were of iron, and its claws of brass, devouring, and utterly breaking to pieces, and it trampled the remainder with its feet:

bes@Daniel:7:20 @ and concerning it ten horns that were in its head, and the other that came up, and rooted up (note:)Alex. three of the former, even that horn, etc.(:note) some of the former, which had eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was Gr. greater bolder than the rest.

bes@Daniel:7:21 @ I beheld, and that horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

bes@Daniel:7:22 @ until the Ancient of days came, and he gave judgement to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the saints possessed the kingdom.

bes@Daniel:7:23 @ And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on the earth, which shall excel all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and trample and (note:)Gr. cut it in pieces(:note) destroy it.

bes@Daniel:7:24 @ And his ten horns are ten kings that shall arise: and after them shall arise another, who shall exceed all the former ones in (note:)Gr. evil(:note) wickedness and he shall subdue three kings.

bes@Daniel:7:25 @ And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law: and power shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.

bes@Daniel:7:26 @ And the judgement (note:)Alex. shall sit(:note) has sat, and they shall remove his dominion to abolish it, and to destroy it utterly.

bes@Daniel:7:27 @ And the kingdom and the power and the greatness of the kings that are under the whole heaven were given to the saints of the Most High; and his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all powers shall serve and obey him.

bes@Daniel:7:28 @ Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance was changed: but I kept the (note:)Lit. word(:note) matter in my heart.

bes@Daniel:8:1 @ In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar a vision appeared to me, even to me Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.

bes@Daniel:8:2 @ And I was in Susa the palace, which is in the land of Ælam, and I was on the bank of Ubal.

bes@Daniel:8:3 @ And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, (note:)Gr. one ram(:note) a ram standing in front of the Ubal; and he had high horns; and one was higher than the other, and the high one came up Lit. at the last place last.

bes@Daniel:8:4 @ And I saw the ram butting westward, and northward, and southward; and no beast could stand before him, and there was none (note:)Gr. delivering(:note) that could deliver out of his hand; and he did according to his will, and became great.

bes@Daniel:8:5 @ And I was considering, and, behold, a (note:)Gr. he-goat of the goats(:note) he-goat came from the south-west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the earth: and the goat had a Alex. notable horn horn between his eyes.

bes@Daniel:8:6 @ And he came to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen standing in front of the Ubal, and he ran at him with the (note:)Or, impetus(:note) violence of his strength.

bes@Daniel:8:7 @ And I saw him coming up close to the ram, and he was furiously enraged against him, and he smote the ram, and broke both his horns: and there was no strength in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him on the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none (note:)Gr. delivering(:note) that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

bes@Daniel:8:8 @ And the he-goat grew exceedingly great: and when he was strong, his great horn was broken; and four other horns rose up (note:)Gr. under him, see 2 Sa strkjv@2:23(:note) in its place toward the four winds of heaven.

bes@Daniel:8:9 @ And out of one of them came forth one strong horn, and it grew very great toward the south, and toward the host:

bes@Daniel:8:10 @ and it (note:)Or, grew great(:note) magnified itself to the host of heaven; and there fell to the earth some of the host of heaven and of the stars, and they trampled on them.

bes@Daniel:8:11 @ And this shall be until the chief captain shall have delivered the captivity: and by reason of him the sacrifice was disturbed, and he prospered; and the holy place shall be made desolate.

bes@Daniel:8:12 @ And a sin-offering was given for the sacrifice, and righteousness was cast down to the ground; and (note:)Or, «he,’ see verse 11(:note) it practised, and prospered.

bes@Daniel:8:13 @ And I heard one saint speaking, and a saint said to (note:)Hebrews. Palmoni, see Ru strkjv@4:1.(:note) a certain one speaking, How long shall the vision Lit. the sacrifice that has been removed, and the sin of desolation that has been given continue, even the removal of the sacrifice, and the bringing in of the sin of desolation; and how long shall the sanctuary and host be trampled?

bes@Daniel:8:14 @ And he said to him, Evening and morning there shall be two thousand and (note:)Alex. 300(:note) four hundred days; and then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

bes@Daniel:8:15 @ And it came to pass, as I, even I Daniel, saw the vision, and sought to understand it, that, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

bes@Daniel:8:16 @ And I heard the voice of a man (note:)Or, between me and the Ubal(:note) between the banks of the Ubal; and he called, and said, Gabriel, cause that man to understand the vision.

bes@Daniel:8:17 @ And he came and stood near where I stood: and when he came, I was struck with awe, and fell upon my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man: for yet the vision is for (note:)Gr. an end of time(:note) an appointed time.

bes@Daniel:8:18 @ And while he spoke with me, I fell upon my face to the earth: and he touched me, and set me on my feet.

bes@Daniel:8:19 @ And he said, Behold, I make thee know the things that shall come to pass at the end of the wrath: for the vision is yet for an appointed time.

bes@Daniel:8:20 @ The ram which thou sawest that had the horns is the king of the Medes and Persians.

bes@Daniel:8:21 @ The he-goat is the King of the Greeks: and the great horn which was between his eyes, he is the first king.

bes@Daniel:8:22 @ And as for the one that was broken, in whose place there stood up four horns, four kings shall arise out of his nation, but not in their own strength.

bes@Daniel:8:23 @ And at the latter time of their kingdom, when their sins are coming to the full, there shall arise a king bold in countenance, and understanding riddles.

bes@Daniel:8:24 @ And his power shall be great, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and prosper, and practise, and shall destroy mighty men, and the holy people.

bes@Daniel:8:25 @ And the yoke of his chain shall prosper: there is craft in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by craft shall destroy many, and he shall stand up for the destruction of many, and shall crush them as eggs in his hand.

bes@Daniel:8:26 @ And the vision of the evening and morning that was mentioned is true: and do thou seal the vision; for it is for many days.

bes@Daniel:8:27 @ And I Daniel fell asleep, and was sick: then I arose, and did the king’s business; and I wondered at the vision, and there was none that understood it.

bes@Daniel:9:1 @ In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

bes@Daniel:9:2 @ I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, even seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.

bes@Daniel:9:3 @ And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek him diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth.

bes@Daniel:9:4 @ And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping thy covenant and thy mercy to them that love thee, and to them that keep thy commandments; we have sinned,

bes@Daniel:9:5 @ we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from thy commandments and from thy judgements:

bes@Daniel:9:6 @ and we have not hearkened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

bes@Daniel:9:7 @ To thee, O Lord, belongs righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever thou has scattered them, for the (note:)Or, perfidious action(:note) sin which they committed.

bes@Daniel:9:8 @ In thee, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us belongs confusion of faced, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.

bes@Daniel:9:9 @ To thee, the Lord our God, belong compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed from thee;

bes@Daniel:9:10 @ neither have we hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by the hands of his servants the prophets.

bes@Daniel:9:11 @ Moreover all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have (note:)Gr. turned aside from hearkening(:note) refused to hearken to thy voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

bes@Daniel:9:12 @ And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.

bes@Daniel:9:13 @ As it is written in the law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not besought the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all thy truth.

bes@Daniel:9:14 @ The Lord also has watched, and brought (note:)Gr. them(:note) the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous Gr. over in all his work which he has executed, but we have not hearkened to his voice.

bes@Daniel:9:15 @ And now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and madest to thyself a name, as at this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.

bes@Daniel:9:16 @ O Lord, (note:)Compare Hebrews. and Ho strkjv@6:5(:note) thy mercy is over all: let, I pray thee, thy wrath turn away, and thine anger from thy city Jerusalem, even thy holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach among all that are round about us.

bes@Daniel:9:17 @ And now, O lord our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine on thy desolate sanctuary, for thine own sake, O Lord.

bes@Daniel:9:18 @ Incline thine ear, O my God, and hear; open thine eyes and behold our desolation, and that of thy city on which thy name is called: for we do not bring (note:)Gr. our supplication(:note) our pitiful case before thee on the ground of our righteousness, but on the ground of thy manifold compassions, O Lord.

bes@Daniel:9:19 @ Hearken, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for thine own sake: for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

bes@Daniel:9:20 @ And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;

bes@Daniel:9:21 @ yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.

bes@Daniel:9:22 @ And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to (note:)Gr. instruct thee with(:note) impart to thee understanding.

bes@Daniel:9:23 @ At the beginning of thy supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell thee; for thou art a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.

bes@Daniel:9:24 @ Seventy weeks have been determined upon thy people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.

bes@Daniel:9:25 @ And thou shalt know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince there shall be (note:)Or, sevens(:note) seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then the time shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.

bes@Daniel:9:26 @ And after the sixty-two weeks, the (note:)Gr. anointing(:note) anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgement in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.

bes@Daniel:9:27 @ And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the (note:)Gr. half(:note) midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.

bes@Daniel:10:1 @ In the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Baltasar; and the thing was true, and great power and understanding in the vision was given to him.

bes@Daniel:10:2 @ In those days I Daniel was mourning three (note:)Gr. weeks of days(:note) full weeks.

bes@Daniel:10:3 @ I ate no pleasant bread, and no flesh or wine entered into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself with oil, until three (note:)Gr. weeks of days(:note) whole weeks were accomplished.

bes@Daniel:10:4 @ On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I was near the great river, which is Tigris Eddekel.

bes@Daniel:10:5 @ And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, and his loins were girt with gold of Ophaz:

bes@Daniel:10:6 @ and his body was as Tharsis, and his face was a the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his legs as the appearance of shining brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.

bes@Daniel:10:7 @ And I Daniel only saw the vision: and the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great amazement fell upon them, and they fled in fear.

bes@Daniel:10:8 @ So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there was no strength left in me, and my glory was turned into corruption, and I retained no strength.

bes@Daniel:10:9 @ Yet I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard him I was pricked in the heart, and I fell with my face to the earth.

bes@Daniel:10:10 @ And, behold, a hand touched me, and it raised me on my knees.

bes@Daniel:10:11 @ And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words which I speak to thee, and stand upright: for I am now sent to thee. And when he had spoken to me this word, I stood trembling.

bes@Daniel:10:12 @ And he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to afflict thyself before the Lord thy God, they words were heard, and I am come because of thy words.

bes@Daniel:10:13 @ But the prince of the kingdom of the Persians withstood me twenty-one days: and behold, Michael, one of the princes, came to help me; and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of the Persians:

bes@Daniel:10:14 @ and I have come to inform thee of all that shall befall thy people in the last days: for the vision is yet for many days.

bes@Daniel:10:15 @ And when he had spoken with me according to these words, I turned my face to the ground, and was pricked in the heart.

bes@Daniel:10:16 @ And, behold, as it were the likeness of a son of man touched my lips; and I opened my mouth, and spoke, and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, at the sight of thee my bowels were turned within me, and I had no strength.

bes@Daniel:10:17 @ And how shall thy servant be able, O my lord, to speak with this my lord? and as for me, from henceforth strength will not remain in me, and there is no breath left in me.

bes@Daniel:10:18 @ And there touched me again as it were the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,

bes@Daniel:10:19 @ and said to me, Fear not, man greatly beloved: peace be to thee, quit thyself like a man, and be strong. And when he had spoken with me, I received strength, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.

bes@Daniel:10:20 @ And he said, Knowest thou, wherefore I am come to thee? and now I will return to fight with the prince of the Persians: and I was going in, and the prince of the Greeks came.

bes@Daniel:10:21 @ But I will tell thee that which is ordained in the scripture of truth: and there is no one that holds with me in these matters but Michael your prince.

bes@Daniel:11:1 @ And I in the first year of Cyrus stood (note:)Gr. for strength and power(:note) to strengthen and confirm him.

bes@Daniel:11:2 @ And now I will tell thee the truth. Behold, there shall yet rise up three kings in Persia: and the fourth shall be very far richer than all: and after that he is master of his wealth, he shall rise up against all the kingdoms of the Greeks.

bes@Daniel:11:3 @ And there shall rise up a mighty king, and he shall be lord of a great empire, and shall do according to his will.

bes@Daniel:11:4 @ And when his kingdom shall stand up, it shall be broken, and shall be divided to the four winds of heaven; but not to his (note:)Lit. latter end; See Ps strkjv@37:37, 38(:note) posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled over: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, and given to others beside these.

bes@Daniel:11:5 @ And the king of the south shall be strong; and one of their princes shall prevail against him, and shall obtain a great dominion.

bes@Daniel:11:6 @ And after his years they shall associate; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north, to make agreements with him: but she shall not retain power of arm; neither shall his seed stand: and she shall be delivered up, and they that brought her, and the maiden, and he that strengthened her in these times.

bes@Daniel:11:7 @ But out of the flower of her root there shall arise one (note:)Alex. +epi(:note) on his Or, standing; Lit. preparation place, and shall come against the host, and shall enter into the strongholds of the king of the north, and shall fight against them, and prevail.

bes@Daniel:11:8 @ Yea, he shall carry with a body of captives into Egypt their gods with their molten images, and all their precious vessels of silver and gold; and he shall last longer than the king of the north.

bes@Daniel:11:9 @ And he shall enter into the kingdom of the king of the south, and shall return to his own land.

bes@Daniel:11:10 @ And his sons shall gather a multitude among many: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through, and he shall rest, and collect his strength.

bes@Daniel:11:11 @ And the king of the south shall be greatly enraged, and shall come forth, and shall war with the king of the north: and he shall raise a great multitude; but the multitude shall be delivered into his hand.

bes@Daniel:11:12 @ And he shall take the multitude, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down (note:)Gr. myriads(:note) many thousands; but he shall not prevail.

bes@Daniel:11:13 @ For the king of the north shall return, and bring a multitude greater than the former, and at the end of the times of years an invading army shall come with a great force, and with much substance.

bes@Daniel:11:14 @ And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south; and the children of the (note:)Lit. pests(:note) spoilers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; and they shall fail.

bes@Daniel:11:15 @ And the king of the north shall come in, and cast up a mound, and take strong cities: and the arms of the king of the south shall (note:)Gr. stand; Alex. not stand(:note) withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be no strength to stand.

bes@Daniel:11:16 @ And he that comes in against him shall do according to his will, and there is no one to stand before him: and he shall stand in the land of (note:)Hebrews. word in Gr. letters(:note) beauty, and it shall be consumed by his hand.

bes@Daniel:11:17 @ And he shall set his face to come in with the force of his whole kingdom, and shall (note:)Or, do all things that seemed right with him(:note) cause everything to prosper with him: and he shall give him the daughter of women to corrupt her: but she shall not continue, neither be on his side.

bes@Daniel:11:18 @ And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many, and cause princes to cease from their reproach: nevertheless his own reproach shall return to him.

bes@Daniel:11:19 @ Then he shall turn back his face to the strength of his own land: but he shall become weak, and fall, and not be found.

bes@Daniel:11:20 @ And there shall arise out of his root one that shall cause a plant of the kingdom to pass over his place, earning kingly glory: and yet in those days shall he be broken, yet not (note:)Lit. in faces(:note) openly, nor in war.

bes@Daniel:11:21 @ One shall stand on his place, who has been set a nought, and they have not put upon him the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in prosperously, and obtain the kingdom by deceitful ways.

bes@Daniel:11:22 @ And the arms of him that overflows shall be washed away as with a flood from before him, and shall be broken, and so shall be the head of the covenant.

bes@Daniel:11:23 @ And because of the leagues made with him he shall work deceit: and he shall come up, and overpower them with a small nation.

bes@Daniel:11:24 @ And he shall enter with prosperity, and that into fertile districts; and he shall do what his fathers and his fathers’ fathers have not done; he shall scatter among them plunder, and spoils, and wealth; and he shall devise plans against Egypt, even for a time.

bes@Daniel:11:25 @ And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king of the south with a great force; and the king of the south shall engage in war with a great and very strong force; but his forces shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him:

bes@Daniel:11:26 @ and they shall eat his provisions, and shall crush him, and he shall carry away armies as with a flood, and many shall fall down slain.

bes@Daniel:11:27 @ And as for both the kings, their hearts are set upon mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper; for yet the end is for a fixed time.

bes@Daniel:11:28 @ And he shall return to his land with much substance; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall perform great deeds, and return to his own land.

bes@Daniel:11:29 @ At the set time he shall return, and shall come into the south, but the last expedition shall not be as the first.

bes@Daniel:11:30 @ For the Citians issuing forth shall come against him, and he shall be brought low, and shall return, and shall be incensed against the holy covenant: and he shall do thus, and shall return, and have intelligence with them that have forsaken the holy covenant.

bes@Daniel:11:31 @ And (note:)See verse 6(:note) seeds shall spring up out of him, and they shall profane the sanctuary of strength, and they shall remove the perpetual sacrifice, and make the abomination desolate.

bes@Daniel:11:32 @ And the transgressors shall bring about a covenant by deceitful ways: but a people knowing their God shall prevail, and do valiantly.

bes@Daniel:11:33 @ And the intelligent of the people shall understand much: yet they shall (note:)Gr. be weak(:note) fall by the sword, and by flame, and by captivity, and by spoil of many days.

bes@Daniel:11:34 @ And when they are weak they shall be helped with a little help: but many shall attach themselves to them with treachery.

bes@Daniel:11:35 @ And some of them that understand shall fall, to try them as with fire, and to test them, and that they may be manifested at the time of the end, for the matter is yet for a set time.

bes@Daniel:11:36 @ And he shall do according to his will, and the king shall (note:)Gr. be exalted and magnified(:note) exalt and magnify himself against every god, and shall speak great swelling words, and shall prosper until the indignation shall be accomplished: for Or, it is to be ended it is coming to an end.

bes@Daniel:11:37 @ And he shall not regard any gods of his fathers, nor the (note:)Alex. epiyumian (:note) desire of women, neither shall he regard any deity: for he shall magnify himself above all.

bes@Daniel:11:38 @ And he shall honour the god of (note:)Gr. Maozim(:note) forces on his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not he shall honour with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and desirable things.

bes@Daniel:11:39 @ And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.

bes@Daniel:11:40 @ And at the end of the time he shall conflict with the king of the south: and the king of the north shall (note:)Gr. be gathered against him(:note) come against him with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and they shall enter into the land: and he shall break in pieces, and pass on:

bes@Daniel:11:41 @ and he shall enter into the land of (note:)The Gr. Sabaim, is the Hebrews. slightly altered(:note) beauty, and many shall fail: but these shall escape out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

bes@Daniel:11:42 @ And he shall stretch forth his hand over the land; and the land of Egypt shall not (note:)Lit. be for deliverance(:note) escape.

bes@Daniel:11:43 @ And he shall have the mastery over the secret treasures of gold and silver, and over all the desirable possessions of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.

bes@Daniel:11:44 @ But rumors and anxieties out of the east and from the north shall trouble him; and he shall come with great wrath to destroy many.

bes@Daniel:11:45 @ And he shall pitch the tabernacle of (note:)Hebrews. word(:note) his palace between the seas in the holy mountain of beauty: but he shall come to his portion, and there is none to deliver him.

bes@Daniel:12:1 @ And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands (note:)Or, for(:note) over the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time thy people shall be delivered, even every one that is written in the book.

bes@Daniel:12:2 @ And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall (note:)Or, arise(:note) awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

bes@Daniel:12:3 @ And the wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many righteous as the stars for (note:)Lit. for the ages and yet more(:note) ever and ever.

bes@Daniel:12:4 @ And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.

bes@Daniel:12:5 @ And I Daniel saw, and, behold, two others stood, on one side of the bank of the river, and the other on the other side of the bank of the river.

bes@Daniel:12:6 @ And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, (note:)Gr. until when(:note) When will be the end of the wonders which thou has mentioned?

bes@Daniel:12:7 @ And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was over the water of the river, and he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and sware by him that lives for ever, that it should be for a time of times and half a time: when the dispersion is ended (note:)Me-dy read as if one word(:note) they shall know all these things.

bes@Daniel:12:8 @ And I heard, but I understood not: and I said, O Lord, what will be the end of these things?

bes@Daniel:12:9 @ And he said, Go, Daniel: for the words are closed and sealed up to the time of the end.

bes@Daniel:12:10 @ Many must be tested, and thoroughly whitened, and tried with fire, and sanctified; but the transgressors shall transgress: and none of the transgressors shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

bes@Daniel:12:11 @ And from the time of the removal of the perpetual sacrifice, when the abomination of desolation shall be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

bes@Daniel:12:12 @ Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

bes@Daniel:12:13 @ But go thou, and rest; for there are yet days and seasons to the fulfillment of the end; and thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

bes@Hosea:1:1 @ The word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas, king of Israel.

bes@Hosea:1:2 @ The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Osee, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.

bes@Hosea:1:3 @ So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Debelaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.

bes@Hosea:1:4 @ And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezrael; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezrael on the house of Juda, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

bes@Hosea:1:5 @ And it shall be, in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael.

bes@Hosea:1:6 @ And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said to him, Call her name, Unpitied: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, but will surely set myself in array against them.

bes@Hosea:1:7 @ But I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them with bow, nor with sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

bes@Hosea:1:8 @ And she weaned Unpitied; and she conceived again, and bore a son.

bes@Hosea:1:9 @ And he said, Call his name, Not my people: for ye are not my people, and I am not your God.

bes@Hosea:1:10 @ Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: (note:)Ro strkjv@9:26(:note) and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

bes@Hosea:1:11 @ And the children of Juda shall be gathered, and the children of Israel together, and shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezrael.

bes@Hosea:2:1 @ Say to your brother, My people, and to your sister, Pitied.

bes@Hosea:2:2 @ Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband: and I will remove her fornication out of my presence, and her adultery from between her breasts:

bes@Hosea:2:3 @ that I may strip her naked, and make her again as she was at the day of her birth: and I will make her desolate, and make her as a dry land, and will kill her with thirst.

bes@Hosea:2:4 @ And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are children of fornication.

bes@Hosea:2:5 @ And their mother went a-whoring: she that bore them disgraced them: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, and my garments, and my linen clothes, my oil and my necessaries.

bes@Hosea:2:6 @ Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will (note:)Gr. build up(:note) stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

bes@Hosea:2:7 @ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go, and return to my former husband; for it was (note:)Gr. well for me(:note) better with me than now.

bes@Hosea:2:8 @ And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal.

bes@Hosea:2:9 @ Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.

bes@Hosea:2:10 @ And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of my hand.

bes@Hosea:2:11 @ And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

bes@Hosea:2:12 @ And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.

bes@Hosea:2:13 @ And I will recompense on her the days of Baalim, wherein she sacrificed to them, and put on her ear-rings, and her necklaces, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

bes@Hosea:2:14 @ Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak (note:)Gr. to her heart; Hebraism(:note) comfortably to her.

bes@Hosea:2:15 @ And I will giver her possessions from thence, and the valley of Achor to open her understanding: and she shall be afflicted there according to the days of her infancy, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

bes@Hosea:2:16 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.

bes@Hosea:2:17 @ And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.

bes@Hosea:2:18 @ And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell (note:)Gr. in hope(:note) safely.

bes@Hosea:2:19 @ And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgement, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;

bes@Hosea:2:20 @ and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

bes@Hosea:2:21 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;

bes@Hosea:2:22 @ and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael.

bes@Hosea:2:23 @ And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will (note:)Alex. pity the unpitied one(:note) love her that was not loved, and will Ro strkjv@9:25 say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.

bes@Hosea:3:1 @ And the Lord said to me, Go yet, and love a woman that loves evil things, an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, and they have respect to strange gods, and love (note:)Gr. cooked meats with dried grapes(:note) cakes of dried grapes.

bes@Hosea:3:2 @ So I hired her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.

bes@Hosea:3:3 @ And I said unto her, Thou shalt wait for me many days; and thou shalt not commit fornication, neither shalt thou be for another man; and I will be for thee.

bes@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without (note:)Gr. dhlwn, Urim and Thummim probably meant, or rather Urim only(:note) manifestations.

bes@Hosea:3:5 @ And afterward shall the children of Israel return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the latter days.

bes@Hosea:4:1 @ Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

bes@Hosea:4:2 @ Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

bes@Hosea:4:3 @ Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

bes@Hosea:4:4 @ that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove another; but my people are as a priest spoken against.

bes@Hosea:4:5 @ Therefore they shall fall by (note:)Or, certain days(:note) day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.

bes@Hosea:4:6 @ My people are (note:)Gr. likened, Hebrews. hmd(:note) like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou has forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

bes@Hosea:4:7 @ According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.

bes@Hosea:4:8 @ They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their (note:)Gr. souls, see A. V. and margin(:note) hearts on their iniquities.

bes@Hosea:4:9 @ And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on (note:)auton, sc. the people, or, him the priest(:note) them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

bes@Hosea:4:10 @ And they shall eat, and shall not be satisfied: they have gone a-whoring, and shall by no means prosper: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

bes@Hosea:4:11 @ The heart of my people has gladly engaged in fornication and wine and strong drink.

bes@Hosea:4:12 @ They asked counsel by means of signs, and they reported answer to (note:)Gr. him, his, sc. the people(:note) them by their staves: they have gone astray in a spirit of whoredom, and gone grievously a-whoring from their God.

bes@Hosea:4:13 @ They have sacrificed on the tops of the mountains, and on the hills they have sacrificed under the oak and poplar, and under the shady tree, because the shade was good: therefore your daughters shall go a-whoring, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.

bes@Hosea:4:14 @ And I will not visit upon your daughters when they shall commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they shall commit adultery: for they themselves mingled themselves with harlots, and sacrificed with polluted ones, and the people that understood not entangled itself with a harlot.

bes@Hosea:4:15 @ But thou, O Israel, (note:)Or, sin not, i. e. a sin of ignorance(:note) be not ignorant, and go ye not, men of Juda, to Galgala; and go not up to the house of On, and swear not by the living Lord.

bes@Hosea:4:16 @ For Israel was maddened like a mad heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a wide place.

bes@Hosea:4:17 @ Ephraim, (note:)Gr. a partaker of idols(:note) joined with idols, has laid stumbling-blocks in his own way.

bes@Hosea:4:18 @ He has chosen the Chananites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonour through her insolence.

bes@Hosea:4:19 @ Thou art a blast of wind in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their altars.

bes@Hosea:5:1 @ Hear these things, ye priests; and attend, O house of Israel; and hearken, O house of the king; for the (note:)Or, judgement is toward you(:note) controversy is with you, because ye have been a snare in Or, the watchtower Scopia, and as a net spread on Itabyrium,

bes@Hosea:5:2 @ which they that hunt the prey have fixed: but I (note:)Gr. will be your corrector(:note) will correct you.

bes@Hosea:5:3 @ I know Ephraim, and Israel (note:)Lit. has not departed; Alex. apestin(:note) is not far from me: for now Ephraim has gone grievously a-whoring, Israel is defiled.

bes@Hosea:5:4 @ They have not framed their counsels to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in them, and they have not known the Lord.

bes@Hosea:5:5 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought low before his face; and Israel and Ephraim shall (note:)Gr. be weak(:note) fall in their iniquities; and Judas also shall fall with them.

bes@Hosea:5:6 @ They shall go with sheep and calves diligently to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him, for he has withdrawn himself from them.

bes@Hosea:5:7 @ For they have forsaken the Lord; for strange children have been born to them: now shall the cankerworm devour them and their heritages.

bes@Hosea:5:8 @ Blow ye the trumpet on the hills, sound aloud on the heights: proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is amazed.

bes@Hosea:5:9 @ Ephraim has come to (note:)Gr. vanishing(:note) nought in the days of reproof: in the tribes of Israel I have shown faithful dealings.

bes@Hosea:5:10 @ The princes of Juda became as they that removed the bounds: I will pour out upon them my fury as water.

bes@Hosea:5:11 @ Ephraim altogether prevailed against his adversary, he trod judgement under foot, for he began to go after vanities.

bes@Hosea:5:12 @ Therefore I will be as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Juda.

bes@Hosea:5:13 @ And Ephraim saw his disease, and Judas his pain; then Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambassadors to king Jarim: but he could not heal you, and your pain shall in nowise cease from you.

bes@Hosea:5:14 @ Wherefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

bes@Hosea:5:15 @ I will go and return to my place, until they are brought to nought, and then shall they seek my face.

bes@Hosea:6:1 @ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;

bes@Hosea:6:2 @ he will smite, and bind us up.

bes@Hosea:6:3 @ After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know him:

bes@Hosea:6:4 @ let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

bes@Hosea:6:5 @ What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Juda? whereas your (note:)Comp. Hebrews. and Da strkjv@9:16(:note) mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

bes@Hosea:6:6 @ Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgement shall go forth as the light.

bes@Hosea:6:7 @

bes@Hosea:6:8 @ But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

bes@Hosea:6:9 @ there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

bes@Hosea:6:10 @ And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered the people of Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

bes@Hosea:6:11 @ I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

bes@Hosea:6:12 @ begin together grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

bes@Hosea:7:1 @ When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber (note:)Lit. stripping(:note) spoiling in his way;

bes@Hosea:7:2 @ that they may concert together as men singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.

bes@Hosea:7:3 @ They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

bes@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the (note:)Compl. zumhv, leaven(:note) dough, until it is leavened.

bes@Hosea:7:5 @ In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

bes@Hosea:7:6 @ Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

bes@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

bes@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

bes@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.

bes@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.

bes@Hosea:7:11 @ And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:7:12 @ Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.

bes@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.

bes@Hosea:7:14 @ And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they (note:)Gr. cut themselves(:note) pined for oil and wine.

bes@Hosea:7:15 @ They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.

bes@Hosea:7:16 @ They turned aside to (note:)Gr. nothing(:note) that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.

bes@Hosea:8:1 @ He shall come into their (note:)Gr. bosom(:note) midst as the land, as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against my law.

bes@Hosea:8:2 @ They shall soon cry out to me, saying, O God, we know thee.

bes@Hosea:8:3 @ For Israel has turned away from good things; they have pursued an enemy.

bes@Hosea:8:4 @ They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: of their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.

bes@Hosea:8:5 @ Cast off thy calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?

bes@Hosea:8:6 @ Whereas the workman made it, and it is not God; wherefore thy calf, Samaria, was a deceiver:

bes@Hosea:8:7 @ for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

bes@Hosea:8:8 @ Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations as a worthless vessel.

bes@Hosea:8:9 @ For they have gone up to the Assyrians: Ephraim has (note:)Gr. flourished again(:note) been strengthened against himself; they loved gifts.

bes@Hosea:8:10 @ Therefore shall they be delivered to the nations: now I will receive them, and they shall cease a little to anoint a king and princes.

bes@Hosea:8:11 @ Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, his beloved altars are become sins to him.

bes@Hosea:8:12 @ I will write down a multitude of commands for him; but his statutes are accounted strange things, even the beloved altars.

bes@Hosea:8:13 @ For if they should offer a sacrifice, and eat flesh, the lord will not accept them: now will he remember their iniquities, and will take vengeance on their sins: they have returned to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:8:14 @ And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built (note:)Gr. consecrated grounds(:note) fanes, and Juda has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.

bes@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing-floor.

bes@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing-floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them.

bes@Hosea:9:3 @ They dwelt not in the Lord’s land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:9:4 @ They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.

bes@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do in the day of the general assembly, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

bes@Hosea:9:6 @ Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.

bes@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man (note:)Gr. carried by the wind(:note) deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded.

bes@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God.

bes@Hosea:9:9 @ They (note:)Gr. pass(:note) have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins.

bes@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig-tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were (note:)Gr. estranged to shame(:note) shamefully estranged, and the Or, hated abominable became as the beloved.

bes@Hosea:9:11 @ Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

bes@Hosea:9:12 @ For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.

bes@Hosea:9:13 @ Ephraim, even as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yea, Ephraim was ready to bring out his children to slaughter.

bes@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

bes@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princes are disobedient.

bes@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit: wherefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb.

bes@Hosea:9:17 @ God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

bes@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel is a vine with goodly branches, her fruit is abundant: according to the multitude of her fruits she has multiplied her altars; according to the wealth of his land, he has set up pillars.

bes@Hosea:10:2 @ They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

bes@Hosea:10:3 @ Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord:

bes@Hosea:10:4 @ and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgement shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

bes@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from (note:)Gr. him, or it, i. e., the people(:note) them.

bes@Hosea:10:6 @ And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to king Jarim: Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed (note:)Lit. in(:note) of his counsel.

bes@Hosea:10:7 @ Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.

bes@Hosea:10:8 @ And the altars of On, the sins of Israel, shall be taken away: thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

bes@Hosea:10:9 @ From the time the hills existed Israel has sinned: there they stood: war waged against the children of iniquity

bes@Hosea:10:10 @ to chastise them shall not overtake them on the hill, the nations shall be gathered against them, when they are chastened for their two sins,

bes@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fairest part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.

bes@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light ye for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.

bes@Hosea:10:13 @ Wherefore have ye passed over ungodliness in silence, and reaped the sins of it? ye have eaten false fruit; for thou has trusted in thy sins, in the abundance of thy power.

bes@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore shall destruction rise up among thy people, and all thy strong places shall be ruined: as a prince Solomon departed out of the house of Jeroboam, in the days of battle they dashed the mother to the ground upon the children,

bes@Hosea:10:15 @ thus will I do to you, O house of Israel, because of the unrighteousness of your sins.

bes@Hosea:11:1 @ Early in the morning were they cast off, the king of Israel has been cast off: for Israel is a child, and I loved him, and (note:)Mt strkjv@2:15(:note) out of Egypt have I called his children.

bes@Hosea:11:2 @ As I called them, so they departed from my presence: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.

bes@Hosea:11:3 @ Yet I (note:)See Pr strkjv@20:11(:note) bound the feet of Ephraim, I took him on my arm; but they knew not that I healed them.

bes@Hosea:11:4 @ When men were destroyed, I drew them with the bands of my love: and I will be to them as a man smiting another on his cheek: and I will have respect to him, I will prevail with him.

bes@Hosea:11:5 @ Ephraim dwelt in Egypt; and as for the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.

bes@Hosea:11:6 @ And in his cities he (note:)Or, fell by the sword; Lit. was weak(:note) prevailed not with the sword, and he ceased to war with his hands: and they shall eat of the fruit of their own devices:

bes@Hosea:11:7 @ and his people shall cleave fondly to their habitation; but God shall be angry with his precious things, and shall not at all exalt him.

bes@Hosea:11:8 @ How shall I deal with thee, Ephraim? how shall I protect thee, Israel? what shall I do with thee? (note:)Or, shall I, etc.(:note) I will make thee as Adama, and as Seboim; my heart is turned Or, in the same person, sc. myself at once, my repentance is powerfully excited.

bes@Hosea:11:9 @ I will not act according to the fury of my wrath, I will not abandon Ephraim to be utterly destroyed: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One within thee: and I will not enter into the city.

bes@Hosea:11:10 @ I will go after the Lord: he shall utter his voice as a lion: for he shall roar, and the children of the waters shall be amazed.

bes@Hosea:11:11 @ They shall be amazed and fly as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will restore them to their houses, saith the Lord.

bes@Hosea:11:12 @ Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness: but now God knows them, and they shall be called God’s holy people.

bes@Hosea:12:1 @ But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

bes@Hosea:12:2 @ And the Lord has a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.

bes@Hosea:12:3 @ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

bes@Hosea:12:4 @ And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there a word was spoken to them.

bes@Hosea:12:5 @ But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.

bes@Hosea:12:6 @ Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgement, and draw nigh to thy God continually.

bes@Hosea:12:7 @ As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

bes@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

bes@Hosea:12:9 @ But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.

bes@Hosea:12:10 @ And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

bes@Hosea:12:11 @

bes@Hosea:12:12 @ And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

bes@Hosea:12:13 @ And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.

bes@Hosea:12:14 @ Ephraim was angry and (note:)Gr. excited himself to anger(:note) excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.

bes@Hosea:13:1 @ According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

bes@Hosea:13:2 @ And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

bes@Hosea:13:3 @ Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing-floor, and as a (note:)Alex. smoke out of the chimney(:note) vapor from tears.

bes@Hosea:13:4 @ But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I shewed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Saviour beside me.

bes@Hosea:13:5 @ I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

bes@Hosea:13:6 @ According to their pastures, so they were completely filled; and their hearts were exalted; therefore they forgot me.

bes@Hosea:13:7 @ And I will be to them as a panther, and as a leopard.

bes@Hosea:13:8 @ I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear (note:)Or, perplexed(:note) excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions’ whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.

bes@Hosea:13:9 @ O Israel, who will aid thee in thy destruction?

bes@Hosea:13:10 @ Where is this thy king? let him even save thee in all thy cities: let him judge thee, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and a prince.

bes@Hosea:13:11 @ And I gave thee a king in mine anger, and kept him back in my wrath.

bes@Hosea:13:12 @ Ephraim has framed a (note:)Or, bundle of iniquity(:note) conspiracy of unrighteousness, his sin is hidden.

bes@Hosea:13:13 @ Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is thy wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of thy children.

bes@Hosea:13:14 @ I will deliver them out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is thy (note:)Or, cause(:note) penalty, O death? 1 Co strkjv@15:55 O Hades, where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

bes@Hosea:13:15 @ Forasmuch as he will cause a division among his brethren, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins and quite drain his fountains: he shall dry up his land, and spoil all his precious vessels.

bes@Hosea:14:1 @ Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women and child ripped up.

bes@Hosea:14:2 @ Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God; for the people have fallen through thine iniquities.

bes@Hosea:14:3 @ Take with you words, and turn to the Lord your God: speak to him, that ye may not receive the reward of unrighteousness, but that ye may receive good things: and we will render in return the fruit of our lips.

bes@Hosea:14:4 @ Assur shall never save us; we will not mount on horseback; we will no longer say to the works of our hands, Our gods. He who is in thee shall pity the orphan.

bes@Hosea:14:5 @ I will restore their dwellings, I will love them (note:)Gr. manifestly(:note) truly: for he has turned away my wrath from him.

bes@Hosea:14:6 @ I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.

bes@Hosea:14:7 @ His branches shall spread, and he shall be as a fruitful olive, and his smell shall be as the smell of Libanus.

bes@Hosea:14:8 @ They shall return, and dwell under his shadow: they shall live and be satisfied with corn, and he shall flower as a vine: his memorial shall be to Ephraim as the wine of Libanus.

bes@Hosea:14:9 @ What has he to do any more with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is thy fruit found.

bes@Hosea:14:10 @ Who is wise, and will understand these things? or prudent, and will know them? for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the ungodly shall fall therein.

bes@Joel:1:1 @ The word of the Lord which came to Joel the son of Bathuel.

bes@Joel:1:2 @ Hear these words, ye elders, and hearken all ye that inhabit the land. (note:)Gr. if(:note) Have such things happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

bes@Joel:1:3 @ Tell your children concerning them, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

bes@Joel:1:4 @ The leavings of the (note:)It is difficult to assign the exact meaning in the Greek.(:note) caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

bes@Joel:1:5 @ Awake, ye drunkards, from (note:)Gr. their(:note) your wine, and weep: mourn, all ye that drink wine to drunkenness: for joy and gladness and are removed from your mouth.

bes@Joel:1:6 @ For a strong and innumerable nation is come up against my land, their teeth are lion’s teeth, and their back teeth those of a lion’s whelp.

bes@Joel:1:7 @ He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig-trees: he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has (note:)Gr. whitened, Ge strkjv@30:37(:note) peeled its branches.

bes@Joel:1:8 @ Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the (note:)i. e. one who married her as a virgin(:note) husband of her youth.

bes@Joel:1:9 @ The meat-offering and drink-offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.

bes@Joel:1:10 @ For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;

bes@Joel:1:11 @ the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the (note:)Or, vintage(:note) harvest has perished from off the field.

bes@Joel:1:12 @ The vine is dried up, and the fig-trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm-tree, and apple, and all trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have (note:)Gr. disfigured, or, disgraced(:note) have abolished joy.

bes@Joel:1:13 @ Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests: mourn, ye that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloths, ye that minister to God: for the meat-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God.

bes@Joel:1:14 @ Sanctify a fast, proclaim a solemn service, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God, and cry earnestly to the Lord,

bes@Joel:1:15 @ Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is nigh, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

bes@Joel:1:16 @ Your meat has been destroyed before your eyes, joy and gladness from out of the house of your God.

bes@Joel:1:17 @ The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine-presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.

bes@Joel:1:18 @ What shall we store up for ourselves? the herds of cattle have mourned, because they had no pasture; and the flocks of sheep have been utterly destroyed.

bes@Joel:1:19 @ To thee, O Lord, will I cry: for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.

bes@Joel:1:20 @ And the cattle of the field have looked up to thee: for the (note:)Gr. issues; See 2 Ki strkjv@22:16, Eze strkjv@47:4(:note) fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

bes@Joel:2:1 @ Sound the trumpet in Sion, make a proclamation in my holy mountain, and let all the inhabitants of the land be confounded: for the day of the Lord is near;

bes@Joel:2:2 @ for a day of darkness and gloominess is near, a day of cloud and mist: a numerous and strong people shall be spread upon the mountains as the morning; there has not been from the (note:)Gr. age(:note) beginning one like it, and after it there shall not be again even to the years of many generations.

bes@Joel:2:3 @ Before (note:)Gr. it, sc. the people(:note) them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none Lit. to him, sc. the people of them escape.

bes@Joel:2:4 @ Their appearance is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they pursue.

bes@Joel:2:5 @ As the sound of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, and as the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, and as a numerous and strong people setting themselves in array for battle.

bes@Joel:2:6 @ Before them shall the people be crushed: every face shall be as the blackness of a (note:)Or, pot(:note) caldron.

bes@Joel:2:7 @ As warriors shall they run, and as men of war shall they mount on the walls; and each shall move in his right path, and they shall not turn aside from their tracks:

bes@Joel:2:8 @ and not one shall stand aloof from his brother: they shall go on weighed down with their arms, and they fall upon their weapons, yet shall they in no wise be destroyed.

bes@Joel:2:9 @ They shall seize upon the city, and run upon the walls, and go up upon the houses, and enter in through the windows as thieves.

bes@Joel:2:10 @ Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.

bes@Joel:2:11 @ And the Lord shall utter his voice before his host: for his camp is very great: for the (note:)Gr. works(:note) execution of his words is mighty: for the day of the Lord is great, very glorious, and who shall be Gr. sufficient for it able to resist it?

bes@Joel:2:12 @ Now therefore, saith the Lord your God, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with lamentation:

bes@Joel:2:13 @ and rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God: for he is merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and repents of evils.

bes@Joel:2:14 @ Who knows if he will return, and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meat-offering and a drink-offering to the Lord your God?

bes@Joel:2:15 @ Sound the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a (note:)See Joe strkjv@1:14(:note) solemn service:

bes@Joel:2:16 @ gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the infants at the breast: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

bes@Joel:2:17 @ Between the (note:)Gr. base(:note) porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

bes@Joel:2:18 @ But the Lord was jealous of his land, and spared his people.

bes@Joel:2:19 @ And the Lord answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with them: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles.

bes@Joel:2:20 @ And I will chase away from you the northern adversary, and will drive him away into a dry land, and I will (note:)Gr. cause to disappear(:note) sink his face in the former sea, and his back parts in the latter sea, and his Gr. corruption ill savour shall come up, and his See Job strkjv@6:7 stink come up, because he has Gr. magnified his works wrought great things.

bes@Joel:2:21 @ Be of good courage, O land; rejoice and be glad: for the Lord has done great things.

bes@Joel:2:22 @ Be of good courage, ye beasts of the plain, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, for the trees have borne their fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their strength.

bes@Joel:2:23 @ Rejoice then and be glad, ye children of Sion, in the Lord your God: for he has given you food (note:)Gr. to exactness(:note) fully, and he will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.

bes@Joel:2:24 @ And the floors shall be filled with corn, and the presses shall overflow with wine and oil.

bes@Joel:2:25 @ And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even my great army, which I sent against you.

bes@Joel:2:26 @ And ye shall eat abundantly, and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God for the things which he has wrought wonderfully with you: and my people shall not be ashamed for ever.

bes@Joel:2:27 @ And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and that there is none else beside me; and my people shall no more be ashamed for ever.

bes@Joel:2:28 @ And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.

bes@Joel:2:29 @ And on my servants and on my handmaids in those days will I pour out of my Spirit.

bes@Joel:2:30 @ And I will shew wonders in heaven, and upon the earth, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.

bes@Joel:2:31 @ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord come.

bes@Joel:2:32 @ And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved: for in mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall the saved one be as the Lord has said, and they that have glad tidings preached to them, whom the Lord has called.

bes@Joel:3:1 @ For, behold, in those days and at that time, when I shall have turned the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem,

bes@Joel:3:2 @ I will also gather all the (note:)Or, nations; See Mt strkjv@25:31(:note) Gentiles, and bring them down to the valley of Josaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and my heritage Israel, who have been dispersed among the Gentiles; and these Gentiles have divided my land,

bes@Joel:3:3 @ and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.

bes@Joel:3:4 @ And what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the (note:)allofulwn, usually Philistines(:note) Gentiles? do ye render me a recompense? or do ye bear malice against me? quickly and speedily will I return your recompense on your own heads:

bes@Joel:3:5 @ because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and ye have brought my choice ornaments into your temples;

bes@Joel:3:6 @ and ye have sold the children of Juda and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that ye might expel them from their coasts.

bes@Joel:3:7 @ Therefore, behold, I will raise them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and I will return your recompense on your own heads.

bes@Joel:3:8 @ And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them into captivity to a far distant nation: for the Lord has spoken it.

bes@Joel:3:9 @ Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; (note:)Gr. sanctify(:note) declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all ye men of war.

bes@Joel:3:10 @ Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your sickles into (note:)Or, daggers(:note) spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

bes@Joel:3:11 @ Gather yourselves together, and go in, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves there; let the (note:)Gr. meek(:note) timid become a warrior.

bes@Joel:3:12 @ Let them be aroused, let all the nations go up to the valley of Josaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the Gentiles round about.

bes@Joel:3:13 @ Bring forth the sickles, for the vintage is come: go in, tread the grapes, for the press is full: cause the vats to overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied.

bes@Joel:3:14 @ Noises have resounded in the valley of judgement: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgement.

bes@Joel:3:15 @ The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.

bes@Joel:3:16 @ And the Lord shall cry out of Sion, and shall utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heaven and the earth shall be shaken, but the Lord shall spare his people, and shall strengthen the children of Israel.

bes@Joel:3:17 @ And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.

bes@Joel:3:18 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the (note:)See Joe strkjv@1:20(:note) fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.

bes@Joel:3:19 @ Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.

bes@Joel:3:20 @ But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.

bes@Joel:3:21 @ And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.

bes@Amos:1:1 @ The words of Amos which came to him in Accarim out of Thecue, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

bes@Amos:1:2 @ And he said, The Lord has spoken out of Sion, and has uttered his voice out of Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds have mourned, and the top of Carmel is dried up.

bes@Amos:1:3 @ And the Lord said, For three sins of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they sawed with iron saws the women with child of the Galaadites.

bes@Amos:1:4 @ And I will send a fire on the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader.

bes@Amos:1:5 @ And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces (note:)jbv ambiguous(:note) a tribe out of the men of Charrhan: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:1:6 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Idumea.

bes@Amos:1:7 @ And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Gaza, and it shall devour its foundations.

bes@Amos:1:8 @ And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Azotus, and (note:)jbv ambiguous(:note) a tribe shall be cut off from Ascalon, and I will stretch out my hand upon Accaron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:1:9 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Idumea, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.

bes@Amos:1:10 @ And I will send forth a fire on the walls of Tyre, and it shall devour the foundations of it.

bes@Amos:1:11 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued (note:)Gr. his(:note) their brother with the sword, and destroyed Hebrews. Mxr Alex. mhtran the mother upon the earth, and Heb. his anger tore for ever summoned up his anger for a Heb. de ambiguous; see Pr strkjv@29:14 testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

bes@Amos:1:12 @ And I will send forth a fire upon Thaman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.

bes@Amos:1:13 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they ripped up the women with child of the Galaadites, that they might widen their coasts.

bes@Amos:1:14 @ And I will kindle a fire on the walls of Rabbath, and it shall devour her foundations with shouting in the day of war, and she shall be shaken in the days of her destruction:

bes@Amos:1:15 @ and her kings shall go into captivity, their priests and their rulers together, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:2:1 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burnt the bones of the king of Idumea to lime.

bes@Amos:2:2 @ But I will send forth a fire on Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of its cities: and Moab shall perish in weakness, with a shout, and with the sound of a trumpet.

bes@Amos:2:3 @ And I will destroy the judge out of her, and slay all her princes with him, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:2:4 @ Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Juda, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.

bes@Amos:2:5 @ And I will send a fire on Juda, and it shall devour the foundations of Jerusalem.

bes@Amos:2:6 @ Thus saith the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

bes@Amos:2:7 @

bes@Amos:2:8 @ And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar, and they have drunk (note:)Gr. wine of false accusations(:note) wine gained by extortion in the house of their God.

bes@Amos:2:9 @ Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

bes@Amos:2:10 @ And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.

bes@Amos:2:11 @ And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:2:12 @ But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

bes@Amos:2:13 @ Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

bes@Amos:2:14 @ And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:

bes@Amos:2:15 @ and the archer shall not withstand, and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape; and the horseman shall not save his life.

bes@Amos:2:16 @ And the strong shall find no confidence in power: the naked shall flee away in that day, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:3:1 @ Hear ye this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

bes@Amos:3:2 @ You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.

bes@Amos:3:3 @ Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know (note:)Gr. themselves(:note) one another?

bes@Amos:3:4 @ Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion’s whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?

bes@Amos:3:5 @ Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?

bes@Amos:3:6 @ Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?

bes@Amos:3:7 @ For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.

bes@Amos:3:8 @ A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?

bes@Amos:3:9 @ Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.

bes@Amos:3:10 @ And she knew not what things (note:)Gr. shall be before her(:note) would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.

bes@Amos:3:11 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about thee; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled.

bes@Amos:3:12 @ Thus saith the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus.

bes@Amos:3:13 @ Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty.

bes@Amos:3:14 @ For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.

bes@Amos:3:15 @ I will (note:)Or, confound(:note) crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:1 @ Hear ye this word, ye heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.

bes@Amos:4:2 @ The Lord swears by his (note:)Or, holy things(:note) holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.

bes@Amos:4:3 @ And ye shall be brought forth naked in the presence of each other; and ye shall be cast forth on the mountain Romman, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:4 @ Ye went into Bethel, and sinned, and ye multiplied sin at Galgala; and ye brought your meat-offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day.

bes@Amos:4:5 @ And they read the law without, and called for public professions: proclaim aloud that the children of Israel have loved these things, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:6 @ And I will give you (note:)q. d. idleness of teeth(:note) dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:7 @ Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest: and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain: one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

bes@Amos:4:8 @ And the inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet ye have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:9 @ I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive-yards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:10 @ I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in (note:)Lit. in the wrath of you(:note) my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:11 @ I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:4:12 @ Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel.

bes@Amos:4:13 @ For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the (note:)Gr. vapour(:note) darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.

bes@Amos:5:1 @ Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.

bes@Amos:5:2 @ The virgin of Israel has fallen upon his land; there is none that shall raise her up.

bes@Amos:5:3 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; The city out of which there went forth a thousand, in it there shall be left a hundred, and in that out of which there went forth a hundred, there shall be left ten to the house of Israel.

bes@Amos:5:4 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

bes@Amos:5:5 @ But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.

bes@Amos:5:6 @ Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel.

bes@Amos:5:7 @ It is he that executes judgement in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:

bes@Amos:5:8 @ who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name:

bes@Amos:5:9 @ who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress.

bes@Amos:5:10 @ They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.

bes@Amos:5:11 @ Therefore because they have smitten the poor with their fists, and ye have received of them choice gifts; ye have built polished houses, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted desirable vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine of them.

bes@Amos:5:12 @ For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgement of the poor in the gates.

bes@Amos:5:13 @ Therefore the prudent shall be silent at that time; for it is a time (note:)Or, of wicked men(:note) of evils.

bes@Amos:5:14 @ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord God Almighty shall be with you, as ye have said,

bes@Amos:5:15 @ We have hated evil, and loved good: and restore ye judgement in the gates; that the Lord God Almighty may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

bes@Amos:5:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.

bes@Amos:5:17 @ And there shall be lamentation in all the ways; because I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:5:18 @ Woe to you that desire the day of the Lord! (note:)Lit. wherefore is this day, etc.(:note) what is this day of the Lord to you? whereas it is darkness, and not light.

bes@Amos:5:19 @ As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

bes@Amos:5:20 @ Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? and is not this day gloom (note:)Gr. not having light(:note) without brightness?

bes@Amos:5:21 @ I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat-offerings in your general assemblies.

bes@Amos:5:22 @ Wherefore if ye should bring me your whole-burnt-sacrifices and meat-offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I have respect to your (note:)See Heb(:note) grand peace-offerings.

bes@Amos:5:23 @ Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.

bes@Amos:5:24 @ But let judgement (note:)Gr. fut(:note) roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

bes@Amos:5:25 @

bes@Amos:5:26 @ Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Raephan, the images of them which ye made for yourselves.

bes@Amos:5:27 @ And I will carry you away beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the Almighty God is his name.

bes@Amos:6:1 @ Woe to them that set at nought Sion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria: they have gathered the harvest of the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

bes@Amos:6:2 @ O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by thence to Ematrabba; and thence descend to Geth of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.

bes@Amos:6:3 @ Ye who are approaching the evil day, who are drawing near and adopting false sabbaths;

bes@Amos:6:4 @ who sleep upon beds of ivory, and live delicately on their couches, and eat kids out of the flocks, and sucking calves out of the midst of the stalls;

bes@Amos:6:5 @ who (note:)Alex. epikrotountev, «applauding’(:note) excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;

bes@Amos:6:6 @ who drink strained wine, and anoint themselves with the best ointment; and have suffered nothing on occasion of the calamity of Joseph.

bes@Amos:6:7 @ Therefore now shall they depart into captivity from the dominion of princes, and the neighing of horses shall be cut off from Ephraim.

bes@Amos:6:8 @ For the Lord has sworn by himself, saying, Because I abhor all the pride of Jacob, I do also hate his countries, and I will cut off his city with all who inhabit it.

bes@Amos:6:9 @ And it shall come to pass, if there be ten men left in one house, that they shall die.

bes@Amos:6:10 @ But (note:)Gr. the remaining ones(:note) a remnant shall be left behind, and their relations shall take them, and shall strenuously endeavor to carry forth their bones from the house: and one shall say to the heads of the house, Is there yet any one else with thee?

bes@Amos:6:11 @ And he shall say, No one else. And the other shall say, Be silent, that thou name not the name of the Lord.

bes@Amos:6:12 @ For, behold, the Lord commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with rents.

bes@Amos:6:13 @ Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgement into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:

bes@Amos:6:14 @ ye who rejoice at (note:)Lit. no word(:note) vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?

bes@Amos:6:15 @ For behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, saith the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Æmath, and as it were from the river of the (note:)Gr. sunsets(:note) wilderness.

bes@Amos:7:1 @ Thus has the Lord God shewed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, king Gog.

bes@Amos:7:2 @ And it (note:)Gr. fut(:note) came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.

bes@Amos:7:3 @ Repent, O Lord, for this. And this shall not be, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:7:4 @ Thus has the Lord shewed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgement by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord’s portion.

bes@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray thee: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. Repent, O Lord, for this.

bes@Amos:7:6 @ This also shall not be, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:7:7 @ Thus the Lord shewed me; and behold, he stood upon a wall of adamant, and in his hand was an adamant.

bes@Amos:7:8 @ And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more.

bes@Amos:7:9 @ And the (note:)Gr. altars of laughter(:note) joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be Gr. made desolate set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

bes@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words.

bes@Amos:7:11 @ For thus says Amos, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive from his land.

bes@Amos:7:12 @ And Amasias said to Amos, Go, seer, remove thou into the land of Juda, and live there, and thou shalt prophesy there:

bes@Amos:7:13 @ but thou shalt no longer prophesy at Bethel: for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is the royal house.

bes@Amos:7:14 @ And Amos answered, and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits.

bes@Amos:7:15 @ And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to my people Israel.

bes@Amos:7:16 @ And now hear the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not to Israel, and raise not a tumult against the house of Jacob.

bes@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured with the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God shewed me.

bes@Amos:8:1 @ And behold a fowler’s basket.

bes@Amos:8:2 @ And he said, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A fowler’s basket. And the Lord said to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not pass by them any more.

bes@Amos:8:3 @ And the ceilings of the temple shall howl in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many a fallen one in every place; I will bring silence upon them.

bes@Amos:8:4 @ Hear now this, ye that (note:)Gr. wear away(:note) oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

bes@Amos:8:5 @ saying, When will the month pass away, (note:)Or, that we may, etc.(:note) and we shall sell, and the sabbath, and we shall open the treasure, to make the measure small, and to enlarge the weight, and make the balance unfair?

bes@Amos:8:6 @ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

bes@Amos:8:7 @ The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.

bes@Amos:8:8 @ And shall not the land be troubled for these things, and shall not every one who dwells in it mourn? whereas destruction shall come up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

bes@Amos:8:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:

bes@Amos:8:10 @ and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make (note:)Gr. him, or it(:note) them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.

bes@Amos:8:11 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send forth a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.

bes@Amos:8:12 @ And the waters shall be troubled from sea to sea, and from the north to the east shall men run hither and thither, seeking the word of the Lord, and they shall not find it.

bes@Amos:8:13 @ In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst;

bes@Amos:8:14 @ they who swear by the propitiation of Samaria, and who say, Thy god, O Dan, lives; and, Thy god, O Bersabee, lives; and they shall fall, and shall no more rise again.

bes@Amos:9:1 @ I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the (note:)Alex. altar(:note) mercy-seat, and the Gr. plural porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered.

bes@Amos:9:2 @ Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

bes@Amos:9:3 @ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my (note:)Or, eyes(:note) presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

bes@Amos:9:4 @ And if they should go into captivity before the face of their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes against them for evil, and not for good.

bes@Amos:9:5 @ And the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, is he that takes hold of the land, and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

bes@Amos:9:6 @ It is he that builds his ascent up to the sky, and establishes his promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is his name.

bes@Amos:9:7 @ Are not ye to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the (note:)Gr. ditch(:note) deep?

bes@Amos:9:8 @ Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I will not utterly cut off the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

bes@Amos:9:9 @ For I will give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet (note:)Or, particle(:note) a fragment shall not in any wise fall upon the earth.

bes@Amos:9:10 @ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us.

bes@Amos:9:11 @

bes@Amos:9:12 @ that the remnant of men, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, may earnestly seek me, saith the Lord who does all these things.

bes@Amos:9:13 @ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seedtime; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall be planted.

bes@Amos:9:14 @ And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the wine from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

bes@Amos:9:15 @ And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

bes@Obadiah:1:1 @ The vision of Obdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.

bes@Obadiah:1:2 @ Arise ye, and let us rise up against her to war.

bes@Obadiah:1:3 @ Behold, I have made thee small among the Gentiles: thou art greatly dishonoured. The pride of thine heart has elated thee, dwelling as thou dost in the holes of the rocks, as one that exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?

bes@Obadiah:1:4 @ If thou shouldest mount up as the eagle, and if thou shouldest make thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

bes@Obadiah:1:5 @ If thieves came in to thee, or robbers by night, where wouldest thou have been cast away? would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? and if grape-gatherers went in to thee, would they not leave a gleaning?

bes@Obadiah:1:6 @ How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?

bes@Obadiah:1:7 @ They sent thee to thy coasts: all the men of thy covenant have withstood thee; thine allies have prevailed against thee, they have set snares under thee: they have no understanding.

bes@Obadiah:1:8 @ In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.

bes@Obadiah:1:9 @ And thy warriors from Thaeman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

bes@Obadiah:1:10 @ Because of the slaughter and the sin committed against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

bes@Obadiah:1:11 @ From the day that thou stoodest in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.

bes@Obadiah:1:12 @ And (note:)Or, look not thou, etc.(:note) thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of strangers; nor shouldest thou have rejoiced against the children of Juda in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have boasted in the day of their affliction.

bes@Obadiah:1:13 @ Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.

bes@Obadiah:1:14 @ Neither shouldest thou have stood at the opening of their passages, to destroy utterly those of them that were escaping; neither shouldest thou have shut up his fugitives in the day of affliction.

bes@Obadiah:1:15 @ For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as thou have done, so shall it be done to thee: thy recompense shall be returned on thine own head.

bes@Obadiah:1:16 @ For as thou hast drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink wine; they shall drink, and go down, and be as if they were not.

bes@Obadiah:1:17 @ But on mount Sion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be a sanctuary; and the house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those that took them for an inheritance.

bes@Obadiah:1:18 @ And the house of Jacob shall be fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau shall be for stubble; and Israel shall flame forth against them, and shall devour them, and there shall not be a corn-field left to the house of Esau; because the Lord has spoken.

bes@Obadiah:1:19 @ And they that dwell in the (note:)The Gr. is the Hebrew word(:note) south shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they in the plain the Philistines: and they shall inherit the mount of Ephraim, and the plain of Samaria, and Benjamin, and the land of Galaad.

bes@Obadiah:1:20 @ And this shall be the domain of the captivity of the children of Israel, the land of the Chananites as far as Sarepta; and the captives of Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.

bes@Obadiah:1:21 @ And they that escape shall come up from mount Sion, to take vengeance on the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

bes@Jonah:1:1 @ Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying,

bes@Jonah:1:2 @ Rise, and go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.

bes@Jonah:1:3 @ But Jonas rose up to flee to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid his fare, and went up into it, to sail with them to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord.

bes@Jonah:1:4 @ And the Lord raised up a wind on the sea; and there was a great storm on the sea, and the ship was in danger of being broken.

bes@Jonah:1:5 @ And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonas was gone down into the (note:)Lit. hollow(:note) hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.

bes@Jonah:1:6 @ And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snorest thou? arise, and call upon thy God, that God may save us, and we perish not.

bes@Jonah:1:7 @ And each man said to his neighbour, Come, let us cast lots, and find out for whose sake this mischief is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.

bes@Jonah:1:8 @ And they said to him, Tell us (note:)Alex. +’for whose cause this evil is upon us’(:note) what is thine occupation, and whence comest thou, and of what country and what people art thou?

bes@Jonah:1:9 @ And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry land.

bes@Jonah:1:10 @ Then the men feared exceedingly, and said to him, What is this that thou hast done? for the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.

bes@Jonah:1:11 @ And they said to him, What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea (note:)Gr. went(:note) rose, and lifted its wave exceedingly.

bes@Jonah:1:12 @ And Jonas said to them, Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

bes@Jonah:1:13 @ And the men tried hard to return to the land, and were not able: for the sea (note:)Lit. went and rose up more(:note) rose and grew more and more tempestuous against them.

bes@Jonah:1:14 @ And they cried to the Lord, and said, (note:)Gr. by no means; See Ac strkjv@10:14(:note) Forbid it, Lord: let us not perish for the sake of this man’s life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for thou, Lord, hast done as thou wouldest.

bes@Jonah:1:15 @ So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

bes@Jonah:1:16 @ And the men feared the Lord very greatly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord, and vowed vows.

bes@Jonah:2:1 @ Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights.

bes@Jonah:2:2 @ And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale,

bes@Jonah:2:3 @ and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: thou heardest my voice.

bes@Jonah:2:4 @ Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me.

bes@Jonah:2:5 @ And I said, I am cast out of thy presence: shall I indeed look again toward thy holy temple?

bes@Jonah:2:6 @ Water was poured around me to the soul: the (note:)Gr. last(:note) lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

bes@Jonah:2:7 @ to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.

bes@Jonah:2:8 @ When my soul was failing (note:)Gr. from me(:note) me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to thee into thy holy temple.

bes@Jonah:2:9 @ They that observe (note:)Gr. vain and false things(:note) vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

bes@Jonah:2:10 @ But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to thee, (note:)Or, for a thank-offering to the Lord(:note) the Lord of my salvation.

bes@Jonah:2:11 @ And the whale was commanded by the Lord, and it cast up Jonas on the dry land.

bes@Jonah:3:1 @ And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time, saying,

bes@Jonah:3:2 @ Rise, go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to thee of.

bes@Jonah:3:3 @ And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was (note:)Lit. a great city to God; Ac strkjv@7:20(:note) an exceeding great city, of about three days’ journey.

bes@Jonah:3:4 @ And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day’s journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

bes@Jonah:3:5 @ And the men of Nineve believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloths, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

bes@Jonah:3:6 @ And the word reached the king of Nineve, and he arose from off his throne, and took off his raiment from him, and put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

bes@Jonah:3:7 @ And proclamation was made, and it was commanded in Nineve by the king and by his great men, saying, Let not men, or cattle, or oxen, or sheep, taste any thing, nor feed, nor drink water.

bes@Jonah:3:8 @ So men and cattle were clothed with sackcloths, and cried earnestly to God; and they turned every one from their evil way, and from the iniquity that was in their hands, saying,

bes@Jonah:3:9 @ Who knows if God will repent, and turn from his fierce anger, and so we shall not perish?

bes@Jonah:3:10 @ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did it not.

bes@Jonah:4:1 @ But Jonas was very deeply grieved, and he was confounded.

bes@Jonah:4:2 @ And he prayed to the Lord, and said, O Lord, were not these my words when I was yet in my land? therefore I (note:)Gr. anticipated(:note) made haste to flee to Tharsis; because I knew that thou are merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentest of evil.

bes@Jonah:4:3 @ And now, (note:)Or, sovereign Lord(:note) Lord God, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

bes@Jonah:4:4 @ And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved?

bes@Jonah:4:5 @ And Jonas went out from the city, and sat over against the city; and he made for himself there a booth, and he sat under it, until he should perceive what would become of the city.

bes@Jonah:4:6 @ And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.

bes@Jonah:4:7 @ And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it smote the gourd, and it withered away.

bes@Jonah:4:8 @ And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonas, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

bes@Jonah:4:9 @ And God said to Jonas, Art thou very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.

bes@Jonah:4:10 @ And the Lord said, Thou hadst pity on the gourd, for which thou has not suffered, neither didst thou rear it; which came up (note:)Or, little before(:note) before night, and perished before another night:

bes@Jonah:4:11 @ and shall not I spare Nineve, the great city, in which dwell more than twelve myriads of human beings, who do not know their right hand or their left hand; and also much cattle?

bes@Micah:1:1 @ AND the word of the Lord came to Michaeas the son of Morasthi, in the days of Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, kings of Juda, concerning what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem.

bes@Micah:1:2 @ Hear these words, ye (note:)Gr. plural(:note) people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.

bes@Micah:1:3 @ For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth.

bes@Micah:1:4 @ And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.

bes@Micah:1:5 @ All these calamities are for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what is the sin of the house of Juda? is it not Jerusalem?

bes@Micah:1:6 @ Therefore I will make Samaria as a store-house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will (note:)Lit. tear down to confusion(:note) utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.

bes@Micah:1:7 @ And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and (note:)Or, all her hires(:note) all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.

bes@Micah:1:8 @ Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.

bes@Micah:1:9 @ For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Juda; and has reached to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

bes@Micah:1:10 @ Ye that are in Geth, exalt not yourselves, and ye Enakim, do not rebuild from the ruins of the house in derision: sprinkle dust in the place of your laughter.

bes@Micah:1:11 @ The inhabitant of Sennaar, fairly inhabiting her cities, came not forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.

bes@Micah:1:12 @ Who has begun to act for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,

bes@Micah:1:13 @ even a sound of chariots and horsemen: the inhabitants of Lachis, she is the leader of sin to the daughter of Sion: for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.

bes@Micah:1:14 @ Therefore shall he cause men to be sent forth as far as the inheritance of Geth, even vain houses; they are become vanity to the kings of Israel;

bes@Micah:1:15 @ until they bring the heirs, O inhabitant of Lachis: the inheritance shall reach to Odollam, even the glory of the daughter of Israel.

bes@Micah:1:16 @ Shave thine hair, and (note:)Gr. shear thyself(:note) make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.

bes@Micah:2:1 @ They meditated troubles, and wrought (note:)Gr. plural(:note) wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

bes@Micah:2:2 @ And they desired fields, and plundered orphans, and oppressed families, and spoiled a man and his house, even a man and his inheritance.

bes@Micah:2:3 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I devise evils against this family, out of which ye shall not lift up your necks, neither shall ye walk upright (note:)Gr. suddenly(:note) speedily: for the time is evil.

bes@Micah:2:4 @ In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a (note:)Or, metrical, or, with a song(:note) plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.

bes@Micah:2:5 @ Therefore thou shalt have no one to cast a line for the lot.

bes@Micah:2:6 @ Weep not with tears in the assembly of the Lord, neither let any weep for these things; for he shall not remove the reproaches,

bes@Micah:2:7 @ who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not (note:)Gr. his words(:note) the Lord’s words right with him? and have they not proceeded correctly?

bes@Micah:2:8 @ Even beforetime my people withstood him (note:)Gr. for enmity(:note) as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.

bes@Micah:2:9 @ The leaders of my people shall be cast forth from their luxurious houses; they are rejected because of their evil practices; draw ye near to the everlasting mountains.

bes@Micah:2:10 @ Arise thou, and depart; for this is not thy rest because of uncleanness: ye have been utterly destroyed;

bes@Micah:2:11 @ ye have fled, no one pursuing you: thy spirit has framed falsehood, it has dropped on thee for wine and strong drink. But it shall come to pass, that out of the dropping of this people,

bes@Micah:2:12 @ Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely (note:)Or, wait for(:note) receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:

bes@Micah:2:13 @ they have broken through, and passed the gate, and gone out by it: and their king has gone out before them, and the Lord shall lead them.

bes@Micah:3:1 @ And he shall say, Hear now these words, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel; is it not for you to know judgement?

bes@Micah:3:2 @ who hate good, and seek evil; who tear their skins off them, and their flesh off their bones:

bes@Micah:3:3 @ even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the (note:)Or, tub(:note) pot,

bes@Micah:3:4 @ thus they shall cry to the Lord, but he shall not hearken to them; and he shall turn away his face from them at that time, because they have done wickedly in their practices against themselves.

bes@Micah:3:5 @ Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that lead my people astray, that bit with their teeth, and proclaim peace to them; and when nothing was put into their mouth, they raised up war against them:

bes@Micah:3:6 @ therefore there shall be night to you (note:)Gr. out of(:note) instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.

bes@Micah:3:7 @ And the seers of night-visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all (note:)Gr. they(:note) the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.

bes@Micah:3:8 @ Surely I will strengthen myself with the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgement, and of power, to declare to Jacob his transgressions, and to Israel his sins.

bes@Micah:3:9 @ Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgement, and pervert all righteousness;

bes@Micah:3:10 @ who build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

bes@Micah:3:11 @ The heads thereof have judged for gifts, and the priests thereof have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? no evil shall come upon us.

bes@Micah:3:12 @ Therefore on your account Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.

bes@Micah:4:1 @ And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, (note:)Lit. ready, Hebraism(:note) established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it.

bes@Micah:4:2 @ And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall shew us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

bes@Micah:4:3 @ And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations (note:)Gr. even to a distance(:note) afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.

bes@Micah:4:4 @ And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these words.

bes@Micah:4:5 @ For all other nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God (note:)Gr. for the age and beyond(:note) for ever and ever.

bes@Micah:4:6 @ In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that is bruised, and will receive her that is cast out, and those whom I rejected.

bes@Micah:4:7 @ And I will make her that was bruised a remnant, and her that was rejected a mighty nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Sion from henceforth, even for ever.

bes@Micah:4:8 @ And thou, (note:)Or, gloomy, or, foul(:note) dark tower of the flock, daughter of Sion, on thee the dominion shall come and enter in, even the first kingdom from Babylon to the daughter of Jerusalem.

bes@Micah:4:9 @ And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?

bes@Micah:4:10 @ Be in pain, and strengthen thyself, and (note:)sc. the time, but Alex.—’draw near’(:note) draw near, O daughter of Sion, as a woman in travail: for now thou shalt go forth out of the city, and shalt lodge in the plain, and shalt reach even to Babylon: thence shall the Lord thy God deliver thee, and thence shall he redeem thee out of the hand of thine enemies.

bes@Micah:4:11 @ And now have many nations gathered against thee, saying, We will rejoice, and our eyes shall look upon Sion.

bes@Micah:4:12 @ But they know not the thought of the Lord, and have not understood his counsel: for he has gathered them as sheaves of the floor.

bes@Micah:4:13 @ Arise, and thresh them, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thine horns iron, and I will make thine hoofs brass: and thou shalt utterly destroy many nations, and shalt consecrate (note:)Or, the multitude of them(:note) their abundance to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of all the earth.

bes@Micah:5:1 @ Now shall the daughter of Sion be completely hedged in: he has laid siege against us: they shall smite the (note:)See Heb(:note) tribes of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

bes@Micah:5:2 @

bes@Micah:5:3 @ Therefore shall he appoint them to wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

bes@Micah:5:4 @ And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.

bes@Micah:5:5 @ And she shall have peace when Assur shall come into your land, and when he shall come up upon your country; and there shall be raised up against him seven shepherds, and eight attacks of men.

bes@Micah:5:6 @ And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.

bes@Micah:5:7 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.

bes@Micah:5:8 @ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion’s whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.

bes@Micah:5:9 @ Thine hand shall be lifted up against them that afflict thee, and all thine enemies shall be utterly destroyed.

bes@Micah:5:10 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will utterly destroy the horses out of the midst of thee, and destroy thy chariots;

bes@Micah:5:11 @ and I will utterly destroy the cities of thy land, and demolish all thy strong-holds:

bes@Micah:5:12 @ and I will utterly destroy thy sorceries out of thine hands; and there shall be no soothsayers in thee.

bes@Micah:5:13 @ And I will utterly destroy thy graven images, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt never any more worship the works of thine hands.

bes@Micah:5:14 @ And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of thee, and I will abolish thy cities.

bes@Micah:5:15 @ and I will execute vengeance on the heathen in anger and wrath, because they hearkened not.

bes@Micah:6:1 @ Hear now a word: the Lord God has said; Arise, plead with the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

bes@Micah:6:2 @ Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye valleys even the foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and will plead with Israel.

bes@Micah:6:3 @ O my people, what have I done to thee? or wherein have I grieved thee? or wherein have I troubled thee? answer me.

bes@Micah:6:4 @ For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee Moses, and Aaron, and Mariam.

bes@Micah:6:5 @ O my people, remember now, what counsel Balac king of Moab took against thee, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Galgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

bes@Micah:6:6 @ Wherewithal shall I reach the Lord, and lay hold of my God most high? shall I reach him by whole-burnt-offerings, by calves of a year old?

bes@Micah:6:7 @ Will the Lord accept thousands of rams, or ten thousands of fat goats? should I give my first-born for ungodliness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

bes@Micah:6:8 @ Has it not been told thee, O man, what is good? or what does the Lord require of thee, but to do justice, and love mercy, and be ready to walk with the Lord thy God?

bes@Micah:6:9 @ The Lord’s voice shall be proclaimed in the city, and he shall save those that fear his name: hear, (note:)Hebrews. Jbv ambiguous(:note) O tribe; and who shall order the city?

bes@Micah:6:10 @ Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?

bes@Micah:6:11 @ Shall the wicked be justified by the balance, or deceitful weights in the bag,

bes@Micah:6:12 @ whereby they have accumulated their ungodly wealth, and they that dwell in (note:)Gr. it(:note) the city have uttered falsehoods, and their tongue has been exalted in their mouth?

bes@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore will I begin to smite thee; I will destroy thee in thy sins.

bes@Micah:6:14 @ Thou shalt eat, and shalt not be satisfied; and there shall be darkness upon thee; and he shall depart from thee, and thou shalt not escape; and all that shall escape shall be delivered over to the sword.

bes@Micah:6:15 @ Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt press the olive, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; and shalt make wine, but ye shall drink no wine: and the ordinances of my people shall be utterly abolished.

bes@Micah:6:16 @ For thou hast kept the statues of Zambri, and done all the works of the house of Achaab; and ye have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee to utter destruction, and those that inhabit the city to hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of nations.

bes@Micah:7:1 @ Alas for me! for I am become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as one gathering grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!

bes@Micah:7:2 @ For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbour:

bes@Micah:7:3 @ they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:

bes@Micah:7:4 @ therefore I will take away their goods as a devouring moth, and as one who (note:)Gr. goes upon, etc.(:note) acts by a rigid rule in a day of Lit. watching visitation. Woe, woe, thy times of vengeance are come; now shall be their lamentations.

bes@Micah:7:5 @ Trust not in friends, and confide not in guides: beware of thy wife, so as not to commit anything to her.

bes@Micah:7:6 @ For the son dishonours his father, the daughter will rise up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: those in his house shall be all a man’s enemies.

bes@Micah:7:7 @ But I will look to the Lord; I will wait upon God my Saviour: my God will hearken to me.

bes@Micah:7:8 @ Rejoice not against me, mine enemy; for I have fallen yet shall arise; for though I should sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light to me.

bes@Micah:7:9 @ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall (note:)Or, execute my judgement(:note) maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

bes@Micah:7:10 @ And she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shall clothe herself with shame, who says, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall look upon her: now shall she be for trampling as mire in the ways.

bes@Micah:7:11 @ It is the day of (note:)Or, plastering, or anointing(:note) making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.

bes@Micah:7:12 @ And thy cities shall be levelled, and parted among the Assyrians; and thy strong cities shall be parted from Tyre to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

bes@Micah:7:13 @ And the land shall be utterly desolate together with them that inhabit it, because of the fruit of their doings.

bes@Micah:7:14 @ Tend thy people with thy rod, the sheep of thine inheritance, those that inhabit by themselves the thicket in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed in the land of Basan, and in the land of Galaad, as in the days of old.

bes@Micah:7:15 @ And according to the days of thy departure out of Egypt shall ye see marvellous things.

bes@Micah:7:16 @ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.

bes@Micah:7:17 @ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their (note:)Gr. confinement(:note) holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.

bes@Micah:7:18 @ Who is a God like thee, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy.

bes@Micah:7:19 @ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.

bes@Micah:7:20 @ He shall give blessings truly to Jacob, and mercy to Abraam, as thou swarest to our fathers, according to the former days.

bes@Nahum:1:1 @ The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.

bes@Nahum:1:2 @ God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; the Lord avenges with wrath; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he cuts off his enemies.

bes@Nahum:1:3 @ The Lord is long-suffering, and his power is great, and the Lord will not hold any guiltless: his way is in destruction and in the whirlwind, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

bes@Nahum:1:4 @ He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Basan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Libanus have come to nought.

bes@Nahum:1:5 @ The mountains quake (note:)Gr. by him(:note) at him, and the hills are shaken, and the earth recoils at his presence, even the world, and all that dwell in it.

bes@Nahum:1:6 @ Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nought kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.

bes@Nahum:1:7 @ The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.

bes@Nahum:1:8 @ But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end: darkness shall pursue those that rise up against him and his enemies.

bes@Nahum:1:9 @ What do ye devise against the Lord? he will make a complete end: he will not take vengeance by affliction twice at the same time.

bes@Nahum:1:10 @ For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

bes@Nahum:1:11 @ Out of thee shall proceed a device against the Lord, counselling evil things hostile to him.

bes@Nahum:1:12 @ Thus saith the Lord who rules over many waters, Even thus shall they be sent away, and the report of thee shall not be heard any more.

bes@Nahum:1:13 @ And now will I break his rod from off thee, and will burst thy bonds.

bes@Nahum:1:14 @ And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of thy god, and the molten images: I will make thy grave; for they are swift.

bes@Nahum:1:15 @ Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Juda, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to (note:)Compare Heb(:note) thy decay.

bes@Nahum:2:1 @ It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen thy loins, be very valiant in thy strength.

bes@Nahum:2:2 @ For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches.

bes@Nahum:2:3 @ They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion

bes@Nahum:2:4 @ in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.

bes@Nahum:2:5 @ And their mighty men shall (note:)Or, be remembered(:note) bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their Or, watches defences.

bes@Nahum:2:6 @ The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,

bes@Nahum:2:7 @ and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid-servants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts.

bes@Nahum:2:8 @ And as for Nineve, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back.

bes@Nahum:2:9 @ They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels.

bes@Nahum:2:10 @ There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

bes@Nahum:2:11 @ Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion’s whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away?

bes@Nahum:2:12 @ The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.

bes@Nahum:2:13 @ Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at all be heard of.

bes@Nahum:3:1 @ O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be (note:)Or, felt after; See Ac strkjv@17:27(:note) handled.

bes@Nahum:3:2 @ The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,

bes@Nahum:3:3 @ and of the (note:)Or, rider on horseback(:note) mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies

bes@Nahum:3:4 @ because of the abundance of fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.

bes@Nahum:3:5 @ Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover thy skirts in thy presence, and I will shew the nations thy shame, and the kingdoms thy disgrace.

bes@Nahum:3:6 @ And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.

bes@Nahum:3:7 @ And it shall be that every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

bes@Nahum:3:8 @ Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.

bes@Nahum:3:9 @ And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.

bes@Nahum:3:10 @ Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.

bes@Nahum:3:11 @ And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be (note:)Or, despised(:note) overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself q. d. establishment strength because of thine enemies.

bes@Nahum:3:12 @ All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees (note:)rwkb probably read as rqb (:note) having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

bes@Nahum:3:13 @ Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

bes@Nahum:3:14 @ Draw thee water (note:)Gr. of(:note) for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and Alex. tread thou be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.

bes@Nahum:3:15 @ There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.

bes@Nahum:3:16 @ Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.

bes@Nahum:3:17 @ Thy mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!

bes@Nahum:3:18 @ Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to (note:)Or, wait for(:note) receive them.

bes@Nahum:3:19 @ There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?

bes@Habakkuk:1:1 @ The burden which the prophet Ambacum saw.

bes@Habakkuk:1:2 @ How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and thou wilt not hearken? how long shall I cry out to thee being injured, and thou wilt not save?

bes@Habakkuk:1:3 @ Wherefore hast thou shown me troubles and griefs to look upon, misery and ungodliness? judgement is before me, and the judge receives a reward.

bes@Habakkuk:1:4 @ Therefore the law is frustrated, and judgement proceeds not effectually, for the ungodly man prevails over the just; therefore perverse judgement will proceed.

