Burnt offerings VII

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And God said, 

Let us make man in our image, - after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,

and over the cattle, and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this,

Their strength is to sit still.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever - and ever:

That this is a rebellious people,

lying children,

children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

Which say to the seers, - See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things,

speak unto us smooth things, - prophesy deceits:

Get you out of the way, - turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

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And Lamech took un-to him - two wives: the name of the one was Ad-ah,

and the name of the other Zillah.

And Adah bare Jabal:

he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

And his brother's name was Jubal:

he was the father of all such as handle the harp

and organ.

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And Zillah,

she also bare Tubalcain,

an instructor of every artificer in brass - and iron:

and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

And Lamech said unto his wives,

Ad-ah and Zi-llah,

Hear my voice;

ye wives of Lamech,

hearken unto my speech:

for I have slain a man to my wounding,

and a young man to my hurt.

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Wherefore thus saith

the Holy One of Israel,

Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

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And it came to pass, - he drew back his hand,

that,

behold, his brother came out:

and she said,

How hast thou broken forth? - this breach be upon thee:

therefore his name was called Pharez.

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Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, - and smote Job with sore boils - from the sole of his foot unto - his crown.

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal;

and he sat down among the ashes.

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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 (One) soul.

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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect

and upright,

and one that feared God,

and eschewed d-evil.

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

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Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity?

curse God,

and die.

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But he said unto her,

Thou speakest as one of the foolish workmen speaketh.

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What?

shall we receive good at the hand of God,

and shall we not receive d-evil?

In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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And he shall break it as the breaking of the potter's vessel that is broken in pieces;

he shall not spare:

so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth,

or to take water withal out of the pit.

For thus saith the Lord God,

the Holy One of Israel;

In returning - and rest shall ye be saved;

in quietness - and in confidence shall be your strength:

and ye would not.

But ye said,

No; for we will flee upon horses;

therefore shall ye flee:

and,

We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee:

till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

And therefore will the Lord wait,

that he may be gracious unto you,

and therefore will he be exalted,

that he may have mercy upon you:

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Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,

and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

For I know him,

that he will command his children and his household - after him,

and they shall keep the way of the Lord,

to do justice - and judgment;

that the Lord may bring up-on Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

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for the Lord is a God of judgment:

blessed are all they that wait for him.

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem:

thou shalt weep no more:

he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry;

when he shall hear it,

he will answer thee.

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity,

and the water of affliction,

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And he said,

I know not:

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yet shall  not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more,

but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,

saying,

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof;

if not,

where,

and who is he?

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Ye shall - defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver,

and the ornament of thy molten images of gold:

thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth;

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Again,

the d-evil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain,

and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world,

and the glory of them;

And saith unto him,

All these things will I give thee,

if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Then saith RAheme unto him,

Get thee hence, Satan:

for it is written,

Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God,

and him only shalt thou serve.

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thou shalt say unto it,

Get thee hence.

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal;

and bread of the increase of the earth,

and it shall be fat and plenteous:

in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender,

which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and up-on every high hill,

rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter,

when the towers fall.

Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,

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If Cain shall be avenged - sevenfold,

truly Lamech seventy - and sevenfold.

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and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people,

and healeth the stroke of their wound.

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And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

And Enoch - walked with God - after he begat Methuselah three hundred years,

and begat sons and daughters:

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty  and five years:

And Enoch walked with God:

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and there was not a man to till the ground.

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but for Adam there - was not found an help meet for him.

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and he was not;

for God - took him.

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Behold,

the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy:

his lips are full of indignation,

his tongue as a devouring fire:

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

Ye shall have a song,

as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept;

and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord,

to the mighty One of Israel.

And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard,

and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger,

and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering,

and tempest,

and hailstones.

For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down,

which smote with a rod.          

And in every place - where the grounded staff shall pass,

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The hand of the Lord was up-on me,

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And the Spirit of God moved up-on the face of the waters.

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and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord,

and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

And caused me to pass by them round about:

and,

behold,

there were very many in the open valley; and,

lo,

they were very dry.

And he said unto me,

Son of man,

can these bones live?

And I answered,

O Lord God, thou know-est.

Again he said un-to me,

Prophesy upon these bones,

and say unto them,

O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord God

unto these bones;

Behold,

I will cause breath to enter in-to you, and ye shall live:

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh up-on you,

and cover you with skin,

and put breath in you,

and ye shall live;

and ye shall know  that I am the Lord.

So I prophesied as I was commanded:

and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking,

and the bones came together,

bone to his bone.

And when I beheld,

lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them,

and the skin covered them above:

but there was no breath in them.

Then said he unto me,

Prophesy unto the wind,

prophesy,

son of man, and say to the wind,

Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain,

that they may live.

So I prophesied as he commanded me,

and the breath came into them,

and they lived,

and stood up upon their feet,

an exceeding great army.

Then he said unto me,

Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:

behold,

they say,

Our bones are dried,

and our hope is lost:

we are cut off from our parts.

Therefore prophesy and say unto them,

Thus saith the Lord God;

Behold,

O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves,

and bring you into the land of Israel.

