Sermon on the Mountain XV

Now judgment

I say, say-est thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebel-est against me?

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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Unto the work-man he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;

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For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

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Unto the work-man he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Ad-am, and he slept:

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Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

There-fore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they - be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

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For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; - and there is none else.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for - they think that they shall be heard - for their much speaking.

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Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews - for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.

And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, - for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at - Jerusalem, let it be given them - day by day - without fail:

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Be not ye there-fore - like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

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After this manner there-fore pray ye:

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And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man - in the earth to come in unto us - after the manner - of all the earth:

And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my - sabbaths.

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Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

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And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: - for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

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Thy kingdom come.

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And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.

But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

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Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble - instead of straw.

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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Give us - this day - our daily bread.

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Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.  Be not thou - one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Yet, Lord, thou know-est all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the great-est of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin - no more.

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And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

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Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Unto thee it was shewed, that thou might- est know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.

The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

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And lead us not into temptation,

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Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now there-fore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it - for the breaches of the house.

And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

  For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noi-some beast, and the pestilence, to cut off - from it man and beast?

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but deliver us from evil:

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Withdraw thine hand far from - me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and hold-est me for thine enemy?    

The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give -thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink - thy wine, for the which thou has laboured:

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For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. A-men.

ISamuelyeaon