bes@Habakkuk:1:5 @

bes@Habakkuk:1:6 @ Wherefore, behold, I stir up the Chaldeans, the bitter and hasty nation, that walks upon the breadth of the earth, to inherit tabernacles not his own.

bes@Habakkuk:1:7 @ He is terrible and famous; his judgement shall proceed of himself, and his (note:)Lit. burden(:note) dignity shall come out of himself.

bes@Habakkuk:1:8 @ And his horses shall bound more swiftly than leopards, and they are fiercer than the wolves of Arabia: and his horsemen shall ride forth, and shall rush from far; and they shall fly as an eagle hasting to eat.

bes@Habakkuk:1:9 @ Destruction shall come upon ungodly men, resisting with their adverse front, and he shall gather the captivity as the sand.

bes@Habakkuk:1:10 @ And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every strong-hold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

bes@Habakkuk:1:11 @ Then shall he change his spirit, and he shall pass through, and make an atonement, saying, This strength belongs to my god.

bes@Habakkuk:1:12 @ Art not thou from the beginning, O Lord God, my Holy One? and surely we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast established it for judgement, and he has formed me to chasten with his correction.

bes@Habakkuk:1:13 @ His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

bes@Habakkuk:1:14 @ And wilt thou make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the reptiles which have no guide?

bes@Habakkuk:1:15 @ He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad.

bes@Habakkuk:1:16 @ Therefore will he sacrifice to his drag, and burn incense to his casting-net, because by them he has made his portion fat, and his meats choice.

bes@Habakkuk:1:17 @ Therefore will he cast his net, and will not spare to slay the nations continually.

bes@Habakkuk:2:1 @ I will stand upon my watch, and mount upon the rock, and watch to see what he will say (note:)Or, in(:note) by me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

bes@Habakkuk:2:2 @ And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and that plainly on a tablet, that he that reads it may run.

bes@Habakkuk:2:3 @ For the vision is yet for a time, and it shall shoot forth at the end, and not in vain: though he should tarry, wait for him; (note:)Heb strkjv@10:37-39(:note) for he will surely come, and will not tarry.

bes@Habakkuk:2:4 @ If (note:)Or, any man; See Heb strkjv@10:38.(:note) he should draw back, my soul has no pleasure in him: but Ro strkjv@1:17 the just shall live by Or, faith in me my faith.

bes@Habakkuk:2:5 @ But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.

bes@Habakkuk:2:6 @ Shall not all these take up a parable against him? and a proverb to tell against him? and they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! (note:)Or, for a long while(:note) how long? and who heavily loads his yoke.

bes@Habakkuk:2:7 @ For suddenly there shall arise up those that bite him, and they that plot against thee shall awake, and thou shalt be a plunder to them.

bes@Habakkuk:2:8 @ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the nations that are left shall spoil thee, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

bes@Habakkuk:2:9 @ Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

bes@Habakkuk:2:10 @ Thou hast devised shame to thy house, thou hast utterly destroyed many nations, and thy soul has sinned.

bes@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the (note:)Possibly, «knot’(:note) beetle out of the timber shall speak.

bes@Habakkuk:2:12 @ Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and (note:)Gr. prepares(:note) establishes a city by unrighteousness.

bes@Habakkuk:2:13 @ Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

bes@Habakkuk:2:14 @ For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord; it shall cover them as water.

bes@Habakkuk:2:15 @ Woe to him that gives his neighbour to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.

bes@Habakkuk:2:16 @ Drink thou also thy fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon thee, and dishonour has gathered upon thy glory.

bes@Habakkuk:2:17 @ For the ungodliness of Libanus shall cover thee, and distress because of wild beasts shall dismay thee, because of the blood of men, and the sins of the land and city, and of all that dwell in it.

bes@Habakkuk:2:18 @ What profit it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.

bes@Habakkuk:2:19 @ Woe to him that says to the wood, Awake, arise; and to the stone, Be thou exalted! whereas it is an image, and this is a (note:)Gr. forging(:note) casting of gold and silver, and there is no breath in it.

bes@Habakkuk:2:20 @ But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.

bes@Habakkuk:3:1 @ A PRAYER OF THE PROPHET AMBACUM, WITH A SONG.

bes@Habakkuk:3:2 @ O Lord, I have heard thy report, and was afraid: I considered thy works, and was amazed: thou shalt be known between the two living creatures, thou shalt be acknowledged when the years draw nigh; thou shalt be manifested when the time is come; when my soul is troubled, thou wilt in wrath remember mercy.

bes@Habakkuk:3:3 @ God shall come from Thaeman, and the Holy One from the dark shady mount Pharan. (note:)See note on Ps strkjv@3:2(:note) Pause.

bes@Habakkuk:3:4 @ His excellence covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness shall be as light; there were horns in his hands, and he caused a mighty love of his strength.

bes@Habakkuk:3:5 @ Before his face shall go a report, and it shall go forth into the plains,

bes@Habakkuk:3:6 @ the earth stood at his feet and trembled: he beheld, and the nations melted away: the mountains were violently burst through, the everlasting hills melted at his everlasting going forth.

bes@Habakkuk:3:7 @ Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Madiam shall be dismayed.

bes@Habakkuk:3:8 @ Wast thou angry, O Lord, with the rivers? or was thy wrath against the rivers, or thine (note:)Or, attach(:note) anger against the sea? for thou wilt mount on thine horses, and thy chariots are salvation.

bes@Habakkuk:3:9 @ Surely thou didst bend the bow at scepters, saith the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.

bes@Habakkuk:3:10 @ The nations shall see thee and be in pain, as thou dost divide the (note:)Gr. waters of going; See Na strkjv@1:8.(:note) moving waters: the deep uttered her voice, and raised Lit. the height of her form her form on high.

bes@Habakkuk:3:11 @ The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: thy darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of thine arms.

bes@Habakkuk:3:12 @ Thou wilt bring low the land with threatening, and in wrath thou wilt break down the nations.

bes@Habakkuk:3:13 @ Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, to save thine anointed: thou shalt bring death on the heads of transgressors; thou has brought bands upon their neck. Pause.

bes@Habakkuk:3:14 @ Thou didst cut asunder the heads of princes with amazement, they shall tremble in it; they shall burst their bridles, they shall be as a poor man devouring in secret.

bes@Habakkuk:3:15 @ And thou dost cause thine horses to enter the sea, disturbing much water.

bes@Habakkuk:3:16 @ I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within (note:)Lit. under me(:note) me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

bes@Habakkuk:3:17 @ For though the fig-tree shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall (note:)Lit. deceive(:note) fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

bes@Habakkuk:3:18 @ yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.

bes@Habakkuk:3:19 @ The Lord God is my strength, and he will perfectly strengthen my feet; he mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by his song.

bes@Zephaniah:1:1 @ The word of the Lord which came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, the son of Godolias, the son of Amorias, the son of Ezekias, in the days of Josias son of Amon, king of Juda.

bes@Zephaniah:1:2 @ Let there be an utter cutting off from the face of the land, saith the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:1:3 @ Let man and cattle be cut off; let the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea be cut off; and the ungodly shall fail, and I will take away the transgressors from the face of the land, saith the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:1:4 @ And I will stretch out mine hand upon Juda, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will remove the names of Baal out of this place, and the names of the priests;

bes@Zephaniah:1:5 @ and them that worship the host of heaven upon the house-tops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and them that swear by their king;

bes@Zephaniah:1:6 @ and them that turn aside from the Lord, and them that seek not the Lord, and them that cleave not to the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:1:7 @ Fear ye before the Lord God; for the day of the Lord is near; for the Lord has prepared his sacrifice, and has sanctified his guests.

bes@Zephaniah:1:8 @ And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will take vengeance on the princes, and on the king’s house, and upon all that wear strange apparel.

bes@Zephaniah:1:9 @ And I will openly take vengeance (note:)Or, in(:note) on the porches in that day, on the men that fill the house of the Lord their God with ungodliness and deceit.

bes@Zephaniah:1:10 @ And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the sound of a cry from the gate of men slaying, and a howling from the second gate, and a great crashing from the hills.

bes@Zephaniah:1:11 @ Lament, ye that inhabit the city that has been broken down, for all the people has become like Chanaan; and all that were exalted by silver have been utterly destroyed.

bes@Zephaniah:1:12 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a candle, and will take vengeance on the men that despise the things committed to them; but they say in their hearts, The Lord will not do any good, neither will he do any evil.

bes@Zephaniah:1:13 @ And their power shall be for a spoil, and their houses for utter desolation; and they shall build houses, but shall not dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of them.

bes@Zephaniah:1:14 @ For the great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and very speedy; the sound of the day of the Lord is made bitter and harsh.

bes@Zephaniah:1:15 @ A mighty day of wrath is that day, a day of affliction and distress, a day of (note:)Lit. unseasonableness(:note) desolation and destruction, a day of gloominess and darkness, a day of cloud and vapour,

bes@Zephaniah:1:16 @ a day of the trumpet and cry against the strong cities, and against the high (note:)Gr. corners(:note) towers.

bes@Zephaniah:1:17 @ And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore he shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.

bes@Zephaniah:1:18 @ And their silver and their gold shall in nowise be able to rescue them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealously; for he will bring a speedy destruction on all them that inhabit the land.

bes@Zephaniah:2:1 @ Be ye gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;

bes@Zephaniah:2:2 @ before ye become as the flower that passes away, before the anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the wrath of the Lord come upon you.

bes@Zephaniah:2:3 @ Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth; do judgement, and seek justice, and answer (note:)Gr. them(:note) accordingly; that ye may be hid in the day of the wrath of the Lord.

bes@Zephaniah:2:4 @ For Gaza shall be utterly spoiled, and Ascalon shall be destroyed; and Azotus shall be cast forth at noon-day, and Accaron shall be rooted up.

bes@Zephaniah:2:5 @ Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbours of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Chanaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling-place.

bes@Zephaniah:2:6 @ And Crete shall be a pasture of flocks, and a fold of sheep.

bes@Zephaniah:2:7 @ And the sea coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Juda; they shall pasture upon them in the houses of Ascalon; they shall rest in the evening because of the children of Juda; for the Lord their God has visited them, and he will turn away their captivity.

bes@Zephaniah:2:8 @ I have heard the revilings of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reviled my people, and magnified themselves against my coasts.

bes@Zephaniah:2:9 @ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing-floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.

bes@Zephaniah:2:10 @

bes@Zephaniah:2:11 @ The Lord shall appear against them, and shall utterly destroy all the gods of the nations of the earth; and they shall worship him every one from his place, even all the islands of the nations.

bes@Zephaniah:2:12 @ Ye Ethiopians also are the slain of my sword.

bes@Zephaniah:2:13 @ And he shall stretch forth his hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineve a dry wilderness, even as a desert.

bes@Zephaniah:2:14 @ And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was as as cedar.

bes@Zephaniah:3:1 @ This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how is she become desolate, a habitation of wild beasts! Every one that passes through her shall hiss, and shake his hands. Alas the glorious and ransomed city.

bes@Zephaniah:3:2 @ The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God.

bes@Zephaniah:3:3 @ Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morrow.

bes@Zephaniah:3:4 @ Her prophets are (note:)Gr. borne of the wind(:note) light and scornful men: her priests profane the holy things, and sinfully transgress the law.

bes@Zephaniah:3:5 @ But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgement to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.

bes@Zephaniah:3:6 @ I have brought down the proud with destruction; their corners are destroyed: I will make their ways completely waste, so that none shall go through: their cities are come to an end, (note:)See use of para, 1 Co strkjv@12:15, 16(:note) by reason of no man living or dwelling in them.

bes@Zephaniah:3:7 @ I said, But do ye fear me, and (note:)See Ps 2. ult(:note) receive instruction, and ye shall not be cut off from the face of the land for all the vengeance I have brought upon her: prepare thou, rise early: all their produce is spoilt.

bes@Zephaniah:3:8 @ Therefore wait upon me, saith the Lord, until the day when I rise up for a witness: because my judgement shall be on the gatherings of the nations, to draw to me kings, to pour out upon them all my fierce anger: for the whole earth shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

bes@Zephaniah:3:9 @ For then will I turn to the peoples a tongue (note:)hrwrb read as hrwdb(:note) for her generation, that all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke.

bes@Zephaniah:3:10 @ From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive my dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to me.

bes@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day thou shalt not be ashamed of all thy practices, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then will I take away from thee thy disdainful pride, and thou shalt no more magnify thyself upon my holy mountain.

bes@Zephaniah:3:12 @ And I will leave in thee a meek and lowly people;

bes@Zephaniah:3:13 @ and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them.

bes@Zephaniah:3:14 @ Rejoice, O daughter of Sion; (note:)Gr. proclaim, or preach(:note) cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; rejoice and delight thyself with all thine heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

bes@Zephaniah:3:15 @ The Lord has taken away thine iniquities, he has ransomed thee from the hand of thine enemies: the Lord, the King of Israel, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

bes@Zephaniah:3:16 @ At that time the Lord shall say to Jerusalem, Be of good courage, Sion; let not thine hands be slack.

bes@Zephaniah:3:17 @ The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall (note:)Lit. renew(:note) refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.

bes@Zephaniah:3:18 @ And I will gather thine afflicted ones. Alas! who has taken up a reproach against her?

bes@Zephaniah:3:19 @ Behold, I will work in thee for thy sake at that time, saith the Lord: and I will save her that was oppressed, and receive her that was rejected; and I will make them a praise, and honoured in all the earth.

bes@Zephaniah:3:20 @ And their enemies shall be ashamed at that time, when I shall deal well with you, and at the time when I shall receive you: for I will make you honoured and a praise among all the nations of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before you, saith the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:1 @ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the firs day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Aggaeus, saying, Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to (note:)Or, Joshua(:note) Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, saying,

bes@Haggai:1:2 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:3 @ And the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Aggaeus, saying,

bes@Haggai:1:4 @ Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

bes@Haggai:1:5 @ And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.

bes@Haggai:1:6 @ Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm (note:)Gr. in them(:note) thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.

bes@Haggai:1:7 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways.

bes@Haggai:1:8 @ Go up to the mountain, and cut timber; build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:9 @ Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run everyone into his own house;

bes@Haggai:1:10 @ therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce.

bes@Haggai:1:11 @ And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and all that the earth produces, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon all the labours of their hands.

bes@Haggai:1:12 @ And Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and (note:)Or, Joshua(:note) Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of the prophet Aggaeus, according as the Lord their God had sent him to them, and the people feared before the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:13 @ And Aggaeus the Lord’s messenger spoke among the messengers of the Lord to the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

bes@Haggai:1:14 @ And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and the spirit of the remnant of all the people; and they went in, and wrought in the house of the Lord Almighty their God, on the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

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bes@Haggai:2:2 @ In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the Lord spoke by Aggaeus the prophet, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:3 @ Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:4 @ Who is there of you that saw this house in her former glory? and how do ye now look upon it, as it were (note:)Gr. not existing(:note) nothing before your eyes?

bes@Haggai:2:5 @ Yet now be strong, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and strengthen thyself, O Jesus the high priest, the son of Josedec; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, saith the Lord, and work, for I am with you, saith the Lord Almighty;

bes@Haggai:2:6 @ and my Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage.

bes@Haggai:2:7 @ For thus saith the Lord Almighty; (note:)Heb strkjv@12:26(:note) Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

bes@Haggai:2:8 @ and I will shake all nations, and the choice (note:)Or, objects(:note) portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Haggai:2:9 @ Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Haggai:2:10 @ For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for (note:)Or, salvation(:note) a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple.

bes@Haggai:2:11 @ On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Aggaeus the prophet, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:12 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest concerning the law, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:13 @ If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be (note:)Gr. sanctified(:note) holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

bes@Haggai:2:14 @ And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.

bes@Haggai:2:15 @ And Aggaeus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled (note:)Not in Hebrew(:note) because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates.

bes@Haggai:2:16 @ And now consider, I pray you, from this day and beforetime, before they laid a stone on a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men ye were.

bes@Haggai:2:17 @ When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went (note:)Gr. into(:note) to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.

bes@Haggai:2:18 @ I smote you with barrenness, and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Haggai:2:19 @ Set your hearts now to think from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;

bes@Haggai:2:20 @ consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.

bes@Haggai:2:21 @ And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggaeus the prophet, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

bes@Haggai:2:22 @ Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

bes@Haggai:2:23 @ and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword striving against his brother.

bes@Haggai:2:24 @ In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will take thee, O Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a seal: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:1:1 @ In the eighth month, in the second year of the reign of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying,

bes@Zechariah:1:2 @ The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.

bes@Zechariah:1:3 @ And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn to me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts.

bes@Zechariah:1:4 @ And be ye not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened not, and attended not to hearken to me, saith the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:1:5 @ Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live for ever?

bes@Zechariah:1:6 @ But do ye receive my words and mine ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.

bes@Zechariah:1:7 @ On the twenty-fourth day in the eleventh month, this is the month Sabat, in the second year of the reign of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying,

bes@Zechariah:1:8 @ I saw by night, and behold a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him were red horses, and grey, and piebald, and white.

bes@Zechariah:1:9 @ And I said, What are these, my lord? And the angel spoke with me said to me, I will shew thee what these things are.

bes@Zechariah:1:10 @ And the man that stood between the mountains answered, and said to me, These are they whom the Lord has sent forth to go round the earth.

bes@Zechariah:1:11 @ And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood between the mountains, and said, We have gone round all the earth, and, behold, all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.

bes@Zechariah:1:12 @ Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord Almighty, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, which thou has disregarded (note:)Gr. this seventieth year(:note) these seventy years?

bes@Zechariah:1:13 @ And the Lord Almighty answered the angel that spoke with me good words and consolatory sayings.

bes@Zechariah:1:14 @ And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry out and say, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and Sion with great jealousy.

bes@Zechariah:1:15 @ And I am very angry with the heathen that combine to attack her: forasmuch as I indeed was a little angry, but they combined to attack her for evil.

bes@Zechariah:1:16 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; and my house shall be rebuilt in her, saith the Lord Almighty, and a measuring line shall yet be stretched out over Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:1:17 @ And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry yet, and say, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall cities be spread abroad through prosperity; and the Lord shall yet have mercy upon Sion, and shall choose Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:1:18 @ And I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold four horns.

bes@Zechariah:1:19 @ And I said to the angel that spoke with me, What are these things, my lord? And he said to me, These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:1:20 @ And the Lord shewed me four artificers.

bes@Zechariah:1:21 @ And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Juda, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.

bes@Zechariah:2:1 @ And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man, and in his hand a measuring line.

bes@Zechariah:2:2 @ And I said to him, Whither goest thou? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.

bes@Zechariah:2:3 @ And, behold, the angel that spoke with me stood by, and another angel went forth to meet him,

bes@Zechariah:2:4 @ and spoke to him, saying, Run and speak to that young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be fully inhabited by reason of the abundance of men and cattle in the midst of her.

bes@Zechariah:2:5 @ And I will be to her, saith the Lord, a wall of fire round about, and I will be for a glory in the midst of her.

bes@Zechariah:2:6 @ Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven, saith the Lord,

bes@Zechariah:2:7 @ even to Sion: deliver yourselves, ye that dwell with the daughter of Babylon.

bes@Zechariah:2:8 @ For thus saith the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of his eye.

bes@Zechariah:2:9 @ For, behold, I bring my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to them that serve them: and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.

bes@Zechariah:2:10 @ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Sion: for, behold, I come, and will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:2:11 @ And many nations shall flee for refuge to the Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to him, and they shall dwell in the midst of thee: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.

bes@Zechariah:2:12 @ And the Lord shall inherit Juda his portion in the holy land, and he will yet choose Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:2:13 @ Let all flesh fear before the Lord: for he has risen up from his holy clouds.

bes@Zechariah:3:1 @ And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and the (note:)Or, Accuser(:note) Devil stood on his right hand to resist him.

bes@Zechariah:3:2 @ And the Lords said to the Devil,

bes@Zechariah:3:3 @

bes@Zechariah:3:4 @ Now Jesus was clothed in (note:)Or, vile, see Jas strkjv@2:2(:note) filthy raiment, and stood before the angel.

bes@Zechariah:3:5 @ And the Lord answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy raiment from him: and he said to him, Behold, I have taken away thine iniquities: and clothe ye him with a (note:)Or, full length(:note) long robe,

bes@Zechariah:3:6 @ and place a pure mitre upon his head. So they placed a pure mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments: and the angel of the Lord stood by.

bes@Zechariah:3:7 @ And the angel of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying,

bes@Zechariah:3:8 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and take heed to my charges, then shalt thou judge my house: and if thou wilt diligently keep my court, then will I give thee men to walk in the midst of these that stand here.

bes@Zechariah:3:9 @ Hear now, Jesus the high priest, thou, and thy neighbours that are sitting before thee: for they are diviners, for, behold, I bring forth my servant The (note:)See Lu strkjv@1:78(:note) Branch.

bes@Zechariah:3:10 @ For as for the stone which I have set before the face of Jesus, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am digging a trench, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will search out all the iniquity of that land in one day.

bes@Zechariah:3:11 @ In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, ye shall call together every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig-tree.

bes@Zechariah:4:1 @ And the angel that talked with me returned, and awakened me, as when a man is awakened out of his sleep.

bes@Zechariah:4:2 @ And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its bowl upon it, and seven lamps upon it, and seven oil funnels to the lamps upon it:

bes@Zechariah:4:3 @ and two olive-trees above it, one on the right of the bowl, and one on the left.

bes@Zechariah:4:4 @ And I inquired, and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these things, my lord?

bes@Zechariah:4:5 @ And the angel that talked with me answered, and spoke to me, saying, Knowest thou not what these things are? And I said, No, my lord.

bes@Zechariah:4:6 @ And he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying, not by mighty power, nor by strength, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:4:7 @ Who art thou, the great mountain before Zorobabel, that thou shouldest prosper? whereas I will bring out the stone of the inheritance, the grace of it the (note:)Gr. equality, see Joh strkjv@1:16(:note) equal of my grace.

bes@Zechariah:4:8 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Zechariah:4:9 @ The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.

bes@Zechariah:4:10 @ For who has despised the small days? surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zorobabel: these are the seven eyes (note:)Alex. +’of the Lord’(:note) that look upon all the earth.

bes@Zechariah:4:11 @ And I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive-trees, which are on the right and left hand of the candlestick?

bes@Zechariah:4:12 @ And I asked the second time, and said to him, What are the two branches of the olive-trees that are by the side of the two golden (note:)Gr. nostrils(:note) pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil funnels?

bes@Zechariah:4:13 @ And he said to me, Knowest thou not what these are? and I said, No, my lord.

bes@Zechariah:4:14 @ And he said, These are the two (note:)Or, sons of fatness; Re strkjv@11:4(:note) anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

bes@Zechariah:5:1 @ And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.

bes@Zechariah:5:2 @ And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying sickle, of the length of twenty cubits, and of the breadth of ten cubits.

bes@Zechariah:5:3 @ And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be punished on that side.

bes@Zechariah:5:4 @ And I will bring it forth, saith the Lord Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the stones of it.

bes@Zechariah:5:5 @ And the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up thine eyes, and see this that goes forth.

bes@Zechariah:5:6 @ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the measure that goes forth. And he said, This is their iniquity in all the earth.

bes@Zechariah:5:7 @ And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold (note:)Hebrews. and Gr. one woman; See verse 9(:note) a woman sat in the midst of the measure.

bes@Zechariah:5:8 @ And he said, This is iniquity. And he cast it into the midst of the measure, and cast the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

bes@Zechariah:5:9 @ And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork’s wings: and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.

bes@Zechariah:5:10 @ And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away the measure?

bes@Zechariah:5:11 @ And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Babylon, and to prepare a place for it; and they shall set it there on its own (note:)Gr. preparation(:note) base.

bes@Zechariah:6:1 @ And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, four chariots coming out from between two mountains; and the mountains were brazen mountains.

bes@Zechariah:6:2 @ In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

bes@Zechariah:6:3 @ and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot piebald and ash-coloured horses.

bes@Zechariah:6:4 @ And I answered and said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord?

bes@Zechariah:6:5 @ And the angel that talked with me answered and said, These are the four winds of heaven, and they are going forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.

bes@Zechariah:6:6 @ As for the chariot in which were the black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.

bes@Zechariah:6:7 @ And the ash-coloured went out, and looked to go and compass the earth: and (note:)Or, one said(:note) he said, Go, and compass the earth. And they compassed the earth.

bes@Zechariah:6:8 @ And he cried out and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these go out to the land of the north, and they have quieted mine anger in the land of the north.

bes@Zechariah:6:9 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

bes@Zechariah:6:10 @ Take the things of the captivity from (note:)Hebrews. proper names; See Authorized Version(:note) the chief men, and from the useful men of it, and from them that have understood it; and thou shalt enter in that day into the house of Josias the son of Sophonias that came out of Babylon.

bes@Zechariah:6:11 @ And thou shalt take silver and gold, and make crowns, and thou shalt put them upon the head of Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest;

bes@Zechariah:6:12 @ and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall spring up (note:)Gr. from beneath him(:note) from his stem, and build the house of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:6:13 @ And he shall receive (note:)Lit. virtue(:note) power, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and there shall be a priest on his right hand, and a peaceable counsel shall be between them both.

bes@Zechariah:6:14 @ And the crown shall be to them that wait patiently, and to the useful men (note:)Gr. of it(:note) of the captivity, and to them that have known it, and for the favour of the son of Sophonias, and for a psalm in the house of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:6:15 @ And they that are far from them shall come and build in the house of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you: and this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.

bes@Zechariah:7:1 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, that the word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chaseleu.

bes@Zechariah:7:2 @ And Sarasar and Arbeseer the king and his men sent to Bethel, and that to propitiate the Lord,

bes@Zechariah:7:3 @ speaking to the priests that were in the house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying, The holy offering has come in hither in the fifth month, as it has done already many years.

bes@Zechariah:7:4 @ And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,

bes@Zechariah:7:5 @ Speak to the whole people of the land, and to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or seventh months (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all fasted to me?

bes@Zechariah:7:6 @ And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?

bes@Zechariah:7:7 @ Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and the low country was inhabited?

bes@Zechariah:7:8 @ And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying,

bes@Zechariah:7:9 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Judge righteous judgement, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one with his brother:

bes@Zechariah:7:10 @ and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart the injury of his brother.

bes@Zechariah:7:11 @ But they refused to attend, and madly turned their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.

bes@Zechariah:7:12 @ And they made their heart disobedient, so as not to hearken to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:7:13 @ And it shall come to pass, that as he spoke, and they hearkened not, so they shall cry, and I will not hearken, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:7:14 @ And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yea they have made the choice land a desolation.

bes@Zechariah:8:1 @ And the word of the Lord Almighty came, saying,

bes@Zechariah:8:2 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for Jerusalem and for Sion with great jealousy, and I have been jealous for her with great fury.

bes@Zechariah:8:3 @ Thus saith the Lord; I will return to Sion, and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a true city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty a holy mountain.

bes@Zechariah:8:4 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; There shall yet dwell old men and old women in the streets of Jerusalem, every one holding his staff in his hand for age.

bes@Zechariah:8:5 @ And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

bes@Zechariah:8:6 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; If it shall be impossible in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, shall it also be impossible in my sight? saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:8:7 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and the west country;

bes@Zechariah:8:8 @ and I will bring them in, and cause them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.

bes@Zechariah:8:9 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words out of the mouth of the prophets, from the day that the house of the Lord Almighty was founded, and from the time that the temple was built.

bes@Zechariah:8:10 @ For before those days the wages of men could not be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his neighbour.

bes@Zechariah:8:11 @ But now I will not do to the remnant of this people according to the former days, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:8:12 @ But I will shew peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the land shall yield her produce, and the heaven shall give its dew: and I will give as an inheritance all these things to the remnant of my people.

bes@Zechariah:8:13 @ And it shall come to pass, as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Juda, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: be of good courage, and strengthen your hands.

bes@Zechariah:8:14 @ For thus saith the Lord Almighty; As I took counsel to afflict you when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord Almighty, and I repented not:

bes@Zechariah:8:15 @ so have I prepared and taken counsel in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Juda: be ye of good courage.

bes@Zechariah:8:16 @ These are the things which ye shall do; speak truth every one with his neighbour; judge truth and peaceable judgement in your gates:

bes@Zechariah:8:17 @ and let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Zechariah:8:18 @ And the word of the Lord Almighty came to me, saying,

bes@Zechariah:8:19 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Juda for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and ye shall rejoice; and love ye the truth and peace.

bes@Zechariah:8:20 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall many peoples come, and the inhabitants of many cities;

bes@Zechariah:8:21 @ and the inhabitants of five cities shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.

bes@Zechariah:8:22 @ And many peoples and many nations shall come to seek earnestly the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem, and to (note:)Gr. conciliate the face of the Lord(:note) obtain favour of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:8:23 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty; In those days my word shall be fulfilled if ten men of all the languages of the nations should take hold—even take hold of the hem of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee; for we have heard that God is with you.

bes@Zechariah:9:1 @ The burden of the word of the Lord, in the land of Sedrach, and his (note:)hxnm ambiguous(:note) sacrifice shall be in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.

bes@Zechariah:9:2 @ And in Emath, even in her coasts, are Tyre and Sidon, because they were very wise.

bes@Zechariah:9:3 @ And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself, and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.

bes@Zechariah:9:4 @ And therefore the Lord will take them for a possession, and will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be consumed with fire.

bes@Zechariah:9:5 @ Ascalon shall see, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be greatly pained, and Accaron; for she is ashamed (note:)Alex. of her hope(:note) at her trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be inhabited.

bes@Zechariah:9:6 @ And aliens shall dwell in Azotus, and I will bring down the pride of the Philistines.

bes@Zechariah:9:7 @ And I will take their blood out of their mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and these also shall be left to our God, and they shall be as a captain of a thousand in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.

bes@Zechariah:9:8 @ And I will set up a (note:)Or, bulwark; See Zep strkjv@2:14(:note) defence for my house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall there any more come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

bes@Zechariah:9:9 @ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion; proclaim it aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; (note:)Mt strkjv@21:5; Joh strkjv@12:15.(:note) behold, the King is coming to thee, just, and Gr. saving a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass, and a young foal.

bes@Zechariah:9:10 @ And he shall destroy the chariots out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and peace out of the nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the rivers to the ends of the earth.

bes@Zechariah:9:11 @ And thou by the blood of thy covenant has sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water.

bes@Zechariah:9:12 @ Ye shall dwell in strongholds, ye prisoners of the congregation: and for one day of thy (note:)Or, sojourning(:note) captivity I will recompense thee double.

bes@Zechariah:9:13 @ For I have bent thee, O Juda, for myself as a bow, I have filled (note:)Or, it with Ephraim(:note) Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Sion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword of a warrior.

bes@Zechariah:9:14 @ And the Lord shall be over them, and his arrow shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Almighty shall blow with the trumpet; and shall proceed with the tumult of his threatening.

bes@Zechariah:9:15 @ The Lord Almighty shall protect them, and they shall destroy them, and overwhelm them with sling-stones; and they shall swallow them down as wine, and fill (note:)Alex. the altar as bowls(:note) the bowls as the altar.

bes@Zechariah:9:16 @ And the Lord their God shall save them in that day, even his people as a flock; for holy stones are rolled upon his land.

bes@Zechariah:9:17 @ For if he has anything good, and if he has anything fair, the young men shall have corn, and there shall be fragrant wine to the virgins.

bes@Zechariah:10:1 @ Ask ye of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them (note:)Gr. stormy(:note) abundant rain, to every one grass in the field.

bes@Zechariah:10:2 @ For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have (note:)Or, related(:note) seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they Gr. been dried up fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

bes@Zechariah:10:3 @ Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will (note:)Or, oversee, or, look upon(:note) visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit his flock, the house of Juda, and he shall make them as his goodly horse in war.

bes@Zechariah:10:4 @ And from him he (note:)hnp ambiguous(:note) looked, and from him he set the battle in order, and from him came the bow in anger, and from him shall come forth every Lit. he that expels oppressor together.

bes@Zechariah:10:5 @ And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.

bes@Zechariah:10:6 @ And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved them: and they shall be as if I had not cast them off: for I am the Lord their God, and I will hear them.

bes@Zechariah:10:7 @ And they shall be as the warriors of Ephraim, and their heart shall rejoice as with wine: and their children also shall see it, and be glad; and their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:10:8 @ I will make a sign to them, and gather them in; for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their number before.

bes@Zechariah:10:9 @ And I will sow them among the people; and they that are afar off shall remember me: they shall nourish their children, and they shall return.

bes@Zechariah:10:10 @ And I will bring them again from the land of Egypt, and I will gather them in from among the Assyrians; and I will bring them into the land of Galaad and to Libanus; and there shall not even one of them be left behind.

bes@Zechariah:10:11 @ And they shall pass through a narrow sea, they shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deep places of the rivers shall be dried up: and all the pride of the Assyrians shall be taken away, and the sceptre of Egypt shall be removed.

bes@Zechariah:10:12 @ And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God; and they shall boast in his name, saith the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O Libanus, and let the fire devour thy cedars.

bes@Zechariah:11:2 @ Let the pine howl, because the cedar has fallen; for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted: howl, ye oaks of the land of Basan; for the thickly planted forest has been torn down.

bes@Zechariah:11:3 @ There is a voice of the shepherds mourning; for their greatness is (note:)Gr. distressed(:note) brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the Or, roaring pride of Jordan is brought down.

bes@Zechariah:11:4 @ Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Feed the sheep of the slaughter;

bes@Zechariah:11:5 @ which their possessors have slain, and have not repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them.

bes@Zechariah:11:6 @ Therefore I will no longer have mercy upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, behold, I will deliver up the men every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his king; and they shall destroy the land, and I will not rescue out of their hand.

bes@Zechariah:11:7 @ And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.

bes@Zechariah:11:8 @ And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall (note:)Or, be sorely displeased with them; Gr. be weighed down upon them(:note) grieve over them, for their souls cried out against me.

bes@Zechariah:11:9 @ And I said, I will not tend you: that which dies, let it die; and that which (note:)Or, fails(:note) falls off, let it fall off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of his neighbour.

bes@Zechariah:11:10 @ And I will take my beautiful staff, and cast it away, that I may break my covenant which I made with all the people.

bes@Zechariah:11:11 @ And it shall be broken in that day; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know that it is the word of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:11:12 @ And I will say to them, If it be good in your eyes, give me my price, or refuse it. And they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

bes@Zechariah:11:13 @ And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace, and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved for their sakes. (note:)Mt strkjv@27:9, 10(:note) And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace in the house of the Lord.

bes@Zechariah:11:14 @ And I cast away my second rod, even Line, that I might break the (note:)Compare Hebrews.; Alex. diayhkhn, covenant(:note) possession between Juda and Israel.

bes@Zechariah:11:15 @ And the Lord said to me, Take yet to thee shepherd’s implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.

bes@Zechariah:11:16 @ For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd against the land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised, nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the choice ones, and shall (note:)Or, wring their necks(:note) dislocate the joints of their necks.

bes@Zechariah:11:17 @ Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! the sword shall be upon (note:)Gr. his arms(:note) the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

bes@Zechariah:12:1 @ The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; saith the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

bes@Zechariah:12:2 @ Behold, I will make Jerusalem as trembling (note:)Or, porches, or, door-posts shaken by, etc.(:note) door-posts to all the nations round about, and in Judea there shall be a siege against Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:12:3 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that I will make Jerusalem a (note:)Or, a stone trodden by all, etc.(:note) trodden stone to all the nations: every one that tramples on it shall utterly mock at it, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

bes@Zechariah:12:4 @ In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will smite every horse with amazement, and his rider with madness: but I will open mine eyes upon the house of Juda, and I will smite all the horses of the nations with blindness.

bes@Zechariah:12:5 @ And the captains of thousands of Juda shall say in their hearts, We shall find for ourselves the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the Lord Almighty their God.

bes@Zechariah:12:6 @ In that day I will make the captains of thousands of Juda as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all the nations round about: and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself, even in Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:12:7 @ And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves against Juda.

bes@Zechariah:12:8 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the weak one among them in that day shall be as David, and the house of David as the house of God, as the angel of the Lord before them.

bes@Zechariah:12:9 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

bes@Zechariah:12:10 @ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and (note:)Joh strkjv@19:37(:note) they shall look upon me, because they have mocked me, and they shall make lamentation for him, as for a beloved friend, and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

bes@Zechariah:12:11 @ In that day the lamentation in Jerusalem shall be very great, as the mourning for the pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.

bes@Zechariah:12:12 @ And the land shall lament in (note:)See a similar construction, Mr strkjv@6:39, 40(:note) separate families, the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

bes@Zechariah:12:13 @ the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Symeon by itself, and their wives by themselves;

bes@Zechariah:12:14 @ all the families that are left, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.

bes@Zechariah:13:1 @ In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for (note:)Or, departure(:note) separation.

bes@Zechariah:13:2 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.

bes@Zechariah:13:3 @ And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou has spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.

bes@Zechariah:13:4 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he prophesies; and they shall clothe themselves with a garment of hair, because they have lied.

bes@Zechariah:13:5 @ And one shall say, I am not a prophet, for I am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up thus from my youth.

bes@Zechariah:13:6 @ And I will say to him, What are these wounds between thine hands? and he shall say, Those with which I was wounded in (note:)Alex. the house of my beloved(:note) my beloved house.

bes@Zechariah:13:7 @ Awake, O sword, against my (note:)Alex. shepherd(:note) shepherds, and against the man who is my citizen, saith the Lord Almighty: Mt strkjv@26:31 smite the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring mine hand upon the little ones.

bes@Zechariah:13:8 @ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut off and perish; but the third shall be left therein.

bes@Zechariah:13:9 @ And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

bes@Zechariah:14:1 @ Behold, the days of the Lord come, and thy spoils shall be divided in thee.

bes@Zechariah:14:2 @ And I will gather all the Gentiles to Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the rest of my people shall not be utterly cut off from the city.

bes@Zechariah:14:3 @ And the Lord shall go forth, and fight with those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of war.

bes@Zechariah:14:4 @ And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.

bes@Zechariah:14:5 @ And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.

bes@Zechariah:14:6 @ And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall be no light,

bes@Zechariah:14:7 @ and there shall be for one day (note:)Alex. qucov, cold, probably the right reading(:note) cold and frost, and that day shall be known to the Lord, and it shall not be day nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.

bes@Zechariah:14:8 @ And in that day living water shall come forth out of Jerusalem; half of it toward the former sea, and half of it toward the latter sea: and so shall it be in summer and spring.

bes@Zechariah:14:9 @ And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one,

bes@Zechariah:14:10 @ compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king’s winepresses,

bes@Zechariah:14:11 @ they shall dwell (note:)Gr. in it(:note) in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely.

bes@Zechariah:14:12 @ And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

bes@Zechariah:14:13 @ And there shall be in that day a great (note:)Or, astonishment(:note) panic from the Lord upon them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbour.

bes@Zechariah:14:14 @ Juda also shall fight in Jerusalem; and God shall gather the strength of all the nations round about, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

bes@Zechariah:14:15 @ And this shall be the overthrow of the horses, and mules, and camels, and asses, and all the beasts that are in those camps, according to this overthrow.

bes@Zechariah:14:16 @ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of (note:)Lit. tent-pitching(:note) tabernacles.

bes@Zechariah:14:17 @ And it shall come to pass, that whosoever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.

bes@Zechariah:14:18 @ And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

bes@Zechariah:14:19 @ This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

bes@Zechariah:14:20 @ In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.

bes@Zechariah:14:21 @ And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:1 @ The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Lay it, I pray you, to heart.

bes@Malachi:1:2 @ I have loved you, saith the Lord. And ye said, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet (note:)Ro strkjv@9:13(:note) I loved Jacob,

bes@Malachi:1:3 @ and hated Esau and (note:)Lit. appointed them for desolation(:note) laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?

bes@Malachi:1:4 @ Because one will say, Idumea has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself for ever.

bes@Malachi:1:5 @ And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord has been magnified (note:)Gr. above(:note) upon the borders of Israel.

bes@Malachi:1:6 @ A son honours his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honour? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. Ye the priests are they that despise my name: yet ye said, Wherein have we despised thy name?

bes@Malachi:1:7 @ In that ye bring to mine altar polluted bread; and ye said, Wherein have ye polluted it? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and that which was set thereon ye have despised.

bes@Malachi:1:8 @ For if ye bring a blind victim for sacrifices, is it not evil? and if ye bring the lame or the sick, is it not evil? offer it now to thy ruler, and see if he will receive thee, if he will accept thy person, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:9 @ And now (note:)Lit. propitiate(:note) intreat the face of your God, and make supplication to him. These things have been done by your hands; shall I accept you? saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:10 @ Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle the fire of mine altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.

bes@Malachi:1:11 @ For from the rising of the sun even to the going down thereof my name has been glorified among the Gentiles; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:12 @ But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and his meats set thereon are despised.

bes@Malachi:1:13 @ And ye said, These services are troublesome: therefore I have (note:)Gr. puffed at them(:note) utterly rejected them with scorn, saith the Lord Almighty: and ye brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then ye should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:1:14 @ And cursed is the man who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.

bes@Malachi:2:1 @ And now, O priests, this commandment is to you.

bes@Malachi:2:2 @ If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yea, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because ye lay not this to heart.

bes@Malachi:2:3 @ Behold, (note:)Gr. separate the shoulder from you(:note) I turn my back upon you, and I will scatter dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts, and I will carry you away at the same time.

bes@Malachi:2:4 @ And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with the sons of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:5 @ My covenant of life and peace was with him, and I gave (note:)Or, power, or, charge to fear me, etc.(:note) it him that he might reverently fear me, and that he might be See 2 Co strkjv@8:20 awe-struck at my name.

bes@Malachi:2:6 @ The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before me directing his way in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

bes@Malachi:2:7 @ For the priest’s lips (note:)Gr. shall(:note) should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:8 @ But ye have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in following the law: ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:9 @ And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have (note:)Gr. accepted persons(:note) been partial in the law.

bes@Malachi:2:10 @ Have ye not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have ye forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

bes@Malachi:2:11 @ Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.

bes@Malachi:2:12 @ The Lord will utterly destroy the man that does these things, until he be even cast down from out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and from among them that offer sacrifice to the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:2:13 @ And these things which I hated, ye did: ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it meet for me to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands as welcome?

bes@Malachi:2:14 @ Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou has forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

bes@Malachi:2:15 @ And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of thy youth.

bes@Malachi:2:16 @ But if thou shouldest hate thy wife and put her away, saith the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover thy thoughts, saith the Lord Almighty: therefore take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake them not,

bes@Malachi:2:17 @ ye that have provoked God with your words. But ye said, Wherein have we provoked him? In that ye say, Every one that does evil is a pleasing object in the sight of the Lord, and he takes pleasure in such; (note:)Or, and, Where, etc.(:note) and where is the God of justice?

bes@Malachi:3:1 @

bes@Malachi:3:2 @ And who will (note:)Or, wait for(:note) abide the day of his coming? or who will withstand at his appearing? for he is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of Gr. them that wash fullers.

bes@Malachi:3:3 @ He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and (note:)Gr. pour(:note) refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

bes@Malachi:3:4 @ And the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem shall be pleasing to the Lord, according to the former days, and according to the former years.

bes@Malachi:3:5 @ And I will draw near to you in judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling’s wages, and them that oppress the widow, and (note:)Gr. beat with the fist(:note) afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgement of the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:3:6 @ For I am the Lord your God, and I am not changed:

bes@Malachi:3:7 @ but ye, the sons of Jacob, have not refrained from the iniquities of your fathers: ye have perverted my statutes, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord Almighty. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

bes@Malachi:3:8 @ Will a man insult God? for ye insult me. But ye say, Wherein have we insulted thee? In that the tithes and first-fruits are with you still.

bes@Malachi:3:9 @ And ye do surely look off from me, and ye insult me.

bes@Malachi:3:10 @ The year is completed, and ye have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, saith the Lord Almighty, see if I will not open to you the (note:)Or, windows, see Ge strkjv@7:11, there rendered «flood-gates’(:note) torrents of heaven, and pour out my blessing upon you, until ye are satisfied.

bes@Malachi:3:11 @ And I will (note:)Or, give a charge for you to be fed; Alex. thn brwsin(:note) appoint food for you, and I will not destroy the fruit of your land; and your vine in the field shall not fail, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:3:12 @ And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a desirable land, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:3:13 @ Ye have spoken grievous words against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye said, Wherein have we spoken against thee?

bes@Malachi:3:14 @ Ye said, He that serves God (note:)Gr. is vain(:note) labours in vain: and what have we gained in that we have kept his ordinances, and in that we have walked as suppliants before the face of the Lord Almighty?

bes@Malachi:3:15 @ And now we pronounce strangers blessed; and all they who act unlawfully are built up; and they have resisted God, and yet have been delivered.

bes@Malachi:3:16 @ Thus spoke they that feared the Lord, every one to his neighbour: and the Lord gave heed, and hearkened, and he wrote a book of remembrance before him for them that feared the Lord and reverenced his name.

bes@Malachi:3:17 @ And they shall be (note:)Gr. for me(:note) mine, saith the Lord Almighty, in the day which I appoint for a peculiar possession; and I will make choice of them, as a man makes choice of his son that serves him.

bes@Malachi:3:18 @ Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, and between him that serves God, and him that serves him not.

bes@Malachi:4:1 @ For, behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, saith the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.

bes@Malachi:4:2 @ But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing shall be in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

bes@Malachi:4:3 @ And ye shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, saith the Lord Almighty.

bes@Malachi:4:4 @ Remember the law of my servant Moses, accordingly as I charged him with it in Choreb for all Israel, even the commandments and ordinances.

bes@Malachi:4:5 @ And, behold, I will send to you Elias the Thesbite, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes;

bes@Malachi:4:6 @

bes@Jdt:1:1 @ In the twelfth year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineve, the great city; in the days of Arphaxad, which reigned over the Medes in Ecbatane,

bes@Jdt:1:2 @ And built in Ecbatane walls round about of stones hewn three cubits broad and six cubits long, and made the height of the wall seventy cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits:

bes@Jdt:1:3 @ And set the towers thereof upon the gates of it an hundred cubits high, and the breadth thereof in the foundation threescore cubits:

bes@Jdt:1:4 @ And he made the gates thereof, even gates that were raised to the height of seventy cubits, and the breadth of them was forty cubits, for the going forth of his mighty armies, and for the setting in array of his footmen:

bes@Jdt:1:5 @ Even in those days king Nabuchodonosor made war with king Arphaxad in the great plain, which is the plain in the borders of Ragau.

bes@Jdt:1:6 @ And there came unto him all they that dwelt in the hill country, and all that dwelt by Euphrates, and Tigris and Hydaspes, and the plain of Arioch the king of the Elymeans, and very many nations of the sons of Chelod, assembled themselves to the battle.

bes@Jdt:1:7 @ Then Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians sent unto all that dwelt in Persia, and to all that dwelt westward, and to those that dwelt in Cilicia, and Damascus, and Libanus, and Antilibanus, and to all that dwelt upon the sea coast,

bes@Jdt:1:8 @ And to those among the nations that were of Carmel, and Galaad, and the higher Galilee, and the great plain of Esdrelom,

bes@Jdt:1:9 @ And to all that were in Samaria and the cities thereof, and beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, and Betane, and Chelus, and Kades, and the river of Egypt, and Taphnes, and Ramesse, and all the land of Gesem,

bes@Jdt:1:10 @ Until ye come beyond Tanis and Memphis, and to all the inhabitants of Egypt, until ye come to the borders of Ethiopia.

bes@Jdt:1:11 @ But all the inhabitants of the land made light of the commandment of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, neither went they with him to the battle; for they were not afraid of him: yea, he was before them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors from them without effect, and with disgrace.

bes@Jdt:1:12 @ Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry with all this country, and sware by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.

bes@Jdt:1:13 @ Then he marched in battle array with his power against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year, and he prevailed in his battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all his chariots,

bes@Jdt:1:14 @ And became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatane, and took the towers, and spoiled the streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame.

bes@Jdt:1:15 @ He took also Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragau, and smote him through with his darts, and destroyed him utterly that day.

bes@Jdt:1:16 @ So he returned afterward to Nineve, both he and all his company of sundry nations being a very great multitude of men of war, and there he took his ease, and banqueted, both he and his army, an hundred and twenty days.

bes@Jdt:2:1 @ And in the eighteenth year, the two and twentieth day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians that he should, as he said, avenge himself on all the earth.

bes@Jdt:2:2 @ So he called unto him all his officers, and all his nobles, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of the whole earth out of his own mouth.

bes@Jdt:2:3 @ Then they decreed to destroy all flesh, that did not obey the commandment of his mouth.

bes@Jdt:2:4 @ And when he had ended his counsel, Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians called Holofernes the chief captain of his army, which was next unto him, and said unto him.

bes@Jdt:2:5 @ Thus saith the great king, the lord of the whole earth, Behold, thou shalt go forth from my presence, and take with thee men that trust in their own strength, of footmen an hundred and twenty thousand; and the number of horses with their riders twelve thousand.

bes@Jdt:2:6 @ And thou shalt go against all the west country, because they disobeyed my commandment.

bes@Jdt:2:7 @ And thou shalt declare unto that they prepare for me earth and water: for I will go forth in my wrath against them and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of mine army, and I will give them for a spoil unto them:

bes@Jdt:2:8 @ So that their slain shall fill their valleys and brooks and the river shall be filled with their dead, till it overflow:

bes@Jdt:2:9 @ And I will lead them captives to the utmost parts of all the earth.

bes@Jdt:2:10 @ Thou therefore shalt go forth. and take beforehand for me all their coasts: and if they will yield themselves unto thee, thou shalt reserve them for me till the day of their punishment.

bes@Jdt:2:11 @ But concerning them that rebel, let not thine eye spare them; but put them to the slaughter, and spoil them wheresoever thou goest.

bes@Jdt:2:12 @ For as I live, and by the power of my kingdom, whatsoever I have spoken, that will I do by mine hand.

bes@Jdt:2:13 @ And take thou heed that thou transgress none of the commandments of thy lord, but accomplish them fully, as I have commanded thee, and defer not to do them.

bes@Jdt:2:14 @ Then Holofernes went forth from the presence of his lord, and called all the governors and captains, and the officers of the army of Assur;

bes@Jdt:2:15 @ And he mustered the chosen men for the battle, as his lord had commanded him, unto an hundred and twenty thousand, and twelve thousand archers on horseback;

bes@Jdt:2:16 @ And he ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war.

bes@Jdt:2:17 @ And he took camels and asses for their carriages, a very great number; and sheep and oxen and goats without number for their provision:

bes@Jdt:2:18 @ And plenty of victual for every man of the army, and very much gold and silver out of the king’s house.

bes@Jdt:2:19 @ Then he went forth and all his power to go before king Nabuchodonosor in the voyage, and to cover all the face of the earth westward with their chariots, and horsemen, and their chosen footmen.

bes@Jdt:2:20 @ A great number also sundry countries came with them like locusts, and like the sand of the earth: for the multitude was without number.

bes@Jdt:2:21 @ And they went forth of Nineve three days’ journey toward the plain of Bectileth, and pitched from Bectileth near the mountain which is at the left hand of the upper Cilicia.

bes@Jdt:2:22 @ Then he took all his army, his footmen, and horsemen and chariots, and went from thence into the hill country;

bes@Jdt:2:23 @ And destroyed Phud and Lud, and spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Israel, which were toward the wilderness at the south of the land of the Chellians.

bes@Jdt:2:24 @ Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, till ye come to the sea.

bes@Jdt:2:25 @ And he took the borders of Cilicia, and killed all that resisted him, and came to the borders of Japheth, which were toward the south, over against Arabia.

bes@Jdt:2:26 @ He compassed also all the children of Madian, and burned up their tabernacles, and spoiled their sheepcotes.

bes@Jdt:2:27 @ Then he went down into the plain of Damascus in the time of wheat harvest, and burnt up all their fields, and destroyed their flocks and herds, also he spoiled their cities, and utterly wasted their countries, and smote all their young men with the edge of the sword.

bes@Jdt:2:28 @ Therefore the fear and dread of him fell upon all the inhabitants of the sea coasts, which were in Sidon and Tyrus, and them that dwelt in Sur and Ocina, and all that dwelt in Jemnaan; and they that dwelt in Azotus and Ascalon feared him greatly.

bes@Jdt:3:1 @ So they sent ambassadors unto him to treat of peace, saying,

bes@Jdt:3:2 @ Behold, we the servants of Nabuchodonosor the great king lie before thee; use us as shall be good in thy sight.

bes@Jdt:3:3 @ Behold, our houses, and all our places, and all our fields of wheat, and flocks, and herds, and all the lodges of our tents lie before thy face; use them as it pleaseth thee.

bes@Jdt:3:4 @ Behold, even our cities and the inhabitants thereof are thy servants; come and deal with them as seemeth good unto thee.

bes@Jdt:3:5 @ So the men came to Holofernes, and declared unto him after this manner.

bes@Jdt:3:6 @ Then came he down toward the sea coast, both he and his army, and set garrisons in the high cities, and took out of them chosen men for aid.

bes@Jdt:3:7 @ So they and all the country round about received them with garlands, with dances, and with timbrels.

bes@Jdt:3:8 @ Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.

bes@Jdt:3:9 @ Also he came over against Esdraelon near unto Judea, over against the great strait of Judea.

bes@Jdt:3:10 @ And he pitched between Geba and Scythopolis, and there he tarried a whole month, that he might gather together all the carriages of his army.

bes@Jdt:4:1 @ Now the children of Israel, that dwelt in Judea, heard all that Holofernes the chief captain of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians had done to the nations, and after what manner he had spoiled all their temples, and brought them to nought.

bes@Jdt:4:2 @ Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God:

bes@Jdt:4:3 @ For they were newly returned from the captivity, and all the people of Judea were lately gathered together: and the vessels, and the altar, and the house, were sanctified after the profanation.

bes@Jdt:4:4 @ Therefore they sent into all the coasts of Samaria, and the villages and to Bethoron, and Belmen, and Jericho, and to Choba, and Esora, and to the valley of Salem:

bes@Jdt:4:5 @ And possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.

bes@Jdt:4:6 @ Also Joacim the high priest, which was in those days in Jerusalem, wrote to them that dwelt in Bethulia, and Betomestham, which is over against Esdraelon toward the open country, near to Dothaim,

bes@Jdt:4:7 @ Charging them to keep the passages of the hill country: for by them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop them that would come up, because the passage was straight, for two men at the most.

bes@Jdt:4:8 @ And the children of Israel did as Joacim the high priest had commanded them, with the ancients of all the people of Israel, which dwelt at Jerusalem.

bes@Jdt:4:9 @ Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and with great vehemency did they humble their souls:

bes@Jdt:4:10 @ Both they, and their wives and their children, and their cattle, and every stranger and hireling, and their servants bought with money, put sackcloth upon their loins.

bes@Jdt:4:11 @ Thus every man and women, and the little children, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple, and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the face of the Lord: also they put sackcloth about the altar,

bes@Jdt:4:12 @ And cried to the God of Israel all with one consent earnestly, that he would not give their children for a prey, and their wives for a spoil, and the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to profanation and reproach, and for the nations to rejoice at.

bes@Jdt:4:13 @ So God heard their prayers, and looked upon their afflictions: for the people fasted many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.

bes@Jdt:4:14 @ And Joacim the high priest, and all the priests that stood before the Lord, and they which ministered unto the Lord, had their loins girt with sackcloth, and offered the daily burnt offerings, with the vows and free gifts of the people,

bes@Jdt:4:15 @ And had ashes on their mitres, and cried unto the Lord with all their power, that he would look upon all the house of Israel graciously.

bes@Jdt:5:1 @ Then was it declared to Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, that the children of Israel had prepared for war, and had shut up the passages of the hill country, and had fortified all the tops of the high hills and had laid impediments in the champaign countries:

bes@Jdt:5:2 @ Wherewith he was very angry, and called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,

bes@Jdt:5:3 @ And he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Chanaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;

bes@Jdt:5:4 @ And why have they determined not to come and meet me, more than all the inhabitants of the west.

bes@Jdt:5:5 @ Then said Achior, the captain of all the sons of Ammon, Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant, and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people, which dwelleth near thee, and inhabiteth the hill countries: and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant.

bes@Jdt:5:6 @ This people are descended of the Chaldeans:

bes@Jdt:5:7 @ And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.

bes@Jdt:5:8 @ For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.

bes@Jdt:5:9 @ Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Chanaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.

bes@Jdt:5:10 @ But when a famine covered all the land of Chanaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.

bes@Jdt:5:11 @ Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtilly with them, and brought them low with labouring in brick, and made them slaves.

bes@Jdt:5:12 @ Then they cried unto their God, and he smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues: so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.

bes@Jdt:5:13 @ And God dried the Red sea before them,

bes@Jdt:5:14 @ And brought them to mount Sina, and Cades-Barne, and cast forth all that dwelt in the wilderness.

bes@Jdt:5:15 @ So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Esebon, and passing over Jordan they possessed all the hill country.

bes@Jdt:5:16 @ And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and they dwelt in that country many days.

bes@Jdt:5:17 @ And whilst they sinned not before their God, they prospered, because the God that hateth iniquity was with them.

bes@Jdt:5:18 @ But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not their’s, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.

bes@Jdt:5:19 @ But now are they returned to their God, and are come up from the places where they were scattered, and have possessed Jerusalem, where their sanctuary is, and are seated in the hill country; for it was desolate.

bes@Jdt:5:20 @ Now therefore, my lord and governor, if there be any error against this people, and they sin against their God, let us consider that this shall be their ruin, and let us go up, and we shall overcome them.

bes@Jdt:5:21 @ But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world.

bes@Jdt:5:22 @ And when Achior had finished these sayings, all the people standing round about the tent murmured, and the chief men of Holofernes, and all that dwelt by the sea side, and in Moab, spake that he should kill him.

bes@Jdt:5:23 @ For, say they, we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel: for, lo, it is a people that have no strength nor power for a strong battle

bes@Jdt:5:24 @ Now therefore, lord Holofernes, we will go up, and they shall be a prey to be devoured of all thine army.

bes@Jdt:6:1 @ And when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased, Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto Achior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations,

bes@Jdt:6:2 @ And who art thou, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that thou hast prophesied against us as to day, and hast said, that we should not make war with the people of Israel, because their God will defend them? and who is God but Nabuchodonosor?

bes@Jdt:6:3 @ He will send his power, and will destroy them from the face of the earth, and their God shall not deliver them: but we his servants will destroy them as one man; for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses.

bes@Jdt:6:4 @ For with them we will tread them under foot, and their mountains shall be drunken with their blood, and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies, and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us, for they shall utterly perish, saith king Nabuchodonosor, lord of all the earth: for he said, None of my words shall be in vain.

bes@Jdt:6:5 @ And thou, Achior, an hireling of Ammon, which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity, shalt see my face no more from this day, until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt.

bes@Jdt:6:6 @ And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.

bes@Jdt:6:7 @ Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill country, and shall set thee in one of the cities of the passages:

bes@Jdt:6:8 @ And thou shalt not perish, till thou be destroyed with them.

bes@Jdt:6:9 @ And if thou persuade thyself in thy mind that they shall be taken, let not thy countenance fall: I have spoken it, and none of my words shall be in vain.

bes@Jdt:6:10 @ Then Holofernes commanded his servants, that waited in his tent, to take Achior, and bring him to Bethulia, and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel.

bes@Jdt:6:11 @ So his servants took him, and brought him out of the camp into the plain, and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill country, and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia.

bes@Jdt:6:12 @ And when the men of the city saw them, they took up their weapons, and went out of the city to the top of the hill: and every man that used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones against them.

bes@Jdt:6:13 @ Nevertheless having gotten privily under the hill, they bound Achior, and cast him down, and left him at the foot of the hill, and returned to their lord.

bes@Jdt:6:14 @ But the Israelites descended from their city, and came unto him, and loosed him, and brought him to Bethulia, and presented him to the governors of the city:

bes@Jdt:6:15 @ Which were in those days Ozias the son of Micha, of the tribe of Simeon, and Chabris the son of Gothoniel, and Charmis the son of Melchiel.

bes@Jdt:6:16 @ And they called together all the ancients of the city, and all their youth ran together, and their women, to the assembly, and they set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him of that which was done.

bes@Jdt:6:17 @ And he answered and declared unto them the words of the council of Holofernes, and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of Assur, and whatsoever Holofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel.

bes@Jdt:6:18 @ Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried unto God. saying,

bes@Jdt:6:19 @ O Lord God of heaven, behold their pride, and pity the low estate of our nation, and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day.

bes@Jdt:6:20 @ Then they comforted Achior, and praised him greatly.

bes@Jdt:6:21 @ And Ozias took him out of the assembly unto his house, and made a feast to the elders; and they called on the God of Israel all that night for help.

bes@Jdt:7:1 @ The next day Holofernes commanded all his army, and all his people which were come to take his part, that they should remove their camp against Bethulia, to take aforehand the ascents of the hill country, and to make war against the children of Israel.

bes@Jdt:7:2 @ Then their strong men removed their camps in that day, and the army of the men of war was an hundred and seventy thousand footmen, and twelve thousand horsemen, beside the baggage, and other men that were afoot among them, a very great multitude.

bes@Jdt:7:3 @ And they camped in the valley near unto Bethulia, by the fountain, and they spread themselves in breadth over Dothaim even to Belmaim, and in length from Bethulia unto Cynamon, which is over against Esdraelon.

bes@Jdt:7:4 @ Now the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were greatly troubled, and said every one to his neighbour, Now will these men lick up the face of the earth; for neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills, are able to bear their weight.

bes@Jdt:7:5 @ Then every man took up his weapons of war, and when they had kindled fires upon their towers, they remained and watched all that night.

bes@Jdt:7:6 @ But in the second day Holofernes brought forth all his horsemen in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia,

bes@Jdt:7:7 @ And viewed the passages up to the city, and came to the fountains of their waters, and took them, and set garrisons of men of war over them, and he himself removed toward his people.

bes@Jdt:7:8 @ Then came unto him all the chief of the children of Esau, and all the governors of the people of Moab, and the captains of the sea coast, and said,

bes@Jdt:7:9 @ Let our lord now hear a word, that there be not an overthrow in thine army.

bes@Jdt:7:10 @ For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears, but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell, because it is not easy to come up to the tops of their mountains.

bes@Jdt:7:11 @ Now therefore, my lord, fight not against them in battle array, and there shall not so much as one man of thy people perish.

bes@Jdt:7:12 @ Remain in thy camp, and keep all the men of thine army, and let thy servants get into their hands the fountain of water, which issueth forth of the foot of the mountain:

bes@Jdt:7:13 @ For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence; so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.

bes@Jdt:7:14 @ So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with fire, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell.

bes@Jdt:7:15 @ Thus shalt thou render them an evil reward; because they rebelled, and met not thy person peaceably.

bes@Jdt:7:16 @ And these words pleased Holofernes and all his servants, and he appointed to do as they had spoken.

bes@Jdt:7:17 @ So the camp of the children of Ammon departed, and with them five thousand of the Assyrians, and they pitched in the valley, and took the waters, and the fountains of the waters of the children of Israel.

bes@Jdt:7:18 @ Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon, and camped in the hill country over against Dothaim: and they sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east over against Ekrebel, which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain, and covered the face of the whole land; and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude.

bes@Jdt:7:19 @ Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord their God, because their heart failed, for all their enemies had compassed them round about, and there was no way to escape out from among them.

bes@Jdt:7:20 @ Thus all the company of Assur remained about them, both their footmen, chariots, and horsemen, four and thirty days, so that all their vessels of water failed all the inhibitants of Bethulia.

bes@Jdt:7:21 @ And the cisterns were emptied, and they had not water to drink their fill for one day; for they gave them drink by measure.

bes@Jdt:7:22 @ Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the streets of the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no longer any strength in them.

bes@Jdt:7:23 @ Then all the people assembled to Ozias, and to the chief of the city, both young men, and women, and children, and cried with a loud voice, and said before all the elders,

bes@Jdt:7:24 @ God be judge between us and you: for ye have done us great injury, in that ye have not required peace of the children of Assur.

bes@Jdt:7:25 @ For now we have no helper: but God hath sold us into their hands, that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction.

bes@Jdt:7:26 @ Now therefore call them unto you, and deliver the whole city for a spoil to the people of Holofernes, and to all his army.

bes@Jdt:7:27 @ For it is better for us to be made a spoil unto them, than to die for thirst: for we will be his servants, that our souls may live, and not see the death of our infants before our eyes, nor our wives nor our children to die.

bes@Jdt:7:28 @ We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth, and our God and Lord of our fathers, which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers, that he do not according as we have said this day.

bes@Jdt:7:29 @ Then there was great weeping with one consent in the midst of the assembly; and they cried unto the Lord God with a loud voice.

bes@Jdt:7:30 @ Then said Ozias to them, Brethren, be of good courage, let us yet endure five days, in the which space the Lord our God may turn his mercy toward us; for he will not forsake us utterly.

bes@Jdt:7:31 @ And if these days pass, and there come no help unto us, I will do according to your word.

bes@Jdt:7:32 @ And he dispersed the people, every one to their own charge; and they went unto the walls and towers of their city, and sent the women and children into their houses: and they were very low brought in the city.

bes@Jdt:8:1 @ Now at that time Judith heard thereof, which was the daughter of Merari, the son of Ox, the son of Joseph, the son of Ozel, the son of Elcia, the son of Ananias, the son of Gedeon, the son of Raphaim, the son of Acitho, the son of Eliu, the son of Eliab, the son of Nathanael, the son of Samael, the son of Salasadal, the son of Israel.

bes@Jdt:8:2 @ And Manasses was her husband, of her tribe and kindred, who died in the barley harvest.

bes@Jdt:8:3 @ For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the field, the heat came upon his head, and he fell on his bed, and died in the city of Bethulia: and they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothaim and Balamo.

bes@Jdt:8:4 @ So Judith was a widow in her house three years and four months.

bes@Jdt:8:5 @ And she made her a tent upon the top of her house, and put on sackcloth upon her loins and ware her widow’s apparel.

bes@Jdt:8:6 @ And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the sabbaths, and the sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.

bes@Jdt:8:7 @ She was also of a goodly countenance, and very beautiful to behold: and her husband Manasses had left her gold, and silver, and menservants and maidservants, and cattle, and lands; and she remained upon them.

bes@Jdt:8:8 @ And there was none that gave her an ill word; ar she feared God greatly.

bes@Jdt:8:9 @ Now when she heard the evil words of the people against the governor, that they fainted for lack of water; for Judith had heard all the words that Ozias had spoken unto them, and that he had sworn to deliver the city unto the Assyrians after five days;

bes@Jdt:8:10 @ Then she sent her waitingwoman, that had the government of all things that she had, to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmis, the ancients of the city.

bes@Jdt:8:11 @ And they came unto her, and she said unto them, Hear me now, O ye governors of the inhabitants of Bethulia: for your words that ye have spoken before the people this day are not right, touching this oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you, and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies, unless within these days the Lord turn to help you.

bes@Jdt:8:12 @ And now who are ye that have tempted God this day, and stand instead of God among the children of men?

bes@Jdt:8:13 @ And now try the Lord Almighty, but ye shall never know any thing.

bes@Jdt:8:14 @ For ye cannot find the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh: then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know his mind, or comprehend his purpose? Nay, my brethren, provoke not the Lord our God to anger.

bes@Jdt:8:15 @ For if he will not help us within these five days, he hath power to defend us when he will, even every day, or to destroy us before our enemies.

bes@Jdt:8:16 @ Do not bind the counsels of the Lord our God: for God is not as man, that he may be threatened; neither is he as the son of man, that he should be wavering.

bes@Jdt:8:17 @ Therefore let us wait for salvation of him, and call upon him to help us, and he will hear our voice, if it please him.

bes@Jdt:8:18 @ For there arose none in our age, neither is there any now in these days neither tribe, nor family, nor people, nor city among us, which worship gods made with hands, as hath been aforetime.

bes@Jdt:8:19 @ For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword, and for a spoil, and had a great fall before our enemies.

bes@Jdt:8:20 @ But we know none other god, therefore we trust that he will not dispise us, nor any of our nation.

bes@Jdt:8:21 @ For if we be taken so, all Judea shall lie waste, and our sanctuary shall be spoiled; and he will require the profanation thereof at our mouth.

bes@Jdt:8:22 @ And the slaughter of our brethren, and the captivity of the country, and the desolation of our inheritance, will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles, wheresoever we shall be in bondage; and we shall be an offence and a reproach to all them that possess us.

bes@Jdt:8:23 @ For our servitude shall not be directed to favour: but the Lord our God shall turn it to dishonour.

bes@Jdt:8:24 @ Now therefore, O brethren, let us shew an example to our brethren, because their hearts depend upon us, and the sanctuary, and the house, and the altar, rest upon us.

bes@Jdt:8:25 @ Moreover let us give thanks to the Lord our God, which trieth us, even as he did our fathers.

bes@Jdt:8:26 @ Remember what things he did to Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

bes@Jdt:8:27 @ For he hath not tried us in the fire, as he did them, for the examination of their hearts, neither hath he taken vengeance on us: but the Lord doth scourge them that come near unto him, to admonish them.

bes@Jdt:8:28 @ Then said Ozias to her, All that thou hast spoken hast thou spoken with a good heart, and there is none that may gainsay thy words.

bes@Jdt:8:29 @ For this is not the first day wherein thy wisdom is manifested; but from the beginning of thy days all the people have known thy understanding, because the disposition of thine heart is good.

bes@Jdt:8:30 @ But the people were very thirsty, and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken, and to bring an oath upon ourselves, which we will not break.

bes@Jdt:8:31 @ Therefore now pray thou for us, because thou art a godly woman, and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns, and we shall faint no more.

bes@Jdt:8:32 @ Then said Judith unto them, Hear me, and I will do a thing, which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation.

bes@Jdt:8:33 @ Ye shall stand this night in the gate, and I will go forth with my waitingwoman: and within the days that ye have promised to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand.

bes@Jdt:8:34 @ But enquire not ye of mine act: for I will not declare it unto you, till the things be finished that I do.

bes@Jdt:8:35 @ Then said Ozias and the princes unto her, Go in peace, and the Lord God be before thee, to take vengeance on our enemies.

bes@Jdt:8:36 @ So they returned from the tent, and went to their wards.

bes@Jdt:9:1 @ Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed; and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice, and said,

bes@Jdt:9:2 @ O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers, who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her, and discovered the thigh to her shame, and polluted her virginity to her reproach; for thou saidst, It shall not be so; and yet they did so:

bes@Jdt:9:3 @ Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain, so that they dyed their bed in blood, being deceived, and smotest the servants with their lords, and the lords upon their thrones;

bes@Jdt:9:4 @ And hast given their wives for a prey, and their daughters to be captives, and all their spoils to be divided among thy dear children; which were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid: O God, O my God, hear me also a widow.

bes@Jdt:9:5 @ For thou hast wrought not only those things, but also the things which fell out before, and which ensued after; thou hast thought upon the things which are now, and which are to come.

bes@Jdt:9:6 @ Yea, what things thou didst determine were ready at hand, and said, Lo, we are here: for all thy ways are prepared, and thy judgements are in thy foreknowledge.

bes@Jdt:9:7 @ For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power; they are exalted with horse and man; they glory in the strength of their footmen; they trust in shield, and spear, and bow, and sling; and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles: the Lord is thy name.

bes@Jdt:9:8 @ Throw down their strength in thy power, and bring down their force in thy wrath: for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary, and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar.

bes@Jdt:9:9 @ Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads: give into mine hand, which am a widow, the power that I have conceived.

bes@Jdt:9:10 @ Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince, and the prince with the servant: break down their stateliness by the hand of a woman.

bes@Jdt:9:11 @ For thy power standeth not in multitude nor thy might in strong men: for thou art a God of the afflicted, an helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a saviour of them that are without hope.

bes@Jdt:9:12 @ I pray thee, I pray thee, O God of my father, and God of the inheritance of Israel, Lord of the heavens and earth, Creator of the waters, king of every creature, hear thou my prayer:

bes@Jdt:9:13 @ And make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe, who have purposed cruel things against thy covenant, and thy hallowed house, and against the top of Sion, and against the house of the possession of thy children.

bes@Jdt:9:14 @ And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might, and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou.

bes@Jdt:10:1 @ Now after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel, and bad made an end of all these words.

bes@Jdt:10:2 @ She rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house in the which she abode in the sabbath days, and in her feast days,

bes@Jdt:10:3 @ And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on, and put off the garments of her widowhood, and washed her body all over with water, and anointed herself with precious ointment, and braided the hair of her head, and put on a tire upon it, and put on her garments of gladness, wherewith she was clad during the life of Manasses her husband.

bes@Jdt:10:4 @ And she took sandals upon her feet, and put about her her bracelets, and her chains, and her rings, and her earrings, and all her ornaments, and decked herself bravely, to allure the eyes of all men that should see her.

bes@Jdt:10:5 @ Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine, and a cruse of oil, and filled a bag with parched corn, and lumps of figs, and with fine bread; so she folded all these things together, and laid them upon her.

bes@Jdt:10:6 @ Thus they went forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia, and found standing there Ozias and the ancients of the city, Chabris and Charmis.

bes@Jdt:10:7 @ And when they saw her, that her countenance was altered, and her apparel was changed, they wondered at her beauty very greatly, and said unto her.

bes@Jdt:10:8 @ The God, the God of our fathers give thee favour, and accomplish thine enterprizes to the glory of the children of Israel, and to the exaltation of Jerusalem. Then they worshipped God.

bes@Jdt:10:9 @ And she said unto them, Command the gates of the city to be opened unto me, that I may go forth to accomplish the things whereof ye have spoken with me. So they commanded the young men to open unto her, as she had spoken.

bes@Jdt:10:10 @ And when they had done so, Judith went out, she, and her maid with her; and the men of the city looked after her, until she was gone down the mountain, and till she had passed the valley, and could see her no more.

bes@Jdt:10:11 @ Thus they went straight forth in the valley: and the first watch of the Assyrians met her,

bes@Jdt:10:12 @ And took her, and asked her, Of what people art thou? and whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am a woman of the Hebrews, and am fled from them: for they shall be given you to be consumed:

bes@Jdt:10:13 @ And I am coming before Holofernes the chief captain of your army, to declare words of truth; and I will shew him a way, whereby he shall go, and win all the hill country, without losing the body or life of any one of his men.

bes@Jdt:10:14 @ Now when the men heard her words, and beheld her countenance, they wondered greatly at her beauty, and said unto her,

bes@Jdt:10:15 @ Thou hast saved thy life, in that thou hast hasted to come down to the presence of our lord: now therefore come to his tent, and some of us shall conduct thee, until they have delivered thee to his hands.

bes@Jdt:10:16 @ And when thou standest before him, be not afraid in thine heart, but shew unto him according to thy word; and he will entreat thee well.

bes@Jdt:10:17 @ Then they chose out of them an hundred men to accompany her and her maid; and they brought her to the tent of Holofernes.

bes@Jdt:10:18 @ Then was there a concourse throughout all the camp: for her coming was noised among the tents, and they came about her, as she stood without the tent of Holofernes, till they told him of her.

bes@Jdt:10:19 @ And they wondered at her beauty, and admired the children of Israel because of her, and every one said to his neighbour, Who would despise this people, that have among them such women? surely it is not good that one man of them be left who being let go might deceive the whole earth.

bes@Jdt:10:20 @ And they that lay near Holofernes went out, and all his servants and they brought her into the tent.

bes@Jdt:10:21 @ Now Holofernes rested upon his bed under a canopy, which was woven with purple, and gold, and emeralds, and precious stones.

bes@Jdt:10:22 @ So they shewed him of her; and he came out before his tent with silver lamps going before him.

bes@Jdt:10:23 @ And when Judith was come before him and his servants they all marvelled at the beauty of her countenance; and she fell down upon her face, and did reverence unto him: and his servants took her up.

bes@Jdt:11:1 @ Then said Holofernes unto her, Woman, be of good comfort, fear not in thine heart: for I never hurt any that was willing to serve Nabuchodonosor, the king of all the earth.

bes@Jdt:11:2 @ Now therefore, if thy people that dwelleth in the mountains had not set light by me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them: but they have done these things to themselves.

bes@Jdt:11:3 @ But now tell me wherefore thou art fled from them, and art come unto us: for thou art come for safeguard; be of good comfort, thou shalt live this night, and hereafter:

bes@Jdt:11:4 @ For none shall hurt thee, but entreat thee well, as they do the servants of king Nabuchodonosor my lord.

bes@Jdt:11:5 @ Then Judith said unto him, Receive the words of thy servant, and suffer thine handmaid to speak in thy presence, and I will declare no lie to my lord this night.

bes@Jdt:11:6 @ And if thou wilt follow the words of thine handmaid, God will bring the thing perfectly to pass by thee; and my lord shall not fail of his purposes.

bes@Jdt:11:7 @ As Nabuchodonosor king of all the earth liveth, and as his power liveth, who hath sent thee for the upholding of every living thing: for not only men shall serve him by thee, but also the beasts of the field, and the cattle, and the fowls of the air, shall live by thy power under Nabuchodonosor and all his house.

bes@Jdt:11:8 @ For we have heard of thy wisdom and thy policies, and it is reported in all the earth, that thou only art excellent in all the kingdom, and mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.

bes@Jdt:11:9 @ Now as concerning the matter, which Achior did speak in thy council, we have heard his words; for the men of Bethulia saved him, and he declared unto them all that he had spoken unto thee.

bes@Jdt:11:10 @ Therefore, O lord and governor, reject not his word; but lay it up in thine heart, for it is true: for our nation shall not be punished, neither can sword prevail against them, except they sin against their God.

bes@Jdt:11:11 @ And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, even death is now fallen upon them, and their sin hath overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger whensoever they shall do that which is not fit to be done:

bes@Jdt:11:12 @ For their victuals fail them, and all their water is scant, and they have determined to lay hands upon their cattle, and purposed to consume all those things, that God hath forbidden them to eat by his laws:

bes@Jdt:11:13 @ And are resolved to spend the firstfruits of the the tenths of wine and oil, which they had sanctified, and reserved for the priests that serve in Jerusalem before the face of our God; the which things it is not lawful for any of the people so much as to touch with their hands.

bes@Jdt:11:14 @ For they have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done the like, to bring them a licence from the senate.

bes@Jdt:11:15 @ Now when they shall bring them word, they will forthwith do it, and they shall be given to thee to be destroyed the same day.

bes@Jdt:11:16 @ Wherefore I thine handmaid, knowing all this, am fled from their presence; and God hath sent me to work things with thee, whereat all the earth shall be astonished, and whosoever shall hear it.

bes@Jdt:11:17 @ For thy servant is religious, and serveth the God of heaven day and night: now therefore, my lord, I will remain with thee, and thy servant will go out by night into the valley, and I will pray unto God, and he will tell me when they have committed their sins:

bes@Jdt:11:18 @ And I will come and shew it unto thee: then thou shalt go forth with all thine army, and there shall be none of them that shall resist thee.

bes@Jdt:11:19 @ And I will lead thee through the midst of Judea, until thou come before Jerusalem; and I will set thy throne in the midst thereof; and thou shalt drive them as sheep that have no shepherd, and a dog shall not so much as open his mouth at thee: for these things were told me according to my foreknowledge, and they were declared unto me, and I am sent to tell thee.

bes@Jdt:11:20 @ Then her words pleased Holofernes and all his servants; and they marvelled at her wisdom, and said,

bes@Jdt:11:21 @ There is not such a woman from one end of the earth to the other, both for beauty of face, and wisdom of words.

bes@Jdt:11:22 @ Likewise Holofernes said unto her. God hath done well to send thee before the people, that strength might be in our hands and destruction upon them that lightly regard my lord.

bes@Jdt:11:23 @ And now thou art both beautiful in thy countenance, and witty in thy words: surely if thou do as thou hast spoken thy God shall be my God, and thou shalt dwell in the house of king Nabuchodonosor, and shalt be renowned through the whole earth.

bes@Jdt:12:1 @ Then he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set; and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats, and that she should drink of his own wine.

bes@Jdt:12:2 @ And Judith said, I will not eat thereof, lest there be an offence: but provision shall be made for me of the things that I have brought.

bes@Jdt:12:3 @ Then Holofernes said unto her, If thy provision should fail, how should we give thee the like? for there be none with us of thy nation.

bes@Jdt:12:4 @ Then said Judith unto him As thy soul liveth, my lord, thine handmaid shall not spend those things that I have, before the Lord work by mine hand the things that he hath determined.

bes@Jdt:12:5 @ Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent, and she slept till midnight, and she arose when it was toward the morning watch,

bes@Jdt:12:6 @ And sent to Holofernes, saving, Let my lord now command that thine handmaid may go forth unto prayer.

bes@Jdt:12:7 @ Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay her: thus she abode in the camp three days, and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia, and washed herself in a fountain of water by the camp.

bes@Jdt:12:8 @ And when she came out, she besought the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people.

bes@Jdt:12:9 @ So she came in clean, and remained in the tent, until she did eat her meat at evening.

bes@Jdt:12:10 @ And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own servants only, and called none of the officers to the banquet.

bes@Jdt:12:11 @ Then said he to Bagoas the eunuch, who had charge over all that he had, Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman which is with thee, that she come unto us, and eat and drink with us.

bes@Jdt:12:12 @ For, lo, it will be a shame for our person, if we shall let such a woman go, not having had her company; for if we draw her not unto us, she will laugh us to scorn.

bes@Jdt:12:13 @ Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes, and came to her, and he said, Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord, and to be honoured in his presence, and drink wine, and be merry with us and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians, which serve in the house of Nabuchodonosor.

bes@Jdt:12:14 @ Then said Judith unto him, Who am I now, that I should gainsay my lord? surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily, and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death.

bes@Jdt:12:15 @ So she arose, and decked herself with her apparel and all her woman’s attire, and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against Holofernes, which she had received of Bagoas for her daily use, that she might sit and eat upon them.

