Psm 103:4 He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.
Psm 103:5 He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.
Psm 103:6 The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.
Psm 103:7 He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel.
Psm 103:8 The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
Psm 103:9 His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.
Psm 103:10 He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
Psm 103:11 For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
Psm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.
Psm 103:13 As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.
Psm 103:14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.
Psm 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Psm 103:16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
Psm 103:17 But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
Psm 103:18 If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
Psm 103:19 The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.
Psm 103:20 Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.
Psm 103:21 Give praise to the Lord, all you his armies; and you his servants who do his pleasure.
Psm 103:22 Give praise to the Lord, all his works, in all places under his rule: give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
Psm 104:1 Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.
Psm 104:2 You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Psm 104:3 The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:
Psm 104:4 He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.
Psm 104:5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
Psm 104:6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
Psm 104:7 At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;
Psm 104:8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
Psm 104:9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
Psm 104:10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.
Psm 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.
Psm 104:12 The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.
Psm 104:13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
Psm 104:14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
Psm 104:15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
Psm 104:16 The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;
Psm 104:17 Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
Psm 104:18 The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.
Psm 104:19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.
Psm 104:20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
Psm 104:21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.
Psm 104:22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.
Psm 104:23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
Psm 104:24 O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.
Psm 104:25 There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
Psm 104:26 There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
Psm 104:27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.
Psm 104:28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
Psm 104:29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
Psm 104:30 If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.
Psm 104:31 Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:
Psm 104:32 At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.
Psm 104:33 I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
Psm 104:34 Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.
Psm 104:35 Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.
Psm 105:1 O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.
Psm 105:2 Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.
Psm 105:3 Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
Psm 105:4 Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.
Psm 105:5 Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;
Psm 105:6 O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.
Psm 105:7 He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.
Psm 105:8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
Psm 105:9 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
Psm 105:10 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
Psm 105:11 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:
Psm 105:12 When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;
Psm 105:13 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
Psm 105:14 He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,
Psm 105:15 Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
Psm 105:16 And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
Psm 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:
Psm 105:18 His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;
Psm 105:19 Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord.
Psm 105:20 The king sent men to take off his chains; even the ruler of the people, who let him go free.
Psm 105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler over everything he had;
Psm 105:22 To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.
Psm 105:23 Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.
Psm 105:24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
Psm 105:25 Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
Psm 105:26 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, the man of his selection.
Psm 105:27 He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham.
Psm 105:28 He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.
Psm 105:29 At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.
Psm 105:30 Their land was full of frogs, even in the rooms of the king.
Psm 105:31 He gave the word, and there came the dog-fly, and insects over all the land.
Psm 105:32 He gave them ice for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
Psm 105:33 He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.
Psm 105:34 At his word the locusts came, and young locusts more than might be numbered,
Psm 105:35 And put an end to all the plants of their land, taking all the fruit of the earth for food.
Psm 105:36 He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.
Psm 105:37 He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.
Psm 105:38 Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.
Psm 105:39 A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.
Psm 105:40 At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.
Psm 105:41 His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.
Psm 105:42 For he kept in mind his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
Psm 105:43 And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:
Psm 105:44 And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;
Psm 105:45 So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.
Psm 106:1 Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 106:2 Who is able to give an account of the great acts of the Lord, or to make clear all his praise?
Psm 106:3 Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
Psm 106:4 Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;
Psm 106:5 So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
Psm 106:6 We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
Psm 106:7 Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Psm 106:8 But he was their saviour because of his name, so that men might see his great power.
Psm 106:9 By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.
Psm 106:10 And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.
Psm 106:11 And the waters went over their haters; all of them came to an end.
Psm 106:12 Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise.
Psm 106:13 But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,
Psm 106:14 They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.
Psm 106:15 And he gave them their request, but sent a wasting disease into their souls.
Psm 106:16 They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
Psm 106:17 The earth opening put an end to Dathan, covering up Abiram and his band.
Psm 106:18 And a fire was lighted among their tents; the sinners were burned up by the flames.
Psm 106:19 They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.
Psm 106:20 And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.
Psm 106:21 They had no memory of God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;
Psm 106:22 Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.
Psm 106:23 And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.
Psm 106:24 They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;
Psm 106:25 Talking against him secretly in their tents, they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord.
Psm 106:26 So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:
Psm 106:27 That their children might be mixed among the nations, and sent away into other lands.
Psm 106:28 And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
Psm 106:29 So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.
Psm 106:30 Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.
Psm 106:31 And all the generations coming after him kept the memory of his righteousness for ever.
Psm 106:32 They made God angry again at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled because of them;
Psm 106:33 For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.
Psm 106:34 They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said;
Psm 106:35 But they were joined to the nations, learning their works.
Psm 106:36 And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:
Psm 106:37 They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,
Psm 106:38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
Psm 106:39 So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
Psm 106:40 Then the wrath of the Lord was burning against his people, and he was angry with his heritage.
Psm 106:41 And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters.
Psm 106:42 By them they were crushed, and made low under their hands.
Psm 106:43 Again and again he made them free; but their hearts were turned against his purpose, and they were overcome by their sins.
Psm 106:44 But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:
Psm 106:45 And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.
Psm 106:46 He put pity into the hearts of those who made them prisoners.
Psm 106:47 Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.
Psm 106:48 Praise be to the Lord God of Israel for ever and for ever; and let all the people say, So be it. Give praise to the Lord.
Psm 107:1 O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 107:2 Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;
Psm 107:3 Making them come together out of all the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
Psm 107:4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
Psm 107:5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.
Psm 107:6 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;
Psm 107:7 Guiding them in the right way, so that they might come into the town of their resting-place.
Psm 107:8 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
Psm 107:9 He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.
Psm 107:10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Psm 107:11 Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:
Psm 107:12 So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.
Psm 107:13 Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.
Psm 107:14 He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
Psm 107:15 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
Psm 107:16 The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.
Psm 107:17 Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
Psm 107:18 They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
Psm 107:19 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.
Psm 107:20 He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.
Psm 107:21 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
Psm 107:22 Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.
Psm 107:23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in the great waters;
Psm 107:24 They see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Psm 107:25 For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.
Psm 107:26 The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.
Psm 107:27 They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
Psm 107:28 Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.
Psm 107:29 He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.
Psm 107:30 Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.
Psm 107:31 Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
Psm 107:32 Let them give glory to him in the meeting of the people, and praise among the chiefs.
Psm 107:33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
Psm 107:34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
Psm 107:35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.
Psm 107:36 And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;
Psm 107:37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.
Psm 107:38 He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
Psm 107:39 And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,
Psm 107:40 He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.
Psm 107:41 But he puts the poor man on high from his troubles, and gives him families like a flock.
Psm 107:42 The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.
Psm 107:43 Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
Psm 108:1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs and melody, even with my glory.
Psm 108:2 Give out your sounds, O corded instruments: the dawn will be awaking with my song.
Psm 108:3 I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make melody to you among the nations.
Psm 108:4 For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.
Psm 108:5 Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
Psm 108:6 Let your right hand be stretched out for salvation, and give me an answer, so that your loved ones may be safe from danger.
Psm 108:7 This is the word of the holy God: I will be glad; I will make Shechem a heritage, measuring out the valley of Succoth.
Psm 108:8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
Psm 108:9 Moab is my washpot; on Edom is the resting-place of my shoe; over Philistia will I send out a glad cry.
Psm 108:10 Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
Psm 108:11 Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.
Psm 108:12 Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.
Psm 108:13 With God we will do great things; for by him will our haters be crushed underfoot.
Psm 109:1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.> God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;
Psm 109:2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.
Psm 109:3 Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
Psm 109:4 For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
Psm 109:5 They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.
Psm 109:6 Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.
Psm 109:7 When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.
Psm 109:8 Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.
Psm 109:9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
Psm 109:10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Psm 109:11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.
Psm 109:12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.
Psm 109:13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.
Psm 109:14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.
Psm 109:15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
Psm 109:16 Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.
Psm 109:17 As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
Psm 109:18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
Psm 109:19 Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.
Psm 109:20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.
Psm 109:21 But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.
Psm 109:22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.
Psm 109:23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
Psm 109:24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.
Psm 109:25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.
Psm 109:26 Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;
Psm 109:27 So that they may see that it is the work of your hand; that you, Lord, have done it.
Psm 109:28 They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.
Psm 109:29 Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.
Psm 109:30 I will give the Lord great praise with my mouth; yes, I will give praise to him among all the people.
Psm 109:31 For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.
Psm 110:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
Psm 110:2 The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.
Psm 110:3 Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Psm 110:4 The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.
Psm 110:5 In the day of his wrath kings will be wounded by the Lord at your right hand.
Psm 110:6 He will be judge among the nations, the valleys will be full of dead bodies; the head over a great country will be wounded by him.
Psm 110:7 He will take of the stream by the way; so his head will be lifted up.
Psm 111:1 Let the Lord be praised. I will give praise to the Lord with all my heart, among the upright, and in the meeting of the people.
Psm 111:2 The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.
Psm 111:3 His work is full of honour and glory; and his righteousness is unchanging for ever.
Psm 111:4 Certain for ever is the memory of his wonders: the Lord is full of pity and mercy.
Psm 111:5 He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.
Psm 111:6 He has made clear to his people the power of his works, giving them the heritage of the nations.
Psm 111:7 The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.
Psm 111:8 They are fixed for ever and ever, they are done in faith and righteousness.
Psm 111:9 He has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.
Psm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
Psm 112:1 Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
Psm 112:2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
Psm 112:3 A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.
Psm 112:4 For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Psm 112:5 All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
Psm 112:6 He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.
Psm 112:7 He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.
Psm 112:8 His heart is resting safely, he will have no fear, till he sees trouble come on his haters.
Psm 112:9 He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
Psm 112:10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
Psm 113:1 Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.
Psm 113:2 Let blessing be on the name of the Lord, from this time and for ever.
Psm 113:3 From the coming up of the sun to its going down, the Lord's name is to be praised.
Psm 113:4 The Lord is high over all nations, and his glory is higher than the heavens.
Psm 113:5 Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,
Psm 113:6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?
Psm 113:7 He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position;
Psm 113:8 To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.
Psm 113:9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
Psm 114:1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;
Psm 114:2 Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.
Psm 114:3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.
Psm 114:4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.
Psm 114:5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?
Psm 114:6 You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?
Psm 114:7 Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;
Psm 114:8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.
Psm 115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.
Psm 115:2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?
Psm 115:3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
Psm 115:4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psm 115:5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;
Psm 115:6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;
Psm 115:7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
Psm 115:8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
Psm 115:9 O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
Psm 115:10 O house of Aaron, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
Psm 115:11 You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.
Psm 115:12 The Lord has kept us in mind and will give us his blessing; he will send blessings on the house of Israel and on the house of Aaron.
Psm 115:13 He will send blessings on the worshippers of the Lord, on the small and on the great.
Psm 115:14 May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.
Psm 115:15 May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psm 115:16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
Psm 115:17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.
Psm 115:18 But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
Psm 116:1 I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.
Psm 116:2 He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.
Psm 116:3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Psm 116:4 Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.
Psm 116:5 The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.
Psm 116:6 The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.
Psm 116:7 Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
Psm 116:8 You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.
Psm 116:9 I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.
Psm 116:10 I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;
Psm 116:11 Though I said in my fear, All men are false.
Psm 116:12 What may I give to the Lord for all the good things which he has done for me?
Psm 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and give praise to the name of the Lord.
Psm 116:14 I will make the offering of my oath to the Lord, even before all his people.
Psm 116:15 Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Psm 116:16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.
Psm 116:17 I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord.
Psm 116:18 I will make the offerings of my oath, even before all his people;
Psm 116:19 In the Lord's house, even in Jerusalem. Praise be to the Lord.
Psm 117:1 Let all the nations give praise to the Lord: let all the people give him praise.
Psm 117:2 For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
Psm 118:1 O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 118:4 Let all worshippers of the Lord now say, that his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 118:5 I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.
Psm 118:6 The Lord is on my side; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?
Psm 118:7 The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.
Psm 118:8 It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in man.
Psm 118:9 It is better to have faith in the Lord than to put one's hope in rulers.
Psm 118:10 All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
Psm 118:11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
Psm 118:12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
Psm 118:13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.
Psm 118:14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
Psm 118:15 The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.
Psm 118:16 The right hand of the Lord is lifted up; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.
Psm 118:17 Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.
Psm 118:18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.
Psm 118:19 Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.
Psm 118:20 This is the door of the Lord's house; the workers of righteousness will go in through it.
Psm 118:21 I will give you praise, for you have given me an answer, and have become my salvation.
Psm 118:22 The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.
Psm 118:23 This is the Lord's doing; it is a wonder in our eyes.
Psm 118:24 This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.
Psm 118:25 Send salvation now, O Lord; Lord, send us your blessing.
Psm 118:26 A blessing be on him who comes in the name of the Lord; we give you blessing from the house of the Lord.
Psm 118:27 The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.
Psm 118:28 You are my God, and I will give you praise; my God, and I will give honour to your name.
Psm 118:29 O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 119:1 <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.
Psm 119:2 Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
Psm 119:3 They do no evil; they go in his ways.
Psm 119:4 You have put your orders into our hearts, so that we might keep them with care.
Psm 119:5 If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
Psm 119:6 Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.
Psm 119:7 I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.
Psm 119:8 I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.
Psm 119:9 <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
Psm 119:10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Psm 119:11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
Psm 119:12 Praise be to you, O Lord: give me knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:13 With my lips have I made clear all the decisions of your mouth.
Psm 119:14 I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
Psm 119:15 I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.
Psm 119:16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
Psm 119:17 <GIMEL> Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;
Psm 119:18 Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
Psm 119:19 I am living in a strange land: do not let your teachings be kept secret from me.