And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves,

O my people,

and brought you up out of your graves,

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which the Lord shall lay upon him,

it shall be with tabrets and harps:

and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

For Tophet is ordained of old;

yea,

for the king it is prepared;

he hath made it deep and large:

the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone,

doth kindle it.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help;

and stay on horses,

and trust in chariots,

because they are many;

and in horsemen,

because they are very strong;

but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel,

 neither seek the Lord!

Yet he also is wise,

and will bring evil,

and will not call back his words:

but will arise against the house of the evildoers,

and against the help of them that work in Eiquity.

Now the Egyptians are men,

and not God;

and their horses flesh,

and not spirit.

When the Lord shall stretch out his hand,

both he that helpeth shall fall,

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hol-pen

(holpn)v. Archaic. A past participle of help.

                                                     American Heritage Talking Dictionary

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and he that is holpen shall fall down,

and they all shall fail together.

For thus hath

the Lord spoken unto me,

Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey,

when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him,

he will not be afraid of their voice,

nor abase himself for the noise of them:

so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion,

and for the hill thereof.

As birds flying,

so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem;

defending also he will deliver it;

and passing over he will preserve it.

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver,

and his idols of gold,

which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, - not of a mighty man;

and the sword,

not of a mean man,

shall devour him:

but he shall flee from the sword,

and his young men shall be discomfited.

And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,

and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign,

saith the Lord,

whose fire is in Zion,

and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Behold,

a king shall reign in righteousness,

and princes shall rule in judgment.

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind,

and a covert from the tempest;

as rivers of water in a dry place,

as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim,

and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge,

and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

The vile person shall be no more called liberal,

nor the churl said to be bountiful.

For the vile person will speak villainy,

and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy,

and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry,

and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

The instruments also of the churl are evil:

he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,

even when the needy speaketh right.

But the liberal deviseth liberal things;

and by liberal things shall he stand.

Rise up, ye workmen that are at ease;

hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

Many days - and years shall ye be troubled,

ye careless workmen:

for the vintage shall fail,

the gathering shall not come.

Tremble, ye workmen that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones:

strip you,

and make you bare,

and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

They shall lament for the teats,

for the pleasant fields,

for the fruitful vine.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns - and briers;

yea,

upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left;

the forts and towers shall be for dens -for ever,

a joy of wild asses,

a pasture of flocks;

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,

and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,

and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace;

and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation,

and in sure dwellings,

and in quiet resting places;

When it shall hail,

coming down on the forest;

and the city shall be low in a low place.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters,

that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

Woe to thee that spoilest,

and thou wast not spoiled;

and dealest treacherously,

and they dealt not treacherously with thee!

when thou shalt cease to spoil,

thou shalt be spoiled;

and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

O Lord, be gracious unto us;

we have waited for thee:

be thou their arm every morning,

our salvation also in the time of trouble.

At the noise of the tumult the people fled;

at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpillar:

as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

The Lord is exalted;

for he dwelleth on high:

he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times,

and strength of salvation:

the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

Behold,

their valiant ones shall cry without:

the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth:

he hath broken the covenant,

he hath despised the cities,

he regardeth no man.

The earth mourneth - and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down:

Sharon is like a wilderness;

and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

Now will I rise,

saith the Lord;

now will I be exalted;

now will I lift up myself.

Ye shall conceive chaff,

ye shall bring forth stubble:

your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime:

as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Hear, ye that are far off,

what I have done;

and,

ye that are near,

acknowledge my might.

The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.

Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?

who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

He that walketh righteously,

and speaketh uprightly;

he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes,

that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood,

and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

He shall dwell on high:

his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks:

bread shall be given him;

his waters shall be sure.

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty:

they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Thine heart shall meditate terror.

Where is the scribe?

where is the receiver?

where is he that counted the towers?

Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive;

of a stammering tongue,

that thou canst not understand.

Look upon Zion,

the city of our solemnities:

thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation,

a tabernacle that shall not be taken down;

not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,

neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars,

neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

For the Lord is our judge,

the Lord is our lawgiver,

the Lord is our king;

he will save us.

Thy tacklings are loosed;

they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

And the inhabitant shall not say,

I am sick:

the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

Come near,

ye nations,

to hear;

and hearken,

ye people:

let the earth hear,

and all that is therein;

the world,

and all things that come forth of it.

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations,

and his fury upon all their armies:

he hath utterly destroyed them,

he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases,

and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,

and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll:

and all their host shall fall down,

as the leaf falleth off from the vine,

and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:

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And Esau said to Jacob,

Feed me,

I pray thee,

with that same red pottage;

for I am faint:

therefore was his name called Edom.

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behold,

it shall come down upon Idumea,

and upon the people of my curse,

to judgment.

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,

it is made fat with fatness,

and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:

for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

And the unicorns shall come down with them,

and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood,

and their dust made fat with fatness.

For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance,

and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,

and the dust thereof into brimstone,

and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

It shall not be quenched - night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever:

from generation to generation it shall lie waste;

none shall pass through it for ever - and ever.

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