The Fast is over
And
God said, Let there be a firmament in
the midst
of the waters, and let it
divide
the waters from the waters.
And
out of the ground made the - Lord God - to grow - every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good - for food; the tree of life - also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil.
*****
And
the earth was without form, and void;
*****
And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light,
and
God saw that it was good.
And
he said, Who told thee that thou
wast naked?
Hast thou
eaten of the tree, whereof
I commanded thee that thou shouldest
not eat?
*****
And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father,
and
- told his two brethren without.
*****
And
the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth,
a perfect and an upright man,
- one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
and
still he
holdeth fast his integrity, although thou
move-dst
me against him, to destroy him - without cause.
*****
And
they heard the voice of the
- Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day:
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My
brethren have dealt
deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish
by
reason of the ice, and wherein the snow
is hid: - What time - they wax warm,
- they vanish: when it is hot, - they are consumed
out of their place. The paths of their way are turned aside; - they go to nothing, and perish.
*****
Notwithstanding
they hearkened
not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred
worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
And
they - gathered it
every
morning, every man according to his
eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
*****
Job,
that there is none like him in the earth,
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For
the Lord had - fast closed up - all
the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
And
the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
For
Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his - old age, - at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
And
Abraham
called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
*****
Where-fore have we fasted,
- say they, - and thou seest not? where-fore have we - afflicted our soul, and thou takest
no knowledge? Behold, - in the day of your fast - ye find pleasure,
and exact all your labours.
Behold,
ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: - ye shall not fast - as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Is it
such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict
his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and
ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Is not
this
- the fast - that I have chosen?
to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye - break every yoke?
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and
that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
when thou seest the naked, - that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself - from
thine own flesh?
But unto Cain and to his offering he
had - not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
And
the Lord said unto Cain, Why art - thou wroth? and why is - thy countenance
fallen?
If
thou
doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if
thou
doest not well, sin
lieth at the door.
And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
*****
Thou
prevailest
for ever against him, and he passeth:
thou
changest his countenance, against him, and he passeth:
thou
changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
His
sons
come to honour, and he knoweth
it not;
and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not
of them. But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
*****
And
he called
his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
*****
I have heard many such things: - miserable comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
I also could speak as ye do:
if your soul were in my
souls
stead, I could heap up words
against you, and shake mine head at you.
*****
And
God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him
in the ark: and God made a wind to - pass
over - the earth, and the waters assuaged;
The fountains also of the deep
and the windows of heaven
were stopped, and the ra-in from heaven was restrained;
And
the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the - hundred and fifty days - the waters were abated.
*****
But
I
would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Though I speak, my grief
is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
*****
And,
behold, - there came up out of the river
- seven kine, fat-fleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
And,
behold, seven other
kine
came up after them,
poor and very ill favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I
never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
And
the lean and the ill
favoured kine did eat up - the first -seven
fat kine:
And
when they had eaten them up, - it could
not
be known that they had eaten them; but
they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.
So
I awoke.
*****
But
now
he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness
against me: and my leanness
rising up in me beareth witness to my
face.
He
teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth;
mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. They have gaped
upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek
reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
*****
And
the Lord said unto him, There-fore who-so-ever slayeth
Cain, vengeance shall be taken on
him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him - should kill - him.
And
the men of the place asked him
of his
wife; and he
said,
She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place
- should kill - me - for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
*****
God
hath delivered me to the
ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. I was
at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up - for his mark.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and
doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
*****
Unto Adam also and to his
wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
*****
There
were giants in the earth in - those days;
and also - after that, - when the sons of God - came in
unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same - became mighty men which were of old,
men of renown.
*****
Behold
now,
I have two daughters which have not
known man; - let me, - I pray you,
bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for there - fore came they under
the shadow of my roof.
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He
breaketh me with - breach upon breach,
he runneth upon me like a giant. I have sewed sackcloth upon my
skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow
of death; Not for any injustice in
mine hands: also
my prayer is pure.
Moreover
when ye fast, - be not, as the hypocrites,
of a sad countenance: - for they
disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward.
But
thou,
when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
That
thou
appear not unto men to fast,
but unto thy Father which is in
secret: and thy Father, which seeth
in secret, shall reward thee openly.
ISamuelyeaon-Am-Allah
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