Psm 119:20 My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
Psm 119:21 Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.
Psm 119:22 Take away from me shame and bitter words; for I have kept your unchanging word in my heart.
Psm 119:23 Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.
Psm 119:24 Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
Psm 119:25 <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
Psm 119:26 I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:27 Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.
Psm 119:28 My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word
Psm 119:29 Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
Psm 119:30 I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Psm 119:31 I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.
Psm 119:32 I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
Psm 119:33 <HE> O Lord, let me see the way of your rules, and I will keep it to the end.
Psm 119:34 Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.
Psm 119:35 Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.
Psm 119:36 Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
Psm 119:37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
Psm 119:38 Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.
Psm 119:39 Take away the shame which is my fear; for your decisions are good.
Psm 119:40 See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness.
Psm 119:41 <VAU> Let your mercies come to me, O Lord, even your salvation, as you have said.
Psm 119:42 So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word.
Psm 119:43 Take not your true word quite out of my mouth; for I have put my hope in your decisions.
Psm 119:44 So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;
Psm 119:45 So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
Psm 119:46 So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.
Psm 119:47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
Psm 119:48 And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
Psm 119:49 <ZAIN> Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.
Psm 119:50 This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.
Psm 119:51 The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.
Psm 119:52 I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.
Psm 119:53 I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.
Psm 119:54 Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Psm 119:55 I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.
Psm 119:56 This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.
Psm 119:57 <CHETH> The Lord is my heritage: I have said that I would be ruled by your words.
Psm 119:58 I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.
Psm 119:59 I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.
Psm 119:60 I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.
Psm 119:61 The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.
Psm 119:62 In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.
Psm 119:63 I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
Psm 119:64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy: give me knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:65 <TETH> You have done good to your servant, O Lord, in keeping with your word.
Psm 119:66 Give me knowledge and good sense; for I have put my faith in your teachings.
Psm 119:67 Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
Psm 119:68 You are good, and your works are good; give me knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:69 The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.
Psm 119:70 Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
Psm 119:71 It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
Psm 119:73 <JOD> Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
Psm 119:74 Your worshippers will see me and be glad; because my hope has been in your word.
Psm 119:75 I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.
Psm 119:76 Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.
Psm 119:77 Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.
Psm 119:78 Let the men of pride be shamed; because they have falsely given decision against me; but I will give thought to your orders.
Psm 119:79 Let your worshippers be turned to me, and those who have knowledge of your words.
Psm 119:80 Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
Psm 119:81 <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
Psm 119:82 My eyes are full of weariness with searching for your word, saying, When will you give me comfort?
Psm 119:83 For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules.
Psm 119:84 How short is the life of your servant! when will you give your decision against those who are attacking me?
Psm 119:85 The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.
Psm 119:86 All your teachings are certain; they go after me with evil design; give me your help.
Psm 119:87 They had almost put an end to me on earth; but I did not give up your orders.
Psm 119:88 Give me life in your mercy; so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth.
Psm 119:89 <LAMED> For ever, O Lord, your word is fixed in heaven.
Psm 119:90 Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.
Psm 119:91 They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.
Psm 119:92 If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.
Psm 119:93 I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.
Psm 119:94 I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.
Psm 119:95 The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.
Psm 119:96 I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.
Psm 119:97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
Psm 119:98 Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.
Psm 119:99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
Psm 119:100 I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
Psm 119:101 I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.
Psm 119:102 My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.
Psm 119:103 How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Psm 119:104 Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
Psm 119:105 <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
Psm 119:106 I have made an oath and kept it, to be guided by your upright decisions.
Psm 119:107 I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.
Psm 119:108 Take, O Lord, the free offerings of my mouth, and give me knowledge of your decisions.
Psm 119:109 My soul is ever in danger; but I still keep the memory of your law.
Psm 119:110 Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.
Psm 119:111 I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
Psm 119:112 My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.
Psm 119:113 <SAMECH> I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.
Psm 119:114 You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.
Psm 119:115 Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
Psm 119:116 Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.
Psm 119:117 Let me not be moved, and I will be safe, and ever take delight in your rules.
Psm 119:118 You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
Psm 119:119 All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.
Psm 119:120 My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
Psm 119:121 <AIN> I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
Psm 119:122 Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.
Psm 119:123 My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
Psm 119:124 Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.
Psm 119:125 I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.
Psm 119:126 It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.
Psm 119:127 For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.
Psm 119:128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
Psm 119:129 <PE> Your unchanging word is full of wonder; for this reason my soul keeps it.
Psm 119:130 The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
Psm 119:131 My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
Psm 119:132 Let your eyes be turned to me, and have mercy on me, as it is right for you to do to those who are lovers of your name.
Psm 119:133 Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.
Psm 119:134 Make me free from the cruel rule of man; then I will keep your orders.
Psm 119:135 Let your servant see the shining of your face; give me knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:136 Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
Psm 119:137 <TZADE> O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.
Psm 119:138 You have given your unchanging word in righteousness, and it is for ever.
Psm 119:139 My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.
Psm 119:140 Your word is of tested value; and it is dear to your servant.
Psm 119:141 I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.
Psm 119:142 Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.
Psm 119:143 Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Psm 119:144 The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.
Psm 119:145 <KOPH> I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.
Psm 119:146 My cry has gone up to you; take me out of trouble, and I will be guided by your unchanging word.
Psm 119:147 Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.
Psm 119:148 In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
Psm 119:149 Let my voice come to you, in your mercy; O Lord, by your decisions give me life.
Psm 119:150 Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.
Psm 119:151 You are near, O Lord; and all your teachings are true.
Psm 119:152 I have long had knowledge that your unchanging word is for ever.
Psm 119:153 <RESH> O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,
Psm 119:154 Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.
Psm 119:155 Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.
Psm 119:156 Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.
Psm 119:157 Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.
Psm 119:158 I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
Psm 119:159 See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.
Psm 119:160 Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.
Psm 119:161 <SHIN> Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.
Psm 119:162 I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.
Psm 119:163 I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.
Psm 119:164 Seven times a day do I give you praise, because of your upright decisions.
Psm 119:165 Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.
Psm 119:166 Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.
Psm 119:167 My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.
Psm 119:168 I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.
Psm 119:169 <TAU> Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.
Psm 119:170 Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.
Psm 119:171 Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.
Psm 119:172 Let my tongue make songs in praise of your word; for all your teachings are righteousness.
Psm 119:173 Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.
Psm 119:174 All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
Psm 119:175 Give life to my soul so that it may give you praise; and let your decisions be my support.
Psm 119:176 I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
Psm 120:1 <A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
Psm 120:2 O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.
Psm 120:3 What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?
Psm 120:4 Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
Psm 120:5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.
Psm 120:6 My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
Psm 120:7 I am for peace: but when I say so, they are for war.
Psm 121:1 <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
Psm 121:2 Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psm 121:3 May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.
Psm 121:4 See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep.
Psm 121:5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
Psm 121:6 You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.
Psm 121:7 The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.
Psm 121:8 The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.
Psm 122:1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.
Psm 122:2 At last our feet were inside your doors, O Jerusalem.
Psm 122:3 O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;
Psm 122:4 To which the tribes went up, even the tribes of the Lord, for a witness to Israel, to give praise to the name of the Lord.
Psm 122:5 For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David.
Psm 122:6 O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well.
Psm 122:7 May peace be inside your walls, and wealth in your noble houses.
Psm 122:8 Because of my brothers and friends, I will now say, Let peace be with you.
Psm 122:9 Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.
Psm 123:1 <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.
Psm 123:2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.
Psm 123:3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
Psm 123:4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
Psm 124:1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);
Psm 124:2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;
Psm 124:3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
Psm 124:4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;
Psm 124:5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.
Psm 124:6 Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.
Psm 124:7 Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.
Psm 124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
Psm 125:1 <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
Psm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.
Psm 125:3 For the rod of sinners will not be resting on the heritage of the upright; so that the upright may not put out their hands to evil.
Psm 125:4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in heart.
Psm 125:5 But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
Psm 126:1 <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.
Psm 126:2 Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
Psm 126:3 The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.
Psm 126:4 Let our fate be changed, O Lord, like the streams in the South.
Psm 126:5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.
Psm 126:6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
Psm 127:1 <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
Psm 127:2 It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
Psm 127:3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.
Psm 127:4 Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young.
Psm 127:5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
Psm 128:1 <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.
Psm 128:2 You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.
Psm 128:3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
Psm 128:4 See! this is the blessing of the worshipper of the Lord.
Psm 128:5 May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
Psm 128:6 May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.
Psm 129:1 <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
Psm 129:2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
Psm 129:3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
Psm 129:4 The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
Psm 129:5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
Psm 129:6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
Psm 129:7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
Psm 129:8 And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.
Psm 130:1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.
Psm 130:2 Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.
Psm 130:3 O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?
Psm 130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
Psm 130:5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.
Psm 130:6 My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.
Psm 130:7 O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.
Psm 130:8 And he will make Israel free from all his sins.
Psm 131:1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
Psm 131:2 See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.
Psm 131:3 O Israel, have hope in the Lord, from this time and for ever.
Psm 132:1 <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;
Psm 132:2 How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,
Psm 132:3 Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,
Psm 132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,
Psm 132:5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.
Psm 132:6 We had news of it at Ephrathah: we came to it in the fields of the wood.
Psm 132:7 Let us go into his tent; let us give worship at his feet.
Psm 132:8 Come back, O Lord, to your resting-place; you and the ark of your strength.
Psm 132:9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints give cries of joy.
Psm 132:10 Because of your servant David, do not give up your king.
Psm 132:11 The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.
Psm 132:12 If your children keep my word, and the teachings which I will give them, their children will be rulers of your kingdom for ever.
Psm 132:13 For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.
Psm 132:14 This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
Psm 132:15 My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.
Psm 132:16 Her priests will be clothed with salvation; and her saints will give cries of joy.
Psm 132:17 There I will make the horn of David fertile: I have made ready a light for my king.
Psm 132:18 His haters will be clothed with shame; but I will make his crown shining.
Psm 133:1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
Psm 133:2 It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe;
Psm 133:3 Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.
Psm 134:1 <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.
Psm 134:2 Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
Psm 134:3 May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,
Psm 135:1 Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.
Psm 135:2 You who are in the house of the Lord, and in the open spaces of the house of our God,
Psm 135:3 Give praise to Jah, for he is good: make melody to his name, for it is pleasing.
Psm 135:4 For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.
Psm 135:5 I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is greater than all other gods.
Psm 135:6 The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.
Psm 135:7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
Psm 135:8 He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.
Psm 135:9 He sent signs and wonders among you, O Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
Psm 135:10 He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;
Psm 135:11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;
Psm 135:12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.
Psm 135:13 O Lord, your name is eternal; and the memory of you will have no end.
Psm 135:14 For the Lord will be judge of his people's cause; his feelings will be changed to his servants.
Psm 135:15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psm 135:16 They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;
Psm 135:17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
Psm 135:18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Psm 135:19 Give praise to the Lord, O children of Israel: give praise to the Lord, O sons of Aaron:
Psm 135:20 Give praise to the Lord, O sons of Levi: let all the worshippers of the Lord give him praise.
Psm 135:21 Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.
Psm 136:1 O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:2 O give praise to the God of gods: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:3 O give praise to the Lord of lords: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:4 To him who only does great wonders: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:5 To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:6 To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:7 To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:8 The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:9 The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:10 To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:11 And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:12 With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:13 To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:14 And let Israel go through it: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:15 By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:16 To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:17 To him who overcame great kings: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:18 And put noble kings to death: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:19 Sihon, king of the Amorites: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:20 And Og, king of Bashan: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:
Psm 136:21 And gave their land to his people for a heritage: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:22 Even a heritage for his servant Israel: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:23 Who kept us in mind when we were in trouble: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:24 And has taken us out of the hands of our haters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:25 Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 136:26 O give praise to the God of heaven: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
Psm 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
Psm 137:2 Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Psm 137:3 For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
Psm 137:4 How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
Psm 137:5 If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
Psm 137:6 If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.
Psm 137:7 O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.
Psm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
Psm 137:9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
Psm 138:1 <Of David.> I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.
Psm 138:2 I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.
Psm 138:3 When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.
Psm 138:4 All the kings of the earth will give you praise, O Lord, when the words of your mouth come to their ears.
Psm 138:5 They will make songs about the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.
Psm 138:6 Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
Psm 138:7 Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.
Psm 138:8 The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.
Psm 139:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
Psm 139:2 You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
Psm 139:3 You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
Psm 139:4 For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
Psm 139:5 I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
Psm 139:6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
Psm 139:7 Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
Psm 139:8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Psm 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;
Psm 139:10 Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
Psm 139:11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
Psm 139:12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
Psm 139:13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
Psm 139:14 I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
Psm 139:15 My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
Psm 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
Psm 139:17 How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
Psm 139:18 If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
Psm 139:19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
Psm 139:20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
Psm 139:21 Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
Psm 139:22 My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
Psm 139:23 O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
Psm 139:24 See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
Psm 140:1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man:
Psm 140:2 For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
Psm 140:3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
Psm 140:4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.
Psm 140:5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
Psm 140:6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.
Psm 140:7 O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.
Psm 140:8 O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)
Psm 140:9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.
Psm 140:10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.
Psm 140:11 Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.
Psm 140:12 I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
Psm 140:13 Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.
Psm 141:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
Psm 141:2 Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
Psm 141:3 O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psm 141:4 Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
Psm 141:5 Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
Psm 141:6 When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
Psm 141:7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
Psm 141:8 But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
Psm 141:9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
Psm 141:10 Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
Psm 142:1 <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.
Psm 142:2 I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.
Psm 142:3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
Psm 142:4 Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.
Psm 142:5 I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.