bes@Jdt:12:16 @ Now when Judith came in and sat down, Holofernes his heart was ravished with her, and his mind was moved, and he desired greatly her company; for he waited a time to deceive her, from the day that he had seen her.

bes@Jdt:12:17 @ Then said Holofernes unto her, Drink now, and be merry with us.

bes@Jdt:12:18 @ So Judith said, I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.

bes@Jdt:12:19 @ Then she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared.

bes@Jdt:12:20 @ And Holofernes took great delight in her, and drank more wine than he had drunk at any time in one day since he was born.

bes@Jdt:13:1 @ Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.

bes@Jdt:13:2 @ And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine.

bes@Jdt:13:3 @ Now Judith had commanded her maid to stand without her bedchamber, and to wait for her. coming forth, as she did daily: for she said she would go forth to her prayers, and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose.

bes@Jdt:13:4 @ So all went forth and none was left in the bedchamber, neither little nor great. Then Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look at this present upon the works of mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem.

bes@Jdt:13:5 @ For now is the time to help thine inheritance, and to execute thine enterprizes to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against us.

bes@Jdt:13:6 @ Then she came to the pillar of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, and took down his fauchion from thence,

bes@Jdt:13:7 @ And approached to his bed, and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, Strengthen me, O Lord God of Israel, this day.

bes@Jdt:13:8 @ And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.

bes@Jdt:13:9 @ And tumbled his body down from the bed, and pulled down the canopy from the pillars; and anon after she went forth, and gave Holofernes his head to her maid;

bes@Jdt:13:10 @ And she put it in her bag of meat: so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer: and when they passed the camp, they compassed the valley, and went up the mountain of Bethulia, and came to the gates thereof.

bes@Jdt:13:11 @ Then said Judith afar off, to the watchmen at the gate, Open, open now the gate: God, even our God, is with us, to shew his power yet in Jerusalem, and his forces against the enemy, as he hath even done this day.

bes@Jdt:13:12 @ Now when the men of her city heard her voice, they made haste to go down to the gate of their city, and they called the elders of the city.

bes@Jdt:13:13 @ And then they ran all together, both small and great, for it was strange unto them that she was come: so they opened the gate, and received them, and made a fire for a light, and stood round about them.

bes@Jdt:13:14 @ Then she said to them with a loud voice, Praise, praise God, praise God, I say, for he hath not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel, but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night.

bes@Jdt:13:15 @ So she took the head out of the bag, and shewed it, and said unto them, behold the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Assur, and behold the canopy, wherein he did lie in his drunkenness; and the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman.

bes@Jdt:13:16 @ As the Lord liveth, who hath kept me in my way that I went, my countenance hath deceived him to his destruction, and yet hath he not committed sin with me, to defile and shame me.

bes@Jdt:13:17 @ Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed themselves and worshipped God, and said with one accord, Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people.

bes@Jdt:13:18 @ Then said Ozias unto her, O daughter, blessed art thou of the most high God above all the women upon the earth; and blessed be the Lord God, which hath created the heavens and the earth, which hath directed thee to the cutting off of the head of the chief of our enemies.

bes@Jdt:13:19 @ For this thy confidence shall not depart from the heart of men, which remember the power of God for ever.

bes@Jdt:13:20 @ And God turn these things to thee for a perpetual praise, to visit thee in good things because thou hast not spared thy life for the affliction of our nation, but hast revenged our ruin, walking a straight way before our God. And all the people said; So be it, so be it.

bes@Jdt:14:1 @ Then said Judith unto them, Hear me now, my brethren, and take this head, and hang it upon the highest place of your walls.

bes@Jdt:14:2 @ And so soon as the morning shall appear, and the sun shall come forth upon the earth, take ye every one his weapons, and go forth every valiant man out of the city, and set ye a captain over them, as though ye would go down into the field toward the watch of the Assyrians; but go not down.

bes@Jdt:14:3 @ Then they shall take their armour, and shall go into their camp, and raise up the captains of the army of Assur, and shall run to the tent of Holofernes, but shall not find him: then fear shall fall upon them, and they shall flee before your face.

bes@Jdt:14:4 @ So ye, and all that inhabit the coast of Israel, shall pursue them, and overthrow them as they go.

bes@Jdt:14:5 @ But before ye do these things, call me Achior the Ammonite, that he may see and know him that despised the house of Israel, and that sent him to us as it were to his death.

bes@Jdt:14:6 @ Then they called Achior out of the house of Ozias; and when he was come, and saw the head of Holofernes in a man’s hand in the assembly of the people, he fell down on his face, and his spirit failed.

bes@Jdt:14:7 @ But when they had recovered him, he fell at Judith’s feet, and reverenced her, and said, Blessed art thou in all the tabernacles of Juda, and in all nations, which hearing thy name shall be astonished.

bes@Jdt:14:8 @ Now therefore tell me all the things that thou hast done in these days. Then Judith declared unto him in the midst of the people all that she had done, from the day that she went forth until that hour she spake unto them.

bes@Jdt:14:9 @ And when she had left off speaking, the people shouted with a loud voice, and made a joyful noise in their city.

bes@Jdt:14:10 @ And when Achior had seen all that the God of Israel had done, he believed in God greatly, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined unto the house of Israel unto this day.

bes@Jdt:14:11 @ And as soon as the morning arose, they hanged the head of Holofernes upon the wall, and every man took his weapons, and they went forth by bands unto the straits of the mountain.

bes@Jdt:14:12 @ But when the Assyrians saw them, they sent to their leaders, which came to their captains and tribunes, and to every one of their rulers.

bes@Jdt:14:13 @ So they came to Holofernes’ tent, and said to him that had the charge of all his things, Waken now our lord: for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.

bes@Jdt:14:14 @ Then went in Bagoas, and knocked at the door of the tent; for he thought that he had slept with Judith.

bes@Jdt:14:15 @ But because none answered, he opened it, and went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the floor dead, and his head was taken from him.

bes@Jdt:14:16 @ Therefore he cried with a loud voice, with weeping, and sighing, and a mighty cry, and rent his garments.

bes@Jdt:14:17 @ After he went into the tent where Judith lodged: and when he found her not, he leaped out to the people, and cried,

bes@Jdt:14:18 @ These slaves have dealt treacherously; one woman of the Hebrews hath brought shame upon the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for, behold, Holofernes lieth upon the ground without a head.

bes@Jdt:14:19 @ When the captains of the Assyrians’ army heard these words, they rent their coats and their minds were wonderfully troubled, and there was a cry and a very great noise throughout the camp.

bes@Jdt:15:1 @ And when they that were in the tents heard, they were astonished at the thing that was done.

bes@Jdt:15:2 @ And fear and trembling fell upon them, so that there was no man that durst abide in the sight of his neighbour, but rushing out all together, they fled into every way of the plain, and of the hill country.

bes@Jdt:15:3 @ They also that had camped in the mountains round about Bethulia fled away. Then the children of Israel, every one that was a warrior among them, rushed out upon them.

bes@Jdt:15:4 @ Then sent Ozias to Betomasthem, and to Bebai, and Chobai, and Cola and to all the coasts of Israel, such as should tell the things that were done, and that all should rush forth upon their enemies to destroy them.

bes@Jdt:15:5 @ Now when the children of Israel heard it, they all fell upon them with one consent, and slew them unto Chobai: likewise also they that came from Jerusalem, and from all the hill country, (for men had told them what things were done in the camp of their enemies) and they that were in Galaad, and in Galilee, chased them with a great slaughter, until they were past Damascus and the borders thereof.

bes@Jdt:15:6 @ And the residue that dwelt at Bethulia, fell upon the camp of Assur, and spoiled them, and were greatly enriched.

bes@Jdt:15:7 @ And the children of Israel that returned from the slaughter had that which remained; and the villages and the cities, that were in the mountains and in the plain, gat many spoils: for the multitude was very great.

bes@Jdt:15:8 @ Then Joacim the high priest, and the ancients of the children of Israel that dwelt in Jerusalem, came to behold the good things that God had shewed to Israel, and to see Judith, and to salute her.

bes@Jdt:15:9 @ And when they came unto her, they blessed her with one accord, and said unto her, Thou art the exaltation of Jerusalem, thou art the great glory of Israel, thou art the great rejoicing of our nation:

bes@Jdt:15:10 @ Thou hast done all these things by thine hand: thou hast done much good to Israel, and God is pleased therewith: blessed be thou of the Almighty Lord for evermore. And all the people said, So be it.

bes@Jdt:15:11 @ And the people spoiled the camp the space of thirty days: and they gave unto Judith Holofernes his tent, and all his plate, and beds, and vessels, and all his stuff: and she took it and laid it on her mule; and made ready her carts, and laid them thereon.

bes@Jdt:15:12 @ Then all the women of Israel ran together to see her, and blessed her, and made a dance among them for her: and she took branches in her hand, and gave also to the women that were with her.

bes@Jdt:15:13 @ And they put a garland of olive upon her and her maid that was with her, and she went before all the people in the dance, leading all the women: and all the men of Israel followed in their armour with garlands, and with songs in their mouths.

bes@Jdt:16:1 @ Then Judith began to sing this thanksgiving in all Israel, and all the people sang after her this song of praise.

bes@Jdt:16:2 @ And Judith said, Begin unto my God with timbrels, sing unto my Lord with cymbals: tune unto him a new psalm: exalt him, and call upon his name.

bes@Jdt:16:3 @ For God breaketh the battles: for among the camps in the midst of the people he hath delivered me out of the hands of them that persecuted me.

bes@Jdt:16:4 @ Assur came out of the mountains from the north, he came with ten thousands of his army, the multitude whereof stopped the torrents, and their horsemen have covered the hills.

bes@Jdt:16:5 @ He bragged that he would burn up my borders, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash the sucking children against the ground, and make mine infants as a prey, and my virgins as a spoil.

bes@Jdt:16:6 @ But the Almighty Lord hath disappointed them by the hand of a woman.

bes@Jdt:16:7 @ For the mighty one did not fall by the young men, neither did the sons of the Titans smite him, nor high giants set upon him: but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the beauty of her countenance.

bes@Jdt:16:8 @ For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those that were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with ointment, and bound her hair in a tire, and took a linen garment to deceive him.

bes@Jdt:16:9 @ Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty took his mind prisoner, and the fauchion passed through his neck.

bes@Jdt:16:10 @ The Persians quaked at her boldness, and the Medes were daunted at her hardiness.

bes@Jdt:16:11 @ Then my afflicted shouted for joy, and my weak ones cried aloud; but they were astonished: these lifted up their voices, but they were overthrown.

bes@Jdt:16:12 @ The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and wounded them as fugatives’ children: they perished by the battle of the Lord.

bes@Jdt:16:13 @ I will sing unto the Lord a new song: O Lord, thou art great and glorious, wonderful in strength, and invincible.

bes@Jdt:16:14 @ Let all creatures serve thee: for thou spakest, and they were made, thou didst send forth thy spirit, and it created them, and there is none that can resist thy voice.

bes@Jdt:16:15 @ For the mountains shall be moved from their foundations with the waters, the rocks shall melt as wax at thy presence: yet thou art merciful to them that fear thee.

bes@Jdt:16:16 @ For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto thee, and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he that feareth the Lord is great at all times.

bes@Jdt:16:17 @ Woe to the nations that rise up against my kindred! the Lord Almighty will take vengeance of them in the day of judgement, in putting fire and worms in their flesh; and they shall feel them, and weep for ever.

bes@Jdt:16:18 @ Now as soon as they entered into Jerusalem, they worshipped the Lord; and as soon as the people were purified, they offered their burnt offerings, and their free offerings, and their gifts.

bes@Jdt:16:19 @ Judith also dedicated all the stuff of Holofernes, which the people had given her, and gave the canopy, which she had taken out of his bedchamber, for a gift unto the Lord.

bes@Jdt:16:20 @ So the people continued feasting in Jerusalem before the sanctuary for the space of three months and Judith remained with them.

bes@Jdt:16:21 @ After this time every one returned to his own inheritance, and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was in her time honourable in all the country.

bes@Jdt:16:22 @ And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.

bes@Jdt:16:23 @ But she increased more and more in honour, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being an hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.

bes@Jdt:16:24 @ And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.

bes@Jdt:16:25 @ And there was none that made the children of Israel any more afraid in the days of Judith, nor a long time after her death.

bes@Wis:1:1 @ Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth: think of the Lord with a good (heart,) and in simplicity of heart seek him.

bes@Wis:1:2 @ For he will be found of them that tempt him not; and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him.

bes@Wis:1:3 @ For froward thoughts separate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.

bes@Wis:1:4 @ For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin.

bes@Wis:1:5 @ For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in.

bes@Wis:1:6 @ For wisdom is a loving spirit; and will not acquit a blasphemer of his words: for God is witness of his reins, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.

bes@Wis:1:7 @ For the Spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.

bes@Wis:1:8 @ Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him.

bes@Wis:1:9 @ For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked deeds.

bes@Wis:1:10 @ For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.

bes@Wis:1:11 @ Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.

bes@Wis:1:12 @ Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

bes@Wis:1:13 @ For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.

bes@Wis:1:14 @ For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:

bes@Wis:1:15 @ (For righteousness is immortal:)

bes@Wis:1:16 @ But ungodly men with their works and words called it to them: for when they thought to have it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a covenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.

bes@Wis:2:1 @ For the ungodly said, reasoning with themselves, but not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave.

bes@Wis:2:2 @ For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart:

bes@Wis:2:3 @ Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air,

bes@Wis:2:4 @ And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.

bes@Wis:2:5 @ For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again.

bes@Wis:2:6 @ Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present: and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth.

bes@Wis:2:7 @ Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:

bes@Wis:2:8 @ Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

bes@Wis:2:9 @ Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this.

bes@Wis:2:10 @ Let us oppress the poor righteous man, let us not spare the widow, nor reverence the ancient gray hairs of the aged.

bes@Wis:2:11 @ Let our strength be the law of justice: for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth.

bes@Wis:2:12 @ Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

bes@Wis:2:13 @ He professeth to have the knowledge of God: and he calleth himself the child of the Lord.

bes@Wis:2:14 @ He was made to reprove our thoughts.

bes@Wis:2:15 @ He is grievous unto us even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, his ways are of another fashion.

bes@Wis:2:16 @ We are esteemed of him as counterfeits: he abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness: he pronounceth the end of the just to be blessed, and maketh his boast that God is his father.

bes@Wis:2:17 @ Let us see if his words be true: and let us prove what shall happen in the end of him.

bes@Wis:2:18 @ For if the just man be the son of God, he will help him, and deliver him from the hand of his enemies.

bes@Wis:2:19 @ Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience.

bes@Wis:2:20 @ Let us condemn him with a shameful death: for by his own saying he shall be respected.

bes@Wis:2:21 @ Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.

bes@Wis:2:22 @ As for the mysteries of God, they knew them not: neither hoped they for the wages of righteousness, nor discerned a reward for blameless souls.

bes@Wis:2:23 @ For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.

bes@Wis:2:24 @ Nevertheless through envy of the devil came death into the world: and they that do hold of his side do find it.

bes@Wis:3:1 @ But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.

bes@Wis:3:2 @ In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery,

bes@Wis:3:3 @ And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.

bes@Wis:3:4 @ For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.

bes@Wis:3:5 @ And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.

bes@Wis:3:6 @ As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.

bes@Wis:3:7 @ And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble.

bes@Wis:3:8 @ They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.

bes@Wis:3:9 @ They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth: and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect.

bes@Wis:3:10 @ But the ungodly shall be punished according to their own imaginations, which have neglected the righteous, and forsaken the Lord.

bes@Wis:3:11 @ For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture, he is miserable, and their hope is vain, their labours unfruitful, and their works unprofitable:

bes@Wis:3:12 @ Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:

bes@Wis:3:13 @ Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, which hath not known the sinful bed: she shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.

bes@Wis:3:14 @ And blessed is the eunuch, which with his hands hath wrought no iniquity, nor imagined wicked things against God: for unto him shall be given the special gift of faith, and an inheritance in the temple of the Lord more acceptable to his mind.

bes@Wis:3:15 @ For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away.

bes@Wis:3:16 @ As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.

bes@Wis:3:17 @ For though they live long, yet shall they be nothing regarded: and their last age shall be without honour.

bes@Wis:3:18 @ Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort in the day of trial.

bes@Wis:3:19 @ For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.

bes@Wis:4:1 @ Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.

bes@Wis:4:2 @ When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it: it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.

bes@Wis:4:3 @ But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation.

bes@Wis:4:4 @ For though they flourish in branches for a time; yet standing not last, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.

bes@Wis:4:5 @ The imperfect branches shall be broken off, their fruit unprofitable, not ripe to eat, yea, meet for nothing.

bes@Wis:4:6 @ For children begotten of unlawful beds are witnesses of wickedness against their parents in their trial.

bes@Wis:4:7 @ But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.

bes@Wis:4:8 @ For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years.

bes@Wis:4:9 @ But wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.

bes@Wis:4:10 @ He pleased God, and was beloved of him: so that living among sinners he was translated.

bes@Wis:4:11 @ Yea speedily was he taken away, lest that wickedness should alter his understanding, or deceit beguile his soul.

bes@Wis:4:12 @ For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; and the wandering of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind.

bes@Wis:4:13 @ He, being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time:

bes@Wis:4:14 @ For his soul pleased the Lord: therefore hasted he to take him away from among the wicked.

bes@Wis:4:15 @ This the people saw, and understood it not, neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect unto his chosen.

bes@Wis:4:16 @ Thus the righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living; and youth that is soon perfected the many years and old age of the unrighteous.

bes@Wis:4:17 @ For they shall see the end of the wise, and shall not understand what God in his counsel hath decreed of him, and to what end the Lord hath set him in safety.

bes@Wis:4:18 @ They shall see him, and despise him; but God shall laugh them to scorn: and they shall hereafter be a vile carcase, and a reproach among the dead for evermore.

bes@Wis:4:19 @ For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; and he shall shake them from the foundation; and they shall be utterly laid waste, and be in sorrow; and their memorial shall perish.

bes@Wis:4:20 @ And when they cast up the accounts of their sins, they shall come with fear: and their own iniquities shall convince them to their face.

bes@Wis:5:1 @ Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.

bes@Wis:5:2 @ When they see it, they shall be troubled with terrible fear, and shall be amazed at the strangeness of his salvation, so far beyond all that they looked for.

bes@Wis:5:3 @ And they repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit shall say within themselves, This was he, whom we had sometimes in derision, and a proverb of reproach:

bes@Wis:5:4 @ We fools accounted his life madness, and his end to be without honour:

bes@Wis:5:5 @ How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!

bes@Wis:5:6 @ Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.

bes@Wis:5:7 @ We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yea, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way: but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.

bes@Wis:5:8 @ What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?

bes@Wis:5:9 @ All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by;

bes@Wis:5:10 @ And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water, which when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves;

bes@Wis:5:11 @ Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is to be found;

bes@Wis:5:12 @ Or like as when an arrow is shot at a mark, it parteth the air, which immediately cometh together again, so that a man cannot know where it went through:

bes@Wis:5:13 @ Even so we in like manner, as soon as we were born, began to draw to our end, and had no sign of virtue to shew; but were consumed in our own wickedness.

bes@Wis:5:14 @ For the hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind; like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm; like as the smoke which is dispersed here and there with a tempest, and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.

bes@Wis:5:15 @ But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High.

bes@Wis:5:16 @ Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord’s hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.

bes@Wis:5:17 @ He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies.

bes@Wis:5:18 @ He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true judgement instead of an helmet.

bes@Wis:5:19 @ He shall take holiness for an invincible shield.

bes@Wis:5:20 @ His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise.

bes@Wis:5:21 @ Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.

bes@Wis:5:22 @ And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them.

bes@Wis:5:23 @ Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.

bes@Wis:6:1 @ Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth.

bes@Wis:6:2 @ Give ear, ye that rule the people, and glory in the multitude of nations.

bes@Wis:6:3 @ For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels.

bes@Wis:6:4 @ Because, being ministers of his kingdom, ye have not judged aright, nor kept the law, nor walked after the counsel of God;

bes@Wis:6:5 @ Horribly and speedily shall he come upon you: for a sharp judgement shall be to them that be in high places.

bes@Wis:6:6 @ For mercy will soon pardon the meanest: but mighty men shall be mightily tormented.

bes@Wis:6:7 @ For he which is Lord over all shall fear no man’s person, neither shall he stand in awe of any man’s greatness: for he hath made the small and great, and careth for all alike.

bes@Wis:6:8 @ But a sore trial shall come upon the mighty.

bes@Wis:6:9 @ Unto you therefore, O kings, do I speak, that ye may learn wisdom, and not fall away.

bes@Wis:6:10 @ For they that keep holiness holily shall be judged holy: and they that have learned such things shall find what to answer.

bes@Wis:6:11 @ Wherefore set your affection upon my words; desire them, and ye shall be instructed.

bes@Wis:6:12 @ Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: yea, she is easily seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.

bes@Wis:6:13 @ She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.

bes@Wis:6:14 @ Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he shall find her sitting at his doors.

bes@Wis:6:15 @ To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.

bes@Wis:6:16 @ For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.

bes@Wis:6:17 @ For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline; and the care of discipline is love;

bes@Wis:6:18 @ And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption;

bes@Wis:6:19 @ And incorruption maketh us near unto God:

bes@Wis:6:20 @ Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.

bes@Wis:6:21 @ If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.

bes@Wis:6:22 @ As for wisdom, what she is, and how she came up, I will tell you, and will not hide mysteries from you: but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity, and bring the knowledge of her into light, and will not pass over the truth.

bes@Wis:6:23 @ Neither will I go with consuming envy; for such a man shall have no fellowship with wisdom.

bes@Wis:6:24 @ But the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world: and a wise king is the upholding of the people.

bes@Wis:6:25 @ Receive therefore instruction through my words, and it shall do you good.

bes@Wis:7:1 @ I myself also am a mortal man, like to all, and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,

bes@Wis:7:2 @ And in my mother’s womb was fashioned to be flesh in the time of ten months, being compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure that came with sleep.

bes@Wis:7:3 @ And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

bes@Wis:7:4 @ I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and that with cares.

bes@Wis:7:5 @ For there is no king that had any other beginning of birth.

bes@Wis:7:6 @ For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

bes@Wis:7:7 @ Wherefore I prayed, and understanding was given me: I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.

bes@Wis:7:8 @ I preferred her before sceptres and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.

bes@Wis:7:9 @ Neither compared I unto her any precious stone, because all gold in respect of her is as a little sand, and silver shall be counted as clay before her.

bes@Wis:7:10 @ I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for the light that cometh from her never goeth out.

bes@Wis:7:11 @ All good things together came to me with her, and innumerable riches in her hands.

bes@Wis:7:12 @ And I rejoiced in them all, because wisdom goeth before them: and I knew not that she was the mother of them.

bes@Wis:7:13 @ I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.

bes@Wis:7:14 @ For she is a treasure unto men that never faileth: which they that use become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts that come from learning.

bes@Wis:7:15 @ God hath granted me to speak as I would, and to conceive as is meet for the things that are given me: because it is he that leadeth unto wisdom, and directeth the wise.

bes@Wis:7:16 @ For in his hand are both we and our words; all wisdom also, and knowledge of workmanship.

bes@Wis:7:17 @ For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the elements:

bes@Wis:7:18 @ The beginning, ending, and midst of the times: the alterations of the turning of the sun, and the change of seasons:

bes@Wis:7:19 @ The circuits of years, and the positions of stars:

bes@Wis:7:20 @ The natures of living creatures, and the furies of wild beasts: the violence of winds, and the reasonings of men: the diversities of plants and the virtues of roots:

bes@Wis:7:21 @ And all such things as are either secret or manifest, them I know.

bes@Wis:7:22 @ For wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me: for in her is an understanding spirit holy, one only, manifold, subtil, lively, clear, undefiled, plain, not subject to hurt, loving the thing that is good quick, which cannot be letted, ready to do good,

bes@Wis:7:23 @ Kind to man, steadfast, sure, free from care, having all power, overseeing all things, and going through all understanding, pure, and most subtil, spirits.

bes@Wis:7:24 @ For wisdom is more moving than any motion: she passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her pureness.

bes@Wis:7:25 @ For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty: therefore can no defiled thing fall into her.

bes@Wis:7:26 @ For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.

bes@Wis:7:27 @ And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.

bes@Wis:7:28 @ For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.

bes@Wis:7:29 @ For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.

bes@Wis:7:30 @ For after this cometh night: but vice shall not prevail against wisdom.

bes@Wis:8:1 @ Wisdom reacheth from one end to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order all things.

bes@Wis:8:2 @ I loved her, and sought her out from my youth, I desired to make her my spouse, and I was a lover of her beauty.

bes@Wis:8:3 @ In that she is conversant with God, she magnifieth her nobility: yea, the Lord of all things himself loved her.

bes@Wis:8:4 @ For she is privy to the mysteries of the knowledge of God, and a lover of his works.

bes@Wis:8:5 @ If riches be a possession to be desired in this life; what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?

bes@Wis:8:6 @ And if prudence work; who of all that are is a more cunning workman than she?

bes@Wis:8:7 @ And if a man love righteousness her labours are virtues: for she teacheth temperance and prudence, justice and fortitude: which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.

bes@Wis:8:8 @ If a man desire much experience, she knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come: she knoweth the subtilties of speeches, and can expound dark sentences: she foreseeth signs and wonders, and the events of seasons and times.

bes@Wis:8:9 @ Therefore I purposed to take her to me to live with me, knowing that she would be a counsellor of good things, and a comfort in cares and grief.

bes@Wis:8:10 @ For her sake I shall have estimation among the multitude, and honour with the elders, though I be young.

bes@Wis:8:11 @ I shall be found of a quick conceit in judgement, and shall be admired in the sight of great men.

bes@Wis:8:12 @ When I hold my tongue, they shall bide my leisure, and when I speak, they shall give good ear unto me: if I talk much, they shall lay their hands upon their mouth.

bes@Wis:8:13 @ Moreover by the means of her I shall obtain immortality, and leave behind me an everlasting memorial to them that come after me.

bes@Wis:8:14 @ I shall set the people in order, and the nations shall be subject unto me.

bes@Wis:8:15 @ Horrible tyrants shall be afraid, when they do but hear of me; I shall be found good among the multitude, and valiant in war.

bes@Wis:8:16 @ After I am come into mine house, I will repose myself with her: for her conversation hath no bitterness; and to live with her hath no sorrow, but mirth and joy.

bes@Wis:8:17 @ Now when I considered these things in myself, and pondered them in my heart, how that to be allied unto wisdom is immortality;

bes@Wis:8:18 @ And great pleasure it is to have her friendship; and in the works of her hands are infinite riches; and in the exercise of conference with her, prudence; and in talking with her, a good report; I went about seeking how to take her to me.

bes@Wis:8:19 @ For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit.

bes@Wis:8:20 @ Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.

bes@Wis:8:21 @ Nevertheless, when I perceived that I could not otherwise obtain her, except God gave her me; and that was a point of wisdom also to know whose gift she was; I prayed unto the Lord, and besought him, and with my whole heart I said,

bes@Wis:9:1 @ O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercy, who hast made all things with thy word,

bes@Wis:9:2 @ And ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creatures which thou hast made,

bes@Wis:9:3 @ And order the world according to equity and righteousness, and execute judgement with an upright heart:

bes@Wis:9:4 @ Give me wisdom, that sitteth by thy throne; and reject me not from among thy children:

bes@Wis:9:5 @ For I thy servant and son of thine handmaid am a feeble person, and of a short time, and too young for the understanding of judgement and laws.

bes@Wis:9:6 @ For though a man be never so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded.

bes@Wis:9:7 @ Thou hast chosen me to be a king of thy people, and a judge of thy sons and daughters:

bes@Wis:9:8 @ Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount, and an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, a resemblance of the holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.

bes@Wis:9:9 @ And wisdom was with thee: which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou madest the world, and knew what was acceptable in thy sight, and right in thy commandments.

bes@Wis:9:10 @ O send her out of thy holy heavens, and from the throne of thy glory, that being present she may labour with me, that I may know what is pleasing unto thee.

bes@Wis:9:11 @ For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power.

bes@Wis:9:12 @ So shall my works be acceptable, and then shall I judge thy people righteously, and be worthy to sit in my father’s seat.

bes@Wis:9:13 @ For what man is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of the Lord is?

bes@Wis:9:14 @ For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain.

bes@Wis:9:15 @ For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthy tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.

bes@Wis:9:16 @ And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?

bes@Wis:9:17 @ And thy counsel who hath known, except thou give wisdom, and send thy Holy Spirit from above?

bes@Wis:9:18 @ For so the ways of them which lived on the earth were reformed, and men were taught the things that are pleasing unto thee, and were saved through wisdom.

bes@Wis:10:1 @ She preserved the first formed father of the world, that was created alone, and brought him out of his fall,

bes@Wis:10:2 @ And gave him power to rule all things.

bes@Wis:10:3 @ But when the unrighteous went away from her in his anger, he perished also in the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.

bes@Wis:10:4 @ For whose cause the earth being drowned with the flood, wisdom again preserved it, and directed the course of the righteous in a piece of wood of small value.

bes@Wis:10:5 @ Moreover, the nations in their wicked conspiracy being confounded, she found out the righteous, and preserved him blameless unto God, and kept him strong against his tender compassion toward his son.

bes@Wis:10:6 @ When the ungodly perished, she delivered the righteous man, who fled from the fire which fell down upon the five cities.

bes@Wis:10:7 @ Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.

bes@Wis:10:8 @ For regarding not wisdom, they gat not only this hurt, that they knew not the things which were good; but also left behind them to the world a memorial of their foolishness: so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid.

bes@Wis:10:9 @ Rut wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

bes@Wis:10:10 @ When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath she guided him in right paths, shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him knowledge of holy things, made him rich in his travels, and multiplied the fruit of his labours.

bes@Wis:10:11 @ In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him, and made him rich.

bes@Wis:10:12 @ She defended him from his enemies, and kept him safe from those that lay in wait, and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; that he might know that goodness is stronger than all.

bes@Wis:10:13 @ When the righteous was sold, she forsook him not, but delivered him from sin: she went down with him into the pit,

bes@Wis:10:14 @ And left him not in bonds, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: as for them that had accused him, she shewed them to be liars, and gave him perpetual glory.

bes@Wis:10:15 @ She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.

bes@Wis:10:16 @ She entered into the soul of the servant of the Lord, and withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs;

bes@Wis:10:17 @ Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labours, guided them in a marvellous way, and was unto them for a cover by day, and a light of stars in the night season;

bes@Wis:10:18 @ Brought them through the Red sea, and led them through much water:

bes@Wis:10:19 @ But she drowned their enemies, and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep.

bes@Wis:10:20 @ Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly, and praised thy holy name, O Lord, and magnified with one accord thine hand, that fought for them.

bes@Wis:10:21 @ For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb, and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent.

bes@Wis:11:1 @ She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.

bes@Wis:11:2 @ They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.

bes@Wis:11:3 @ They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.

bes@Wis:11:4 @ When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.

bes@Wis:11:5 @ For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.

bes@Wis:11:6 @ For instead of a fountain of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,

bes@Wis:11:7 @ For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for:

bes@Wis:11:8 @ Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their adversaries.

bes@Wis:11:9 @ For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.

bes@Wis:11:10 @ For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

bes@Wis:11:11 @ Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.

bes@Wis:11:12 @ For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.

bes@Wis:11:13 @ For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.

bes@Wis:11:14 @ For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.

bes@Wis:11:15 @ But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance;

bes@Wis:11:16 @ That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.

bes@Wis:11:17 @ For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,

bes@Wis:11:18 @ Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes:

bes@Wis:11:19 @ Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.

bes@Wis:11:20 @ Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight.

bes@Wis:11:21 @ For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?

bes@Wis:11:22 @ For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.

bes@Wis:11:23 @ But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.

bes@Wis:11:24 @ For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.

bes@Wis:11:25 @ And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?

bes@Wis:11:26 @ But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.

bes@Wis:12:1 @ For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.

bes@Wis:12:2 @ Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.

bes@Wis:12:3 @ For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,

bes@Wis:12:4 @ Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;

bes@Wis:12:5 @ And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,

bes@Wis:12:6 @ With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:

bes@Wis:12:7 @ That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.

bes@Wis:12:8 @ Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and little.

bes@Wis:12:9 @ Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:

bes@Wis:12:10 @ But executing thy judgements upon them by little and little, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.

bes@Wis:12:11 @ For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they sinned.

bes@Wis:12:12 @ For who shall say, What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgement? or who shall accuse thee for the nations that perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against thee, to be revenged for the unrighteous men?

bes@Wis:12:13 @ For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to whom thou mightest shew that thy judgement is not unright.

bes@Wis:12:14 @ Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.

bes@Wis:12:15 @ Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power to condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished.

bes@Wis:12:16 @ For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto all.

bes@Wis:12:17 @ For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou makest their boldness manifest.

bes@Wis:12:18 @ But thou, mastering thy power, judgest with equity, and orderest us with great favour: for thou mayest use power when thou wilt.

bes@Wis:12:19 @ But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope that thou givest repentance for sins.

bes@Wis:12:20 @ For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:

bes@Wis:12:21 @ With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?

bes@Wis:12:22 @ Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy.

bes@Wis:12:23 @ Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.

bes@Wis:12:24 @ For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding.

bes@Wis:12:25 @ Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of reason, thou didst send a judgement to mock them.

bes@Wis:12:26 @ But they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgement worthy of God.

bes@Wis:12:27 @ For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.

bes@Wis:13:1 @ Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster;

bes@Wis:13:2 @ But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.

bes@Wis:13:3 @ With whose beauty if they being delighted took them to be gods; let them know how much better the Lord of them is: for the first author of beauty hath created them.

bes@Wis:13:4 @ But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.

bes@Wis:13:5 @ For by the greatness and beauty of the creatures proportionably the maker of them is seen.

bes@Wis:13:6 @ But yet for this they are the less to be blamed: for they peradventure err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.

bes@Wis:13:7 @ For being conversant in his works they search him diligently, and believe their sight: because the things are beautiful that are seen.

bes@Wis:13:8 @ Howbeit neither are they to be pardoned.

bes@Wis:13:9 @ For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?

bes@Wis:13:10 @ But miserable are they, and in dead things is their hope, who call them gods, which are the works of men’s hands, gold and silver, to shew art in, and resemblances of beasts, or a stone good for nothing, the work of an ancient hand.

bes@Wis:13:11 @ Now a carpenter that felleth timber, after he hath sawn down a tree meet for the purpose, and taken off all the bark skilfully round about, and hath wrought it handsomely, and made a vessel thereof fit for the service of man’s life;

bes@Wis:13:12 @ And after spending the refuse of his work to dress his meat, hath filled himself;

bes@Wis:13:13 @ And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, hath carved it diligently, when he had nothing else to do, and formed it by the skill of his understanding, and fashioned it to the image of a man;

bes@Wis:13:14 @ Or made it like some vile beast, laying it over with vermilion, and with paint colouring it red, and covering every spot therein;

bes@Wis:13:15 @ And when he had made a convenient room for it, set it in a wall, and made it fast with iron:

bes@Wis:13:16 @ For he provided for it that it might not fall, knowing that it was unable to help itself; for it is an image, and hath need of help:

bes@Wis:13:17 @ Then maketh he prayer for his goods, for his wife and children, and is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life.

bes@Wis:13:18 @ For health he calleth upon that which is weak: for life prayeth to that which is dead; for aid humbly beseecheth that which hath least means to help: and for a good journey he asketh of that which cannot set a foot forward:

bes@Wis:13:19 @ And for gaining and getting, and for good success of his hands, asketh ability to do of him, that is most unable to do any thing.

bes@Wis:14:1 @ Again, one preparing himself to sail, and about to pass through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more rotten than the vessel that carrieth him.

bes@Wis:14:2 @ For verily desire of gain devised that, and the workman built it by his skill.

bes@Wis:14:3 @ But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way in the sea, and a safe path in the waves;

bes@Wis:14:4 @ Shewing that thou canst save from all danger: yea, though a man went to sea without art.

bes@Wis:14:5 @ Nevertheless thou wouldest not that the works of thy wisdom should be idle, and therefore do men commit their lives to a small piece of wood, and passing the rough sea in a weak vessel are saved.

bes@Wis:14:6 @ For in the old time also, when the proud giants perished, the hope of the world governed by thy hand escaped in a weak vessel, and left to all ages a seed of generation.

bes@Wis:14:7 @ For blessed is the wood whereby righteousness cometh.

bes@Wis:14:8 @ But that which is made with hands is cursed, as well it, as he that made it: he, because he made it; and it, because, being corruptible, it was called god.

bes@Wis:14:9 @ For the ungodly and his ungodliness are both alike hateful unto God.

bes@Wis:14:10 @ For that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it.

bes@Wis:14:11 @ Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, and stumblingblocks to the souls of men, and a snare to the feet of the unwise.

bes@Wis:14:12 @ For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life.

bes@Wis:14:13 @ For neither were they from the beginning, neither shall they be for ever.

bes@Wis:14:14 @ For by the vain glory of men they entered into the world, and therefore shall they come shortly to an end.

bes@Wis:14:15 @ For a father afflicted with untimely mourning, when he hath made an image of his child soon taken away, now honoured him as a god, which was then a dead man, and delivered to those that were under him ceremonies and sacrifices.

bes@Wis:14:16 @ Thus in process of time an ungodly custom grown strong was kept as a law, and graven images were worshipped by the commandments of kings.

bes@Wis:14:17 @ Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.

bes@Wis:14:18 @ Also the singular diligence of the artificer did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition.

bes@Wis:14:19 @ For he, peradventure willing to please one in authority, forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion.

bes@Wis:14:20 @ And so the multitude, allured by the grace of the work, took him now for a god, which a little before was but honoured.

bes@Wis:14:21 @ And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name.

bes@Wis:14:22 @ Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of God; but whereas they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace.

bes@Wis:14:23 @ For whilst they slew their children in sacrifices, or used secret ceremonies, or made revellings of strange rites;

bes@Wis:14:24 @ They kept neither lives nor marriages any longer undefiled: but either one slew another traitorously, or grieved him by adultery.

bes@Wis:14:25 @ So that there reigned in all men without exception blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,

bes@Wis:14:26 @ Disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns, defiling of souls, changing of kind, disorder in marriages, adultery, and shameless uncleanness.

bes@Wis:14:27 @ For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.

bes@Wis:14:28 @ For either they are mad when they be merry, or prophesy lies, or live unjustly, or else lightly forswear themselves.

bes@Wis:14:29 @ For insomuch as their trust is in idols, which have no life; though they swear falsely, yet they look not to be hurt.

bes@Wis:14:30 @ Howbeit for both causes shall they be justly punished: both because they thought not well of God, giving heed unto idols, and also unjustly swore in deceit, despising holiness.

bes@Wis:14:31 @ For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: but it is the just vengeance of sinners, that punisheth always the offence of the ungodly.

bes@Wis:15:1 @ But thou, O God, art gracious and true, longsuffering, and in mercy ordering all things,

bes@Wis:15:2 @ For if we sin, we are thine, knowing thy power: but we will not sin, knowing that we are counted thine.

bes@Wis:15:3 @ For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.

bes@Wis:15:4 @ For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, nor an image spotted with divers colours, the painter’s fruitless labour;

bes@Wis:15:5 @ The sight whereof enticeth fools to lust after it, and so they desire the form of a dead image, that hath no breath.

bes@Wis:15:6 @ Both they that make them, they that desire them, and they that worship them, are lovers of evil things, and are worthy to have such things to trust upon.

bes@Wis:15:7 @ For the potter, tempering soft earth, fashioneth every vessel with much labour for our service: yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean uses, and likewise also all such as serve to the contrary: but what is the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge.

bes@Wis:15:8 @ And employing his labours lewdly, he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he which a little before was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out when his life which was lent him shall be demanded.

bes@Wis:15:9 @ Notwithstanding his care is, not that he shall have much labour, nor that his life is short: but striveth to excel goldsmiths and silversmiths, and endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it his glory to make counterfeit things.

bes@Wis:15:10 @ His heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay:

bes@Wis:15:11 @ Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit.

bes@Wis:15:12 @ But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain: for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means.

bes@Wis:15:13 @ For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels and graven images, knoweth himself to offend above all others.

bes@Wis:15:14 @ And all the enemies of thy people, that hold them in subjection, are most foolish, and are more miserable than very babes.

bes@Wis:15:15 @ For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: which neither have the use of eyes to see, nor noses to draw breath, nor ears to hear, nor fingers of hands to handle; and as for their feet, they are slow to go.

bes@Wis:15:16 @ For man made them, and he that borrowed his own spirit fashioned them: but no man can make a god like unto himself.

bes@Wis:15:17 @ For being mortal, he worketh a dead thing with wicked hands: for he himself is better than the things which he worshippeth: whereas he lived once, but they never.

bes@Wis:15:18 @ Yea, they worshipped those beasts also that are most hateful: for being compared together, some are worse than others.

bes@Wis:15:19 @ Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in respect of beasts: but they went without the praise of God and his blessing.

bes@Wis:16:1 @ Therefore by the like were they punished worthily, and by the multitude of beasts tormented.

bes@Wis:16:2 @ Instead of which punishment, dealing graciously with thine own people, thou preparedst for them meat of a strange taste, even quails to stir up their appetite:

bes@Wis:16:3 @ To the end that they, desiring food, might for the ugly sight of the beasts sent among them lothe even that, which they must needs desire; but these, suffering penury for a short space, might be made partakers of a strange taste.

bes@Wis:16:4 @ For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be shewed how their enemies were tormented.

bes@Wis:16:5 @ For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, and they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, thy wrath endured not for ever:

bes@Wis:16:6 @ But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.

bes@Wis:16:7 @ For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.

bes@Wis:16:8 @ And in this thou madest thine enemies confess, that it is thou who deliverest from all evil:

bes@Wis:16:9 @ For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.

bes@Wis:16:10 @ But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame: for thy mercy was ever by them, and healed them.

bes@Wis:16:11 @ For they were pricked, that they should remember thy words; and were quickly saved, that not falling into deep forgetfulness, they might be continually mindful of thy goodness.

bes@Wis:16:12 @ For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaister, that restored them to health: but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.

bes@Wis:16:13 @ For thou hast power of life and death: thou leadest to the gates of hell, and bringest up again.

bes@Wis:16:14 @ A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit, when it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up cometh again.

bes@Wis:16:15 @ But it is not possible to escape thine hand.

bes@Wis:16:16 @ For the ungodly, that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thine arm: with strange rains, hails, and showers, were they persecuted, that they could not avoid, and through fire were they consumed.

bes@Wis:16:17 @ For, which is most to be wondered at, the fire had more force in the water, that quencheth all things: for the world fighteth for the righteous.

bes@Wis:16:18 @ For sometime the flame was mitigated, that it might not burn up the beasts that were sent against the ungodly; but themselves might see and perceive that they were persecuted with the judgement of God.

bes@Wis:16:19 @ And at another time it burneth even in the midst of water above the power of fire, that it might destroy the fruits of an unjust land.

bes@Wis:16:20 @ Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels’ food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man’s delight, and agreeing to every taste.

bes@Wis:16:21 @ For thy sustenance declared thy sweetness unto thy children, and serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man’s liking.

bes@Wis:16:22 @ But snow and ice endured the fire, and melted not, that they might know that fire burning in the hail, and sparkling in the rain, did destroy the fruits of the enemies.

bes@Wis:16:23 @ But this again did even forget his own strength, that the righteous might be nourished.

bes@Wis:16:24 @ For the creature that serveth thee, who art the Maker increaseth his strength against the unrighteous for their punishment, and abateth his strength for the benefit of such as put their trust in thee.

bes@Wis:16:25 @ Therefore even then was it altered into all fashions, and was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all things, according to the desire of them that had need:

bes@Wis:16:26 @ That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovest, might know, that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth man: but that it is thy word, which preserveth them that put their trust in thee.

bes@Wis:16:27 @ For that which was not destroyed of the fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, soon melted away:

bes@Wis:16:28 @ That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks, and at the dayspring pray unto thee.

bes@Wis:16:29 @ For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter’s hoar frost, and shall run away as unprofitable water.

bes@Wis:17:1 @ For great are thy judgements, and cannot be expressed: therefore unnurtured souls have erred.

bes@Wis:17:2 @ For when unrighteous men thought to oppress the holy nation; they being shut up in their houses, the prisoners of darkness, and fettered with the bonds of a long night, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

bes@Wis:17:3 @ For while they supposed to lie hid in their secret sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly astonished, and troubled with strange apparitions.

bes@Wis:17:4 @ For neither might the corner that held them keep them from fear: but noises as of waters falling down sounded about them, and sad visions appeared unto them with heavy countenances.

bes@Wis:17:5 @ No power of the fire might give them light: neither could the bright flames of the stars endure to lighten that horrible night.

bes@Wis:17:6 @ Only there appeared unto them a fire kindled of itself, very dreadful: for being much terrified, they thought the things which they saw to be worse than the sight they saw not.

bes@Wis:17:7 @ As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace.

bes@Wis:17:8 @ For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of fear, worthy to be laughed at.

bes@Wis:17:9 @ For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being scared with beasts that passed by, and hissing of serpents,

bes@Wis:17:10 @ They died for fear, denying that they saw the air, which could of no side be avoided.

bes@Wis:17:11 @ For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.

bes@Wis:17:12 @ For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth.

bes@Wis:17:13 @ And the expectation from within, being less, counteth the ignorance more than the cause which bringeth the torment.

bes@Wis:17:14 @ But they sleeping the same sleep that night, which was indeed intolerable, and which came upon them out of the bottoms of inevitable hell,

bes@Wis:17:15 @ Were partly vexed with monstrous apparitions, and partly fainted, their heart failing them: for a sudden fear, and not looked for, came upon them.

bes@Wis:17:16 @ So then whosoever there fell down was straitly kept, shut up in a prison without iron bars,

bes@Wis:17:17 @ For whether he were husbandman, or shepherd, or a labourer in the field, he was overtaken, and endured that necessity, which could not be avoided: for they were all bound with one chain of darkness.

bes@Wis:17:18 @ Whether it were a whistling wind, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, or a pleasing fall of water running violently,

bes@Wis:17:19 @ Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains; these things made them to swoon for fear.

bes@Wis:17:20 @ For the whole world shined with clear light, and none were hindered in their labour:

bes@Wis:17:21 @ Over them only was spread an heavy night, an image of that darkness which should afterward receive them: but yet were they unto themselves more grievous than the darkness.

bes@Wis:18:1 @ Nevertheless thy saints had a very great light, whose voice they hearing, and not seeing their shape, because they also had not suffered the same things, they counted them happy.

bes@Wis:18:2 @ But for that they did not hurt them now, of whom they had been wronged before, they thanked them, and besought them pardon for that they had been enemies.

bes@Wis:18:3 @ Instead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire, both to be a guide of the unknown journey, and an harmless sun to entertain them honourably.

bes@Wis:18:4 @ For they were worthy to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy sons shut up, by whom the uncorrupt light of the law was to be given unto the world.

bes@Wis:18:5 @ And when they had determined to slay the babes of the saints, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away the multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.

bes@Wis:18:6 @ Of that night were our fathers certified afore, that assuredly knowing unto what oaths they had given credence, they might afterwards be of good cheer.

bes@Wis:18:7 @ So of thy people was accepted both the salvation of the righteous, and destruction of the enemies.

bes@Wis:18:8 @ For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries, by the same thou didst glorify us, whom thou hadst called.

bes@Wis:18:9 @ For the righteous children of good men did sacrifice secretly, and with one consent made a holy law, that the saints should be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers now singing out the songs of praise.

bes@Wis:18:10 @ But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.

bes@Wis:18:11 @ The master and the servant were punished after one manner; and like as the king, so suffered the common person.

bes@Wis:18:12 @ So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

bes@Wis:18:13 @ For whereas they would not believe any thing by reason of the enchantments; upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.

bes@Wis:18:14 @ For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,

bes@Wis:18:15 @ Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,

bes@Wis:18:16 @ And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.

bes@Wis:18:17 @ Then suddenly visions of horrible dreams troubled them sore, and terrors came upon them unlooked for.

bes@Wis:18:18 @ And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

bes@Wis:18:19 @ For the dreams that troubled them did foreshew this, lest they should perish, and not know why they were afflicted.

bes@Wis:18:20 @ Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, and there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: but the wrath endured not long.

bes@Wis:18:21 @ For then the blameless man made haste, and stood forth to defend them; and bringing the shield of his proper ministry, even prayer, and the propitiation of incense, set himself against the wrath, and so brought the calamity to an end, declaring that he was thy servant.

bes@Wis:18:22 @ So he overcame the destroyer, not with strength of body, nor force of arms, but with a word subdued him that punished, alleging the oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

bes@Wis:18:23 @ For when the dead were now fallen down by heaps one upon another, standing between, he stayed the wrath, and parted the way to the living.

bes@Wis:18:24 @ For in the long garment was the whole world, and in the four rows of the stones was the glory of the fathers graven, and thy Majesty upon the diadem of his head.

bes@Wis:18:25 @ Unto these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.

bes@Wis:19:1 @ As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end: for he knew before what they would do;

bes@Wis:19:2 @ How that having given them leave to depart, and sent them hastily away, they would repent and pursue them.

bes@Wis:19:3 @ For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.

bes@Wis:19:4 @ For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, and made them forget the things that had already happened, that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments:

bes@Wis:19:5 @ And that thy people might pass a wonderful way: but they might find a strange death.

bes@Wis:19:6 @ For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt:

bes@Wis:19:7 @ As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood before, dry land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:

bes@Wis:19:8 @ Where through all the people went that were defended with thy hand, seeing thy marvellous strange wonders.

bes@Wis:19:9 @ For they went at large like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.

bes@Wis:19:10 @ For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.

bes@Wis:19:11 @ But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls, when, being led with their appetite, they asked delicate meats.

bes@Wis:19:12 @ For quails came up unto them from the sea for their contentment.

bes@Wis:19:13 @ And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.

bes@Wis:19:14 @ For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them.

bes@Wis:19:15 @ And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had of those, because they used strangers not friendly:

bes@Wis:19:16 @ But these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them.

bes@Wis:19:17 @ Therefore even with blindness were these stricken, as those were at the doors of the righteous man: when, being compassed about with horrible great darkness, every one sought the passage of his own doors.

bes@Wis:19:18 @ For the elements were changed in themselves by a kind of harmony, like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune, and yet are always sounds; which may well be perceived by the sight of the things that have been done.

bes@Wis:19:19 @ For earthly things were turned into watery, and the things, that before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.

bes@Wis:19:20 @ The fire had power in the water, forgetting his own virtue: and the water forgat his own quenching nature.

bes@Wis:19:21 @ On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, though they walked therein; neither melted they the icy kind of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt.

bes@Wis:19:22 @ For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people, and glorify them, neither didst thou lightly regard them: but didst assist them in every time and place.

bes@Tob:1:1 @ The book of the words of Tobit, son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asael, of the tribe of Nephthali;

bes@Tob:1:2 @ Who in the time of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was led captive out of Thisbe, which is at the right hand of that city, which is called properly Nephthali in Galilee above Aser.

bes@Tob:1:3 @ I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.

bes@Tob:1:4 @ And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel being but young, all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.

bes@Tob:1:5 @ Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of my father Nephthali, sacrificed unto the heifer Baal.

bes@Tob:1:6 @ But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree, having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron.

bes@Tob:1:7 @ The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of Aaron, who ministered at Jerusalem: another tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it every year at Jerusalem:

bes@Tob:1:8 @ And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

bes@Tob:1:9 @ Furthermore, when I was come to the age of a man, I married Anna of mine own kindred, and of her I begat Tobias.

bes@Tob:1:10 @ And when we were carried away captives to Nineve, all my brethren and those that were of my kindred did eat of the bread of the Gentiles.

bes@Tob:1:11 @ But I kept myself from eating;

bes@Tob:1:12 @ Because I remembered God with all my heart.

bes@Tob:1:13 @ And the most High gave me grace and favour before Enemessar, so that I was his purveyor.

bes@Tob:1:14 @ And I went into Media, and left in trust with Gabael, the brother of Gabrias, at Rages a city of Media ten talents of silver.

bes@Tob:1:15 @ Now when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his stead; whose estate was troubled, that I could not go into Media.

bes@Tob:1:16 @ And in the time of Enemessar I gave many alms to my brethren, and gave my bread to the hungry,

bes@Tob:1:17 @ And my clothes to the naked: and if I saw any of my nation dead, or cast about the walls of Nineve, I buried him.

bes@Tob:1:18 @ And if the king Sennacherib had slain any, when he was come, and fled from Judea, I buried them privily; for in his wrath he killed many; but the bodies were not found, when they were sought for of the king.

bes@Tob:1:19 @ And when one of the Ninevites went and complained of me to the king, that I buried them, and hid myself; understanding that I was sought for to be put to death, I withdrew myself for fear.

bes@Tob:1:20 @ Then all my goods were forcibly taken away, neither was there any thing left me, beside my wife Anna and my son Tobias.

bes@Tob:1:21 @ And there passed not five and fifty days, before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararath; and Sarchedonus his son reigned in his stead; who appointed over his father’s accounts, and over all his affairs, Achiacharus my brother Anael’s son.

bes@Tob:1:22 @ And Achiacharus intreating for me, I returned to Nineve. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and overseer of the accounts: and Sarchedonus appointed him next unto him: and he was my brother’s son.

bes@Tob:2:1 @ Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.

bes@Tob:2:2 @ And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.

bes@Tob:2:3 @ But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.

bes@Tob:2:4 @ Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.

bes@Tob:2:5 @ Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,

bes@Tob:2:6 @ Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.

bes@Tob:2:7 @ Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.

bes@Tob:2:8 @ But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.

bes@Tob:2:9 @ The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted and my face was uncovered:

bes@Tob:2:10 @ And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.

bes@Tob:2:11 @ And my wife Anna did take women’s works to do.

bes@Tob:2:12 @ And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and gave her also besides a kid.

bes@Tob:2:13 @ And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is stolen.

bes@Tob:2:14 @ But she replied upon me, It was given for a gift more than the wages. Howbeit I did not believe her, but bade her render it to the owners: and I was abashed at her. But she replied upon me, Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, thou and all thy works are known.

bes@Tob:3:1 @ Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,

bes@Tob:3:2 @ O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever.

bes@Tob:3:3 @ Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee:

bes@Tob:3:4 @ For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.

bes@Tob:3:5 @ And now thy judgements are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers’: because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.

bes@Tob:3:6 @ Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.

bes@Tob:3:7 @ It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father’s maids;

bes@Tob:3:8 @ Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.

bes@Tob:3:9 @ Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.

bes@Tob:3:10 @ When she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

bes@Tob:3:11 @ Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.

bes@Tob:3:12 @ And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee,

bes@Tob:3:13 @ And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach.

bes@Tob:3:14 @ Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,

bes@Tob:3:15 @ And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.

bes@Tob:3:16 @ So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God.

bes@Tob:3:17 @ And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.

bes@Tob:4:1 @ In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael in Rages of Media,

bes@Tob:4:2 @ And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?

bes@Tob:4:3 @ And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.

bes@Tob:4:4 @ Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.

bes@Tob:4:5 @ My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.

bes@Tob:4:6 @ For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them that live justly.

bes@Tob:4:7 @ Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee.

bes@Tob:4:8 @ If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:

bes@Tob:4:9 @ For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity.

bes@Tob:4:10 @ Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.

bes@Tob:4:11 @ For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most High.

bes@Tob:4:12 @ Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.

bes@Tob:4:13 @ Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine.

bes@Tob:4:14 @ Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he will also repay thee: be circumspect my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation.

bes@Tob:4:15 @ Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.

bes@Tob:4:16 @ Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms: and let not thine eye be envious, when thou givest alms.

bes@Tob:4:17 @ Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked.

bes@Tob:4:18 @ Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.

bes@Tob:4:19 @ Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.

bes@Tob:4:20 @ And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.

bes@Tob:4:21 @ And fear not, my son, that we are made poor: for thou hast much wealth, if thou fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.

bes@Tob:5:1 @ Tobias then answered and said, Father, I will do all things which thou hast commanded me:

bes@Tob:5:2 @ But how can I receive the money, seeing I know him not?

bes@Tob:5:3 @ Then he gave him the handwriting, and said unto him, Seek thee a man which may go with thee, whiles I yet live, and I will give him wages: and go and receive the money.

bes@Tob:5:4 @ Therefore when he went to seek a man, he found Raphael that was an angel.

bes@Tob:5:5 @ But he knew not; and he said unto him, Canst thou go with me to Rages? and knowest thou those places well?

bes@Tob:5:6 @ To whom the angel said, I will go with thee, and I know the way well: for I have lodged with our brother Gabael.

bes@Tob:5:7 @ Then Tobias said unto him, Tarry for me, till I tell my father.

bes@Tob:5:8 @ Then he said unto him, Go and tarry not. So he went in and said to his father, Behold, I have found one which will go with me. Then he said, Call him unto me, that I may know of what tribe he is, and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee.

bes@Tob:5:9 @ So he called him, and he came in, and they saluted one another.

bes@Tob:5:10 @ Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, shew me of what tribe and family thou art.

bes@Tob:5:11 @ To whom he said, Dost thou seek for a tribe or family, or an hired man to go with thy son? Then Tobit said unto him, I would know, brother, thy kindred and name.

bes@Tob:5:12 @ Then he said, I am Azarias, the son of Ananias the great, and of thy brethren.

bes@Tob:5:13 @ Then Tobit said, Thou art welcome, brother; be not now angry with me, because I have enquired to know thy tribe and thy family; for thou art my brother, of an honest and good stock: for I know Ananias and Jonathas, sons of that great Samaias, as we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of the fruits; and they were not seduced with the error of our brethren: my brother, thou art of a good stock.

bes@Tob:5:14 @ But tell me, what wages shall I give thee? wilt thou a drachm a day, and things necessary, as to mine own son?

bes@Tob:5:15 @ Yea, moreover, if ye return safe, I will add something to thy wages.

bes@Tob:5:16 @ So they were well pleased. Then said he to Tobias, Prepare thyself for the journey, and God send you a good journey. And when his son had prepared all things far the journey, his father said, Go thou with this man, and God, which dwelleth in heaven, prosper your journey, and the angel of God keep you company. So they went forth both, and the young man’s dog with them.

bes@Tob:5:17 @ But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, Why hast thou sent away our son? is he not the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?

bes@Tob:5:18 @ Be not greedy to add money to money: but let it be as refuse in respect of our child.

bes@Tob:5:19 @ For that which the Lord hath given us to live with doth suffice us.

bes@Tob:5:20 @ Then said Tobit to her, Take no care, my sister; he shall return in safety, and thine eyes shall see him.

bes@Tob:5:21 @ For the good angel will keep him company, and his journey shall be prosperous, and he shall return safe.

bes@Tob:5:22 @ Then she made an end of weeping.

bes@Tob:6:1 @ And as they went on their journey, they came in the evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there.

bes@Tob:6:2 @ And when the young man went down to wash himself, a fish leaped out of the river, and would have devoured him.

bes@Tob:6:3 @ Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land.

bes@Tob:6:4 @ To whom the angel said, Open the fish, and take the heart and the liver and the gall, and put them up safely.

bes@Tob:6:5 @ So the young man did as the angel commanded him; and when they had roasted the fish, they did eat it: then they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatane.

bes@Tob:6:6 @ Then the young man said to the angel, Brother Azarias, to what use is the heart and the liver and the gal of the fish?

bes@Tob:6:7 @ And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed.

bes@Tob:6:8 @ As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes, and he shall be healed.

bes@Tob:6:9 @ And when they were come near to Rages,

bes@Tob:6:10 @ The angel said to the young man, Brother, to day we shall lodge with Raguel, who is thy cousin; he also hath one only daughter, named Sara; I will speak for her, that she may be given thee for a wife.

bes@Tob:6:11 @ For to thee doth the right of her appertain, seeing thou only art of her kindred.

bes@Tob:6:12 @ And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other.

bes@Tob:6:13 @ Then the young man answered the angel, I have heard, brother Azarias that this maid hath been given to seven men, who all died in the marriage chamber.

bes@Tob:6:14 @ And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her; wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son to bury them.

bes@Tob:6:15 @ Then the angel said unto him, Dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.

bes@Tob:6:16 @ And when thou shalt come into the marriage chamber, thou shalt take the ashes of perfume, and shalt lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shalt make a smoke with it:

bes@Tob:6:17 @ And the devil shall smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more: but when thou shalt come to her, rise up both of you, and pray to God which is merciful, who will have pity on you, and save you: fear not, for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning; and thou shalt preserve her, and she shall go with thee. Moreover I suppose that she shall bear thee children. Now when Tobias had heard these things, he loved her, and his heart was effectually joined to her.

bes@Tob:7:1 @ And when they were come to Ecbatane, they came to the house of Raguel, and Sara met them: and after they had saluted one another, she brought them into the house.

bes@Tob:7:2 @ Then said Raguel to Edna his wife, How like is this young man to Tobit my cousin!

bes@Tob:7:3 @ And Raguel asked them, From whence are ye, brethren? To whom they said, We are of the sons of Nephthalim, which are captives in Nineve.

bes@Tob:7:4 @ Then he said to them, Do ye know Tobit our kinsman? And they said, We know him. Then said he, Is he in good health?

bes@Tob:7:5 @ And they said, He is both alive, and in good health: and Tobias said, He is my father.

bes@Tob:7:6 @ Then Raguel leaped up, and kissed him, and wept,

bes@Tob:7:7 @ And blessed him, and said unto him, Thou art the son of an honest and good man. But when he had heard that Tobit was blind, he was sorrowful, and wept.

bes@Tob:7:8 @ And likewise Edna his wife and Sara his daughter wept. Moreover they entertained them cheerfully; and after that they had killed a ram of the flock, they set store of meat on the table. Then said Tobias to Raphael, Brother Azarias, speak of those things of which thou didst talk in the way, and let this business be dispatched.

bes@Tob:7:9 @ So he communicated the matter with Raguel: and Raguel said to Tobias, Eat and drink, and make merry:

bes@Tob:7:10 @ For it is meet that thou shouldest marry my daughter: nevertheless I will declare unto thee the truth.

bes@Tob:7:11 @ I have given my daughter in marriage to seven men, who died that night they came in unto her: nevertheless for the present be merry. But Tobias said, I will eat nothing here, till we agree and swear one to another.

bes@Tob:7:12 @ Raguel said, Then take her from henceforth according to the manner, for thou art her cousin, and she is thine, and the merciful God give you good success in all things.

bes@Tob:7:13 @ Then he called his daughter Sara, and she came to her father, and he took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife to Tobias, saying, Behold, take her after the law of Moses, and lead her away to thy father. And he blessed them;

bes@Tob:7:14 @ And called Edna his wife, and took paper, and did write an instrument of covenants, and sealed it.

bes@Tob:7:15 @ Then they began to eat.

bes@Tob:7:16 @ After Raguel called his wife Edna, and said unto her, Sister, prepare another chamber, and bring her in thither.

bes@Tob:7:17 @ Which when she had done as he had bidden her, she brought her thither: and she wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said unto her,

bes@Tob:7:18 @ Be of good comfort, my daughter; the Lord of heaven and earth give thee joy for this thy sorrow: be of good comfort, my daughter.

bes@Tob:8:1 @ And when they had supped, they brought Tobias in unto her.

bes@Tob:8:2 @ And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon, and made a smoke therewith.

bes@Tob:8:3 @ The which smell when the evil spirit had smelled, he fled into the utmost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.

bes@Tob:8:4 @ And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would have pity on us.

bes@Tob:8:5 @ Then began Tobias to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is thy holy and glorious name for ever; let the heavens bless thee, and all thy creatures.

bes@Tob:8:6 @ Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for an helper and stay: of them came mankind: thou hast said, It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.

bes@Tob:8:7 @ And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lush but uprightly: therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together.

bes@Tob:8:8 @ And she said with him, Amen.

bes@Tob:8:9 @ So they slept both that night. And Raguel arose, and went and made a grave,

bes@Tob:8:10 @ Saying, I fear lest he also be dead.

bes@Tob:8:11 @ But when Raguel was come into his house,

bes@Tob:8:12 @ He said unto his wife Edna. Send one of the maids, and let her see whether he be alive: if he be not, that we may bury him, and no man know it.

bes@Tob:8:13 @ So the maid opened the door, and went in, and found them both asleep,

bes@Tob:8:14 @ And came forth, and told them that he was alive.

bes@Tob:8:15 @ Then Raguel praised God, and said, O God, thou art worthy to be praised with all pure and holy praise; therefore let thy saints praise thee with all thy creatures; and let all thine angels and thine elect praise thee for ever.

bes@Tob:8:16 @ Thou art to be praised, for thou hast made me joyful; and that is not come to me which I suspected; but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy.

bes@Tob:8:17 @ Thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were the only begotten children of their fathers: grant them mercy, O Lord, and finish their life in health with joy and mercy.

bes@Tob:8:18 @ Then Raguel bade his servants to fill the grave.

bes@Tob:8:19 @ And he kept the wedding feast fourteen days.

bes@Tob:8:20 @ For before the days of the marriage were finished, Raguel had said unto him by an oath, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the marriage were expired;

bes@Tob:8:21 @ And then he should take the half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and should have the rest when I and my wife be dead.

bes@Tob:9:1 @ Then Tobias called Raphael, and said unto him,

bes@Tob:9:2 @ Brother Azarias, take with thee a servant, and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and bring me the money, and bring him to the wedding.

bes@Tob:9:3 @ For Raguel hath sworn that I shall not depart.

bes@Tob:9:4 @ But my father counteth the days; and if I tarry long, he will be very sorry.

bes@Tob:9:5 @ So Raphael went out, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting: who brought forth bags which were sealed up, and gave them to him.

bes@Tob:9:6 @ And early in the morning they went forth both together, and came to the wedding: and Tobias blessed his wife.

bes@Tob:10:1 @ Now Tobit his father counted every day: and when the days of the journey were expired, and they came not,

bes@Tob:10:2 @ Then Tobit said, Are they detained? or is Gabael dead, and there is no man to give him the money?

bes@Tob:10:3 @ Therefore he was very sorry.

bes@Tob:10:4 @ Then his wife said unto him, My son is dead, seeing he stayeth long; and she began to wail him, and said,

bes@Tob:10:5 @ Now I care for nothing, my son, since I have let thee go, the light of mine eyes.

bes@Tob:10:6 @ To whom Tobit said, Hold thy peace, take no care, for he is safe.

bes@Tob:10:7 @ But she said, Hold thy peace, and deceive me not; my son is dead. And she went out every day into the way which they went, and did eat no meat on the daytime, and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son Tobias, until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel,

bes@Tob:10:8 @ Let me go, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.

bes@Tob:10:9 @ But his father in law said unto him, Tarry with me, and I will send to thy father, and they shall declare unto him how things go with thee.

bes@Tob:10:10 @ But Tobias said, No; but let me go to my father.

bes@Tob:10:11 @ Then Raguel arose, and gave him Sara his wife, and half his goods, servants, and cattle, and money:

bes@Tob:10:12 @ And he blessed them, and sent them away, saying, The God of heaven give you a prosperous journey, my children.

bes@Tob:10:13 @ And he said to his daughter, Honour thy father and thy mother in law, which are now thy parents, that I may hear good report of thee. And he kissed her. Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die, that I may rejoice before the Lord: behold, I commit my daughter unto thee of special trust; where are do not entreat her evil.

bes@Tob:11:1 @ After these things Tobias went his way, praising God that he had given him a prosperous journey, and blessed Raguel and Edna his wife, and went on his way till they drew near unto Nineve.

bes@Tob:11:2 @ Then Raphael said to Tobias, Thou knowest, brother, how thou didst leave thy father:

bes@Tob:11:3 @ Let us haste before thy wife, and prepare the house.

bes@Tob:11:4 @ And take in thine hand the gall of the fish. So they went their way, and the dog went after them.

bes@Tob:11:5 @ Now Anna sat looking about toward the way for her son.

bes@Tob:11:6 @ And when she espied him coming, she said to his father, Behold, thy son cometh, and the man that went with him.

bes@Tob:11:7 @ Then said Raphael, I know, Tobias, that thy father will open his eyes.

bes@Tob:11:8 @ Therefore anoint thou his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he shall rub, and the whiteness shall fall away, and he shall see thee.

bes@Tob:11:9 @ Then Anna ran forth, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said unto him, Seeing I have seen thee, my son, from henceforth I am content to die. And they wept both.

bes@Tob:11:10 @ Tobit also went forth toward the door, and stumbled: but his son ran unto him,

bes@Tob:11:11 @ And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers’ eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.

bes@Tob:11:12 @ And when his eyes began to smart, he rubbed them;

bes@Tob:11:13 @ And the whiteness pilled away from the corners of his eyes: and when he saw his son, he fell upon his neck.

bes@Tob:11:14 @ And he wept, and said, Blessed art thou, O God, and blessed is thy name for ever; and blessed are all thine holy angels:

bes@Tob:11:15 @ For thou hast scourged, and hast taken pity on me: for, behold, I see my son Tobias. And his son went in rejoicing, and told his father the great things that had happened to him in Media.

bes@Tob:11:16 @ Then Tobit went out to meet his daughter in law at the gate of Nineve, rejoicing and praising God: and they which saw him go marvelled, because he had received his sight.

bes@Tob:11:17 @ But Tobias gave thanks before them, because God had mercy on him. And when he came near to Sara his daughter in law, he blessed her, saying, Thou art welcome, daughter: God be blessed, which hath brought thee unto us, and blessed be thy father and thy mother. And there was joy among all his brethren which were at Nineve.

bes@Tob:11:18 @ And Achiacharus, and Nasbas his brother’s son, came:

bes@Tob:11:19 @ And Tobias’ wedding was kept seven days with great joy.

bes@Tob:12:1 @ Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him, My son, see that the man have his wages, which went with thee, and thou must give him more.

bes@Tob:12:2 @ And Tobias said unto him, O father, it is no harm to me to give him half of those things which I have brought:

bes@Tob:12:3 @ For he hath brought me again to thee in safety, and made whole my wife, and brought me the money, and likewise healed thee.

bes@Tob:12:4 @ Then the old man said, It is due unto him.

bes@Tob:12:5 @ So he called the angel, and he said unto him, Take half of all that ye have brought and go away in safety.

bes@Tob:12:6 @ Then he took them both apart, and said unto them, Bless God, praise him, and magnify him, and praise him for the things which he hath done unto you in the sight of all that live. It is good to praise God, and exalt his name, and honourably to shew forth the works of God; therefore be not slack to praise him.

bes@Tob:12:7 @ It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but it is honourable to reveal the works of God. Do that which is good, and no evil shall touch you.

bes@Tob:12:8 @ Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold:

bes@Tob:12:9 @ For alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin. Those that exercise alms and righteousness shall be filled with life:

bes@Tob:12:10 @ But they that sin are enemies to their own life.

bes@Tob:12:11 @ Surely I will keep close nothing from you. For I said, It was good to keep close the secret of a king, but that it was honourable to reveal the works of God.

bes@Tob:12:12 @ Now therefore, when thou didst pray, and Sara thy daughter in law, I did bring the remembrance of your prayers before the Holy One: and when thou didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.

bes@Tob:12:13 @ And when thou didst not delay to rise up, and leave thy dinner, to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hid from me: but I was with thee.

bes@Tob:12:14 @ And now God hath sent me to heal thee and Sara thy daughter in law.

bes@Tob:12:15 @ I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.

bes@Tob:12:16 @ Then they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces: for they feared.

bes@Tob:12:17 @ But he said unto them, Fear not, for it shall go well with you; praise God therefore.

bes@Tob:12:18 @ For not of any favour of mine, but by the will of our God I came; wherefore praise him for ever.

bes@Tob:12:19 @ All these days I did appear unto you; but I did neither eat nor drink, but ye did see a vision.

bes@Tob:12:20 @ Now therefore give God thanks: for I go up to him that sent me; but write all things which are done in a book.

bes@Tob:12:21 @ And when they arose, they saw him no more.

bes@Tob:12:22 @ Then they confessed the great and wonderful works of God, and how the angel of the Lord had appeared unto them.

bes@Tob:13:1 @ Then Tobit wrote a prayer of rejoicing, and said, Blessed be God that liveth for ever, and blessed be his kingdom.

bes@Tob:13:2 @ For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to hell, and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.

bes@Tob:13:3 @ Confess him before the Gentiles, ye children of Israel: for he hath scattered us among them.

bes@Tob:13:4 @ There declare his greatness, and extol him before all the living: for he is our Lord, and he is the God our Father for ever.

bes@Tob:13:5 @ And he will scourge us for our iniquities, and will have mercy again, and will gather us out of all nations, among whom he hath scattered us.

bes@Tob:13:6 @ If ye turn to him with your whole heart, and with your whole mind, and deal uprightly before him, then will he turn unto you, and will not hide his face from you. Therefore see what he will do with you, and confess him with your whole mouth, and praise the Lord of might, and extol the everlasting King. In the land of my captivity do I praise him, and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation. O ye sinners, turn and do justice before him: who can tell if he will accept you, and have mercy on you?

bes@Tob:13:7 @ I will extol my God, and my soul shall praise the King of heaven, and shall rejoice in his greatness.

bes@Tob:13:8 @ Let all men speak, and let all praise him for his righteousness.

bes@Tob:13:9 @ O Jerusalem, the holy city, he will scourge thee for thy children’s works, and will have mercy again on the sons of the righteous.

bes@Tob:13:10 @ Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: and praise the everlasting King, that his tabernacle may be builded in thee again with joy, and let him make joyful there in thee those that are captives, and love in thee for ever those that are miserable.

bes@Tob:13:11 @ Many nations shall come from far to the name of the Lord God with gifts in their hands, even gifts to the King of heaven; all generations shall praise thee with great joy.

bes@Tob:13:12 @ Cursed are all they which hate thee, and blessed shall all be which love thee for ever.

bes@Tob:13:13 @ Rejoice and be glad for the children of the just: for they shall be gathered together, and shall bless the Lord of the just.

bes@Tob:13:14 @ O blessed are they which love thee, for they shall rejoice in thy peace: blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all thy scourges; for they shall rejoice for thee, when they have seen all thy glory, and shall be glad for ever.

bes@Tob:13:15 @ Let my soul bless God the great King.

bes@Tob:13:16 @ For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds, and precious stone: thy walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.

bes@Tob:13:17 @ And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir.

bes@Tob:13:18 @ And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they shall praise him, saying, Blessed be God, which hath extolled it for ever.

bes@Tob:14:1 @ So Tobit made an end of praising God.

bes@Tob:14:2 @ And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight, which was restored to him after eight years: and he gave alms, and he increased in the fear of the Lord God, and praised him.

bes@Tob:14:3 @ And when he was very aged he called his son, and the sons of his son, and said to him, My son, take thy children; for, behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life.

bes@Tob:14:4 @ Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;

bes@Tob:14:5 @ And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.

bes@Tob:14:6 @ And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.

bes@Tob:14:7 @ So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy to our brethren.

bes@Tob:14:8 @ And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass.

bes@Tob:14:9 @ But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.

bes@Tob:14:10 @ And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.

bes@Tob:14:11 @ Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he buried him honourably.

bes@Tob:14:12 @ And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law,

bes@Tob:14:13 @ Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit’s.

bes@Tob:14:14 @ And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven and twenty years old.

bes@Tob:14:15 @ But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he rejoiced over Nineve.

bes@Sir:1:1 @

bes@Sir:1:2 @ Who can number the sand of the sea, and the drops of rain, and the days of eternity?

bes@Sir:1:3 @ Who can find out the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the deep, and wisdom?

bes@Sir:1:4 @ Wisdom hath been created before all things, and the understanding of prudence from everlasting.

bes@Sir:1:5 @ The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments.

bes@Sir:1:6 @ To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath known her wise counsels?

bes@Sir:1:7 @ Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood her great experience?

bes@Sir:1:8 @ There is one wise and greatly to be feared, the Lord sitting upon his throne.

bes@Sir:1:9 @ He created her, and saw her, and numbered her, and poured her out upon all his works.

bes@Sir:1:10 @ She is with all flesh according to his gift, and he hath given her to them that love him.

bes@Sir:1:11 @ The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing.

bes@Sir:1:12 @ The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth joy, and gladness, and a long life.

bes@Sir:1:13 @ Whoso feareth the Lord, it shall go well with him at the last, and he shall find favour in the day of his death.

bes@Sir:1:14 @ To fear the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and it was created with the faithful in the womb.

bes@Sir:1:15 @ She hath built an everlasting foundation with men, and she shall continue with their seed.

bes@Sir:1:16 @ To fear the Lord is fulness of wisdom, and filleth men with her fruits.

bes@Sir:1:17 @ She filleth all their house with things desirable, and the garners with her increase.

bes@Sir:1:18 @ The fear of the Lord is a crown of wisdom, making peace and perfect health to flourish; both which are the gifts of God: and it enlargeth their rejoicing that love him.

bes@Sir:1:19 @ Wisdom raineth down skill and knowledge of understanding standing, and exalteth them to honour that hold her fast.

bes@Sir:1:20 @ The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and the branches thereof are long life.

bes@Sir:1:21 @ The fear of the Lord driveth away sins: and where it is present, it turneth away wrath.

bes@Sir:1:22 @ A furious man cannot be justified; for the sway of his fury shall be his destruction.

bes@Sir:1:23 @ A patient man will tear for a time, and afterward joy shall spring up unto him.

bes@Sir:1:24 @ He will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.

bes@Sir:1:25 @ The parables of knowledge are in the treasures of wisdom: but godliness is an abomination to a sinner.

bes@Sir:1:26 @ If thou desire wisdom, keep the commandments, and the Lord shall give her unto thee.

bes@Sir:1:27 @ For the fear of the Lord is wisdom and instruction: and faith and meekness are his delight.

bes@Sir:1:28 @ Distrust not the fear of the Lord when thou art poor: and come not unto him with a double heart.

bes@Sir:1:29 @ Be not an hypocrite in the sight of men, and take good heed what thou speakest.

bes@Sir:1:30 @ Exalt not thyself, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, and so God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation, because thou camest not in truth to the fear of the Lord, but thy heart is full of deceit.

bes@Sir:2:1 @ My son, if thou come to serve the Lord, prepare thy soul for temptation.

bes@Sir:2:2 @ Set thy heart aright, and constantly endure, and make not haste in time of trouble.

bes@Sir:2:3 @ Cleave unto him, and depart not away, that thou mayest be increased at thy last end.

bes@Sir:2:4 @ Whatsoever is brought upon thee take cheerfully, and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate.

bes@Sir:2:5 @ For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

bes@Sir:2:6 @ Believe in him, and he will help thee; order thy way aright, and trust in him.

bes@Sir:2:7 @ Ye that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside, lest ye fall.

bes@Sir:2:8 @ Ye that fear the Lord, believe him; and your reward shall not fail.

bes@Sir:2:9 @ Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy.

bes@Sir:2:10 @ Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?

bes@Sir:2:11 @ For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction.

bes@Sir:2:12 @ Woe be to fearful hearts, and faint hands, and the sinner that goeth two ways!

bes@Sir:2:13 @ Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not; therefore shall he not be defended.

bes@Sir:2:14 @ Woe unto you that have lost patience! and what will ye do when the Lord shall visit you?

bes@Sir:2:15 @ They that fear the Lord will not disobey his Word; and they that love him will keep his ways.

bes@Sir:2:16 @ They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well, pleasing unto him; and they that love him shall be filled with the law.

bes@Sir:2:17 @ They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts, and humble their souls in his sight,

bes@Sir:2:18 @ Saying, We will fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men: for as his majesty is, so is his mercy.

bes@Sir:3:1 @ Hear me your father, O children, and do thereafter, that ye may be safe.

bes@Sir:3:2 @ For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons.

bes@Sir:3:3 @ Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:

bes@Sir:3:4 @ And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up treasure.

bes@Sir:3:5 @ Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children; and when he maketh his prayer, he shall be heard.

bes@Sir:3:6 @ He that honoureth his father shall have a long life; and he that is obedient unto the Lord shall be a comfort to his mother.

bes@Sir:3:7 @ He that feareth the Lord will honour his father, and will do service unto his parents, as to his masters.

bes@Sir:3:8 @ Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed, that a blessing may come upon thee from them.

bes@Sir:3:9 @ For the blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children; but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations.

bes@Sir:3:10 @ Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father’s dishonour is no glory unto thee.

bes@Sir:3:11 @ For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and a mother in dishonour is a reproach to the children.

bes@Sir:3:12 @ My son, help thy father in his age, and grieve him not as long as he liveth.

bes@Sir:3:13 @ And if his understanding fail, have patience with him; and despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.

bes@Sir:3:14 @ For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten: and instead of sins it shall be added to build thee up.

bes@Sir:3:15 @ In the day of thine affliction it shall be remembered; thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather.

bes@Sir:3:16 @ He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer; and he that angereth his mother is cursed: of God.

bes@Sir:3:17 @ My son, go on with thy business in meekness; so shalt thou be beloved of him that is approved.

bes@Sir:3:18 @ The greater thou art, the more humble thyself, and thou shalt find favour before the Lord.

bes@Sir:3:19 @ Many are in high place, and of renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.

bes@Sir:3:20 @ For the power of the Lord is great, and he is honoured of the lowly.

bes@Sir:3:21 @ Seek not out things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

bes@Sir:3:22 @ But what is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence, for it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret.

bes@Sir:3:23 @ Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

bes@Sir:3:24 @ For many are deceived by their own vain opinion; and an evil suspicion hath overthrown their judgement.

bes@Sir:3:25 @ Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.

bes@Sir:3:26 @ A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last; and he that loveth danger shall perish therein.

bes@Sir:3:27 @ An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows; and the wicked man shall heap sin upon sin.

bes@Sir:3:28 @ In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy; for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him.

bes@Sir:3:29 @ The heart of the prudent will understand a parable; and an attentive ear is the desire of a wise man.

bes@Sir:3:30 @ Water will quench a flaming fire; and alms maketh an atonement for sins.

bes@Sir:3:31 @ And he that requiteth good turns is mindful of that which may come hereafter; and when he falleth, he shall find a stay.

