ye
wives
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.
*****
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.
***
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.
*
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.
***
Wherefore
thus saith
the Holy
One of Israel,
Because
ye
despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
curse
God,
and
die.
*
But he
said unto her,
Thou
speakest as one of the foolish workmen speaketh.
*
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.
***
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:
***
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.
***
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,
***
And
he said,
I know not:
***
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?
***
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;
***
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.
***
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,
***
If Cain shall be avenged - sevenfold,
truly
Lamech seventy - and sevenfold.
***
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.
***
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:
**
and there was not a man to till the ground.
*
but for Adam there
- was not
found an
help
meet for
him.
***
and
he was
not;
for God - took him.
***
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,
*****
The hand of the Lord was up-on me,
**
And
the Spirit
of God moved up-on the face of the waters.
**
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,
*****
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,
**********
hol-pen
(holpn)v.
Archaic. A past participle of help.
American Heritage Talking Dictionary
**********
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:
***
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.
***
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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