Psm 142:6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
Psm 142:7 Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
Psm 143:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;
Psm 143:2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.
Psm 143:3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
Psm 143:4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
Psm 143:5 I keep in mind the early days of the past, giving thought to all your acts, even to the work of your hands.
Psm 143:6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
Psm 143:7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
Psm 143:8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.
Psm 143:9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you.
Psm 143:10 Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
Psm 143:11 Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.
Psm 143:12 And in your mercy put an end to my haters, and send destruction on all those who are against my soul; for I am your servant.
Psm 144:1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
Psm 144:2 He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
Psm 144:3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
Psm 144:4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
Psm 144:5 Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
Psm 144:6 With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.
Psm 144:7 Put out your hand from on high; make me free, take me safely out of the great waters, and out of the hands of strange men;
Psm 144:8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
Psm 144:9 I will make a new song to you, O God; I will make melody to you on an instrument of ten cords.
Psm 144:10 It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.
Psm 144:11 Make me free, and take me out of the hands of strange men, in whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
Psm 144:12 Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
Psm 144:13 Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
Psm 144:14 Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.
Psm 144:15 Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.
Psm 145:1 <A Song of praise. Of David.> Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.
Psm 145:2 Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever.
Psm 145:3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.
Psm 145:4 One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.
Psm 145:5 My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works.
Psm 145:6 Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory.
Psm 145:7 Their sayings will be full of the memory of all your mercy, and they will make songs of your righteousness.
Psm 145:8 The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.
Psm 145:9 The Lord is good to all men; and his mercies are over all his works.
Psm 145:10 All the works of your hands give praise to you, O Lord; and your saints give you blessing.
Psm 145:11 Their words will be of the glory of your kingdom, and their talk of your strength;
Psm 145:12 So that the sons of men may have knowledge of his acts of power, and of the great glory of his kingdom.
Psm 145:13 Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and your rule is through all generations.
Psm 145:14 The Lord is the support of all who are crushed, and the lifter up of all who are bent down.
Psm 145:15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.
Psm 145:16 By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.
Psm 145:17 The Lord is upright in all his ways, and kind in all his works.
Psm 145:18 The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.
Psm 145:19 To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
Psm 145:20 The Lord will keep all his worshippers from danger; but he will send destruction on all sinners.
Psm 145:21 My mouth will give praise to the Lord; let all flesh be blessing his holy name for ever and ever.
Psm 146:1 Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
Psm 146:2 While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
Psm 146:3 Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Psm 146:4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
Psm 146:5 Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Psm 146:6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:
Psm 146:7 Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
Psm 146:8 The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
Psm 146:9 The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
Psm 146:10 The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.
Psm 147:1 Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.
Psm 147:2 The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.
Psm 147:3 He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.
Psm 147:4 He sees the number of the stars; he gives them all their names.
Psm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.
Psm 147:6 The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.
Psm 147:7 Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.
Psm 147:8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
Psm 147:9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
Psm 147:10 He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Psm 147:11 The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
Psm 147:12 Give praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; give praise to your God, O Zion.
Psm 147:13 He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.
Psm 147:14 He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.
Psm 147:15 He sends out his orders to the earth; his word goes out quickly.
Psm 147:16 He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.
Psm 147:17 He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.
Psm 147:18 At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.
Psm 147:19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Psm 147:20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
Psm 148:1 Give praise to the Lord. Let the Lord be praised from the heavens: give him praise in the skies.
Psm 148:2 Give praise to him, all you his angels: give praise to him, all his armies.
Psm 148:3 Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.
Psm 148:4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.
Psm 148:5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.
Psm 148:6 He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.
Psm 148:7 Give praise to the Lord from the earth, you great sea-beasts, and deep places:
Psm 148:8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
Psm 148:9 Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:
Psm 148:10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds:
Psm 148:11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth:
Psm 148:12 Young men and virgins; old men and children:
Psm 148:13 Let them give glory to the name of the Lord: for his name only is to be praised: his kingdom is over the earth and the heaven.
Psm 148:14 He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.
Psm 149:1 Let the Lord be praised. Make a new song to the Lord, let his praise be in the meeting of his saints.
Psm 149:2 Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
Psm 149:3 Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.
Psm 149:4 For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
Psm 149:5 Let the saints have joy and glory: let them give cries of joy on their beds.
Psm 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands;
Psm 149:7 To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;
Psm 149:8 To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;
Psm 149:9 To give them the punishment which is in the holy writings: this honour is given to all his saints. Praise be to the Lord.
Psm 150:1 Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.
Psm 150:2 Give him praise for his acts of power: give him praise in the measure of his great strength.
Psm 150:3 Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music.
Psm 150:4 Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.
Psm 150:5 Give him praise with the loud brass: give him praise with the high-sounding brass.
Psm 150:6 Let everything which has breath give praise to the Lord. Let the Lord be praised.
Pro 1:1 The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
Pro 1:2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
Pro 1:3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
Pro 1:4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
Pro 1:5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
Pro 1:6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Pro 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Pro 1:8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Pro 1:9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
Pro 1:11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
Pro 1:12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
Pro 1:13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
Pro 1:14 Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
Pro 1:15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:
Pro 1:16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
Pro 1:17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
Pro 1:18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
Pro 1:19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Pro 1:20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
Pro 1:21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
Pro 1:22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
Pro 1:23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
Pro 1:24 Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
Pro 1:25 You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Pro 1:26 So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Pro 1:27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.
Pro 1:28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
Pro 1:29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
Pro 1:30 They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Pro 1:31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
Pro 1:32 For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.
Pro 1:33 But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.
Pro 2:1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Pro 2:2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Pro 2:3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
Pro 2:4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Pro 2:5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Pro 2:6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
Pro 2:7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Pro 2:8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
Pro 2:9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Pro 2:10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
Pro 2:11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Pro 2:12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
Pro 2:13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
Pro 2:14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
Pro 2:15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Pro 2:16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Pro 2:17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Pro 2:18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Pro 2:19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
Pro 2:20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
Pro 2:21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
Pro 2:22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
Pro 3:1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
Pro 3:2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.
Pro 3:3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
Pro 3:4 So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.
Pro 3:5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.
Pro 3:6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
Pro 3:7 Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Pro 3:8 This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.
Pro 3:9 Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
Pro 3:10 So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.
Pro 3:11 My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:
Pro 3:12 For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.
Pro 3:13 Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.
Pro 3:14 For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.
Pro 3:15 She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.
Pro 3:16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
Pro 3:17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.
Pro 3:19 The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.
Pro 3:20 By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.
Pro 3:21 My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.
Pro 3:22 So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.
Pro 3:23 Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.
Pro 3:24 When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.
Pro 3:25 Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:
Pro 3:26 For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.
Pro 3:27 Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
Pro 3:28 Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.
Pro 3:29 Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.
Pro 3:30 Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.
Pro 3:31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
Pro 3:32 For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.
Pro 3:33 The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.
Pro 3:34 He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
Pro 3:35 The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.
Pro 4:1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
Pro 4:2 For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.
Pro 4:3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.
Pro 4:4 And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
Pro 4:5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.
Pro 4:6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
Pro 4:7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.
Pro 4:8 Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.
Pro 4:9 She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.
Pro 4:10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
Pro 4:11 I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.
Pro 4:12 When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.
Pro 4:13 Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
Pro 4:14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.
Pro 4:15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
Pro 4:16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
Pro 4:17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
Pro 4:18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
Pro 4:19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
Pro 4:20 My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.
Pro 4:21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
Pro 4:22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
Pro 4:23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Pro 4:24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
Pro 4:25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
Pro 4:26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
Pro 4:27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.
Pro 5:1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
Pro 5:2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
Pro 5:3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Pro 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Pro 5:6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
Pro 5:7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
Pro 5:8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
Pro 5:9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
Pro 5:10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
Pro 5:11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
Pro 5:12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
Pro 5:13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
Pro 5:14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
Pro 5:15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
Pro 5:16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
Pro 5:17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
Pro 5:18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
Pro 5:19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
Pro 5:20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Pro 5:21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Pro 5:22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Pro 5:23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
Pro 6:1 My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
Pro 6:2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
Pro 6:3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
Pro 6:4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
Pro 6:5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
Pro 6:6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
Pro 6:7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
Pro 6:8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
Pro 6:9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
Pro 6:10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Pro 6:11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
Pro 6:12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
Pro 6:13 Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
Pro 6:14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
Pro 6:15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
Pro 6:16 Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
Pro 6:17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
Pro 6:18 A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
Pro 6:19 A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
Pro 6:20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Pro 6:21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Pro 6:22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Pro 6:23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Pro 6:24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Pro 6:25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
Pro 6:26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
Pro 6:27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
Pro 6:28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
Pro 6:29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
Pro 6:30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
Pro 6:31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
Pro 6:32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
Pro 6:33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
Pro 6:34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.
Pro 6:35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
Pro 7:1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
Pro 7:2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
Pro 7:3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
Pro 7:4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
Pro 7:5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
Pro 7:6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
Pro 7:7 I saw among the young men one without sense,
Pro 7:8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
Pro 7:9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
Pro 7:10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
Pro 7:11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
Pro 7:12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
Pro 7:13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
Pro 7:14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
Pro 7:15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
Pro 7:16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
Pro 7:17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
Pro 7:18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
Pro 7:19 For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
Pro 7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
Pro 7:21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Pro 7:22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Pro 7:23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
Pro 7:24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;
Pro 7:25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
Pro 7:26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
Pro 7:27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
Pro 8:1 Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?
Pro 8:2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;
Pro 8:3 Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:
Pro 8:4 I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.
Pro 8:5 Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
Pro 8:6 Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.
Pro 8:7 For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.
Pro 8:8 All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.
Pro 8:9 They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.
Pro 8:10 Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
Pro 8:11 For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.
Pro 8:12 I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.
Pro 8:13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.
Pro 8:14 Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.
Pro 8:15 Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.
Pro 8:16 Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.
Pro 8:17 Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
Pro 8:18 Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.
Pro 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.
Pro 8:20 I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:
Pro 8:21 So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.
Pro 8:22 The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.
Pro 8:23 From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
Pro 8:24 When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:
Pro 8:26 When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.
Pro 8:27 When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
Pro 8:28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:
Pro 8:29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
Pro 8:30 Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;
Pro 8:31 Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.
Pro 8:32 Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.
Pro 8:33 Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.
Pro 8:34 Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.
Pro 8:35 For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.
Pro 8:36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
Pro 9:1 Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.
Pro 9:2 She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.
Pro 9:3 She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,
Pro 9:4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:
Pro 9:5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.
Pro 9:6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
Pro 9:7 He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.
Pro 9:8 Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
Pro 9:9 Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.
Pro 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind
Pro 9:11 For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.
Pro 9:12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.
Pro 9:13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
Pro 9:14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
Pro 9:15 Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:
Pro 9:16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:
Pro 9:17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
Pro 9:18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Pro 10:1 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Pro 10:2 Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.
Pro 10:3 The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
Pro 10:4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
Pro 10:5 He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.
Pro 10:6 Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.
Pro 10:7 The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
Pro 10:8 The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.
Pro 10:9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.
Pro 10:10 He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.
Pro 10:11 The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.
Pro 10:12 Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.
Pro 10:13 In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
Pro 10:14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
Pro 10:15 The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
Pro 10:16 The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.
Pro 10:17 He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error.
Pro 10:18 Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
Pro 10:19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
Pro 10:20 The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value.
Pro 10:21 The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
Pro 10:22 The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Pro 10:23 It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
Pro 10:24 The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.
Pro 10:25 When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
Pro 10:26 Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.
Pro 10:27 The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.
Pro 10:28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.
Pro 10:29 The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.
Pro 10:30 The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.
Pro 10:31 The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.
Pro 10:32 The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.
Pro 11:1 Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.
Pro 11:2 When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
Pro 11:3 The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.
Pro 11:4 Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
Pro 11:5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
Pro 11:6 The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.
Pro 11:7 At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.
Pro 11:8 The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.
Pro 11:9 With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.
Pro 11:10 When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.
Pro 11:11 By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.
Pro 11:12 He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.
Pro 11:13 He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.
Pro 11:14 When there is no helping suggestion the people will have a fall, but with a number of wise guides they will be safe.
Pro 11:15 He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.
Pro 11:16 A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.
Pro 11:17 The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.
Pro 11:18 The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.
Pro 11:19 So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.
Pro 11:20 The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight
Pro 11:21 Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.
Pro 11:22 Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.
Pro 11:23 The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
Pro 11:24 A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
Pro 11:25 He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.
Pro 11:26 He who keeps back grain will be cursed by the people; but a blessing will be on the head of him who lets them have it for a price.
Pro 11:27 He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.
Pro 11:28 He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.
Pro 11:29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.
Pro 11:30 The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
Pro 11:31 If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
Pro 12:1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.
Pro 12:2 A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.
Pro 12:3 No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.
Pro 12:4 A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.
Pro 12:5 The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.
Pro 12:6 The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.
Pro 12:7 Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.
Pro 12:8 A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.
Pro 12:9 He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.
Pro 12:10 An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
Pro 12:11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
Pro 12:12 The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.
Pro 12:13 In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.
Pro 12:14 From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.
Pro 12:15 The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.
Pro 12:16 A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.
Pro 12:17 The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.
Pro 12:18 There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Pro 12:19 True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute.
Pro 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.
Pro 12:21 No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.
Pro 12:22 False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.
Pro 12:23 A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.
Pro 12:24 The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.
Pro 12:25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
Pro 12:26 The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.
Pro 12:27 He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
Pro 12:28 In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.
Pro 13:1 A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.
Pro 13:2 A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.
Pro 13:3 He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.
Pro 13:4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
Pro 13:5 The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
Pro 13:6 Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
Pro 13:7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.
Pro 13:8 A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.