bes@Sir:4:1 @ My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

bes@Sir:4:2 @ Make not an hungry soul sorrowful; neither provoke a man in his distress.

bes@Sir:4:3 @ Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed; and defer not to give to him that is in need.

bes@Sir:4:4 @ Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away thy face from a poor man.

bes@Sir:4:5 @ Turn not away thine eye from the needy, and give him none occasion to curse thee:

bes@Sir:4:6 @ For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul, his prayer shall be heard of him that made him.

bes@Sir:4:7 @ Get thyself the love of the congregation, and bow thy head to a great man.

bes@Sir:4:8 @ Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly answer with meekness.

bes@Sir:4:9 @ Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgement.

bes@Sir:4:10 @ Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.

bes@Sir:4:11 @ Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.

bes@Sir:4:12 @ He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.

bes@Sir:4:13 @ He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory; and wheresoever she entereth, the Lord will bless.

bes@Sir:4:14 @ They that serve her shall minister to the Holy One: and them that love her the Lord doth love.

bes@Sir:4:15 @ Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: and he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.

bes@Sir:4:16 @ If a man commit himself unto her, he shall inherit her; and his generation shall hold her in possession.

bes@Sir:4:17 @ For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.

bes@Sir:4:18 @ Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort him, and shew him her secrets.

bes@Sir:4:19 @ But if he go wrong, she will forsake him, and give him over to his own ruin.

bes@Sir:4:20 @ Observe the opportunity, and beware of evil; and be not ashamed when it concerneth thy soul.

bes@Sir:4:21 @ For there is a shame that bringeth sin; and there is a shame which is glory and grace.

bes@Sir:4:22 @ Accept no person against thy soul, and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall.

bes@Sir:4:23 @ And refrain not to speak, when there is occasion to do good, and hide not thy wisdom in her beauty.

bes@Sir:4:24 @ For by speech wisdom shall be known: and learning by the word of the tongue.

bes@Sir:4:25 @ In no wise speak against the truth; but be abashed of the error of thine ignorance.

bes@Sir:4:26 @ Be not ashamed to confess thy sins; and force not the course of the river.

bes@Sir:4:27 @ Make not thyself an underling to a foolish man; neither accept the person of the mighty.

bes@Sir:4:28 @ Strive for the truth unto death, and the Lord shall fight for thee.

bes@Sir:4:29 @ Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds slack and remiss.

bes@Sir:4:30 @ Be not as a lion in thy house, nor frantick among thy servants.

bes@Sir:4:31 @ Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay.

bes@Sir:5:1 @ Set thy heart upon thy goods; and say not, I have enough for my life.

bes@Sir:5:2 @ Follow not thine own mind and thy strength, to walk in the ways of thy heart:

bes@Sir:5:3 @ And say not, Who shall control me for my works? for the Lord will surely revenge thy pride.

bes@Sir:5:4 @ Say not, I have sinned, and what harm hath happened unto me? for the Lord is longsuffering, he will in no wise let thee go.

bes@Sir:5:5 @ Concerning propitiation, be not without fear to add sin unto sin:

bes@Sir:5:6 @ And say not His mercy is great; he will be pacified for the multitude of my sins: for mercy and wrath come from him, and his indignation resteth upon sinners.

bes@Sir:5:7 @ Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord, and put not off from day to day: for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lord come forth, and in thy security thou shalt be destroyed, and perish in the day of vengeance.

bes@Sir:5:8 @ Set not thine heart upon goods unjustly gotten, for they shall not profit thee in the day of calamity.

bes@Sir:5:9 @ Winnow not with every wind, and go not into every way: for so doth the sinner that hath a double tongue.

bes@Sir:5:10 @ Be stedfast in thy understanding; and let thy word be the same.

bes@Sir:5:11 @ Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; and with patience give answer.

bes@Sir:5:12 @ If thou hast understanding, answer thy neighbour; if not, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

bes@Sir:5:13 @ Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall.

bes@Sir:5:14 @ Be not called a whisperer, and lie not in wait with thy tongue: for a foul shame is upon the thief, and an evil condemnation upon the double tongue.

bes@Sir:5:15 @ Be not ignorant of any thing in a great matter or a small.

bes@Sir:6:1 @ Instead of a friend become not an enemy; for thereby thou shalt inherit an ill name, shame, and reproach: even so shall a sinner that hath a double tongue.

bes@Sir:6:2 @ Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy soul be not torn in pieces as a bull straying alone.

bes@Sir:6:3 @ Thou shalt eat up thy leaves, and lose thy fruit, and leave thyself as a dry tree.

bes@Sir:6:4 @ A wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and shall make him to be laughed to scorn of his enemies.

bes@Sir:6:5 @ Sweet language will multiply friends: and a fairspeaking tongue will increase kind greetings.

bes@Sir:6:6 @ Be in peace with many: nevertheless have but one counsellor of a thousand.

bes@Sir:6:7 @ If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first and be not hasty to credit him.

bes@Sir:6:8 @ For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

bes@Sir:6:9 @ And there is a friend, who being turned to enmity, and strife will discover thy reproach.

bes@Sir:6:10 @ Again, some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction.

bes@Sir:6:11 @ But in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold over thy servants.

bes@Sir:6:12 @ If thou be brought low, he will be against thee, and will hide himself from thy face.

bes@Sir:6:13 @ Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends.

bes@Sir:6:14 @ A faithful friend is a strong defence: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

bes@Sir:6:15 @ Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is invaluable.

bes@Sir:6:16 @ A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him.

bes@Sir:6:17 @ Whoso feareth the Lord shall direct his friendship aright: for as he is, so shall his neighbour be also.

bes@Sir:6:18 @ My son, gather instruction from thy youth up: so shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age.

bes@Sir:6:19 @ Come unto her as one that ploweth and soweth, and wait for her good fruits: for thou shalt not toil much in labouring about her, but thou shalt eat of her fruits right soon.

bes@Sir:6:20 @ She is very unpleasant to the unlearned: he that is without understanding will not remain with her.

bes@Sir:6:21 @ She will lie upon him as a mighty stone of trial; and he will cast her from him ere it be long.

bes@Sir:6:22 @ For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many.

bes@Sir:6:23 @ Give ear, my son, receive my advice, and refuse not my counsel,

bes@Sir:6:24 @ And put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chain.

bes@Sir:6:25 @ Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be not grieved with her bonds.

bes@Sir:6:26 @ Come unto her with thy whole heart, and keep her ways with all thy power.

bes@Sir:6:27 @ Search, and seek, and she shall be made known unto thee: and when thou hast got hold of her, let her not go.

bes@Sir:6:28 @ For at the last thou shalt find her rest, and that shall be turned to thy joy.

bes@Sir:6:29 @ Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and her chains a robe of glory.

bes@Sir:6:30 @ For there is a golden ornament upon her, and her bands are purple lace.

bes@Sir:6:31 @ Thou shalt put her on as a robe of honour, and shalt put her about thee as a crown of joy.

bes@Sir:6:32 @ My son, if thou wilt, thou shalt be taught: and if thou wilt apply thy mind, thou shalt be prudent.

bes@Sir:6:33 @ If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: and if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise,

bes@Sir:6:34 @ Stand in the multitude of the elders; and cleave unto him that is wise.

bes@Sir:6:35 @ Be willing to hear every godly discourse; and let not the parables of understanding escape thee.

bes@Sir:6:36 @ And if thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.

bes@Sir:6:37 @ Let thy mind be upon the ordinances of the Lord and meditate continually in his commandments: he shall establish thine heart, and give thee wisdom at thine owns desire.

bes@Sir:7:1 @ Do no evil, so shall no harm come unto thee.

bes@Sir:7:2 @ Depart from the unjust, and iniquity shall turn away from thee.

bes@Sir:7:3 @ My son, sow not upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.

bes@Sir:7:4 @ Seek not of the Lord preeminence, neither of the king the seat of honour.

bes@Sir:7:5 @ justify not thyself before the Lord; and boast not of thy wisdom before the king.

bes@Sir:7:6 @ Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity; lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, an stumblingblock in the way of thy uprightness.

bes@Sir:7:7 @ Offend not against the multitude of a city, and then thou shalt not cast thyself down among the people.

bes@Sir:7:8 @ Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished.

bes@Sir:7:9 @ Say not, God will look upon the multitude of my oblations, and when I offer to the most high God, he will accept it.

bes@Sir:7:10 @ Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect not to give alms.

bes@Sir:7:11 @ Laugh no man to scorn in the bitterness of his soul: for there is one which humbleth and exalteth.

bes@Sir:7:12 @ Devise not a lie against thy brother; neither do the like to thy friend.

bes@Sir:7:13 @ Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

bes@Sir:7:14 @ Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.

bes@Sir:7:15 @ Hate not laborious work, neither husbandry, which the most High hath ordained.

bes@Sir:7:16 @ Number not thyself among the multitude of sinners, but remember that wrath will not tarry long.

bes@Sir:7:17 @ Humble thyself greatly: for the vengeance of the ungodly is fire and worms.

bes@Sir:7:18 @ Change not a friend for any good by no means; neither a faithful brother for the gold of Ophir.

bes@Sir:7:19 @ Forego not a wise and good woman: for her grace is above gold.

bes@Sir:7:20 @ Whereas thy servant worketh truly, entreat him not evil. nor the hireling that bestoweth himself wholly for thee.

bes@Sir:7:21 @ Let thy soul love a good servant, and defraud him not of liberty.

bes@Sir:7:22 @ Hast thou cattle? have an eye to them: and if they be for thy profit, keep them with thee.

bes@Sir:7:23 @ Hast thou children? instruct them, and bow down their neck from their youth.

bes@Sir:7:24 @ Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thyself cheerful toward them.

bes@Sir:7:25 @ Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.

bes@Sir:7:26 @ Hast thou a wife after thy mind? forsake her not: but give not thyself over to a light woman.

bes@Sir:7:27 @ Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the sorrows of thy mother.

bes@Sir:7:28 @ Remember that thou wast begotten of them; and how canst thou recompense them the things that they have done for thee?

bes@Sir:7:29 @ Fear the Lord with all thy soul, and reverence his priests.

bes@Sir:7:30 @ Love him that made thee with all thy strength, and forsake not his ministers.

bes@Sir:7:31 @ Fear the Lord, and honour the priest; and give him his portion, as it is commanded thee; the firstfruits, and the trespass offering, and the gift of the shoulders, and the sacrifice of sanctification, and the firstfruits of the holy things.

bes@Sir:7:32 @ And stretch thine hand unto the poor, that thy blessing may be perfected.

bes@Sir:7:33 @ A gift hath grace in the sight of every man living; and for the dead detain it not.

bes@Sir:7:34 @ Fail not to be with them that weep, and mourn with them that mourn.

bes@Sir:7:35 @ Be not slow to visit the sick: fir that shall make thee to be beloved.

bes@Sir:7:36 @ Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.

bes@Sir:8:1 @ Strive not with a mighty man’ lest thou fall into his hands.

bes@Sir:8:2 @ Be not at variance with a rich man, lest he overweigh thee: for gold hath destroyed many, and perverted the hearts of kings.

bes@Sir:8:3 @ Strive not with a man that is full of tongue, and heap not wood upon his fire.

bes@Sir:8:4 @ Jest not with a rude man, lest thy ancestors be disgraced.

bes@Sir:8:5 @ Reproach not a man that turneth from sin, but remember that we are all worthy of punishment.

bes@Sir:8:6 @ Dishonour not a man in his old age: for even some of us wax old.

bes@Sir:8:7 @ Rejoice not over thy greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.

bes@Sir:8:8 @ Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs: for of them thou shalt learn instruction, and how to serve great men with ease.

bes@Sir:8:9 @ Miss not the discourse of the elders: for they also learned of their fathers, and of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give answer as need requireth.

bes@Sir:8:10 @ Kindle not the coals of a sinner, lest thou be burnt with the flame of his fire.

bes@Sir:8:11 @ Rise not up in anger at the presence of an injurious person, lest he lie in wait to entrap thee in thy words

bes@Sir:8:12 @ Lend not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou lendest him, count it but lost.

bes@Sir:8:13 @ Be not surety above thy power: for if thou be surety, take care to pay it.

bes@Sir:8:14 @ Go not to law with a judge; for they will judge for him according to his honour.

bes@Sir:8:15 @ Travel not by the way with a bold fellow, lest he become grievous unto thee: for he will do according to his own will, and thou shalt perish with him through his folly.

bes@Sir:8:16 @ Strive not with an angry man, and go not with him into a solitary place: for blood is as nothing in his sight, and where there is no help, he will overthrow thee.

bes@Sir:8:17 @ Consult not with a fool; for he cannot keep counsel.

bes@Sir:8:18 @ Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.

bes@Sir:8:19 @ Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.

bes@Sir:9:1 @ Be not jealous over the wife of thy bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson against thyself.

bes@Sir:9:2 @ Give not thy soul unto a woman to set her foot upon thy substance.

bes@Sir:9:3 @ Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.

bes@Sir:9:4 @ Use not much the company of a woman that is a singer, lest thou be taken with her attempts.

bes@Sir:9:5 @ Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not by those things that are precious in her.

bes@Sir:9:6 @ Give not thy soul unto harlots, that thou lose not thine inheritance.

bes@Sir:9:7 @ Look not round about thee in the streets of the city, neither wander thou in the solitary place thereof.

bes@Sir:9:8 @ Turn away thine eye from a beautiful woman, and look not upon another’s beauty; for many have been deceived by the beauty of a woman; for herewith love is kindled as a fire.

bes@Sir:9:9 @ Sit not at all with another man’s wife, nor sit down with her in thine arms, and spend not thy money with her at the wine; lest thine heart incline unto her, and so through thy desire thou fall into destruction.

bes@Sir:9:10 @ Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

bes@Sir:9:11 @ Envy not the glory of a sinner: for thou knowest not what shall be his end.

bes@Sir:9:12 @ Delight not in the thing that the ungodly have pleasure in; but remember they shall not go unpunished unto their grave.

bes@Sir:9:13 @ Keep thee far from the man that hath power to kill; so shalt thou not doubt the fear of death: and if thou come unto him, make no fault, lest he take away thy life presently: remember that thou goest in the midst of snares, and that thou walkest upon the battlements of the city.

bes@Sir:9:14 @ As near as thou canst, guess at thy neighbour, and consult with the wise.

bes@Sir:9:15 @ Let thy talk be with the wise, and all thy communication in the law of the most High.

bes@Sir:9:16 @ And let just men eat and drink with thee; and let thy glorying be in the fear of the Lord.

bes@Sir:9:17 @ For the hand of the artificer the work shall be commended: and the wise ruler of the people for his speech.

bes@Sir:9:18 @ A man of an ill tongue is dangerous in his city; and he that is rash in his talk shall be hated.

bes@Sir:10:1 @ A wise judge will instruct his people; and the government of a prudent man is well ordered.

bes@Sir:10:2 @ As the judge of the people is himself, so are his officers; and what manner of man the ruler of the city is, such are all they that dwell therein.

bes@Sir:10:3 @ An unwise king destroyeth his people; but through the prudence of them which are in authority the city shall be inhabited.

bes@Sir:10:4 @ The power of the earth is in the hand of the Lord, and in due time he will set over it one that is profitable.

bes@Sir:10:5 @ In the hand of God is the prosperity of man: and upon the person of the scribe shall he lay his honour.

bes@Sir:10:6 @ Bear not hatred to thy neighbour for every wrong; and do nothing at all by injurious practices.

bes@Sir:10:7 @ Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one commit iniquity.

bes@Sir:10:8 @ Because of unrighteous dealings, injuries, and riches got by deceit, the kingdom is translated from one people to another.

bes@Sir:10:9 @ Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.

bes@Sir:10:10 @ The physician cutteth off a long disease; and he that is to day a king to morrow shall die.

bes@Sir:10:11 @ For when a man is dead, he shall inherit creeping things, beasts, and worms.

bes@Sir:10:12 @ The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and his heart is turned away from his Maker.

bes@Sir:10:13 @ For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.

bes@Sir:10:14 @ The Lord hath cast down the thrones of proud princes, and set up the meek in their stead.

bes@Sir:10:15 @ The Lord hath plucked up the roots of the proud nations, and planted the lowly in their place.

bes@Sir:10:16 @ The Lord overthrew countries of the heathen, and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.

bes@Sir:10:17 @ He took some of them away, and destroyed them, and hath made their memorial to cease from the earth.

bes@Sir:10:18 @ Pride was not made for men, nor furious anger for them that are born of a woman.

bes@Sir:10:19 @ They that fear the Lord are a sure seed, and they that love him an honourable plant: they that regard not the law are a dishonourable seed; they that transgress the commandments are a deceivable seed.

bes@Sir:10:20 @ Among brethren he that is chief is honourably; so are they that fear the Lord in his eyes.

bes@Sir:10:21 @ The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of authority: but roughness and pride is the losing thereof.

bes@Sir:10:22 @ Whether he be rich, noble, or poor, their glory is the fear of the Lord.

bes@Sir:10:23 @ It is not meet to despise the poor man that hath understanding; neither is it convenient to magnify a sinful man.

bes@Sir:10:24 @ Great men, and judges, and potentates, shall be honoured; yet is there none of them greater than he that feareth the Lord.

bes@Sir:10:25 @ Unto the servant that is wise shall they that are free do service: and he that hath knowledge will not grudge when he is reformed.

bes@Sir:10:26 @ Be not overwise in doing thy business; and boast not thyself in the time of thy distress.

bes@Sir:10:27 @ Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself, and wanteth bread.

bes@Sir:10:28 @ My son, glorify thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to the dignity thereof.

bes@Sir:10:29 @ Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own life?

bes@Sir:10:30 @ The poor man is honoured for his skill, and the rich man is honoured for his riches.

bes@Sir:10:31 @ He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches? and he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty?

bes@Sir:11:1 @ Wisdom lifteth up the head of him that is of low degree, and maketh him to sit among great men.

bes@Sir:11:2 @ Commend not a man for his beauty; neither abhor a man for his outward appearance.

bes@Sir:11:3 @ The bee is little among such as fly; but her fruit is the chief of sweet things.

bes@Sir:11:4 @ Boast not of thy clothing and raiment, and exalt not thyself in the day of honour: for the works of the Lord are wonderful, and his works among men are hidden.

bes@Sir:11:5 @ Many kings have sat down upon the ground; and one that was never thought of hath worn the crown.

bes@Sir:11:6 @ Many mighty men have been greatly disgraced; and the honourable delivered into other men’s hands.

bes@Sir:11:7 @ Blame not before thou hast examined the truth: understand first, and then rebuke.

bes@Sir:11:8 @ Answer not before thou hast heard the cause: neither interrupt men in the midst of their talk.

bes@Sir:11:9 @ Strive not in a matter that concerneth thee not; and sit not in judgement with sinners.

bes@Sir:11:10 @ My son, meddle not with many matters: for if thou meddle much, thou shalt not be innocent; and if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain, neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.

bes@Sir:11:11 @ There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.

bes@Sir:11:12 @ Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

bes@Sir:11:13 @ And lifted up his head from misery; so that many that saw from him is peace over all the

bes@Sir:11:14 @ Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.

bes@Sir:11:15 @ Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the law, are of the Lord: love, and the way of good works, are from him.

bes@Sir:11:16 @ Error and darkness had their beginning together with sinners: and evil shall wax old with them that glory therein.

bes@Sir:11:17 @ The gift of the Lord remaineth with the ungodly, and his favour bringeth prosperity for ever.

bes@Sir:11:18 @ There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this his the portion of his reward:

bes@Sir:11:19 @ Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall come upon him, and that he must leave those things to others, and die.

bes@Sir:11:20 @ Be stedfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and wax old in thy work.

bes@Sir:11:21 @ Marvel not at the works of sinners; but trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labour: for it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

bes@Sir:11:22 @ The blessing of the Lord is in the reward of the godly, and suddenly he maketh his blessing flourish.

bes@Sir:11:23 @ Say not, What profit is there of my service? and what good things shall I have hereafter?

bes@Sir:11:24 @ Again, say not, I have enough, and possess many things, and what evil shall I have hereafter?

bes@Sir:11:25 @ In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

bes@Sir:11:26 @ For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death to reward a man according to his ways.

bes@Sir:11:27 @ The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure: and in his end his deeds shall be discovered.

bes@Sir:11:28 @ Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.

bes@Sir:11:29 @ Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful man hath many trains.

bes@Sir:11:30 @ Like as a partridge taken and kept in a cage, so is the heart of the proud; and like as a spy, watcheth he for thy fall:

bes@Sir:11:31 @ For he lieth in wait, and turneth good into evil, and in things worthy praise will lay blame upon thee.

bes@Sir:11:32 @ Of a spark of fire a heap of coals is kindled: and a sinful man layeth wait for blood.

bes@Sir:11:33 @ Take heed of a mischievous man, for he worketh wickedness; lest he bring upon thee a perpetual blot.

bes@Sir:11:34 @ Receive a stranger into thine house, and he will disturb thee, and turn thee out of thine own.

bes@Sir:12:1 @ When thou wilt do good know to whom thou doest it; so shalt thou be thanked for thy benefits.

bes@Sir:12:2 @ Do good to the godly man, and thou shalt find a recompence; and if not from him, yet from the most High.

bes@Sir:12:3 @ There can no good come to him that is always occupied in evil, nor to him that giveth no alms.

bes@Sir:12:4 @ Give to the godly man, and help not a sinner.

bes@Sir:12:5 @ Do well unto him that is lowly, but give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not unto him, lest he overmaster thee thereby: for else thou shalt receive twice as much evil for all the good thou shalt have done unto him.

bes@Sir:12:6 @ For the most High hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance unto the ungodly, and keepeth them against the mighty day of their punishment.

bes@Sir:12:7 @ Give unto the good, and help not the sinner.

bes@Sir:12:8 @ A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

bes@Sir:12:9 @ In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.

bes@Sir:12:10 @ Never trust thine enemy: for like as iron rusteth, so is his wickedness.

bes@Sir:12:11 @ Though he humble himself, and go crouching, yet take good heed and beware of him, and thou shalt be unto him as if thou hadst wiped a lookingglass, and thou shalt know that his rust hath not been altogether wiped away.

bes@Sir:12:12 @ Set him not by thee, lest, when he hath overthrown thee, he stand up in thy place; neither let him sit at thy right hand, lest he seek to take thy seat, and thou at the last remember my words, and be pricked therewith.

bes@Sir:12:13 @ Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent, or any such as come nigh wild beasts?

bes@Sir:12:14 @ So one that goeth to a sinner, and is defiled with him in his sins, who will pity?

bes@Sir:12:15 @ For a while he will abide with thee, but if thou begin to fall, he will not tarry.

bes@Sir:12:16 @ An enemy speaketh sweetly with his lips, but in his heart he imagineth how to throw thee into a pit: he will weep with his eyes, but if he find opportunity, he will not be satisfied with blood.

bes@Sir:12:17 @ If adversity come upon thee, thou shalt find him there first; and though he pretend to help thee, yet shall he undermine thee.

bes@Sir:12:18 @ He will shake his head, and clap his hands, and whisper much, and change his countenance.

bes@Sir:13:1 @ He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him.

bes@Sir:13:2 @ Burden not thyself above thy power while thou livest; and have no fellowship with one that is mightier and richer than thyself: for how agree the kettle and the earthen pot together? for if the one be smitten against the other, it shall be broken.

bes@Sir:13:3 @ The rich man hath done wrong, and yet he threateneth withal: the poor is wronged, and he must intreat also.

bes@Sir:13:4 @ If thou be for his profit, he will use thee: but if thou have nothing, he will forsake thee.

bes@Sir:13:5 @ If thou have any thing, he will live with thee: yea, he will make thee bare, and will not be sorry for it.

bes@Sir:13:6 @ If he have need of thee, he will deceive thee, and smile upon thee, and put thee in hope; he will speak thee fair, and say, What wantest thou?

bes@Sir:13:7 @ And he will shame thee by his meats, until he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at the last he will laugh thee to scorn afterward, when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.

bes@Sir:13:8 @ Beware that thou be not deceived and brought down in thy jollity.

bes@Sir:13:9 @ If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so much the more will he invite thee.

bes@Sir:13:10 @ Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.

bes@Sir:13:11 @ Affect not to be made equal unto him in talk, and believe not his many words: for with much communication will he tempt thee, and smiling upon thee will get out thy secrets:

bes@Sir:13:12 @ But cruelly he will lay up thy words, and will not spare to do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

bes@Sir:13:13 @ Observe, and take good heed, for thou walkest in peril of thy overthrowing: when thou hearest these things, awake in thy sleep.

bes@Sir:13:14 @ Love the Lord all thy life, and call upon him for thy salvation.

bes@Sir:13:15 @ Every beast loveth his like, and every man loveth his neighbour.

bes@Sir:13:16 @ All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.

bes@Sir:13:17 @ What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? so the sinner with the godly.

bes@Sir:13:18 @ What agreement is there between the hyena and a dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?

bes@Sir:13:19 @ As the wild ass is the lion’s prey in the wilderness: so the rich eat up the poor.

bes@Sir:13:20 @ As the proud hate humility: so doth the rich abhor the poor.

bes@Sir:13:21 @ A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust away by his friends.

bes@Sir:13:22 @ When a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers: he speaketh things not to be spoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man slipped, and yet they rebuked him too; he spake wisely, and could have no place.

bes@Sir:13:23 @ When a rich man speaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, and, look, what he saith, they extol it to the clouds: but if the poor man speak, they say, What fellow is this? and if he stumble, they will help to overthrow him.

bes@Sir:13:24 @ Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.

bes@Sir:13:25 @ The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be for good or evil: and a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

bes@Sir:13:26 @ A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity; and the finding out of parables is a wearisome labour of the mind.

bes@Sir:14:1 @ Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, and is not pricked with the multitude of sins.

bes@Sir:14:2 @ Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him, and who is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.

bes@Sir:14:3 @ Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an envious man do with money?

bes@Sir:14:4 @ He that gathereth by defrauding his own soul gathereth for others, that shall spend his goods riotously.

bes@Sir:14:5 @ He that is evil to himself, to whom will he be good? he shall not take pleasure in his goods.

bes@Sir:14:6 @ There is none worse than he that envieth himself; and this is a recompence of his wickedness.

bes@Sir:14:7 @ And if he doeth good, he doeth it unwillingly; and at the last he will declare his wickedness.

bes@Sir:14:8 @ The envious man hath a wicked eye; he turneth away his face, and despiseth men.

bes@Sir:14:9 @ A covetous man’s eye is not satisfied with his portion; and the iniquity of the wicked drieth up his soul.

bes@Sir:14:10 @ A wicked eye envieth his bread, and he is a niggard at his table.

bes@Sir:14:11 @ My son, according to thy ability do good to thyself, and give the Lord his due offering.

bes@Sir:14:12 @ Remember that death will not be long in coming, and that the covenant of the grave is not shewed unto thee.

bes@Sir:14:13 @ Do good unto thy friend before thou die, and according to thy ability stretch out thy hand and give to him.

bes@Sir:14:14 @ Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee.

bes@Sir:14:15 @ Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy labours to be divided by lot?

bes@Sir:14:16 @ Give, and take, and sanctify thy soul; for there is no seeking of dainties in the grave.

bes@Sir:14:17 @ All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.

bes@Sir:14:18 @ As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.

bes@Sir:14:19 @ Every work rotteth and consumeth away, and the worker thereof shall go withal.

bes@Sir:14:20 @ Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom, and that reasoneth of holy things by his understanding.

bes@Sir:14:21 @ He that considereth her ways in his heart shall also have understanding in her secrets.

bes@Sir:14:22 @ Go after her as one that traceth, and lie in wait in her ways.

bes@Sir:14:23 @ He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors.

bes@Sir:14:24 @ He that doth lodge near her house shall also fasten a pin in her walls.

bes@Sir:14:25 @ He shall pitch his tent nigh unto her, and shall lodge in a lodging where good things are.

bes@Sir:14:26 @ He shall set his children under her shelter, and shall lodge under her branches.

bes@Sir:14:27 @ By her he shall be covered from heat, and in her glory shall he dwell.

bes@Sir:15:1 @ He that feareth the Lord will do good, and he that hath the knowledge of the law shall obtain her.

bes@Sir:15:2 @ And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.

bes@Sir:15:3 @ With the bread of understanding shall she feed him, and give him the water of wisdom to drink.

bes@Sir:15:4 @ He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; and shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.

bes@Sir:15:5 @ She shall exalt him above his neighbours, and in the midst of the congregation shall she open his mouth.

bes@Sir:15:6 @ He shall find joy and a crown of gladness, and she shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name.

bes@Sir:15:7 @ But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall not see her.

bes@Sir:15:8 @ For she is far from pride, and men that are liars cannot remember her.

bes@Sir:15:9 @ Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.

bes@Sir:15:10 @ For praise shall be uttered in wisdom, and the Lord will prosper it.

bes@Sir:15:11 @ Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I fell away: for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.

bes@Sir:15:12 @ Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of the sinful man.

bes@Sir:15:13 @ The Lord hateth all abomination; and they that fear God love it not.

bes@Sir:15:14 @ He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsel;

bes@Sir:15:15 @ If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform acceptable faithfulness.

bes@Sir:15:16 @ He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wilt.

bes@Sir:15:17 @ Before man is life and death; and whether him liketh shall be given him.

bes@Sir:15:18 @ For the wisdom of the Lord is great, and he is mighty in power, and beholdeth all things:

bes@Sir:15:19 @ And his eyes are upon them that fear him, and he knoweth every work of man.

bes@Sir:15:20 @ He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he given any man licence to sin.

bes@Sir:16:1 @ Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children, neither delight in ungodly sons.

bes@Sir:16:2 @ Though they multiply, rejoice not in them, except the fear of the Lord be with them.

bes@Sir:16:3 @ Trust not thou in their life, neither respect their multitude: for one that is just is better than a thousand; and better it is to die without children, than to have them that are ungodly.

bes@Sir:16:4 @ For by one that hath understanding shall the city be replenished: but the kindred of the wicked shall speedily become desolate.

bes@Sir:16:5 @ Many such things have I seen with mine eyes, and mine ear hath heard greater things than these.

bes@Sir:16:6 @ In the congregation of the ungodly shall a fire be kindled; and in a rebellious nation wrath is set on fire.

bes@Sir:16:7 @ He was not pacified toward the old giants, who fell away in the strength of their foolishness.

bes@Sir:16:8 @ Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for their pride.

bes@Sir:16:9 @ He pitied not the people of perdition, who were taken away in their sins:

bes@Sir:16:10 @ Nor the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.

bes@Sir:16:11 @ And if there be one stiffnecked among the people, it is marvel if he escape unpunished: for mercy and wrath are with him; he is mighty to forgive, and to pour out displeasure.

bes@Sir:16:12 @ As his mercy is great, so is his correction also: he judgeth a man according to his works

bes@Sir:16:13 @ The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: and the patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.

bes@Sir:16:14 @ Make way for every work of mercy: for every man shall find according to his works.

bes@Sir:16:15 @ The Lord hardened Pharaoh, that he should not know him, that his powerful works might be known to the world.

bes@Sir:16:16 @ His mercy is manifest to every creature; and he hath separated his light from the darkness with an adamant.

bes@Sir:16:17 @ Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lord: shall any remember me from above? I shall not be remembered among so many people: for what is my soul among such an infinite number of creatures?

bes@Sir:16:18 @ Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, shall be moved when he shall visit.

bes@Sir:16:19 @ The mountains also and foundations of the earth be shaken with trembling, when the Lord looketh upon them.

bes@Sir:16:20 @ No heart can think upon these things worthily: and who is able to conceive his ways?

bes@Sir:16:21 @ It is a tempest which no man can see: for the most part of his works are hid.

bes@Sir:16:22 @ Who can declare the works of his justice? or who can endure them? for his covenant is afar off, and the trial of all things is in the end.

bes@Sir:16:23 @ He that wanteth understanding will think upon vain things: and a foolish man erring imagineth follies.

bes@Sir:16:24 @ My son, hearken unto me, and learn knowledge, and mark my words with thy heart.

bes@Sir:16:25 @ I will shew forth doctrine in weight, and declare his knowledge exactly.

bes@Sir:16:26 @ The works of the Lord are done in judgement from the beginning: and from the time he made them he disposed the parts thereof.

bes@Sir:16:27 @ He garnished his works for ever, and in his hand are the chief of them unto all generations: they neither labour, nor are weary, nor cease from their works.

bes@Sir:16:28 @ None of them hindereth another, and they shall never disobey his word.

bes@Sir:16:29 @ After this the Lord looked upon the earth, and filled it with his blessings.

bes@Sir:16:30 @ With all manner of living things hath he covered the face thereof; and they shall return into it again.

bes@Sir:17:1 @ The Lord created man of the earth, and turned him into it again.

bes@Sir:17:2 @ He gave them few days, and a short time, and power also over the things therein.

bes@Sir:17:3 @ He endued them with strength by themselves, and made them according to his image,

bes@Sir:17:4 @ And put the fear of man upon all flesh, and gave him dominion over beasts and fowls.

bes@Sir:17:5 @ They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

bes@Sir:17:6 @ Counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, ears, and a heart, gave he them to understand.

bes@Sir:17:7 @ Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding, and shewed them good and evil.

bes@Sir:17:8 @ He set his eye upon their hearts, that he might shew them the greatness of his works.

bes@Sir:17:9 @ He gave them to glory in his marvellous acts for ever, that they might declare his works with understanding.

bes@Sir:17:10 @ And the elect shall praise his holy name.

bes@Sir:17:11 @ Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for an heritage.

bes@Sir:17:12 @ He made an everlasting covenant with them, and shewed them his judgements.

bes@Sir:17:13 @ Their eyes saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard his glorious voice.

bes@Sir:17:14 @ And he said unto them, Beware of all unrighteousness; and he gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour.

bes@Sir:17:15 @ Their ways are ever before him, and shall not be hid from his eyes.

bes@Sir:17:16 @ Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony.

bes@Sir:17:17 @ For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion:

bes@Sir:17:18 @ Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.

bes@Sir:17:19 @ Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.

bes@Sir:17:20 @ None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him, but all their sins are before the Lord

bes@Sir:17:21 @ But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.

bes@Sir:17:22 @ The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and he will keep the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and give repentance to his sons and daughters.

bes@Sir:17:23 @ Afterwards he will rise up and reward them, and render their recompence upon their heads.

bes@Sir:17:24 @ But unto them that repent, he granted them return, and comforted those that failed in patience.

bes@Sir:17:25 @ Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, make thy prayer before his face, and offend less.

bes@Sir:17:26 @ Turn again to the most High, and turn away from iniquity: for he will lead thee out of darkness into the light of health, and hate thou abomination vehemently.

bes@Sir:17:27 @ Who shall praise the most High in the grave, instead of them which live and give thanks?

bes@Sir:17:28 @ Thanksgiving perisheth from the dead, as from one that is not: the living and sound in heart shall praise the Lord.

bes@Sir:17:29 @ How great is the lovingkindness of the Lord our God, and his compassion unto such as turn unto him in holiness!

bes@Sir:17:30 @ For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal.

bes@Sir:17:31 @ What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.

bes@Sir:17:32 @ He vieweth the power of the height of heaven; and all men are but earth and ashes.

bes@Sir:18:1 @ He that liveth for ever Hath created all things in general.

bes@Sir:18:2 @ The Lord only is righteous, and there is none other but he,

bes@Sir:18:3 @ Who governeth the world with the palm of his hand, and all things obey his will: for he is the King of all, by his power dividing holy things among them from profane.

bes@Sir:18:4 @ To whom hath he given power to declare his works? and who shall find out his noble acts?

bes@Sir:18:5 @ Who shall number the strength of his majesty? and who shall also tell out his mercies?

bes@Sir:18:6 @ As for the wondrous works of the Lord, there may nothing be taken from them, neither may any thing be put unto them, neither can the ground of them be found out.

bes@Sir:18:7 @ When a man hath done, then he beginneth; and when he leaveth off, then he shall be doubtful.

bes@Sir:18:8 @ What is man, and whereto serveth he? what is his good, and what is his evil?

bes@Sir:18:9 @ The number of a man’s days at the most are an hundred years.

bes@Sir:18:10 @ As a drop of water unto the sea, and a gravelstone in comparison of the sand; so are a thousand years to the days of eternity.

bes@Sir:18:11 @ Therefore is God patient with them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.

bes@Sir:18:12 @ He saw and perceived their end to be evil; therefore he multiplied his compassion.

bes@Sir:18:13 @ The mercy of man is toward his neighbour; but the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh: he reproveth, and nurtureth, and teacheth and bringeth again, as a shepherd his flock.

bes@Sir:18:14 @ He hath mercy on them that receive discipline, and that diligently seek after his judgements.

bes@Sir:18:15 @ My son, blemish not thy good deeds, neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing.

bes@Sir:18:16 @ Shall not the dew asswage the heat? so is a word better than a gift.

bes@Sir:18:17 @ Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.

bes@Sir:18:18 @ A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious consumeth the eyes.

bes@Sir:18:19 @ Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick.

bes@Sir:18:20 @ Before judgement examine thyself, and in the day of visitation thou shalt find mercy.

bes@Sir:18:21 @ Humble thyself before thou be sick, and in the time of sins shew repentance.

bes@Sir:18:22 @ Let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vow in due time, and defer not until death to be justified.

bes@Sir:18:23 @ Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.

bes@Sir:18:24 @ Think upon the wrath that shall be at the end, and the time of vengeance, when he shall turn away his face.

bes@Sir:18:25 @ When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger: and when thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.

bes@Sir:18:26 @ From the morning until the evening the time is changed, and all things are soon done before the Lord.

bes@Sir:18:27 @ A wise man will fear in every thing, and in the day of sinning he will beware of offence: but a fool will not observe time.

bes@Sir:18:28 @ Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom, and will give praise unto him that found her.

bes@Sir:18:29 @ They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise themselves, and poured forth exquisite parables.

bes@Sir:18:30 @ Go not after thy lusts, but refrain thyself from thine appetites.

bes@Sir:18:31 @ If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her, she will make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies that malign thee.

bes@Sir:18:32 @ Take not pleasure in much good cheer, neither be tied to the expense thereof.

bes@Sir:18:33 @ Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life, and be talked on.

bes@Sir:19:1 @ A labouring man that A is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

bes@Sir:19:2 @ Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

bes@Sir:19:3 @ Moths and worms shall have him to heritage, and a bold man shall be taken away.

bes@Sir:19:4 @ He that is hasty to give credit is lightminded; and he that sinneth shall offend against his own soul.

bes@Sir:19:5 @ Whoso taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned: but he that resisteth pleasures crowneth his life.

bes@Sir:19:6 @ He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife; and he that hateth babbling shall have less evil.

bes@Sir:19:7 @ Rehearse not unto another that which is told unto thee, and thou shalt fare never the worse.

bes@Sir:19:8 @ Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men’s lives; and if thou canst without offence, reveal them not.

bes@Sir:19:9 @ For he heard and observed thee, and when time cometh he will hate thee.

bes@Sir:19:10 @ If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.

bes@Sir:19:11 @ A fool travaileth with a word, as a woman in labour of a child.

bes@Sir:19:12 @ As an arrow that sticketh in a man’s thigh, so is a word within a fool’s belly.

bes@Sir:19:13 @ Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more.

bes@Sir:19:14 @ Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again.

bes@Sir:19:15 @ Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.

bes@Sir:19:16 @ There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

bes@Sir:19:17 @ Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him; and not being angry, give place to the law of the most High.

bes@Sir:19:18 @ The fear of the Lord is the first step to be accepted of him, and wisdom obtaineth his love.

bes@Sir:19:19 @ The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life: and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality.

bes@Sir:19:20 @ The fear of the Lord is all wisdom; and in all wisdom is the performance of the law, and the knowledge of his omnipotency.

bes@Sir:19:21 @ If a servant say to his master, I will not do as it pleaseth thee; though afterward he do it, he angereth him that nourisheth him.

bes@Sir:19:22 @ The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom, neither at any time the counsel of sinners prudence.

bes@Sir:19:23 @ There is a wickedness, and the same an abomination; and there is a fool wanting in wisdom.

bes@Sir:19:24 @ He that hath small understanding, and feareth God, is better than one that hath much wisdom, and transgresseth the law of the most High.

bes@Sir:19:25 @ There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust; and there is one that turneth aside to make judgement appear; and there is a wise man that justifieth in judgement.

bes@Sir:19:26 @ There is a wicked man that hangeth down his head sadly; but inwardly he is full of deceit,

bes@Sir:19:27 @ Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not: where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware.

bes@Sir:19:28 @ And if for want of power he be hindered from sinning, yet when he findeth opportunity he will do evil.

bes@Sir:19:29 @ A man may be known by his look, and one that hath understanding by his countenance, when thou meetest him.

bes@Sir:19:30 @ A man’s attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, shew what he is.

bes@Sir:20:1 @ There is a reproof that is not comely: again, some man holdeth his tongue, and he is wise.

bes@Sir:20:2 @ It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly: and he that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt.

bes@Sir:20:3 @ How good is it, when thou art reproved, to shew repentance! for so shalt thou escape wilful sin.

bes@Sir:20:4 @ As is the lust of an eunuch to deflower a virgin; so is he that executeth judgement with violence.

bes@Sir:20:5 @ There is one that keepeth silence, and is found wise: and another by much babbling becometh hateful.

bes@Sir:20:6 @ Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time.

bes@Sir:20:7 @ A wise man will hold his tongue till he see opportunity: but a babbler and a fool will regard no time.

bes@Sir:20:8 @ He that useth many words shall be abhorred; and he that taketh to himself authority therein shall be hated.

bes@Sir:20:9 @ There is a sinner that hath good success in evil things; and there is a gain that turneth to loss.

bes@Sir:20:10 @ There is a gift that shall not profit thee; and there is a gift whose recompence is double.

bes@Sir:20:11 @ There is an abasement because of glory; and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate.

bes@Sir:20:12 @ There is that buyeth much for a little, and repayeth it sevenfold.

bes@Sir:20:13 @ A wise man by his words maketh him beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.

bes@Sir:20:14 @ The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it; neither yet of the envious for his necessity: for he looketh to receive many things for one.

bes@Sir:20:15 @ He giveth little, and upbraideth much; he openeth his mouth like a crier; to day he lendeth, and to morrow will he ask it again: such an one is to be hated of God and man.

bes@Sir:20:16 @ The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thank for all my good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.

bes@Sir:20:17 @ How oft, and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn! for he knoweth not aright what it is to have; and it is all one unto him as if he had it not.

bes@Sir:20:18 @ To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

bes@Sir:20:19 @ An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the unwise.

bes@Sir:20:20 @ A wise sentence shall be rejected when it cometh out of a fool’s mouth; for he will not speak it in due season.

bes@Sir:20:21 @ There is that is hindered from sinning through want: and when he taketh rest, he shall not be troubled.

bes@Sir:20:22 @ There is that destroyeth his own soul through bashfulness, and by accepting of persons overthroweth himself.

bes@Sir:20:23 @ There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.

bes@Sir:20:24 @ A lie is a foul blot in a man, yet it is continually in the mouth of the untaught.

bes@Sir:20:25 @ A thief is better than a man that is accustomed to lie: but they both shall have destruction to heritage.

bes@Sir:20:26 @ The disposition of a liar is dishonourable, and his shame is ever with him.

bes@Sir:20:27 @ A wise man shall promote himself to honour with his words: and he that hath understanding will please great men.

bes@Sir:20:28 @ He that tilleth his land shall increase his heap: and he that pleaseth great men shall get pardon for iniquity.

bes@Sir:20:29 @ Presents and gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and stop up his mouth that he cannot reprove.

bes@Sir:20:30 @ Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both?

bes@Sir:20:31 @ Better is he that hideth his folly than a man that hideth his wisdom.

bes@Sir:20:32 @ Necessary patience in seeking the Lord is better than he that leadeth his life without a guide.

bes@Sir:21:1 @ My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more, but ask pardon for thy former sins.

bes@Sir:21:2 @ Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, slaying the souls of men.

bes@Sir:21:3 @ All iniquity is as a two edged sword, the wounds whereof cannot be healed.

bes@Sir:21:4 @ To terrify and do wrong will waste riches: thus the house of proud men shall be made desolate.

bes@Sir:21:5 @ A prayer out of a poor man’s mouth reacheth to the ears of God, and his judgement cometh speedily.

bes@Sir:21:6 @ He that hateth to be reproved is in the way of sinners: but he that feareth the Lord will repent from his heart.

bes@Sir:21:7 @ An eloquent man is known far and near; but a man of understanding knoweth when he slippeth.

bes@Sir:21:8 @ He that buildeth his house with other men’s money is like one that gathereth himself stones for the tomb of his burial.

bes@Sir:21:9 @ The congregation of the wicked is like tow wrapped together: and the end of them is a flame of fire to destroy them.

bes@Sir:21:10 @ The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.

bes@Sir:21:11 @ He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.

bes@Sir:21:12 @ He that is not wise will not be taught: but there is a wisdom which multiplieth bitterness.

bes@Sir:21:13 @ The knowledge of a wise man shall abound like a flood: and his counsel is like a pure fountain of life.

bes@Sir:21:14 @ The inner parts of a fool are like a broken vessel, and he will hold no knowledge as long as he liveth.

bes@Sir:21:15 @ If a skilful man hear a wise word, he will commend it, and add unto it: but as soon as one of no understanding heareth it, it displeaseth him, and he casteth it behind his back.

bes@Sir:21:16 @ The talking of a fool is like a burden in the way: but grace shall be found in the lips of the wise.

bes@Sir:21:17 @ They enquire at the mouth of the wise man in the congregation, and they shall ponder his words in their heart.

bes@Sir:21:18 @ As is a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as talk without sense.

bes@Sir:21:19 @ Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.

bes@Sir:21:20 @ A fool lifteth up his voice with laughter; but a wise man doth scarce smile a little.

bes@Sir:21:21 @ Learning is unto a wise man as an ornament of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm.

bes@Sir:21:22 @ A foolish man’s foot is soon in his neighbour’s house: but a man of experience is ashamed of him.

bes@Sir:21:23 @ A fool will peep in at the door into the house: but he that is well nurtured will stand without.

bes@Sir:21:24 @ It is the rudeness of a man to hearken at the door: but a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.

bes@Sir:21:25 @ The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them: but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance.

bes@Sir:21:26 @ The heart of fools is in their mouth: but the mouth of the wise is in their heart.

bes@Sir:21:27 @ When the ungodly curseth Satan, he curseth his own soul.

bes@Sir:21:28 @ A whisperer defileth his own soul, and is hated wheresoever he dwelleth.

bes@Sir:22:1 @ A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one will hiss him out to his disgrace.

bes@Sir:22:2 @ A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand.

bes@Sir:22:3 @ An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat him: and a foolish daughter is born to his loss.

bes@Sir:22:4 @ A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly is her father’s heaviness.

bes@Sir:22:5 @ She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

bes@Sir:22:6 @ A tale out of season is as musick in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisdom are never out of time.

bes@Sir:22:7 @ Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.

bes@Sir:22:8 @ He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?

bes@Sir:22:9 @ If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.

bes@Sir:22:10 @ But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

bes@Sir:22:11 @ Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.

bes@Sir:22:12 @ Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of his life.

bes@Sir:22:13 @ Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that hath no understanding: beware of him, lest thou have trouble, and thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.

bes@Sir:22:14 @ What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?

bes@Sir:22:15 @ Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a man without understanding.

bes@Sir:22:16 @ As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.

bes@Sir:22:17 @ A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair plaistering on the wall of a gallery.

bes@Sir:22:18 @ Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.

bes@Sir:22:19 @ He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.

bes@Sir:22:20 @ Whoso casteth a stone at the birds frayeth them away: and he that upbraideth his friend breaketh friendship.

bes@Sir:22:21 @ Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not: for there may be a returning to favour.

bes@Sir:22:22 @ If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not; for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for for these things every friend will depart.

bes@Sir:22:23 @ Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.

bes@Sir:22:24 @ As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire; so reviling before blood.

bes@Sir:22:25 @ I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I hide myself from him.

bes@Sir:22:26 @ And if any evil happen unto me by him, every one that heareth it will beware of him.

bes@Sir:22:27 @ Who shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seal of wisdom upon my lips, that I fall not suddenly by them, and that my tongue destroy me not?

bes@Sir:23:1 @ O Lord, Father and Governor of all my whole life, leave me not to their counsels, and let me not fall by them.

bes@Sir:23:2 @ Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over mine heart? that they spare me not for mine ignorances, and it pass not by my sins:

bes@Sir:23:3 @ Lest mine ignorances increase, and my sins abound to my destruction, and I fall before mine adversaries, and mine enemy rejoice over me, whose hope is far from thy mercy.

bes@Sir:23:4 @ O Lord, Father and God of my life, give me not a proud look, but turn away from thy servants always a haughty mind.

bes@Sir:23:5 @ Turn away from me vain hopes and concupiscence, and thou shalt hold him up that is desirous always to serve thee.

bes@Sir:23:6 @ Let not the greediness of the belly nor lust of the flesh take hold of me; and give not over me thy servant into an impudent mind.

bes@Sir:23:7 @ Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: he that keepeth it shall never be taken in his lips.

bes@Sir:23:8 @ The sinner shall be left in his foolishness: both the evil speaker and the proud shall fall thereby.

bes@Sir:23:9 @ Accustom not thy mouth to swearing; neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.

bes@Sir:23:10 @ For as a servant that is continually beaten shall not be without a blue mark: so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultless.

bes@Sir:23:11 @ A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, and the plague shall never depart from his house: if he shall offend, his sin shall be upon him: and if he acknowledge not his sin, he maketh a double offence: and if he swear in vain, he shall not be innocent, but his house shall be full of calamities.

bes@Sir:23:12 @ There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.

bes@Sir:23:13 @ Use not thy mouth to intemperate swearing, for therein is the word of sin.

bes@Sir:23:14 @ Remember thy father and thy mother, when thou sittest among great men. Be not forgetful before them, and so thou by thy custom become a fool, and wish that thou hadst not been born, and curse they day of thy nativity.

bes@Sir:23:15 @ The man that is accustomed to opprobrious words will never be reformed all the days of his life.

bes@Sir:23:16 @ Two sorts of men multiply sin, and the third will bring wrath: a hot mind is as a burning fire, it will never be quenched till it be consumed: a fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he hath kindled a fire.

bes@Sir:23:17 @ All bread is sweet to a whoremonger, he will not leave off till he die.

bes@Sir:23:18 @ A man that breaketh wedlock, saying thus in his heart, Who seeth me? I am compassed about with darkness, the walls cover me, and no body seeth me; what need I to fear? the most High will not remember my sins:

bes@Sir:23:19 @ Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.

bes@Sir:23:20 @ He knew all things ere ever they were created; so also after they were perfected he looked upon them all.

bes@Sir:23:21 @ This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, and where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

bes@Sir:23:22 @ Thus shall it go also with the wife that leaveth her husband, and bringeth in an heir by another.

bes@Sir:23:23 @ For first, she hath disobeyed the law of the most High; and secondly, she hath trespassed against her own husband; and thirdly, she hath played the whore in adultery, and brought children by another man.

bes@Sir:23:24 @ She shall be brought out into the congregation, and inquisition shall be made of her children.

bes@Sir:23:25 @ Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.

bes@Sir:23:26 @ She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach shall not be blotted out.

bes@Sir:23:27 @ And they that remain shall know that there is nothing better than the fear of the Lord, and that there is nothing sweeter than to take heed unto the commandments of the Lord.

bes@Sir:23:28 @ It is great glory to follow the Lord, and to be received of him is long life.

bes@Sir:24:1 @ Wisdom shall praise herself, and shall glory in the midst of her people.

bes@Sir:24:2 @ In the congregation of the most High shall she open her mouth, and triumph before his power.

bes@Sir:24:3 @ I came out of the mouth of the most High, and covered the earth as a cloud.

bes@Sir:24:4 @ I dwelt in high places, and my throne is in a cloudy pillar.

bes@Sir:24:5 @ I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep.

bes@Sir:24:6 @ In the waves of the sea and in all the earth, and in every people and nation, I got a possession.

bes@Sir:24:7 @ With all these I sought rest: and in whose inheritance shall I abide?

bes@Sir:24:8 @ So the Creator of all things gave me a commandment, and he that made me caused my tabernacle to rest, and said, Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel.

bes@Sir:24:9 @ He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail.

bes@Sir:24:10 @ In the holy tabernacle I served before him; and so was I established in Sion.

bes@Sir:24:11 @ Likewise in the beloved city he gave me rest, and in Jerusalem was my power.

bes@Sir:24:12 @ And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord’s inheritance.

bes@Sir:24:13 @ I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree upon the mountains of Hermon.

bes@Sir:24:14 @ I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water.

bes@Sir:24:15 @ I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aspalathus, and I yielded a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.

bes@Sir:24:16 @ As the turpentine tree I stretched out my branches, and my branches are the branches of honour and grace.

bes@Sir:24:17 @ As the vine brought I forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches.

bes@Sir:24:18 @ I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope: I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him.

bes@Sir:24:19 @ Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits.

bes@Sir:24:20 @ For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.

bes@Sir:24:21 @ They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty.

bes@Sir:24:22 @ He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.

bes@Sir:24:23 @ All these things are the book of the covenant of the most high God, even the law which Moses commanded for an heritage unto the congregations of Jacob.

bes@Sir:24:24 @ Faint not to be strong in the Lord; that he may confirm you, cleave unto him: for the Lord Almighty is God alone, and beside him there is no other Saviour.

bes@Sir:24:25 @ He filleth all things with his wisdom, as Phison and as Tigris in the time of the new fruits.

bes@Sir:24:26 @ He maketh the understanding to abound like Euphrates, and as Jordan in the time of the harvest.

bes@Sir:24:27 @ He maketh the doctrine of knowledge appear as the light, and as Geon in the time of vintage.

bes@Sir:24:28 @ The first man knew her not perfectly: no more shall the last find her out.

bes@Sir:24:29 @ For her thoughts are more than the sea, and her counsels profounder than the great deep.

bes@Sir:24:30 @ I also came out as a brook from a river, and as a conduit into a garden.

bes@Sir:24:31 @ I said, I will water my best garden, and will water abundantly my garden bed: and, lo, my brook became a river, and my river became a sea.

bes@Sir:24:32 @ I will yet make doctrine to shine as the morning, and will send forth her light afar off.

bes@Sir:24:33 @ I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and leave it to all ages for ever.

bes@Sir:24:34 @ Behold that I have not laboured for myself only, but for all them that seek wisdom.

bes@Sir:25:1 @ In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before God and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.

bes@Sir:25:2 @ Three sorts of men my soul hateth, and I am greatly offended at their life: a poor man that is proud, a rich man that is a liar, and an old adulterer that doateth.

bes@Sir:25:3 @ If thou hast gathered nothing in thy youth, how canst thou find any thing in thine age?

bes@Sir:25:4 @ O how comely a thing is judgement for gray hairs, and for ancient men to know counsel!

bes@Sir:25:5 @ O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour.

bes@Sir:25:6 @ Much experience is the crown of old men, and the fear of God is their glory.

bes@Sir:25:7 @ There be nine things which I have judged in mine heart to be happy, and the tenth I will utter with my tongue: A man that hath joy of his children; and he that liveth to see the fall of his enemy:

bes@Sir:25:8 @ Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and that hath not slipped with his tongue, and that hath not served a man more unworthy than himself:

bes@Sir:25:9 @ Well is him that hath found prudence, and he that speaketh in the ears of them that will hear:

bes@Sir:25:10 @ O how great is he that findeth wisdom! yet is there none above him that feareth the Lord.

bes@Sir:25:11 @ But the love of the Lord passeth all things for illumination: he that holdeth it, whereto shall he be likened?

bes@Sir:25:12 @ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of his love: and faith is the beginning of cleaving unto him.

bes@Sir:25:13 @ Give me any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:

bes@Sir:25:14 @ And any affliction, but the affliction from them that hate me: and any revenge, but the revenge of enemies.

bes@Sir:25:15 @ There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

bes@Sir:25:16 @ I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep house with a wicked woman.

bes@Sir:25:17 @ The wickedness of a woman changeth her face, and darkeneth her countenance like sackcloth.

bes@Sir:25:18 @ Her husband shall sit among his neighbours; and when he heareth it shall sigh bitterly.

bes@Sir:25:19 @ All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman: let the portion of a sinner fall upon her.

bes@Sir:25:20 @ As the climbing up a sandy way is to the feet of the aged, so is a wife full of words to a quiet man.

bes@Sir:25:21 @ Stumble not at the beauty of a woman, and desire her not for pleasure.

bes@Sir:25:22 @ A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger, impudence, and much reproach.

bes@Sir:25:23 @ A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.

bes@Sir:25:24 @ Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die.

bes@Sir:25:25 @ Give the water no passage; neither a wicked woman liberty to gad abroad.

bes@Sir:25:26 @ If she go not as thou wouldest have her, cut her off from thy flesh, and give her a bill of divorce, and let her go.

bes@Sir:26:1 @ Blessed is the man that hath a virtuous wife, for the number of his days shall be double.

bes@Sir:26:2 @ A virtuous woman rejoiceth her husband, and he shall fulfil the years of his life in peace.

bes@Sir:26:3 @ A good wife is a good portion, which shall be given in the portion of them that fear the Lord.

bes@Sir:26:4 @ Whether a man be rich or poor, if he have a good heart toward the Lord, he shall at all times rejoice with a cheerful countenance.

bes@Sir:26:5 @ There be three things that mine heart feareth; and for the fourth I was sore afraid: the slander of a city, the gathering together of an unruly multitude, and a false accusation: all these are worse than death.

bes@Sir:26:6 @ But a grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous over another woman, and a scourge of the tongue which communicateth with all.

bes@Sir:26:7 @ An evil wife is a yoke shaken to and fro: he that hath hold of her is as though he held a scorpion.

bes@Sir:26:8 @ A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, and she will not cover her own shame.

bes@Sir:26:9 @ The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.

bes@Sir:26:10 @ If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty.

bes@Sir:26:11 @ Watch over an impudent eye: and marvel not if she trespass against thee.

bes@Sir:26:12 @ She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.

bes@Sir:26:13 @ The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.

bes@Sir:26:14 @ A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.

bes@Sir:26:15 @ A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.

bes@Sir:26:16 @ As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

bes@Sir:26:17 @ As the clear light is upon the holy candlestick; so is the beauty of the face in ripe age.

bes@Sir:26:18 @ As the golden pillars are upon the sockets of silver; so are the fair feet with a constant heart.

bes@Sir:26:19 @ My son, keep the flower of thine age sound; and give not thy strength to strangers.

bes@Sir:26:20 @ When thou hast gotten a fruitful possession through all the field, sow it with thine own seed, trusting in the goodness of thy stock.

bes@Sir:26:21 @ So thy race which thou leavest shall be magnified, having the confidence of their good descent.

bes@Sir:26:22 @ An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.

bes@Sir:26:23 @ A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a godly woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.

bes@Sir:26:24 @ A dishonest woman contemneth shame: but an honest woman will reverence her husband.

bes@Sir:26:25 @ A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog; but she that is shamefaced will fear the Lord.

bes@Sir:26:26 @ A woman that honoureth her husband shall be judged wise of all; but she that dishonoureth him in her pride shall be counted ungodly of all.

bes@Sir:26:27 @ A loud crying woman and a scold shall be sought out to drive away the enemies.

bes@Sir:26:28 @ There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword.

bes@Sir:26:29 @ A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong; and an huckster shall not be freed from sin.

bes@Sir:27:1 @ Many have sinned for a small matter; and he that seeketh for abundance will turn his eyes away.

bes@Sir:27:2 @ As a nail sticketh fast between the joinings of the stones; so doth sin stick close between buying and selling.

bes@Sir:27:3 @ Unless a man hold himself diligently in the fear of the Lord, his house shall soon be overthrown.

bes@Sir:27:4 @ As when one sifteth with a sieve, the refuse remaineth; so the filth of man in his talk.

bes@Sir:27:5 @ The furnace proveth the potter’s vessels; so the trial of man is in his reasoning.

bes@Sir:27:6 @ The fruit declareth if the tree have been dressed; so is the utterance of a conceit in the heart of man.

bes@Sir:27:7 @ Praise no man before thou hearest him speak; for this is the trial of men.

bes@Sir:27:8 @ If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and put her on, as a glorious long robe.

bes@Sir:27:9 @ The birds will resort unto their like; so will truth return unto them that practise in her.

bes@Sir:27:10 @ As the lion lieth in wait for the prey; so sin for them that work iniquity.

bes@Sir:27:11 @ The discourse of a godly man is always with wisdom; but a fool changeth as the moon.

bes@Sir:27:12 @ If thou be among the indiscreet, observe the time; but be continually among men of understanding.

bes@Sir:27:13 @ The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is the wantonness of sin.

bes@Sir:27:14 @ The talk of him that sweareth much maketh the hair stand upright; and their brawls make one stop his ears.

bes@Sir:27:15 @ The strife of the proud is bloodshedding, and their revilings are grievous to the ear.

bes@Sir:27:16 @ Whoso discovereth secrets loseth his credit; and shall never find friend to his mind.

bes@Sir:27:17 @ Love thy friend, and be faithful unto him: but if thou betrayest his secrets, follow no more after him.

bes@Sir:27:18 @ For as a man hath destroyed his enemy; so hast thou lost the love of thy neighbour.

bes@Sir:27:19 @ As one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and shalt not get him again

bes@Sir:27:20 @ Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; he is as a roe escaped out of the snare.

bes@Sir:27:21 @ As for a wound, it may be bound up; and after reviling there may be reconcilement: but he that betrayeth secrets is without hope.

bes@Sir:27:22 @ He that winketh with the eyes worketh evil: and he that knoweth him will depart from him.

bes@Sir:27:23 @ When thou art present, he will speak sweetly, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and slander thy sayings.

bes@Sir:27:24 @ I have hated many things, but nothing like him; for the Lord will hate him.

bes@Sir:27:25 @ Whoso casteth a stone on high casteth it on his own head; and a deceitful stroke shall make wounds.

bes@Sir:27:26 @ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that setteth a trap shall be taken therein.

bes@Sir:27:27 @ He that worketh mischief, it shall fall upon him, and he shall not know whence it cometh.

bes@Sir:27:28 @ Mockery and reproach are from the proud; but vengeance, as a lion, shall lie in wait for them.

bes@Sir:27:29 @ They that rejoice at the fall of the righteous shall be taken in the snare; and anguish shall consume them before they die.

bes@Sir:27:30 @ Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; and the sinful man shall have them both.

bes@Sir:28:1 @ He that revengeth shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance.

bes@Sir:28:2 @ Forgive thy neighbour the hurt that he hath done unto thee, so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest.

bes@Sir:28:3 @ One man beareth hatred against another, and doth he seek pardon from the Lord?

bes@Sir:28:4 @ He sheweth no mercy to a man, which is like himself: and doth he ask forgiveness of his own sins?

bes@Sir:28:5 @ If he that is but flesh nourish hatred, who will intreat for pardon of his sins?

bes@Sir:28:6 @ Remember thy end, and let enmity cease; remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.

bes@Sir:28:7 @ Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.

bes@Sir:28:8 @ Abstain from strife, and thou shalt diminish thy sins: for a furious man will kindle strife,

bes@Sir:28:9 @ A sinful man disquieteth friends, and maketh debate among them that be at peace.

bes@Sir:28:10 @ As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: and as a man’s strength is, so is his wrath; and according to his riches his anger riseth; and the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be inflamed.

bes@Sir:28:11 @ An hasty contention kindleth a fire: and an hasty fighting sheddeth blood.

bes@Sir:28:12 @ If thou blow the spark, it shall burn: if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: and both these come out of thy mouth.

bes@Sir:28:13 @ Curse the whisperer and doubletongued: for such have destroyed many that were at peace.

bes@Sir:28:14 @ A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the houses of great men.

bes@Sir:28:15 @ A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and deprived them of their labours.

bes@Sir:28:16 @ Whoso hearkeneth unto it shall never find rest, and never dwell quietly.

bes@Sir:28:17 @ The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

bes@Sir:28:18 @ Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

bes@Sir:28:19 @ Well is he that is defended through the venom thereof; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor hath been bound in her bands.

bes@Sir:28:20 @ For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands thereof are bands of brass.

bes@Sir:28:21 @ The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better than it.

bes@Sir:28:22 @ It shall not have rule over them that fear God, neither shall they be burned with the flame thereof.

bes@Sir:28:23 @ Such as forsake the Lord shall fall into it; and it shall burn in them, and not be quenched; it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and devour them as a leopard.

bes@Sir:28:24 @ Look that thou hedge thy possession about with thorns, and bind up thy silver and gold,

bes@Sir:28:25 @ And weigh thy words in a balance, and make a door and bar for thy mouth.

bes@Sir:28:26 @ Beware thou slide not by it, lest thou fall before him that lieth in wait.

bes@Sir:29:1 @ He that is merciful will lend unto his neighbour; and he that strengtheneth his hand keepeth the commandments.

bes@Sir:29:2 @ Lend to thy neighbour in time of his need, and pay thou thy neighbour again in due season.

bes@Sir:29:3 @ Keep thy word, and deal faithfully with him, and thou shalt always find the thing that is necessary for thee.

bes@Sir:29:4 @ Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them.

bes@Sir:29:5 @ Till he hath received, he will kiss a man’s hand; and for his neighbour’s money he will speak submissly: but when he should repay, he will prolong the time, and return words of grief, and complain of the time.

bes@Sir:29:6 @ If he prevail, he shall hardly receive the half, and he will count as if he had found it: if not, he hath deprived him of his money, and he hath gotten him an enemy without cause: he payeth him with cursings and railings; and for honour he will pay him disgrace.

bes@Sir:29:7 @ Many therefore have refused to lend for other men’s ill dealing, fearing to be defrauded.

bes@Sir:29:8 @ Yet have thou patience with a man in poor estate, and delay not to shew him mercy.

bes@Sir:29:9 @ Help the poor for the commandment’s sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.

bes@Sir:29:10 @ Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend, and let it not rust under a stone to be lost.

bes@Sir:29:11 @ Lay up thy treasure according to the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

bes@Sir:29:12 @ Shut up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee from all affliction.

bes@Sir:29:13 @ It shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a mighty shield and strong spear.

bes@Sir:29:14 @ An honest man is surety for his neighbour: but he that is impudent will forsake him.

bes@Sir:29:15 @ Forget not the friendship of thy surety, for he hath given his life for thee.

bes@Sir:29:16 @ A sinner will overthrow the good estate of his surety:

bes@Sir:29:17 @ And he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him in danger that delivered him.

bes@Sir:29:18 @ Suretiship hath undone many of good estate, and shaken them as a wave of the sea: mighty men hath it driven from their houses, so that they wandered among strange nations.

bes@Sir:29:19 @ A wicked man transgressing the commandments of the Lord shall fall into suretiship: and he that undertaketh and followeth other men’s business for gain shall fall into suits.

bes@Sir:29:20 @ Help thy neighbour according to thy power, and beware that thou thyself fall not into the same.

bes@Sir:29:21 @ The chief thing for life is water, and bread, and clothing, and an house to cover shame.

bes@Sir:29:22 @ Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man’s house.

bes@Sir:29:23 @ Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy house.

bes@Sir:29:24 @ For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth.

bes@Sir:29:25 @ Thou shalt entertain, and feast, and have no thanks: moreover thou shalt hear bitter words:

bes@Sir:29:26 @ Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that thou hast ready.

bes@Sir:29:27 @ Give place, thou stranger, to an honourable man; my brother cometh to be lodged, and I have need of mine house.

bes@Sir:29:28 @ These things are grievous to a man of understanding; the upbraiding of houseroom, and reproaching of the lender.

bes@Sir:30:1 @ He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he may have joy of him in the end.

bes@Sir:30:2 @ He that chastiseth his son shall have joy in him, and shall rejoice of him among his acquaintance.

bes@Sir:30:3 @ He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his friends he shall rejoice of him.

bes@Sir:30:4 @ Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

bes@Sir:30:5 @ While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died, he was not sorrowful.

bes@Sir:30:6 @ He left behind him an avenger against his enemies, and one that shall requite kindness to his friends.

bes@Sir:30:7 @ He that maketh too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; and his bowels will be troubled at every cry.

bes@Sir:30:8 @ An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to himself will be wilful.

bes@Sir:30:9 @ Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he will bring thee to heaviness.

bes@Sir:30:10 @ Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow with him, and lest thou gnash thy teeth in the end.

bes@Sir:30:11 @ Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his follies.

bes@Sir:30:12 @ Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

bes@Sir:30:13 @ Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence unto thee.

bes@Sir:30:14 @ Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

bes@Sir:30:15 @ Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth.

bes@Sir:30:16 @ There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. I awaked up last of all, as one that gathereth after the grapegatherers: by the blessing of the Lord I profited, and filled my winepress like a gatherer of grapes.

bes@Sir:30:17 @ Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness. Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

bes@Sir:30:18 @ Delicates poured upon a mouth shut up are as messes of meat set upon a grave. Hear me, O ye great men of the people, and hearken with your ears, ye rulers of the congregation.

bes@Sir:30:19 @ What good doeth the offering unto an idol? for neither can it eat nor smell: so is he that is persecuted of the Lord. Give not thy son and wife, thy brother and friend, power over thee while thou livest, and give not thy goods to another: lest it repent thee, and thou intreat for the same again.

bes@Sir:30:20 @ He seeth with his eyes and groaneth, as an eunuch that embraceth a virgin and sigheth. As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not thyself over to any.

bes@Sir:30:21 @ Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel. For better it is that thy children should seek to thee, than that thou shouldest stand to their courtesy.

bes@Sir:30:22 @ The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

bes@Sir:30:23 @ Love thine own soul, and comfort thy heart, remove sorrow far from thee: for sorrow hath killed many, and there is no profit therein. In all thy works keep to thyself the preeminence; leave not a stain in thine honour.

bes@Sir:30:24 @ Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time. At the time when thou shalt end thy days, and finish thy life, distribute thine inheritance. Fodder, a wand, and burdens, are for the ass; and bread, correction, and work, for a servant.

bes@Sir:30:25 @ If thou set thy servant to labour, thou shalt find rest: but if thou let him go idle, he shall seek liberty.

bes@Sir:30:26 @ A yoke and a collar do bow the neck: so are tortures and torments for an evil servant.

bes@Sir:30:27 @ Send him to labour, that he be not idle; for idleness teacheth much evil.

bes@Sir:30:28 @ Set him to work, as is fit for him: if he be not obedient, put on more heavy fetters.

bes@Sir:30:29 @ But be not excessive toward any; and without discretion do nothing.

bes@Sir:30:30 @ If thou have a servant, let him be unto thee as thyself, because thou hast bought him with a price.

bes@Sir:30:31 @ If thou have a servant, entreat him as a brother: for thou hast need of him, as of thine own soul: if thou entreat him evil, and he run from thee, which way wilt thou go to seek him?

bes@Sir:31:1 @ The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false: and dreams lift up fools.

bes@Sir:31:2 @ Whoso regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.

bes@Sir:31:3 @ The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another, even as the likeness of a face to a face.

bes@Sir:31:4 @ Of an unclean thing what can be cleansed? and from that thing which is false what truth can come?

bes@Sir:31:5 @ Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: and the heart fancieth, as a woman’s heart in travail.

bes@Sir:31:6 @ If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation, set not thy heart upon them.

bes@Sir:31:7 @ For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.

bes@Sir:31:8 @ The law shall be found perfect without lies: and wisdom is perfection to a faithful mouth.

bes@Sir:31:9 @ A man that hath travelled knoweth many things; and he that hath much experience will declare wisdom.

bes@Sir:31:10 @ He that hath no experience knoweth little: but he that hath travelled is full of prudence.

bes@Sir:31:11 @ When I travelled, I saw many things; and I understand more than I can express.

bes@Sir:31:12 @ I was ofttimes in danger of death: yet I was delivered because of these things.

bes@Sir:31:13 @ The spirit of those that fear the Lord shall live; for their hope is in him that saveth them.

bes@Sir:31:14 @ Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he is his hope.

bes@Sir:31:15 @ Blessed is the soul of him that feareth the Lord: to whom doth he look? and who is his strength?

bes@Sir:31:16 @ For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, he is their mighty protection and strong stay, a defence from heat, and a cover from the sun at noon, a preservation from stumbling, and an help from falling.

bes@Sir:31:17 @ He raiseth up the soul, and lighteneth the eyes: he giveth health, life, and blessing.

bes@Sir:31:18 @ He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is ridiculous; and the gifts of unjust men are not accepted.

bes@Sir:31:19 @ The most High is not pleased with the offerings of the wicked; neither is he pacified for sin by the multitude of sacrifices.

bes@Sir:31:20 @ Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.

bes@Sir:31:21 @ The bread of the needy is their life: he that defraudeth him thereof is a man of blood.

bes@Sir:31:22 @ He that taketh away his neighbour’s living slayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.

bes@Sir:31:23 @ When one buildeth, and another pulleth down, what profit have they then but labour?

bes@Sir:31:24 @ When one prayeth, and another curseth, whose voice will the Lord hear?

bes@Sir:31:25 @ He that washeth himself after the touching of a dead body, if he touch it again, what availeth his washing?

bes@Sir:31:26 @ So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, and goeth again, and doeth the same: who will hear his prayer? or what doth his humbling profit him?

bes@Sir:32:1 @ He that keepeth the law bringeth offerings enough: he that taketh heed to the commandment offereth a peace offering.

bes@Sir:32:2 @ He that requiteth a good turn offereth fine flour; and he that giveth alms sacrificeth praise.

bes@Sir:32:3 @ To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord; and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation.

bes@Sir:32:4 @ Thou shalt not appear empty before the Lord.

bes@Sir:32:5 @ For all these things are to be done because of the commandment.

bes@Sir:32:6 @ The offering of the righteous maketh the altar fat, and the sweet savour thereof is before the most High.

bes@Sir:32:7 @ The sacrifice of a just man is acceptable. and the memorial thereof shall never be forgotten.

bes@Sir:32:8 @ Give the Lord his honour with a good eye, and diminish not the firstfruits of thine hands.

bes@Sir:32:9 @ In all thy gifts shew a cheerful countenance, and dedicate thy tithes with gladness.

bes@Sir:32:10 @ Give unto the most High according as he hath enriched thee; and as thou hast gotten, give with a cheerful eye.

bes@Sir:32:11 @ For the Lord recompenseth, and will give thee seven times as much.

bes@Sir:32:12 @ Do not think to corrupt with gifts; for such he will not receive: and trust not to unrighteous sacrifices; for the Lord is judge, and with him is no respect of persons.

bes@Sir:32:13 @ He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will hear the prayer of the oppressed.

bes@Sir:32:14 @ He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless; nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.

bes@Sir:32:15 @ Do not the tears run down the widow’s cheeks? and is not her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

bes@Sir:32:16 @ He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favour, and his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.

bes@Sir:32:17 @ The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgement.

bes@Sir:32:18 @ For the Lord will not be slack, neither will the Mighty be patient toward them, till he have smitten in sunder the loins of the unmerciful, and repayed vengeance to the heathen; till he have taken away the multitude of the proud, and broken the sceptre of the unrighteous;

bes@Sir:32:19 @ Till he have rendered to every man according to his deeds, and to the works of men according to their devices; till he have judged the cause of his people, and made them to rejoice in his mercy.

bes@Sir:32:20 @ Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction, as clouds of rain in the time of drought.

bes@Sir:33:1 @ Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:

bes@Sir:33:2 @ And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee.

bes@Sir:33:3 @ Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them see thy power.

bes@Sir:33:4 @ As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.

bes@Sir:33:5 @ And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God.

bes@Sir:33:6 @ Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.

bes@Sir:33:7 @ Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.

bes@Sir:33:8 @ Sake the time short, remember the covenant, and let them declare thy wonderful works.

bes@Sir:33:9 @ Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire; and let them perish that oppress the people.

bes@Sir:33:10 @ Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.

bes@Sir:33:11 @ Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou them, as from the beginning.

bes@Sir:33:12 @ A cheerful and good heart will have a care of his meat and diet.

bes@Sir:34:1 @ Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep.

bes@Sir:34:2 @ Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleep,

bes@Sir:34:3 @ The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together; and when he resteth, he is filled with his delicates.

bes@Sir:34:4 @ The poor laboureth in his poor estate; and when he leaveth off, he is still needy.

bes@Sir:34:5 @ He that loveth gold shall not be justified, and he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.

bes@Sir:34:6 @ Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was present.

bes@Sir:34:7 @ It is a stumblingblock unto them that sacrifice unto it, and every fool shall be taken therewith.

bes@Sir:34:8 @ Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath not gone after gold.

bes@Sir:34:9 @ Who is he? and we will call him blessed: for wonderful things hath he done among his people.

bes@Sir:34:10 @ Who hath been tried thereby, and found perfect? then let him glory. Who might offend, and hath not offended? or done evil, and hath not done it?

bes@Sir:34:11 @ His goods shall be established, and the congregation shall declare his alms.

bes@Sir:34:12 @ If thou sit at a bountiful table, be not greedy upon it, and say not, There is much meat on it.

bes@Sir:34:13 @ Remember that a wicked eye is an evil thing: and what is created more wicked than an eye? therefore it weepeth upon every occasion.

bes@Sir:34:14 @ Stretch not thine hand whithersoever it looketh, and thrust it not with him into the dish.

bes@Sir:34:15 @ Judge not thy neighbour by thyself: and be discreet in every point.

bes@Sir:34:16 @ Eat as it becometh a man, those things which are set before thee; and devour note, lest thou be hated.

bes@Sir:34:17 @ Leave off first for manners’ sake; and be not unsatiable, lest thou offend.

bes@Sir:34:18 @ When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.

bes@Sir:34:19 @ A very little is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed.

bes@Sir:34:20 @ Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating: he riseth early, and his wits are with him: but the pain of watching, and choler, and pangs of the belly, are with an unsatiable man.

bes@Sir:34:21 @ And if thou hast been forced to eat, arise, go forth, vomit, and thou shalt have rest.

bes@Sir:34:22 @ My son, hear me, and despise me not, and at the last thou shalt find as I told thee: in all thy works be quick, so shall there no sickness come unto thee.

bes@Sir:34:23 @ Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of him; and the report of his good housekeeping will be believed.

bes@Sir:34:24 @ But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be doubted of.

bes@Sir:34:25 @ Shew not thy valiantness in wine; for wine hath destroyed many.

bes@Sir:34:26 @ The furnace proveth the edge by dipping: so doth wine the hearts of the proud by drunkenness.

bes@Sir:34:27 @ Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad.

bes@Sir:34:28 @ Wine measurably drunk and in season bringeth gladness of the heart, and cheerfulness of the mind:

bes@Sir:34:29 @ But wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind, with brawling and quarrelling.

bes@Sir:34:30 @ Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend: it diminisheth strength, and maketh wounds.

bes@Sir:34:31 @ Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him with urging him to drink.

bes@Sir:35:1 @ If thou be made the master of a feast, lift not thyself up, but be among them as one of the rest; take diligent care for them, and so sit down.

bes@Sir:35:2 @ And when thou hast done all thy office, take thy place, that thou mayest be merry with them, and receive a crown for thy well ordering of the feast.

bes@Sir:35:3 @ Speak, thou that art the elder, for it becometh thee, but with sound judgement; and hinder not musick.

bes@Sir:35:4 @ Pour not out words where there is a musician, and shew not forth wisdom out of time.

bes@Sir:35:5 @ A concert of musick in a banquet of wine is as a signet of carbuncle set in gold.

bes@Sir:35:6 @ As a signet of an emerald set in a work of gold, so is the melody of musick with pleasant wine.

bes@Sir:35:7 @ Speak, young man, if there be need of thee: and yet scarcely when thou art twice asked.

bes@Sir:35:8 @ Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words; be as one that knoweth and yet holdeth his tongue.

bes@Sir:35:9 @ If thou be among great men, make not thyself equal with them; and when ancient men are in place, use not many words.

bes@Sir:35:10 @ Before the thunder goeth lightning; and before a shamefaced man shall go favour.

bes@Sir:35:11 @ Rise up betimes, and be not the last; but get thee home without delay.

bes@Sir:35:12 @ There take thy pastime, and do what thou wilt: but sin not by proud speech.

bes@Sir:35:13 @ And for these things bless him that made thee, and hath replenished thee with his good things.

bes@Sir:35:14 @ Whoso feareth the Lord will receive his discipline; and they that seek him early shall find favour.

bes@Sir:35:15 @ He that seeketh the law shall be filled therewith: but the hypocrite will be offended thereat.

bes@Sir:35:16 @ They that fear the Lord shall find judgement, and shall kindle justice as a light.

bes@Sir:35:17 @ A sinful man will not be reproved, but findeth an excuse according to his will.

bes@Sir:35:18 @ A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel.

bes@Sir:35:19 @ Do nothing without advice; and when thou hast once done, repent not.

bes@Sir:35:20 @ Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not among the stones.

bes@Sir:35:21 @ Be not confident in a plain way.

bes@Sir:35:22 @ And beware of thine own children.

bes@Sir:35:23 @ In every good work trust thy own soul; for this is the keeping of the commandments.

bes@Sir:35:24 @ He that believeth in the Lord taketh heed to the commandment; and he that trusteth in him shall fare never the worse.

bes@Sir:36:1 @ There shall no evil happen unto him that feareth the Lord; but in temptation even again he will deliver him.

bes@Sir:36:2 @ A wise man hateth not the law; but he that is an hypocrite therein is as a ship in a storm.

bes@Sir:36:3 @ A man of understanding trusteth in the law; and the law is faithful unto him, as an oracle.

bes@Sir:36:4 @ Prepare what to say, and so thou shalt be heard: and bind up instruction, and then make answer.

bes@Sir:36:5 @ The heart of the foolish is like a cartwheel; and his thoughts are like a rolling axletree.

bes@Sir:36:6 @ A stallion horse is as a mocking friend, he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him.

bes@Sir:36:7 @ Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?

bes@Sir:36:8 @ By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished: and he altered seasons and feasts.

bes@Sir:36:9 @ Some of them hath he made high days, and hallowed them, and some of them hath he made ordinary days.

bes@Sir:36:10 @ And all men are from the ground, and Adam was created of earth:

bes@Sir:36:11 @ In much knowledge the Lord hath divided them, and made their ways diverse. (note:)(36:11AA)(:note) Though I was the last to wake up, yet I received their inheritance as from the beginning.

