And
God - made
two - great lights;
the greater
light to
rule the day,
and
the lesser
light to
rule the night:
for thus it is
written by the prophet,
And
thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of
thee shall come a Governor,
that shall rule
my people Israel.
*
For he said,
Surely
they are my people,
children that will not lie:
so he was their Saviour.
**
The word
that Isaiah
the son of Amoz saw
concerning
Judah and
Jerusalem.
**
For
this is
as the waters of
Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters
of Noah should no more go over the earth;
so have I sworn
that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
For
the mountains shall depart, and the hills
be
removed; but my kindness
shall not
depart from
thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed,
saith
the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
**
And
it shall come to pass in the last days,
that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in
the top
of
the mountains, and shall be exalted
above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto it.
And
many people
shall go
and
say,
Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain
of
the Lord, to the house of the God
of Jacob; and he
will teach us of his
ways, and we
will
walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the word
of
the Lord from Jerusalem.
And
he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
*
Noah
was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
*
the
Lord appeared to Abram, and said
unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be
thou perfect.
*
O house of Jacob,
come ye,
and
let us walk in
the light
of
the Lord.
Therefore
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.
Their
land also is full of
silver and
gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land
is also full of horses, neither
is there any end of their chariots:
**
It
is a sign between me and
the children
of Israel
for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested,
and was refreshed.
And
he gave unto Moses, when he had
made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
**
Their
land also is full of idols;
they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And
the mean man boweth
down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Enter
into the rock,
and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the Lord, and for the glory
of
his majesty.
The lofty looks of
man
shall be humbled, and the haughtiness
of
men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
For
the day of
the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and
lofty, and upon every one that
is lifted up; and he shall
be brought low:
And
upon all
the
cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted
up,
and upon all the oaks
of
Bashan,
And
upon all
the high
mountains, and
upon all the hills
that are lifted up,
**
And
they said,
Go
to,
let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and
let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon
the face of the whole
earth.
*
And
there shall be upon every high mountain,
and upon every high hill,
rivers and
streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter,
when
the towers fall.
**
And
upon every
high tower,
and upon every fenced wall,
And
upon all
the
ships of Tarshish, and upon all
pleasant
pictures.
And
the loftiness
of
man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low:
and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
And
the idols
he shall utterly abolish.
And they shall go into
the holes
of
the rocks, and into the caves
of
the earth, for fear of
the Lord, and for the glory of
his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
In
that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and
to the bats;
**
Behold,
I
go forward, but he
is not there; and backward,
but
I cannot perceive him:
On
the left
hand,
where he doth
work, but I
cannot behold him:
he
hideth
himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
But
he knoweth
the way that I take: when he hath tried me,
I shall come forth as
gold.
**
To
go
into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged
rocks,
for
fear
of the Lord, and for the glory
of
his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease
ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils:
for wherein
is he to
be accounted of?
For, behold,
the Lord, the Lord
of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and
the staff,
the whole
stay
of bread, and the whole stay
of water,
The mighty man,
and the man
of
war, the judge,
and the prophet,
and the prudent,
and the ancient,
The captain of
fifty, and the honourable man,
and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
And
I will give children to be their princes,
and babes
shall rule
over them.
Samuel