Pro 13:9 There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.
Pro 13:10 The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
Pro 13:11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
Pro 13:12 Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.
Pro 13:13 He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.
Pro 13:14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.
Pro 13:15 Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.
Pro 13:16 A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.
Pro 13:17 A man taking false news is a cause of trouble, but he who gives news rightly makes things well.
Pro 13:18 Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.
Pro 13:19 To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.
Pro 13:20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Pro 13:21 Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.
Pro 13:22 The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
Pro 13:23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
Pro 13:24 He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.
Pro 13:25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
Pro 14:1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.
Pro 14:2 He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
Pro 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.
Pro 14:4 Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.
Pro 14:5 A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.
Pro 14:6 The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
Pro 14:7 Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.
Pro 14:8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
Pro 14:9 In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.
Pro 14:10 No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Pro 14:11 The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.
Pro 14:12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Pro 14:13 Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.
Pro 14:14 He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
Pro 14:15 The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.
Pro 14:16 The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.
Pro 14:17 He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.
Pro 14:18 Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.
Pro 14:19 The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.
Pro 14:20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
Pro 14:21 He who has no respect for his neighbour is a sinner, but he who has pity for the poor is happy.
Pro 14:22 Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.
Pro 14:23 In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
Pro 14:24 Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.
Pro 14:25 A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.
Pro 14:26 For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.
Pro 14:27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.
Pro 14:28 A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.
Pro 14:29 He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
Pro 14:30 A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
Pro 14:31 He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Pro 14:32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
Pro 14:33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.
Pro 14:34 By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.
Pro 14:35 The king has pleasure in a servant who does wisely, but his wrath is against him who is a cause of shame.
Pro 15:1 By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
Pro 15:2 Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
Pro 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Pro 15:4 A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.
Pro 15:5 A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.
Pro 15:6 In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.
Pro 15:7 The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.
Pro 15:8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
Pro 15:9 The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.
Pro 15:10 There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.
Pro 15:11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
Pro 15:12 The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.
Pro 15:13 A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Pro 15:14 The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Pro 15:15 All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.
Pro 15:16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.
Pro 15:17 Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Pro 15:18 An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
Pro 15:19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
Pro 15:20 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Pro 15:21 Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
Pro 15:22 Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.
Pro 15:23 A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
Pro 15:24 Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
Pro 15:25 The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.
Pro 15:26 Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
Pro 15:27 He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Pro 15:28 The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
Pro 15:29 The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.
Pro 15:30 The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.
Pro 15:31 The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.
Pro 15:32 He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.
Pro 15:33 The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.
Pro 16:1 The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Pro 16:2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
Pro 16:3 Put your works into the hands of the Lord, and your purposes will be made certain.
Pro 16:4 The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.
Pro 16:5 Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.
Pro 16:6 By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.
Pro 16:7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.
Pro 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.
Pro 16:9 A man may make designs for his way, but the Lord is the guide of his steps.
Pro 16:10 Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
Pro 16:11 True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
Pro 16:12 Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.
Pro 16:13 Lips of righteousness are the delight of kings; and he who says what is upright is dear to him.
Pro 16:14 The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.
Pro 16:15 In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.
Pro 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.
Pro 16:17 The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.
Pro 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.
Pro 16:19 Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
Pro 16:20 He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.
Pro 16:21 The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
Pro 16:22 Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.
Pro 16:23 The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.
Pro 16:24 Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
Pro 16:25 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Pro 16:26 The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.
Pro 16:27 A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.
Pro 16:28 A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.
Pro 16:29 A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.
Pro 16:30 He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.
Pro 16:31 The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.
Pro 16:32 He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
Pro 16:33 A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.
Pro 17:1 Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
Pro 17:2 A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.
Pro 17:3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Pro 17:4 A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.
Pro 17:5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
Pro 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.
Pro 17:7 Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.
Pro 17:8 An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.
Pro 17:9 He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.
Pro 17:10 A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
Pro 17:11 An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.
Pro 17:12 It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.
Pro 17:13 If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.
Pro 17:14 The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
Pro 17:15 He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
Pro 17:16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
Pro 17:17 A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.
Pro 17:18 A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
Pro 17:19 The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
Pro 17:20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.
Pro 17:21 He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.
Pro 17:22 A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.
Pro 17:23 A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.
Pro 17:24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.
Pro 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Pro 17:26 To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.
Pro 17:27 He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.
Pro 17:28 Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
Pro 18:1 He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
Pro 18:2 A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.
Pro 18:3 When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.
Pro 18:4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.
Pro 18:5 To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
Pro 18:6 A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.
Pro 18:7 The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.
Pro 18:8 The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
Pro 18:9 He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.
Pro 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.
Pro 18:11 The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
Pro 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
Pro 18:13 To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.
Pro 18:14 The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?
Pro 18:15 The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.
Pro 18:16 A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.
Pro 18:17 The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.
Pro 18:18 The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.
Pro 18:19 A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.
Pro 18:20 With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.
Pro 18:22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
Pro 18:23 The poor man makes requests for grace, but the man of wealth gives a rough answer.
Pro 18:24 There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
Pro 19:1 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
Pro 19:2 Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.
Pro 19:3 By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
Pro 19:4 Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
Pro 19:5 A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.
Pro 19:6 Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.
Pro 19:7 All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
Pro 19:8 He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.
Pro 19:9 A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
Pro 19:10 Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.
Pro 19:11 A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.
Pro 19:12 The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.
Pro 19:13 A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
Pro 19:14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
Pro 19:15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Pro 19:16 He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.
Pro 19:17 He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
Pro 19:18 Give your son training while there is hope; let not your heart be purposing his death.
Pro 19:19 A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.
Pro 19:20 Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
Pro 19:21 A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.
Pro 19:22 The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.
Pro 19:23 The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.
Pro 19:24 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.
Pro 19:25 When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.
Pro 19:26 He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
Pro 19:27 A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Pro 19:28 A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.
Pro 19:29 Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
Pro 20:1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
Pro 20:2 The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.
Pro 20:3 It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.
Pro 20:4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
Pro 20:5 The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.
Pro 20:6 Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
Pro 20:7 An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!
Pro 20:8 A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
Pro 20:9 Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?
Pro 20:10 Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.
Pro 20:11 Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
Pro 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.
Pro 20:13 Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
Pro 20:14 A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
Pro 20:15 There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.
Pro 20:16 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Pro 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.
Pro 20:18 Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
Pro 20:19 He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.
Pro 20:20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
Pro 20:21 A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.
Pro 20:22 Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.
Pro 20:23 Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
Pro 20:24 A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?
Pro 20:25 It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.
Pro 20:26 A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.
Pro 20:27 The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.
Pro 20:28 Mercy and good faith keep the king safe, and the seat of his power is based on upright acts.
Pro 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.
Pro 20:30 By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.
Pro 21:1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.
Pro 21:2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
Pro 21:3 To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.
Pro 21:4 A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.
Pro 21:5 The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.
Pro 21:6 He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.
Pro 21:7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.
Pro 21:8 Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
Pro 21:9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
Pro 21:10 The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.
Pro 21:11 When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.
Pro 21:12 The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.
Pro 21:13 He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Pro 21:14 By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.
Pro 21:15 It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.
Pro 21:16 The wanderer from the way of knowledge will have his resting-place among the shades.
Pro 21:17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
Pro 21:18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
Pro 21:19 It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
Pro 21:20 There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
Pro 21:21 He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.
Pro 21:22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.
Pro 21:23 He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Pro 21:24 The man of pride, lifted up in soul, is named high-hearted; he is acting in an outburst of pride.
Pro 21:25 The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
Pro 21:26 All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
Pro 21:27 The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Pro 21:28 A false witness will be cut off, ...
Pro 21:29 The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Pro 21:30 Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.
Pro 21:31 The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
Pro 22:1 A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.
Pro 22:2 The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.
Pro 22:3 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
Pro 22:4 The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.
Pro 22:5 Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.
Pro 22:6 If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.
Pro 22:7 The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
Pro 22:8 By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.
Pro 22:9 He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
Pro 22:10 Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.
Pro 22:11 He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
Pro 22:12 The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge, but by him the acts of the false man will be overturned.
Pro 22:13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.
Pro 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Pro 22:15 Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.
Pro 22:16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
Pro 22:17 Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.
Pro 22:18 For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
Pro 22:19 So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.
Pro 22:20 Have I not put in writing for you thirty sayings, with wise suggestions and knowledge,
Pro 22:21 To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?
Pro 22:22 Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Pro 22:23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
Pro 22:24 Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:
Pro 22:25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.
Pro 22:26 Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:
Pro 22:27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
Pro 22:28 Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.
Pro 22:29 Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.
Pro 23:1 When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
Pro 23:2 And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
Pro 23:3 Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
Pro 23:4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
Pro 23:5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Pro 23:6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
Pro 23:7 For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
Pro 23:8 The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
Pro 23:9 Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
Pro 23:10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
Pro 23:11 For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
Pro 23:12 Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Pro 23:13 Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
Pro 23:14 Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
Pro 23:15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
Pro 23:16 And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
Pro 23:17 Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
Pro 23:18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Pro 23:19 Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
Pro 23:20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
Pro 23:21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
Pro 23:22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
Pro 23:23 Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
Pro 23:24 The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
Pro 23:25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
Pro 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Pro 23:27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Pro 23:28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Pro 23:29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
Pro 23:30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
Pro 23:31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
Pro 23:32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
Pro 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
Pro 23:34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
Pro 23:35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
Pro 24:1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:
Pro 24:2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.
Pro 24:3 The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:
Pro 24:4 And by knowledge its rooms are full of all dear and pleasing things.
Pro 24:5 A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.
Pro 24:6 For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.
Pro 24:7 Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.
Pro 24:8 He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.
Pro 24:9 The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
Pro 24:10 If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
Pro 24:11 Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.
Pro 24:12 If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
Pro 24:13 My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:
Pro 24:14 So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Pro 24:15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:
Pro 24:16 For an upright man, after falling seven times, will get up again: but trouble is the downfall of the evil.
Pro 24:17 Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:
Pro 24:18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
Pro 24:19 Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:
Pro 24:20 For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.
Pro 24:21 My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:
Pro 24:22 For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?
Pro 24:23 These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.
Pro 24:24 He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.
Pro 24:25 But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.
Pro 24:26 He gives a kiss with his lips who gives a right answer.
Pro 24:27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Pro 24:28 Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.
Pro 24:29 Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.
Pro 24:30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
Pro 24:31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.
Pro 24:32 Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.
Pro 24:33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Pro 24:34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
Pro 25:1 These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah.
Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
Pro 25:3 The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.
Pro 25:4 Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.
Pro 25:5 Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
Pro 25:6 Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:
Pro 25:7 For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.
Pro 25:8 Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?
Pro 25:9 Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:
Pro 25:10 Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away.
Pro 25:11 A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.
Pro 25:12 Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.
Pro 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.
Pro 25:14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.
Pro 25:15 A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.
Pro 25:16 If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
Pro 25:17 Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.
Pro 25:18 One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Pro 25:19 Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.
Pro 25:20 Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.
Pro 25:21 If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:
Pro 25:22 For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.
Pro 25:23 As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.
Pro 25:24 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
Pro 25:25 As cold water to a tired soul, so is good news from a far country.
Pro 25:26 Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.
Pro 25:27 It is not good to take much honey: so he who is not looking for honour will be honoured.
Pro 25:28 He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.
Pro 26:1 Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.
Pro 26:2 As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
Pro 26:3 A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.
Pro 26:4 Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.
Pro 26:5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.
Pro 26:6 He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.
Pro 26:7 The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.
Pro 26:8 Giving honour to a foolish man is like attempting to keep a stone fixed in a cord.
Pro 26:9 Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
Pro 26:10 Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.
Pro 26:11 Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.
Pro 26:12 Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Pro 26:13 The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Pro 26:14 A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
Pro 26:15 The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.
Pro 26:16 The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.
Pro 26:17 He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.
Pro 26:18 As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,
Pro 26:19 So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?
Pro 26:20 Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.
Pro 26:21 Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
Pro 26:22 The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.
Pro 26:23 Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.
Pro 26:24 With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;
Pro 26:25 When he says fair words, have no belief in him; for in his heart are seven evils:
Pro 26:26 Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
Pro 26:27 He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.
Pro 26:28 A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
Pro 27:1 Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
Pro 27:2 Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
Pro 27:3 A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
Pro 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Pro 27:5 Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Pro 27:6 The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
Pro 27:7 The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
Pro 27:8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
Pro 27:9 Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Pro 27:10 Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
Pro 27:11 My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
Pro 27:12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
Pro 27:13 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Pro 27:14 He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
Pro 27:15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
Pro 27:16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
Pro 27:17 Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
Pro 27:18 Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
Pro 27:19 Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
Pro 27:20 The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
Pro 27:21 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
Pro 27:22 Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
Pro 27:23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
Pro 27:24 For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Pro 27:25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
Pro 27:26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
Pro 27:27 There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
Pro 28:1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
Pro 28:2 Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.
Pro 28:3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
Pro 28:4 Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.
Pro 28:5 Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.
Pro 28:6 Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.
Pro 28:7 He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
Pro 28:8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.
Pro 28:9 As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
Pro 28:10 Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.
Pro 28:11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.
Pro 28:12 When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.
Pro 28:13 He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.
Pro 28:14 Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
Pro 28:15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
Pro 28:16 The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
Pro 28:17 One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
Pro 28:18 He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
Pro 28:19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
Pro 28:20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
Pro 28:21 It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.
Pro 28:22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
Pro 28:23 He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.
Pro 28:24 He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
Pro 28:25 He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.
Pro 28:26 He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.
Pro 28:27 He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.
Pro 28:28 When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.
Pro 29:1 A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.
Pro 29:2 When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.
Pro 29:3 A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
Pro 29:4 A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.
Pro 29:5 A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.