bes@Sir:36:12 @ Some of them hath he blessed and exalted and some of them he sanctified, and set near himself: but some of them hath he cursed and brought low, and turned out of their places. (note:)(36:12AA)(:note) O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.

bes@Sir:36:13 @ As the clay is in the potter’s hand, to fashion it at his pleasure: so man is in the hand of him that made him, to render to them as liketh him best. (note:)(36:13AA)(:note) O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.

bes@Sir:36:14 @ Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the godly against the sinner, and the sinner against the godly. (note:)(36:14AA)(:note) Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with thy glory:

bes@Sir:36:15 @ So look upon all the works of the most High; and there are two and two, one against another. (note:)(36:15AA)(:note) Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.

bes@Sir:36:16 @ Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found faithful.

bes@Sir:36:17 @ O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.

bes@Sir:36:18 @ The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.

bes@Sir:36:19 @ As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an heart of understanding false speeches.

bes@Sir:36:20 @ A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.

bes@Sir:36:21 @ A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.

bes@Sir:36:22 @ The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man loveth nothing better.

bes@Sir:36:23 @ If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men.

bes@Sir:36:24 @ He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.

bes@Sir:36:25 @ Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.

bes@Sir:36:26 @ Who will trust a thief well appointed, that skippeth from city to city? so who will believe a man that hath no house, and lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him?

bes@Sir:37:1 @ Every friend saith, I am his friend also: but there is a friend, which is only a friend in name.

bes@Sir:37:2 @ Is it not a grief unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to an enemy?

bes@Sir:37:3 @ O wicked imagination, whence camest thou in to cover the earth with deceit?

bes@Sir:37:4 @ There is a companion, which rejoiceth in the prosperity of a friend, but in the time of trouble will be against him.

bes@Sir:37:5 @ There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly, and taketh up the buckler against the enemy.

bes@Sir:37:6 @ Forget not thy friend in thy mind, and be not unmindful of him in thy riches.

bes@Sir:37:7 @ Every counsellor extolleth counsel; but there is some that counselleth for himself.

bes@Sir:37:8 @ Beware of a counsellor, and know before what need he hath; for he will counsel for himself; lest he cast the lot upon thee,

bes@Sir:37:9 @ And say unto thee, Thy way is good: and afterward he stand on the other side, to see what shall befall thee.

bes@Sir:37:10 @ Consult not with one that suspecteth thee: and hide thy counsel from such as envy thee.

bes@Sir:37:11 @ Neither consult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of selling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the slothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year of finishing work; nor with an idle servant of much business: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel.

bes@Sir:37:12 @ But be continually with a godly man, whom thou knowest to keep the commandments of the Lord, whose, mind is according to thy mind, and will sorrow with thee, if thou shalt miscarry.

bes@Sir:37:13 @ And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

bes@Sir:37:14 @ For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower.

bes@Sir:37:15 @ And above all this pray to the most High, that he will direct thy way in truth.

bes@Sir:37:16 @ Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.

bes@Sir:37:17 @ The countenance is a sign of changing of the heart.

bes@Sir:37:18 @ Four manner of things appear: good and evil, life and death: but the tongue ruleth over them continually.

bes@Sir:37:19 @ There is one that is wise and teacheth many, and yet is unprofitable to himself.

bes@Sir:37:20 @ There is one that sheweth wisdom in words, and is hated: he shall be destitute of all food.

bes@Sir:37:21 @ For grace is not given, him from the Lord, because he is deprived of all wisdom.

bes@Sir:37:22 @ Another is wise to himself; and the fruits of understanding are commendable in his mouth.

bes@Sir:37:23 @ A wise man instructeth his people; and the fruits of his understanding fail not.

bes@Sir:37:24 @ A wise man shall be filled with blessing; and all they that see him shall count him happy.

bes@Sir:37:25 @ The days of the life of man may be numbered: but the days of Israel are innumerable.

bes@Sir:37:26 @ A wise man shall inherit glory among his people, and his name shall be perpetual.

bes@Sir:37:27 @ My son, prove thy soul in thy life, and see what is evil for it, and give not that unto it.

bes@Sir:37:28 @ For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing.

bes@Sir:37:29 @ Be not unsatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon meats:

bes@Sir:37:30 @ For excess of meats bringeth sickness, and surfeiting will turn into choler.

bes@Sir:37:31 @ By surfeiting have many perished; but he that taketh heed prolongeth his life.

bes@Sir:38:1 @ Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.

bes@Sir:38:2 @ For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king.

bes@Sir:38:3 @ The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.

bes@Sir:38:4 @ The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.

bes@Sir:38:5 @ Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?

bes@Sir:38:6 @ And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works.

bes@Sir:38:7 @ With such doth he heal men, and taketh away their pains.

bes@Sir:38:8 @ Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,

bes@Sir:38:9 @ My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.

bes@Sir:38:10 @ Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness.

bes@Sir:38:11 @ Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being.

bes@Sir:38:12 @ Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.

bes@Sir:38:13 @ There is a time when in their hands there is good success.

bes@Sir:38:14 @ For they shall also pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.

bes@Sir:38:15 @ He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hand of the physician.

bes@Sir:38:16 @ My son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial.

bes@Sir:38:17 @ Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.

bes@Sir:38:18 @ For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.

bes@Sir:38:19 @ In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poor is the curse of the heart.

bes@Sir:38:20 @ Take no heaviness to heart: drive it away, and member the last end.

bes@Sir:38:21 @ Forget it not, for there is no turning again: thou shalt not do him good, but hurt thyself.

bes@Sir:38:22 @ Remember my judgement: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.

bes@Sir:38:23 @ When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his Spirit is departed from him.

bes@Sir:38:24 @ The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.

bes@Sir:38:25 @ How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?

bes@Sir:38:26 @ He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder.

bes@Sir:38:27 @ So every carpenter and workmaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and grave seals, and are diligent to make great variety, and give themselves to counterfeit imagery, and watch to finish a work:

bes@Sir:38:28 @ The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly:

bes@Sir:38:29 @ So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his work, and maketh all his work by number;

bes@Sir:38:30 @ He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace:

bes@Sir:38:31 @ All these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work.

bes@Sir:38:32 @ Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:

bes@Sir:38:33 @ They shall not be sought for in publick counsel, nor sit high in the congregation: they shall not sit on the judges’ seat, nor understand the sentence of judgement: they cannot declare justice and judgement; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.

bes@Sir:38:34 @ But they will maintain the state of the world, and all their desire is in the work of their craft.

bes@Sir:39:1 @ But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies.

bes@Sir:39:2 @ He will keep the sayings of the renowned men: and where subtil parables are, he will be there also.

bes@Sir:39:3 @ He will seek out the secrets of grave sentences, and be conversant in dark parables.

bes@Sir:39:4 @ He shall serve among great men, and appear before princes: he will travel through strange countries; for he hath tried the good and the evil among men.

bes@Sir:39:5 @ He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and make supplication for his sins.

bes@Sir:39:6 @ When the great Lord will, he shall be filled with the spirit of understanding: he shall pour out wise sentences, and give thanks unto the Lord in his prayer.

bes@Sir:39:7 @ He shall direct his counsel and knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.

bes@Sir:39:8 @ He shall shew forth that which he hath learned, and shall glory in the law of the covenant of the Lord.

bes@Sir:39:9 @ Many shall commend his understanding; and so long as the world endureth, it shall not be blotted out; his memorial shall not depart away, and his name shall live from generation to generation.

bes@Sir:39:10 @ Nations shall shew forth his wisdom, and the congregation shall declare his praise.

bes@Sir:39:11 @ If he die, he shall leave a greater name than a thousand: and if he live, he shall increase it.

bes@Sir:39:12 @ Yet have I more to say, which I have thought upon; for I am filled as the moon at the full.

bes@Sir:39:13 @ Hearken unto me, ye holy children, and bud forth as a rose growing by the brook of the field:

bes@Sir:39:14 @ And give ye a sweet savour as frankincense, and flourish as a lily, send forth a smell, and sing a song of praise, bless the Lord in all his works.

bes@Sir:39:15 @ Magnify his name, and shew forth his praise with the songs of your lips, and with harps, and in praising him ye shall say after this manner:

bes@Sir:39:16 @ All the works of the Lord are exceeding good, and whatsoever he commandeth shall be accomplished in due season.

bes@Sir:39:17 @ And none may say, What is this? wherefore is that? for at time convenient they shall all be sought out: at his commandment the waters stood as an heap, and at the words of his mouth the receptacles of waters.

bes@Sir:39:18 @ At his commandment is done whatsoever pleaseth him; and none can hinder, when he will save.

bes@Sir:39:19 @ The works of all flesh are before him, and nothing can be hid from his eyes.

bes@Sir:39:20 @ He seeth from everlasting to everlasting; and there is nothing wonderful before him.

bes@Sir:39:21 @ A man need not to say, What is this? wherefore is that? for he hath made all things for their uses.

bes@Sir:39:22 @ His blessing covered the dry land as a river, and watered it as a flood.

bes@Sir:39:23 @ As he hath turned the waters into saltness: so shall the heathen inherit his wrath.

bes@Sir:39:24 @ As his ways are plain unto the holy; so are they stumblingblocks unto the wicked.

bes@Sir:39:25 @ For the good are good things created from the beginning: so evil things for sinners.

bes@Sir:39:26 @ The principal things for the whole use of man’s life are water, fire, iron, and salt, flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

bes@Sir:39:27 @ All these things are for good to the godly: so to the sinners they are turned into evil.

bes@Sir:39:28 @ There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them.

bes@Sir:39:29 @ Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance;

bes@Sir:39:30 @ Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions, serpents, and the sword punishing the wicked to destruction.

bes@Sir:39:31 @ They shall rejoice in his commandment, and they shall be ready upon earth, when need is; and when their time is come, they shall not transgress his word.

bes@Sir:39:32 @ Therefore from the beginning I was resolved, and thought upon these things, and have left them in writing.

bes@Sir:39:33 @ All the works of the Lord are good: and he will give every needful thing in due season.

bes@Sir:39:34 @ So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in time they shall all be well approved.

bes@Sir:39:35 @ And therefore praise ye the Lord with the whole heart and mouth, and bless the name of the Lord.

bes@Sir:40:1 @ Great travail is created for every man, and an heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day that they go out of their mother’s womb, till the day that they return to the mother of all things.

bes@Sir:40:2 @ Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;

bes@Sir:40:3 @ From him that sitteth on a throne of glory, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes;

bes@Sir:40:4 @ From him that weareth purple and a crown, unto him that is clothed with a linen frock.

bes@Sir:40:5 @ Wrath, and envy, trouble, and unquietness, fear of death, and anger, and strife, and in the time of rest upon his bed his night sleep, do change his knowledge.

bes@Sir:40:6 @ A little or nothing is his rest, and afterward he is in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he were escaped out of a battle.

bes@Sir:40:7 @ When all is safe, he awaketh, and marvelleth that the fear was nothing.

bes@Sir:40:8 @ Such things happen unto all flesh, both man and beast, and that is sevenfold more upon sinners.

bes@Sir:40:9 @ Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;

bes@Sir:40:10 @ These things are created for the wicked, and for their sakes came the flood.

bes@Sir:40:11 @ All things that are of the earth shall turn to the earth again: and that which is of the waters doth return into the sea.

bes@Sir:40:12 @ All bribery and injustice shall be blotted out: but true dealing shall endure for ever.

bes@Sir:40:13 @ The goods of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall vanish with noise, like a great thunder in rain.

bes@Sir:40:14 @ While he openeth his hand he shall rejoice: so shall transgressors come to nought.

bes@Sir:40:15 @ The children of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches: but are as unclean roots upon a hard rock.

bes@Sir:40:16 @ The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall be pulled up before all grass.

bes@Sir:40:17 @ Bountifulness is as a most fruitful garden, and mercifulness endureth for ever.

bes@Sir:40:18 @ To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life: but he that findeth a treasure is above them both.

bes@Sir:40:19 @ Children and the building of a city continue a man’s name: but a blameless wife is counted above them both.

bes@Sir:40:20 @ Wine and musick rejoice the heart: but the love of wisdom is above them both.

bes@Sir:40:21 @ The pipe and the psaltery make sweet melody: but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

bes@Sir:40:22 @ Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.

bes@Sir:40:23 @ A friend and companion never meet amiss: but above both is a wife with her husband.

bes@Sir:40:24 @ Brethren and help are against time of trouble: but alms shall deliver more than them both.

bes@Sir:40:25 @ Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is esteemed above them both.

bes@Sir:40:26 @ Riches and strength lift up the heart: but the fear of the Lord is above them both: there is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek help.

bes@Sir:40:27 @ The fear of the Lord is a fruitful garden, and covereth him above all glory.

bes@Sir:40:28 @ My son, lead not a beggar’s life; for better it is to die than to beg.

bes@Sir:40:29 @ The life of him that dependeth on another man’s table is not to be counted for a life; for he polluteth himself with other men’s meat: but a wise man well nurtured will beware thereof.

bes@Sir:40:30 @ Begging is sweet in the mouth of the shameless: but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

bes@Sir:41:1 @ O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!

bes@Sir:41:2 @ O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, and is vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience!

bes@Sir:41:3 @ Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh.

bes@Sir:41:4 @ And why art thou against the pleasure of the most High? there is no inquisition in the grave, whether thou have lived ten, or an hundred, or a thousand years.

bes@Sir:41:5 @ The children of sinners are abominable children, and they that are conversant in the dwelling of the ungodly.

bes@Sir:41:6 @ The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish, and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach.

bes@Sir:41:7 @ The children will complain of an ungodly father, because they shall be reproached for his sake.

bes@Sir:41:8 @ Woe be unto you, ungodly men, which have forsaken the law of the most high God! for if ye increase, it shall be to your destruction:

bes@Sir:41:9 @ And if ye be born, ye shall be born to a curse: and if ye die, a curse shall be your portion.

bes@Sir:41:10 @ All that are of the earth shall turn to earth again: so the ungodly shall go from a curse to destruction.

bes@Sir:41:11 @ The mourning of men is about their bodies: but an ill name of sinners shall be blotted out.

bes@Sir:41:12 @ Have regard to thy name; for that shall continue with thee above a thousand great treasures of gold.

bes@Sir:41:13 @ A good life hath but few days: but a good name endureth for ever.

bes@Sir:41:14 @ My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is in them both?

bes@Sir:41:15 @ A man that hideth his foolishness is better than a man that hideth his wisdom.

bes@Sir:41:16 @ Therefore be shamefaced according to my word: for it is not good to retain all shamefacedness; neither is it altogether approved in every thing.

bes@Sir:41:17 @ Be ashamed of whoredom before father and mother: and of a lie before a prince and a mighty man;

bes@Sir:41:18 @ Of an offence before a judge and ruler; of iniquity before a congregation and people; of unjust dealing before thy partner and friend;

bes@Sir:41:19 @ And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest, and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant; and to lean with thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and take;

bes@Sir:41:20 @ And of silence before them that salute thee; and to look upon an harlot;

bes@Sir:41:21 @ And to turn away thy face from thy kinsman; or to take away a portion or a gift; or to gaze upon another man’s wife.

bes@Sir:41:22 @ Or to be overbusy with his maid, and come not near her bed; or of upbraiding speeches before friends; and after thou hast given, upbraid not;

bes@Sir:42:1 @ Or of iterating and speaking again that which thou hast heard; and of revealing of secrets. So shalt thou be truly shamefaced and find favour before all men. Of these things be not thou ashamed, and accept no person to sin thereby:

bes@Sir:42:2 @ Of the law of the most High, and his covenant; and of judgement to justify the ungodly;

bes@Sir:42:3 @ Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends;

bes@Sir:42:4 @ Of exactness of balance and weights; or of getting much or little;

bes@Sir:42:5 @ And of merchants’ indifferent selling; of much correction of children; and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.

bes@Sir:42:6 @ Sure keeping is good, where an evil wife is; and shut up, where many hands are.

bes@Sir:42:7 @ Deliver all things in number and weight; and put all in writing that thou givest out, or receivest in.

bes@Sir:42:8 @ Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved of all men living.

bes@Sir:42:9 @ A daughter is a wakeful care to a father; and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated:

bes@Sir:42:10 @ In her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father’s house; and having an husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.

bes@Sir:42:11 @ Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.

bes@Sir:42:12 @ Behold not every body’s beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.

bes@Sir:42:13 @ For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness.

bes@Sir:42:14 @ Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach.

bes@Sir:42:15 @ I will now remember the works of the Lord, and declare the things that I have seen: In the words of the Lord are his works.

bes@Sir:42:16 @ The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.

bes@Sir:42:17 @ The Lord hath not given power to the saints to declare all his marvellous works, which the Almighty Lord firmly settled, that whatsoever is might be established for his glory.

bes@Sir:42:18 @ He seeketh out the deep, and the heart, and considereth their crafty devices: for the Lord knoweth all that may be known, and he beholdeth the signs of the world.

bes@Sir:42:19 @ He declareth the things that are past, and for to come, and revealeth the steps of hidden things.

bes@Sir:42:20 @ No thought escapeth him, neither any word is hidden from him.

bes@Sir:42:21 @ He hath garnished the excellent works of his wisdom, and he is from everlasting to everlasting: unto him may nothing be added, neither can he be diminished, and he hath no need of any counsellor.

bes@Sir:42:22 @ Oh how desirable are all his works! and that a man may see even to a spark.

bes@Sir:42:23 @ All these things live and remain for ever for all uses, and they are all obedient.

bes@Sir:42:24 @ All things are double one against another: and he hath made nothing imperfect.

bes@Sir:42:25 @ One thing establisheth the good or another: and who shall be filled with beholding his glory?

bes@Sir:43:1 @ The pride of the height, the clear firmament, the beauty of heaven, with his glorious shew;

bes@Sir:43:2 @ The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising a marvellous instrument, the work of the most High:

bes@Sir:43:3 @ At noon it parcheth the country, and who can abide the burning heat thereof?

bes@Sir:43:4 @ A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.

bes@Sir:43:5 @ Great is the Lord that made it; and at his commandment runneth hastily.

bes@Sir:43:6 @ He made the moon also to serve in her season for a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.

bes@Sir:43:7 @ From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.

bes@Sir:43:8 @ The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her changing, being an instrument of the armies above, shining in the firmament of heaven;

bes@Sir:43:9 @ The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.

bes@Sir:43:10 @ At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.

bes@Sir:43:11 @ Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.

bes@Sir:43:12 @ It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.

bes@Sir:43:13 @ By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgement.

bes@Sir:43:14 @ Through this the treasures are opened: and clouds fly forth as fowls.

bes@Sir:43:15 @ By his great power he maketh the clouds firm, and the hailstones are broken small.

bes@Sir:43:16 @ At his sight the mountains are shaken, and at his will the south wind bloweth.

bes@Sir:43:17 @ The noise of the thunder maketh the earth to tremble: so doth the northern storm and the whirlwind: as birds flying he scattereth the snow, and the falling down thereof is as the lighting of grasshoppers:

bes@Sir:43:18 @ The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.

bes@Sir:43:19 @ The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, and being congealed, it lieth on the top of sharp stakes.

bes@Sir:43:20 @ When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.

bes@Sir:43:21 @ It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.

bes@Sir:43:22 @ A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily, a dew coming after heat refresheth.

bes@Sir:43:23 @ By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein.

bes@Sir:43:24 @ They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.

bes@Sir:43:25 @ For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all kinds of beasts and whales created.

bes@Sir:43:26 @ By him the end of them hath prosperous success, and by his word all things consist.

bes@Sir:43:27 @ We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he is all.

bes@Sir:43:28 @ How shall we be able to magnify him? for he is great above all his works.

bes@Sir:43:29 @ The Lord is terrible and very great, and marvellous is his power.

bes@Sir:43:30 @ When ye glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as ye can; for even yet will he far exceed: and when ye exalt him, put forth all your strength, and be not weary; for ye can never go far enough.

bes@Sir:43:31 @ Who hath seen him, that he might tell us? and who can magnify him as he is?

bes@Sir:43:32 @ There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of his works.

bes@Sir:43:33 @ For the Lord hath made all things; and to the godly hath he given wisdom.

bes@Sir:44:1 @ Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

bes@Sir:44:2 @ The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning.

bes@Sir:44:3 @ Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies:

bes@Sir:44:4 @ Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent are their instructions:

bes@Sir:44:5 @ Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in writing:

bes@Sir:44:6 @ Rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their habitations:

bes@Sir:44:7 @ All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times.

bes@Sir:44:8 @ There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported.

bes@Sir:44:9 @ And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.

bes@Sir:44:10 @ But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.

bes@Sir:44:11 @ With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant.

bes@Sir:44:12 @ Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes.

bes@Sir:44:13 @ Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out.

bes@Sir:44:14 @ Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

bes@Sir:44:15 @ The people will tell of their wisdom, and the congregation will shew forth their praise.

bes@Sir:44:16 @ Enoch pleased the Lord, and was translated, being an example of repentance to all generations.

bes@Sir:44:17 @ Noah was found perfect and righteous; in the time of wrath he was taken in exchange for the world; therefore was he left as a remnant unto the earth, when the flood came.

bes@Sir:44:18 @ An everlasting covenant was made with him, that all flesh should perish no more by the flood.

bes@Sir:44:19 @ Abraham was a great father of many people: in glory was there none like unto him;

bes@Sir:44:20 @ Who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him: he established the covenant in his flesh; and when he was proved, he was found faithful.

bes@Sir:44:21 @ Therefore he assured him by an oath, that he would bless the nations in his seed, and that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth, and exalt his seed as the stars, and cause them to inherit from sea to sea, and from the river unto the utmost part of the land.

bes@Sir:44:22 @ With Isaac did he establish likewise for Abraham his father’s sake the blessing of all men, and the covenant,

bes@Sir:44:23 @ And made it rest upon the head of Jacob. He acknowledged him in his blessing, and gave him an heritage, and divided his portions; among the twelve tribes did he part them.

bes@Sir:44:24 @ And he brought out of him a merciful man, which found favour in the sight of all flesh, even Moses, beloved of God and men, whose memorial is blessed.

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bes@Sir:45:2 @ He made him like to the glorious saints, and magnified him, so that his enemies stood in fear of him.

bes@Sir:45:3 @ By his words he caused the wonders to cease, and he made him glorious in the sight of kings, and gave him a commandment for his people, and shewed him part of his glory.

bes@Sir:45:4 @ He sanctified him in his faithfulness and meekness, and chose him out of all men.

bes@Sir:45:5 @ He made him to hear his voice, and brought him into the dark cloud, and gave him commandments before his face, even the law of life and knowledge, that he might teach Jacob his covenants, and Israel his judgements.

bes@Sir:45:6 @ He exalted Aaron, an holy man like unto him, even his brother, of the tribe of Levi.

bes@Sir:45:7 @ An everlasting covenant he made with him and gave him the priesthood among the people; he beautified him with comely ornaments, and clothed him with a robe of glory.

bes@Sir:45:8 @ He put upon him perfect glory; and strengthened him with rich garments, with breeches, with a long robe, and the ephod.

bes@Sir:45:9 @ And he compassed him with pomegranates, and with many golden bells round about, that as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people;

bes@Sir:45:10 @ With an holy garment, with gold, and blue silk, and purple, the work of the embroiderer, with a breastplate of judgement, and with Urim and Thummim;

bes@Sir:45:11 @ With twisted scarlet, the work of the cunning workman, with precious stones graven like seals, and set in gold, the work of the jeweller, with a writing engraved for a memorial, after the number of the tribes of Israel.

bes@Sir:45:12 @ He set a crown of gold upon the mitre, wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour, a costly work, the desires of the eyes, goodly and beautiful.

bes@Sir:45:13 @ Before him there were none such, neither did ever any stranger put them on, but only his children and his children’s children perpetually.

bes@Sir:45:14 @ Their sacrifices shall be wholly consumed every day twice continually.

bes@Sir:45:15 @ Moses consecrated him, and anointed him with holy oil: this was appointed unto him by an everlasting covenant, and to his seed, so long as the heavens should remain, that they should minister unto him, and execute the office of the priesthood, and bless the people in his name.

bes@Sir:45:16 @ He chose him out of all men living to offer sacrifices to the Lord, incense, and a sweet savour, for a memorial, to make reconciliation for his people.

bes@Sir:45:17 @ He gave unto him his commandments, and authority in the statutes of judgements, that he should teach Jacob the testimonies, and inform Israel in his laws.

bes@Sir:45:18 @ Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wilderness, even the men that were of Dathan’s and Abiron’s side, and the congregation of Core, with fury and wrath.

bes@Sir:45:19 @ This the Lord saw, and it displeased him, and in his wrathful indignation were they consumed: he did wonders upon them, to consume them with the fiery flame.

bes@Sir:45:20 @ But he made Aaron more honourable, and gave him an heritage, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase; especially he prepared bread in abundance:

bes@Sir:45:21 @ For they eat of the sacrifices of the Lord, which he gave unto him and his seed.

bes@Sir:45:22 @ Howbeit in the land of the people he had no inheritance, neither had he any portion among the people: for the Lord himself is his portion and inheritance.

bes@Sir:45:23 @ The third in glory is Phinees the son of Eleazar, because he had zeal in the fear of the Lord, and stood up with good courage of heart: when the people were turned back, and made reconciliation for Israel.

bes@Sir:45:24 @ Therefore was there a covenant of peace made with him, that he should be the chief of the sanctuary and of his people, and that he and his posterity should have the dignity of the priesthood for ever:

bes@Sir:45:25 @ According to the covenant made with David son of Jesse, of the tribe of Juda, that the inheritance of the king should be to his posterity alone: so the inheritance of Aaron should also be unto his seed.

bes@Sir:45:26 @ God give you wisdom in your heart to judge his people in righteousness, that their good things be not abolished, and that their glory may endure for ever.

bes@Sir:46:1 @ Jesus the son a Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the successor of Moses in prophecies, who according to his name was made great for the saving of the elect of God, and taking vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, that he might set Israel in their inheritance.

bes@Sir:46:2 @ How great glory gat he, when he did lift up his hands, and stretched out his sword against the cities!

bes@Sir:46:3 @ Who before him so stood to it? for the Lord himself brought his enemies unto him.

bes@Sir:46:4 @ Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as long as two?

bes@Sir:46:5 @ He called upon the most high Lord, when the enemies pressed upon him on every side; and the great Lord heard him.

bes@Sir:46:6 @ And with hailstones of mighty power he made the battle to fall violently upon the nations, and in the descent of Beth-horon he destroyed them that resisted, that the nations might know all their strength, because he fought in the sight of the Lord, and he followed the Mighty One.

bes@Sir:46:7 @ In the time of Moses also he did a work of mercy, he and Caleb the son of Jephunne, in that they withstood the congregation, and withheld the people from sin, and appeased the wicked murmuring.

bes@Sir:46:8 @ And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two were preserved to bring them in to the heritage, even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.

bes@Sir:46:9 @ The Lord gave strength also unto Caleb, which remained with him unto his old age: so that he entered upon the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an heritage:

bes@Sir:46:10 @ That all the children of Israel might see that it is good to follow the Lord.

bes@Sir:46:11 @ And concerning the judges, every one by name, whose heart went not a whoring, nor departed from the Lord, let their memory be blessed.

bes@Sir:46:12 @ Let their bones flourish out of their place, and let the name of them that were honoured be continued upon their children.

bes@Sir:46:13 @ Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord, established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.

bes@Sir:46:14 @ By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, and the Lord had respect unto Jacob.

bes@Sir:46:15 @ By his faithfulness he was found a true prophet, and by his word he was known to be faithful in vision.

bes@Sir:46:16 @ He called upon the mighty Lord, when his enemies pressed upon him on every side, when he offered the sucking lamb.

bes@Sir:46:17 @ And the Lord thundered from heaven, and with a great noise made his voice to be heard.

bes@Sir:46:18 @ And he destroyed the rulers of the Tyrians, and all the princes of the Philistines.

bes@Sir:46:19 @ And before his long sleep he made protestations in the sight of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: and no man did accuse him.

bes@Sir:46:20 @ And after his death he prophesied, and shewed the king his end, and lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, to blot out the wickedness of the people.

bes@Sir:47:1 @ And after him rose up Nathan to prophesy in the time of David.

bes@Sir:47:2 @ As is the fat taken away from the peace offering, so was David chosen out of the children of Israel.

bes@Sir:47:3 @ He played with lions as with kids, and with bears as with lambs.

bes@Sir:47:4 @ Slew he not a giant, when he was yet but young? and did he not take away reproach from the people, when he lifted up his hand with the stone in the sling, and beat down the boasting of Goliath?

bes@Sir:47:5 @ For he called upon the most high Lord; and he gave him strength in his right hand to slay that mighty warrior, and set up the horn of his people.

bes@Sir:47:6 @ So the people honoured him with ten thousands, and praised him in the blessings of the Lord, in that he gave him a crown of glory.

bes@Sir:47:7 @ For he destroyed the enemies on every side, and brought to nought the Philistines his adversaries, and brake their horn in sunder unto this day.

bes@Sir:47:8 @ In all his works he praised the Holy One most high with words of glory; with his whole heart he sung songs, and loved him that made him.

bes@Sir:47:9 @ He set singers also before the altar, that by their voices they might make sweet melody, and daily sing praises in their songs.

bes@Sir:47:10 @ He beautified their feasts, and set in order the solemn times until the end, that they might praise his holy name, and that the temple might sound from morning.

bes@Sir:47:11 @ The Lord took away his sins, and exalted his horn for ever: he gave him a covenant of kings, and a throne of glory in Israel.

bes@Sir:47:12 @ After him rose up a wise son, and for his sake he dwelt at large.

bes@Sir:47:13 @ Solomon reigned in a peaceable time, and was honoured; for God made all quiet round about him, that he might build an house in his name, and prepare his sanctuary for ever.

bes@Sir:47:14 @ How wise wast thou in thy youth and, as a flood, filled with understanding!

bes@Sir:47:15 @ Thy soul covered the whole earth, and thou filledst it with dark parables.

bes@Sir:47:16 @ Thy name went far unto the islands; and for thy peace thou wast beloved.

bes@Sir:47:17 @ The countries marvelled at thee for thy songs, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations.

bes@Sir:47:18 @ By the name of the Lord God, which is called the Lord God of Israel, thou didst gather gold as tin and didst multiply silver as lead.

bes@Sir:47:19 @ Thou didst bow thy loins unto women, and by thy body thou wast brought into subjection.

bes@Sir:47:20 @ Thou didst stain thy honour, and pollute thy seed: so that thou broughtest wrath upon thy children, and wast grieved for thy folly.

bes@Sir:47:21 @ So the kingdom was divided, and out of Ephraim ruled a rebellious kingdom.

bes@Sir:47:22 @ But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity of his elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away: wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of him a root unto David.

bes@Sir:47:23 @ Thus rested Solomon with his fathers, and of his seed he left behind him Roboam, even the foolishness of the people, and one that had no understanding, who turned away the people through his counsel. There was also Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, and shewed Ephraim the way of sin:

bes@Sir:47:24 @ And their sins were multiplied exceedingly, that they were driven out of the land.

bes@Sir:47:25 @ For they sought out all wickedness, till the vengeance came upon them.

bes@Sir:48:1 @ Then stood up Elias the prophet as fire, and his word burned like a lamp.

bes@Sir:48:2 @ He brought a sore famine upon them, and by his zeal he diminished their number.

bes@Sir:48:3 @ By the word of the Lord he shut up the heaven, and also three times brought down fire.

bes@Sir:48:4 @ O Elias, how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds! and who may glory like unto thee!

bes@Sir:48:5 @ Who didst raise up a dead man from death, and his soul from the place of the dead, by the word of the most High:

bes@Sir:48:6 @ Who broughtest kings to destruction, and honourably men from their bed:

bes@Sir:48:7 @ Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai, and in Horeb the judgement of vengeance:

bes@Sir:48:8 @ Who anointedst kings to take revenge, and prophets to succeed after him:

bes@Sir:48:9 @ Who was taken up in a whirlwind of fire, and in a chariot of fiery horses:

bes@Sir:48:10 @ Who wast ordained for reproofs in their times, to pacify the wrath of the Lord’s judgement, before it brake forth into fury, and to turn the heart of the father unto the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

bes@Sir:48:11 @ Blessed are they that saw thee, and slept in love; for we shall surely live.

bes@Sir:48:12 @ Elias it was, who was covered with a whirlwind: and Eliseus was filled with his spirit: whilst he lived, he was not moved with the presence of any prince, neither could any bring him into subjection.

bes@Sir:48:13 @ No word could overcome him; and after his death his body prophesied.

bes@Sir:48:14 @ He did wonders in his life, and at his death were his works marvellous.

bes@Sir:48:15 @ For all this the people repented not, neither departed they from their sins, till they were spoiled and carried out of their land, and were scattered through all the earth: yet there remained a small people, and a ruler in the house of David:

bes@Sir:48:16 @ Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God, and some multiplied sins.

bes@Sir:48:17 @ Ezekias fortified his city, and brought in water into the midst thereof: he digged the hard rock with iron, and made wells for waters.

bes@Sir:48:18 @ In his time Sennacherib came up, and sent Rabsaces, and lifted up his hand against Sion, and boasted proudly.

bes@Sir:48:19 @ Then trembled their hearts and hands, and they were in pain, as women in travail.

bes@Sir:48:20 @ But they called upon the Lord which is merciful, and stretched out their hands toward him: and immediately the Holy One heard them out of heaven, and delivered them by the ministry of Esay.

bes@Sir:48:21 @ He smote the host of the Assyrians, and his angel destroyed them.

bes@Sir:48:22 @ For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his vision, had commanded him.

bes@Sir:48:23 @ In his time the sun went backward, and he lengthened the king’s life.

bes@Sir:48:24 @ He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last, and he comforted them that mourned in Sion.

bes@Sir:48:25 @ He shewed what should come to pass for ever, and secret things or ever they came.

bes@Sir:49:1 @ The remembrance of Josias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary: it is sweet as honey in all mouths, and as musick at a banquet of wine.

bes@Sir:49:2 @ He behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people, and took away the abominations of iniquity.

bes@Sir:49:3 @ He directed his heart unto the Lord, and in the time of the ungodly he established the worship of God.

bes@Sir:49:4 @ All, except David and Ezekias and Josias, were defective: for they forsook the law of the most High, even the kings of Juda failed.

bes@Sir:49:5 @ Therefore he gave their power unto others, and their glory to a strange nation.

bes@Sir:49:6 @ They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary, and made the streets desolate, according to the prophecy of Jeremias.

bes@Sir:49:7 @ For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother’s womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.

bes@Sir:49:8 @ It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision, which was shewed him upon the chariot of the cherubims.

bes@Sir:49:9 @ For he made mention of the enemies under the figure of the rain, and directed them that went right.

bes@Sir:49:10 @ And of the twelve prophets let the memorial be blessed, and let their bones flourish again out of their place: for they comforted Jacob, and delivered them by assured hope.

bes@Sir:49:11 @ How shall we magnify Zorobabel? even he was as a signet on the right hand:

bes@Sir:49:12 @ So was Jesus the son of Josedec: who in their time builded the house, and set up an holy temple to the Lord, which was prepared for everlasting glory.

bes@Sir:49:13 @ And among the elect was Neemias, whose renown is great, who raised up for us the walls that were fallen, and set up the gates and the bars, and raised up our ruins again.

bes@Sir:49:14 @ But upon the earth was no man created like Enoch; for he was taken from the earth.

bes@Sir:49:15 @ Neither was there a young man born like Joseph, a governor of his brethren, a stay of the people, whose bones were regarded of the Lord.

bes@Sir:49:16 @ Sem and Seth were in great honour among men, and so was Adam above every living thing in creation.

bes@Sir:50:1 @ Simon the high priest, the son of Onias, who in his life repaired the house again, and in his days fortified the temple:

bes@Sir:50:2 @ And by him was built from the foundation the double height, the high fortress of the wall about the temple:

bes@Sir:50:3 @ In his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as the sea, was covered with plates of brass:

bes@Sir:50:4 @ He took care of the temple that it should not fall, and fortified the city against besieging:

bes@Sir:50:5 @ How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of the sanctuary!

bes@Sir:50:6 @ He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the full:

bes@Sir:50:7 @ As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, and as the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds:

bes@Sir:50:8 @ And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year, as lilies by the rivers of waters, and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer:

bes@Sir:50:9 @ As fire and incense in the censer, and as a vessel of beaten gold set with all manner of precious stones:

bes@Sir:50:10 @ And as a fair olive tree budding forth fruit, and as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds.

bes@Sir:50:11 @ When he put on the robe of honour, and was clothed with the perfection of glory, when he went up to the holy altar, he made the garment of holiness honourable.

bes@Sir:50:12 @ When he took the portions out of the priests’ hands, he himself stood by the hearth of the altar, compassed about, as a young cedar in Libanus; and as palm trees compassed they him round about.

bes@Sir:50:13 @ So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory, and the oblations of the Lord in their hands, before all the congregation of Israel.

bes@Sir:50:14 @ And finishing the service at the altar, that he might adorn the offering of the most high Almighty,

bes@Sir:50:15 @ He stretched out his hand to the cup, and poured of the blood of the grape, he poured out at the foot of the altar a sweetsmelling savour unto the most high King of all.

bes@Sir:50:16 @ Then shouted the sons of Aaron, and sounded the silver trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard, for a remembrance before the most High.

bes@Sir:50:17 @ Then all the people together hasted, and fell down to the earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God Almighty, the most High.

bes@Sir:50:18 @ The singers also sang praises with their voices, with great variety of sounds was there made sweet melody.

bes@Sir:50:19 @ And the people besought the Lord, the most High, by prayer before him that is merciful, till the solemnity of the Lord was ended, and they had finished his service.

bes@Sir:50:20 @ Then he went down, and lifted up his hands over the whole congregation of the children of Israel, to give the blessing of the Lord with his lips, and to rejoice in his name.

bes@Sir:50:21 @ And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time, that they might receive a blessing from the most High.

bes@Sir:50:22 @ Now therefore bless ye the God of all, which only doeth wondrous things every where, which exalteth our days from the womb, and dealeth with us according to his mercy.

bes@Sir:50:23 @ He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever:

bes@Sir:50:24 @ That he would confirm his mercy with us, and deliver us at his time!

bes@Sir:50:25 @ There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation:

bes@Sir:50:26 @ They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria, and they that dwell among the Philistines, and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem.

bes@Sir:50:27 @ Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge, who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.

bes@Sir:50:28 @ Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things; and he that layeth them up in his heart shall become wise.

bes@Sir:50:29 @ For if he do them, he shall be strong to all things: for the light of the Lord leadeth him, who giveth wisdom to the godly. Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever. Amen, Amen.

bes@Sir:51:1 @ I will thank thee, O Lord and King, and praise thee, O God my Saviour: I do give praise unto thy name:

bes@Sir:51:2 @ For thou art my defender and helper, and has preserved my body from destruction, and from the snare of the slanderous tongue, and from the lips that forge lies, and has been mine helper against mine adversaries:

bes@Sir:51:3 @ And hast delivered me, according to the multitude of they mercies and greatness of thy name, from the teeth of them that were ready to devour me, and out of the hands of such as sought after my life, and from the manifold afflictions which I had;

bes@Sir:51:4 @ From the choking of fire on every side, and from the midst of the fire which I kindled not;

bes@Sir:51:5 @ From the depth of the belly of hell, from an unclean tongue, and from lying words.

bes@Sir:51:6 @ By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my soul drew near even unto death, my life was near to the hell beneath.

bes@Sir:51:7 @ They compassed me on every side, and there was no man to help me: I looked for the succour of men, but there was none.

bes@Sir:51:8 @ Then thought I upon thy mercy, O Lord, and upon thy acts of old, how thou deliverest such as wait for thee, and savest them out of the hands of the enemies.

bes@Sir:51:9 @ Then lifted I up my supplications from the earth, and prayed for deliverance from death.

bes@Sir:51:10 @ I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble, and in the time of the proud, when there was no help.

bes@Sir:51:11 @ I will praise thy name continually, and will sing praises with thanksgiving; and so my prayer was heard:

bes@Sir:51:12 @ For thou savedst me from destruction, and deliveredst me from the evil time: therefore will I give thanks, and praise thee, and bless they name, O Lord.

bes@Sir:51:13 @ When I was yet young, or ever I went abroad, I desired wisdom openly in my prayer.

bes@Sir:51:14 @ I prayed for her before the temple, and will seek her out even to the end.

bes@Sir:51:15 @ Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up sought I after her.

bes@Sir:51:16 @ I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat much learning.

bes@Sir:51:17 @ I profited therein, therefore will I ascribe glory unto him that giveth me wisdom.

bes@Sir:51:18 @ For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed that which is good; so shall I not be confounded.

bes@Sir:51:19 @ My soul hath wrestled with her, and in my doings I was exact: I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above, and bewailed my ignorances of her.

bes@Sir:51:20 @ I directed my soul unto her, and I found her in pureness: I have had my heart joined with her from the beginning, therefore shall I not be forsaken.

bes@Sir:51:21 @ My heart was troubled in seeking her: therefore have I gotten a good possession.

bes@Sir:51:22 @ The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward, and I will praise him therewith.

bes@Sir:51:23 @ Draw near unto me, ye unlearned, and dwell in the house of learning.

bes@Sir:51:24 @ Wherefore are ye slow, and what say ye to these things, seeing your souls are very thirsty?

bes@Sir:51:25 @ I opened my mouth, and said, Buy her for yourselves without money.

bes@Sir:51:26 @ Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive instruction: she is hard at hand to find.

bes@Sir:51:27 @ Behold with your eyes, how that I have but little labour, and have gotten unto me much rest.

bes@Sir:51:28 @ Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her.

bes@Sir:51:29 @ Let your soul rejoice in his mercy, and be not ashamed of his praise.

bes@Sir:51:30 @ Work your work betimes, and in his time he will give you your reward.

bes@Bar:1:1 @ And these are the words of the book, which Baruch the son of Nerias, the son of Maasias, the son of Sedecias, the son of Asadias, the son of Chelcias, wrote in Babylon,

bes@Bar:1:2 @ In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.

bes@Bar:1:3 @ And Baruch did read the words of this book in the hearing of Jechonias the son of Joachim king of Juda, and in the ears of all the people that came to hear the book,

bes@Bar:1:4 @ And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king’s sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud.

bes@Bar:1:5 @ Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.

bes@Bar:1:6 @ They made also a collection of money according to every man’s power:

bes@Bar:1:7 @ And they sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the high priest, the son of Chelcias, son of Salom, and to the priests, and to all the people which were found with him at Jerusalem,

bes@Bar:1:8 @ At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the land of Juda, the tenth day of the month Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Jada had made,

bes@Bar:1:9 @ After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.

bes@Bar:1:10 @ And they said, Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings, and sin offerings, and incense, and prepare ye manna, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;

bes@Bar:1:11 @ And pray for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and for the life of Balthasar his son, that their days may be upon earth as the days of heaven:

bes@Bar:1:12 @ And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.

bes@Bar:1:13 @ Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us.

bes@Bar:1:14 @ And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days.

bes@Bar:1:15 @ And ye shall say, To the Lord our God belongeth righteousness, but unto us the confusion of faces, as it is come to pass this day, unto them of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

bes@Bar:1:16 @ And to our kings, and to our princes, and to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers:

bes@Bar:1:17 @ For we have sinned before the Lord,

bes@Bar:1:18 @ And disobeyed him, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the commandments that he gave us openly:

bes@Bar:1:19 @ Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice.

bes@Bar:1:20 @ Wherefore the evils cleaved unto us, and the curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.

bes@Bar:1:21 @ Nevertheless we have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord our God, according unto all the words of the prophets, whom he sent unto us:

bes@Bar:1:22 @ But every man followed the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

bes@Bar:2:1 @ Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,

bes@Bar:2:2 @ To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses;

bes@Bar:2:3 @ That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.

bes@Bar:2:4 @ Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.

bes@Bar:2:5 @ Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his voice.

bes@Bar:2:6 @ To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.

bes@Bar:2:7 @ For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord hath pronounced against us

bes@Bar:2:8 @ Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.

bes@Bar:2:9 @ Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.

bes@Bar:2:10 @ Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

bes@Bar:2:11 @ And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:

bes@Bar:2:12 @ O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.

bes@Bar:2:13 @ Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.

bes@Bar:2:14 @ Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away:

bes@Bar:2:15 @ That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

bes@Bar:2:16 @ O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.

bes@Bar:2:17 @ Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:

bes@Bar:2:18 @ But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.

bes@Bar:2:19 @ Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.

bes@Bar:2:20 @ For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying,

bes@Bar:2:21 @ Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.

bes@Bar:2:22 @ But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,

bes@Bar:2:23 @ I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.

bes@Bar:2:24 @ But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.

bes@Bar:2:25 @ And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.

bes@Bar:2:26 @ And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda.

bes@Bar:2:27 @ O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine,

bes@Bar:2:28 @ As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying,

bes@Bar:2:29 @ If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.

bes@Bar:2:30 @ For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.

bes@Bar:2:31 @ And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear:

bes@Bar:2:32 @ And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,

bes@Bar:2:33 @ And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.

bes@Bar:2:34 @ And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.

bes@Bar:2:35 @ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.

bes@Bar:3:1 @ O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.

bes@Bar:3:2 @ Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.

bes@Bar:3:3 @ For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly.

bes@Bar:3:4 @ O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us.

bes@Bar:3:5 @ Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time.

bes@Bar:3:6 @ For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise.

bes@Bar:3:7 @ And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee.

bes@Bar:3:8 @ Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.

bes@Bar:3:9 @ Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.

bes@Bar:3:10 @ How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,

bes@Bar:3:11 @ That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?

bes@Bar:3:12 @ Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.

bes@Bar:3:13 @ For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.

bes@Bar:3:14 @ Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.

bes@Bar:3:15 @ Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?

bes@Bar:3:16 @ Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;

bes@Bar:3:17 @ They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?

bes@Bar:3:18 @ For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,

bes@Bar:3:19 @ They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.

bes@Bar:3:20 @ Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,

bes@Bar:3:21 @ Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.

bes@Bar:3:22 @ It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.

bes@Bar:3:23 @ The Agarenes that seek wisdom upon earth, the merchants of Meran and of Theman, the authors of fables, and searchers out of understanding; none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths.

bes@Bar:3:24 @ O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!

bes@Bar:3:25 @ Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.

bes@Bar:3:26 @ There were the giants famous from the beginning, that were of so great stature, and so expert in war.

bes@Bar:3:27 @ Those did not the Lord choose, neither gave he the way of knowledge unto them:

bes@Bar:3:28 @ But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness.

bes@Bar:3:29 @ Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her, and brought her down from the clouds?

bes@Bar:3:30 @ Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold?

bes@Bar:3:31 @ No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.

bes@Bar:3:32 @ But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with fourfooted beasts:

bes@Bar:3:33 @ He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear.

bes@Bar:3:34 @ The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them.

bes@Bar:3:35 @ This is our God, and there shall none other be accounted of in comparison of him

bes@Bar:3:36 @ He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.

bes@Bar:3:37 @ Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men.

bes@Bar:4:1 @ This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever: all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.

bes@Bar:4:2 @ Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.

bes@Bar:4:3 @ Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.

bes@Bar:4:4 @ O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.

bes@Bar:4:5 @ Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.

bes@Bar:4:6 @ Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.

bes@Bar:4:7 @ For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.

bes@Bar:4:8 @ Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.

bes@Bar:4:9 @ For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;

bes@Bar:4:10 @ For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.

bes@Bar:4:11 @ With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.

bes@Bar:4:12 @ Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.

bes@Bar:4:13 @ They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.

bes@Bar:4:14 @ Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.

bes@Bar:4:15 @ For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.

bes@Bar:4:16 @ These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.

bes@Bar:4:17 @ But what can I help you?

bes@Bar:4:18 @ For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.

bes@Bar:4:19 @ Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.

bes@Bar:4:20 @ I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer: I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days.

bes@Bar:4:21 @ Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.

bes@Bar:4:22 @ For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.

bes@Bar:4:23 @ For I sent you out with mourning and weeping: but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.

bes@Bar:4:24 @ Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.

bes@Bar:4:25 @ My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God: for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.

bes@Bar:4:26 @ My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.

bes@Bar:4:27 @ Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God: for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.

bes@Bar:4:28 @ For as it was your mind to go astray from God: so, being returned, seek him ten times more.

bes@Bar:4:29 @ For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.

bes@Bar:4:30 @ Take a good heart, O Jerusalem: for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.

bes@Bar:4:31 @ Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.

bes@Bar:4:32 @ Miserable are the cities which thy children served: miserable is she that received thy sons.

bes@Bar:4:33 @ For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall: so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.

bes@Bar:4:34 @ For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.

bes@Bar:4:35 @ For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.

bes@Bar:4:36 @ O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.

bes@Bar:4:37 @ Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.

bes@Bar:5:1 @ Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.

bes@Bar:5:2 @ Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting.

bes@Bar:5:3 @ For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven.

bes@Bar:5:4 @ For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God’s worship.

bes@Bar:5:5 @ Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.

bes@Bar:5:6 @ For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of their enemies: but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom.

bes@Bar:5:7 @ For God hath appointed that every high hill, and banks of long continuance, should be cast down, and valleys filled up, to make even the ground, that Israel may go safely in the glory of God,

bes@Bar:5:8 @ Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.

bes@Bar:5:9 @ For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.

bes@Bar:6:1 @ A copy of an epistle, which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God.

bes@Bar:6:2 @ Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians.

bes@Bar:6:3 @ So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.

bes@Bar:6:4 @ Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver, and of gold, and of wood, borne upon shoulders, which cause the nations to fear.

bes@Bar:6:5 @ Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye and of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.

bes@Bar:6:6 @ But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee.

bes@Bar:6:7 @ For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls.

bes@Bar:6:8 @ As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

bes@Bar:6:9 @ And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods.

bes@Bar:6:10 @ Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.

bes@Bar:6:11 @ Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, being gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood.

bes@Bar:6:12 @ Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment.

bes@Bar:6:13 @ They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them.

bes@Bar:6:14 @ And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country.

bes@Bar:6:15 @ He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an axe: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves.

bes@Bar:6:16 @ Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:17 @ For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in.

bes@Bar:6:18 @ And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers.

bes@Bar:6:19 @ They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one.

bes@Bar:6:20 @ They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not.

bes@Bar:6:21 @ Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple.

bes@Bar:6:22 @ Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also.

bes@Bar:6:23 @ By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:24 @ Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it.

bes@Bar:6:25 @ The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price.

bes@Bar:6:26 @ They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth.

bes@Bar:6:27 @ They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.

bes@Bar:6:28 @ As for the things that are sacrificed unto them, their priests sell and abuse; in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt; but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it.

bes@Bar:6:29 @ Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:30 @ For how can they be called gods? because women set meat before the gods of silver, gold, and wood.

bes@Bar:6:31 @ And the priests sit in their temples, having their clothes rent, and their heads and beards shaven, and nothing upon their heads.

bes@Bar:6:32 @ They roar and cry before their gods, as men do at the feast when one is dead.

bes@Bar:6:33 @ The priests also take off their garments, and clothe their wives and children.

bes@Bar:6:34 @ Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

bes@Bar:6:35 @ In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.

bes@Bar:6:36 @ They can save no man from death, neither deliver the weak from the mighty.

bes@Bar:6:37 @ They cannot restore a blind man to his sight, nor help any man in his distress.

bes@Bar:6:38 @ They can shew no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.

bes@Bar:6:39 @ Their gods of wood, and which are overlaid with gold and silver, are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain: they that worship them shall be confounded.

bes@Bar:6:40 @ How should a man then think and say that they are gods, when even the Chaldeans themselves dishonour them?

bes@Bar:6:41 @ Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand.

bes@Bar:6:42 @ Yet they cannot understand this themselves, and leave them: for they have no knowledge.

bes@Bar:6:43 @ The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

bes@Bar:6:44 @ Whatsoever is done among them is false: how may it then be thought or said that they are gods?

bes@Bar:6:45 @ They are made of carpenters and goldsmiths: they can be nothing else than the workmen will have them to be.

bes@Bar:6:46 @ And they themselves that made them can never continue long; how should then the things that are made of them be gods?

bes@Bar:6:47 @ For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

bes@Bar:6:48 @ For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

bes@Bar:6:49 @ How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

bes@Bar:6:50 @ For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:

bes@Bar:6:51 @ And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, and that there is no work of God in them.

bes@Bar:6:52 @ Who then may not know that they are no gods?

bes@Bar:6:53 @ For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men.

bes@Bar:6:54 @ Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.

bes@Bar:6:55 @ Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood, or laid over with gold or silver, their priests will flee away, and escape; but they themselves shall be burned asunder like beams.

bes@Bar:6:56 @ Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies: how can it then be thought or said that they be gods?

bes@Bar:6:57 @ Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

bes@Bar:6:58 @ Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

bes@Bar:6:59 @ Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power, or else a profitable vessel in an house, which the owner shall have use of, than such false gods; or to be a door in an house, to keep such things therein, than such false gods. or a pillar of wood in a palace, than such false gods.

bes@Bar:6:60 @ For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.

bes@Bar:6:61 @ In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easy to be seen; and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

bes@Bar:6:62 @ And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are bidden.

bes@Bar:6:63 @ And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded: but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power.

bes@Bar:6:64 @ Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men.

bes@Bar:6:65 @ Knowing therefore that they are no gods, fear them not,

bes@Bar:6:66 @ For they can neither curse nor bless kings:

bes@Bar:6:67 @ Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.

bes@Bar:6:68 @ The beasts are better than they: for they can get under a cover and help themselves.

bes@Bar:6:69 @ It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.

bes@Bar:6:70 @ For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.

bes@Bar:6:71 @ And likewise their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold, are like to a white thorn in an orchard, that every bird sitteth upon; as also to a dead body, that is east into the dark.

bes@Bar:6:72 @ And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.

bes@Bar:6:73 @ Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols: for he shall be far from reproach.

bes@1Macc:1:1 @ And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettiim, had smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece,

bes@1Macc:1:2 @ And made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the kings of the earth,

bes@1Macc:1:3 @ And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.

bes@1Macc:1:4 @ And he gathered a mighty strong host and ruled over countries, and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him.

bes@1Macc:1:5 @ And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.

bes@1Macc:1:6 @ Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.

bes@1Macc:1:7 @ So Alexander reigned twelve years, and then died.

bes@1Macc:1:8 @ And his servants bare rule every one in his place.

bes@1Macc:1:9 @ And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.

bes@1Macc:1:10 @ And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

bes@1Macc:1:11 @ In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.

bes@1Macc:1:12 @ So this device pleased them well.

bes@1Macc:1:13 @ Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen:

bes@1Macc:1:14 @ Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen:

bes@1Macc:1:15 @ And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.

bes@1Macc:1:16 @ Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.

bes@1Macc:1:17 @ Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,

bes@1Macc:1:18 @ And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.

bes@1Macc:1:19 @ Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.

bes@1Macc:1:20 @ And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude,

bes@1Macc:1:21 @ And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,

bes@1Macc:1:22 @ And the table of the shewbread, and the pouring vessels, and the vials. and the censers of gold, and the veil, and the crown, and the golden ornaments that were before the temple, all which he pulled off.

bes@1Macc:1:23 @ He took also the silver and the gold, and the precious vessels: also he took the hidden treasures which he found.

bes@1Macc:1:24 @ And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.

bes@1Macc:1:25 @ Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every place where they were;

bes@1Macc:1:26 @ So that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.

bes@1Macc:1:27 @ Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,

bes@1Macc:1:28 @ The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.

bes@1Macc:1:29 @ And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude,

bes@1Macc:1:30 @ And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit: for when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.

bes@1Macc:1:31 @ And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.

bes@1Macc:1:32 @ But the women and children took they captive, and possessed the cattle.

bes@1Macc:1:33 @ Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with mighty towers, and made it a strong hold for them.

bes@1Macc:1:34 @ And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.

bes@1Macc:1:35 @ They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:

bes@1Macc:1:36 @ For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.

bes@1Macc:1:37 @ Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:

bes@1Macc:1:38 @ Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.

bes@1Macc:1:39 @ Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.

bes@1Macc:1:40 @ As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning.

bes@1Macc:1:41 @ Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,

bes@1Macc:1:42 @ And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.

bes@1Macc:1:43 @ Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.

bes@1Macc:1:44 @ For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow the strange laws of the land,

bes@1Macc:1:45 @ And forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days:

bes@1Macc:1:46 @ And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:

bes@1Macc:1:47 @ Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine’s flesh, and unclean beasts:

bes@1Macc:1:48 @ That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation:

bes@1Macc:1:49 @ To the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.

bes@1Macc:1:50 @ And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.

bes@1Macc:1:51 @ In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.

bes@1Macc:1:52 @ Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;

bes@1Macc:1:53 @ And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.

bes@1Macc:1:54 @ Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side;

bes@1Macc:1:55 @ And burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets.

bes@1Macc:1:56 @ And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire.

bes@1Macc:1:57 @ And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any committed to the law, the king’s commandment was, that they should put him to death.

bes@1Macc:1:58 @ Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every month, to as many as were found in the cities.

bes@1Macc:1:59 @ Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.

bes@1Macc:1:60 @ At which time according to the commandment they put to death certain women, that had caused their children to be circumcised.

bes@1Macc:1:61 @ And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.

bes@1Macc:1:62 @ Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.

bes@1Macc:1:63 @ Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.

bes@1Macc:1:64 @ And there was very great wrath upon Israel.

bes@1Macc:2:1 @ In those days arose Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and dwelt in Modin.

bes@1Macc:2:2 @ And he had five sons, Joannan, called Caddis:

bes@1Macc:2:3 @ Simon; called Thassi:

bes@1Macc:2:4 @ Judas, who was called Maccabeus:

bes@1Macc:2:5 @ Eleazar, called Avaran: and Jonathan, whose surname was Apphus.

bes@1Macc:2:6 @ And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda and Jerusalem,

bes@1Macc:2:7 @ He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?

bes@1Macc:2:8 @ Her temple is become as a man without glory.

bes@1Macc:2:9 @ Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.

bes@1Macc:2:10 @ What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?

bes@1Macc:2:11 @ All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave.

bes@1Macc:2:12 @ And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.

bes@1Macc:2:13 @ To what end therefore shall we live any longer?

bes@1Macc:2:14 @ Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned very sore.

bes@1Macc:2:15 @ In the mean while the king’s officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.

bes@1Macc:2:16 @ And when many of Israel came unto them, Mattathias also and his sons came together.

bes@1Macc:2:17 @ Then answered the king’s officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:

bes@1Macc:2:18 @ Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king’s commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king’s friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.

bes@1Macc:2:19 @ Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:

bes@1Macc:2:20 @ Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.

bes@1Macc:2:21 @ God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.

bes@1Macc:2:22 @ We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.

bes@1Macc:2:23 @ Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.

bes@1Macc:2:24 @ Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgement: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.

bes@1Macc:2:25 @ Also the king’s commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down.

bes@1Macc:2:26 @ Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as Phinees did unto Zambri the son of Salom.

bes@1Macc:2:27 @ And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me.

bes@1Macc:2:28 @ So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that ever they had in the city.

bes@1Macc:2:29 @ Then many that sought after justice and judgement went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:

bes@1Macc:2:30 @ Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their cattle; because afflictions increased sore upon them.

bes@1Macc:2:31 @ Now when it was told the king’s servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king’s commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,

bes@1Macc:2:32 @ They pursued after them a great number, and having overtaken them, they camped against them, and made war against them on the sabbath day.

bes@1Macc:2:33 @ And they said unto them, Let that which ye have done hitherto suffice; come forth, and do according to the commandment of the king, and ye shall live.

bes@1Macc:2:34 @ But they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the king’s commandment, to profane the sabbath day.

bes@1Macc:2:35 @ So then they gave them the battle with all speed.

bes@1Macc:2:36 @ Howbeit they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped the places where they lay hid;

bes@1Macc:2:37 @ But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.

bes@1Macc:2:38 @ So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.

bes@1Macc:2:39 @ Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore.

bes@1Macc:2:40 @ And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

bes@1Macc:2:41 @ At that time therefore they decreed, saying, Whosoever shall come to make battle with us on the sabbath day, we will fight against him; neither will we die all, as our brethren that were murdered in the secret places.

bes@1Macc:2:42 @ Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were mighty men of Israel, even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto the law.

bes@1Macc:2:43 @ Also all they that fled for persecution joined themselves unto them, and were a stay unto them.

bes@1Macc:2:44 @ So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour.

bes@1Macc:2:45 @ Then Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars:

bes@1Macc:2:46 @ And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly.

bes@1Macc:2:47 @ They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand.

bes@1Macc:2:48 @ So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.

bes@1Macc:2:49 @ Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die, he said unto his sons, Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:

bes@1Macc:2:50 @ Now therefore, my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.

bes@1Macc:2:51 @ Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their time; so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name.

bes@1Macc:2:52 @ Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness?

bes@1Macc:2:53 @ Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt.

bes@1Macc:2:54 @ Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.

bes@1Macc:2:55 @ Jesus for fulfilling the word was made a judge in Israel.

bes@1Macc:2:56 @ Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land.

bes@1Macc:2:57 @ David for being merciful possessed the throne of an everlasting kingdom.

bes@1Macc:2:58 @ Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven.

bes@1Macc:2:59 @ Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, by believing were saved out of the flame.

bes@1Macc:2:60 @ Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions.

bes@1Macc:2:61 @ And thus consider ye throughout all ages, that none that put their trust in him shall be overcome.

bes@1Macc:2:62 @ Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall be dung and worms.

bes@1Macc:2:63 @ To day he shall be lifted up and to morrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.

bes@1Macc:2:64 @ Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.

bes@1Macc:2:65 @ And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel, give ear unto him alway: he shall be a father unto you.

bes@1Macc:2:66 @ As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.

bes@1Macc:2:67 @ Take also unto you all those that observe the law, and avenge ye the wrong of your people.

bes@1Macc:2:68 @ Recompense fully the heathen, and take heed to the commandments of the law.

bes@1Macc:2:69 @ So he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

bes@1Macc:2:70 @ And he died in the hundred forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.

bes@1Macc:3:1 @ Then his son Judas, called Maccabeus, rose up in his stead.

bes@1Macc:3:2 @ And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:3 @ So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.

bes@1Macc:3:4 @ In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion’s whelp roaring for his prey.

bes@1Macc:3:5 @ For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.

bes@1Macc:3:6 @ Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.

bes@1Macc:3:7 @ He grieved also many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed for ever.

bes@1Macc:3:8 @ Moreover he went through the cities of Juda, destroying the ungodly out of them, and turning away wrath from Israel:

bes@1Macc:3:9 @ So that he was renowned unto the utmost part of the earth, and he received unto him such as were ready to perish.

bes@1Macc:3:10 @ Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:11 @ Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him, and so he smote him, and slew him: many also fell down slain, but the rest fled.

bes@1Macc:3:12 @ Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius’ sword also, and therewith he fought all his life long.

bes@1Macc:3:13 @ Now when Seron, a prince of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered unto him a multitude and company of the faithful to go out with him to war;

bes@1Macc:3:14 @ He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the king’s commandment.

bes@1Macc:3:15 @ So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help him, and to be avenged of the children of Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:16 @ And when he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, Judas went forth to meet him with a small company:

bes@1Macc:3:17 @ Who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all this day?

bes@1Macc:3:18 @ Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:

bes@1Macc:3:19 @ For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from heaven.

bes@1Macc:3:20 @ They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us:

bes@1Macc:3:21 @ But we fight for our lives and our laws.

bes@1Macc:3:22 @ Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.

bes@1Macc:3:23 @ Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.

bes@1Macc:3:24 @ And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.

bes@1Macc:3:25 @ Then began the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great dread, to fall upon the nations round about them:

bes@1Macc:3:26 @ Insomuch as his fame came unto the king, and all nations talked of the battles of Judas.

bes@1Macc:3:27 @ Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.

bes@1Macc:3:28 @ He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.

bes@1Macc:3:29 @ Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of old time;

bes@1Macc:3:30 @ He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

bes@1Macc:3:31 @ Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

bes@1Macc:3:32 @ So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:

bes@1Macc:3:33 @ And to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.

bes@1Macc:3:34 @ Moreover he delivered unto him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all things that he would have done, as also concerning them that dwelt in Juda and Jerusalem:

bes@1Macc:3:35 @ To wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place;

bes@1Macc:3:36 @ And that he should place strangers in all their quarters, and divide their land by lot.

bes@1Macc:3:37 @ So the king took the half of the forces that remained, and departed from Antioch, his royal city, the hundred forty and seventh year; and having passed the river Euphrates, he went through the high countries.

bes@1Macc:3:38 @ Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends:

bes@1Macc:3:39 @ And with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.

bes@1Macc:3:40 @ So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.

bes@1Macc:3:41 @ And the merchants of the country, hearing the fame of them, took silver and gold very much, with servants, and came into the camp to buy the children of Israel for slaves: a power also of Syria and of the land of the Philistines joined themselves unto them.

bes@1Macc:3:42 @ Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders: for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;

bes@1Macc:3:43 @ They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed fortune of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:3:44 @ Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

bes@1Macc:3:45 @ Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.

bes@1Macc:3:46 @ Wherefore the Israelites assembled themselves together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel.

bes@1Macc:3:47 @ Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,

bes@1Macc:3:48 @ And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.

bes@1Macc:3:49 @ They brought also the priests’ garments, and the firstfruits, and the tithes: and the Nazarites they stirred up, who had accomplished their days.

bes@1Macc:3:50 @ Then cried they with a loud voice toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them away?

bes@1Macc:3:51 @ For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.

bes@1Macc:3:52 @ And lo, the heathen are assembled together against us to destroy us: what things they imagine against us, thou knowest.

bes@1Macc:3:53 @ How shall we be able to stand against them, except thou, O God, be our help?

bes@1Macc:3:54 @ Then sounded they with trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.

bes@1Macc:3:55 @ And after this Judas ordained captains over the people, even captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

bes@1Macc:3:56 @ But as for such as were building houses, or had betrothed wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, those he commanded that they should return, every man to his own house, according to the law.

bes@1Macc:3:57 @ So the camp removed, and pitched upon the south side of Emmaus.

bes@1Macc:3:58 @ And Judas said, arm yourselves, and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations, that are assembled together against us to destroy us and our sanctuary:

bes@1Macc:3:59 @ For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:3:60 @ Nevertheless, as the will of God is in heaven, so let him do.

bes@1Macc:4:1 @ Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;

bes@1Macc:4:2 @ To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides.

bes@1Macc:4:3 @ Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king’s army which was at Emmaus,

bes@1Macc:4:4 @ While as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.

bes@1Macc:4:5 @ In the mean season came Gorgias by night into the camp of Judas: and when he found no man there, he sought them in the mountains: for said he, These fellows flee from us

bes@1Macc:4:6 @ But as soon as it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three thousand men, who nevertheless had neither armour nor swords to their minds.

bes@1Macc:4:7 @ And they saw the camp of the heathen, that it was strong and well harnessed, and compassed round about with horsemen; and these were expert of war.

bes@1Macc:4:8 @ Then said Judas to the men that were with him, Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.

bes@1Macc:4:9 @ Remember how our fathers were delivered in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.

bes@1Macc:4:10 @ Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:

bes@1Macc:4:11 @ That so all the heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel.

bes@1Macc:4:12 @ Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming over against them.

bes@1Macc:4:13 @ Wherefore they went out of the camp to battle; but they that were with Judas sounded their trumpets.

bes@1Macc:4:14 @ So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain.

bes@1Macc:4:15 @ Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword: for they pursued them unto Gazera, and unto the plains of Idumea, and Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them upon a three thousand men.

bes@1Macc:4:16 @ This done, Judas returned again with his host from pursuing them,

bes@1Macc:4:17 @ And said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoil inasmuch as there is a battle before us,

bes@1Macc:4:18 @ And Gorgias and his host are here by us in the mountain: but stand ye now against our enemies, and overcome them, and after this ye may boldly take the spoils.

bes@1Macc:4:19 @ As Judas was yet speaking these words, there appeared a part of them looking out of the mountain:

bes@1Macc:4:20 @ Who when they perceived that the Jews had put their host to flight and were burning the tents; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done:

bes@1Macc:4:21 @ When therefore they perceived these things, they were sore afraid, and seeing also the host of Judas in the plain ready to fight,

bes@1Macc:4:22 @ They fled every one into the land of strangers.

bes@1Macc:4:23 @ Then Judas returned to spoil the tents, where they got much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great riches.

bes@1Macc:4:24 @ After this they went home, and sung a song of thanksgiving, and praised the Lord in heaven: because it is good, because his mercy endureth forever.

bes@1Macc:4:25 @ Thus Israel had a great deliverance that day.

bes@1Macc:4:26 @ Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told Lysias what had happened:

bes@1Macc:4:27 @ Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.

bes@1Macc:4:28 @ The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.

bes@1Macc:4:29 @ So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at Bethsura, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.

bes@1Macc:4:30 @ And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of thy servant David, and gavest the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and his armourbearer;

bes@1Macc:4:31 @ Shut up this army in the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen:

bes@1Macc:4:32 @ Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away, and let them quake at their destruction:

bes@1Macc:4:33 @ Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.

bes@1Macc:4:34 @ So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.

bes@1Macc:4:35 @ Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.

bes@1Macc:4:36 @ Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:4:37 @ Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.

bes@1Macc:4:38 @ And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;

bes@1Macc:4:39 @ They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,

bes@1Macc:4:40 @ And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.

bes@1Macc:4:41 @ Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:4:42 @ So he chose priests of blameless conversation, such as had pleasure in the law:

bes@1Macc:4:43 @ Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.

bes@1Macc:4:44 @ And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;

bes@1Macc:4:45 @ They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,

bes@1Macc:4:46 @ And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them.

bes@1Macc:4:47 @ Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;

bes@1Macc:4:48 @ And made up the sanctuary, and the things that were within the temple, and hallowed the courts.

bes@1Macc:4:49 @ They made also new holy vessels, and into the temple they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings, and of incense, and the table.

bes@1Macc:4:50 @ And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple.

bes@1Macc:4:51 @ Furthermore they set the loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they had begun to make.

bes@1Macc:4:52 @ Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose up betimes in the morning,

bes@1Macc:4:53 @ And offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings, which they had made.

bes@1Macc:4:54 @ Look, at what time and what day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citherns, and harps, and cymbals.

bes@1Macc:4:55 @ Then all the people fell upon their faces, worshipping and praising the God of heaven, who had given them good success.

bes@1Macc:4:56 @ And so they kept the dedication of the altar eight days and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed the sacrifice of deliverance and praise.

bes@1Macc:4:57 @ They decked also the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold, and with shields; and the gates and the chambers they renewed, and hanged doors upon them.

bes@1Macc:4:58 @ Thus was there very great gladness among the people, for that the reproach of the heathen was put away.

bes@1Macc:4:59 @ Moreover Judas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their season from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, with mirth and gladness.

bes@1Macc:4:60 @ At that time also they builded up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and tread it down as they had done before.

bes@1Macc:4:61 @ And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

bes@1Macc:5:1 @ Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.

bes@1Macc:5:2 @ Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

bes@1Macc:5:3 @ Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.

bes@1Macc:5:4 @ Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.

bes@1Macc:5:5 @ He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.

bes@1Macc:5:6 @ Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.

bes@1Macc:5:7 @ So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.

bes@1Macc:5:8 @ And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.

bes@1Macc:5:9 @ Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.

bes@1Macc:5:10 @ And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:

bes@1Macc:5:11 @ And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.

bes@1Macc:5:12 @ Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain:

bes@1Macc:5:13 @ Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are put to death: their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed there about a thousand men.

bes@1Macc:5:14 @ While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,

bes@1Macc:5:15 @ And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to consume us.

bes@1Macc:5:16 @ Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them.

bes@1Macc:5:17 @ Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men, and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:5:18 @ So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.

bes@1Macc:5:19 @ Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.

bes@1Macc:5:20 @ Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:5:21 @ Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him.

bes@1Macc:5:22 @ And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils he took.

bes@1Macc:5:23 @ And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy.

bes@1Macc:5:24 @ Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over Jordan, and travelled three days’ journey in the wilderness,

bes@1Macc:5:25 @ Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to their brethren in the land of Galaad:

bes@1Macc:5:26 @ And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:

bes@1Macc:5:27 @ And that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the country of Galaad, and that against to morrow they had appointed to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day.

bes@1Macc:5:28 @ Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire,

bes@1Macc:5:29 @ From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the fortress.

bes@1Macc:5:30 @ And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.

bes@1Macc:5:31 @ When Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets, and a great sound,

bes@1Macc:5:32 @ He said unto his host, Fight this day for your brethren.

bes@1Macc:5:33 @ So he went forth behind them in three companies, who sounded their trumpets, and cried with prayer.

bes@1Macc:5:34 @ Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus, fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter; so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men.

bes@1Macc:5:35 @ This done, Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had assaulted it he took and slew all the males therein, and received the spoils thereof and burnt it with fire.

bes@1Macc:5:36 @ From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the other cities of the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:5:37 @ After these things gathered Timotheus another host and encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.

bes@1Macc:5:38 @ So Judas sent men to espy the host, who brought him word, saying, All the heathen that be round about us are assembled unto them, even a very great host.

bes@1Macc:5:39 @ He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have pitched their tents beyond the brook, ready to come and fight against thee. Upon this Judas went to meet them.

bes@1Macc:5:40 @ Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:

bes@1Macc:5:41 @ But if he be afraid, and camp beyond the river, we shall go over unto him, and prevail against him.

bes@1Macc:5:42 @ Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but let all come to the battle.

bes@1Macc:5:43 @ So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.

bes@1Macc:5:44 @ But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand any longer before Judas.

bes@1Macc:5:45 @ Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great host, to the end they might come into the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:5:46 @ Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn from it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it.

bes@1Macc:5:47 @ Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.

bes@1Macc:5:48 @ Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying, Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and none shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot: howbeit they would not open unto him.

bes@1Macc:5:49 @ Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.

bes@1Macc:5:50 @ So the soldiers pitched, and assaulted the city all that day and all that night, till at the length the city was delivered into his hands:

bes@1Macc:5:51 @ Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over them that were slain.

bes@1Macc:5:52 @ After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.

bes@1Macc:5:53 @ And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:5:54 @ So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.

bes@1Macc:5:55 @ Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,

bes@1Macc:5:56 @ Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done.

bes@1Macc:5:57 @ Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.

bes@1Macc:5:58 @ So when they had given charge unto the garrison that was with them, they went toward Jamnia.

bes@1Macc:5:59 @ Then came Gorgias and his men out of the city to fight against them.

bes@1Macc:5:60 @ And so it was, that Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.

bes@1Macc:5:61 @ Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of Israel, because they were not obedient unto Judas and his brethren, but thought to do some valiant act.

bes@1Macc:5:62 @ Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose hand deliverance was given unto Israel.

bes@1Macc:5:63 @ Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever their name was heard of;

bes@1Macc:5:64 @ Insomuch as the people assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.

bes@1Macc:5:65 @ Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.

bes@1Macc:5:66 @ From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.

bes@1Macc:5:67 @ At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour, were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight unadvisedly.

bes@1Macc:5:68 @ So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved images with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:6:1 @ About that time king Antiochus travelling through the high countries heard say, that Elymais in the country of Persia was a city greatly renowned for riches, silver, and gold;

bes@1Macc:6:2 @ And that there was in it a very rich temple, wherein were coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Grecians, had left there.

bes@1Macc:6:3 @ Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning thereof,

bes@1Macc:6:4 @ Rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.

bes@1Macc:6:5 @ Moreover there came one who brought him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judea, were put to flight:

bes@1Macc:6:6 @ And that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power was driven away of the Jews; and that they were made strong by the armour, and power, and store of spoils, which they had gotten of the armies, whom they had destroyed:

bes@1Macc:6:7 @ Also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura.

bes@1Macc:6:8 @ Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sore moved: whereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

bes@1Macc:6:9 @ And there he continued many days: for his grief was ever more and more, and he made account that he should die.

bes@1Macc:6:10 @ Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.

bes@1Macc:6:11 @ And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was bountiful and beloved in my power.

bes@1Macc:6:12 @ But now I remember the evils that I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of gold and silver that were therein, and sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a cause.

bes@1Macc:6:13 @ I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.

bes@1Macc:6:14 @ Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made ruler over all his realm,

bes@1Macc:6:15 @ And gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for the kingdom.

bes@1Macc:6:16 @ So king Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth year.

bes@1Macc:6:17 @ Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his stead, and his name he called Eupator.

bes@1Macc:6:18 @ About this time they that were in the tower shut up the Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.

bes@1Macc:6:19 @ Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.

bes@1Macc:6:20 @ So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftieth year, and he made mounts for shot against them, and other engines.

bes@1Macc:6:21 @ Howbeit certain of them that were besieged got forth, unto whom some ungodly men of Israel joined themselves:

bes@1Macc:6:22 @ And they went unto the king, and said, How long will it be ere thou execute judgement, and avenge our brethren?

bes@1Macc:6:23 @ We have been willing to serve thy father, and to do as he would have us, and to obey his commandments;

bes@1Macc:6:24 @ For which cause they of our nation besiege the tower, and are alienated from us: moreover as many of us as they could light on they slew, and spoiled our inheritance.

bes@1Macc:6:25 @ Neither have they stretched out their hand against us only, but also against their borders.

bes@1Macc:6:26 @ And, behold, this day are they besieging the tower at Jerusalem, to take it: the sanctuary also and Bethsura have they fortified.

bes@1Macc:6:27 @ Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.

bes@1Macc:6:28 @ Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and those that had charge of the horse.

bes@1Macc:6:29 @ There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.

bes@1Macc:6:30 @ So that the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants exercised in battle.

bes@1Macc:6:31 @ These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura, which they assaulted many days, making engines of war; but they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.

bes@1Macc:6:32 @ Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in Bathzacharias, over against the king’s camp.

bes@1Macc:6:33 @ Then the king rising very early marched fiercely with his host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battle, and sounded the trumpets.

bes@1Macc:6:34 @ And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries.

bes@1Macc:6:35 @ Moreover they divided the beasts among the armies, and for every elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads; and beside this, for every beast were ordained five hundred horsemen of the best.

bes@1Macc:6:36 @ These were ready at every occasion: wheresoever the beast was, and whithersoever the beast went, they went also, neither departed they from him.

bes@1Macc:6:37 @ And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girt fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.

bes@1Macc:6:38 @ As for the remnant of the horsemen, they set them on this side and that side at the two parts of the host giving them signs what to do, and being harnessed all over amidst the ranks.

bes@1Macc:6:39 @ Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.

bes@1Macc:6:40 @ So part of the king’s army being spread upon the high mountains, and part on the valleys below, they marched on safely and in order.

bes@1Macc:6:41 @ Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were moved: for the army was very great and mighty.

bes@1Macc:6:42 @ Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle, and there were slain of the king’s army six hundred men.

bes@1Macc:6:43 @ Eleazar also, surnamed Savaran, perceiving that one of the beasts, armed with royal harness, was higher than all the rest, and supposing that the king was upon him,

bes@1Macc:6:44 @ Put himself in jeopardy, to the end he might deliver his people, and get him a perpetual name:

bes@1Macc:6:45 @ Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.

bes@1Macc:6:46 @ Which done, he crept under the elephant, and thrust him under, and slew him: whereupon the elephant fell down upon him, and there he died.

bes@1Macc:6:47 @ Howbeit the rest of the Jews seeing the strength of the king, and the violence of his forces, turned away from them.

bes@1Macc:6:48 @ Then the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against mount Sion.

bes@1Macc:6:49 @ But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.

bes@1Macc:6:50 @ So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep it.

bes@1Macc:6:51 @ As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.

bes@1Macc:6:52 @ Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.

bes@1Macc:6:53 @ Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for that it was the seventh year, and they in Judea that were delivered from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the store;)

bes@1Macc:6:54 @ There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.

bes@1Macc:6:55 @ At that time Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he lived, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,

bes@1Macc:6:56 @ Was returned out of Persia and Media, and the king’s host also that went with him, and that he sought to take unto him the ruling of the affairs.

bes@1Macc:6:57 @ Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:

bes@1Macc:6:58 @ Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their nation;

bes@1Macc:6:59 @ And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.

bes@1Macc:6:60 @ So the king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent unto them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.

bes@1Macc:6:61 @ Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them: whereupon they went out of the strong hold.

bes@1Macc:6:62 @ Then the king entered into mount Sion; but when he saw the strength of the place, he broke his oath that he had made, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.

bes@1Macc:6:63 @ Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto Antiochia, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he fought against him, and took the city by force.

bes@1Macc:7:1 @ In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.

bes@1Macc:7:2 @ And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them unto him.

bes@1Macc:7:3 @ Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.

bes@1Macc:7:4 @ So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon the throne of his kingdom,

bes@1Macc:7:5 @ There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel, having Alcimus, who was desirous to be high priest, for their captain:

bes@1Macc:7:6 @ And they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of our own land.

bes@1Macc:7:7 @ Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.

bes@1Macc:7:8 @ Then the king chose Bacchides, a friend of the king, who ruled beyond the flood, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king,

bes@1Macc:7:9 @ And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and commanded that he should take vengeance of the children of Israel.

bes@1Macc:7:10 @ So they departed, and came with a great power into the land of Judea, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words deceitfully.

bes@1Macc:7:11 @ But they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great power.

bes@1Macc:7:12 @ Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to require justice.

bes@1Macc:7:13 @ Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them:

bes@1Macc:7:14 @ For said they, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with this army, and he will do us no wrong.

bes@1Macc:7:15 @ So he spake unto them, peaceably, and sware unto them, saying, we will procure the harm neither of you nor your friends.

bes@1Macc:7:16 @ Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which he wrote,

bes@1Macc:7:17 @ The flesh of thy saints have they cast out, and their blood have they shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

bes@1Macc:7:18 @ Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.

bes@1Macc:7:19 @ After this, removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bezeth, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.

bes@1Macc:7:20 @ Then committed he the country to Alcimus, and left with him a power to aid him: so Bacchides went to the king.

bes@1Macc:7:21 @ But Alcimus contended for the high priesthood.

bes@1Macc:7:22 @ And unto him resorted all such as troubled the people, who, after they had gotten the land of Juda into their power, did much hurt in Israel.

bes@1Macc:7:23 @ Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites, even above the heathen,

bes@1Macc:7:24 @ He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst no more go forth into the country.

bes@1Macc:7:25 @ On the other side, when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company had gotten the upper hand, and knew that he was not able to abide their force, he went again to the king, and said all the worst of them that he could.

bes@1Macc:7:26 @ Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.

bes@1Macc:7:27 @ So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great force; and sent unto Judas and his brethren deceitfully with friendly words, saying,

bes@1Macc:7:28 @ Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.

