The Gray Hairs among you

Unto the work-man he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow - and thy conception; - in sorrow - thou shalt bring forth - children; and thy desire shall be to - thy husband, - and he shall rule over thee.

And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the work-man, If no man have lain with thee, and if - thou hast not - gone aside to uncleanness with another - instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother:

and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain - rose up - against Abel his brother, and slew him.

If thou doest well, shalt thou - not - be accepted? and if thou doest - not well, - sin lieth at the door.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament - from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one an-other's speech.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, - after their kind, - and every winged fowl -after his kind: - and God saw that it was good.

and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, - and years:

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after - their kind,

And Cain talked with Abel his brother:

And She- them and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both - their shoulders,

and went backward,

and covered the nakedness of their father;

and their faces were backward, and they - saw not - their father's nakedness.

pillar

A slender, freestanding, vertical support; a column. Such a structure or one similar to it used for decoration. 2. One who occupies a central or responsible position: a pillar of the state.

But his wife looked - back from - behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: . . .

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt -not know - from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; - thou - shalt not - be able - to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou - shalt not know.

if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down - my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And the one went out - from me, and I said, Surely he is - torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:

And if ye take this also - from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs - with sorrow - to the grave.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, - that he will die: and - thy servants - shall bring down the gray hairs of - thy servant - our father - with sorrow - to the grave.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both - the young man - and the virgin, the suckling also - with the man of gray hairs.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Ephra-im, he hath mixed himself among the people;

And She- them and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both - their shoulders,

and went backward,

Ephraim is a cake - not turned.

Strangers have devoured his strength, - and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs - are here - and there - upon him, - yet he knoweth not.

 And the – pride - of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

 Ephraim also is like a silly dove - without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

 When - they - shall go, I will spread my net upon - them; - I will bring them down - as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

 Woe unto them! - for - they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because - they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet - they have spoken lies against me.

 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon - their beds: they assemble them-selves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

 Though I have bound  - and strengthened their arms, - yet do they imagine mischief against me.

 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: - their princes - shall fall by the sword for the rage of - their tongue: this shall be - their derision in the land of Egypt.

 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

 Israel shall cry unto me, - My God, - we know thee.

 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender - and good, and gave it unto - a young man; - and he hasted to dress it.

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Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, - blessed shall she be above women - in the tent.

He asked water, and she gave him milk; - she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,

And Noah w-as five hundred years old: and Noah

begat She-them, Ham, and Japheth.

and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And God called the light Day

And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his - younger son had done unto him.

And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her - eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, - and put them upon Jacob - her - younger son:

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto - his brethren.

She put her hand to the nail, - and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, - she smote off his head, - when she had pierced - and stricken through his temples.

At her feet - he bowed, - he fell, - he lay down: - at her feet- he bowed, - he fell: - where he  - bowed, - there he - fell down dead.

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which - he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood - by them - under the tree, and they did eat.

in-no-cen-cy

1. Innocence. 2. An innocent quality or action.

Synonyms

blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, innocence, irreproachability, irreproachableness

at-tain           

 (-tan)v. at-tained, at-tain-ing, at-tains.v. tr. 1. To gain as an objective; achieve. 2. To arrive at, as by virtue of persistence or the passage of time. See Synonyms at reach.v. intr. To succeed in a directed effort, process, or progression: attained to high office; eventually attained to wisdom.

Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; there-fore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel where-in is no pleasure.

 For they are - gone up to Assyria, a wild ass - alone - by himself:

Eph - ra-im hath hired lovers.

 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, - now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, - altars shall be unto him to sin.

 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they - were counted as a strange thing.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them:

the Lord also accepted Job.

Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not; - now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there-of.

        Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy - from the noise of the weeping of the people:

for the people shouted with a loud shout,

and the noise was heard afar off.

 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a-whoring - from thy God, - thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come in-to the house of the Lord.

And Judah spake unto him, saying,

The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying,

Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

 

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground - for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it m-y be that I m-y obtain children by her.

And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick in-to the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands - he will repay recompence.

So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun.

When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

 The watchman of Ephra-im was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: there-fore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are - we brought in;

 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:

but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; . . .

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, - in her mouth w-as an olive leaf plucked off: - so Noah knew - that the waters were abated from off the earth.

As for Ephraim, - their glory shall fly away like a bird,

And Jacob said, Sell me - this day - thy birthright.

from the birth,

And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in - thy womb, - and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve - the younger.

and from the womb,

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son.

and from the conception.

 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: - yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

 Give them, O Lord:

what wilt thou give?

give them a miscarrying womb - and dry breasts.

 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them:

for the wickedness of their doings - I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto him-self: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

 For now they shall say, - We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains,

Cover us;

and to the hills,

Fall on us.

 neth-er

(neth'r)adj. Located beneath or below; lower or under: the nether regions of the earth.

(neth'r).Of or relating to hell.

adj.infernal, Hadean, heinous, dire, dreadful, sinister, hellish, netherworldly, nether.

Antonyms:

heavenly, divine, ethereal, utopian, Elysian, Edenic, paradisical, Arcadian

And Moses brought forth the people - out of the camp to meet with God;

and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there -they stood: - the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,

 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and ra-in righteousness upon you.

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, - none at all - would exalt him.

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?

how shall I deliver thee, Israel?

how shall I make thee as Admah?

how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart - is turned within me,  - my repentings - are kindled together.

 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

 They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them - in their houses, saith the Lord.

 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation;

and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

 The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,

but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength - he had power with God:

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.

 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours - they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

 And I - that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

si-mil-i-tude

Similarity; resemblance. See Synonyms at likeness. 2.   One closely resembling another; a counterpart. A perceptible likeness. 3. Archaic. A simile, an allegory, or a parable.

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they - are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife - he kept sheep.

And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh;

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

There-fore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Yet I am the Lord thy God from the - land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; there-fore have they forgotten me.

 There-fore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy-self; but in me is thine help.

 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

He hath put my brethren - far from me, and mine acquaintance  are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, - therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women - with child shall be ripped up.

O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine - iniquity.

in-iq-ui-ty

(i-nikwi-te)n.pl. in-iq-ui-ties. 1. Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness. 2. A grossly immoral act; a sin.

 They speak vanity - every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

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

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, - thy habitation;

 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent there-of shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them:

but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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