Pro 29:6 In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.
Pro 29:7 The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
Pro 29:8 Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.
Pro 29:9 If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.
Pro 29:10 Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.
Pro 29:11 A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.
Pro 29:12 If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.
Pro 29:13 The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.
Pro 29:14 The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.
Pro 29:15 The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
Pro 29:16 When evil men are in power, wrongdoing is increased; but the upright will have pleasure when they see their downfall.
Pro 29:17 Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.
Pro 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.
Pro 29:19 A servant will not be trained by words; for though the sense of the words is clear to him, he will not give attention.
Pro 29:20 Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.
Pro 29:21 If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.
Pro 29:22 An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.
Pro 29:23 A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.
Pro 29:24 A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.
Pro 29:25 The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.
Pro 29:26 The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.
Pro 29:27 An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.
Pro 30:1 The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:
Pro 30:2 For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:
Pro 30:3 I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Pro 30:4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
Pro 30:5 Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.
Pro 30:6 Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.
Pro 30:7 I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:
Pro 30:8 Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
Pro 30:9 For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
Pro 30:10 Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.
Pro 30:11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
Pro 30:12 There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.
Pro 30:13 There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!
Pro 30:14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
Pro 30:15 The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
Pro 30:16 The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
Pro 30:17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
Pro 30:18 There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:
Pro 30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.
Pro 30:20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
Pro 30:21 For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:
Pro 30:22 A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;
Pro 30:23 A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
Pro 30:24 There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:
Pro 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;
Pro 30:26 The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;
Pro 30:27 The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;
Pro 30:28 You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.
Pro 30:29 There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:
Pro 30:30 The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;
Pro 30:31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.
Pro 30:32 If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.
Pro 30:33 The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.
Pro 31:1 The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.
Pro 31:2 What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?
Pro 31:3 Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
Pro 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
Pro 31:5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
Pro 31:6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
Pro 31:7 Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.
Pro 31:8 Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.
Pro 31:9 Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Pro 31:10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
Pro 31:11 The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.
Pro 31:12 She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Pro 31:13 She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.
Pro 31:14 She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.
Pro 31:15 She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.
Pro 31:16 After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.
Pro 31:17 She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.
Pro 31:18 She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.
Pro 31:19 She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
Pro 31:20 Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.
Pro 31:21 She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.
Pro 31:22 She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.
Pro 31:23 Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.
Pro 31:24 She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.
Pro 31:25 Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.
Pro 31:26 Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.
Pro 31:27 She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.
Pro 31:28 Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,
Pro 31:29 Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.
Pro 31:30 Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.
Pro 31:31 Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
Ecc 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Ecc 1:2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecc 1:3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
Ecc 1:4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.
Ecc 1:5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
Ecc 1:6 The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.
Ecc 1:7 All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.
Ecc 1:8 All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Ecc 1:9 That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecc 1:10 Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.
Ecc 1:11 There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.
Ecc 1:12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Ecc 1:13 And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.
Ecc 1:14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
Ecc 1:15 That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.
Ecc 1:16 I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.
Ecc 1:17 And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecc 1:18 Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.
Ecc 2:1 I said in my heart, I will give you joy for a test; so take your pleasure--but it was to no purpose.
Ecc 2:2 Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?
Ecc 2:3 I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.
Ecc 2:4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.
Ecc 2:5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.
Ecc 2:6 I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.
Ecc 2:7 I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
Ecc 2:8 I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
Ecc 2:9 And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.
Ecc 2:10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.
Ecc 2:11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecc 2:12 And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.
Ecc 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.
Ecc 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.
Ecc 2:15 Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.
Ecc 2:16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
Ecc 2:17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecc 2:18 Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Ecc 2:19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.
Ecc 2:20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
Ecc 2:21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
Ecc 2:22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
Ecc 2:23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.
Ecc 2:24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.
Ecc 2:25 Who may take food or have pleasure without him?
Ecc 2:26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecc 3:1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.
Ecc 3:2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
Ecc 3:3 A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
Ecc 3:4 A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
Ecc 3:5 A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;
Ecc 3:6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;
Ecc 3:7 A time for undoing and a time for stitching; a time for keeping quiet and a time for talk;
Ecc 3:8 A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecc 3:9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
Ecc 3:10 I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.
Ecc 3:11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
Ecc 3:12 I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.
Ecc 3:13 And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.
Ecc 3:14 I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.
Ecc 3:15 Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.
Ecc 3:16 And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
Ecc 3:17 I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Ecc 3:18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.
Ecc 3:19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecc 3:20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.
Ecc 3:21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?
Ecc 3:22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?
Ecc 4:1 And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
Ecc 4:2 So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.
Ecc 4:3 Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
Ecc 4:4 And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecc 4:5 The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
Ecc 4:6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.
Ecc 4:7 Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
Ecc 4:8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Ecc 4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
Ecc 4:10 And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.
Ecc 4:11 So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?
Ecc 4:12 And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.
Ecc 4:13 A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
Ecc 4:14 Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.
Ecc 4:15 I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.
Ecc 4:16 There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecc 5:1 Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
Ecc 5:2 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
Ecc 5:3 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
Ecc 5:4 When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
Ecc 5:5 It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
Ecc 5:6 Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
Ecc 5:7 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
Ecc 5:8 If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
Ecc 5:9 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
Ecc 5:10 He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
Ecc 5:11 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Ecc 5:12 The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
Ecc 5:13 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Ecc 5:14 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Ecc 5:15 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
Ecc 5:16 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
Ecc 5:17 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
Ecc 5:18 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
Ecc 5:19 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
Ecc 5:20 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
Ecc 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;
Ecc 6:2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Ecc 6:3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Ecc 6:4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
Ecc 6:5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
Ecc 6:6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
Ecc 6:7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
Ecc 6:8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Ecc 6:9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecc 6:10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
Ecc 6:11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
Ecc 6:12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Ecc 7:1 A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Ecc 7:2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
Ecc 7:3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
Ecc 7:4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
Ecc 7:5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.
Ecc 7:6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
Ecc 7:7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
Ecc 7:8 The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
Ecc 7:9 Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
Ecc 7:10 Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.
Ecc 7:11 Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
Ecc 7:12 Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.
Ecc 7:13 Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Ecc 7:14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
Ecc 7:15 These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Ecc 7:16 Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Ecc 7:17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
Ecc 7:18 It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.
Ecc 7:19 Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
Ecc 7:20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Ecc 7:21 Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
Ecc 7:22 Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
Ecc 7:23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
Ecc 7:24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
Ecc 7:25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
Ecc 7:26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
Ecc 7:27 Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
Ecc 7:28 For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
Ecc 7:29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
Ecc 8:1 Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
Ecc 8:2 I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Ecc 8:3 Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
Ecc 8:4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
Ecc 8:5 Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Ecc 8:6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
Ecc 8:7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
Ecc 8:8 No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Ecc 8:9 All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
Ecc 8:10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
Ecc 8:11 Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
Ecc 8:12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Ecc 8:13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
Ecc 8:14 There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Ecc 8:15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
Ecc 8:16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
Ecc 8:17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
Ecc 9:1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Ecc 9:2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
Ecc 9:3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.
Ecc 9:4 For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecc 9:5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
Ecc 9:6 Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
Ecc 9:7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Ecc 9:8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.
Ecc 9:9 Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.
Ecc 9:10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Ecc 9:11 And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.
Ecc 9:12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.
Ecc 9:13 This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.
Ecc 9:14 There was a little town and the number of its men was small, and there came a great king against it and made an attack on it, building works of war round about it.
Ecc 9:15 Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.
Ecc 9:16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.
Ecc 9:17 The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.
Ecc 9:18 Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
Ecc 10:1 Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.
Ecc 10:3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.
Ecc 10:4 If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.
Ecc 10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:
Ecc 10:6 The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.
Ecc 10:7 I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.
Ecc 10:8 He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
Ecc 10:9 He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.
Ecc 10:10 If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.
Ecc 10:11 If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.
Ecc 10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.
Ecc 10:13 The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.
Ecc 10:14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?
Ecc 10:15 The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.
Ecc 10:16 Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
Ecc 10:17 Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.
Ecc 10:18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
Ecc 10:19 A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.
Ecc 10:20 Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.
Ecc 11:1 Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.
Ecc 11:2 Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.
Ecc 11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.
Ecc 11:4 He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.
Ecc 11:5 As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.
Ecc 11:6 In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
Ecc 11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Ecc 11:8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
Ecc 11:9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
Ecc 11:10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
Ecc 12:1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
Ecc 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;
Ecc 12:3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;
Ecc 12:4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;
Ecc 12:5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Ecc 12:6 Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;
Ecc 12:7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Ecc 12:8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
Ecc 12:9 And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.
Ecc 12:10 The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.
Ecc 12:11 The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.
Ecc 12:12 And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.
Ecc 12:13 This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.
Ecc 12:14 God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.
Son 1:1 The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
Son 1:2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.
Son 1:3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
Son 1:4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Son 1:5 I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Son 1:6 Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
Son 1:7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
Son 1:8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
Son 1:9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.
Son 1:10 Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.
Son 1:11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
Son 1:12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.
Son 1:13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
Son 1:14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.
Son 1:15 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.
Son 1:16 See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.
Son 1:17 Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
Son 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.
Son 2:2 As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
Son 2:3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Son 2:4 He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.
Son 2:5 Make me strong with wine-cakes, let me be comforted with apples; I am overcome with love.
Son 2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.
Son 2:7 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
Son 2:8 The voice of my loved one! See, he comes dancing on the mountains, stepping quickly on the hills.
Son 2:9 My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.
Son 2:10 My loved one said to me, Get up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Son 2:11 For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
Son 2:12 The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;
Son 2:13 The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.
Son 2:14 O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.
Son 2:15 Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.
Son 2:16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.
Son 2:17 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.
Son 3:1 By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.
Son 3:2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.
Son 3:3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?
Son 3:4 I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.
Son 3:5 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
Son 3:6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
Son 3:7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,
Son 3:8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.
Son 3:9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.
Son 3:10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.
Son 3:11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.
Son 4:1 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.
Son 4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
Son 4:3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
Son 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
Son 4:5 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.
Son 4:6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Son 4:7 You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.
Son 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.
Son 4:9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
Son 4:10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
Son 4:11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
Son 4:12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.
Son 4:13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
Son 4:14 Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
Son 4:15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.
Son 4:16 Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.
Son 5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.
Son 5:2 I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.
Son 5:3 I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?
Son 5:4 My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.
Son 5:5 I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
Son 5:6 I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.
Son 5:7 The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
Son 5:8 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.
Son 5:9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?
Son 5:10 My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.
Son 5:11 His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.
Son 5:12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.
Son 5:13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
Son 5:14 His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
Son 5:15 His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.
Son 5:16 His mouth is most sweet; yes, he is all beautiful. This is my loved one, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Son 6:1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?
Son 6:2 My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.
Son 6:3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.
Son 6:4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.
Son 6:5 Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.
Son 6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
Son 6:7 Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
Son 6:8 There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
Son 6:9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
Son 6:10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
Son 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
Son 6:12 Before I was conscious of it, ...
Son 6:13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.
Son 7:1 How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:
Son 7:2 Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
Son 7:3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.
Son 7:4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:
Son 7:5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.
Son 7:6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.
Son 7:7 You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine.
Son 7:8 I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;
Son 7:9 And the roof of your mouth like good wine flowing down smoothly for my loved one, moving gently over my lips and my teeth.
Son 7:10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.
Son 7:11 Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.
Son 7:12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.
Son 7:13 The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.
Son 8:1 Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.
Son 8:2 I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.
Son 8:3 His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.
Son 8:4 I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
Son 8:5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
Son 8:6 Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
Son 8:7 Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.
Son 8:8 We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?
Son 8:9 If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
Son 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.
Son 8:11 Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.
Son 8:12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.
Son 8:13 You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.
Son 8:14 Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.
Isa 1:1 The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Isa 1:2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
Isa 1:3 Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
Isa 1:4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
Isa 1:5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
Isa 1:6 The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
Isa 1:7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
Isa 1:8 And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
Isa 1:9 If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
Isa 1:10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isa 1:11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Isa 1:12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
Isa 1:13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.
Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.
Isa 1:15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Isa 1:16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Isa 1:17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isa 1:19 If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
Isa 1:20 But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.
Isa 1:21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Isa 1:22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.
Isa 1:23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isa 1:24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
Isa 1:25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;
Isa 1:26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
Isa 1:27 Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
Isa 1:28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
Isa 1:29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.
Isa 1:30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.
Isa 1:31 And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.
Isa 2:1 The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.
Isa 2:2 And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.
Isa 2:3 And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Isa 2:4 And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
Isa 2:5 O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
Isa 2:6 For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.
Isa 2:7 And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.
Isa 2:8 Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
Isa 2:9 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.
Isa 2:10 Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.
Isa 2:11 The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Isa 2:12 For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
Isa 2:13 And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;
Isa 2:14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;
Isa 2:15 And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
Isa 2:16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.
Isa 2:17 And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Isa 2:18 And the images will never be seen again.
Isa 2:19 And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
Isa 2:20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;
Isa 2:21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
Isa 2:22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.
Isa 3:1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
Isa 3:2 The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;
Isa 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.
Isa 3:4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.
Isa 3:5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.
Isa 3:6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:
Isa 3:7 Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.
Isa 3:8 For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
Isa 3:9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.
Isa 3:10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Isa 3:11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
Isa 3:12 As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
Isa 3:13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
Isa 3:14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
Isa 3:15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Isa 3:16 Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:
Isa 3:17 The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.
Isa 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the glory of their foot-rings, and their sun-jewels, and their moon-ornaments,
Isa 3:19 The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
Isa 3:20 The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,
Isa 3:21 The rings, and the nose-jewels,
Isa 3:22 The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,
Isa 3:23 The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.