bes@1Macc:7:29 @ He came therefore to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by violence.

bes@1Macc:7:30 @ Which thing after it was known to Judas, to wit, that he came unto him with deceit, he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.

bes@1Macc:7:31 @ Nicanor also, when he saw that his counsel was discovered, went out to fight against Judas beside Capharsalama:

bes@1Macc:7:32 @ Where there were slain of Nicanor’s side about five thousand men, and the rest fled into the city of David.

bes@1Macc:7:33 @ After this went Nicanor up to mount Sion, and there came out of the sanctuary certain of the priests and certain of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the burnt sacrifice that was offered for the king.

bes@1Macc:7:34 @ But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them shamefully, and spake proudly,

bes@1Macc:7:35 @ And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.

bes@1Macc:7:36 @ Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,

bes@1Macc:7:37 @ Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:

bes@1Macc:7:38 @ Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.

bes@1Macc:7:39 @ So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.

bes@1Macc:7:40 @ But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,

bes@1Macc:7:41 @ O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and smote an hundred fourscore and five thousand of them.

bes@1Macc:7:42 @ Even so destroy thou this host before us this day, that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary, and judge thou him according to his wickedness.

bes@1Macc:7:43 @ So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined battle: but Nicanor’s host was discomfited, and he himself was first slain in the battle.

bes@1Macc:7:44 @ Now when Nicanor’s host saw that he was slain, they cast away their weapons, and fled.

bes@1Macc:7:45 @ Then they pursued after them a day’s journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.

bes@1Macc:7:46 @ Whereupon they came forth out of all the towns of Judea round about, and closed them in; so that they, turning back upon them that pursued them, were all slain with the sword, and not one of them was left.

bes@1Macc:7:47 @ Afterwards they took the spoils, and the prey, and smote off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so proudly, and brought them away, and hanged them up toward Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:7:48 @ For this cause the people rejoiced greatly, and they kept that day a day of great gladness.

bes@1Macc:7:49 @ Moreover they ordained to keep yearly this day, being the thirteenth of Adar.

bes@1Macc:7:50 @ Thus the land of Juda was in rest a little while.

bes@1Macc:8:1 @ Now Judas had heard of the fame of the Romans, that they were mighty and valiant men, and such as would lovingly accept all that joined themselves unto them, and make a league of amity with all that came unto them;

bes@1Macc:8:2 @ And that they were men of great valour. It was told him also of their wars and noble acts which they had done among the Galatians, and how they had conquered them, and brought them under tribute;

bes@1Macc:8:3 @ And what they had done in the country of Spain, for the winning of the mines of the silver and gold which is there;

bes@1Macc:8:4 @ And that by their policy and patience they had conquered all the place, though it were very far from them; and the kings also that came against them from the uttermost part of the earth, till they had discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the rest did give them tribute every year:

bes@1Macc:8:5 @ Beside this, how they had discomfited in battle Philip, and Perseus, king of the Citims, with others that lifted up themselves against them, and had overcome them:

bes@1Macc:8:6 @ How also Antiochus the great king of Asia, that came against them in battle, having an hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and chariots, and a very great army, was discomfited by them;

bes@1Macc:8:7 @ And how they took him alive, and covenanted that he and such as reigned after him should pay a great tribute, and give hostages, and that which was agreed upon,

bes@1Macc:8:8 @ And the country of India, and Media and Lydia and of the goodliest countries, which they took of him, and gave to king Eumenes:

bes@1Macc:8:9 @ Moreover how the Grecians had determined to come and destroy them;

bes@1Macc:8:10 @ And that they, having knowledge thereof sent against them a certain captain, and fighting with them slew many of them, and carried away captives their wives and their children, and spoiled them, and took possession of their lands, and pulled down their strong holds, and brought them to be their servants unto this day:

bes@1Macc:8:11 @ It was told him besides, how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them;

bes@1Macc:8:12 @ But with their friends and such as relied upon them they kept amity: and that they had conquered kingdoms both far and nigh, insomuch as all that heard of their name were afraid of them:

bes@1Macc:8:13 @ Also that, whom they would help to a kingdom, those reign; and whom again they would, they displace: finally, that they were greatly exalted:

bes@1Macc:8:14 @ Yet for all this none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple, to be magnified thereby:

bes@1Macc:8:15 @ Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house, wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting alway for the people, to the end they might be well ordered:

bes@1Macc:8:16 @ And that they committed their government to one man every year, who ruled over all their country, and that all were obedient to that one, and that there was neither envy nor emulation among them.

bes@1Macc:8:17 @ In consideration of these things, Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome, to make a league of amity and confederacy with them,

bes@1Macc:8:18 @ And to intreat them that they would take the yoke from them; for they saw that the kingdom of the Grecians did oppress Israel with servitude.

bes@1Macc:8:19 @ They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate, where they spake and said.

bes@1Macc:8:20 @ Judas Maccabeus with his brethren, and the people of the Jews, have sent us unto you, to make a confederacy and peace with you, and that we might be registered your confederates and friends.

bes@1Macc:8:21 @ So that matter pleased the Romans well.

bes@1Macc:8:22 @ And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there they might have by them a memorial of peace and confederacy:

bes@1Macc:8:23 @ Good success be to the Romans, and to the people of the Jews, by sea and by land for ever: the sword also and enemy be far from them,

bes@1Macc:8:24 @ If there come first any war upon the Romans or any of their confederates throughout all their dominion,

bes@1Macc:8:25 @ The people of the Jews shall help them, as the time shall be appointed, with all their heart:

bes@1Macc:8:26 @ Neither shall they give any thing unto them that make war upon them, or aid them with victuals, weapons, money, or ships, as it hath seemed good unto the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants without taking any thing therefore.

bes@1Macc:8:27 @ In the same manner also, if war come first upon the nation of the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart, according as the time shall be appointed them:

bes@1Macc:8:28 @ Neither shall victuals be given to them that take part against them, or weapons, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed good to the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants, and that without deceit.

bes@1Macc:8:29 @ According to these articles did the Romans make a covenant with the people of the Jews.

bes@1Macc:8:30 @ Howbeit if hereafter the one party or the other shall think to meet to add or diminish any thing, they may do it at their pleasures, and whatsoever they shall add or take away shall be ratified.

bes@1Macc:8:31 @ And as touching the evils that Demetrius doeth to the Jews, we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and confederates the Jews?

bes@1Macc:8:32 @ If therefore they complain any more against thee, we will do them justice, and fight with thee by sea and by land.

bes@1Macc:9:1 @ Furthermore, when Demetrius heard the Nicanor and his host were slain in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of Judea the second time, and with them the chief strength of his host:

bes@1Macc:9:2 @ Who went forth by the way that leadeth to Galgala, and pitched their tents before Masaloth, which is in Arbela, and after they had won it, they slew much people.

bes@1Macc:9:3 @ Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year they encamped before Jerusalem:

bes@1Macc:9:4 @ From whence they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen.

bes@1Macc:9:5 @ Now Judas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:

bes@1Macc:9:6 @ Who seeing the multitude of the other army to he so great were sore afraid; whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the host, insomuch as abode of them no more but eight hundred men.

bes@1Macc:9:7 @ When Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.

bes@1Macc:9:8 @ Nevertheless unto them that remained he said, Let us arise and go up against our enemies, if peradventure we may be able to fight with them.

bes@1Macc:9:9 @ But they dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us now rather save our lives, and hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.

bes@1Macc:9:10 @ Then Judas said, God forbid that I should do this thing, and flee away from them: if our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren, and let us not stain our honour.

bes@1Macc:9:11 @ With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents, and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host and they that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.

bes@1Macc:9:12 @ As for Bacchides, he was in the right wing: so the host drew near on the two parts, and sounded their trumpets.

bes@1Macc:9:13 @ They also of Judas’ side, even they sounded their trumpets also, so that the earth shook at the noise of the armies, and the battle continued from morning till night.

bes@1Macc:9:14 @ Now when Judas perceived that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side, he took with him all the hardy men,

bes@1Macc:9:15 @ Who discomfited the right wing, and pursued them unto the mount Azotus.

bes@1Macc:9:16 @ But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behind:

bes@1Macc:9:17 @ Whereupon there was a sore battle, insomuch as many were slain on both parts.

bes@1Macc:9:18 @ Judas also was killed, and the remnant fled.

bes@1Macc:9:19 @ Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.

bes@1Macc:9:20 @ Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying,

bes@1Macc:9:21 @ How is the valiant man fallen, that delivered Israel!

bes@1Macc:9:22 @ As for the other things concerning Judas and his wars, and the noble acts which he did, and his greatness, they are not written: for they were very many. 2

bes@1Macc:9:23 @ Now after the death of Judas the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and there arose up all such as wrought iniquity.

bes@1Macc:9:24 @ In those days also was there a very great famine, by reason whereof the country revolted, and went with them.

bes@1Macc:9:25 @ Then Bacchides chose the wicked men, and made them lords of the country.

bes@1Macc:9:26 @ And they made enquiry and search for Judas’ friends, and brought them unto Bacchides, who took vengeance of them, and used them despitefully.

bes@1Macc:9:27 @ So was there a great affliction in Israel, the like whereof was not since the time that a prophet was not seen among them.

bes@1Macc:9:28 @ For this cause all Judas’ friends came together, and said unto Jonathan,

bes@1Macc:9:29 @ Since thy brother Judas died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies, and Bacchides, and against them of our nation that are adversaries to us.

bes@1Macc:9:30 @ Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince and captain in his stead, that thou mayest fight our battles.

bes@1Macc:9:31 @ Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time, and rose up instead of his brother Judas.

bes@1Macc:9:32 @ But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof, he sought for to slay him

bes@1Macc:9:33 @ Then Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, perceiving that, fled into the wilderness of Thecoe, and pitched their tents by the water of the pool Asphar.

bes@1Macc:9:34 @ Which when Bacchides understood, he came near to Jordan with all his host upon the sabbath day.

bes@1Macc:9:35 @ Now Jonathan had sent his brother John, a captain of the people, to pray his friends the Nabathites, that they might leave with them their carriage, which was much.

bes@1Macc:9:36 @ But the children of Jambri came out of Medaba, and took John, and all that he had, and went their way with it.

bes@1Macc:9:37 @ After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabatha with a great train, as being the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan.

bes@1Macc:9:38 @ Therefore they remembered John their brother, and went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain:

bes@1Macc:9:39 @ Where they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and, behold, there was much ado and great carriage: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends and brethren, to meet them with drums, and instruments of musick, and many weapons.

bes@1Macc:9:40 @ Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such sort, as many fell down dead, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.

bes@1Macc:9:41 @ Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.

bes@1Macc:9:42 @ So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.

bes@1Macc:9:43 @ Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the sabbath day unto the banks of Jordan with a great power.

bes@1Macc:9:44 @ Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:

bes@1Macc:9:45 @ For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.

bes@1Macc:9:46 @ Wherefore cry ye now unto heaven, that ye may be delivered from the hand of your enemies.

bes@1Macc:9:47 @ With that they joined battle, and Jonathan stretched forth his hand to smite Bacchides, but he turned back from him.

bes@1Macc:9:48 @ Then Jonathan and they that were with him leapt into Jordan, and swam over unto the other bank: howbeit the other passed not over Jordan unto them.

bes@1Macc:9:49 @ So there were slain of Bacchides’ side that day about a thousand men.

bes@1Macc:9:50 @ Afterward returned Bacchides to Jerusalem and repaired the strong cites in Judea; the fort in Jericho, and Emmaus, and Bethhoron, and Bethel, and Thamnatha, Pharathoni, and Taphon, these did he strengthen with high walls, with gates and with bars.

bes@1Macc:9:51 @ And in them he set a garrison, that they might work malice upon Israel.

bes@1Macc:9:52 @ He fortified also the city Bethsura, and Gazera, and the tower, and put forces in them, and provision of victuals.

bes@1Macc:9:53 @ Besides, he took the chief men’s sons in the country for hostages, and put them into the tower at Jerusalem to be kept.

bes@1Macc:9:54 @ Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the prophets

bes@1Macc:9:55 @ And as he began to pull down, even at that time was Alcimus plagued, and his enterprises hindered: for his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, so that he could no more speak any thing, nor give order concerning his house.

bes@1Macc:9:56 @ So Alcimus died at that time with great torment.

bes@1Macc:9:57 @ Now when Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, he returned to the king: whereupon the land of Judea was in rest two years.

bes@1Macc:9:58 @ Then all the ungodly men held a council, saying, Behold, Jonathan and his company are at ease, and dwell without care: now therefore we will bring Bacchides hither, who shall take them all in one night.

bes@1Macc:9:59 @ So they went and consulted with him.

bes@1Macc:9:60 @ Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent letters privily to his adherents in Judea, that they should take Jonathan and those that were with him: howbeit they could not, because their counsel was known unto them.

bes@1Macc:9:61 @ Wherefore they took of the men of the country, that were authors of that mischief, about fifty persons, and slew them.

bes@1Macc:9:62 @ Afterward Jonathan, and Simon, and they that were with him, got them away to Bethbasi, which is in the wilderness, and they repaired the decays thereof, and made it strong.

bes@1Macc:9:63 @ Which thing when Bacchides knew, he gathered together all his host, and sent word to them that were of Judea.

bes@1Macc:9:64 @ Then went he and laid siege against Bethbasi; and they fought against it a long season and made engines of war.

bes@1Macc:9:65 @ But Jonathan left his brother Simon in the city, and went forth himself into the country, and with a certain number went he forth.

bes@1Macc:9:66 @ And he smote Odonarkes and his brethren, and the children of Phasiron in their tent.

bes@1Macc:9:67 @ And when he began to smite them, and came up with his forces, Simon and his company went out of the city, and burned up the engines of war,

bes@1Macc:9:68 @ And fought against Bacchides, who was discomfited by them, and they afflicted him sore: for his counsel and travail was in vain.

bes@1Macc:9:69 @ Wherefore he was very wroth at the wicked men that gave him counsel to come into the country, inasmuch as he slew many of them, and purposed to return into his own country.

bes@1Macc:9:70 @ Whereof when Jonathan had knowledge, he sent ambassadors unto him, to the end he should make peace with him, and deliver them the prisoners.

bes@1Macc:9:71 @ Which thing he accepted, and did according to his demands, and sware unto him that he would never do him harm all the days of his life.

bes@1Macc:9:72 @ When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judea, he returned and went his way into his own land, neither came he any more into their borders.

bes@1Macc:9:73 @ Thus the sword ceased from Israel: but Jonathan dwelt at Machmas, and began to govern the people; and he destroyed the ungodly men out of Israel.

bes@1Macc:10:1 @ In the hundred and sixtieth year Alexander, the son of Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, went up and took Ptolemais: for the people had received him, by means whereof he reigned there,

bes@1Macc:10:2 @ Now when king Demetrius heard thereof, he gathered together an exceeding great host, and went forth against him to fight.

bes@1Macc:10:3 @ Moreover Demetrius sent letters unto Jonathan with loving words, so as he magnified him.

bes@1Macc:10:4 @ For said he, Let us first make peace with him, before he join with Alexander against us:

bes@1Macc:10:5 @ Else he will remember all the evils that we have done against him, and against his brethren and his people.

bes@1Macc:10:6 @ Wherefore he gave him authority to gather together an host, and to provide weapons, that he might aid him in battle: he commanded also that the hostages that were in the tower should be delivered him.

bes@1Macc:10:7 @ Then came Jonathan to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the audience of all the people, and of them that were in the tower:

bes@1Macc:10:8 @ Who were sore afraid, when they heard that the king had given him authority to gather together an host.

bes@1Macc:10:9 @ Whereupon they of the tower delivered their hostages unto Jonathan, and he delivered them unto their parents.

bes@1Macc:10:10 @ This done, Jonathan settled himself in Jerusalem, and began to build and repair the city.

bes@1Macc:10:11 @ And he commanded the workmen to build the walls and the mount Sion and about with square stones for fortification; and they did so.

bes@1Macc:10:12 @ Then the strangers, that were in the fortresses which Bacchides had built, fled away;

bes@1Macc:10:13 @ Insomuch as every man left his place, and went into his own country.

bes@1Macc:10:14 @ Only at Bethsura certain of those that had forsaken the law and the commandments remained still: for it was their place of refuge.

bes@1Macc:10:15 @ Now when king Alexander had heard what promises Demetrius had sent unto Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that they had endured,

bes@1Macc:10:16 @ He said, Shall we find such another man? now therefore we will make him our friend and confederate.

bes@1Macc:10:17 @ Upon this he wrote a letter, and sent it unto him, according to these words, saying,

bes@1Macc:10:18 @ King Alexander to his brother Jonathan sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:10:19 @ We have heard of thee, that thou art a man of great power, and meet to be our friend.

bes@1Macc:10:20 @ Wherefore now this day we ordain thee to be the high priest of thy nation, and to be called the king’s friend; (and therewithal he sent him a purple robe and a crown of gold:) and require thee to take our part, and keep friendship with us.

bes@1Macc:10:21 @ So in the seventh month of the hundred and sixtieth year, at the feast of the tabernacles, Jonathan put on the holy robe, and gathered together forces, and provided much armour.

bes@1Macc:10:22 @ Whereof when Demetrius heard, he was very sorry, and said,

bes@1Macc:10:23 @ What have we done, that Alexander hath prevented us in making amity with the Jews to strengthen himself?

bes@1Macc:10:24 @ I also will write unto them words of encouragement, and promise them dignities and gifts, that I may have their aid.

bes@1Macc:10:25 @ He sent unto them therefore to this effect: King Demetrius unto the people of the Jews sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:10:26 @ Whereas ye have kept covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, not joining yourselves with our enemies, we have heard hereof, and are glad.

bes@1Macc:10:27 @ Wherefore now continue ye still to be faithful unto us, and we will well recompense you for the things ye do in our behalf,

bes@1Macc:10:28 @ And will grant you many immunities, and give you rewards.

bes@1Macc:10:29 @ And now do I free you, and for your sake I release all the Jews, from tributes, and from the customs of salt, and from crown taxes,

bes@1Macc:10:30 @ And from that which appertaineth unto me to receive for the third part or the seed, and the half of the fruit of the trees, I release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken of the land of Judea, nor of the three governments which are added thereunto out of the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth for evermore.

bes@1Macc:10:31 @ Let Jerusalem also be holy and free, with the borders thereof, both from tenths and tributes.

bes@1Macc:10:32 @ And as for the tower which is at Jerusalem, I yield up authority over it, and give the high priest, that he may set in it such men as he shall choose to keep it.

bes@1Macc:10:33 @ Moreover I freely set at liberty every one of the Jews, that were carried captives out of the land of Judea into any part of my kingdom, and I will that all my officers remit the tributes even of their cattle.

bes@1Macc:10:34 @ Furthermore I will that all the feasts, and sabbaths, and new moons, and solemn days, and the three days before the feast, and the three days after the feast shall be all of immunity and freedom for all the Jews in my realm.

bes@1Macc:10:35 @ Also no man shall have authority to meddle with or to molest any of them in any matter.

bes@1Macc:10:36 @ I will further, that there be enrolled among the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, unto whom pay shall be given, as belongeth to all king’s forces.

bes@1Macc:10:37 @ And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strong holds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers and governors be of themselves, and that they live after their own laws, even as the king hath commanded in the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:10:38 @ And concerning the three governments that are added to Judea from the country of Samaria, let them be joined with Judea, that they may be reckoned to be under one, nor bound to obey other authority than the high priest’s.

bes@1Macc:10:39 @ As for Ptolemais, and the land pertaining thereto, I give it as a free gift to the sanctuary at Jerusalem for the necessary expenses of the sanctuary.

bes@1Macc:10:40 @ Moreover I give every year fifteen thousand shekels of silver out of the king’s accounts from the places appertaining.

bes@1Macc:10:41 @ And all the overplus, which the officers payed not in as in former time, from henceforth shall be given toward the works of the temple.

bes@1Macc:10:42 @ And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses of the temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released, because they appertain to the priests that minister.

bes@1Macc:10:43 @ And whosoever they be that flee unto the temple at Jerusalem, or be within the liberties hereof, being indebted unto the king, or for any other matter, let them be at liberty, and all that they have in my realm.

bes@1Macc:10:44 @ For the building also and repairing of the works of the sanctuary expenses shall be given of the king’s accounts.

bes@1Macc:10:45 @ Yea, and for the building of the walls of Jerusalem, and the fortifying thereof round about, expenses shall be given out of the king’s accounts, as also for the building of the walls in Judea.

bes@1Macc:10:46 @ Now when Jonathan and the people heard these words, they gave no credit unto them, nor received them, because they remembered the great evil that he had done in Israel; for he had afflicted them very sore.

bes@1Macc:10:47 @ But with Alexander they were well pleased, because he was the first that entreated of true peace with them, and they were confederate with him always.

bes@1Macc:10:48 @ Then gathered king Alexander great forces, and camped over against Demetrius.

bes@1Macc:10:49 @ And after the two kings had joined battle, Demetrius’ host fled: but Alexander followed after him, and prevailed against them.

bes@1Macc:10:50 @ And he continued the battle very sore until the sun went down: and that day was Demetrius slain.

bes@1Macc:10:51 @ Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemee king of Egypt with a message to this effect:

bes@1Macc:10:52 @ Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm, and am set in the throne of my progenitors, and have gotten the dominion, and overthrown Demetrius, and recovered our country;

bes@1Macc:10:53 @ For after I had joined battle with him, both he and his host was discomfited by us, so that we sit in the throne of his kingdom:

bes@1Macc:10:54 @ Now therefore let us make a league of amity together, and give me now thy daughter to wife: and I will be thy son in law, and will give both thee and her as according to thy dignity.

bes@1Macc:10:55 @ Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou didst return into the land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.

bes@1Macc:10:56 @ And now will I do to thee, as thou hast written: meet me therefore at Ptolemais, that we may see one another; for I will marry my daughter to thee according to thy desire.

bes@1Macc:10:57 @ So Ptolemee went out of Egypt with his daughter Cleopatra, and they came unto Ptolemais in the hundred threescore and second year:

bes@1Macc:10:58 @ Where king Alexander meeting him, he gave unto him his daughter Cleopatra, and celebrated her marriage at Ptolemais with great glory, as the manner of kings is.

bes@1Macc:10:59 @ Now king Alexander had written unto Jonathan, that he should come and meet him.

bes@1Macc:10:60 @ Who thereupon went honourably to Ptolemais, where he met the two kings, and gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many presents, and found favour in their sight.

bes@1Macc:10:61 @ At that time certain pestilent fellows of Israel, men of a wicked life, assembled themselves against him, to accuse him: but the king would not hear them.

bes@1Macc:10:62 @ Yea more than that, the king commanded to take off his garments, and clothe him in purple: and they did so.

bes@1Macc:10:63 @ And he made him sit by himself, and said into his princes, Go with him into the midst of the city, and make proclamation, that no man complain against him of any matter, and that no man trouble him for any manner of cause.

bes@1Macc:10:64 @ Now when his accusers saw that he was honoured according to the proclamation, and clothed in purple, they fled all away.

bes@1Macc:10:65 @ So the king honoured him, and wrote him among his chief friends, and made him a duke, and partaker of his dominion.

bes@1Macc:10:66 @ Afterward Jonathan returned to Jerusalem with peace and gladness.

bes@1Macc:10:67 @ Furthermore in the; hundred threescore and fifth year came Demetrius son of Demetrius out of Crete into the land of his fathers:

bes@1Macc:10:68 @ Whereof when king Alexander heard tell, he was right sorry, and returned into Antioch.

bes@1Macc:10:69 @ Then Demetrius made Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his general, who gathered together a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and sent unto Jonathan the high priest, saying,

bes@1Macc:10:70 @ Thou alone liftest up thyself against us, and I am laughed to scorn for thy sake, and reproached: and why dost thou vaunt thy power against us in the mountains?

bes@1Macc:10:71 @ Now therefore, if thou trustest in thine own strength, come down to us into the plain field, and there let us try the matter together: for with me is the power of the cities.

bes@1Macc:10:72 @ Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that take our part, and they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to stand before our face; for thy fathers have twice been put to flight in their own land.

bes@1Macc:10:73 @ Wherefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee unto.

bes@1Macc:10:74 @ So when Jonathan heard these words of Apollonius, he was moved in his mind, and choosing ten thousand men he went out of Jerusalem, where Simon his brother met him for to help him.

bes@1Macc:10:75 @ And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but; they of Joppa shut him out of the city, because Apollonius had a garrison there.

bes@1Macc:10:76 @ Then Jonathan laid siege unto it: whereupon they of the city let him in for fear: and so Jonathan won Joppa.

bes@1Macc:10:77 @ Whereof when Apollonius heard, he took three thousand horsemen, with a great host of footmen, and went to Azotus as one that journeyed, and therewithal drew him forth into the plain. because he had a great number of horsemen, in whom he put his trust.

bes@1Macc:10:78 @ Then Jonathan followed after him to Azotus, where the armies joined battle.

bes@1Macc:10:79 @ Now Apollonius had left a thousand horsemen in ambush.

bes@1Macc:10:80 @ And Jonathan knew that there was an ambushment behind him; for they had compassed in his host, and cast darts at the people, from morning till evening.

bes@1Macc:10:81 @ But the people stood still, as Jonathan had commanded them: and so the enemies’ horses were tired.

bes@1Macc:10:82 @ Then brought Simon forth his host, and set them against the footmen, (for the horsemen were spent) who were discomfited by him, and fled.

bes@1Macc:10:83 @ The horsemen also, being scattered in the field, fled to Azotus, and went into Bethdagon, their idol’s temple, for safety.

bes@1Macc:10:84 @ But Jonathan set fire on Azotus, and the cities round about it, and took their spoils; and the temple of Dagon, with them that were fled into it, he burned with fire.

bes@1Macc:10:85 @ Thus there were burned and slain with the sword well nigh eight thousand men.

bes@1Macc:10:86 @ And from thence Jonathan removed his host, and camped against Ascalon, where the men of the city came forth, and met him with great pomp.

bes@1Macc:10:87 @ After this returned Jonathan and his host unto Jerusalem, having any spoils.

bes@1Macc:10:88 @ Now when king Alexander heard these things, he honoured Jonathan yet more.

bes@1Macc:10:89 @ And sent him a buckle of gold, as the use is to be given to such as are of the king’s blood: he gave him also Accaron with the borders thereof in possession.

bes@1Macc:11:1 @ And the king of Egypt gathered together a great host, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships, and went about through deceit to get Alexander’s kingdom, and join it to his own.

bes@1Macc:11:2 @ Whereupon he took his journey into Syria in peaceable manner, so as they of the cities opened unto him, and met him: for king Alexander had commanded them so to do, because he was his brother in law.

bes@1Macc:11:3 @ Now as Ptolemee entered into the cities, he set in every one of them a garrison of soldiers to keep it.

bes@1Macc:11:4 @ And when he came near to Azotus, they shewed him the temple of Dagon that was burnt, and Azotus and the suburbs thereof that were destroyed, and the bodies that were cast abroad and them that he had burnt in the battle; for they had made heaps of them by the way where he should pass.

bes@1Macc:11:5 @ Also they told the king whatsoever Jonathan had done, to the intent he might blame him: but the king held his peace.

bes@1Macc:11:6 @ Then Jonathan met the king with great pomp at Joppa, where they saluted one another, and lodged.

bes@1Macc:11:7 @ Afterward Jonathan, when he had gone with the king to the river called Eleutherus, returned again to Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:11:8 @ King Ptolemee therefore, having gotten the dominion of the cities by the sea unto Seleucia upon the sea coast, imagined wicked counsels against Alexander.

bes@1Macc:11:9 @ Whereupon he sent ambassadors unto king Demetrius, saying, Come, let us make a league betwixt us, and I will give thee my daughter whom Alexander hath, and thou shalt reign in thy father’s kingdom:

bes@1Macc:11:10 @ For I repent that I gave my daughter unto him, for he sought to slay me.

bes@1Macc:11:11 @ Thus did he slander him, because he was desirous of his kingdom.

bes@1Macc:11:12 @ Wherefore he took his daughter from him, and gave her to Demetrius, and forsook Alexander, so that their hatred was openly known.

bes@1Macc:11:13 @ Then Ptolemee entered into Antioch, where he set two crowns upon his head, the crown of Asia, and of Egypt.

bes@1Macc:11:14 @ In the mean season was king Alexander in Cilicia, because those that dwelt in those parts had revolted from him.

bes@1Macc:11:15 @ But when Alexander heard of this, he came to war against him: whereupon king Ptolemee brought forth his host, and met him with a mighty power, and put him to flight.

bes@1Macc:11:16 @ So Alexander fled into Arabia there to be defended; but king Ptolemee was exalted:

bes@1Macc:11:17 @ For Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it unto Ptolemee.

bes@1Macc:11:18 @ King Ptolemee also died the third day after, and they that were in the strong holds were slain one of another.

bes@1Macc:11:19 @ By this means Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and seventh year.

bes@1Macc:11:20 @ At the same time Jonathan gathered together them that were in Judea to take the tower that was in Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it.

bes@1Macc:11:21 @ Then came ungodly persons, who hated their own people, went unto the king, and told him that Jonathan besieged the tower,

bes@1Macc:11:22 @ Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately removing, he came to Ptolemais, and wrote unto Jonathan, that he should not lay siege to the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais in great haste.

bes@1Macc:11:23 @ Nevertheless Jonathan, when he heard this, commanded to besiege it still: and he chose certain of the elders of Israel and the priests, and put himself in peril;

bes@1Macc:11:24 @ And took silver and gold, and raiment, and divers presents besides, and went to Ptolemais unto the king, where he found favour in his sight.

bes@1Macc:11:25 @ And though certain ungodly men of the people had made complaints against him,

bes@1Macc:11:26 @ Yet the king entreated him as his predecessors had done before, and promoted him in the sight of all his friends,

bes@1Macc:11:27 @ And confirmed him in the high priesthood, and in all the honours that he had before, and gave him preeminence among his chief friends.

bes@1Macc:11:28 @ Then Jonathan desired the king, that he would make Judea free from tribute, as also the three governments, with the country of Samaria; and he promised him three hundred talents.

bes@1Macc:11:29 @ So the king consented, and wrote letters unto Jonathan of all these things after this manner:

bes@1Macc:11:30 @ King Demetrius unto his brother Jonathan, and unto the nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:11:31 @ We send you here a copy of the letter which we did write unto our cousin Lasthenes concerning you, that ye might see it.

bes@1Macc:11:32 @ King Demetrius unto his father Lasthenes sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:11:33 @ We are determined to do good to the people of the Jews, who are our friends, and keep covenants with us, because of their good will toward us.

bes@1Macc:11:34 @ Wherefore we have ratified unto them the borders of Judea, with the three governments of Apherema and Lydda and Ramathem, that are added unto Judea from the country of Samaria, and all things appertaining unto them, for all such as do sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the payments which the king received of them yearly aforetime out of the fruits of the earth and of trees.

bes@1Macc:11:35 @ And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes and customs pertaining unto us, as also the saltpits, and the crown taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their relief.

bes@1Macc:11:36 @ And nothing hereof shall be revoked from this time forth for ever.

bes@1Macc:11:37 @ Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be delivered unto Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a conspicuous place.

bes@1Macc:11:38 @ After this, when king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces, every one to his own place, except certain bands of strangers, whom he had gathered from the isles of the heathen: wherefore all the forces of his fathers hated him.

bes@1Macc:11:39 @ Moreover there was one Tryphon, that had been of Alexander’s part afore, who, seeing that all the host murmured against Demetrius, went to Simalcue the Arabian that brought up Antiochus the young son of Alexander,

bes@1Macc:11:40 @ And lay sore upon him to deliver him this young Antiochus, that he might reign in his father’s stead: he told him therefore all that Demetrius had done, and how his men of war were at enmity with him, and there he remained a long season.

bes@1Macc:11:41 @ In the mean time Jonathan sent unto king Demetrius, that he would cast those of the tower out of Jerusalem, and those also in the fortresses: for they fought against Israel.

bes@1Macc:11:42 @ So Demetrius sent unto Jonathan, saying, I will not only do this for thee and thy people, but I will greatly honour thee and thy nation, if opportunity serve.

bes@1Macc:11:43 @ Now therefore thou shalt do well, if thou send me men to help me; for all my forces are gone from me.

bes@1Macc:11:44 @ Upon this Jonathan sent him three thousand strong men unto Antioch: and when they came to the king, the king was very glad of their coming.

bes@1Macc:11:45 @ Howbeit they that were of the city gathered themselves together into the midst of the city, to the number of an hundred and twenty thousand men, and would have slain the king.

bes@1Macc:11:46 @ Wherefore the king fled into the court, but they of the city kept the passages of the city, and began to fight.

bes@1Macc:11:47 @ Then the king called to the Jews for help, who came unto him all at once, and dispersing themselves through the city slew that day in the city to the number of an hundred thousand.

bes@1Macc:11:48 @ Also they set fire on the city, and gat many spoils that day, and delivered the king.

bes@1Macc:11:49 @ So when they of the city saw that the Jews had got the city as they would, their courage was abated: wherefore they made supplication to the king, and cried, saying,

bes@1Macc:11:50 @ Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us and the city.

bes@1Macc:11:51 @ With that they cast away their weapons, and made peace; and the Jews were honoured in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that were in his realm; and they returned to Jerusalem, having great spoils.

bes@1Macc:11:52 @ So king Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.

bes@1Macc:11:53 @ Nevertheless he dissembled in all that ever he spake, and estranged himself from Jonathan, neither rewarded he him according to the benefits which he had received of him, but troubled him very sore.

bes@1Macc:11:54 @ After this returned Tryphon, and with him the young child Antiochus, who reigned, and was crowned.

bes@1Macc:11:55 @ Then there gathered unto him all the men of war, whom Demetrius had put away, and they fought against Demetrius, who turned his back and fled.

bes@1Macc:11:56 @ Moreover Tryphon took the elephants, and won Antioch.

bes@1Macc:11:57 @ At that time young Antiochus wrote unto Jonathan, saying, I confirm thee in the high priesthood, and appoint thee ruler over the four governments, and to be one of the king’s friends.

bes@1Macc:11:58 @ Upon this he sent him golden vessels to be served in, and gave him leave to drink in gold, and to be clothed in purple, and to wear a golden buckle.

bes@1Macc:11:59 @ His brother Simon also he made captain from the place called The ladder of Tyrus unto the borders of Egypt.

bes@1Macc:11:60 @ Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities beyond the water, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves unto him for to help him: and when he came to Ascalon, they of the city met him honourably.

bes@1Macc:11:61 @ From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out; wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and spoiled them.

bes@1Macc:11:62 @ Afterward, when they of Gaza made supplication unto Jonathan, he made peace with them, and took the sons of their chief men for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem, and passed through the country unto Damascus.

bes@1Macc:11:63 @ Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great power, purposing to remove him out of the country,

bes@1Macc:11:64 @ He went to meet them, and left Simon his brother in the country.

bes@1Macc:11:65 @ Then Simon encamped against Bethsura and fought against it a long season, and shut it up:

bes@1Macc:11:66 @ But they desired to have peace with him, which he granted them, and then put them out from thence, and took the city, and set a garrison in it.

bes@1Macc:11:67 @ As for Jonathan and his host, they pitched at the water of Gennesar, from whence betimes in the morning they gat them to the plain of Nasor.

bes@1Macc:11:68 @ And, behold, the host of strangers met them in the plain, who, having laid men in ambush for him in the mountains, came themselves over against him.

bes@1Macc:11:69 @ So when they that lay in ambush rose out of their places and joined battle, all that were of Jonathan’s side fled;

bes@1Macc:11:70 @ Insomuch as there was not one of them left, except Mattathias the son of Absalom, and Judas the son of Calphi, the captains of the host.

bes@1Macc:11:71 @ Then Jonathan rent his clothes, and cast earth upon his head, and prayed.

bes@1Macc:11:72 @ Afterwards turning again to battle, he put them to flight, and so they ran away.

bes@1Macc:11:73 @ Now when his own men that were fled saw this, they turned again unto him, and with him pursued them to Cades, even unto their own tents, and there they camped.

bes@1Macc:11:74 @ So there were slain of the heathen that day about three thousand men: but Jonathan returned to Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:12:1 @ Now when Jonathan saw that time served him, he chose certain men, and sent them to Rome, for to confirm and renew the friendship that they had with them.

bes@1Macc:12:2 @ He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.

bes@1Macc:12:3 @ So they went unto Rome, and entered into the senate, and said, Jonathan the high priest, and the people of the Jews, sent us unto you, to the end ye should renew the friendship, which ye had with them, and league, as in former time.

bes@1Macc:12:4 @ Upon this the Romans gave them letters unto the governors of every place that they should bring them into the land of Judea peaceably.

bes@1Macc:12:5 @ And this is the copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Lacedemonians:

bes@1Macc:12:6 @ Jonathan the high priest, and the elders of the nation, and the priests, and the other of the Jews, unto the Lacedemonians their brethren send greeting:

bes@1Macc:12:7 @ There were letters sent in times past unto Onias the high priest from Darius, who reigned then among you, to signify that ye are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.

bes@1Macc:12:8 @ At which time Onias entreated the ambassador that was sent honourably, and received the letters, wherein declaration was made of the league and friendship.

bes@1Macc:12:9 @ Therefore we also, albeit we need none of these things, that we have the holy books of scripture in our hands to comfort us,

bes@1Macc:12:10 @ Have nevertheless attempted to send unto you for the renewing of brotherhood and friendship, lest we should become strangers unto you altogether: for there is a long time passed since ye sent unto us.

bes@1Macc:12:11 @ We therefore at all times without ceasing, both in our feasts, and other convenient days, do remember you in the sacrifices which we offer, and in our prayers, as reason is, and as it becometh us to think upon our brethren:

bes@1Macc:12:12 @ And we are right glad of your honour.

bes@1Macc:12:13 @ As for ourselves, we have had great troubles and wars on every side, forsomuch as the kings that are round about us have fought against us.

bes@1Macc:12:14 @ Howbeit we would not be troublesome unto you, nor to others of our confederates and friends, in these wars:

bes@1Macc:12:15 @ For we have help from heaven that succoureth us, so as we are delivered from our enemies, and our enemies are brought under foot.

bes@1Macc:12:16 @ For this cause we chose Numenius the son of Antiochus, and Antipater he son of Jason, and sent them unto the Romans, to renew the amity that we had with them, and the former league.

bes@1Macc:12:17 @ We commanded them also to go unto you, and to salute and to deliver you our letters concerning the renewing of our brotherhood.

bes@1Macc:12:18 @ Wherefore now ye shall do well to give us an answer thereto.

bes@1Macc:12:19 @ And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.

bes@1Macc:12:20 @ Areus king of the Lacedemonians to Onias the high priest, greeting:

bes@1Macc:12:21 @ It is found in writing, that the Lacedemonians and Jews are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham:

bes@1Macc:12:22 @ Now therefore, since this is come to our knowledge, ye shall do well to write unto us of your prosperity.

bes@1Macc:12:23 @ We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are our’s, and our’s are your’s We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.

bes@1Macc:12:24 @ Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than afore,

bes@1Macc:12:25 @ He removed from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amathis: for he gave them no respite to enter his country.

bes@1Macc:12:26 @ He sent spies also unto their tents, who came again, and told him that they were appointed to come upon them in the night season.

bes@1Macc:12:27 @ Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth sentinels round about the host.

bes@1Macc:12:28 @ But when the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their camp.

bes@1Macc:12:29 @ Howbeit Jonathan and his company knew it not till the morning: for they saw the lights burning.

bes@1Macc:12:30 @ Then Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.

bes@1Macc:12:31 @ Wherefore Jonathan turned to the Arabians, who were called Zabadeans, and smote them, and took their spoils.

bes@1Macc:12:32 @ And removing thence, he came to Damascus, and so passed through all the country,

bes@1Macc:12:33 @ Simon also went forth, and passed through the country unto Ascalon, and the holds there adjoining, from whence he turned aside to Joppa, and won it.

bes@1Macc:12:34 @ For he had heard that they would deliver the hold unto them that took Demetrius’ part; wherefore he set a garrison there to keep it.

bes@1Macc:12:35 @ After this came Jonathan home again, and calling the elders of the people together, he consulted with them about building strong holds in Judea,

bes@1Macc:12:36 @ And making the walls of Jerusalem higher, and raising a great mount between the tower and the city, for to separate it from the city, that so it might be alone, that men might neither sell nor buy in it.

bes@1Macc:12:37 @ Upon this they came together to build up the city, forasmuch as part of the wall toward the brook on the east side was fallen down, and they repaired that which was called Caphenatha.

bes@1Macc:12:38 @ Simon also set up Adida in Sephela, and made it strong with gates and bars.

bes@1Macc:12:39 @ Now Tryphon went about to get the kingdom of Asia, and to kill Antiochus the king, that he might set the crown upon his own head.

bes@1Macc:12:40 @ Howbeit he was afraid that Jonathan would not suffer him, and that he would fight against him; wherefore he sought a way how to take Jonathan, that he might kill him. So he removed, and came to Bethsan.

bes@1Macc:12:41 @ Then Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand men chosen for the battle, and came to Bethsan.

bes@1Macc:12:42 @ Now when Tryphon saw Jonathan came with so great a force, he durst not stretch his hand against him;

bes@1Macc:12:43 @ But received him honourably, and commended him unto all his friends, and gave him gifts, and commanded his men of war to be as obedient unto him, as to himself.

bes@1Macc:12:44 @ Unto Jonathan also he said, Why hast thou brought all this people to so great trouble, seeing there is no war betwixt us?

bes@1Macc:12:45 @ Therefore send them now home again, and choose a few men to wait on thee, and come thou with me to Ptolemais, for I will give it thee, and the rest of the strong holds and forces, and all that have any charge: as for me, I will return and depart: for this is the cause of my coming.

bes@1Macc:12:46 @ So Jonathan believing him did as he bade him, and sent away his host, who went into the land of Judea.

bes@1Macc:12:47 @ And with himself he retained but three thousand men, of whom he sent two thousand into Galilee, and one thousand went with him.

bes@1Macc:12:48 @ Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates and took him, and all them that came with him they slew with the sword.

bes@1Macc:12:49 @ Then sent Tryphon an host of footmen and horsemen into Galilee, and into the great plain, to destroy all Jonathan’s company.

bes@1Macc:12:50 @ But when they knew that Jonathan and they that were with him were taken and slain, they encouraged one another; and went close together, prepared to fight.

bes@1Macc:12:51 @ They therefore that followed upon them, perceiving that they were ready to fight for their lives, turned back again.

bes@1Macc:12:52 @ Whereupon they all came into the land of Judea peaceably, and there they bewailed Jonathan, and them that were with him, and they were sore afraid; wherefore all Israel made great lamentation.

bes@1Macc:12:53 @ Then all the heathen that were round about then sought to destroy them: for said they, They have no captain, nor any to help them: now therefore let us make war upon them, and take away their memorial from among men.

bes@1Macc:13:1 @ Now when Simon heard that Tryphon had gathered together a great host to invade the land of Judea, and destroy it,

bes@1Macc:13:2 @ And saw that the people was in great trembling and fear, he went up to Jerusalem, and gathered the people together,

bes@1Macc:13:3 @ And gave them exhortation, saying, Ye yourselves know what great things I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have done for the laws and the sanctuary, the battles also and troubles which we have seen.

bes@1Macc:13:4 @ By reason whereof all my brethren are slain for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone.

bes@1Macc:13:5 @ Now therefore be it far from me, that I should spare mine own life in any time of trouble: for I am no better than my brethren.

bes@1Macc:13:6 @ Doubtless I will avenge my nation, and the sanctuary, and our wives, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered to destroy us of very malice.

bes@1Macc:13:7 @ Now as soon as the people heard these words, their spirit revived.

bes@1Macc:13:8 @ And they answered with a loud voice, saying, Thou shalt be our leader instead of Judas and Jonathan thy brother.

bes@1Macc:13:9 @ Fight thou our battles, and whatsoever, thou commandest us, that will we do.

bes@1Macc:13:10 @ So then he gathered together all the men of war, and made haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.

bes@1Macc:13:11 @ Also he sent Jonathan the son of Absalom, and with him a great power, to Joppa: who casting out them that were therein remained there in it.

bes@1Macc:13:12 @ So Tryphon removed from Ptolemais with a great power to invade the land of Judea, and Jonathan was with him in ward.

bes@1Macc:13:13 @ But Simon pitched his tents at Adida, over against the plain.

bes@1Macc:13:14 @ Now when Tryphon knew that Simon was risen up instead of his brother Jonathan, and meant to join battle with him, he sent messengers unto him, saying,

bes@1Macc:13:15 @ Whereas we have Jonathan thy brother in hold, it is for money that he is owing unto the king’s treasure, concerning the business that was committed unto him.

bes@1Macc:13:16 @ Wherefore now send an hundred talents of silver, and two of his sons for hostages, that when he is at liberty he may not revolt from us, and we will let him go.

bes@1Macc:13:17 @ Hereupon Simon, albeit he perceived that they spake deceitfully unto him yet sent he the money and the children, lest peradventure he should procure to himself great hatred of the people:

bes@1Macc:13:18 @ Who might have said, Because I sent him not the money and the children, therefore is Jonathan dead.

bes@1Macc:13:19 @ So he sent them the children and the hundred talents: howbeit Tryphon dissembled neither would he let Jonathan go.

bes@1Macc:13:20 @ And after this came Tryphon to invade the land, and destroy it, going round about by the way that leadeth unto Adora: but Simon and his host marched against him in every place, wheresoever he went.

bes@1Macc:13:21 @ Now they that were in the tower sent messengers unto Tryphon, to the end that he should hasten his coming unto them by the wilderness, and send them victuals.

bes@1Macc:13:22 @ Wherefore Tryphon made ready all his horsemen to come that night: but there fell a very great snow, by reason whereof he came not. So he departed, and came into the country of Galaad.

bes@1Macc:13:23 @ And when he came near to Bascama he slew Jonathan, who was buried there.

bes@1Macc:13:24 @ Afterward Tryphon returned and went into his own land.

bes@1Macc:13:25 @ Then sent Simon, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers.

bes@1Macc:13:26 @ And all Israel made great lamentation for him, and bewailed him many days.

bes@1Macc:13:27 @ Simon also built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.

bes@1Macc:13:28 @ Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.

bes@1Macc:13:29 @ And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armour for a perpetual memory, and by the armour ships carved, that they might be seen of all that sail on the sea.

bes@1Macc:13:30 @ This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it standeth yet unto this day.

bes@1Macc:13:31 @ Now Tryphon dealt deceitfully with the young king Antiochus, and slew him.

bes@1Macc:13:32 @ And he reigned in his stead, and crowned himself king of Asia, and brought a great calamity upon the land.

bes@1Macc:13:33 @ Then Simon built up the strong holds in Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars, and laid up victuals therein.

bes@1Macc:13:34 @ Moreover Simon chose men, and sent to king Demetrius, to the end he should give the land an immunity, because all that Tryphon did was to spoil.

bes@1Macc:13:35 @ Unto whom king Demetrius answered and wrote after this manner:

bes@1Macc:13:36 @ King Demetrius unto Simon the high priest, and friend of kings, as also unto the elders and nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting:

bes@1Macc:13:37 @ The golden crown, and the scarlet robe, which ye sent unto us, we have received: and we are ready to make a stedfast peace with you, yea, and to write unto our officers, to confirm the immunities which we have granted.

bes@1Macc:13:38 @ And whatsoever covenants we have made with you shall stand; and the strong holds, which ye have builded, shall be your own.

bes@1Macc:13:39 @ As for any oversight or fault committed unto this day, we forgive it, and the crown tax also, which ye owe us: and if there were any other tribute paid in Jerusalem, it shall no more be paid.

bes@1Macc:13:40 @ And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then be enrolled, and let there be peace betwixt us.

bes@1Macc:13:41 @ Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.

bes@1Macc:13:42 @ Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.

bes@1Macc:13:43 @ In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it.

bes@1Macc:13:44 @ And they that were in the engine leaped into the city; whereupon there was a great uproar in the city:

bes@1Macc:13:45 @ Insomuch as the people of the city rent their clothes, and climbed upon the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.

bes@1Macc:13:46 @ And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickedness, but according to thy mercy.

bes@1Macc:13:47 @ So Simon was appeased toward them, and fought no more against them, but put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with songs and thanksgiving.

bes@1Macc:13:48 @ Yea, he put all uncleanness out of it, and placed such men there as would keep the law, and made it stronger than it was before, and built therein a dwellingplace for himself.

bes@1Macc:13:49 @ They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine.

bes@1Macc:13:50 @ Then cried they to Simon, beseeching him to be at one with them: which thing he granted them; and when he had put them out from thence, he cleansed the tower from pollutions:

bes@1Macc:13:51 @ And entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month in the hundred seventy and first year, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and with harps, and cymbals, and with viols, and hymns, and songs: because there was destroyed a great enemy out of Israel.

bes@1Macc:13:52 @ He ordained also that that day should be kept every year with gladness. Moreover the hill of the temple that was by the tower he made stronger than it was, and there he dwelt himself with his company.

bes@1Macc:13:53 @ And when Simon saw that John his son was a valiant man, he made him captain of all the hosts; and he dwelt in Gazera.

bes@1Macc:14:1 @ Now in the hundred threescore and twelfth year king Demetrius gathered his forces together, and went into Media to get him help to fight against Tryphon.

bes@1Macc:14:2 @ But when Arsaces, the king of Persia and Media, heard that Demetrius was entered within his borders, he sent one of his princes to take him alive:

bes@1Macc:14:3 @ Who went and smote the host of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, by whom he was put in ward.

bes@1Macc:14:4 @ As for the land of Judea, that was quiet all the days of Simon; for he sought the good of his nation in such wise, as that evermore his authority and honour pleased them well.

bes@1Macc:14:5 @ And as he was honourable in all his acts, so in this, that he took Joppa for an haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea,

bes@1Macc:14:6 @ And enlarged the bounds of his nation, and recovered the country,

bes@1Macc:14:7 @ And gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazera, and Bethsura, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleanness, neither was there any that resisted him.

bes@1Macc:14:8 @ Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.

bes@1Macc:14:9 @ The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.

bes@1Macc:14:10 @ He provided victuals for the cities, and set in them all manner of munition, so that his honourable name was renowned unto the end of the world.

bes@1Macc:14:11 @ He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:

bes@1Macc:14:12 @ For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to fray them:

bes@1Macc:14:13 @ Neither was there any left in the land to fight against them: yea, the kings themselves were overthrown in those days.

bes@1Macc:14:14 @ Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law and wicked person he took away.

bes@1Macc:14:15 @ He beautified the sanctuary, and multiplied vessels of the temple.

bes@1Macc:14:16 @ Now when it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead, they were very sorry.

bes@1Macc:14:17 @ But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein:

bes@1Macc:14:18 @ They wrote unto him in tables of brass, to renew the friendship and league which they had made with Judas and Jonathan his brethren:

bes@1Macc:14:19 @ Which writings were read before the congregation at Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:14:20 @ And this is the copy of the letters that the Lacedemonians sent; The rulers of the Lacedemonians, with the city, unto Simon the high priest, and the elders, and priests, and residue of the people of the Jews, our brethren, send greeting:

bes@1Macc:14:21 @ The ambassadors that were sent unto our people certified us of your glory and honour: wherefore we were glad of their coming,

bes@1Macc:14:22 @ And did register the things that they spake in the council of the people in this manner; Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, the Jews’ ambassadors, came unto us to renew the friendship they had with us.

bes@1Macc:14:23 @ And it pleased the people to entertain the men honourably, and to put the copy of their ambassage in publick records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might have a memorial thereof: furthermore we have written a copy thereof unto Simon the high priest.

bes@1Macc:14:24 @ After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight to confirm the league with them.

bes@1Macc:14:25 @ Whereof when the people heard, they said, What thanks shall we give to Simon and his sons?

bes@1Macc:14:26 @ For he and his brethren and the house of his father have established Israel, and chased away in fight their enemies from them, and confirmed their liberty.

bes@1Macc:14:27 @ So then they wrote it in tables of brass, which they set upon pillars in mount Sion: and this is the copy of the writing; The eighteenth day of the month Elul, in the hundred threescore and twelfth year, being the third year of Simon the high priest,

bes@1Macc:14:28 @ At Saramel in the great congregation of the priests, and people, and rulers of the nation, and elders of the country, were these things notified unto us.

bes@1Macc:14:29 @ Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, wherein for the maintenance of their sanctuary, and the law, Simon the son of Mattathias, of the posterity of Jarib, together with his brethren, put themselves in jeopardy, and resisting the enemies of their nation did their nation great honour:

bes@1Macc:14:30 @ (For after that Jonathan, having gathered his nation together, and been their high priest, was added to his people,

bes@1Macc:14:31 @ Their enemies prepared to invade their country, that they might destroy it, and lay hands on the sanctuary:

bes@1Macc:14:32 @ At which time Simon rose up, and fought for his nation, and spent much of his own substance, and armed the valiant men of his nation and gave them wages,

bes@1Macc:14:33 @ And fortified the cities of Judea, together with Bethsura, that lieth upon the borders of Judea, where the armour of the enemies had been before; but he set a garrison of Jews there:

bes@1Macc:14:34 @ Moreover he fortified Joppa, which lieth upon the sea, and Gazera, that bordereth upon Azotus, where the enemies had dwelt before: but he placed Jews there, and furnished them with all things convenient for the reparation thereof.)

bes@1Macc:14:35 @ The people therefore sang the acts of Simon, and unto what glory he thought to bring his nation, made him their governor and chief priest, because he had done all these things, and for the justice and faith which he kept to his nation, and for that he sought by all means to exalt his people.

bes@1Macc:14:36 @ For in his time things prospered in his hands, so that the heathen were taken out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a tower, out of which they issued, and polluted all about the sanctuary, and did much hurt in the holy place:

bes@1Macc:14:37 @ But he placed Jews therein. and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and raised up the walls of Jerusalem.

bes@1Macc:14:38 @ King Demetrius also confirmed him in the high priesthood according to those things,

bes@1Macc:14:39 @ And made him one of his friends, and honoured him with great honour.

bes@1Macc:14:40 @ For he had heard say, that the Romans had called the Jews their friends and confederates and brethren; and that they had entertained the ambassadors of Simon honourably;

bes@1Macc:14:41 @ Also that the Jews and priests were well pleased that Simon should be their governor and high priest for ever, until there should arise a faithful prophet;

bes@1Macc:14:42 @ Moreover that he should be their captain, and should take charge of the sanctuary, to set them over their works, and over the country, and over the armour, and over the fortresses, that, I say, he should take charge of the sanctuary;

bes@1Macc:14:43 @ Beside this, that he should be obeyed of every man, and that all the writings in the country should be made in his name, and that he should be clothed in purple, and wear gold:

bes@1Macc:14:44 @ Also that it should be lawful for none of the people or priests to break any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold;

bes@1Macc:14:45 @ And whosoever should do otherwise, or break any of these things, he should be punished.

bes@1Macc:14:46 @ Thus it liked all the people to deal with Simon, and to do as hath been said.

bes@1Macc:14:47 @ Then Simon accepted hereof, and was well pleased to be high priest, and captain and governor of the Jews and priests, and to defend them all.

bes@1Macc:14:48 @ So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;

bes@1Macc:14:49 @ Also that the copies thereof should be laid up in the treasury, to the end that Simon and his sons might have them.

bes@1Macc:15:1 @ Moreover Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent letters from the isles of the sea unto Simon the priest and prince of the Jews, and to all the people;

bes@1Macc:15:2 @ The contents whereof were these: King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and prince of his nation, and to the people of the Jews, greeting:

bes@1Macc:15:3 @ Forasmuch as certain pestilent men have usurped the kingdom of our fathers, and my purpose is to challenge it again, that I may restore it to the old estate, and to that end have gathered a multitude of foreign soldiers together, and prepared ships of war;

bes@1Macc:15:4 @ My meaning also being to go through the country, that I may be avenged of them that have destroyed it, and made many cities in the kingdom desolate:

bes@1Macc:15:5 @ Now therefore I confirm unto thee all the oblations which the kings before me granted thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they granted.

bes@1Macc:15:6 @ I give thee leave also to coin money for thy country with thine own stamp.

bes@1Macc:15:7 @ And as concerning Jerusalem and the sanctuary, let them be free; and all the armour that thou hast made, and fortresses that thou hast built, and keepest in thine hands, let them remain unto thee.

bes@1Macc:15:8 @ And if anything be, or shall be, owing to the king, let it be forgiven thee from this time forth for evermore.

bes@1Macc:15:9 @ Furthermore, when we have obtained our kingdom, we will honour thee, and thy nation, and thy temple, with great honour, so that your honour shall be known throughout the world.

bes@1Macc:15:10 @ In the hundred threescore and fourteenth year went Antiochus into the land of his fathers: at which time all the forces came together unto him, so that few were left with Tryphon.

bes@1Macc:15:11 @ Wherefore being pursued by king Antiochus, he fled unto Dora, which lieth by the sea side:

bes@1Macc:15:12 @ For he saw that troubles came upon him all at once, and that his forces had forsaken him.

bes@1Macc:15:13 @ Then camped Antiochus against Dora, having with him an hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand horsemen.

bes@1Macc:15:14 @ And when he had compassed the city round about, and joined ships close to the town on the sea side, he vexed the city by land and by sea, neither suffered he any to go out or in.

bes@1Macc:15:15 @ In the mean season came Numenius and his company from Rome, having letters to the kings and countries; wherein were written these things:

bes@1Macc:15:16 @ Lucius, consul of the Romans unto king Ptolemee, greeting:

bes@1Macc:15:17 @ The Jews’ ambassadors, our friends and confederates, came unto us to renew the old friendship and league, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews:

bes@1Macc:15:18 @ And they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.

bes@1Macc:15:19 @ We thought it good therefore to write unto the kings and countries, that they should do them no harm, nor fight against them, their cities, or countries, nor yet aid their enemies against them.

bes@1Macc:15:20 @ It seemed also good to us to receive the shield of them.

bes@1Macc:15:21 @ If therefore there be any pestilent fellows, that have fled from their country unto you, deliver them unto Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their own law.

bes@1Macc:15:22 @ The same things wrote he likewise unto Demetrius the king, and Attalus, to Ariarathes, and Arsaces,

bes@1Macc:15:23 @ And to all the countries and to Sampsames, and the Lacedemonians, and to Delus, and Myndus, and Sicyon, and Caria, and Samos, and Pamphylia, and Lycia, and Halicarnassus, and Rhodus, and Aradus, and Cos, and Side, and Aradus, and Gortyna, and Cnidus, and Cyprus, and Cyrene.

bes@1Macc:15:24 @ And the copy hereof they wrote to Simon the high priest.

bes@1Macc:15:25 @ So Antiochus the king camped against Dora the second day, assaulting it continually, and making engines, by which means he shut up Tryphon, that he could neither go out nor in.

bes@1Macc:15:26 @ At that time Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to aid him; silver also, and gold, and much armour.

bes@1Macc:15:27 @ Nevertheless he would not receive them, but brake all the covenants which he had made with him afore, and became strange unto him.

bes@1Macc:15:28 @ Furthermore he sent unto him Athenobius, one of his friends, to commune with him, and say, Ye withhold Joppa and Gazera; with the tower that is in Jerusalem, which are cities of my realm.

bes@1Macc:15:29 @ The borders thereof ye have wasted, and done great hurt in the land, and got the dominion of many places within my kingdom.

bes@1Macc:15:30 @ Now therefore deliver the cities which ye have taken, and the tributes of the places, whereof ye have gotten dominion without the borders of Judea:

bes@1Macc:15:31 @ Or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that ye have done, and the tributes of the cities, other five hundred talents: if not, we will come and fight against you

bes@1Macc:15:32 @ So Athenobius the king’s friend came to Jerusalem: and when he saw the glory of Simon, and the cupboard of gold and silver plate, and his great attendance, he was astonished, and told him the king’s message.

bes@1Macc:15:33 @ Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither taken other men’s land, nor holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had wrongfully in possession a certain time.

bes@1Macc:15:34 @ Wherefore we, having opportunity, hold the inheritance of our fathers.

bes@1Macc:15:35 @ And whereas thou demandest Joppa and Gazera, albeit they did great harm unto the people in our country, yet will we give thee an hundred talents for them. Hereunto Athenobius answered him not a word;

bes@1Macc:15:36 @ But returned in a rage to the king, and made report unto him of these speeches, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen: whereupon the king was exceeding wroth.

bes@1Macc:15:37 @ In the mean time fled Tryphon by ship unto Orthosias.

bes@1Macc:15:38 @ Then the king made Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and gave him an host of footmen and horsemen,

bes@1Macc:15:39 @ And commanded him to remove his host toward Judea; also he commanded him to build up Cedron, and to fortify the gates, and to war against the people; but as for the king himself, he pursued Tryphon.

bes@1Macc:15:40 @ So Cendebeus came to Jamnia and began to provoke the people and to invade Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and slay them.

bes@1Macc:15:41 @ And when he had built up Cedron, he set horsemen there, and an host of footmen, to the end that issuing out they might make outroads upon the ways of Judea, as the king had commanded him.

bes@1Macc:16:1 @ Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.

bes@1Macc:16:2 @ Wherefore Simon called his two eldest sons, Judas and John, and said unto them, I, and my brethren, and my father’s house, have ever from my youth unto this day fought against the enemies of Israel; and things have prospered so well in our hands, that we have delivered Israel oftentimes.

bes@1Macc:16:3 @ But now I am old, and ye, by God’s mercy, are of a sufficient age: be ye instead of me and my brother, and go and fight for our nation, and the help from heaven be with you.

bes@1Macc:16:4 @ So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at Modin.

bes@1Macc:16:5 @ And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.

bes@1Macc:16:6 @ So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed through after him.

bes@1Macc:16:7 @ That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: for the enemies’ horsemen were very many.

bes@1Macc:16:8 @ Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant gat them to the strong hold.

bes@1Macc:16:9 @ At that time was Judas John’s brother wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.

bes@1Macc:16:10 @ So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.

bes@1Macc:16:11 @ Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold:

bes@1Macc:16:12 @ For he was the high priest’s son in law.

bes@1Macc:16:13 @ Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.

bes@1Macc:16:14 @ Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat:

bes@1Macc:16:15 @ Where the son of Abubus receiving them deceitfully into a little hold, called Docus, which he had built, made them a great banquet: howbeit he had hid men there.

bes@1Macc:16:16 @ So when Simon and his sons had drunk largely, Ptolemee and his men rose up, and took their weapons, and came upon Simon into the banqueting place, and slew him, and his two sons, and certain of his servants.

bes@1Macc:16:17 @ In which doing he committed a great treachery, and recompensed evil for good.

bes@1Macc:16:18 @ Then Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king, that he should send him an host to aid him, and he would deliver him the country and cities.

bes@1Macc:16:19 @ He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.

bes@1Macc:16:20 @ And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.

bes@1Macc:16:21 @ Now one had run afore to Gazera and told John that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also.

bes@1Macc:16:22 @ Hereof when he heard, he was sore astonished: so he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him, and slew them; for he knew that they sought to make him away.

bes@1Macc:16:23 @ As concerning the rest of the acts of John, and his wars, and worthy deeds which he did, and the building of the walls which he made, and his doings,

bes@1Macc:16:24 @ Behold, these are written in the chronicles of his priesthood, from the time he was made high priest after his father.

bes@2Macc:1:1 @ The brethren, the Jews that be at Jerusalem and in the land of Judea, wish unto the brethren, the Jews that are throughout Egypt health and peace:

bes@2Macc:1:2 @ God be gracious unto you, and remember his covenant that he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants;

bes@2Macc:1:3 @ And give you all an heart to serve him, and to do his will, with a good courage and a willing mind;

bes@2Macc:1:4 @ And open your hearts in his law and commandments, and send you peace,

bes@2Macc:1:5 @ And hear your prayers, and be at one with you, and never forsake you in time of trouble.

bes@2Macc:1:6 @ And now we be here praying for you.

bes@2Macc:1:7 @ What time as Demetrius reigned, in the hundred threescore and ninth year, we the Jews wrote unto you in the extremity of trouble that came upon us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom,

bes@2Macc:1:8 @ And burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.

bes@2Macc:1:9 @ And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month Casleu.

bes@2Macc:1:10 @ In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus’ master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:

bes@2Macc:1:11 @ Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king.

bes@2Macc:1:12 @ For he cast them out that fought within the holy city.

bes@2Macc:1:13 @ For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Nanea’s priests.

bes@2Macc:1:14 @ For Antiochus, as though he would marry her, came into the place, and his friends that were with him, to receive money in name of a dowry.

bes@2Macc:1:15 @ Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:

bes@2Macc:1:16 @ And opening a privy door of the roof, they threw stones like thunderbolts, and struck down the captain, hewed them in pieces, smote off their heads and cast them to those that were without.

bes@2Macc:1:17 @ Blessed be our God in all things, who hath delivered up the ungodly.

bes@2Macc:1:18 @ Therefore whereas we are now purposed to keep the purification of the temple upon the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, we thought it necessary to certify you thereof, that ye also might keep it, as the feast of the tabernacles, and of the fire, which was given us when Neemias offered sacrifice, after that he had builded the temple and the altar.

bes@2Macc:1:19 @ For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

bes@2Macc:1:20 @ Now after many years, when it pleased God, Neemias, being sent from the king of Persia, did send of the posterity of those priests that had hid it to the fire: but when they told us they found no fire, but thick water;

bes@2Macc:1:21 @ Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to sprinkle the wood and the things laid thereupon with the water.

bes@2Macc:1:22 @ When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marvelled.

bes@2Macc:1:23 @ And the priests made a prayer whilst the sacrifice was consuming, I say, both the priests, and all the rest, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering thereunto, as Neemias did.

bes@2Macc:1:24 @ And the prayer was after this manner; O Lord, Lord God, Creator of all things, who art fearful and strong, and righteous, and merciful, and the only and gracious King,

bes@2Macc:1:25 @ The only giver of all things, the only just, almighty, and everlasting, thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, and didst choose the fathers, and sanctify them:

bes@2Macc:1:26 @ Receive the sacrifice for thy whole people Israel, and preserve thine own portion, and sanctify it.

bes@2Macc:1:27 @ Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver them that serve among the heathen, look upon them that are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that thou art our God.

bes@2Macc:1:28 @ Punish them that oppress us, and with pride do us wrong.

bes@2Macc:1:29 @ Plant thy people again in thy holy place, as Moses hath spoken.

bes@2Macc:1:30 @ And the priests sung psalms of thanksgiving.

bes@2Macc:1:31 @ Now when the sacrifice was consumed, Neemias commanded the water that was left to be poured on the great stones.

bes@2Macc:1:32 @ When this was done, there was kindled a flame: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.

bes@2Macc:1:33 @ So when this matter was known, it was told the king of Persia, that in the place, where the priests that were led away had hid the fire, there appeared water, and that Neemias had purified the sacrifices therewith.

bes@2Macc:1:34 @ Then the king, inclosing the place, made it holy, after he had tried the matter.

bes@2Macc:1:35 @ And the king took many gifts, and bestowed thereof on those whom he would gratify.

bes@2Macc:1:36 @ And Neemias called this thing Naphthar, which is as much as to say, a cleansing: but many men call it Nephi.

bes@2Macc:2:1 @ It is also found in the records, that Jeremy the prophet commanded them that were carried away to take of the fire, as it hath been signified:

bes@2Macc:2:2 @ And how that the prophet, having given them the law, charged them not to forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds, when they see images of silver and gold, with their ornaments.

bes@2Macc:2:3 @ And with other such speeches exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their hearts.

bes@2Macc:2:4 @ It was also contained in the same writing, that the prophet, being warned of God, commanded the tabernacle and the ark to go with him, as he went forth into the mountain, where Moses climbed up, and saw the heritage of God.

bes@2Macc:2:5 @ And when Jeremy came thither, he found an hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.

bes@2Macc:2:6 @ And some of those that followed him came to mark the way, but they could not find it.

bes@2Macc:2:7 @ Which when Jeremy perceived, he blamed them, saying, As for that place, it shall be unknown until the time that God gather his people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

bes@2Macc:2:8 @ Then shall the Lord shew them these things, and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was shewed under Moses, and as when Solomon desired that the place might be honourably sanctified.

bes@2Macc:2:9 @ It was also declared, that he being wise offered the sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple.

bes@2Macc:2:10 @ And as when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the sacrifices: even so prayed Solomon also, and the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offerings.

bes@2Macc:2:11 @ And Moses said, Because the sin offering was not to be eaten, it was consumed.

bes@2Macc:2:12 @ So Solomon kept those eight days.

bes@2Macc:2:13 @ The same things also were reported in the writings and commentaries of Neemias; and how he founding a library gathered together the acts of the kings, and the prophets, and of David, and the epistles of the kings concerning the holy gifts.

bes@2Macc:2:14 @ In like manner also Judas gathered together all those things that were lost by reason of the war we had, and they remain with us,

bes@2Macc:2:15 @ Wherefore if ye have need thereof, send some to fetch them unto you.

bes@2Macc:2:16 @ Whereas we then are about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you, and ye shall do well, if ye keep the same days.

bes@2Macc:2:17 @ We hope also, that the God, that delivered all his people, and gave them all an heritage, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,

bes@2Macc:2:18 @ As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of every land under heaven into the holy place: for he hath delivered us out of great troubles, and hath purified the place.

bes@2Macc:2:19 @ Now as concerning Judas Maccabeus, and his brethren, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar,

bes@2Macc:2:20 @ And the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes, and Eupator his son,

bes@2Macc:2:21 @ And the manifest signs that came from heaven unto those that behaved themselves manfully to their honour for Judaism: so that, being but a few, they overcame the whole country, and chased barbarous multitudes,

bes@2Macc:2:22 @ And recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, and freed the city, and upheld the laws which were going down, the Lord being gracious unto them with all favour:

bes@2Macc:2:23 @ All these things, I say, being declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will assay to abridge in one volume.

bes@2Macc:2:24 @ For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the variety of the matter,

bes@2Macc:2:25 @ We have been careful, that they that will read may have delight, and that they that are desirous to commit to memory might have ease, and that all into whose hands it comes might have profit.

bes@2Macc:2:26 @ Therefore to us, that have taken upon us this painful labour of abridging, it was not easy, but a matter of sweat and watching;

bes@2Macc:2:27 @ Even as it is no ease unto him that prepareth a banquet, and seeketh the benefit of others: yet for the pleasuring of many we will undertake gladly this great pains;

bes@2Macc:2:28 @ Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular, and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement.

bes@2Macc:2:29 @ For as the master builder of a new house must care for the whole building; but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it is with us.

bes@2Macc:2:30 @ To stand upon every point, and go over things at large, and to be curious in particulars, belongeth to the first author of the story:

bes@2Macc:2:31 @ But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.

bes@2Macc:2:32 @ Here then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.

bes@2Macc:3:1 @ Now when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws were kept very well, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and his hatred of wickedness,

bes@2Macc:3:2 @ It came to pass that even the kings themselves did honour the place, and magnify the temple with their best gifts;

bes@2Macc:3:3 @ Insomuch that Seleucus of Asia of his own revenues bare all the costs belonging to the service of the sacrifices.

bes@2Macc:3:4 @ But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, who was made governor of the temple, fell out with the high priest about disorder in the city.

bes@2Macc:3:5 @ And when he could not overcome Onias, he gat him to Apollonius the son of Thraseas, who then was governor of Celosyria and Phenice,

bes@2Macc:3:6 @ And told him that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of infinite sums of money, so that the multitude of their riches, which did not pertain to the account of the sacrifices, was innumerable, and that it was possible to bring all into the king’s hand.

bes@2Macc:3:7 @ Now when Apollonius came to the king, and had shewed him of the money whereof he was told, the king chose out Heliodorus his treasurer, and sent him with a commandment to bring him the foresaid money.

bes@2Macc:3:8 @ So forthwith Heliodorus took his journey; under a colour of visiting the cities of Celosyria and Phenice, but indeed to fulfil the king’s purpose.

bes@2Macc:3:9 @ And when he was come to Jerusalem, and had been courteously received of the high priest of the city, he told him what intelligence was given of the money, and declared wherefore he came, and asked if these things were so indeed.

bes@2Macc:3:10 @ Then the high priest told him that there was such money laid up for the relief of widows and fatherless children:

bes@2Macc:3:11 @ And that some of it belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity, and not as that wicked Simon had misinformed: the sum whereof in all was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:

bes@2Macc:3:12 @ And that it was altogether impossible that such wrongs should be done unto them, that had committed it to the holiness of the place, and to the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honoured over all the world.

bes@2Macc:3:13 @ But Heliodorus, because of the king’s commandment given him, said, That in any wise it must be brought into the king’s treasury.

bes@2Macc:3:14 @ So at the day which he appointed he entered in to order this matter: wherefore there was no small agony throughout the whole city.

bes@2Macc:3:15 @ But the priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priests’ vestments, called unto heaven upon him that made a law concerning things given to he kept, that they should safely be preserved for such as had committed them to be kept.

bes@2Macc:3:16 @ Then whoso had looked the high priest in the face, it would have wounded his heart: for his countenance and the changing of his colour declared the inward agony of his mind.

bes@2Macc:3:17 @ For the man was so compassed with fear and horror of the body, that it was manifest to them that looked upon him, what sorrow he had now in his heart.

bes@2Macc:3:18 @ Others ran flocking out of their houses to the general supplication, because the place was like to come into contempt.

bes@2Macc:3:19 @ And the women, girt with sackcloth under their breasts, abounded in the streets, and the virgins that were kept in ran, some to the gates, and some to the walls, and others looked out of the windows.

bes@2Macc:3:20 @ And all, holding their hands toward heaven, made supplication.

bes@2Macc:3:21 @ Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest being in such an agony.

bes@2Macc:3:22 @ They then called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things committed of trust safe and sure for those that had committed them.

bes@2Macc:3:23 @ Nevertheless Heliodorus executed that which was decreed.

bes@2Macc:3:24 @ Now as he was there present himself with his guard about the treasury, the Lord of spirits, and the Prince of all power, caused a great apparition, so that all that presumed to come in with him were astonished at the power of God, and fainted, and were sore afraid.

bes@2Macc:3:25 @ For there appeared unto them an horse with a terrible rider upon him, and adorned with a very fair covering, and he ran fiercely, and smote at Heliodorus with his forefeet, and it seemed that he that sat upon the horse had complete harness of gold.

bes@2Macc:3:26 @ Moreover two other young men appeared before him, notable in strength, excellent in beauty, and comely in apparel, who stood by him on either side; and scourged him continually, and gave him many sore stripes.

bes@2Macc:3:27 @ And Heliodorus fell suddenly unto the ground, and was compassed with great darkness: but they that were with him took him up, and put him into a litter.

bes@2Macc:3:28 @ Thus him, that lately came with a great train and with all his guard into the said treasury, they carried out, being unable to help himself with his weapons: and manifestly they acknowledged the power of God.

bes@2Macc:3:29 @ For he by the hand of God was cast down, and lay speechless without all hope of life.

bes@2Macc:3:30 @ But they praised the Lord, that had miraculously honoured his own place: for the temple; which a little afore was full of fear and trouble, when the Almighty Lord appeared, was filled with joy and gladness.

bes@2Macc:3:31 @ Then straightways certain of Heliodorus’ friends prayed Onias, that he would call upon the most High to grant him his life, who lay ready to give up the ghost.

bes@2Macc:3:32 @ So the high priest, suspecting lest the king should misconceive that some treachery had been done to Heliodorus by the Jews, offered a sacrifice for the health of the man.

bes@2Macc:3:33 @ Now as the high priest was making an atonement, the same young men in the same clothing appeared and stood beside Heliodorus, saying, Give Onias the high priest great thanks, insomuch as for his sake the Lord hath granted thee life:

bes@2Macc:3:34 @ And seeing that thou hast been scourged from heaven, declare unto all men the mighty power of God. And when they had spoken these words, they appeared no more.

bes@2Macc:3:35 @ So Heliodorus, after he had offered sacrifice unto the Lord, and made great vows unto him that had saved his life, and saluted Onias, returned with his host to the king.

bes@2Macc:3:36 @ Then testified he to all men the works of the great God, which he had seen with his eyes.

bes@2Macc:3:37 @ And when the king Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

bes@2Macc:3:38 @ If thou hast any enemy or traitor, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him well scourged, if he escape with his life: for in that place, no doubt; there is an especial power of God.

bes@2Macc:3:39 @ For he that dwelleth in heaven hath his eye on that place, and defendeth it; and he beateth and destroyeth them that come to hurt it.

bes@2Macc:3:40 @ And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out on this sort.

bes@2Macc:4:1 @ This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he ha terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.

bes@2Macc:4:2 @ Thus was he bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved well of the city, and tendered his own nation, and was so zealous of the laws.

bes@2Macc:4:3 @ But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon’s faction murders were committed,

bes@2Macc:4:4 @ Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,

bes@2Macc:4:5 @ He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private:

bes@2Macc:4:6 @ For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.

bes@2Macc:4:7 @ But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,

bes@2Macc:4:8 @ Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents:

bes@2Macc:4:9 @ Beside this, he promised to assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians.

bes@2Macc:4:10 @ Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule he forthwith brought his own nation to Greekish fashion.

bes@2Macc:4:11 @ And the royal privileges granted of special favour to the Jews by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome for amity and aid, he took away; and putting down the governments which were according to the law, he brought up new customs against the law:

bes@2Macc:4:12 @ For he built gladly a place of exercise under the tower itself, and brought the chief young men under his subjection, and made them wear a hat.

bes@2Macc:4:13 @ Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high priest;

bes@2Macc:4:14 @ That the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar, but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of Discus called them forth;

bes@2Macc:4:15 @ Not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.

bes@2Macc:4:16 @ By reason whereof sore calamity came upon them: for they had them to be their enemies and avengers, whose custom they followed so earnestly, and unto whom they desired to be like in all things.

bes@2Macc:4:17 @ For it is not a light thing to do wickedly against the laws of God: but the time following shall declare these things.

bes@2Macc:4:18 @ Now when the game that was used every faith year was kept at Tyrus, the king being present,

bes@2Macc:4:19 @ This ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachms of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought fit not to bestow upon the sacrifice, because it was not convenient, but to be reserved for other charges.

bes@2Macc:4:20 @ This money then, in regard of the sender, was appointed to Hercules’ sacrifice; but because of the bearers thereof, it was employed to the making of gallies.

bes@2Macc:4:21 @ Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of king Ptolemeus Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:

bes@2Macc:4:22 @ Where he was honourably received of Jason, and of the city, and was brought in with torch alight, and with great shoutings: and so afterward went with his host unto Phenice.

bes@2Macc:4:23 @ Three years afterward Jason sent Menelaus, the aforesaid Simon’s brother, to bear the money unto the king, and to put him in mind of certain necessary matters.

bes@2Macc:4:24 @ But he being brought to the presence of the king, when he had magnified him for the glorious appearance of his power, got the priesthood to himself, offering more than Jason by three hundred talents of silver.

bes@2Macc:4:25 @ So he came with the king’s mandate, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the fury of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

bes@2Macc:4:26 @ Then Jason, who had undermined his own brother, being undermined by another, was compelled to flee into the country of the Ammonites.

bes@2Macc:4:27 @ So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money that he had promised unto the king, he took no good order for it, albeit Sostratis the ruler of the castle required it:

bes@2Macc:4:28 @ For unto him appertained the gathering of the customs. Wherefore they were both called before the king.

bes@2Macc:4:29 @ Now Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus in his stead in the priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was governor of the Cyprians.

bes@2Macc:4:30 @ While those things were in doing, they of Tarsus and Mallos made insurrection, because they were given to the king’s concubine, called Antiochus.

bes@2Macc:4:31 @ Then came the king in all haste to appease matters, leaving Andronicus, a man in authority, for his deputy.

bes@2Macc:4:32 @ Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyrus and the cities round about.

bes@2Macc:4:33 @ Which when Onias knew of a surety, he reproved him, and withdrew himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lieth by Antiochia.

bes@2Macc:4:34 @ Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.

bes@2Macc:4:35 @ For the which cause not only the Jews, but many also of other nations, took great indignation, and were much grieved for the unjust murder of the man.

bes@2Macc:4:36 @ And when the king was come again from the places about Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city, and certain of the Greeks that abhorred the fact also, complained because Onias was slain without cause.

bes@2Macc:4:37 @ Therefore Antiochus was heartily sorry, and moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and modest behaviour of him that was dead.

bes@2Macc:4:38 @ And being kindled with anger, forthwith he took away Andronicus his purple, and rent off his clothes, and leading him through the whole city unto that very place, where he had committed impiety against Onias, there slew he the cursed murderer. Thus the Lord rewarded him his punishment, as he had deserved.

bes@2Macc:4:39 @ Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and the fruit thereof was spread abroad, the multitude gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, many vessels of gold being already carried away.

bes@2Macc:4:40 @ Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.

bes@2Macc:4:41 @ They then seeing the attempt of Lysimachus, some of them caught stones, some clubs, others taking handfuls of dust, that was next at hand, cast them all together upon Lysimachus, and those that set upon them.

bes@2Macc:4:42 @ Thus many of them they wounded, and some they struck to the ground, and all of them they forced to flee: but as for the churchrobber himself, him they killed beside the treasury.

bes@2Macc:4:43 @ Of these matters therefore there was an accusation laid against Menelaus.

bes@2Macc:4:44 @ Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

bes@2Macc:4:45 @ But Menelaus, being now convicted, promised Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes to give him much money, if he would pacify the king toward him.

bes@2Macc:4:46 @ Whereupon Ptolemee taking the king aside into a certain gallery, as it were to take the air, brought him to be of another mind:

bes@2Macc:4:47 @ Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.

bes@2Macc:4:48 @ Thus they that followed the matter for the city, and for the people, and for the holy vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.

bes@2Macc:4:49 @ Wherefore even they of Tyrus, moved with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to be honourably buried.

bes@2Macc:4:50 @ And so through the covetousness of them that were of power Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitor to the citizens.

bes@2Macc:5:1 @ About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt:

bes@2Macc:5:2 @ And then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers,

bes@2Macc:5:3 @ And troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.

bes@2Macc:5:4 @ Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good.

bes@2Macc:5:5 @ Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason took at the least a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city; and they that were upon the walls being put back, and the city at length taken, Menelaus fled into the castle:

bes@2Macc:5:6 @ But Jason slew his own citizens without mercy, not considering that to get the day of them of his own nation would be a most unhappy day for him; but thinking they had been his enemies, and not his countrymen, whom he conquered.

bes@2Macc:5:7 @ Howbeit for all this he obtained not the principality, but at the last received shame for the reward of his treason, and fled again into the country of the Ammonites.

bes@2Macc:5:8 @ In the end therefore he had an unhappy return, being accused before Aretas the king of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as a forsaker of the laws, and being had in abomination as an open enemy of his country and countrymen, he was cast out into Egypt.

bes@2Macc:5:9 @ Thus he that had driven many out of their country perished in a strange land, retiring to the Lacedemonians, and thinking there to find succour by reason of his kindred:

bes@2Macc:5:10 @ And he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulchre with his fathers.

bes@2Macc:5:11 @ Now when this that was done came to the king’s ear, he thought that Judea had revolted: whereupon removing out of Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

bes@2Macc:5:12 @ And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met, and to slay such as went up upon the houses.

bes@2Macc:5:13 @ Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.

bes@2Macc:5:14 @ And there were destroyed within the space of three whole days fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in the conflict; and no fewer sold than slain.

bes@2Macc:5:15 @ Yet was he not content with this, but presumed to go into the most holy temple of all the world; Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his own country, being his guide:

bes@2Macc:5:16 @ And taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place, he gave them away.

bes@2Macc:5:17 @ And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of them that dwelt in the city, and therefore his eye was not upon the place.

bes@2Macc:5:18 @ For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.

bes@2Macc:5:19 @ Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place’s sake, but the place for the people’s sake.

bes@2Macc:5:20 @ And therefore the place itself, that was partaker with them of the adversity that happened to the nation, did afterward communicate in the benefits sent from the Lord: and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up with all glory.

bes@2Macc:5:21 @ So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed in all haste unto Antiochia, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.

bes@2Macc:5:22 @ And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there;

bes@2Macc:5:23 @ And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.

bes@2Macc:5:24 @ He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that were in their best age, and to sell the women and the younger sort:

bes@2Macc:5:25 @ Who coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did forbear till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.

bes@2Macc:5:26 @ And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of the sabbath, and running through the city with weapons slew great multitudes.

bes@2Macc:5:27 @ But Judas Maccabeus with nine others, or thereabout, withdrew himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.

bes@2Macc:6:1 @ Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God:

bes@2Macc:6:2 @ And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of Jupiter the Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place.

bes@2Macc:6:3 @ The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people:

bes@2Macc:6:4 @ For the temple was filled with riot and revelling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that were not lawful.

bes@2Macc:6:5 @ The altar also was filled with profane things, which the law forbiddeth.

bes@2Macc:6:6 @ Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.

bes@2Macc:6:7 @ And in the day of the king’s birth every month they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the fast of Bacchus was kept, the Jews were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus, carrying ivy.

bes@2Macc:6:8 @ Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews, that they should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices:

bes@2Macc:6:9 @ And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery.

bes@2Macc:6:10 @ For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes handing at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.

bes@2Macc:6:11 @ And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day.

bes@2Macc:6:12 @ Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.

bes@2Macc:6:13 @ For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.

bes@2Macc:6:14 @ For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,

bes@2Macc:6:15 @ Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should take vengeance of us.

bes@2Macc:6:16 @ And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.

bes@2Macc:6:17 @ But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.

bes@2Macc:6:18 @ Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine’s flesh.

bes@2Macc:6:19 @ But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own accord to the torment,

bes@2Macc:6:20 @ As it behoved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things, as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.

bes@2Macc:6:21 @ But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside, besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king;

bes@2Macc:6:22 @ That in so doing he might be delivered from death, and for the old friendship with them find favour.

bes@2Macc:6:23 @ But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age, and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his gray head, whereon was come, and his most honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them straightways to send him to the grave.

bes@2Macc:6:24 @ For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange religion;

bes@2Macc:6:25 @ And so they through mine hypocrisy, and desire to live a little time and a moment longer, should be deceived by me, and I get a stain to mine old age, and make it abominable.

bes@2Macc:6:26 @ For though for the present time I should be delivered from the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.

bes@2Macc:6:27 @ Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will shew myself such an one as mine age requireth,

bes@2Macc:6:28 @ And leave a notable example to such as be young to die willingly and courageously for the honourable and holy laws. And when he had said these words, immediately he went to the torment:

bes@2Macc:6:29 @ They that led him changing the good will they bare him a little before into hatred, because the foresaid speeches proceeded, as they thought, from a desperate mind.

bes@2Macc:6:30 @ But when he was ready to die with stripes, he groaned, and said, It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, that whereas I might have been delivered from death, I now endure sore pains in body by being beaten: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear him.

bes@2Macc:6:31 @ And thus this man died, leaving his death for an example of a noble courage, and a memorial of virtue, not only unto young men, but unto all his nation.

bes@2Macc:7:1 @ It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste swine’s flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips.

bes@2Macc:7:2 @ But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.

bes@2Macc:7:3 @ Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot:

bes@2Macc:7:4 @ Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.

bes@2Macc:7:5 @ Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, he commanded him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the pan: and as the vapour of the pan was for a good space dispersed, they exhorted one another with the mother to die manfully, saying thus,

bes@2Macc:7:6 @ The Lord God looketh upon us, and in truth hath comfort in us, as Moses in his song, which witnessed to their faces, declared, saying, And he shall be comforted in his servants.

bes@2Macc:7:7 @ So when the first was dead after this number, they brought the second to make him a mocking stock: and when they had pulled off the skin of his head with the hair, they asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thou be punished throughout every member of thy body?

bes@2Macc:7:8 @ But he answered in his own language, and said, No. Wherefore he also received the next torment in order, as the former did.

bes@2Macc:7:9 @ And when he was at the last gasp, he said, Thou like a fury takest us out of this present life, but the King of the world shall raise us up, who have died for his laws, unto everlasting life.

bes@2Macc:7:10 @ After him was the third made a mocking stock: and when he was required, he put out his tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his hands manfully.

bes@2Macc:7:11 @ And said courageously, These I had from heaven; and for his laws I despise them; and from him I hope to receive them again.

bes@2Macc:7:12 @ Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at the young man’s courage, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

bes@2Macc:7:13 @ Now when this man was dead also, they tormented and mangled the fourth in like manner.

bes@2Macc:7:14 @ So when he was ready to die he said thus, It is good, being put to death by men, to look for hope from God to be raised up again by him: as for thee, thou shalt have no resurrection to life.

bes@2Macc:7:15 @ Afterward they brought the fifth also, and mangled him.

bes@2Macc:7:16 @ Then looked he unto the king, and said, Thou hast power over men, thou art corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our nation is forsaken of God;

bes@2Macc:7:17 @ But abide a while, and behold his great power, how he will torment thee and thy seed.

bes@2Macc:7:18 @ After him also they brought the sixth, who being ready to die said, Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God: therefore marvellous things are done unto us.

bes@2Macc:7:19 @ But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shalt escape unpunished.

bes@2Macc:7:20 @ But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because of the hope that she had in the Lord.

bes@2Macc:7:21 @ Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language, filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,

bes@2Macc:7:22 @ I cannot tell how ye came into my womb: for I neither gave you breath nor life, neither was it I that formed the members of every one of you;

bes@2Macc:7:23 @ But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things, will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye now regard not your own selves for his laws’ sake.

bes@2Macc:7:24 @ Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.

bes@2Macc:7:25 @ But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the young man to save his life.

bes@2Macc:7:26 @ And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised him that she would counsel her son.

bes@2Macc:7:27 @ But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language on this manner; O my son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee such three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.

bes@2Macc:7:28 @ I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of things that were not; and so was mankind made likewise.

bes@2Macc:7:29 @ Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren, take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy brethren.

bes@2Macc:7:30 @ Whiles she was yet speaking these words, the young man said, Whom wait ye for? I will not obey the king’s commandment: but I will obey the commandment of the law that was given unto our fathers by Moses.

bes@2Macc:7:31 @ And thou, that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God.

bes@2Macc:7:32 @ For we suffer because of our sins.

bes@2Macc:7:33 @ And though the living Lord be angry with us a little while for our chastening and correction, yet shall he be at one again with his servants.

bes@2Macc:7:34 @ But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up thy hand against the servants of God:

bes@2Macc:7:35 @ For thou hast not yet escaped the judgement of Almighty God, who seeth all things.

bes@2Macc:7:36 @ For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are dead under God’s covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the judgement of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.

bes@2Macc:7:37 @ But I, as my brethren, offer up my body and life for the laws of our fathers, beseeching God that he would speedily be merciful unto our nation; and that thou by torments and plagues mayest confess, that he alone is God;

bes@2Macc:7:38 @ And that in me and my brethren the wrath of the Almighty, which is justly brought upon our nation, may cease.

bes@2Macc:7:39 @ Than the king’ being in a rage, handed him worse than all the rest, and took it grievously that he was mocked.

bes@2Macc:7:40 @ So this man died undefiled, and put his whole trust in the Lord.

bes@2Macc:7:41 @ Last of all after the sons the mother died.

bes@2Macc:7:42 @ Let this be enough now to have spoken concerning the idolatrous feasts, and the extreme tortures.

bes@2Macc:8:1 @ Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and assembled about six thousand men.

bes@2Macc:8:2 @ And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the temple profaned of ungodly men;

bes@2Macc:8:3 @ And that he would have compassion upon the city, sore defaced, and ready to be made even with the ground; and hear the blood that cried unto him,

bes@2Macc:8:4 @ And remember the wicked slaughter of harmless infants, and the blasphemies committed against his name; and that he would shew his hatred against the wicked.

bes@2Macc:8:5 @ Now when Maccabeus had his company about him, he could not be withstood by the heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.

bes@2Macc:8:6 @ Therefore he came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.

bes@2Macc:8:7 @ But specially took he advantage of the night for such privy attempts, insomuch that the fruit of his holiness was spread every where.

bes@2Macc:8:8 @ So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemeus, the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, to yield more aid to the king’s affairs.

bes@2Macc:8:9 @ Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.

bes@2Macc:8:10 @ So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Jews, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romans.

bes@2Macc:8:11 @ Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.

bes@2Macc:8:12 @ Now when word was brought unto Judas of Nicanor’s coming, and he had imparted unto those that were with him that the army was at hand,

bes@2Macc:8:13 @ They that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of God, fled, and conveyed themselves away.

bes@2Macc:8:14 @ Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord to deliver them, sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met together:

bes@2Macc:8:15 @ And if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious name’s sake, by which they were called.

bes@2Macc:8:16 @ So Maccabeus called his men together unto the number of six thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terror of the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen, who came wrongly against them; but to fight manfully,

bes@2Macc:8:17 @ And to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city, whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:

bes@2Macc:8:18 @ For they, said he, trust in their weapons and boldness; but our confidence is in the Almighty who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world.

bes@2Macc:8:19 @ Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.

bes@2Macc:8:20 @ And he told them of the battle that they had in Babylon with the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed an hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty.

bes@2Macc:8:21 @ Thus when he had made them bold with these words, and ready to die for the law and the country, he divided his army into four parts;

bes@2Macc:8:22 @ And joined with himself his own brethren, leaders of each band, to wit Simon, and Joseph, and Jonathan, giving each one fifteen hundred men.

bes@2Macc:8:23 @ Also he appointed Eleazar to read the holy book: and when he had given them this watchword, The help of God; himself leading the first band,

bes@2Macc:8:24 @ And by the help of the Almighty they slew above nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanor’s host, and so put all to flight;

bes@2Macc:8:25 @ And took their money that came to buy them, and pursued them far: but lacking time they returned:

bes@2Macc:8:26 @ For it was the day before the sabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.

bes@2Macc:8:27 @ So when they had gathered their armour together, and spoiled their enemies, they occupied themselves about the sabbath, yielding exceeding praise and thanks to the Lord, who had preserved them unto that day, which was the beginning of mercy distilling upon them.

bes@2Macc:8:28 @ And after the sabbath, when they had given part of the spoils to the maimed, and the widows, and orphans, the residue they divided among themselves and their servants.

bes@2Macc:8:29 @ When this was done, and they had made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled with his servants for ever.

bes@2Macc:8:30 @ Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strong holds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.

bes@2Macc:8:31 @ And when they had gathered their armour together, they laid them up all carefully in convenient places, and the remnant of the spoils they brought to Jerusalem.

bes@2Macc:8:32 @ They slew also Philarches, that wicked person, who was with Timotheus, and had annoyed the Jews many ways.

bes@2Macc:8:33 @ Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the victory in their country they burnt Callisthenes, that had set fire upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and so he received a reward meet for his wickedness.

bes@2Macc:8:34 @ As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Jews,

bes@2Macc:8:35 @ He was through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch having very great dishonour, for that his host was destroyed.

bes@2Macc:8:36 @ Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romans their tribute by means of captives in Jerusalem, told abroad, that the Jews had God to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the laws that he gave them.

bes@2Macc:9:1 @ About that time came Antiochus with dishonour out of the country of Persia

bes@2Macc:9:2 @ For he had entered the city called Persepolis, and went about to rob the temple, and to hold the city; whereupon the multitude running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight; and so it happened, that Antiochus being put to flight of the inhabitants returned with shame.

bes@2Macc:9:3 @ Now when he came to Ecbatane, news was brought him what had happened unto Nicanor and Timotheus.

bes@2Macc:9:4 @ Then swelling with anger. he thought to avenge upon the Jews the disgrace done unto him by those that made him flee. Therefore commanded he his chariotman to drive without ceasing, and to dispatch the journey, the judgement of God now following him. For he had spoken proudly in this sort, That he would come to Jerusalem and make it a common burying place of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:9:5 @ But the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, smote him with an incurable and invisible plague: or as soon as he had spoken these words, a pain of the bowels that was remediless came upon him, and sore torments of the inner parts;

bes@2Macc:9:6 @ And that most justly: for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange torments.

bes@2Macc:9:7 @ Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much pained.

bes@2Macc:9:8 @ And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man) and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all the manifest power of God.

bes@2Macc:9:9 @ So that the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man, and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

bes@2Macc:9:10 @ And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his intolerable stink.

bes@2Macc:9:11 @ Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.

bes@2Macc:9:12 @ And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself if he were God.

bes@2Macc:9:13 @ This wicked person vowed also unto the Lord, who now no more would have mercy upon him, saying thus,

bes@2Macc:9:14 @ That the holy city (to the which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common buryingplace,) he would set at liberty:

bes@2Macc:9:15 @ And as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all equals to the citizens of Athens:

bes@2Macc:9:16 @ And the holy temple, which before he had spoiled, he would garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with many more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges belonging to the sacrifices:

bes@2Macc:9:17 @ Yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power of God.

bes@2Macc:9:18 @ But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgement of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner:

bes@2Macc:9:19 @ Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:

bes@2Macc:9:20 @ If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.

bes@2Macc:9:21 @ As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:

bes@2Macc:9:22 @ Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.

bes@2Macc:9:23 @ But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,

bes@2Macc:9:24 @ To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to expectation, or if any tidings were brought that were grievous, they of the land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not be troubled:

bes@2Macc:9:25 @ Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event. I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the high provinces; to whom I have written as followeth:

bes@2Macc:9:26 @ Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits that I have done unto you generally, and in special, and that every man will be still faithful to me and my son.

bes@2Macc:9:27 @ For I am persuaded that he understanding my mind will favourably and graciously yield to your desires.

bes@2Macc:9:28 @ Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other men, so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains.

bes@2Macc:9:29 @ And Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body, who also fearing the son of Antiochus went into Egypt to Ptolemeus Philometor.

bes@2Macc:10:1 @ Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, recovered the temple and the city:

bes@2Macc:10:2 @ But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled down.

bes@2Macc:10:3 @ And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread.

bes@2Macc:10:4 @ When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.

bes@2Macc:10:5 @ Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu.

bes@2Macc:10:6 @ And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and dens like beasts.

bes@2Macc:10:7 @ Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.

bes@2Macc:10:8 @ They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:10:9 @ And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.

bes@2Macc:10:10 @ Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of the wars.

bes@2Macc:10:11 @ So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@2Macc:10:12 @ For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto them, endeavoured to continue peace with them.

bes@2Macc:10:13 @ Whereupon being accused of the king’s friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.

bes@2Macc:10:14 @ But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews:

bes@2Macc:10:15 @ And therewithal the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to nourish war.

bes@2Macc:10:16 @ Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and besought God that he would be their helper; and so they ran with violence upon the strong holds of the Idumeans,

bes@2Macc:10:17 @ And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.

bes@2Macc:10:18 @ And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege,

bes@2Macc:10:19 @ Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zaccheus also, and them that were with him, who were enough to besiege them, and departed himself unto those places which more needed his help.

bes@2Macc:10:20 @ Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of them escape.

bes@2Macc:10:21 @ But when it was told Maccabeus what was done, he called the governors of the people together, and accused those men, that they had sold their brethren for money, and set their enemies free to fight against them.

bes@2Macc:10:22 @ So he slew those that were found traitors, and immediately took the two castles.

bes@2Macc:10:23 @ And having good success with his weapons in all things he took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty thousand.

bes@2Macc:10:24 @ Now Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of arms.

bes@2Macc:10:25 @ But when he drew near, they that were with Maccabeus turned themselves to pray unto God, and sprinkled earth upon their heads, and girded their loins with sackcloth,

bes@2Macc:10:26 @ And fell down at the foot of the altar, and besought him to be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declareth.

bes@2Macc:10:27 @ So after the prayer they took their weapons, and went on further from the city: and when they drew near to their enemies, they kept by themselves.

bes@2Macc:10:28 @ Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side making their rage leader of their battle

bes@2Macc:10:29 @ But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared unto the enemies from heaven five comely men upon horses, with bridles of gold, and two of them led the Jews,

bes@2Macc:10:30 @ And took Maccabeus betwixt them, and covered him on every side weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrows and lightnings against the enemies: so that being confounded with blindness, and full of trouble, they were killed.

bes@2Macc:10:31 @ And there were slain of footmen twenty thousand and five hundred, and six hundred horsemen.

bes@2Macc:10:32 @ As for Timotheus himself, he fled into a very strong hold, called Gazara, where Chereas was governor.

bes@2Macc:10:33 @ But they that were with Maccabeus laid siege against the fortress courageously four days.

bes@2Macc:10:34 @ And they that were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and uttered wicked words.

bes@2Macc:10:35 @ Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of Maccabeus’ company, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies, assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage killed all that they met withal.

bes@2Macc:10:36 @ Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,

bes@2Macc:10:37 @ And killed Timotheus, that was hid in a certain pit, and Chereas his brother, with Apollophanes.

bes@2Macc:10:38 @ When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and thanksgiving, who had done so great things for Israel, and given them the victory.

bes@2Macc:11:1 @ Not long after the, Lysias the king’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done.

bes@2Macc:11:2 @ And when he had gathered about fourscore thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Jews, thinking to make the city an habitation of the Gentiles,

bes@2Macc:11:3 @ And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:

bes@2Macc:11:4 @ Not at all considering the power of God but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.

bes@2Macc:11:5 @ So he came to Judea, and drew near to Bethsura, which was a strong town, but distant from Jerusalem about five furlongs, and he laid sore siege unto it.

bes@2Macc:11:6 @ Now when they that were with Maccabeus heard that he besieged the holds, they and all the people with lamentation and tears besought the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel.

bes@2Macc:11:7 @ Then Maccabeus himself first of all took weapons, exhorting the other that they would jeopard themselves together with him to help their brethren: so they went forth together with a willing mind.

bes@2Macc:11:8 @ And as they were at Jerusalem, there appeared before them on horseback one in white clothing, shaking his armour of gold.

bes@2Macc:11:9 @ Then they praised the merciful God all together, and took heart, insomuch that they were ready not only to fight with men, but with most cruel beasts, and to pierce through walls of iron.

bes@2Macc:11:10 @ Thus they marched forward in their armour, having an helper from heaven: for the Lord was merciful unto them

bes@2Macc:11:11 @ And giving a charge upon their enemies like lions, they slew eleven thousand footmen, and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all the other to flight.

bes@2Macc:11:12 @ Many of them also being wounded escaped naked; and Lysias himself fled away shamefully, and so escaped.

bes@2Macc:11:13 @ Who, as he was a man of understanding, casting with himself what loss he had had, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome, because the Almighty God helped them, he sent unto them,

bes@2Macc:11:14 @ And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions, and promised that he would persuade the king that he must needs be a friend unto them.

bes@2Macc:11:15 @ Then Maccabeus consented to all that Lysias desired, being careful of the common good; and whatsoever Maccabeus wrote unto Lysias concerning the Jews, the king granted it.

bes@2Macc:11:16 @ For there were letters written unto the Jews from Lysias to this effect: Lysias unto the people of the Jews sendeth greeting:

bes@2Macc:11:17 @ John and Absalon, who were sent from you, delivered me the petition subscribed, and made request for the performance of the contents thereof.

bes@2Macc:11:18 @ Therefore what things soever were meet to be reported to the king, I have declared them, and he hath granted as much as might be.

bes@2Macc:11:19 @ And if then ye will keep yourselves loyal to the state, hereafter also will I endeavour to be a means of your good.

bes@2Macc:11:20 @ But of the particulars I have given order both to these and the other that came from me, to commune with you.

bes@2Macc:11:21 @ Fare ye well. The hundred and eight and fortieth year, the four and twentieth day of the month Dioscorinthius.

bes@2Macc:11:22 @ Now the king’s letter contained these words: King Antiochus unto his brother Lysias sendeth greeting:

bes@2Macc:11:23 @ Since our father is translated unto the gods, our will is, that they that are in our realm live quietly, that every one may attend upon his own affairs.

bes@2Macc:11:24 @ We understand also that the Jews would not consent to our father, for to be brought unto the custom of the Gentiles, but had rather keep their own manner of living: for the which cause they require of us, that we should suffer them to live after their own laws.

bes@2Macc:11:25 @ Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.

bes@2Macc:11:26 @ Thou shalt do well therefore to send unto them, and grant them peace, that when they are certified of our mind, they may be of good comfort, and ever go cheerfully about their own affairs.

bes@2Macc:11:27 @ And the letter of the king unto the nation of the Jews was after this manner: King Antiochus sendeth greeting unto the council, and the rest of the Jews:

bes@2Macc:11:28 @ If ye fare well, we have our desire; we are also in good health.

bes@2Macc:11:29 @ Menelaus declared unto us, that your desire was to return home, and to follow your own business:

bes@2Macc:11:30 @ Wherefore they that will depart shall have safe conduct till the thirtieth day of Xanthicus with security.

bes@2Macc:11:31 @ And the Jews shall use their own kind of meats and laws, as before; and none of them any manner of ways shall be molested for things ignorantly done.

bes@2Macc:11:32 @ I have sent also Menelaus, that he may comfort you.

bes@2Macc:11:33 @ Fare ye well. In the hundred forty and eighth year, and the fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.

bes@2Macc:11:34 @ The Romans also sent unto them a letter containing these words: Quintus Memmius and Titus Manlius, ambassadors of the Romans, send greeting unto the people of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:11:35 @ Whatsoever Lysias the king’s cousin hath granted, therewith we also are well pleased.

bes@2Macc:11:36 @ But touching such things as he judged to be referred to the king, after ye have advised thereof, send one forthwith, that we may declare as it is convenient for you: for we are now going to Antioch.

bes@2Macc:11:37 @ Therefore send some with speed, that we may know what is your mind.

bes@2Macc:11:38 @ Farewell. This hundred and eight and fortieth year, the fifteenth day of the month Xanthicus.

bes@2Macc:12:1 @ When these covenants were made, Lysias went unto the king, and the Jews were about their husbandry.

bes@2Macc:12:2 @ But of the governors of several places, Timotheus, and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace.

bes@2Macc:12:3 @ The men of Joppa also did such an ungodly deed: they prayed the Jews that dwelt among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had prepared, as though they had meant them no hurt.

bes@2Macc:12:4 @ Who accepted of it according to the common decree of the city, as being desirous to live in peace, and suspecting nothing: but when they were gone forth into the deep, they drowned no less than two hundred of them.

bes@2Macc:12:5 @ When Judas heard of this cruelty done unto his countrymen, he commanded those that were with him to make them ready.

bes@2Macc:12:6 @ And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against those murderers of his brethren, and burnt the haven by night, and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.

bes@2Macc:12:7 @ And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he would return to root out all them of the city of Joppa.

bes@2Macc:12:8 @ But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like manner unto the Jews that dwelt among them,

bes@2Macc:12:9 @ He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire on the haven and the navy, so that the light of the fire was seen at Jerusalem two hundred and forty furlongs off.

bes@2Macc:12:10 @ Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward Timotheus, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.

bes@2Macc:12:11 @ Whereupon there was a very sore battle; but Judas’ side by the help of God got the victory; so that the Nomades of Arabia, being overcome, besought Judas for peace, promising both to give him cattle, and to pleasure him otherwise.

bes@2Macc:12:12 @ Then Judas, thinking indeed that they would be profitable in many things, granted them peace: whereupon they shook hands, and so they departed to their tents.

bes@2Macc:12:13 @ He went also about to make a bridge to a certain strong city, which was fenced about with walls, and inhabited by people of divers countries; and the name of it was Caspis.

bes@2Macc:12:14 @ But they that were within it put such trust in the strength of the walls and provision of victuals, that they behaved themselves rudely toward them that were with Judas, railing and blaspheming, and uttering such words as were not to be spoken.

bes@2Macc:12:15 @ Wherefore Judas with his company, calling upon the great Lord of the world, who without rams or engines of war did cast down Jericho in the time of Joshua, gave a fierce assault against the walls,

bes@2Macc:12:16 @ And took the city by the will of God, and made unspeakable slaughters, insomuch that a lake two furlongs broad near adjoining thereunto, being filled full, was seen running with blood.

bes@2Macc:12:17 @ Then departed they from thence seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Characa unto the Jews that are called Tubieni.

bes@2Macc:12:18 @ But as for Timotheus, they found him not in the places: for before he had dispatched any thing, he departed from thence, having left a very strong garrison in a certain hold.

bes@2Macc:12:19 @ Howbeit Dositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus’ captains, went forth, and slew those that Timotheus had left in the fortress, above ten thousand men.

bes@2Macc:12:20 @ And Maccabeus ranged his army by bands, and set them over the bands, and went against Timotheus, who had about him an hundred and twenty thousand men of foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen.

bes@2Macc:12:21 @ Now when Timotheus had knowledge of Judas’ coming, he sent the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called Carnion: for the town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to come unto, by reason of the straitness of all the places.

bes@2Macc:12:22 @ But when Judas his first band came in sight, the enemies, being smitten with fear and terror through the appearing of him who seeth all things, fled amain, one running into this way, another that way, so as that they were often hurt of their own men, and wounded with the points of their own swords.

bes@2Macc:12:23 @ Judas also was very earnest in pursuing them, killing those wicked wretches, of whom he slew about thirty thousand men.

bes@2Macc:12:24 @ Moreover Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews’ parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.

bes@2Macc:12:25 @ So when he had assured them with many words that he would restore them without hurt, according to the agreement, they let him go for the saving of their brethren.

bes@2Macc:12:26 @ Then Maccabeus marched forth to Carnion, and to the temple of Atargatis, and there he slew five and twenty thousand persons.

bes@2Macc:12:27 @ And after he had put to flight and destroyed them, Judas removed the host toward Ephron, a strong city, wherein Lysias abode, and a great multitude of divers nations, and the strong young men kept the walls, and defended them mightily: wherein also was great provision of engines and darts.

bes@2Macc:12:28 @ But when Judas and his company had called upon Almighty God, who with his power breaketh the strength of his enemies, they won the city, and slew twenty and five thousand of them that were within,

bes@2Macc:12:29 @ From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem,

bes@2Macc:12:30 @ But when the Jews that dwelt there had testified that the Scythopolitans dealt lovingly with them, and entreated them kindly in the time of their adversity;

bes@2Macc:12:31 @ They gave them thanks, desiring them to be friendly still unto them: and so they came to Jerusalem, the feast of the weeks approaching.

bes@2Macc:12:32 @ And after the feast, called Pentecost, they went forth against Gorgias the governor of Idumea,

bes@2Macc:12:33 @ Who came out with three thousand men of foot and four hundred horsemen.

bes@2Macc:12:34 @ And it happened that in their fighting together a few of the Jews were slain.

bes@2Macc:12:35 @ At which time Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback, and a strong man, was still upon Gorgias, and taking hold of his coat drew him by force; and when he would have taken that cursed man alive, a horseman of Thracia coming upon him smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled unto Marisa.

bes@2Macc:12:36 @ Now when they that were with Gorgias had fought long, and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord, that he would shew himself to be their helper and leader of the battle.

bes@2Macc:12:37 @ And with that he began in his own language, and sung psalms with a loud voice, and rushing unawares upon Gorgias’ men, he put them to flight.

bes@2Macc:12:38 @ So Judas gathered his host, and came into the city of Odollam, And when the seventh day came, they purified themselves, as the custom was, and kept the sabbath in the same place.

bes@2Macc:12:39 @ And upon the day following, as the use had been, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen in their fathers’ graves.

bes@2Macc:12:40 @ Now under the coats of every one that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.

bes@2Macc:12:41 @ All men therefore praising the Lord, the righteous Judge, who had opened the things that were hid,

bes@2Macc:12:42 @ Betook themselves unto prayer, and besought him that the sin committed might wholly be put out of remembrance. Besides, that noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves from sin, forsomuch as they saw before their eyes the things that came to pass for the sins of those that were slain.

bes@2Macc:12:43 @ And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to the sum of two thousand drachms of silver, he sent it to Jerusalem to offer a sin offering, doing therein very well and honestly, in that he was mindful of the resurrection:

bes@2Macc:12:44 @ For if he had not hoped that they that were slain should have risen again, it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead.

bes@2Macc:12:45 @ And also in that he perceived that there was great favour laid up for those that died godly, it was an holy and good thought. Whereupon he made a reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.

bes@2Macc:13:1 @ In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea,

bes@2Macc:13:2 @ And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.

bes@2Macc:13:3 @ Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great dissimulation encouraged Antiochus, not for the safeguard of the country, but because he thought to have been made governor.

bes@2Macc:13:4 @ But the King of kings moved Antiochus’ mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.

bes@2Macc:13:5 @ Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hanged down into the ashes.

bes@2Macc:13:6 @ And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.

bes@2Macc:13:7 @ Such a death it happened that wicked man to die, not having so much as burial in the earth; and that most justly:

bes@2Macc:13:8 @ For inasmuch as he had committed many sins about the altar, whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.

bes@2Macc:13:9 @ Now the king came with a barbarous and haughty mind to do far worse to the Jews, than had been done in his father’s time.

bes@2Macc:13:10 @ Which things when Judas perceived, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord night and day, that if ever at any other time, he would now also help them, being at the point to be put from their law, from their country, and from the holy temple:

bes@2Macc:13:11 @ And that he would not suffer the people, that had even now been but a little refreshed, to be in subjection to the blasphemous nations.

bes@2Macc:13:12 @ So when they had all done this together, and besought the merciful Lord with weeping and fasting, and lying flat upon the ground three days long, Judas, having exhorted them, commanded they should be in a readiness.

bes@2Macc:13:13 @ And Judas, being apart with the elders, determined, before the king’s host should enter into Judea, and get the city, to go forth and try the matter in fight by the help of the Lord.

bes@2Macc:13:14 @ So when he had committed all to the Creator of the world, and exhorted his soldiers to fight manfully, even unto death, for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the commonwealth, he camped by Modin:

bes@2Macc:13:15 @ And having given the watchword to them that were about him, Victory is of God; with the most valiant and choice young men he went in into the king’s tent by night, and slew in the camp about four thousand men, and the chiefest of the elephants, with all that were upon him.

bes@2Macc:13:16 @ And at last they filled the camp with fear and tumult, and departed with good success.

bes@2Macc:13:17 @ This was done in the break of the day, because the protection of the Lord did help him.

bes@2Macc:13:18 @ Now when the king had taken a taste of the manliness of the Jews, he went about to take the holds by policy,

bes@2Macc:13:19 @ And marched toward Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the Jews: but he was put to flight, failed, and lost of his men:

bes@2Macc:13:20 @ For Judas had conveyed unto them that were in it such things as were necessary.

bes@2Macc:13:21 @ But Rhodocus, who was in the Jews’ host, disclosed the secrets to the enemies; therefore he was sought out, and when they had gotten him, they put him in prison.

bes@2Macc:13:22 @ The king treated with them in Bethsura the second time, gave his hand, took their’s, departed, fought with Judas, was overcome;

bes@2Macc:13:23 @ Heard that Philip, who was left over the affairs in Antioch, was desperately bent, confounded, intreated the Jews, submitted himself, and sware to all equal conditions, agreed with them, and offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and dealt kindly with the place,

bes@2Macc:13:24 @ And accepted well of Maccabeus, made him principal governor from Ptolemais unto the Gerrhenians;

bes@2Macc:13:25 @ Came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the covenants; for they stormed, because they would make their covenants void:

bes@2Macc:13:26 @ Lysias went up to the judgement seat, said as much as could be in defence of the cause, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, returned to Antioch. Thus it went touching the king’s coming and departing.

bes@2Macc:14:1 @ After three years was Judas informed, that Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having entered by the haven of Tripolis with a great power and navy,

bes@2Macc:14:2 @ Had taken the country, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his protector.

bes@2Macc:14:3 @ Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest, and had defiled himself wilfully in the times of their mingling with the Gentiles, seeing that by no means he could save himself, nor have any more access to the holy altar,

bes@2Macc:14:4 @ Came to king Demetrius in the hundred and one and fiftieth year, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and also of the boughs which were used solemnly in the temple: and so that day he held his peace.

bes@2Macc:14:5 @ Howbeit having gotten opportunity to further his foolish enterprise, and being called into counsel by Demetrius, and asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he answered thereunto:

bes@2Macc:14:6 @ Those of the Jews that he called Assideans, whose captain is Judas Maccabeus, nourish war and are seditious, and will not let the rest be in peace.

bes@2Macc:14:7 @ Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors’ honour, I mean the high priesthood, am now come hither:

bes@2Macc:14:8 @ First, verily for the unfeigned care I have of things pertaining to the king; and secondly, even for that I intend the good of mine own countrymen: for all our nation is in no small misery through the unadvised dealing of them aforesaid.

bes@2Macc:14:9 @ Wherefore, O king, seeing knowest all these things, be careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on every side, according to the clemency that thou readily shewest unto all.

bes@2Macc:14:10 @ For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the state should be quiet.

bes@2Macc:14:11 @ This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king’s friends, being maliciously set against Judas, did more incense Demetrius.

bes@2Macc:14:12 @ And forthwith calling Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and making him governor over Judea, he sent him forth,

bes@2Macc:14:13 @ Commanding him to slay Judas, and to scatter them that were with him, and to make Alcimus high priest of the great temple.

bes@2Macc:14:14 @ Then the heathen, that had fled out of Judea from Judas, came to Nicanor by flocks, thinking the harm and calamities of the Jews to be their welfare.

bes@2Macc:14:15 @ Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming, and that the heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made supplication to him that had established his people for ever, and who always helpeth his portion with manifestation of his presence.

bes@2Macc:14:16 @ So at the commandment of the captain they removed straightways from thence, and came near unto them at the town of Dessau.

bes@2Macc:14:17 @ Now Simon, Judas’ brother, had joined battle with Nicanor, but was somewhat discomfited through the sudden silence of his enemies.

bes@2Macc:14:18 @ Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of them that were with Judas, and the courageousness that they had to fight for their country, durst not try the matter by the sword.

bes@2Macc:14:19 @ Wherefore he sent Posidonius, and Theodotus, and Mattathias, to make peace.

bes@2Macc:14:20 @ So when they had taken long advisement thereupon, and the captain had made the multitude acquainted therewith, and it appeared that they were all of one mind, they consented to the covenants,

bes@2Macc:14:21 @ And appointed a day to meet in together by themselves: and when the day came, and stools were set for either of them,

bes@2Macc:14:22 @ Judas placed armed men ready in convenient places, lest some treachery should be suddenly practised by the enemies: so they made a peaceable conference.

bes@2Macc:14:23 @ Now Nicanor abode in Jerusalem, and did no hurt, but sent away the people that came flocking unto him.

bes@2Macc:14:24 @ And he would not willingly have Judas out of his sight: for he love the man from his heart

bes@2Macc:14:25 @ He prayed him also to take a wife, and to beget children: so he married, was quiet, and took part of this life.

bes@2Macc:14:26 @ But Alcimus, perceiving the love that was betwixt them, and considering the covenants that were made, came to Demetrius, and told him that Nicanor was not well affected toward the state; for that he had ordained Judas, a traitor to his realm, to be the king’s successor.

bes@2Macc:14:27 @ Then the king being in a rage, and provoked with the accusations of the most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was much displeased with the covenants, and commanding him that he should send Maccabeus prisoner in all haste unto Antioch.

bes@2Macc:14:28 @ When this came to Nicanor’s hearing, he was much confounded in himself, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles which were agreed upon, the man being in no fault.

bes@2Macc:14:29 @ But because there was no dealing against the king, he watched his time to accomplish this thing by policy.

bes@2Macc:14:30 @ Notwithstanding, when Maccabeus saw that Nicanor began to be churlish unto him, and that he entreated him more roughly than he was wont, perceiving that such sour behaviour came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor.

bes@2Macc:14:31 @ But the other, knowing that he was notably prevented by Judas’ policy, came into the great and holy temple, and commanded the priests, that were offering their usual sacrifices, to deliver him the man.

bes@2Macc:14:32 @ And when they sware that they could not tell where the man was whom he sought,

bes@2Macc:14:33 @ He stretched out his right hand toward the temple, and made an oath in this manner: If ye will not deliver me Judas as a prisoner, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and I will break down the altar, and erect a notable temple unto Bacchus.

bes@2Macc:14:34 @ After these words he departed. Then the priests lifted up their hands toward heaven, and besought him that was ever a defender of their nation, saying in this manner;

bes@2Macc:14:35 @ Thou, O Lord of all things, who hast need of nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thine habitation should be among us:

bes@2Macc:14:36 @ Therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.

bes@2Macc:14:37 @ Now was there accused unto Nicanor one Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, a lover of his countrymen, and a man of very good report, who for his kindness was called a father of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:14:38 @ For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly jeopard his body and life with all vehemency for the religion of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:14:39 @ So Nicanor, willing to declare the hate that he bare unto the Jews, sent above five hundred men of war to take him:

bes@2Macc:14:40 @ For he thought by taking him to do the Jews much hurt.

bes@2Macc:14:41 @ Now when the multitude would have taken the tower, and violently broken into the outer door, and bade that fire should be brought to burn it, he being ready to be taken on every side fell upon his sword;

bes@2Macc:14:42 @ Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

bes@2Macc:14:43 @ But missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also rushing within the doors, he ran boldly up to the wall, and cast himself down manfully among the thickest of them.

bes@2Macc:14:44 @ But they quickly giving back, and a space being made, he fell down into the midst of the void place.

bes@2Macc:14:45 @ Nevertheless, while there was yet breath within him, being inflamed with anger, he rose up; and though his blood gushed out like spouts of water, and his wounds were grievous, yet he ran through the midst of the throng; and standing upon a steep rock,

bes@2Macc:14:46 @ When as his blood was now quite gone, he plucked out his bowels, and taking them in both his hands, he cast them upon the throng, and calling upon the Lord of life and spirit to restore him those again, he thus died.

bes@2Macc:15:1 @ But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the sabbath day.

bes@2Macc:15:2 @ Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that day, which he, that seeth all things, hath honoured with holiness above all other days.

bes@2Macc:15:3 @ Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.

bes@2Macc:15:4 @ And when they said, There is in heaven a living Lord, and mighty, who commanded the seventh day to be kept:

bes@2Macc:15:5 @ Then said the other, And I also am mighty upon earth, and I command to take arms, and to do the king’s business. Yet he obtained not to have his wicked will done.

bes@2Macc:15:6 @ So Nicanor in exceeding pride and haughtiness determined to set up a publick monument of his victory over Judas and them that were with him.

bes@2Macc:15:7 @ But Maccabeus had ever sure confidence that the Lord would help him:

bes@2Macc:15:8 @ Wherefore he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the heathen against them, but to remember the help which in former times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and aid, which should come unto them from the Almighty.

bes@2Macc:15:9 @ And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.

bes@2Macc:15:10 @ And when he had stirred up their minds, he gave them their charge, shewing them therewithal the falsehood of the heathen, and the breach of oaths.

bes@2Macc:15:11 @ Thus he armed every one of them, not so much with defence of shields and spears, as with comfortable and good words: and beside that, he told them a dream worthy to be believed, as if it had been so indeed, which did not a little rejoice them.

bes@2Macc:15:12 @ And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.

bes@2Macc:15:13 @ This done, in like manner there appeared a man with gray hairs, and exceeding glorious, who was of a wonderful and excellent majesty.

bes@2Macc:15:14 @ Then Onias answered, saying, This is a lover of the brethren, who prayeth much for the people, and for the holy city, to wit, Jeremias the prophet of God.

bes@2Macc:15:15 @ Whereupon Jeremias holding forth his right hand gave to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it spake thus,

bes@2Macc:15:16 @ Take this holy sword, a gift from God, with the which thou shalt wound the adversaries.

bes@2Macc:15:17 @ Thus being well comforted by the words of Judas, which were very good, and able to stir them up to valour, and to encourage the hearts of the young men, they determined not to pitch camp, but courageously to set upon them, and manfully to try the matter by conflict, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.

bes@2Macc:15:18 @ For the care that they took for their wives, and their children, their brethren, and folks, was in least account with them: but the greatest and principal fear was for the holy temple.

bes@2Macc:15:19 @ Also they that were in the city took not the least care, being troubled for the conflict abroad.

bes@2Macc:15:20 @ And now, when as all looked what should be the trial, and the enemies were already come near, and the army was set in array, and the beasts conveniently placed, and the horsemen set in wings,

bes@2Macc:15:21 @ Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the divers preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts, stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms, but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are worthy:

bes@2Macc:15:22 @ Therefore in his prayer he said after this manner; O Lord, thou didst send thine angel in the time of Ezekias king of Judea, and didst slay in the host of Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand:

bes@2Macc:15:23 @ Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel before us for a fear and dread unto them;

bes@2Macc:15:24 @ And through the might of thine arm let those be stricken with terror, that come against thy holy people to blaspheme. And he ended thus.

bes@2Macc:15:25 @ Then Nicanor and they that were with him came forward with trumpets and songs.

bes@2Macc:15:26 @ But Judas and his company encountered the enemies with invocation and prayer.

bes@2Macc:15:27 @ So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God with their hearts, they slew no less than thirty and five thousand men: for through the appearance of God they were greatly cheered.

bes@2Macc:15:28 @ Now when the battle was done, returning again with joy, they knew that Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

bes@2Macc:15:29 @ Then they made a great shout and a noise, praising the Almighty in their own language.

bes@2Macc:15:30 @ And Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his countrymen all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanor’s head, and his hand with his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.

bes@2Macc:15:31 @ So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the tower,

bes@2Macc:15:32 @ And shewed them vile Nicanor’s head, and the hand of that blasphemer, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy temple of the Almighty.

bes@2Macc:15:33 @ And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls, and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.

bes@2Macc:15:34 @ So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

bes@2Macc:15:35 @ He hanged also Nicanor’s head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.

bes@2Macc:15:36 @ And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mardocheus’ day.

bes@2Macc:15:37 @ Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an end.

bes@2Macc:15:38 @ And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired: but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.

bes@2Macc:15:39 @ For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.

bes@AddDaniel:1:1 @ Song of the Three Children -- And they walked in the midst of the fire, praising God, and blessing the Lord.

bes@AddDaniel:1:2 @ Then Azarias stood up, and prayed on this manner; and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire said,

bes@AddDaniel:1:2 @ Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: thy name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore:

bes@AddDaniel:1:3 @ For thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done to us: yea, true are all thy works, thy ways are right, and all thy judgements truth.

bes@AddDaniel:1:4 @ In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed true judgement: for according to truth and judgement didst thou bring all these things upon us because of our sins.

bes@AddDaniel:1:5 @ For we have sinned and committed iniquity, departing from thee.

bes@AddDaniel:1:6 @ In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded us, that it might go well with us.

bes@AddDaniel:1:7 @ Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgement.

bes@AddDaniel:1:8 @ And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most wicked in all the world.

bes@AddDaniel:1:9 @ And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.

bes@AddDaniel:1:10 @ Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name’s sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant:

bes@AddDaniel:1:11 @ And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham’s sake, for thy servant Isaac’s sake, and for thy holy Israel’s sake;

bes@AddDaniel:1:12 @ To whom thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that lieth upon the seashore.

bes@AddDaniel:1:13 @ For we, O Lord, are become less than any nation, and be kept under this day in all the world because of our sins.

bes@AddDaniel:1:14 @ Neither is there at this time prince, or prophet, or leader, or burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, or place to sacrifice before thee, and to find mercy.

bes@AddDaniel:1:15 @ Nevertheless in a contrite heart and an humble spirit let us be accepted.

bes@AddDaniel:1:16 @ Like as in the burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, and like as in ten thousands of fat lambs: so let our sacrifice be in thy sight this day, and grant that we may wholly go after thee: for they shall not be confounded that put their trust in thee.

bes@AddDaniel:1:17 @ And now we follow thee with all our heart, we fear thee, and seek thy face.

bes@AddDaniel:1:18 @ Put us not to shame: but deal with us after thy lovingkindness, and according to the multitude of thy mercies.

bes@AddDaniel:1:19 @ Deliver us also according to thy marvellous works, and give glory to thy name, O Lord: and let all them that do thy servants hurt be ashamed;

bes@AddDaniel:1:20 @ And let them be confounded in all their power and might, and let their strength be broken;

bes@AddDaniel:1:21 @ And let them know that thou art God, the only God, and glorious over the whole world.

bes@AddDaniel:1:22 @ And the king’s servants, that put them in, ceased not to make the oven hot with rosin, pitch, tow, and small wood;

bes@AddDaniel:1:23 @ So that the flame streamed forth above the furnace forty and nine cubits.

bes@AddDaniel:1:24 @ And it passed through, and burned those Chaldeans it found about the furnace.

bes@AddDaniel:1:25 @ But the angel of the Lord came down into the oven together with Azarias and his fellows, and smote the flame of the fire out of the oven;

bes@AddDaniel:1:26 @ And made the midst of the furnace as it had been a moist whistling wind, so that the fire touched them not at all, neither hurt nor troubled them.

bes@AddDaniel:1:27 @ Then the three, as out of one mouth, praised, glorified, and blessed, God in the furnace, saying,

bes@AddDaniel:1:28 @ Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:29 @ And blessed is thy glorious and holy name: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:30 @ Blessed art thou in the temple of thine holy glory: and to be praised and glorified above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:31 @ Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:32 @ Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom: and to be praised and glorified above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:33 @ Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven: and above all to be praised and glorified for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:34 @ O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever,

bes@AddDaniel:1:35 @ O ye heavens, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:36 @ O ye angels of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:37 @ O all ye waters that be above the heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:38 @ O all ye powers of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:39 @ O ye sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:40 @ O ye stars of heaven, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:41 @ O every shower and dew, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:42 @ O all ye winds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever,

bes@AddDaniel:1:43 @ O ye fire and heat, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:44 @ O ye winter and summer, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:45 @ O ye dews and storms of snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:46 @ O ye nights and days, bless ye the Lord: bless and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:47 @ O ye light and darkness, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:48 @ O ye ice and cold, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:49 @ O ye frost and snow, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:50 @ O ye lightnings and clouds, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:51 @ O let the earth bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:52 @ O ye mountains and little hills, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:53 @ O all ye things that grow in the earth, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:54 @ O ye mountains, bless ye the Lord: Praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:55 @ O ye seas and rivers, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:56 @ O ye whales, and all that move in the waters, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:57 @ O all ye fowls of the air, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:58 @ O all ye beasts and cattle, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:59 @ O ye children of men, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:60 @ O Israel, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:61 @ O ye priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:62 @ O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:63 @ O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:64 @ O ye holy and humble men of heart, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:65 @ O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever: for he hath delivered us from hell, and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame: even out of the midst of the fire hath he delivered us.

bes@AddDaniel:1:66 @ O give thanks unto the Lord, because he is gracious: for his mercy endureth for ever.

bes@AddDaniel:1:67 @ O all ye that worship the Lord, bless the God of gods, praise him, and give him thanks: for his mercy endureth for ever.

bes@PrMan:1:1 @ -- O Lord, Almighty God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous seed;

bes@PrMan:1:2 @ who hast made heaven and earth, with all the ornament thereof;

bes@PrMan:1:3 @ who hast bound the sea by the word of thy commandment; who hast shut up the deep, and sealed it by thy terrible and glorious name;

bes@PrMan:1:4 @ whom all men fear, and tremble before thy power;

bes@PrMan:1:5 @ for the majesty of thy glory cannot be borne, and thine angry threatening toward sinners is importable:

bes@PrMan:1:6 @ but thy merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable;

bes@PrMan:1:7 @ for thou art the most high Lord, of great compassion, longsuffering, very merciful, and repentest of the evils of men. Thou, O Lord, according to thy great goodness hast promised repentance and forgiveness to them that have sinned against thee: and of thine infinite mercies hast appointed repentance unto sinners, that they may be saved.

bes@PrMan:1:8 @ Thou therefore, O Lord, that art the God of the just, hast not appointed repentance to the just, as to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against thee; but thou hast appointed repentance unto me that am a sinner:

bes@PrMan:1:9 @ for I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions, O Lord, are multiplied: my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of mine iniquities.

bes@PrMan:1:10 @ I am bowed down with many iron bands, that I cannot lift up mine head, neither have any release: for I have provoked thy wrath, and done evil before thee: I did not thy will, neither kept I thy commandments: I have set up abominations, and have multiplied offences.

bes@PrMan:1:11 @ Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart, beseeching thee of grace.

bes@PrMan:1:12 @ I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge mine iniquities:

bes@PrMan:1:13 @ wherefore, I humbly beseech thee, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and destroy me not with mine iniquities. Be not angry with me for ever, by reserving evil for me; neither condemn me to the lower parts of the earth. For thou art the God, even the God of them that repent;

bes@PrMan:1:14 @ and in me thou wilt shew all thy goodness: for thou wilt save me, that am unworthy, according to thy great mercy.

bes@PrMan:1:15 @ Therefore I will praise thee for ever all the days of my life: for all the powers of the heavens do praise thee, and thine is the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

bes@3Macc:1:1 @ Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his footmen and horsemen, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped.

bes@3Macc:1:2 @ And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war.

bes@3Macc:1:3 @ But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It befell this man to receive the fate which was meant for the other.

bes@3Macc:1:4 @ A fierce battle then took place; and the men of Antiochus prevailing, Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight manfully for themselves, their children, and wives; and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them two minae of gold apiece.

bes@3Macc:1:5 @ It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.

bes@3Macc:1:6 @ Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighbouring cities, and encourage them.

bes@3Macc:1:7 @ By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence.

bes@3Macc:1:8 @ The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest- gifts, and congratulations of the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city.

bes@3Macc:1:9 @ Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,

bes@3Macc:1:10 @ he was so struck with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself.

bes@3Macc:1:11 @ And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.

bes@3Macc:1:12 @ Then they read the law to him; but he persisted in obtruding himself, exclaiming, that he ought to be allowed: and saying Be it that they were deprived of this honour, I ought not to be.

bes@3Macc:1:13 @ And he put the question, Why, when he entered all the temples, none of the priests who were present forbad him?

bes@3Macc:1:14 @ He was thoroughly answered by some one, That he did wrong to boast of this.

bes@3Macc:1:15 @ Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?

bes@3Macc:1:16 @ And when the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears,

bes@3Macc:1:17 @ then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event.

bes@3Macc:1:18 @ Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries.

bes@3Macc:1:19 @ Women, but recently separated off, left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran about the city in a disorderly manner. 

bes@3Macc:1:20 @ New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them; some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardour which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple.

bes@3Macc:1:21 @ Various were the prayers offered up by those who assembled in this place, on account of the unholy attempt of the king.

bes@3Macc:1:22 @ Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out his purpose.

bes@3Macc:1:23 @ Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defence of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before.

bes@3Macc:1:24 @ During this time the multitude kept on praying.

bes@3Macc:1:25 @ The elders who surrounded the king strove in many ways to divert his haughty mind from the design which he had formed.

bes@3Macc:1:26 @ He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onwards with the view of carrying out this design.

bes@3Macc:1:27 @ Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power, to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such overweening lawlessness.

bes@3Macc:1:28 @ Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued.

bes@3Macc:1:29 @ Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.

bes@3Macc:2:1 @ Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees over against the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication:

bes@3Macc:2:2 @ O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who exulteth in his confidence and strength.

bes@3Macc:2:3 @ It is thou, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who art a righteous Governor, and judgest all who act with pride and insolence.

bes@3Macc:2:4 @ It was thou who didst destroy the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and hardihood, by covering them with a measureless flood.

bes@3Macc:2:5 @ It was thou who didst make the Sodomites, those workers of exceeding iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to after generations, when thou didst cover them with fire and brimstone.

bes@3Macc:2:6 @ Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.

bes@3Macc:2:7 @ And thou rolledst the depths of the sea over him, when he made pursuit with chariots, and with a multitude of followers, and gavest a safe passage to those who put their trust in thee, the Lord of the whole creation.

bes@3Macc:2:8 @ These saw and felt the works of thine hands, and praised thee the Almighty.

bes@3Macc:2:9 @ Thou, O King, when thou createdst the illimitable and measureless earth, didst choose out this city: thou didst make this place sacred to thy name, albeit thou needest nothing: thou didst glorify it with thine illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of thy great and honourable name.

bes@3Macc:2:10 @ And thou didst promise, out of love to the people of Israel, that should we fall away from thee, and become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, thou wouldest hear our prayer.

bes@3Macc:2:11 @ Verily thou art faithful and true.

bes@3Macc:2:12 @ And when thou didst often aid our fathers when hard pressed, and in low estate, and deliveredst them out of gret dangers,

bes@3Macc:2:13 @ see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

bes@3Macc:2:14 @ We being in this low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonour this thine holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of thy Majesty.

bes@3Macc:2:15 @ Thy dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men.

bes@3Macc:2:16 @ But since it seemed good to thee to exhibit thy glory among thy people Israel, thou didst sanctify this place.

bes@3Macc:2:16 @ Punish us not by means of the uncleanness of their men, nor chastise us by means of their profanity; lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say,

bes@3Macc:2:18 @ We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.

bes@3Macc:2:19 @ Blot out our iniquities, and do away with our errors, and shew forth thy compassion in this hour.

bes@3Macc:2:20 @ Let thy mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise thee with their mouth.

bes@3Macc:2:21 @ At that time God, who seeth all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable; and scourged the man greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence.

bes@3Macc:2:22 @ Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgement deprived of the faculty of speech.

bes@3Macc:2:23 @ His friends and bodyguards, beholding the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him.

bes@3Macc:2:24 @ When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe check caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.

bes@3Macc:2:25 @ He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his beforementioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness;

bes@3Macc:2:26 @ and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will.

bes@3Macc:2:27 @ His purpose was to indict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower-porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it:

bes@3Macc:2:28 @ That entrance to their own temple was to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice; that all the Jews were to be registered among the common people; that those who resisted were to be forcibly seized and put to death;

bes@3Macc:2:29 @ that those who were thus registered, were to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be set apart with these limited rights.

bes@3Macc:2:30 @ To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians.

bes@3Macc:2:31 @ Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honour from a future connection with him.

bes@3Macc:2:32 @ A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration:

bes@3Macc:2:33 @ cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and debarring them from the common usages of social intercourse.

bes@3Macc:3:1 @ On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives.

bes@3Macc:3:2 @ While this was going on, an invidious rumour was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The purport of their charge was, that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law.

bes@3Macc:3:3 @ Now, while the Jews always maintained a feeling of un-swerving loyalty towards the kings, yet, as they worshipped God, and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence some persons held them in odium; although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world.

bes@3Macc:3:6 @ What all the rest of mankind said, was, however, made of no account by the foreigners;

bes@3Macc:3:7 @ who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats; they alleged that they were men unsociable, hostile to the king's interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much odium upon them.

bes@3Macc:3:8 @ Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favourable turn of affairs:

bes@3Macc:3:9 @ He who knoweth all things, will not, disregard so great a people.

bes@3Macc:3:10 @ Some of the neighbors, friends, and fellow dealers of the Jews, even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them.

bes@3Macc:3:11 @ Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.

bes@3Macc:3:12 @ King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!

bes@3Macc:3:13 @ I am right well; and so, too, are my affairs.

bes@3Macc:3:14 @ Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which ye know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigour, has been brought to a successful issue according to our expectation,

bes@3Macc:3:15 @ we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors.

bes@3Macc:3:16 @ So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem; and went up to honour  the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly.

bes@3Macc:3:17 @ To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honour it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts,

bes@3Macc:3:18 @ they were so carried away by their old arrogance, as to forbid us the entrance; while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them.

bes@3Macc:3:19 @ And thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any thing reasonable.

bes@3Macc:3:20 @ We then, having endeavoured to make allowance for the madness of these persons, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting.

bes@3Macc:3:21 @ Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.

bes@3Macc:3:22 @ All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,

bes@3Macc:3:23 @ have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed towards us; ever deeming that their ignoble course of procedure will force us to do away with our reform.

bes@3Macc:3:24 @ Having then, received certain proofs that these bear us every sort of ill-will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves, when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies.

bes@3Macc:3:25 @ As soon, therefore, as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a death, cruel and ignominious, suitable to men disaffected.

bes@3Macc:3:26 @ For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis.

bes@3Macc:3:27 @ Whosoever shall shield a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or suckling, shall with his whole house be tortured to death.

bes@3Macc:3:28 @ Whoever shall inform against the besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmae from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned.

bes@3Macc:3:29 @ Whatever place shall shelter a Jew, shall, when he is hunted forth, be put under the ban of fire, and be for ever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.

bes@3Macc:3:30 @ Such was the purport of the king's letter.

bes@3Macc:4:1 @ Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to shew itself openly.

bes@3Macc:4:2 @ The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them.

bes@3Macc:4:3 @ What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition did not fill with wailing and lamentation?

bes@3Macc:4:4 @ They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion.

bes@3Macc:4:5 @ A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.

bes@3Macc:4:6 @ Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn.

bes@3Macc:4:7 @ Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship.

bes@3Macc:4:8 @ The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand.

bes@3Macc:4:9 @ They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters.

bes@3Macc:4:10 @ The planks of the deck above them barred out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.

bes@3Macc:4:11 @ They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; nay, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.

bes@3Macc:4:12 @ When this was done, the king, hearing that their brethren in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims,

bes@3Macc:4:13 @ was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one whit milder) treatment.

bes@3Macc:4:14 @ The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labour which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties

bes@3Macc:4:15 @ The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.

bes@3Macc:4:16 @ The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.

bes@3Macc:4:17 @ At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration,

bes@3Macc:4:18 @ inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work.

bes@3Macc:4:19 @ The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said.

bes@3Macc:4:20 @ They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose.

bes@3Macc:4:21 @ Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven.

bes@3Macc:5:1 @ Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,

bes@3Macc:5:2 @ he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of incense to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews.

bes@3Macc:5:3 @ The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most.

bes@3Macc:5:4 @ The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually.

bes@3Macc:5:5 @ The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about eventide and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together.

bes@3Macc:5:6 @ The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.

bes@3Macc:5:7 @ they invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly besought with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power,

bes@3Macc:5:8 @ to overthrow the evil purpose which was gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them.

bes@3Macc:5:9 @ Their litany so earnest went up to heaven.

bes@3Macc:5:10 @ Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mingled wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind thereof.

bes@3Macc:5:11 @ He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion thereof now upon the king.

bes@3Macc:5:12 @ By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified.

bes@3Macc:5:13 @ But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the overweening Gentiles.

bes@3Macc:5:14 @ The middle of the tenth hour had well nigh arrived, when the master-  bidder, seeing the guests who were bidden collected, came and shook the king.

bes@3Macc:5:15 @ He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him.

bes@3Macc:5:16 @ The kind listened to this, and then turning aside to his potations, commanded the guests to sit down before him.

bes@3Macc:5:17 @ This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet.

bes@3Macc:5:18 @ Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and enquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day.

bes@3Macc:5:19 @ Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends.

bes@3Macc:5:20 @ The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, That they might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.

bes@3Macc:5:21 @ When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved; and then each man went to his own home.

bes@3Macc:5:22 @ Nor did they employ the night in sleep, so much as in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable.

bes@3Macc:5:23 @ The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade.

bes@3Macc:5:24 @ The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.

bes@3Macc:5:25 @ The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched forth their hands, and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily.

bes@3Macc:5:26 @ The sun's rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.

bes@3Macc:5:27 @ The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unwonted exit; and, overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, enquired the object of this earnest preparation.

bes@3Macc:5:28 @ But this was the wroking of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose.

bes@3Macc:5:29 @ Hermon, and all his friends, pointed out the preparation of the animals. they are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction.

bes@3Macc:5:30 @ The king was filled with fierce anger at these words; for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows:

bes@3Macc:5:31 @ Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.

bes@3Macc:5:32 @ Had it not been for familar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.

bes@3Macc:5:33 @ Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.

bes@3Macc:5:34 @ The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations.

bes@3Macc:5:35 @ The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him.

bes@3Macc:5:36 @ Now the king arranged another banquet after the same manner, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth.

bes@3Macc:5:27 @ And he summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to thee about these same persons?

bes@3Macc:5:28 @ Once more, arm the elephants against the morrow for the extermination of the Jews.

bes@3Macc:5:39 @ His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves:

bes@3Macc:5:40 @ O king, how long dost thou make trial of us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that thou hast ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, thou changest thy mind, and recallest thy instructions.

bes@3Macc:5:41 @ For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.

bes@3Macc:5:42 @ The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.

bes@3Macc:5:43 @ He would also invade Judea, and level its towns with fire and the sword; and destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there.

bes@3Macc:5:44 @ Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city.

bes@3Macc:5:45 @ And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments.

bes@3Macc:5:46 @ About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.

bes@3Macc:5:47 @ The king's heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the abovementioned.

bes@3Macc:5:48 @ But the when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force; and when they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd,

bes@3Macc:5:49 @ thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another's necks: fathers about their sons, mother their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.

bes@3Macc:5:50 @ Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the succour before granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord; removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and

bes@3Macc:5:51 @ sent up an exceeding great cry entreating the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades.

bes@3Macc:6:1 @ And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of day, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:

bes@3Macc:6:2 @ O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with thy tender mercy,

bes@3Macc:6:3 @ look upon the seed of Abraham, upon the children of the sanctified Jacob, thy sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as strangers in a strange land.

bes@3Macc:6:4 @ Thou destroyedst Pharaoh, with his hosts of chariots, when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless hardihood and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of thy mercy upon the race of Israel, thou didst overwhelm him with his proud army.

bes@3Macc:6:5 @ When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, glorying in his countless hosts, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was lifting himself against thine holy city, with boastings grievous to be endured, thou, O Lord, didst demolish him and didst shew forth thy might to many nations.

bes@3Macc:6:6 @ When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, thou didst send a dewy coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.

bes@3Macc:6:7 @ It was thou who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, didst bring him back against unhurt to light.

bes@3Macc:6:8 @ When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-bred monster, thou didst look upon him, O Father, and recover him to the sight of his own.

bes@3Macc:6:9 @ And now, thou who hatest insolence; thou who dost abound in mercy; thou who art the protector of all things; appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles.

bes@3Macc:6:10 @ If our life has during our exile been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which thou preferrest.

bes@3Macc:6:11 @ Let not the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of thy beloved, saying, Neither did their god deliver them.

bes@3Macc:6:12 @ Thou, who art All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! have mercy upon us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men.

bes@3Macc:6:13 @ Let the heathen cower before thine invincible might today, O glorious One, who hast all power to save the race of Jacob.

bes@3Macc:6:14 @ The whole band of infants and their parents with tears beseech thee.

bes@3Macc:6:15 @ Let it be shewn to all the nations that thou art with us, O Lord, and hast not turned thy face away from us; but as thou saidst that thou wouldst not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so do thou fulfil this saying, O Lord.

bes@3Macc:6:16 @ Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome, with the wild beasts, and with his tumultuous power.

bes@3Macc:6:17 @ When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.

bes@3Macc:6:18 @ Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews.

bes@3Macc:6:19 @ And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies' host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.

bes@3Macc:6:20 @ And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit.

bes@3Macc:6:21 @ They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.

bes@3Macc:6:22 @ The king's wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at his own machinations.

bes@3Macc:6:23 @ For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying,

bes@3Macc:6:24 @ Ye have governed badly; and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty; and me your benefactor ye have laboured to deprive at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom.

bes@3Macc:6:25 @ Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country?

bes@3Macc:6:26 @ Who has thus consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will towards us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings?

bes@3Macc:6:27 @ Loose, loose the unjust bonds; send them to their homes in peace, and deprecate what has been done.

bes@3Macc:6:28 @ Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors' times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.

bes@3Macc:6:29 @ These things he said; and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour.

bes@3Macc:6:30 @ The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to him, and bade him provide a seven days' quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a gladsome festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction.

bes@3Macc:6:31 @ Then they who were before despised and nigh unto hades, yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

bes@3Macc:6:32 @ Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, hymning in praise God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans, all wailing, were laid aside: they formed dances in token of serene joy.

bes@3Macc:6:33 @ So, also, the king collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him.

bes@3Macc:6:34 @ Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out.

bes@3Macc:6:35 @ But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgivings, and psalms.

bes@3Macc:6:36 @ They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them.

bes@3Macc:6:37 @ They requested the king to send them back to their homes.

bes@3Macc:6:38 @ They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days: the measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days.

bes@3Macc:6:39 @ The Ruler over all did during this time manifest forth his mercy gloriously, and did deliver them all together unharmed.

bes@3Macc:6:40 @ They feasted upon the king's provision up to the fourteenth day, and then asked to be sent away.

bes@3Macc:6:41 @ The king commended them, and wrote the subjoined letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city.

bes@3Macc:7:1 @ King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.

bes@3Macc:7:2 @ We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our affairs as we wish.

bes@3Macc:7:3 @ Certain of our friends did of malice vehemently urge us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment.

bes@3Macc:7:4 @ They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people.

bes@3Macc:7:5 @ They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, nay, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavoured to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom.

bes@3Macc:7:6 @ For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we are wont to extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons;

bes@3Macc:7:7 @ and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity towards us and towards our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge.

bes@3Macc:7:8 @ And we have dismissed them to their several homes; bidding all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past.

bes@3Macc:7:9 @ For know ye, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare ye well.

bes@3Macc:7:10 @ When they had received this letter, they were not forward to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God.

bes@3Macc:7:11 @ They alleged that men who had for their bellies' sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king.

bes@3Macc:7:12 @ The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king's dominions.

bes@3Macc:7:13 @ Their priests, then, as it was meet, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the Hallelujah. They then joyfully departed.

bes@3Macc:7:14 @ Then they punished and destryed with ignominy every polluted Jew that fell in their way;

bes@3Macc:7:15 @ slaying thus, in that day, above three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy.

bes@3Macc:7:16 @ They themselves having held fast their God unto death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Saviour of Israel.

bes@3Macc:7:17 @ Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days,

bes@3Macc:7:18 @ they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them severally the means of securing a return home.

bes@3Macc:7:19 @ They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to becoming thanks; and they determined to keep these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness.

bes@3Macc:7:20 @ These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king's command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home.

bes@3Macc:7:21 @ They had more weight than before among their enemies; and were honoured and feared, and no one in any way robbed them of their goods.

bes@3Macc:7:22 @ Every man received back his own, according to inventory; those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God wrought with perfectness wonders for their salvation.

bes@3Macc:7:23 @ Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel unto everlasting. Amen.

bes@4Macc:1:1 @ As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy.

bes@4Macc:1:2 @ For reason is necessary to every one as a step to science: and more especially does it embrace the praise of prudence, the highest virtue.

bes@4Macc:1:3 @ If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the passions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust,

bes@4Macc:1:4 @ it surely also and manifestly has the rule over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice; and of those which are hindrances to manliness, as wrath, and pain, and fear.

bes@4Macc:1:5 @ How, then, is it, perhaps some may say, that reasoning, if it rule the affections, is not also master of forgetfulness and ignorance? They attempt a ridiculous argument.

bes@4Macc:1:6 @ For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.

bes@4Macc:1:7 @ I might prove to you, from may other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions;

bes@4Macc:1:8 @ but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven brethren, and their mother, who suffered death in defence of virtue.

bes@4Macc:1:9 @ For all these, contemning pains even unto death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:10 @ For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours, I may count them happy.

bes@4Macc:1:11 @ For they, winning admiration not only from men in general, but even from the persecutors, for their manliness and endurance, became the means of the destruction of the tyranny against their nation, having conquered the tyrant by their endurance, so that by them their country was purified.

bes@4Macc:1:12 @ But we may now at once enter upon the question, having commenced, as is our wont, with laying down the doctrine, and so proceed to the account of these persons, giving glory to the all wise God.

bes@4Macc:1:13 @ The question, therefore, is, whether reasoning be absolute master of the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:14 @ Let us determine, then, What is reasoning? and what passion? and how many forms of the passions? and whether reasoning bears sway over all of these?

bes@4Macc:1:15 @ Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom.

bes@4Macc:1:16 @ And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.

bes@4Macc:1:17 @ And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably.

bes@4Macc:1:18 @ And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.19 The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:20 @ Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.

bes@4Macc:1:21 @ And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.

bes@4Macc:1:22 @ Before pleasure is lust; and after pleasure, joy.

bes@4Macc:1:23 @ And before pain is fear; and after pain is sorrow.

bes@4Macc:1:24 @ Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if any one will pay attention when it comes upon him.

bes@4Macc:1:25 @ And there exists in pleasure a malicious disposition, which is the most multiform of all the affections.

bes@4Macc:1:26 @ In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.

bes@4Macc:1:27 @ In the body it is greediness and gormandizing, and solitary gluttony.

bes@4Macc:1:28 @ As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

bes@4Macc:1:29 @ And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.

bes@4Macc:1:30 @ For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the passions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the passions.

bes@4Macc:1:31 @ Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts.

bes@4Macc:1:32 @ But of the lusts, some belong to the soul, others to the body: and over each of these classes the reasoning appears to bear sway.

bes@4Macc:1:33 @ For whence is it, otherwise, that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would ensue from them? Is it not because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so.

bes@4Macc:1:34 @ Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water-animals and birds, and fourfooted beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning.

bes@4Macc:1:35 @ For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning.

bes@4Macc:2:1 @ And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,

bes@4Macc:2:2 @ on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.

bes@4Macc:2:3 @ For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.

bes@4Macc:2:4 @ And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

bes@4Macc:2:5 @ For instance, the law says, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor anything that belongs to thy neighbour.

bes@4Macc:2:6 @ Now, then, since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice.

bes@4Macc:2:7 @ Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?

bes@4Macc:2:8 @ A man, therefore, who regulates his course by the law, even if he be a lover of money, straightway puts force upon his own disposition; lending to the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt of the incoming sabbath.

bes@4Macc:2:9 @ And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so that he does not glean his harvest crops, nor vintage: and in reference to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions.

bes@4Macc:2:10 @ For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

bes@4Macc:2:11 @ And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it when transgressing law.

bes@4Macc:2:12 @ And it lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice; and it domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked.

bes@4Macc:2:13 @ And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.

bes@4Macc:2:14 @ It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.

bes@4Macc:2:15 @ And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.

bes@4Macc:2:16 @ For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

bes@4Macc:2:17 @ Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.

bes@4Macc:2:18 @ For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the passions, and to transfer some, and destroy others.

bes@4Macc:2:19 @ For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

bes@4Macc:2:20 @ For if reasoning did not possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.

bes@4Macc:2:21 @ For at the time when God created man, He implanted within him his passions and moral nature.

bes@4Macc:2:22 @ And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.

bes@4Macc:2:23 @ And He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign.

bes@4Macc:2:24 @ How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance?

bes@4Macc:3:1 @ The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body,

bes@4Macc:3:2 @ in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it.

bes@4Macc:3:3 @ One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger.

bes@4Macc:3:4 @ Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice.

bes@4Macc:3:5 @ For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the passions.

bes@4Macc:3:6 @ And this may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of king David.

bes@4Macc:3:7 @ For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation slew many of them;

bes@4Macc:3:8 @ then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire host of our ancestors was encamped.

bes@4Macc:3:9 @ Now all the rest of them were at supper;

bes@4Macc:3:10 @ but the king, being very much athirst, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst;

bes@4Macc:3:11 @ but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy's camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.

bes@4Macc:3:12 @ Wherefore his body-guards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, reverencing the desire of the king, put on their panoplies, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies:

bes@4Macc:3:13 @ and unperceived by the guardians of the gate, they went throughout the whole camp of the enemy in quest.

bes@4Macc:3:14 @ And having boldly discovered the fountain, they filled out of it the draught for the king.

bes@4Macc:3:15 @ But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a draught reputed of equal value to blood, would be terribly dangerous to his soul.

bes@4Macc:3:16 @ Wherefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the draught to God.

bes@4Macc:3:17 @ For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the passions, and to quench the fires of excitement,

bes@4Macc:3:18 @ and to wrestle down the pains of the body, however excessive; and, through the excellency of reasoning, to abominate all the assaults of the passions.

bes@4Macc:3:19 @ But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history.

bes@4Macc:3:20 @ For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law, and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government,

bes@4Macc:3:21 @ then certain persons, bringing in new things contrary to the general unanimity, in various ways fell into calamities.

bes@4Macc:4:1 @ For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honourable and good man, after that by slandering him in every way, he could not injure him with the people, went away as an exile, with the intention of betraying his country.

bes@4Macc:4:2 @ Whence coming to Apollonius, the military governor of Syria, and Phoenicia, and Cilicia, he said,

bes@4Macc:4:3 @ Having good will to the king's affairs, I am come to inform thee that infinite private wealth is laid up in the treasuries of Jerusalem which do not belong to the temple, but pertain to king Seleucus.

bes@4Macc:4:4 @ Apollonius, acquainting himself with the particulars of this, praised Simon for his care of the king's interests, and going up to Seleucus informed him of the treasure;

bes@4Macc:4:5 @ and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force,

bes@4Macc:4:6 @ he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure.

bes@4Macc:4:7 @ And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.

bes@4Macc:4:8 @ But Appolonius went away with threats into the temple.

bes@4Macc:4:9 @ And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,

bes@4Macc:4:10 @ and Appolonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure,--there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armour, filling them with much fear and trembling.

bes@4Macc:4:11 @ And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly host.

bes@4Macc:4:12 @ For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place.

bes@4Macc:4:13 @ Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that king Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;

bes@4Macc:4:14 @ and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him.

bes@4Macc:4:15 @ But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of haughty pride and terrible.

bes@4Macc:4:16 @ Who having deposed Onias from the high priesthood, appointed his brother Jason to be high priest:

bes@4Macc:4:17 @ who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.

bes@4Macc:4:18 @ And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation.

bes@4Macc:4:19 @ And he both changed the manner of living of the people, and perverted their civil customs into all lawlessness.

bes@4Macc:4:20 @ So that he not only erected a gymnasium on the very citadel of our country, the guardianship of the temple.

bes@4Macc:4:21 @ At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them.

bes@4Macc:4:22 @ For being at war with Ptolemy in Egypt, he heard that on a report of his death being spread abroad, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had exceedingly rejoiced, and he quickly marched against them.

bes@4Macc:4:23 @ And having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the laws of his country he should die.

bes@4Macc:4:24 @ And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effect,

bes@4Macc:4:25 @ for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them, knowing beforehand of the punishment.

bes@4Macc:4:26 @ When, therefore, his decrees were disregarded by the people, he himself compelled by means of tortures every one of this race, by tasting forbidden meats, to abjure the Jewish religion.

bes@4Macc:5:1 @ The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him, commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine's flesh, and things offered to idols.