Isa 3:24 And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.
Isa 3:25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.
Isa 3:26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Isa 4:1 And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.
Isa 4:2 In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.
Isa 4:3 And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Isa 4:4 When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.
Isa 4:5 And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;
Isa 4:6 And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.
Isa 5:1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Isa 5:2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isa 5:3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Isa 5:4 Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
Isa 5:5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Isa 5:6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Isa 5:7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Isa 5:8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!
Isa 5:9 The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.
Isa 5:10 For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Isa 5:11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!
Isa 5:12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Isa 5:13 For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
Isa 5:14 For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
Isa 5:15 And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:
Isa 5:16 But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
Isa 5:17 Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
Isa 5:18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!
Isa 5:19 Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
Isa 5:20 Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
Isa 5:21 Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!
Isa 5:22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
Isa 5:23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
Isa 5:24 For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 5:25 For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.
Isa 5:26 And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.
Isa 5:27 There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.
Isa 5:28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.
Isa 5:29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
Isa 5:30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
Isa 6:1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.
Isa 6:2 Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.
Isa 6:3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.
Isa 6:4 And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.
Isa 6:5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
Isa 6:6 Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.
Isa 6:7 And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin.
Isa 6:8 And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.
Isa 6:9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.
Isa 6:10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Isa 6:11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,
Isa 6:12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.
Isa 6:13 And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
Isa 7:1 Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.
Isa 7:2 And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.
Isa 7:3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;
Isa 7:4 And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because of these two ends of smoking fire-wood, because of the bitter wrath of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah.
Isa 7:5 Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,
Isa 7:6 Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in her, even the son of Tabeel:
Isa 7:7 This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.
Isa 7:8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be broken, and will no longer be a people):
Isa 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not have faith, your kingdom will be broken.
Isa 7:10 And Isaiah said again to Ahaz,
Isa 7:11 Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
Isa 7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
Isa 7:13 And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?
Isa 7:14 For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.
Isa 7:15 Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.
Isa 7:16 For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.
Isa 7:17 The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.
Isa 7:18 And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
Isa 7:19 And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.
Isa 7:20 In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.
Isa 7:21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;
Isa 7:22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.
Isa 7:23 And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.
Isa 7:24 Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.
Isa 7:25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.
Isa 8:1 And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
Isa 8:2 And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
Isa 8:3 And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
Isa 8:4 For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.
Isa 8:5 And the Lord said again to me,
Isa 8:6 Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;
Isa 8:7 For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:
Isa 8:8 And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.
Isa 8:9 Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:
Isa 8:10 Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
Isa 8:11 For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,
Isa 8:12 Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.
Isa 8:13 But let the Lord of armies be holy to you, and go in fear of him, giving honour to him.
Isa 8:14 And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.
Isa 8:15 And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.
Isa 8:16 Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.
Isa 8:17 And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
Isa 8:18 See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion.
Isa 8:19 And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?
Isa 8:20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
Isa 8:21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
Isa 8:22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
Isa 9:1 In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Isa 9:2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
Isa 9:3 You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
Isa 9:4 For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.
Isa 9:5 For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.
Isa 9:6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Isa 9:8 The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel;
Isa 9:9 And all the people will have experience of it, even Ephraim and the men of Samaria, who say in the pride of their uplifted hearts,
Isa 9:10 The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.
Isa 9:11 For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;
Isa 9:12 Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 9:13 But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.
Isa 9:14 For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.
Isa 9:15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.
Isa 9:16 For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.
Isa 9:17 For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 9:18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.
Isa 9:19 The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.
Isa 9:20 On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.
Isa 9:21 Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 10:1 Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Isa 10:2 Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
Isa 10:3 And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
Isa 10:4 ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 10:5 Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Isa 10:6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Isa 10:7 But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
Isa 10:8 For he says, Are not all my captains kings?
Isa 10:9 Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
Isa 10:10 As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
Isa 10:11 So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.
Isa 10:12 For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.
Isa 10:13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
Isa 10:14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
Isa 10:15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
Isa 10:16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
Isa 10:17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.
Isa 10:18 And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.
Isa 10:19 And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
Isa 10:20 And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 10:21 The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.
Isa 10:22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
Isa 10:23 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.
Isa 10:24 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.
Isa 10:25 For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.
Isa 10:26 And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.
Isa 10:27 And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
Isa 10:28 He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.
Isa 10:29 They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.
Isa 10:30 Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.
Isa 10:31 Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.
Isa 10:32 This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Isa 10:33 See, the Lord, the Lord of armies, is cutting off his branches with a great noise, and his strong ones are falling and his high ones are coming down.
Isa 10:34 And he is cutting down the thick places of the wood with an axe, and Lebanon with its tall trees is coming down.
Isa 11:1 And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.
Isa 11:2 And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
Isa 11:3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
Isa 11:4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
Isa 11:5 And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.
Isa 11:6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.
Isa 11:7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.
Isa 11:8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.
Isa 11:9 There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.
Isa 11:10 And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.
Isa 11:11 And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.
Isa 11:12 And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.
Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.
Isa 11:14 And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.
Isa 11:15 And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.
Isa 11:16 And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa 12:1 And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.
Isa 12:2 See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
Isa 12:3 So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.
Isa 12:4 And in that day you will say, Give praise to the Lord, let his name be honoured, give word of his doings among the peoples, say that his name is lifted up.
Isa 12:5 Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth.
Isa 12:6 Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.
Isa 13:1 The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isa 13:2 Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.
Isa 13:3 I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath.
Isa 13:4 The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.
Isa 13:5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.
Isa 13:6 Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.
Isa 13:7 For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
Isa 13:8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
Isa 13:9 See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.
Isa 13:10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
Isa 13:11 And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
Isa 13:12 I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.
Isa 13:13 For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.
Isa 13:14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.
Isa 13:15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
Isa 13:16 Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
Isa 13:17 See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.
Isa 13:18 In their hands are bows and spears; they are cruel, violently putting the young men to death, and crushing the young women; they have no pity for children, and no mercy for the fruit of the body.
Isa 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isa 13:20 People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.
Isa 13:21 But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.
Isa 13:22 And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.
Isa 14:1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.
Isa 14:2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.
Isa 14:3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
Isa 14:4 That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
Isa 14:5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;
Isa 14:6 He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
Isa 14:7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.
Isa 14:8 Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
Isa 14:9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
Isa 14:10 They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?
Isa 14:11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
Isa 14:12 How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Isa 14:13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
Isa 14:14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Isa 14:15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
Isa 14:16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
Isa 14:17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
Isa 14:18 All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,
Isa 14:19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.
Isa 14:20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.
Isa 14:21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.
Isa 14:22 For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.
Isa 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
Isa 14:24 The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:
Isa 14:25 To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.
Isa 14:26 This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
Isa 14:27 For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?
Isa 14:28 In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet:
Isa 14:29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
Isa 14:30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
Isa 14:31 Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.
Isa 14:32 What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.
Isa 15:1 The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.
Isa 15:2 The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.
Isa 15:3 In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.
Isa 15:4 Heshbon is crying out, and Elealeh; their voice is sounding even to Jahaz: for this cause the heart of Moab is shaking; his soul is shaking with fear.
Isa 15:5 My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.
Isa 15:6 The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.
Isa 15:7 For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.
Isa 15:8 For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.
Isa 15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.
Isa 16:1 And they will send ... to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
Isa 16:2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
Isa 16:3 Give wise directions, make a decision; let your shade be as night in full day: keep safe those who are in flight; do not give up the wandering ones.
Isa 16:4 Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.
Isa 16:5 Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.
Isa 16:6 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.
Isa 16:7 For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.
Isa 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.
Isa 16:9 For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
Isa 16:10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.
Isa 16:11 For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.
Isa 16:12 And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.
Isa 16:13 This is the word which the Lord said about Moab in the past.
Isa 16:14 But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.
Isa 17:1 The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.
Isa 17:2 Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
Isa 17:3 The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.
Isa 17:4 And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.
Isa 17:5 And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.
Isa 17:6 But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.
Isa 17:7 In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 17:8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
Isa 17:9 In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.
Isa 17:10 For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
Isa 17:11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
Isa 17:12 Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!
Isa 17:13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
Isa 17:14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
Isa 18:1 Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:
Isa 18:2 Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
Isa 18:3 All you peoples of the world, and you who are living on the earth, when a flag is lifted up on the mountains, give attention; and when the horn is sounded, give ear.
Isa 18:4 For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.
Isa 18:5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.
Isa 18:6 They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.
Isa 18:7 In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.
Isa 19:1 The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.
Isa 19:2 And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom against kingdom.
Isa 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.
Isa 19:4 And I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a hard king will be their ruler, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Isa 19:5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:
Isa 19:6 And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.
Isa 19:7 The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.
Isa 19:8 The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.
Isa 19:9 And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.
Isa 19:10 And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.
Isa 19:11 The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
Isa 19:12 Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
Isa 19:13 The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.
Isa 19:14 The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.
Isa 19:15 And in Egypt there will be no work for any man, head or tail, high or low, to do.
Isa 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.
Isa 19:17 And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it.
Isa 19:18 In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.
Isa 19:19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the edge of the land.
Isa 19:20 And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.
Isa 19:21 And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.
Isa 19:22 And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.
Isa 19:23 In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians.
Isa 19:24 In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:
Isa 19:25 Because of the blessing of the Lord of armies which he has given them, saying, A blessing on Egypt my people, and on Assyria the work of my hands, and on Israel my heritage.
Isa 20:1 In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;
Isa 20:2 At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.
Isa 20:3 And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,
Isa 20:4 So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isa 20:5 And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.
Isa 20:6 And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?
Isa 21:1 The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.
Isa 21:2 A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.
Isa 21:3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.
Isa 21:4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
Isa 21:5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
Isa 21:6 For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:
Isa 21:7 And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.
Isa 21:8 And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:
Isa 21:9 See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.
Isa 21:10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.
Isa 21:11 The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?
Isa 21:12 The watchman says, The morning has come, but night is still to come: if you have questions to put, put them, and come back again.
Isa 21:13 The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!
Isa 21:14 Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.
Isa 21:15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
Isa 21:16 For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:
Isa 21:17 And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.
Isa 22:1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
Isa 22:2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
Isa 22:3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
Isa 22:4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
Isa 22:5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...
Isa 22:6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
Isa 22:7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
Isa 22:8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
Isa 22:9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
Isa 22:10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
Isa 22:11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
Isa 22:12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Isa 22:13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
Isa 22:14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Isa 22:15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,
Isa 22:16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
Isa 22:17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,
Isa 22:18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!
Isa 22:19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
Isa 22:20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:
Isa 22:21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
Isa 22:22 And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.
Isa 22:23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.
Isa 22:24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.
Isa 22:25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.
Isa 23:1 The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.
Isa 23:2 Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;
Isa 23:3 Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.
Isa 23:4 Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.
Isa 23:5 When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.
Isa 23:6 Go over to Tarshish; give cries of sorrow, O men of the sea-land.
Isa 23:7 Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?
Isa 23:8 By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?
Isa 23:9 It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.
Isa 23:10 Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.
Isa 23:11 His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.
Isa 23:12 And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.
Isa 23:13 ...
Isa 23:14 Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.
Isa 23:15 And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.
Isa 23:16 Take an instrument of music, go about the town, O loose woman who has gone out from the memory of man; make sweet melody with songs, so that you may come back to men's minds.
Isa 23:17 And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
Isa 23:18 And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.
Isa 24:1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
Isa 24:2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.
Isa 24:3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.
Isa 24:4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Isa 24:5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.
Isa 24:6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
Isa 24:7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
Isa 24:8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
Isa 24:9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.
Isa 24:10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
Isa 24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
Isa 24:12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
Isa 24:13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.
Isa 24:14 But those will be making sounds of joy; they will be crying loudly from the sea for the glory of the Lord.
Isa 24:15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
Isa 24:16 From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.
Isa 24:17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.
Isa 24:18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
Isa 24:19 The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.
Isa 24:20 The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.
Isa 24:21 And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.
Isa 24:22 And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.
Isa 24:23 Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.
Isa 25:1 O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.
Isa 25:2 For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.
Isa 25:3 For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.
Isa 25:4 For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.
Isa 25:5 As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.
Isa 25:6 And in this mountain will the Lord of armies make for all peoples a feast of good things, a feast of wines long stored, of good things sweet to the taste, of wines long kept and tested.
Isa 25:7 And in this mountain he will put an end to the shade covering the face of all peoples, and the veil which is stretched over all nations.
Isa 25:8 He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
Isa 25:9 And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
Isa 25:10 For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.
Isa 25:11 And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.
Isa 25:12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
Isa 26:1 In that day will this song be made in the land of Judah: We have a strong town; he will make salvation our walls and towers.
Isa 26:2 Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.
Isa 26:3 The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.
Isa 26:4 Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.
Isa 26:5 For he has made low those who are lifted up, all the people of the town of pride: he makes it low, crushing it down to the earth; he makes it low in the dust.
Isa 26:6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.
Isa 26:7 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
Isa 26:8 We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.
Isa 26:9 In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.
Isa 26:10 Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.
Isa 26:11 Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
Isa 26:12 Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose.
Isa 26:13 O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips.
Isa 26:14 The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.
Isa 26:15 You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.
Isa 26:16 Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.
Isa 26:17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.
Isa 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.
Isa 26:19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
Isa 26:20 Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.
Isa 26:21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
Isa 27:1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
Isa 27:2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
Isa 27:3 I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.
Isa 27:4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
Isa 27:5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
Isa 27:6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
Isa 27:7 Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?
Isa 27:8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
Isa 27:9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
Isa 27:10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
Isa 27:11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
Isa 27:12 And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.
Isa 27:13 And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Isa 28:1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
Isa 28:2 See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.
Isa 28:3 The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;
Isa 28:4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.
Isa 28:5 In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people;
Isa 28:6 And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.
Isa 28:7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
Isa 28:8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.
Isa 28:9 To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?
Isa 28:10 For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.
Isa 28:11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.
Isa 28:13 For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.
Isa 28:14 Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:
Isa 28:15 Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Isa 28:16 For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
Isa 28:17 And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
Isa 28:18 And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.
Isa 28:19 Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.
Isa 28:20 For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.
Isa 28:21 For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.
Isa 28:22 And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.
Isa 28:23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.
Isa 28:24 Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
Isa 28:25 When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
Isa 28:26 For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.
Isa 28:27 For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.
Isa 28:28 Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.
Isa 28:29 This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
Isa 29:1 Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:
Isa 29:2 And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.
Isa 29:3 And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.
Isa 29:4 And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.
Isa 29:5 And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.
Isa 29:6 The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.
Isa 29:7 And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.
Isa 29:8 And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.
Isa 29:9 Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.
Isa 29:10 For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
Isa 29:11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:
Isa 29:12 And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.
Isa 29:13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Isa 29:14 For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
Isa 29:15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
Isa 29:16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
Isa 29:17 In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.
Isa 29:18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.
Isa 29:19 And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 29:20 For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:
Isa 29:21 Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.
Isa 29:22 For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.
Isa 29:23 But when they, the children of Jacob, see the work of my hands among them, they will give honour to my name; yes, they will give honour to the Holy One of Jacob, and go in fear of the God of Israel.
Isa 29:24 Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.
Isa 30:1 Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Isa 30:2 Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.
Isa 30:3 And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.
Isa 30:4 For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.
Isa 30:5 For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.
Isa 30:6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
Isa 30:7 For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.
Isa 30:8 Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.
Isa 30:9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:
Isa 30:10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:
Isa 30:11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
Isa 30:12 For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:
Isa 30:13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.
Isa 30:14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.
Isa 30:15 For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
Isa 30:16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.
Isa 30:17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and like a flag on a hill.
Isa 30:18 For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.
Isa 30:19 O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.
Isa 30:20 And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:
Isa 30:21 And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
Isa 30:22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!
Isa 30:23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.
Isa 30:24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
Isa 30:25 And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.
Isa 30:26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.
Isa 30:27 See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:
Isa 30:28 And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.
Isa 30:29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and you will be glad in heart, as when they go with music of the pipe to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock of Israel.
Isa 30:30 And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.
Isa 30:31 For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.
Isa 30:32 And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.
Isa 30:33 For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.
Isa 31:1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
Isa 31:2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.
Isa 31:3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.
Isa 31:4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.
Isa 31:5 Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.
Isa 31:6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
Isa 31:7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.
Isa 31:8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.
Isa 31:9 And his rock will come to nothing because of fear, and his chiefs will go in flight from the flag, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his altar in Jerusalem.
Isa 32:1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.
Isa 32:2 And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
Isa 32:3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.
Isa 32:4 The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.
Isa 32:5 The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.
Isa 32:6 For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
Isa 32:7 The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.
Isa 32:8 But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these he will be guided.
Isa 32:9 Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.
Isa 32:10 In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.
Isa 32:11 Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.
Isa 32:12 Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;
Isa 32:13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Isa 32:14 For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
Isa 32:15 Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.
Isa 32:16 Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.
Isa 32:17 And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.
Isa 32:18 And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.
Isa 32:19 But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.
Isa 32:20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.
Isa 33:1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
Isa 33:2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
Isa 33:3 At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.
Isa 33:4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
Isa 33:5 The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
Isa 33:6 And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.
Isa 33:7 See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
Isa 33:8 The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
Isa 33:9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
Isa 33:10 Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
Isa 33:11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
Isa 33:12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
Isa 33:13 Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.
Isa 33:14 The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
Isa 33:15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Isa 33:16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
Isa 33:17 Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.
Isa 33:18 Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
Isa 33:19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
Isa 33:20 Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.
Isa 33:21 But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.
Isa 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.
Isa 33:23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.
Isa 33:24 And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.
Isa 34:1 Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.
Isa 34:2 For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.
Isa 34:3 Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.
Isa 34:4 And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.
Isa 34:5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.
Isa 34:6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.
Isa 34:7 And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.
Isa 34:8 For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
Isa 34:9 And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.
Isa 34:10 It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.
Isa 34:11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.
Isa 34:12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.
Isa 34:13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
Isa 34:14 And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.
Isa 34:15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
Isa 34:16 See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.
Isa 34:17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.
Isa 35:1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
Isa 35:2 It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
Isa 35:3 Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
Isa 35:4 Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.
Isa 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.
Isa 35:6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.
Isa 35:7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.
Isa 35:8 And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
Isa 35:9 No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,
Isa 35:10 Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
Isa 36:1 And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.
Isa 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's
Isa 36:3 And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
Isa 36:4 And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?
Isa 36:5 You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
Isa 36:6 See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.
Isa 36:7 And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?
Isa 36:8 And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.
Isa 36:9 How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:
Isa 36:10 And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.
Isa 36:11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.
Isa 36:12 But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
Isa 36:13 Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria:
Isa 36:14 This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.
Isa 36:15 And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Isa 36:16 Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;
Isa 36:17 Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.
Isa 36:18 Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?
Isa 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?
Isa 36:20 Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?
Isa 36:21 But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.
Isa 36:22 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.
Isa 37:1 And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.
Isa 37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Isa 37:3 And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
Isa 37:4 It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.
Isa 37:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isa 37:6 And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.
Isa 37:7 See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.
Isa 37:8 So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.
Isa 37:9 And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,
Isa 37:10 This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Isa 37:11 No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?
Isa 37:12 Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
Isa 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?
Isa 37:14 And Hezekiah took the letter from the hands of those who had come with it; and after reading it, Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, opening the letter there before the Lord,
Isa 37:15 And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,
Isa 37:16 O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
Isa 37:17 Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord; let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see: take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
Isa 37:18 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
Isa 37:19 And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Isa 37:20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
Isa 37:21 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.
Isa 37:22 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
Isa 37:23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 37:24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
Isa 37:25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
Isa 37:26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Isa 37:27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.
Isa 37:28 But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.
Isa 37:29 Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.
Isa 37:30 And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.
Isa 37:31 And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.
Isa 37:32 For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
Isa 37:33 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it.
Isa 37:34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.
Isa 37:35 For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.
Isa 37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
Isa 37:37 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
Isa 37:38 And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword, and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon, his son, became king in his place.
Isa 38:1 In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.
Isa 38:2 And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying,
Isa 38:3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
Isa 38:4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,
Isa 38:5 Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.
Isa 38:6 And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.
Isa 38:7 And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said:
Isa 38:8 See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.
Isa 38:9 The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.
Isa 38:10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
Isa 38:11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
Isa 38:12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
Isa 38:13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
Isa 38:14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
Isa 38:15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.
Isa 38:16 O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.
Isa 38:17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
Isa 38:18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
Isa 38:19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.
Isa 38:20 O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.
Isa 38:21 And Isaiah said, Let them take a cake of figs, and put it on the diseased place, and he will get well.
Isa 38:22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?
Isa 39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.
Isa 39:2 And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.
Isa 39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.
Isa 39:4 And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.
Isa 39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:
Isa 39:6 Truly, the days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone.
Isa 39:7 And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.
Isa 39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.
Isa 40:1 Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.
Isa 40:2 Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
Isa 40:3 A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
Isa 40:4 Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,
Isa 40:5 And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
Isa 40:6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
Isa 40:7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
Isa 40:8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
Isa 40:9 You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!
Isa 40:10 See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.
Isa 40:11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
Isa 40:12 In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?
Isa 40:13 By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?
Isa 40:14 Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?
Isa 40:15 See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
Isa 40:16 And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.
Isa 40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.
Isa 40:18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
Isa 40:19 The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.
Isa 40:20 The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.
Isa 40:21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?
Isa 40:22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.
Isa 40:23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.
Isa 40:24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
Isa 40:25 Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.
Isa 40:26 Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
Isa 40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?
Isa 40:28 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.
Isa 40:29 He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.
Isa 40:30 Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;
Isa 40:31 But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Isa 41:1 Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
Isa 41:2 Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
Isa 41:3 He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.
Isa 41:4 Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.
Isa 41:5 The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
Isa 41:6 They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!
Isa 41:7 So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
Isa 41:8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:
Isa 41:9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:
Isa 41:10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
Isa 41:11 Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.
Isa 41:12 You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.
Isa 41:13 For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.
Isa 41:14 Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 41:15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.
Isa 41:16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 41:17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
Isa 41:18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isa 41:19 I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:
Isa 41:20 So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.
Isa 41:21 Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.
Isa 41:22 Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.
Isa 41:23 Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.
Isa 41:24 But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.
Isa 41:25 I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.
Isa 41:26 Who has given knowledge of it from the first, so that we may be certain of it? and from the start, so that we may say, His word is true? There is no one who gives news, or says anything, or who gives ear to your words.
Isa 41:27 I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the good news to Jerusalem.
Isa 41:28 And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among them, who might give an answer to my questions.
Isa 41:29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
Isa 42:1 See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
Isa 42:2 He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.
Isa 42:3 He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.
Isa 42:4 His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
Isa 42:5 God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
Isa 42:6 I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:
Isa 42:7 To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
Isa 42:8 I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
Isa 42:9 See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.
Isa 42:10 Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.
Isa 42:11 Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.
Isa 42:12 Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.
Isa 42:13 The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
Isa 42:14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
Isa 42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
Isa 42:16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
Isa 42:17 They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.
Isa 42:18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
Isa 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?
Isa 42:20 Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
Isa 42:21 It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.
Isa 42:22 But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.
Isa 42:23 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
Isa 42:24 Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.
Isa 42:25 For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.
Isa 43:1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.
Isa 43:2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
Isa 43:3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Isa 43:4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
Isa 43:5 Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
Isa 43:6 I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
Isa 43:7 Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.
Isa 43:8 Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
Isa 43:9 Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
Isa 43:10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.
Isa 43:11 I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.
Isa 43:12 I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.
Isa 43:13 From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
Isa 43:14 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.
Isa 43:15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.
Isa 43:16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;
Isa 43:17 Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.
Isa 43:18 Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.
Isa 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
Isa 43:20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
Isa 43:21 Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
Isa 43:22 But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
Isa 43:23 You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
Isa 43:24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
Isa 43:25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
Isa 43:26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
Isa 43:27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
Isa 43:28 Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
Isa 44:1 And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:
Isa 44:2 The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.
Isa 44:3 For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.
Isa 44:4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.
Isa 44:5 One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.
Isa 44:6 The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.
Isa 44:7 If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.
Isa 44:8 Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
Isa 44:9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.
Isa 44:10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.
Isa 44:11 Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.
Isa 44:12 The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
Isa 44:13 The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.
Isa 44:14 He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
Isa 44:15 Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.
Isa 44:16 With part of it he makes a fire, and on the fire he gets meat cooked and takes a full meal: he makes himself warm, and says, Aha! I am warm, I have seen the fire:
Isa 44:17 And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
Isa 44:18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Isa 44:19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Isa 44:20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Isa 44:21 Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.
Isa 44:22 I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.
Isa 44:23 Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.
Isa 44:24 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?
Isa 44:25 Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
Isa 44:26 Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:
Isa 44:27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
Isa 44:28 Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.
Isa 45:1 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;
Isa 45:2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
Isa 45:3 And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
Isa 45:4 Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
Isa 45:5 I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:
Isa 45:6 So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isa 45:7 I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isa 45:8 Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.
Isa 45:9 Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
Isa 45:10 Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?
Isa 45:11 The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
Isa 45:12 I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.
Isa 45:13 I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.
Isa 45:14 The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.
Isa 45:15 Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!
Isa 45:16 All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.
Isa 45:17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.
Isa 45:18 For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isa 45:19 I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
Isa 45:20 Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
Isa 45:21 Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.
Isa 45:22 Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.
Isa 45:23 By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
Isa 45:24 Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.
Isa 45:25 In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.
Isa 46:1 Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.
Isa 46:2 They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
Isa 46:3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:
Isa 46:4 Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.
Isa 46:5 Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?
Isa 46:6 As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
Isa 46:7 They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.
Isa 46:8 Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
Isa 46:9 Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;
Isa 46:10 Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
Isa 46:11 Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.
Isa 46:12 Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:
Isa 46:13 My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.
Isa 47:1 Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
Isa 47:2 Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.
Isa 47:3 The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,
Isa 47:4 Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 47:5 Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of Kingdoms.
Isa 47:6 I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
Isa 47:7 And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.
Isa 47:8 So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.
Isa 47:9 But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.
Isa 47:10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
Isa 47:11 Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.
Isa 47:12 Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.
Isa 47:13 But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
Isa 47:14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
Isa 47:15 Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.
Isa 48:1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Isa 48:2 For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
Isa 48:3 I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.
Isa 48:4 Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
Isa 48:5 For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.
Isa 48:6 All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.
Isa 48:7 They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
Isa 48:8 Truly you had no word of them, no knowledge of them; no news of them in the past had come to your ears; because I saw how false was your behaviour, and that your heart was turned against me from your earliest days.
Isa 48:9 Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.
Isa 48:10 See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.
Isa 48:11 For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.
Isa 48:12 Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last.
Isa 48:13 Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.
Isa 48:14 Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.
Isa 48:15 I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.
Isa 48:16 Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.
Isa 48:17 The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
Isa 48:18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Isa 48:19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
Isa 48:20 Go out of Babylon, go in flight from the Chaldaeans; with the sound of song make it clear, give the news, let the word go out even to the end of the earth: say, The Lord has taken up the cause of his servant Jacob.
Isa 48:21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.
Isa 48:22 There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.