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bes@4Macc:5:3 @ And should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel, and so killed.

bes@4Macc:5:4 @ And when many had been seized, a foremost man of the assembly, a Hebrew, by name Eleazar, a priest by family, by profession a lawyer, and advanced in years, and for this reason known to many of the king's followers, was brought near to him.

bes@4Macc:5:5 @ And Antiochus seeing him, said,

bes@4Macc:5:6 @ I would counsel thee, old man, before thy tortures begin, to tasted the swine's flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews.

bes@4Macc:5:7 @ For wherefore, since nature has conferred upon you the most excellent flesh of this animal, do you loathe it?

bes@4Macc:5:8 @ It seems senseless not to enjoy what is pleasant, yet not disgraceful; and from notions of sinfulness, to reject the boons of nature.

bes@4Macc:5:9 @ And you will be acting, I think, still more senselessly, if you follow vain conceits about the truth.

bes@4Macc:5:10 @ And you will, moreover, be despising me to your own punishment.

bes@4Macc:5:11 @ Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?

bes@4Macc:5:12 @ and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years?

bes@4Macc:5:13 @ For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.

bes@4Macc:5:14 @ While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.

bes@4Macc:5:15 @ And having received power to speak, he began thus to deliver himself:

bes@4Macc:5:16 @ We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;

bes@4Macc:5:17 @ wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.

bes@4Macc:5:18 @ And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.

bes@4Macc:5:19 @ think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.

bes@4Macc:5:20 @ For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;

bes@4Macc:5:21 @ for in either case the law is equally slighted.

bes@4Macc:5:22 @ But thou deridest our philosophy, as though we lived irrationally in it.

bes@4Macc:5:23 @ Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.

bes@4Macc:5:24 @ And it instructs us in justice, so that in all our dealoings we render what is due; and it teaches us piety, so that we worship the one only God becomingly.

bes@4Macc:5:25 @ Wherefore it is that we eat not the unclean; for believing that the law was established by God, we are convinced that the Creator of the world, in giving his laws, sympathises with our nature.

bes@4Macc:5:26 @ Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted.

bes@4Macc:5:27 @ But, tyrant-like, thou not only forcest us to break the law, but also to eat, that thou mayest ridicule us as we thus profanely eat:

bes@4Macc:5:28 @ but thou shalt not have this cause of laughter against me;

bes@4Macc:5:29 @ nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.

bes@4Macc:5:30 @ No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails.

bes@4Macc:5:31 @ I am not so old, and void of manliness, but that my rational powers are youthful in defence of my religion.

bes@4Macc:5:32 @ Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame.

bes@4Macc:5:33 @ I will not so compassionate my old age, as on my account to break the law of my country.

bes@4Macc:5:34 @ I will not belie thee, O law, my instructor! or forsake thee, O beloved self-control!

bes@4Macc:5:35 @ I will not put thee to shame, O philosopher Reason; or deny thee, O honoured priesthood, and science of the law.

bes@4Macc:5:36 @ Mouth! thou shalt not pollute my old age, nor the full stature of a perfect life.

bes@4Macc:5:37 @ My fathers shall receive me pure, not having quailed before your compulsion, though unto death.

bes@4Macc:5:38 @ For over the ungodly thou shalt tyrannize; but thou shalt not lord it over my thoughts about religion, either by thine arguments, or through deeds.

bes@4Macc:6:1 @ When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.

bes@4Macc:6:2 @ And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.

bes@4Macc:6:3 @ Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;

bes@4Macc:6:4 @ a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.

bes@4Macc:6:5 @ But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.

bes@4Macc:6:6 @ But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man's flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.

bes@4Macc:6:7 @ And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.

bes@4Macc:6:8 @ then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright.

bes@4Macc:6:9 @ But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;

bes@4Macc:6:10 @ and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.

bes@4Macc:6:11 @ His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage.

bes@4Macc:6:12 @ Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,

bes@4Macc:6:13 @ partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said, Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?

bes@4Macc:6:15 @ We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine's flesh.

bes@4Macc:6:16 @ And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,

bes@4Macc:6:17 @ Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence;

bes@4Macc:6:18 @ for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,

bes@4Macc:6:19 @ and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.

bes@4Macc:6:20 @ It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,

bes@4Macc:6:21 @ and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.

bes@4Macc:6:22 @ Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.

bes@4Macc:6:23 @ Ye spearbearers of the tyrant, why do ye linger?

bes@4Macc:6:24 @ Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:

bes@4Macc:6:25 @ then with their wickedly-contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.

bes@4Macc:6:26 @ And he being at length burnt down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said,

bes@4Macc:6:27 @ Thou knowest, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.

bes@4Macc:6:28 @ Be merciful to thy people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.

bes@4Macc:6:29 @ Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.

bes@4Macc:6:30 @ Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

bes@4Macc:6:31 @ Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.

bes@4Macc:6:32 @ For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.

bes@4Macc:6:33 @ But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.

bes@4Macc:6:34 @ And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.

bes@4Macc:6:35 @ Ridiculous would it be were it not so; and I prove that reasoning has not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior to the pleasures, and withstands them.

bes@4Macc:7:1 @ The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,

bes@4Macc:7:2 @ and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,

bes@4Macc:7:3 @ in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death.

bes@4Macc:7:4 @ Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.

bes@4Macc:7:5 @ For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging wabves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.

bes@4Macc:7:6 @ O priest worthy of the priesthood! thou didst not pollute thy sacred teeth; nor make thine appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.

bes@4Macc:7:7 @ O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!

bes@4Macc:7:8 @ Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even unto death.

bes@4Macc:7:9 @ Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.

bes@4Macc:7:10 @ O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!

bes@4Macc:7:11 @ For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,

bes@4Macc:7:12 @ so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning.

bes@4Macc:7:13 @ And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labours of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.

bes@4Macc:7:14 @ By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.

bes@4Macc:7:15 @ O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.

bes@4Macc:7:16 @ If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.

bes@4Macc:7:17 @ But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

bes@4Macc:7:18 @ But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh;

bes@4Macc:7:19 @ they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.

bes@4Macc:7:20 @ This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:

bes@4Macc:7:21 @ since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,

bes@4Macc:7:22 @ and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virture, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

bes@4Macc:7:23 @ For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions.

bes@4Macc:7:24 @ Whence it is, that even boys, imbued with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures:

bes@4Macc:7:25 @ for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,-

bes@4Macc:8:1 @ Then, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously.

bes@4Macc:8:2 @ The tyrant having given this charge, seven brethren were brought into his presence, along with their aged mother, handsome, and modest, and well-born, and altogether comely.

bes@4Macc:8:3 @ Whom, when the tyrant beheld, encircling their mother as in a dance, he was pleased at them; and being struck with their becoming and ingenuous mien, smiled upon them, and calling them near, said:

bes@4Macc:8:4 @ O youths, with favourable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honouring so numerous a band of brethren, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before,

bes@4Macc:8:5 @ but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

bes@4Macc:8:6 @ Put confidence in me, then, and you shall receive places of authority in my government, if you forsake your national ordinance,

bes@4Macc:8:7 @ and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth's delights.

bes@4Macc:8:8 @ For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.

bes@4Macc:8:9 @ Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.

bes@4Macc:8:10 @ Will you not reason upon this--that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?

bes@4Macc:8:11 @ Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.

bes@4Macc:8:12 @ And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapeltae, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue:

bes@4Macc:8:13 @ Fear, young men, and the righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.

bes@4Macc:8:14 @ Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power.

bes@4Macc:8:15 @ Now let us consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly among them, what reasonings would they have employed but these?

bes@4Macc:8:16 @ O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?

bes@4Macc:8:17 @ Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death?

bes@4Macc:8:18 @ Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture and weigh the threatenings of torment and shun this vain-glory and destructive pride?

bes@4Macc:8:19 @ Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.

bes@4Macc:8:20 @ And let us bear in mind that we shall be dying as rebels.

bes@4Macc:8:21 @ And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity.

bes@4Macc:8:22 @ Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?

bes@4Macc:8:23 @ Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.

bes@4Macc:8:24 @ The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.

bes@4Macc:8:25 @ Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?

bes@4Macc:8:26 @ But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.

bes@4Macc:8:27 @ For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains. So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:

bes@4Macc:9:1 @ Why delayest thou, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.

bes@4Macc:9:2 @ And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.

bes@4Macc:9:3 @ O tyrant, counsellor of law-breaking, do not, hating us as thou dost, pity us more than we pity ourselves.

bes@4Macc:9:4 @ For we account escape to be worse than death.

bes@4Macc:9:5 @ And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though thou hadst learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.

bes@4Macc:9:6 @ But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.

bes@4Macc:9:7 @ Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if thou puttest us to death for our religion, think not that thou harmest us by torturing us.

bes@4Macc:9:8 @ For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.

bes@4Macc:9:9 @ But thou, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shalt, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.

bes@4Macc:9:10 @ When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful.

bes@4Macc:9:11 @ So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the eldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.

bes@4Macc:9:12 @ And when they had laboured hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.

bes@4Macc:9:13 @ And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.

bes@4Macc:9:14 @ And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation,

bes@4Macc:9:15 @ O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom thou thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.

bes@4Macc:9:16 @ And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be releasted from your tortures,--

bes@4Macc:9:17 @ he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.

bes@4Macc:9:18 @ For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue.

bes@4Macc:9:19 @ While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.

bes@4Macc:9:20 @ And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine.

bes@4Macc:9:21 @ And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan.

bes@4Macc:9:22 @ But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying

bes@4Macc:9:23 @ Imitate me, O brethren, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honourable fight of religion;

bes@4Macc:9:24 @ by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.

bes@4Macc:9:25 @ And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.

bes@4Macc:9:26 @ And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt.

bes@4Macc:9:27 @ And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,

bes@4Macc:9:28 @ after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,

bes@4Macc:9:29 @ How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,

bes@4Macc:9:30 @ Thinkest thou not, most cruel of all tyrants, that thou art now tortured more than I, finding thine overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion?

bes@4Macc:9:31 @ For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue.

bes@4Macc:9:32 @ But thou art tortured with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.

bes@4Macc:10:1 @ Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.

bes@4Macc:10:2 @ But he cried out and said, Know ye not, that the father of those who are dead, begat me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets?

bes@4Macc:10:3 @ I abjure not the noble relationship of my brethren.

bes@4Macc:10:4 @ Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance ye have, apply it to my body, for ye are not able to touch, even if ye wish it, my soul.

bes@4Macc:10:5 @ But they, highly incensed at his boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him.

bes@4Macc:10:6 @ And they dragged round his fingers, and his arms, and his legs, and his ankles.

bes@4Macc:10:7 @ And not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers, flayed him, and then haled him to the wheel;

bes@4Macc:10:8 @ around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails.

bes@4Macc:10:9 @ And when about to die, he said,

bes@4Macc:10:10 @ We, O accursed tyrant, suffer this for the sake of Divine education and virtue.

bes@4Macc:10:11 @ But thou, for thine impiety and blood-shedding, shalt endure indissoluble torments.

bes@4Macc:10:12 @ And thus having died worthily of his brethren, they dragged forward the fourth, saying,

bes@4Macc:10:13 @ Do not thou share the madness of thy brethren: but give regard to the king, and save thyself.

bes@4Macc:10:14 @ But he said to them, You have not a fire so scorching as to make me play the coward.

bes@4Macc:10:15 @ By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.

bes@4Macc:10:16 @ Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.

bes@4Macc:10:17 @ When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out.

bes@4Macc:10:18 @ But he said, Even if you take away the organ of speech, yet God hears the silent.

bes@4Macc:10:19 @ Behold, my tongue is extended, cut it off; for not for that halt thou extirpate our reasoning.

bes@4Macc:10:20 @ Gladly do we lose our limbs in behalf of God.

bes@4Macc:10:21 @ But God shall speedly find you, since you cut off the tongue, the instrument of divine melody.

bes@4Macc:11:1 @ And when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,

bes@4Macc:11:2 @ I intend not, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is in behalf of virtue.

bes@4Macc:11:3 @ But I have come of mine own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes.

bes@4Macc:11:4 @ O thou hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that thou thus revellest in our blood?

bes@4Macc:11:5 @ Does it seem evil to thee that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

bes@4Macc:11:6 @ But this is worthy of honours, not torments;

bes@4Macc:11:7 @ hadst thou been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.

bes@4Macc:11:8 @ Behold now, being alien from God, thou makest war against those who are religious toward God.

bes@4Macc:11:9 @ As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:

bes@4Macc:11:10 @ to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.

bes@4Macc:11:11 @ With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,

bes@4Macc:11:12 @ A great favour thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

bes@4Macc:11:13 @ He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,

bes@4Macc:11:14 @ I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am am as old;

bes@4Macc:11:15 @ for having been born and reared unto the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.

bes@4Macc:11:16 @ So that if ye think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean;--torment!

bes@4Macc:11:17 @ As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.

bes@4Macc:11:18 @ Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.

bes@4Macc:11:19 @ And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.

bes@4Macc:11:20 @ And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brethren have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.

bes@4Macc:11:21 @ For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.

bes@4Macc:11:22 @ Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my brethren.

bes@4Macc:11:23 @ I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.

bes@4Macc:11:24 @ We six youths have destroyed thy tyranny.

bes@4Macc:11:25 @ For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, thy destruction?

bes@4Macc:11:26 @ Your fire is cold to us, your catapelts are painless, and your violence harmless.

bes@4Macc:11:27 @ For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders: through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.

bes@4Macc:12:1 @ When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the caldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:

bes@4Macc:12:2 @ whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren,

bes@4Macc:12:3 @ seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavoured to counsel him, saying,

bes@4Macc:12:4 @ Thou seest the end of the madness of thy brethren: for they have died to torture through disobedience; and you, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented, will yourself perish prematurely.

bes@4Macc:12:5 @ But if you obey, you shall be my friend, and have a charge over the affairs of the kingdom.

bes@4Macc:12:6 @ And having thus exhorted him, he sent for the mother of the boy; that, by condoling with her for the loss of so many sons, he might incline her, through the hope of safety, to render the survivor obedient.

bes@4Macc:12:7 @ And he, after his mother had urged him on in the Hebrew tongue, (as we shall soon relate) saith,

bes@4Macc:12:8 @ Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends.

bes@4Macc:12:9 @ And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.

bes@4Macc:12:10 @ And he, running up to the pans, said,

bes@4Macc:12:11 @ Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, wert thou not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to slay His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?

bes@4Macc:12:12 @ Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving thee for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to thee for all time.

bes@4Macc:12:13 @ Wert thou not ashamed, man as thou art, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?

bes@4Macc:12:14 @ But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion towards God.

bes@4Macc:12:15 @ But thou shalt groan according to thy deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue.

bes@4Macc:12:16 @ Wherefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die,

bes@4Macc:12:17 @ will not forsake my brethren.

bes@4Macc:12:18 @ And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.

bes@4Macc:12:19 @ But thee, both living and dead, he will punish.

bes@4Macc:12:20 @ Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired.

bes@4Macc:13:1 @ If then, the seven brethren despised troubles even unto death, it is confessed on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the passions.

bes@4Macc:13:2 @ For just as if, had they as slaves to the passions, eaten of the unholy, we should have said that they had been conquered by the;

bes@4Macc:13:3 @ now it is not so: but by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their passions.

bes@4Macc:13:4 @ And it is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection: for it gained the victory over both passions and troubles.

bes@4Macc:13:5 @ How, then, can we avoid according to these men mastery of passion through right reasoning, since they drew not back from the pains of fire?

bes@4Macc:13:6 @ For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbours men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port,

bes@4Macc:13:7 @ so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the intermperance of passions.

bes@4Macc:13:8 @ For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying,

bes@4Macc:13:9 @ Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace.

bes@4Macc:13:10 @ Let us not be cowards in the manifestation of piety.

bes@4Macc:13:11 @ And one said, Courage, brother; and another, Nobly endure.

bes@4Macc:13:12 @ And another, Remember of what stock ye are; and by the hand of our father Isaac endured to be slain for the sake of piety.

bes@4Macc:13:13 @ And one and all, looking on each other serene and confident, said, Let us sacrifice with all our heart our souls to God who gave them, and employ our bodies for the keeping of the law.

bes@4Macc:13:14 @ Let us not fear him who thinketh he killeth;

bes@4Macc:13:15 @ for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.

bes@4Macc:13:16 @ Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning.

bes@4Macc:13:17 @ If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us.

bes@4Macc:13:18 @ And as each one of the brethren was haled away, the rest exclaimed, Disgrace us not, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you.

bes@4Macc:13:19 @ Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence hath imparted through fathers to children, and hath engendered through the mother's womb.

bes@4Macc:13:20 @ In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,

bes@4Macc:13:21 @ and having been brought forth at equal intervals, and having sucked milk from the same fountains, hence their brotherly souls are reared up lovingly together;

bes@4Macc:13:22 @ and increase the more powerfully by reason of this simultaneous rearing, and by daily intercourse, and by other education, and exercise in the law of God.

bes@4Macc:13:23 @ Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven brethren had a more sympathetic mutual harmony.

bes@4Macc:13:24 @ For being educated in the same law, and practising the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each other.

bes@4Macc:13:25 @ For a like ardour for what is right and honourable increased their fellow-feeling towards each other.

bes@4Macc:13:26 @ For it acting along with religion, made their brotherly feeling more desirable to them.

bes@4Macc:13:27 @ And yet, although nature and intercourse and virtuous morals increased their brotherly love those who were left endured to behold their brethren, who were illused for their religion, tortured even unto death.

bes@4Macc:14:1 @ And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.

bes@4Macc:14:2 @ O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!

bes@4Macc:14:3 @ Sacred and harmonius concert of the seven brethern as concerning piety!

bes@4Macc:14:4 @ None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.

bes@4Macc:14:5 @ But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.

bes@4Macc:14:6 @ For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed unto death for religion's sake, as through the immortal soul of religion.

bes@4Macc:14:7 @ O holy seven of harmonious brethren! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,

bes@4Macc:14:8 @ so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.

bes@4Macc:14:9 @ We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only beheld, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.

bes@4Macc:14:10 @ And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.

bes@4Macc:14:11 @ And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman's mind despised more manifold pains.

bes@4Macc:14:12 @ For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children.

bes@4Macc:14:13 @ And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection,

bes@4Macc:14:14 @ where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

bes@4Macc:14:15 @ The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses, defend their fledglings.

bes@4Macc:14:16 @ Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.

bes@4Macc:14:17 @ And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.

bes@4Macc:14:18 @ But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shewn by irrational animals?

bes@4Macc:14:19 @ The very bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even unto death.

bes@4Macc:14:20 @ But sympathy with her children did not turn aside the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.

bes@4Macc:15:1 @ O reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny!

bes@4Macc:15:2 @ The mother, when two things were set before here, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant,

bes@4Macc:15:3 @ rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life.

bes@4Macc:15:4 @ O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!

bes@4Macc:15:5 @ for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.

bes@4Macc:15:6 @ And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them;

bes@4Macc:15:7 @ and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;

bes@4Macc:15:8 @ yet, through fear of God, who neglected the temporary salvation of her children.

bes@4Macc:15:9 @ Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.

bes@4Macc:15:10 @ For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their mother that even unto death they obeyed her by observing the law.

bes@4Macc:15:11 @ And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

bes@4Macc:15:12 @ But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.

bes@4Macc:15:13 @ O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!

bes@4Macc:15:14 @ At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.

bes@4Macc:15:15 @ She beheld her children's flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forwards down to their beards, like masks.

bes@4Macc:15:16 @ O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!

bes@4Macc:15:17 @ O thou only woman who hast brought forth perfect holiness!

bes@4Macc:15:18 @ Thy first-born, expiring, turned thee not; nor the second, looking miserable in his torments; nor the third, breathing out his soul.

bes@4Macc:15:19 @ Nor when thou didst behold the eyes of each of them looking sternly upon their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death, didst thou weep!

bes@4Macc:15:20 @ When thou didst see children's flesh heaped upon children's flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated upon heads, dead falling upon the dead, and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground, thou lamentedst not.

bes@4Macc:15:21 @ Not so do siren melodies, or songs of swans, attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling upon your mother in the midst of torments!

bes@4Macc:15:22 @ With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!

bes@4Macc:15:23 @ But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.

bes@4Macc:15:24 @ Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off through faith in God.

bes@4Macc:15:25 @ For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counsellors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,

bes@4Macc:15:26 @ she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,

bes@4Macc:15:27 @ did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.

bes@4Macc:15:28 @ But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude.

bes@4Macc:15:29 @ O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!

bes@4Macc:15:30 @ O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!

bes@4Macc:15:31 @ For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,

bes@4Macc:15:32 @ so thou, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of they children, didst bear up nobly against the storms against religion.

bes@4Macc:16:1 @ If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children's torments even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.

bes@4Macc:16:2 @ I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments.

bes@4Macc:16:3 @ And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she beheld her seven sons tortured.

bes@4Macc:16:4 @ But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful.

bes@4Macc:16:5 @ For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their other, she would have lamented over them; and perhaps might have spoken thus:

bes@4Macc:16:6 @ Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none.

bes@4Macc:16:7 @ O seven useless childbirths, and seven profitless periods of labour, and fruitless givings of suck, and miserable nursings at the breast.

bes@4Macc:16:8 @ Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.

bes@4Macc:16:9 @ Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.

bes@4Macc:16:10 @ Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!

bes@4Macc:16:11 @ Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament is this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.

bes@4Macc:16:12 @ Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead.

bes@4Macc:16:13 @ But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplication exhorted them to death in behalf of religion.

bes@4Macc:16:14 @ O woman, soldier of God for religion, thou, aged and a female, hast conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, hast been found more powerful in deeds and words.

bes@4Macc:16:15 @ For when thou wast seized along with thy children, thou stoodest looking upon Eleazar in torments, and saidst to thy sons in the Hebrew tongue,

bes@4Macc:16:16 @ O sons, noble is the contest; to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country.

bes@4Macc:16:17 @ For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures.

bes@4Macc:16:18 @ Remember that through God ye obtained existence, and have enjoyed it.

bes@4Macc:16:19 @ And on this second account ye ought to bear every affliction because of God.

bes@4Macc:16:20 @ For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.

bes@4Macc:16:21 @ And the righteous Daniel was cast unto the lions; and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, were slung out into a furnace of fire; yet they endured through God.

bes@4Macc:16:22 @ You, then, having the same faith towards God, be not troubled.

bes@4Macc:16:23 @ For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles.

bes@4Macc:16:24 @ With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God.

bes@4Macc:16:25 @ And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs.

bes@4Macc:17:1 @ And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.

bes@4Macc:17:2 @ O thou mother, who together with seven children didst destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!

bes@4Macc:17:3 @ For thou, as an house bravely built upon the pillar of thy children, didst bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.

bes@4Macc:17:4 @ Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm hope of your steadfastness with God.

bes@4Macc:17:5 @ Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honourable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons who thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.

bes@4Macc:17:6 @ For thy bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.

bes@4Macc:17:7 @ And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.

bes@4Macc:17:8 @ And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,

bes@4Macc:17:9 @ Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.

bes@4Macc:17:10 @ These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.

bes@4Macc:17:11 @ For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them.

bes@4Macc:17:12 @ For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.

bes@4Macc:17:13 @ Eleazar was the first to contend: and the mother of the seven children entered the contest; and the brethren contended.

bes@4Macc:17:14 @ The tyrant was the opposite; and the world and living men were the spectators.

bes@4Macc:17:15 @ And reverence for God conquered, and crowned her own athletes.

bes@4Macc:17:16 @ Who did not admire those champions of true legislation? who were not astonied?

bes@4Macc:17:17 @ The tyrant himself, and all their council, admired their endurance;

bes@4Macc:17:18 @ through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.

bes@4Macc:17:19 @ For Moses saith, And all the saints are under thine hands.

bes@4Macc:17:20 @ These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honoured not only with this honour, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;

bes@4Macc:17:21 @ and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.

bes@4Macc:17:22 @ For they became the atnipoised to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death.

bes@4Macc:17:23 @ For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.

bes@4Macc:17:24 @ And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.

bes@4Macc:18:1 @ O Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious.

bes@4Macc:18:2 @ Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.

bes@4Macc:18:3 @ When those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.

bes@4Macc:18:4 @ And the nation through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the law in their country, drove the enemy out of the land.

bes@4Macc:18:5 @ And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,

bes@4Macc:18:6 @ then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians.

bes@4Macc:18:7 @ And the righteous mother of the seven children spake also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father's house; but I took care of the built-up rib.

bes@4Macc:18:8 @ No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.

bes@4Macc:18:9 @ And these my children, having arrive at maturity, their father died: blessed was he! for having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children.

bes@4Macc:18:10 @ And he used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets.

bes@4Macc:18:11 @ He used to read to you the slaying of Abel by Cain, and the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph.

bes@4Macc:18:12 @ And he used to tell you of the zealous Phinehas; and informed you of Ananias and Azarias, and Misael in the fire.

bes@4Macc:18:13 @ And he used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed.

bes@4Macc:18:14 @ And he used to put you in mind of the scripture of Esaias, which saith, Even if thou pass through the fire, it shall not burn thee.

bes@4Macc:18:15 @ He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who saith, Many are the afflictions of the just.

bes@4Macc:18:16 @ He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who saith, He is a tree of life to all those who do His will.

bes@4Macc:18:17 @ He used to verify Ezekiel, who said, Shall these dry bones live?

bes@4Macc:18:18 @ For he did not forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live.

bes@4Macc:18:19 @ This is our life, and the length of our days.

bes@4Macc:18:20 @ O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!

bes@4Macc:18:21 @ He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.

bes@4Macc:18:22 @ Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.

bes@4Macc:18:23 @ But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their fathers; having received pure and immortal souls from God.

bes@4Macc:18:24 @ To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

bes@1Esd:1:1 @ And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day of the first month;

bes@1Esd:1:2 @ Having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in long garments, in the temple of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:3 @ And he spake unto the Levites, the holy ministers of Israel, that they should hallow themselves unto the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that king Solomon the son of David had built:

bes@1Esd:1:4 @ And said, Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister unto his people Israel, and prepare you after your families and kindreds,

bes@1Esd:1:5 @ According as David the king of Israel prescribed, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the temple according to the several dignity of the families of you the Levites, who minister in the presence of your brethren the children of Israel,

bes@1Esd:1:6 @ Offer the passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the passover according to the commandment of the Lord, which was given unto Moses.

bes@1Esd:1:7 @ And unto the people that was found there Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousand calves: these things were given of the king’s allowance, according as he promised, to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites.

bes@1Esd:1:8 @ And Helkias, Zacharias, and Syelus, the governors of the temple, gave to the priests for the passover two thousand and six hundred sheep, and three hundred calves.

bes@1Esd:1:9 @ And Jeconias, and Samaias, and Nathanael his brother, and Assabias, and Ochiel, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.

bes@1Esd:1:10 @ And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in very comely order according to the kindreds,

bes@1Esd:1:11 @ And according to the several dignities of the fathers, before the people, to offer to the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses: and thus did they in the morning.

bes@1Esd:1:12 @ And they roasted the passover with fire, as appertaineth: as for the sacrifices, they sod them in brass pots and pans with a good savour,

bes@1Esd:1:13 @ And set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests their brethren, the sons of Aaron.

bes@1Esd:1:14 @ For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Levites prepared for themselves, and the priests their brethren, the sons of Aaron.

bes@1Esd:1:15 @ The holy singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their order, according to the appointment of David, to wit, Asaph, Zacharias, and Jeduthun, who was of the king’s retinue.

bes@1Esd:1:16 @ Moreover the porters were at every gate; it was not lawful for any to go from his ordinary service: for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

bes@1Esd:1:17 @ Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, that they might hold the passover,

bes@1Esd:1:18 @ And offer sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of king Josias.

bes@1Esd:1:19 @ So the children of Israel which were present held the passover at that time, and the feast of sweet bread seven days.

bes@1Esd:1:20 @ And such a passover was not kept in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.

bes@1Esd:1:21 @ Yea, all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, and the Jews, held with all Israel that were found dwelling at Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:22 @ In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this passover kept.

bes@1Esd:1:23 @ And the works or Josias were upright before his Lord with an heart full of godliness.

bes@1Esd:1:24 @ As for the things that came to pass in his time, they were written in former times, concerning those that sinned, and did wickedly against the Lord above all people and kingdoms, and how they grieved him exceedingly, so that the words of the Lord rose up against Israel.

bes@1Esd:1:25 @ Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war at Carchamis upon Euphrates: and Josias went out against him.

bes@1Esd:1:26 @ But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, O king of Judea?

bes@1Esd:1:27 @ I am not sent out from the Lord God against thee; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the Lord is with me, yea, the Lord is with me hasting me forward: depart from me, and be not against the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:28 @ Howbeit Josias did not turn back his chariot from him, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy spoken by the mouth of the Lord:

bes@1Esd:1:29 @ But joined battle with him in the plain of Magiddo, and the princes came against king Josias.

bes@1Esd:1:30 @ Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants took him away out of the battle.

bes@1Esd:1:31 @ Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem died, and was buried in his father’s sepulchre.

bes@1Esd:1:32 @ And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias, yea, Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him unto this day: and this was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel.

bes@1Esd:1:33 @ These things are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Judah, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now recited, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judea.

bes@1Esd:1:34 @ And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when he was twenty and three years old.

bes@1Esd:1:35 @ And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:36 @ And he set a tax upon the land of an hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.

bes@1Esd:1:37 @ The king of Egypt also made king Joacim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:38 @ And he bound Joacim and the nobles: but Zaraces his brother he apprehended, and brought him out of Egypt.

bes@1Esd:1:39 @ Five and twenty years old was Joacim when he was made king in the land of Judea and Jerusalem; and he did evil before the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:40 @ Wherefore against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him into Babylon.

bes@1Esd:1:41 @ Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them in his own temple at Babylon.

bes@1Esd:1:42 @ But those things that are recorded of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings.

bes@1Esd:1:43 @ And Joacim his son reigned in his stead: he was made king being eighteen years old;

bes@1Esd:1:44 @ And reigned but three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did evil before the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:45 @ So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought into Babylon with the holy vessels of the Lord;

bes@1Esd:1:46 @ And made Zedechias king of Judea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned eleven years:

bes@1Esd:1:47 @ And he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the mouth of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:1:48 @ And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.

bes@1Esd:1:49 @ The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:1:50 @ Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he spared them and his tabernacle also.

bes@1Esd:1:51 @ But they had his messengers in derision; and, look, when the Lord spake unto them, they made a sport of his prophets:

bes@1Esd:1:52 @ So far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded the kings of the Chaldees to come up against them;

bes@1Esd:1:53 @ Who slew their young men with the sword, yea, even within the compass of their holy temple, and spared neither young man nor maid, old man nor child, among them; for he delivered all into their hands.

bes@1Esd:1:54 @ And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of God, and the king’s treasures, and carried them away into Babylon.

bes@1Esd:1:55 @ As for the house of the Lord, they burnt it, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire upon her towers:

bes@1Esd:1:56 @ And as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had consumed and brought them all to nought: and the people that were not slain with the sword he carried unto Babylon:

bes@1Esd:1:57 @ Who became servants to him and his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremy:

bes@1Esd:1:58 @ Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of seventy years.

bes@1Esd:2:1 @ In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord might be accomplished, that he had promised by the mouth of Jeremy;

bes@1Esd:2:2 @ The Lord raised up the spirit of Cyrus the king of the Persians, and he made proclamation through all his kingdom, and also by writing,

bes@1Esd:2:3 @ Saying, Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians; The Lord of Israel, the most high Lord, hath made me king of the whole world,

bes@1Esd:2:4 @ And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry.

bes@1Esd:2:5 @ If therefore there be any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel: for he is the Lord that dwelleth in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:2:6 @ Whosoever then dwell in the places about, let them help him, those, I say, that are his neighbours, with gold, and with silver,

bes@1Esd:2:7 @ With gifts, with horses, and with cattle, and other things, which have been set forth by vow, for the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:2:8 @ Then the chief of the families of Judea and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose mind the Lord had moved to go up, and to build an house for the Lord at Jerusalem,

bes@1Esd:2:9 @ And they that dwelt round about them, and helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many free gifts of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.

bes@1Esd:2:10 @ King Cyrus also brought forth the holy vessels, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem, and had set up in his temple of idols.

bes@1Esd:2:11 @ Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:

bes@1Esd:2:12 @ And by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judea.

bes@1Esd:2:13 @ And this was the number of them; A thousand golden cups, and a thousand of silver, censers of silver twenty nine, vials of gold thirty, and of silver two thousand four hundred and ten, and a thousand other vessels.

bes@1Esd:2:14 @ So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried away, were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.

bes@1Esd:2:15 @ These were brought back by Sanabassar, together with them of the captivity, from Babylon to Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:2:16 @ But in the time of Artaxerxes king of the Persians Belemus, and Mithridates, and Tabellius, and Rathumus, and Beeltethmus, and Semellius the secretary, with others that were in commission with them, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote unto him against them that dwelt in Judea and Jerusalem these letters following;

bes@1Esd:2:17 @ To king Artaxerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rathumus the storywriter, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@1Esd:2:18 @ Be it now known to the lord king, that the Jews that are up from you to us, being come into Jerusalem, that rebellious and wicked city, do build the marketplaces, and repair the walls of it and do lay the foundation of the temple.

bes@1Esd:2:19 @ Now if this city and the walls thereof be made up again, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but also rebel against kings.

bes@1Esd:2:20 @ And forasmuch as the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it meet not to neglect such a matter,

bes@1Esd:2:21 @ But to speak unto our lord the king, to the intent that, if it be thy pleasure it may be sought out in the books of thy fathers:

bes@1Esd:2:22 @ And thou shalt find in the chronicles what is written concerning these things, and shalt understand that that city was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities:

bes@1Esd:2:23 @ And that the Jews were rebellious, and raised always wars therein; for the which cause even this city was made desolate.

bes@1Esd:2:24 @ Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@1Esd:2:25 @ Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter, to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria and Phenice, after this manner;

bes@1Esd:2:26 @ I have read the epistle which ye have sent unto me: therefore I commanded to make diligent search, and it hath been found that that city was from the beginning practising against kings;

bes@1Esd:2:27 @ And the men therein were given to rebellion and war: and that mighty kings and fierce were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tributes in Celosyria and Phenice.

bes@1Esd:2:28 @ Now therefore I have commanded to hinder those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be no more done in it;

bes@1Esd:2:29 @ And that those wicked workers proceed no further to the annoyance of kings,

bes@1Esd:2:30 @ Then king Artaxerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste toward Jerusalem with a troop of horsemen and a multitude of people in battle array, began to hinder the builders; and the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

bes@1Esd:3:1 @ Now when Darius reigned, he made a great feast unto all his subjects, and unto all his household, and unto all the princes of Media and Persia,

bes@1Esd:3:2 @ And to all the governors and captains and lieutenants that were under him, from India unto Ethiopia, of an hundred twenty and seven provinces.

bes@1Esd:3:3 @ And when they had eaten and drunken, and being satisfied were gone home, then Darius the king went into his bedchamber, and slept, and soon after awaked.

bes@1Esd:3:4 @ Then three young men, that were of the guard that kept the king’s body, spake one to another;

bes@1Esd:3:5 @ Let every one of us speak a sentence: he that shall overcome, and whose sentence shall seem wiser than the others, unto him shall the king Darius give great gifts, and great things in token of victory:

bes@1Esd:3:6 @ As, to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot with bridles of gold, and an headtire of fine linen, and a chain about his neck:

bes@1Esd:3:7 @ And he shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin.

bes@1Esd:3:8 @ And then every one wrote his sentence, sealed it, and laid it under king Darius his pillow;

bes@1Esd:3:9 @ And said that, when the king is risen, some will give him the writings; and of whose side the king and the three princes of Persia shall judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as was appointed.

bes@1Esd:3:10 @ The first wrote, Wine is the strongest.

bes@1Esd:3:11 @ The second wrote, The king is strongest.

bes@1Esd:3:12 @ The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.

bes@1Esd:3:13 @ Now when the king was risen up, they took their writings, and delivered them unto him, and so he read them:

bes@1Esd:3:14 @ And sending forth he called all the princes of Persia and Media, and the governors, and the captains, and the lieutenants, and the chief officers;

bes@1Esd:3:15 @ And sat him down in the royal seat of judgement; and the writings were read before them.

bes@1Esd:3:16 @ And he said, Call the young men, and they shall declare their own sentences. So they were called, and came in.

bes@1Esd:3:17 @ And he said unto them, Declare unto us your mind concerning the writings. Then began the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine;

bes@1Esd:3:18 @ And he said thus, O ye men, how exceeding strong is wine! it causeth all men to err that drink it:

bes@1Esd:3:19 @ It maketh the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be all one; of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich:

bes@1Esd:3:20 @ It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth, so that a man remembereth neither sorrow nor debt:

bes@1Esd:3:21 @ And it maketh every heart rich, so that a man remembereth neither king nor governor; and it maketh to speak all things by talents:

bes@1Esd:3:22 @ And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords:

bes@1Esd:3:23 @ But when they are from the wine, they remember not what they have done.

bes@1Esd:3:24 @ O ye men, is not wine the strongest, that enforceth to do thus? And when he had so spoken, he held his peace.

bes@1Esd:4:1 @ Then the second, that had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say,

bes@1Esd:4:2 @ O ye men, do not men excel in strength that bear rule over sea and land and all things in them?

bes@1Esd:4:3 @ But yet the king is more mighty: for he is lord of all these things, and hath dominion over them; and whatsoever he commandeth them they do.

bes@1Esd:4:4 @ If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and break down mountains walls and towers.

bes@1Esd:4:5 @ They slay and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.

bes@1Esd:4:6 @ Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute unto the king.

bes@1Esd:4:7 @ And yet he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;

bes@1Esd:4:8 @ If he command to smite, they smite; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;

bes@1Esd:4:9 @ If he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.

bes@1Esd:4:10 @ So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lieth down, he eateth and drinketh, and taketh his rest:

bes@1Esd:4:11 @ And these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in any thing.

bes@1Esd:4:12 @ O ye men, how should not the king be mightiest, when in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his tongue.

bes@1Esd:4:13 @ Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of the truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.

bes@1Esd:4:14 @ O ye men, it is not the great king, nor the multitude of men, neither is it wine, that excelleth; who is it then that ruleth them, or hath the lordship over them? are they not women?

bes@1Esd:4:15 @ Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.

bes@1Esd:4:16 @ Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine cometh.

bes@1Esd:4:17 @ These also make garments for men; these bring glory unto men; and without women cannot men be.

bes@1Esd:4:18 @ Yea, and if men have gathered together gold and silver, or any other goodly thing, do they not love a woman which is comely in favour and beauty?

bes@1Esd:4:19 @ And letting all those things go, do they not gape, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have not all men more desire unto her than unto silver or gold, or any goodly thing whatsoever?

bes@1Esd:4:20 @ A man leaveth his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaveth unto his wife.

bes@1Esd:4:21 @ He sticketh not to spend his life with his wife. and remembereth neither father, nor mother, nor country.

bes@1Esd:4:22 @ By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: do ye not labour and toil, and give and bring all to the woman?

bes@1Esd:4:23 @ Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;

bes@1Esd:4:24 @ And looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.

bes@1Esd:4:25 @ Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.

bes@1Esd:4:26 @ Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes.

bes@1Esd:4:27 @ Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.

bes@1Esd:4:28 @ And now do ye not believe me? is not the king great in his power? do not all regions fear to touch him?

bes@1Esd:4:29 @ Yet did I see him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the admirable Bartacus, sitting at the right hand of the king,

bes@1Esd:4:30 @ And taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head; she also struck the king with her left hand.

bes@1Esd:4:31 @ And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also: but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again.

bes@1Esd:4:32 @ O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?

bes@1Esd:4:33 @ Then the king and the princes looked one upon another: so he began to speak of the truth.

bes@1Esd:4:34 @ O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.

bes@1Esd:4:35 @ Is he not great that maketh these things? therefore great is the truth, and stronger than all things.

bes@1Esd:4:36 @ All the earth crieth upon the truth, and the heaven blesseth it: all works shake and tremble at it, and with it is no unrighteous thing.

bes@1Esd:4:37 @ Wine is wicked, the king is wicked, women are wicked, all the children of men are wicked, and such are all their wicked works; and there is no truth in them; in their unrighteousness also they shall perish.

bes@1Esd:4:38 @ As for the truth, it endureth, and is Always strong; it liveth and conquereth for evermore.

bes@1Esd:4:39 @ With her there is no accepting of persons or rewards; but she doeth the things that are just, and refraineth from all unjust and wicked things; and all men do well like of her works.

bes@1Esd:4:40 @ Neither in her judgement is any unrighteousness; and she is the strength, kingdom, power, and majesty, of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth.

bes@1Esd:4:41 @ And with that he held his peace. And all the people then shouted, and said, Great is Truth, and mighty above all things.

bes@1Esd:4:42 @ Then said the king unto him, Ask what thou wilt more than is appointed in the writing, and we will give it thee, because thou art found wisest; and thou shalt sit next me, and shalt be called my cousin.

bes@1Esd:4:43 @ Then said he unto the king, Remember thy vow, which thou hast vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when thou camest to thy kingdom,

bes@1Esd:4:44 @ And to send away all the vessels that were taken away out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and to send them again thither.

bes@1Esd:4:45 @ Thou also hast vowed to build up the temple, which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldees.

bes@1Esd:4:46 @ And now, O lord the king, this is that which I require, and which I desire of thee, and this is the princely liberality proceeding from thyself: I desire therefore that thou make good the vow, the performance whereof with thine own mouth thou hast vowed to the King of heaven.

bes@1Esd:4:47 @ Then Darius the king stood up, and kissed him, and wrote letters for him unto all the treasurers and lieutenants and captains and governors, that they should safely convey on their way both him, and all those that go up with him to build Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:4:48 @ He wrote letters also unto the lieutenants that were in Celosyria and Phenice, and unto them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus unto Jerusalem, and that they should build the city with him.

bes@1Esd:4:49 @ Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors;

bes@1Esd:4:50 @ And that all the country which they hold should be free without tribute; and that the Edomites should give over the villages of the Jews which then they held:

bes@1Esd:4:51 @ Yea, that there should be yearly given twenty talents to the building of the temple, until the time that it were built;

bes@1Esd:4:52 @ And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

bes@1Esd:4:53 @ And that all they that went from Babylon to build the city should have free liberty, as well they as their posterity, and all the priests that went away.

bes@1Esd:4:54 @ He wrote also concerning. the charges, and the priests’ vestments wherein they minister;

bes@1Esd:4:55 @ And likewise for the charges of the Levites, to be given them until the day that the house were finished, and Jerusalem builded up.

bes@1Esd:4:56 @ And he commanded to give to all that kept the city pensions and wages.

bes@1Esd:4:57 @ He sent away also all the vessels from Babylon, that Cyrus had set apart; and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, the same charged he also to be done, and sent unto Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:4:58 @ Now when this young man was gone forth, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven,

bes@1Esd:4:59 @ And said, From thee cometh victory, from thee cometh wisdom, and thine is the glory, and I am thy servant.

bes@1Esd:4:60 @ Blessed art thou, who hast given me wisdom: for to thee I give thanks, O Lord of our fathers.

bes@1Esd:4:61 @ And so he took the letters, and went out, and came unto Babylon, and told it all his brethren.

bes@1Esd:4:62 @ And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty

bes@1Esd:4:63 @ To go up, and to build Jerusalem, and the temple which is called by his name: and they feasted with instruments of musick and gladness seven days.

bes@1Esd:5:1 @ After this were the principal men of the families chosen according to their tribes, to go up with their wives and sons and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their cattle.

bes@1Esd:5:2 @ And Darius sent with them a thousand horsemen, till they had brought them back to Jerusalem safely, and with musical instruments tabrets and flutes.

bes@1Esd:5:3 @ And all their brethren played, and he made them go up together with them.

bes@1Esd:5:4 @ And these are the names of the men which went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several heads.

bes@1Esd:5:5 @ The priests, the sons of Phinees the son of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedec, the son of Saraias, and Joacim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, out of the kindred of Phares, of the tribe of Judah;

bes@1Esd:5:6 @ Who spake wise sentences before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month.

bes@1Esd:5:7 @ And these are they of Jewry that came up from the captivity, where they dwelt as strangers, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon.

bes@1Esd:5:8 @ And they returned unto Jerusalem, and to the other parts of Jewry, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, and Zacharias, and Reesaias, Enenius, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, Aspharasus, Reelius, Roimus, and Baana, their guides.

bes@1Esd:5:9 @ The number of them of the nation, and their governors, sons of Phoros, two thousand an hundred seventy and two; the sons of Saphat, four hundred seventy and two:

bes@1Esd:5:10 @ The sons of Ares, seven hundred fifty and six:

bes@1Esd:5:11 @ The sons of Phaath Moab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve:

bes@1Esd:5:12 @ The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four: the sons of Zathui, nine hundred forty and five: the sons of Corbe, seven hundred and five: the sons of Bani, six hundred forty and eight:

bes@1Esd:5:13 @ The sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three: the sons of Sadas, three thousand two hundred twenty and two:

bes@1Esd:5:14 @ The sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and seven: the sons of Bagoi, two thousand sixty and six: the sons of Adin, four hundred fifty and four:

bes@1Esd:5:15 @ The sons of Aterezias, ninety and two: the sons of Ceilan and Azetas threescore and seven: the sons of Azuran, four hundred thirty and two:

bes@1Esd:5:16 @ The sons of Ananias, an hundred and one: the sons of Arom, thirty two: and the sons of Bassa, three hundred twenty and three: the sons of Azephurith, an hundred and two:

bes@1Esd:5:17 @ The sons of Meterus, three thousand and five: the sons of Bethlomon, an hundred twenty and three:

bes@1Esd:5:18 @ They of Netophah, fifty and five: they of Anathoth, an hundred fifty and eight: they of Bethsamos, forty and two:

bes@1Esd:5:19 @ They of Kiriathiarius, twenty and five: they of Caphira and Beroth, seven hundred forty and three: they of Pira, seven hundred:

bes@1Esd:5:20 @ They of Chadias and Ammidoi, four hundred twenty and two: they of Cirama and Gabdes, six hundred twenty and one:

bes@1Esd:5:21 @ They of Macalon, an hundred twenty and two: they of Betolius, fifty and two: the sons of Nephis, an hundred fifty and six:

bes@1Esd:5:22 @ The sons of Calamolalus and Onus, seven hundred twenty and five: the sons of Jerechus, two hundred forty and five:

bes@1Esd:5:23 @ The sons of Annas, three thousand three hundred and thirty.

bes@1Esd:5:24 @ The priests: the sons of Jeddu, the son of Jesus among the sons of Sanasib, nine hundred seventy and two: the sons of Meruth, a thousand fifty and two:

bes@1Esd:5:25 @ The sons of Phassaron, a thousand forty and seven: the sons of Carme, a thousand and seventeen.

bes@1Esd:5:26 @ The Levites: the sons of Jessue, and Cadmiel, and Banuas, and Sudias, seventy and four.

bes@1Esd:5:27 @ The holy singers: the sons of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.

bes@1Esd:5:28 @ The porters: the sons of Salum, the sons of Jatal, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Dacobi, the sons of Teta, the sons of Sami, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

bes@1Esd:5:29 @ The servants of the temple: the sons of Esau, the sons of Asipha, the sons of Tabaoth, the sons of Ceras, the sons of Sud, the sons of Phaleas, the sons of Labana, the sons of Graba,

bes@1Esd:5:30 @ The sons of Acua, the sons of Uta, the sons of Cetab, the sons of Agaba, the sons of Subai, the sons of Anan, the sons of Cathua, the sons of Geddur,

bes@1Esd:5:31 @ The sons of Airus, the sons of Daisan, the sons of Noeba, the sons of Chaseba, the sons of Gazera, the sons of Azia, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Azara, the sons of Bastai, the sons of Asana, the sons of Meani, the sons of Naphisi, the sons of Acub, the sons of Acipha, the sons of Assur, the sons of Pharacim, the sons of Basaloth,

bes@1Esd:5:32 @ The sons of Meeda, the sons of Coutha, the sons of Charea, the sons of Charcus, the sons of Aserer, the sons of Thomoi, the sons of Nasith, the sons of Atipha.

bes@1Esd:5:33 @ The sons of the servants of Solomon: the sons of Azaphion, the sons of Pharira, the sons of Jeeli, the sons of Lozon, the sons of Israel, the sons of Sapheth,

bes@1Esd:5:34 @ The sons of Hagia, the sons of Pharacareth, the sons of Sabi, the sons of Sarothie, the sons of Masias, the sons of Gar, the sons of Addus, the sons of Suba, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the sons of Sabat, the sons of Allom.

bes@1Esd:5:35 @ All the ministers of the temple, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.

bes@1Esd:5:36 @ These came up from Thermeleth and Thelersas, Charaathalar leading them, and Aalar;

bes@1Esd:5:37 @ Neither could they shew their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of Ladan, the son of Ban, the sons of Necodan, six hundred fifty and two.

bes@1Esd:5:38 @ And of the priests that usurped the office of the priesthood, and were not found: the sons of Obdia, the sons of Accoz, the sons of Addus, who married Augia one of the daughters of Barzelus, and was named after his name.

bes@1Esd:5:39 @ And when the description of the kindred of these men was sought in the register, and was not found, they were removed from executing the office of the priesthood:

bes@1Esd:5:40 @ For unto them said Nehemias and Atharias, that they should not be partakers of the holy things, till there arose up an high priest clothed with doctrine and truth.

bes@1Esd:5:41 @ So of Israel, from them of twelve years old and upward, they were all in number forty thousand, beside menservants and womenservants two thousand three hundred and sixty.

bes@1Esd:5:42 @ Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred forty and seven: the singing men and singing women, two hundred forty and five:

bes@1Esd:5:43 @ Four hundred thirty and five camels, seven thousand thirty and six horses, two hundred forty and five mules, five thousand five hundred twenty and five beasts used to the yoke.

bes@1Esd:5:44 @ And certain of the chief of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in his own place according to their ability,

bes@1Esd:5:45 @ And to give into the holy treasury of the works a thousand pounds of gold, five thousand of silver, and an hundred priestly vestments.

bes@1Esd:5:46 @ And so dwelt the priests and the Levites and the people in Jerusalem, and in the country, the singers also and the porters; and all Israel in their villages.

bes@1Esd:5:47 @ But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were every man in his own place, they came all together with one consent into the open place of the first gate which is toward the east.

bes@1Esd:5:48 @ Then stood up Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren the priests and Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his brethren, and made ready the altar of the God of Israel,

bes@1Esd:5:49 @ To offer burnt sacrifices upon it, according as it is expressly commanded in the book of Moses the man of God.

bes@1Esd:5:50 @ And there were gathered unto them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon his own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.

bes@1Esd:5:51 @ Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:

bes@1Esd:5:52 @ And after that, the continual oblations, and the sacrifice of the sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of all holy feasts.

bes@1Esd:5:53 @ And all they that had made any vow to God began to offer sacrifices to God from the first day of the seventh month, although the temple of the Lord was not yet built.

bes@1Esd:5:54 @ And they gave unto the masons and carpenters money, meat, and drink, with cheerfulness.

bes@1Esd:5:55 @ Unto them of Zidon also and Tyre they gave carrs, that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus, which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded them by Cyrus king of the Persians.

bes@1Esd:5:56 @ And in the second year and second month after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem began Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec, and their brethren, and the priests, and the Levites, and all they that were come unto Jerusalem out of the captivity:

bes@1Esd:5:57 @ And they laid the foundation of the house of God in the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come to Jewry and Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:5:58 @ And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jesus, and his sons and brethren, and Cadmiel his brother, and the sons of Madiabun, with the sons of Joda the son of Eliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, with one accord setters forward of the business, labouring to advance the works in the house of God. So the workmen built the temple of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:5:59 @ And the priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets; and the Levites the sons of Asaph had cymbals,

bes@1Esd:5:60 @ Singing songs of thanksgiving, and praising the Lord, according as David the king of Israel had ordained.

bes@1Esd:5:61 @ And they sung with loud voices songs to the praise of the Lord, because his mercy and glory is for ever in all Israel.

bes@1Esd:5:62 @ And all the people sounded trumpets, and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving unto the Lord for the rearing up of the house of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:5:63 @ Also of the priests and Levites, and of the chief of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with weeping and great crying.

bes@1Esd:5:64 @ But many with trumpets and joy shouted with loud voice,

bes@1Esd:5:65 @ Insomuch that the trumpets might not be heard for the weeping of the people: yet the multitude sounded marvellously, so that it was heard afar off.

bes@1Esd:5:66 @ Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets should mean.

bes@1Esd:5:67 @ And they perceived that they that were of the captivity did build the temple unto the Lord God of Israel.

bes@1Esd:5:68 @ So they went to Zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief of the families, and said unto them, We will build together with you.

bes@1Esd:5:69 @ For we likewise, as ye, do obey your Lord, and do sacrifice unto him from the days of Azbazareth the king of the Assyrians, who brought us hither.

bes@1Esd:5:70 @ Then Zorobabel and Jesus and the chief of the families of Israel said unto them, It is not for us and you to build together an house unto the Lord our God.

bes@1Esd:5:71 @ We ourselves alone will build unto the Lord of Israel, according as Cyrus the king of the Persians hath commanded us.

bes@1Esd:5:72 @ But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;

bes@1Esd:5:73 @ And by their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that king Cyrus lived: so they were hindered from building for the space of two years, until the reign of Darius.

bes@1Esd:6:1 @ Now in the second year of the reign of Darius Aggeus and Zacharias the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied unto the Jews in Jewry and Jerusalem in the name of the Lord God of Israel, which was upon them.

bes@1Esd:6:2 @ Then stood up Zorobabel the son of Salatiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec, and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them, and helping them.

bes@1Esd:6:3 @ At the same time came unto them Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phenice, with Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said unto them,

bes@1Esd:6:4 @ By whose appointment do ye build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? and who are the workmen that perform these things?

bes@1Esd:6:5 @ Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favour, because the Lord had visited the captivity;

bes@1Esd:6:6 @ And they were not hindered from building, until such time as signification was given unto Darius concerning them, and an answer received.

bes@1Esd:6:7 @ The copy of the letters which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, rulers in Syria and Phenice, wrote and sent unto Darius; To king Darius, greeting:

bes@1Esd:6:8 @ Let all things be known unto our lord the king, that being come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem we found in the city of Jerusalem the ancients of the Jews that were of the captivity

bes@1Esd:6:9 @ Building an house unto the Lord, great and new, of hewn and costly stones, and the timber already laid upon the walls.

bes@1Esd:6:10 @ And those works are done with great speed, and the work goeth on prosperously in their hands, and with all glory and diligence is it made.

bes@1Esd:6:11 @ Then asked we these elders, saying, By whose commandment build ye this house, and lay the foundations of these works?

bes@1Esd:6:12 @ Therefore to the intent that we might give knowledge unto thee by writing, we demanded of them who were the chief doers, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men.

bes@1Esd:6:13 @ So they gave us this answer, We are the servants of the Lord which made heaven and earth.

bes@1Esd:6:14 @ And as for this house, it was builded many years ago by a king of Israel great and strong, and was finished.

bes@1Esd:6:15 @ But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, of the Chaldees;

bes@1Esd:6:16 @ Who pulled down the house, and burned it, and carried away the people captives unto Babylon.

bes@1Esd:6:17 @ But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house.

bes@1Esd:6:18 @ And the holy vessels of gold and of silver, that Nabuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem, and had set them in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple at Babylon, and they were delivered to Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the ruler,

bes@1Esd:6:19 @ With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem; and that the temple of the Lord should be built in his place.

bes@1Esd:6:20 @ Then the same Sanabassarus, being come hither, laid the foundations of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem; and from that time to this being still a building, it is not yet fully ended.

bes@1Esd:6:21 @ Now therefore, if it seem good unto the king, let search be made among the records of king Cyrus:

bes@1Esd:6:22 @ And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus, and if our lord the king be so minded, let him signify unto us thereof.

bes@1Esd:6:23 @ Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon: and so at Ecbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a roll wherein these things were recorded.

bes@1Esd:6:24 @ In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:

bes@1Esd:6:25 @ Whose height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood of that country; and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus:

bes@1Esd:6:26 @ And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both of gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.

bes@1Esd:6:27 @ And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but suffer Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build the house of the Lord in that place.

bes@1Esd:6:28 @ I have commanded also to have it built up whole again; and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the Jews, till the house of the Lord be finished:

bes@1Esd:6:29 @ And out of the tribute of Celosyria and Phenice a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zorobabel the governor, for bullocks, and rams, and lambs;

bes@1Esd:6:30 @ And also corn, salt, wine, and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signify to be daily spent:

bes@1Esd:6:31 @ That offerings may be made to the most high God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.

bes@1Esd:6:32 @ And he commanded that whosoever should transgress, yea, or make light of any thing afore spoken or written, out of his own house should a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged, and all his goods seized for the king.

bes@1Esd:6:33 @ The Lord therefore, whose name is there called upon, utterly destroy every king and nation, that stretcheth out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:6:34 @ I Darius the king have ordained that according unto these things it be done with diligence.

bes@1Esd:7:1 @ Then Sisinnes the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions following the commandments of king Darius,

bes@1Esd:7:2 @ Did very carefully oversee the holy works, assisting the ancients of the Jews and governors of the temple.

bes@1Esd:7:3 @ And so the holy works prospered, when Aggeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied.

bes@1Esd:7:4 @ And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

bes@1Esd:7:5 @ And thus was the holy house finished in the three and twentieth day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of Darius king of the Persians

bes@1Esd:7:6 @ And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and others that were of the captivity, that were added unto them, did according to the things written in the book of Moses.

bes@1Esd:7:7 @ And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;

bes@1Esd:7:8 @ And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the chief of the tribes of Israel.

bes@1Esd:7:9 @ The priests also and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindreds, in the service of the Lord God of Israel, according to the book of Moses: and the porters at every gate.

bes@1Esd:7:10 @ And the children of Israel that were of the captivity held the passover the fourteenth day of the first month, after that the priests and the Levites were sanctified.

bes@1Esd:7:11 @ They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together: but the Levites were all sanctified together.

bes@1Esd:7:12 @ And so they offered the passover for all them of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

bes@1Esd:7:13 @ And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat, even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations of the people of the land, and sought the Lord.

bes@1Esd:7:14 @ And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,

bes@1Esd:7:15 @ For that he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord God of Israel.

bes@1Esd:8:1 @ And after these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned came Esdras the son of Saraias, the son of Ezerias, the son of Helchiah, the son of Salum,

bes@1Esd:8:2 @ The son of Sadduc, the son of Achitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ezias, the son of Meremoth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisum, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest.

bes@1Esd:8:3 @ This Esdras went up from Babylon, as a scribe, being very ready in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.

bes@1Esd:8:4 @ And the king did him honour: for he found grace in his sight in all his requests.

bes@1Esd:8:5 @ There went up with him also certain of the children of Israel, of the priest of the Levites, of the holy singers, porters, and ministers of the temple, unto Jerusalem,

bes@1Esd:8:6 @ In the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month, this was the king’s seventh year; for they went from Babylon in the first day of the first month, and came to Jerusalem, according to the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them.

bes@1Esd:8:7 @ For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgements.

bes@1Esd:8:8 @ Now the copy of the commission, which was written from Artaxerxes the king, and came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, is this that followeth;

bes@1Esd:8:9 @ King Artaxerxes unto Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord sendeth greeting:

bes@1Esd:8:10 @ Having determined to deal graciously, I have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites being within our realm, as are willing and desirous should go with thee unto Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:11 @ As many therefore as have a mind thereunto, let them depart with thee, as it hath seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counsellors;

bes@1Esd:8:12 @ That they may look unto the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law of the Lord;

bes@1Esd:8:13 @ And carry the gifts unto the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed, and all the gold and silver that in the country of Babylon can be found, to the Lord in Jerusalem,

bes@1Esd:8:14 @ With that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God at Jerusalem: and that silver and gold may be collected for bullocks, rams, and lambs, and things thereunto appertaining;

bes@1Esd:8:15 @ To the end that they may offer sacrifices unto the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:16 @ And whatsoever thou and thy brethren will do with the silver and gold, that do, according to the will of thy God.

bes@1Esd:8:17 @ And the holy vessels of the Lord, which are given thee for the use of the temple of thy God, which is in Jerusalem, thou shalt set before thy God in Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:18 @ And whatsoever thing else thou shalt remember for the use of the temple of thy God, thou shalt give it out of the king’s treasury.

bes@1Esd:8:19 @ And I king Artaxerxes have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phenice, that whatsoever Esdras the priest and the reader of the law of the most high God shall send for, they should give it him with speed,

bes@1Esd:8:20 @ To the sum of an hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to an hundred cors, and an hundred pieces of wine, and other things in abundance.

bes@1Esd:8:21 @ Let all things be performed after the law of God diligently unto the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons.

bes@1Esd:8:22 @ I command you also, that ye require no tax, nor any other imposition, of any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or porters, or ministers of the temple, or of any that have doings in this temple, and that no man have authority to impose any thing upon them.

bes@1Esd:8:23 @ And thou, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God ordain judges and justices, that they may judge in all Syria and Phenice all those that know the law of thy God; and those that know it not thou shalt teach.

bes@1Esd:8:24 @ And whosoever shall transgress the law of thy God, and of the king, shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.

bes@1Esd:8:25 @ Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord God of my fathers, who hath put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

bes@1Esd:8:26 @ And hath honoured me in the sight of the king, and his counsellors, and all his friends and nobles.

bes@1Esd:8:27 @ Therefore was I encouraged by the help of the Lord my God, and gathered together men of Israel to go up with me.

bes@1Esd:8:28 @ And these are the chief according to their families and several dignities, that went up with me from Babylon in the reign of king Artaxerxes:

bes@1Esd:8:29 @ Of the sons of Phinees, Gerson: of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael: of the sons of David, Lettus the son of Sechenias:

bes@1Esd:8:30 @ Of the sons of Pharez, Zacharias; and with him were counted an hundred and fifty men:

bes@1Esd:8:31 @ Of the sons of Pahath Moab, Eliaonias, the son of Zaraias, and with him two hundred men:

bes@1Esd:8:32 @ Of the sons of Zathoe, Sechenias the son of Jezelus, and with him three hundred men: of the sons of Adin, Obeth the son of Jonathan, and with him two hundred and fifty men:

bes@1Esd:8:33 @ Of the sons of Elam, Josias son of Gotholias, and with him seventy men:

bes@1Esd:8:34 @ Of the sons of Saphatias, Zaraias son of Michael, and with him threescore and ten men:

bes@1Esd:8:35 @ Of the sons of Joab, Abadias son of Jezelus, and with him two hundred and twelve men:

bes@1Esd:8:36 @ Of the sons of Banid, Assalimoth son of Josaphias, and with him an hundred and threescore men:

bes@1Esd:8:37 @ Of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight men:

bes@1Esd:8:38 @ Of the sons of Astath, Johannes son of Acatan, and with him an hundred and ten men:

bes@1Esd:8:39 @ Of the sons of Adonikam the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalet, Jewel, and Samaias, and with them seventy men:

bes@1Esd:8:40 @ Of the sons of Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men.

bes@1Esd:8:41 @ And these I gathered together to the river called Theras, where we pitched our tents three days: and then I surveyed them.

bes@1Esd:8:42 @ But when I had found there none of the priests and Levites,

bes@1Esd:8:43 @ Then sent I unto Eleazar, and Iduel, and Masman,

bes@1Esd:8:44 @ And Alnathan, and Mamaias, and Joribas, and Nathan, Eunatan, Zacharias, and Mosollamon, principal men and learned.

bes@1Esd:8:45 @ And I bade them that they should go unto Saddeus the captain, who was in the place of the treasury:

bes@1Esd:8:46 @ And commanded them that they should speak unto Daddeus, and to his brethren, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in the house of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:8:47 @ And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought unto us skilful men of the sons of Moli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebia, and his sons, and his brethren, who were eighteen.

bes@1Esd:8:48 @ And Asebia, and Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Channuneus, and their sons, were twenty men.

bes@1Esd:8:49 @ And of the servants of the temple whom David had ordained, and the principal men for the service of the Levites to wit, the servants of the temple two hundred and twenty, the catalogue of whose names were shewed.

bes@1Esd:8:50 @ And there I vowed a fast unto the young men before our Lord, to desire of him a prosperous journey both for us and them that were with us, for our children, and for the cattle:

bes@1Esd:8:51 @ For I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.

bes@1Esd:8:52 @ For we had said unto the king, that the power of the Lord our God should be with them that seek him, to support them in all ways.

bes@1Esd:8:53 @ And again we besought our Lord as touching these things, and found him favourable unto us.

bes@1Esd:8:54 @ Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Esebrias, and Assanias, and ten men of their brethren with them:

bes@1Esd:8:55 @ And I weighed them the gold, and the silver, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, and his council, and the princes, and all Israel, had given.

bes@1Esd:8:56 @ And when I had weighed it, I delivered unto them six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels of an hundred talents, and an hundred talents of gold,

bes@1Esd:8:57 @ And twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.

bes@1Esd:8:58 @ And I said unto them, Both ye are holy unto the Lord, and the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver is a vow unto the Lord, the Lord of our fathers.

bes@1Esd:8:59 @ Watch ye, and keep them till ye deliver them to the chief of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, into the chambers of the house of our God.

bes@1Esd:8:60 @ So the priests and the Levites, who had received the silver and the gold and the vessels, brought them unto Jerusalem, into the temple of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:8:61 @ And from the river Theras we departed the twelfth day of the first month, and came to Jerusalem by the mighty hand of our Lord, which was with us: and from the beginning of our journey the Lord delivered us from every enemy, and so we came to Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:62 @ And when we had been there three days, the gold and silver that was weighed was delivered in the house of our Lord on the fourth day unto Marmoth the priest the son of Iri.

bes@1Esd:8:63 @ And with him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabad the son of Jesu and Moeth the son of Sabban, Levites: all was delivered them by number and weight.

bes@1Esd:8:64 @ And all the weight of them was written up the same hour.

bes@1Esd:8:65 @ Moreover they that were come out of the captivity offered sacrifice unto the Lord God of Israel, even twelve bullocks for all Israel, fourscore and sixteen rams,

bes@1Esd:8:66 @ Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.

bes@1Esd:8:67 @ And they delivered the king’s commandments unto the king’s stewards’ and to the governors of Celosyria and Phenice; and they honoured the people and the temple of God.

bes@1Esd:8:68 @ Now when these things were done, the rulers came unto me, and said,

bes@1Esd:8:69 @ The nation of Israel, the princes, the priests and Levites, have not put away from them the strange people of the land, nor the pollutions of the Gentiles to wit, of the Canaanites, Hittites, Pheresites, Jebusites, and the Moabites, Egyptians, and Edomites.

bes@1Esd:8:70 @ For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the strange people of the land; and from the beginning of this matter the rulers and the great men have been partakers of this iniquity.

bes@1Esd:8:71 @ And as soon as I had heard these things, I rent my clothes, and the holy garment, and pulled off the hair from off my head and beard, and sat me down sad and very heavy.

bes@1Esd:8:72 @ So all they that were then moved at the word of the Lord God of Israel assembled unto me, whilst I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

bes@1Esd:8:73 @ Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and the holy garment rent, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands unto the Lord,

bes@1Esd:8:74 @ I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;

bes@1Esd:8:75 @ For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up unto heaven.

bes@1Esd:8:76 @ For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.

bes@1Esd:8:77 @ And for our sins and our fathers’ we with our brethren and our kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, unto this day.

bes@1Esd:8:78 @ And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of thy sanctuary;

bes@1Esd:8:79 @ And to discover unto us a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude.

bes@1Esd:8:80 @ Yea, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food;

bes@1Esd:8:81 @ Yea, and honoured the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Sion, that they have given us a sure abiding in Jewry and Jerusalem.

bes@1Esd:8:82 @ And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? for we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou gavest by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying,

bes@1Esd:8:83 @ That the land, which ye enter into to possess as an heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

bes@1Esd:8:84 @ Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.

bes@1Esd:8:85 @ Moreover ye shall never seek to have peace with them, that ye may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that ye may leave the inheritance of the land unto your children for evermore.

bes@1Esd:8:86 @ And all that is befallen is done unto us for our wicked works and great sins; for thou, O Lord, didst make our sins light,

bes@1Esd:8:87 @ And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress thy law, and to mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land.

bes@1Esd:8:88 @ Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?

bes@1Esd:8:89 @ O Lord of Israel, thou art true: for we are left a root this day.

bes@1Esd:8:90 @ Behold, now are we before thee in our iniquities, for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee.

bes@1Esd:8:91 @ And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat upon the ground before the temple, there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children: for there was great weeping among the multitude.

bes@1Esd:8:92 @ Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O Esdras, we have sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the nations of the land, and now is all Israel aloft.

bes@1Esd:8:93 @ Let us make an oath to the Lord, that we will put away all our wives, which we have taken of the heathen, with their children,

bes@1Esd:8:94 @ Like as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of the Lord.

bes@1Esd:8:95 @ Arise and put in execution: for to thee doth this matter appertain, and we will be with thee: do valiantly.

bes@1Esd:8:96 @ So Esdras arose, and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do after these things; and so they sware.

bes@1Esd:9:1 @ Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib,

bes@1Esd:9:2 @ And remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.

bes@1Esd:9:3 @ And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that were of the captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem:

bes@1Esd:9:4 @ And that whosoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule appointed, their cattle should be seized to the use of the temple, and himself cast out from them that were of the captivity.

bes@1Esd:9:5 @ And in three days were all they of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth month.

bes@1Esd:9:6 @ And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present foul weather.

bes@1Esd:9:7 @ So Esdras arose up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed the law in marrying strange wives, thereby to increase the sins of Israel.

bes@1Esd:9:8 @ And now by confessing give glory unto the Lord God of our fathers,

bes@1Esd:9:9 @ And do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the strange women.

bes@1Esd:9:10 @ Then cried the whole multitude, and said with a loud voice, Like as thou hast spoken, so will we do.

bes@1Esd:9:11 @ But forasmuch as the people are many, and it is foul weather, so that we cannot stand without, and this is not a work of a day or two, seeing our sin in these things is spread far:

bes@1Esd:9:12 @ Therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed,

bes@1Esd:9:13 @ And with them the rulers and judges of every place, till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.

bes@1Esd:9:14 @ Then Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezechias the son of Theocanus accordingly took this matter upon them: and Mosollam and Levis and Sabbatheus helped them.

bes@1Esd:9:15 @ And they that were of the captivity did according to all these things.

bes@1Esd:9:16 @ And Esdras the priest chose unto him the principal men of their families, all by name: and in the first day of the tenth month they sat together to examine the matter.

bes@1Esd:9:17 @ So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end in the first day of the first month.

bes@1Esd:9:18 @ And of the priests that were come together, and had strange wives, there were found:

bes@1Esd:9:19 @ Of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Matthelas and Eleazar, and Joribus and Joadanus.

bes@1Esd:9:20 @ And they gave their hands to put away their wives and to offer rams to make reconcilement for their errors.

bes@1Esd:9:21 @ And of the sons of Emmer; Ananias, and Zabdeus, and Eanes, and Sameius, and Hiereel, and Azarias.

bes@1Esd:9:22 @ And of the sons of Phaisur; Elionas, Massias Israel, and Nathanael, and Ocidelus and Talsas.

bes@1Esd:9:23 @ And of the Levites; Jozabad, and Semis, and Colius, who was called Calitas, and Patheus, and Judas, and Jonas.

bes@1Esd:9:24 @ Of the holy singers; Eleazurus, Bacchurus.

bes@1Esd:9:25 @ Of the porters; Sallumus, and Tolbanes.

bes@1Esd:9:26 @ Of them of Israel, of the sons of Phoros; Hiermas, and Eddias, and Melchias, and Maelus, and Eleazar, and Asibias, and Baanias.

bes@1Esd:9:27 @ Of the sons of Ela; Matthanias, Zacharias, and Hierielus, and Hieremoth, and Aedias.

bes@1Esd:9:28 @ And of the sons of Zamoth; Eliadas, Elisimus, Othonias, Jarimoth, and Sabatus, and Sardeus.

bes@1Esd:9:29 @ Of the sons of Babai; Johannes, and Ananias and Josabad, and Amatheis.

bes@1Esd:9:30 @ Of the sons of Mani; Olamus, Mamuchus, Jedeus, Jasubus, Jasael, and Hieremoth.

bes@1Esd:9:31 @ And of the sons of Addi; Naathus, and Moosias, Lacunus, and Naidus, and Mathanias, and Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas.

bes@1Esd:9:32 @ And of the sons of Annas; Elionas and Aseas, and Melchias, and Sabbeus, and Simon Chosameus.

bes@1Esd:9:33 @ And of the sons of Asom; Altaneus, and Matthias, and Baanaia, Eliphalet, and Manasses, and Semei.

bes@1Esd:9:34 @ And of the sons of Maani; Jeremias, Momdis, Omaerus, Juel, Mabdai, and Pelias, and Anos, Carabasion, and Enasibus, and Mamnitanaimus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Samis, Selemias, Nathanias: and of the sons of Ozora; Sesis, Esril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambis, Josephus.

bes@1Esd:9:35 @ And of the sons of Ethma; Mazitias, Zabadaias, Edes, Juel, Banaias.

bes@1Esd:9:36 @ All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children.

bes@1Esd:9:37 @ And the priests and Levites, and they that were of Israel, dwelt in Jerusalem, and in the country, in the first day of the seventh month: so the children of Israel were in their habitations.

bes@1Esd:9:38 @ And the whole multitude came together with one accord into the broad place of the holy porch toward the east:

bes@1Esd:9:39 @ And they spake unto Esdras the priest and reader, that he would bring the law of Moses, that was given of the Lord God of Israel.

bes@1Esd:9:40 @ So Esdras the chief priest brought the law unto the whole multitude from man to woman, and to all the priests, to hear law in the first day of the seventh month.

bes@1Esd:9:41 @ And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from morning unto midday, before both men and women; and the multitude gave heed unto the law.

bes@1Esd:9:42 @ And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a pulpit of wood, which was made for that purpose.

bes@1Esd:9:43 @ And there stood up by him Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Urias, Ezecias, Balasamus, upon the right hand:

bes@1Esd:9:44 @ And upon his left hand stood Phaldaius, Misael, Melchias, Lothasubus, and Nabarias.

bes@1Esd:9:45 @ Then took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude: for he sat honourably in the first place in the sight of them all.

bes@1Esd:9:46 @ And when he opened the law, they stood all straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God most High, the God of hosts, Almighty.

bes@1Esd:9:47 @ And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord.

bes@1Esd:9:48 @ Also Jesus, Anus, Sarabias, Adinus, Jacubus, Sabateas, Auteas, Maianeas, and Calitas, Azarias, and Joazabdus, and Ananias, Biatas, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, making them withal to understand it.

bes@1Esd:9:49 @ Then spake Attharates unto Esdras the chief priest. and reader, and to the Levites that taught the multitude, even to all, saying,

bes@1Esd:9:50 @ This day is holy unto the Lord; (for they all wept when they heard the law:)

bes@1Esd:9:51 @ Go then, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part to them that have nothing;

bes@1Esd:9:52 @ For this day is holy unto the Lord: and be not sorrowful; for the Lord will bring you to honour.

bes@1Esd:9:53 @ So the Levites published all things to the people, saying, This day is holy to the Lord; be not sorrowful.

bes@1Esd:9:54 @ Then went they their way, every one to eat and drink, and make merry, and to give part to them that had nothing, and to make great cheer;

bes@1Esd:9:55 @ Because they understood the words wherein they were instructed, and for the which they had been assembled.

bes@Sus:1:1 @ There dwelt a man in Babylon, called Joacim:

bes@Sus:1:2 @ And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, a very fair woman, and one that feared the Lord.

bes@Sus:1:3 @ Her parents also were righteous, and taught their daughter according to the law of Moses.

bes@Sus:1:4 @ Now Joacim was a great rich man, and had a fair garden joining unto his house: and to him resorted the Jews; because he was more honourable than all others.

bes@Sus:1:5 @ The same year were appointed two of the ancients of the people to be judges, such as the Lord spake of, that wickedness came from Babylon from ancient judges, who seemed to govern the people.

bes@Sus:1:6 @ These kept much at Joacim’s house: and all that had any suits in law came unto them.

bes@Sus:1:7 @ Now when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went into her husband’s garden to walk.

bes@Sus:1:8 @ And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; so that their lust was inflamed toward her.

bes@Sus:1:9 @ And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgements.

bes@Sus:1:10 @ And albeit they both were wounded with her love, yet durst not one shew another his grief.

bes@Sus:1:11 @ For they were ashamed to declare their lust, that they desired to have to do with her.

bes@Sus:1:12 @ Yet they watched diligently from day to day to see her.

bes@Sus:1:13 @ And the one said to the other, Let us now go home: for it is dinner time.

bes@Sus:1:14 @ So when they were gone out, they parted the one from the other, and turning back again they came to the same place; and after that they had asked one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: then appointed they a time both together, when they might find her alone.

bes@Sus:1:15 @ And it fell out, as they watched a fit time, she went in as before with two maids only, and she was desirous to wash herself in the garden: for it was hot.

bes@Sus:1:16 @ And there was no body there save the two elders, that had hid themselves, and watched her.

bes@Sus:1:17 @ Then she said to her maids, Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the garden doors, that I may wash me.

bes@Sus:1:18 @ And they did as she bade them, and shut the garden doors, and went out themselves at privy doors to fetch the things that she had commanded them: but they saw not the elders, because they were hid.

bes@Sus:1:19 @ Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders rose up, and ran unto her, saying,

bes@Sus:1:20 @ Behold, the garden doors are shut, that no man can see us, and we are in love with thee; therefore consent unto us, and lie with us.

bes@Sus:1:21 @ If thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee: and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.

bes@Sus:1:22 @ Then Susanna sighed, and said, I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death unto me: and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands.

bes@Sus:1:23 @ It is better for me to fall into your hands, and not do it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.

bes@Sus:1:24 @ With that Susanna cried with a loud voice: and the two elders cried out against her.

bes@Sus:1:25 @ Then ran the one, and opened the garden door.

bes@Sus:1:26 @ So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the garden, they rushed in at the privy door, to see what was done unto her.

bes@Sus:1:27 @ But when the elders had declared their matter, the servants were greatly ashamed: for there was never such a report made of Susanna.

bes@Sus:1:28 @ And it came to pass the next day, when the people were assembled to her husband Joacim, the two elders came also full of mischievous imagination against Susanna to put her to death;

bes@Sus:1:29 @ And said before the people, Send for Susanna, the daughter of Chelcias, Joacim’s wife. And so they sent.

bes@Sus:1:30 @ So she came with her father and mother, her children, and all her kindred.

bes@Sus:1:31 @ Now Susanna was a very delicate woman, and beauteous to behold.

bes@Sus:1:32 @ And these wicked men commanded to uncover her face, (for she was covered) that they might be filled with her beauty.

bes@Sus:1:33 @ Therefore her friends and all that saw her wept.

bes@Sus:1:34 @ Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.

bes@Sus:1:35 @ And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart trusted in the Lord.

bes@Sus:1:36 @ And the elders said, As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent the maids away.

bes@Sus:1:37 @ Then a young man, who there was hid, came unto her, and lay with her.

bes@Sus:1:38 @ Then we that stood in a corner of the garden, seeing this wickedness, ran unto them.

bes@Sus:1:39 @ And when we saw them together, the man we could not hold: for he was stronger than we, and opened the door, and leaped out.

bes@Sus:1:40 @ But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: these things do we testify.

bes@Sus:1:41 @ Then the assembly believed them as those that were the elders and judges of the people: so they condemned her to death.

bes@Sus:1:42 @ Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said, O everlasting God, that knowest the secrets, and knowest all things before they be:

bes@Sus:1:43 @ Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me, and, behold, I must die; whereas I never did such things as these men have maliciously invented against me.

bes@Sus:1:44 @ And the Lord heard her voice.

bes@Sus:1:45 @ Therefore when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young youth whose name was Daniel:

bes@Sus:1:46 @ Who cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of this woman.

bes@Sus:1:47 @ Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, What mean these words that thou hast spoken?

bes@Sus:1:48 @ So he standing in the midst of them said, Are ye such fools, ye sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel?

bes@Sus:1:49 @ Return again to the place of judgement: for they have borne false witness against her.

bes@Sus:1:50 @ Wherefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said unto him, Come, sit down among us, and shew it us, seeing God hath given thee the honour of an elder.

bes@Sus:1:51 @ Then said Daniel unto them, Put these two aside one far from another, and I will examine them.

bes@Sus:1:52 @ So when they were put asunder one from another, he called one of them, and said unto him, O thou that art waxen old in wickedness, now thy sins which thou hast committed aforetime are come to light.

bes@Sus:1:53 @ For thou hast pronounced false judgement and hast condemned the innocent and hast let the guilty go free; albeit the Lord saith, The innocent and righteous shalt thou not slay.

bes@Sus:1:54 @ Now then, if thou hast seen her, tell me, Under what tree sawest thou them companying together? Who answered, Under a mastick tree.

bes@Sus:1:55 @ And Daniel said, Very well; thou hast lied against thine own head; for even now the angel of God hath received the sentence of God to cut thee in two.

bes@Sus:1:56 @ So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said unto him, O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thine heart.

bes@Sus:1:57 @ Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel, and they for fear companied with you: but the daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.

bes@Sus:1:58 @ Now therefore tell me, Under what tree didst thou take them companying together? Who answered, Under an holm tree.

bes@Sus:1:59 @ Then said Daniel unto him, Well; thou hast also lied against thine own head: for the angel of God waiteth with the sword to cut thee in two, that he may destroy you.

bes@Sus:1:60 @ With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and praised God, who saveth them that trust in him.

bes@Sus:1:61 @ And they arose against the two elders, for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth:

bes@Sus:1:62 @ And according to the law of Moses they did unto them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour: and they put them to death. Thus the innocent blood was saved the same day.

bes@Sus:1:63 @ Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna, with Joacim her husband, and all the kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.

bes@Sus:1:64 @ From that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people.

bes@Ps151:1:1 @ This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though supernumerary, composed when he fought in single combat with (note:)Alex. Goliath(:note) Goliad. - I was small among my brethren, and youngest in my father’s house: I tended my father’s sheep.

bes@Ps151:1:2 @ My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a psaltery.

bes@Ps151:1:3 @ And who shall tell my Lord? the Lord himself, he himself hears.

bes@Ps151:1:4 @ He sent forth his angel, and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with the oil of his anointing.

bes@Ps151:1:5 @ My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord did not take pleasure in them.

bes@Ps151:1:6 @ I went forth to meet the Philistine; and he cursed me by his idols.

bes@Ps151:1:7 @ But I drew his own sword, and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel.

bes@BelTh:1:1 @ And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers, and Cyrus of Persia received his kingdom.

bes@BelTh:1:2 @ And Daniel conversed with the king, and was honoured above all his friends.

bes@BelTh:1:3 @ Now the Babylonians had an idol, called Bel, and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.

bes@BelTh:1:4 @ And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it: but Daniel worshipped his own God. And the king said unto him, Why dost not thou worship Bel?

bes@BelTh:1:5 @ Who answered and said, Because I may not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, who hath created the heaven and the earth, and hath sovereignty over all flesh.

bes@BelTh:1:6 @ Then said the king unto him, Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living God? seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?

bes@BelTh:1:7 @ Then Daniel smiled, and said, O king, be not deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass without, and did never eat or drink any thing.

bes@BelTh:1:8 @ So the king was wroth, and called for his priests, and said unto them, If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these expenses, ye shall die.

bes@BelTh:1:9 @ But if ye can certify me that Bel devoureth them, then Daniel shall die: for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bel. And Daniel said unto the king, Let it be according to thy word.

bes@BelTh:1:10 @ Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten, beside their wives and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.

bes@BelTh:1:11 @ So Bel’s priests said, Lo, we go out: but thou, O king, set on the meat, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast and seal it with thine own signet;

bes@BelTh:1:12 @ And to morrow when thou comest in, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death: or else Daniel, that speaketh falsely against us.

bes@BelTh:1:13 @ And they little regarded it: for under the table they had made a privy entrance, whereby they entered in continually, and consumed those things.

bes@BelTh:1:14 @ So when they were gone forth, the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes, and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone: then went they out, and shut the door, and sealed it with the king’s signet, and so departed.

bes@BelTh:1:15 @ Now in the night came the priests with their wives and children, as they were wont to do, and did eat and drink up all.

bes@BelTh:1:16 @ In the morning betime the king arose, and Daniel with him.

bes@BelTh:1:17 @ And the king said, Daniel, are the seals whole? And he said, Yea, O king, they be whole.

bes@BelTh:1:18 @ And as soon as he had opened the dour, the king looked upon the table, and cried with a loud voice, Great art thou, O Bel, and with thee is no deceit at all.

bes@BelTh:1:19 @ Then laughed Daniel, and held the king that he should not go in, and said, Behold now the pavement, and mark well whose footsteps are these.

bes@BelTh:1:20 @ And the king said, I see the footsteps of men, women, and children. And then the king was angry,

bes@BelTh:1:21 @ And took the priests with their wives and children, who shewed him the privy doors, where they came in, and consumed such things as were upon the table.

bes@BelTh:1:22 @ Therefore the king slew them, and delivered Bel into Daniel’s power, who destroyed him and his temple.

bes@BelTh:1:23 @ And in that same place there was a great dragon, which they of Babylon worshipped.

bes@BelTh:1:24 @ And the king said unto Daniel, Wilt thou also say that this is of brass? lo, he liveth, he eateth and drinketh; thou canst not say that he is no living god: therefore worship him.

bes@BelTh:1:25 @ Then said Daniel unto the king, I will worship the Lord my God: for he is the living God.

bes@BelTh:1:26 @ But give me leave, O king, and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff. The king said, I give thee leave.

bes@BelTh:1:27 @ Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and did seethe them together, and made lumps thereof: this he put in the dragon’s mouth, and so the dragon burst in sunder: and Daniel said, Lo, these are the gods ye worship.

bes@BelTh:1:28 @ When they of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, The king is become a Jew, and he hath destroyed Bel, he hath slain the dragon, and put the priests to death.

bes@BelTh:1:29 @ So they came to the king, and said, Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy thee and thine house.

bes@BelTh:1:30 @ Now when the king saw that they pressed him sore, being constrained, he delivered Daniel unto them:

bes@BelTh:1:31 @ Who cast him into the lions’ den: where he was six days.

bes@BelTh:1:32 @ And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given them every day two carcases, and two sheep: which then were not given to them, to the intent they might devour Daniel.

bes@BelTh:1:33 @ Now there was in Jewry a prophet, called Habbacuc, who had made pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl, and was going into the field, for to bring it to the reapers.

bes@BelTh:1:34 @ But the angel of the Lord said unto Habbacuc, Go, carry the dinner that thou hast into Babylon unto Daniel, who is in the lions’ den.

bes@BelTh:1:35 @ And Habbacuc said, Lord, I never saw Babylon; neither do I know where the den is.

bes@BelTh:1:36 @ Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown, and bare him by the hair of his head, and through the vehemency of his spirit set him in Babylon over the den.

bes@BelTh:1:37 @ And Habbacuc cried, saying, O Daniel, Daniel, take the dinner which God hath sent thee.

bes@BelTh:1:38 @ And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God: neither hast thou forsaken them that seek thee and love thee.

bes@BelTh:1:39 @ So Daniel arose, and did eat: and the angel of the Lord set Habbacuc in his own place again immediately.

bes@BelTh:1:40 @ Upon the seventh day the king went to bewail Daniel: and when he came to the den, he looked in, and behold, Daniel was sitting.

bes@BelTh:1:41 @ Then cried the king with a loud voice, saying, Great art Lord God of Daniel, and there is none other beside thee.

bes@BelTh:1:42 @ And he drew him out, and cast those that were the cause of his destruction into the den: and they were devoured in a moment before his face.

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