Isa 49:1 Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:
Isa 49:2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;
Isa 49:3 And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;
Isa 49:4 And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
Isa 49:5 And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.
Isa 49:6 It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
Isa 49:7 The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.
Isa 49:8 This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;
Isa 49:9 Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
Isa 49:10 They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.
Isa 49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.
Isa 49:12 See, these are coming from far; and these from the north and the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Isa 49:13 Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.
Isa 49:14 But Zion said, The Lord has given me up, I have gone from his memory.
Isa 49:15 Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
Isa 49:16 See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Isa 49:17 Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.
Isa 49:18 Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.
Isa 49:19 For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.
Isa 49:20 The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.
Isa 49:21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
Isa 49:22 This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.
Isa 49:23 And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
Isa 49:24 Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
Isa 49:25 But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.
Isa 49:26 And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.
Isa 50:1 This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
Isa 50:2 Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.
Isa 50:3 By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.
Isa 50:4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
Isa 50:5 And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
Isa 50:6 I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.
Isa 50:7 For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right.
Isa 50:8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Isa 50:9 See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.
Isa 50:10 Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
Isa 50:11 See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.
Isa 51:1 Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.
Isa 51:2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
Isa 51:3 For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
Isa 51:4 Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.
Isa 51:5 Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
Isa 51:6 Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
Isa 51:7 Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.
Isa 51:8 For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
Isa 51:9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
Isa 51:10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?
Isa 51:11 Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
Isa 51:12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
Isa 51:13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
Isa 51:14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.
Isa 51:15 For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.
Isa 51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.
Isa 51:17 Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.
Isa 51:18 She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.
Isa 51:19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?
Isa 51:20 Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.
Isa 51:21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:
Isa 51:22 This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:
Isa 51:23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
Isa 52:1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
Isa 52:2 Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
Isa 52:3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
Isa 52:4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
Isa 52:5 Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
Isa 52:6 For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
Isa 52:7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
Isa 52:8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
Isa 52:9 Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
Isa 52:10 The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Isa 52:11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
Isa 52:12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
Isa 52:13 See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
Isa 52:14 As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
Isa 52:15 So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
Isa 53:1 Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?
Isa 53:2 For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;
Isa 53:3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
Isa 53:4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
Isa 53:5 But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.
Isa 53:6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
Isa 53:7 Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.
Isa 53:8 They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
Isa 53:9 And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ... will do well in his hand. ...
Isa 53:11 ... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
Isa 53:12 For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.
Isa 54:1 Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.
Isa 54:2 Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.
Isa 54:3 For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.
Isa 54:4 Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
Isa 54:5 For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.
Isa 54:6 For the Lord has made you come back to him, like a wife who has been sent away in grief of spirit; for one may not give up the wife of one's early days.
Isa 54:7 For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.
Isa 54:8 In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.
Isa 54:9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.
Isa 54:11 O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.
Isa 54:12 I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.
Isa 54:13 And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.
Isa 54:14 All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.
Isa 54:15 See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.
Isa 54:16 See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.
Isa 54:17 No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
Isa 55:1 Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.
Isa 55:2 Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.
Isa 55:3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
Isa 55:4 See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.
Isa 55:5 See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.
Isa 55:6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
Isa 55:7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa 55:10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
Isa 55:11 So will my word be which goes out of my mouth: it will not come back to me with nothing done, but it will give effect to my purpose, and do that for which I have sent it.
Isa 55:12 For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.
Isa 55:13 In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.
Isa 56:1 The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
Isa 56:2 Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
Isa 56:3 And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.
Isa 56:4 For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:
Isa 56:5 I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.
Isa 56:6 And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
Isa 56:7 I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.
Isa 56:8 The Lord God, who gets together the wandering ones of Israel, says, I will get together others in addition to those of Israel who have come back.
Isa 56:9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.
Isa 56:10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Isa 56:11 Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
Isa 56:12 Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Isa 57:1 The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
Isa 57:2 They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
Isa 57:3 But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Isa 57:4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,
Isa 57:5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?
Isa 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?
Isa 57:7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
Isa 57:8 And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it
Isa 57:9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
Isa 57:10 You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.
Isa 57:11 And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?
Isa 57:12 I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
Isa 57:13 Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.
Isa 57:14 And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.
Isa 57:15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Isa 57:16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.
Isa 57:17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.
Isa 57:18 I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.
Isa 57:19 I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.
Isa 57:20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.
Isa 57:21 There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
Isa 58:1 Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
Isa 58:2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
Isa 58:3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;
Isa 58:4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
Isa 58:5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
Isa 58:6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Isa 58:7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
Isa 58:8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Isa 58:9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;
Isa 58:10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
Isa 58:11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
Isa 58:12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
Isa 58:13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
Isa 58:14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
Isa 59:1 Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:
Isa 59:2 But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
Isa 59:3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Isa 59:4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isa 59:5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
Isa 59:6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Isa 59:7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
Isa 59:8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
Isa 59:9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Isa 59:10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
Isa 59:11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Isa 59:12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:
Isa 59:13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
Isa 59:14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
Isa 59:15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
Isa 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.
Isa 59:17 Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.
Isa 59:18 He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.
Isa 59:19 So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.
Isa 59:20 And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.
Isa 59:21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.
Isa 60:1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
Isa 60:2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.
Isa 60:3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
Isa 60:4 Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.
Isa 60:5 Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isa 60:6 You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.
Isa 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.
Isa 60:8 Who are these coming like a cloud, like a flight of doves to their windows?
Isa 60:9 Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
Isa 60:10 And men from strange countries will be building up your walls, and their kings will be your servants: for in my wrath I sent punishment on you, but in my grace I have had mercy on you.
Isa 60:11 Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.
Isa 60:12 For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.
Isa 60:13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.
Isa 60:14 And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 60:15 And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.
Isa 60:16 And you will take the milk of the nations, flowing from the breast of kings; and you will see that I, the Lord, am your saviour, and he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.
Isa 60:17 In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
Isa 60:18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
Isa 60:19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
Isa 60:20 Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
Isa 60:21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
Isa 60:22 The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.
Isa 61:1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
Isa 61:2 To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
Isa 61:3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Isa 61:4 And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
Isa 61:5 And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.
Isa 61:6 But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.
Isa 61:7 As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.
Isa 61:8 For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.
Isa 61:9 And their seed will be noted among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: it will be clear to all who see them that they are the seed to which the Lord has given his blessing.
Isa 61:10 I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.
Isa 61:11 For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.
Isa 62:1 Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
Isa 62:2 And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.
Isa 62:3 And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.
Isa 62:4 You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.
Isa 62:5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
Isa 62:6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,
Isa 62:7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.
Isa 62:8 The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:
Isa 62:9 But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.
Isa 62:10 Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.
Isa 62:11 The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him.
Isa 62:12 And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.
Isa 63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.
Isa 63:2 Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?
Isa 63:3 I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
Isa 63:4 For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.
Isa 63:5 And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.
Isa 63:6 And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.
Isa 63:7 I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.
Isa 63:8 For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.
Isa 63:9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
Isa 63:10 But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.
Isa 63:11 Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them,
Isa 63:12 He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;
Isa 63:13 He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?
Isa 63:14 Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.
Isa 63:15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:
Isa 63:16 For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
Isa 63:17 O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Isa 63:18 Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
Isa 63:19 We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
Isa 64:1 O let the heavens be broken open and come down, so that the mountains may be shaking before you,
Isa 64:2 As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;
Isa 64:3 While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.
Isa 64:4 The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.
Isa 64:5 Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.
Isa 64:6 For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Isa 64:7 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
Isa 64:8 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
Isa 64:9 Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.
Isa 64:10 Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.
Isa 64:11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.
Isa 64:12 In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
Isa 65:1 I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.
Isa 65:2 All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
Isa 65:3 A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
Isa 65:4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
Isa 65:5 Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
Isa 65:6 See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,
Isa 65:7 For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.
Isa 65:8 This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.
Isa 65:9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.
Isa 65:10 And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.
Isa 65:11 But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;
Isa 65:12 Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
Isa 65:13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
Isa 65:14 My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
Isa 65:15 And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:
Isa 65:16 So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
Isa 65:17 For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
Isa 65:18 But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.
Isa 65:19 And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
Isa 65:20 No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
Isa 65:21 And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
Isa 65:22 They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
Isa 65:23 Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
Isa 65:24 And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
Isa 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.
Isa 66:1 The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
Isa 66:2 For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.
Isa 66:3 He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;
Isa 66:4 So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.
Isa 66:5 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.
Isa 66:6 There is a noise of war from the town, a sound from the Temple, the voice of the Lord giving punishment to his haters.
Isa 66:7 Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.
Isa 66:8 When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.
Isa 66:9 Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.
Isa 66:10 Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:
Isa 66:11 So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.
Isa 66:12 For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.
Isa 66:13 As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isa 66:14 And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.
Isa 66:15 For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.
Isa 66:16 For with fire and sword will the Lord come, judging all the earth, and his sword will be on all flesh: and great numbers will be put to death by him.
Isa 66:17 As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.
Isa 66:18 And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory.
Isa 66:19 And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations.
Isa 66:20 And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
Isa 66:21 And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord.
Isa 66:22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.
Isa 66:23 And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.
Isa 66:24 And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.
Jer 1:1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Jer 1:2 To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
Jer 1:3 And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.
Jer 1:4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 1:5 Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
Jer 1:6 Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.
Jer 1:7 But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.
Jer 1:8 Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord.
Jer 1:9 Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:
Jer 1:10 See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
Jer 1:11 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.
Jer 1:12 Then the Lord said to me, You have seen well: for I keep watch over my word to give effect to it.
Jer 1:13 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north.
Jer 1:14 Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.
Jer 1:15 For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.
Jer 1:16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.
Jer 1:17 So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.
Jer 1:18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.
Jer 1:19 They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.
Jer 2:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 2:2 Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
Jer 2:3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.
Jer 2:4 Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:
Jer 2:5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Jer 2:6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
Jer 2:7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.
Jer 2:8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
Jer 2:9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
Jer 2:10 For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.
Jer 2:11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
Jer 2:12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.
Jer 2:13 For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
Jer 2:14 Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?
Jer 2:15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
Jer 2:16 Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.
Jer 2:17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?
Jer 2:18 And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?
Jer 2:19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
Jer 2:20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
Jer 2:21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
Jer 2:22 For even if you are washed with soda and take much soap, still your evil-doing is marked before me, says the Lord God.
Jer 2:23 How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;
Jer 2:24 An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
Jer 2:25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.
Jer 2:26 As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;
Jer 2:27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
Jer 2:28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.
Jer 2:29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.
Jer 2:30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Jer 2:31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
Jer 2:32 Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.
Jer 2:33 With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.
Jer 2:34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Jer 2:35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
Jer 2:36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
Jer 2:37 Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.
Jer 3:1 They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
Jer 3:2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
Jer 3:3 So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
Jer 3:4 Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
Jer 3:5 Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.
Jer 3:6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.
Jer 3:7 And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
Jer 3:8 And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
Jer 3:9 So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
Jer 3:10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Jer 3:11 And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
Jer 3:12 Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.
Jer 3:13 Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
Jer 3:14 Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;
Jer 3:15 And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
Jer 3:16 And it will come about, when your numbers are increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, that they will no longer say, The ark of the agreement of the Lord: it will not come into their minds, they will not have any memory of it, or be conscious of the loss of it, and it will not be made again.
Jer 3:17 At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.
Jer 3:18 In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.
Jer 3:19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.
Jer 3:20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.
Jer 3:21 A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.
Jer 3:22 Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
Jer 3:23 Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jer 3:24 But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jer 3:25 Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.
Jer 4:1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.
Jer 4:2 And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.
Jer 4:3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
Jer 4:4 Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Jer 4:5 Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.
Jer 4:6 Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer 4:7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.
Jer 4:8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.
Jer 4:9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.
Jer 4:10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
Jer 4:11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;
Jer 4:12 A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.
Jer 4:13 See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.
Jer 4:14 O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?
Jer 4:15 For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim:
Jer 4:16 Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attackers are coming from a far country and their voices will be loud against the towns of Judah.
Jer 4:17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.
Jer 4:18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Jer 4:19 My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
Jer 4:20 News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
Jer 4:21 How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?
Jer 4:22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
Jer 4:23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.
Jer 4:24 Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.
Jer 4:25 Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.
Jer 4:26 Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.
Jer 4:27 For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.
Jer 4:28 The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
Jer 4:29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.
Jer 4:30 And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.
Jer 4:31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.
Jer 5:1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
Jer 5:2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
Jer 5:3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Jer 5:4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
Jer 5:5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
Jer 5:6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
Jer 5:7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.
Jer 5:8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
Jer 5:9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Jer 5:10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.
Jer 5:11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.
Jer 5:12 They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:
Jer 5:13 And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.
Jer 5:14 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.
Jer 5:15 See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
Jer 5:16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
Jer 5:17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
Jer 5:18 But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.
Jer 5:19 And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.
Jer 5:20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,
Jer 5:21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
Jer 5:22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
Jer 5:23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
Jer 5:24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
Jer 5:25 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
Jer 5:26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Jer 5:27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
Jer 5:28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Jer 5:29 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Jer 5:30 A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;
Jer 5:31 The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Jer 6:1 Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer 6:2 The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.
Jer 6:3 Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
Jer 6:4 Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.
Jer 6:5 Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.
Jer 6:6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.
Jer 6:7 As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
Jer 6:8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
Jer 6:9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.
Jer 6:10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
Jer 6:11 For this reason I am full of the wrath of the Lord, I am tired of keeping it in: may it be let loose on the children in the street, and on the band of the young men together: for even the husband with his wife will be taken, the old man with him who is full of days.
Jer 6:12 And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.
Jer 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Jer 6:14 And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer 6:15 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jer 6:16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
Jer 6:17 And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.
Jer 6:18 So then, give ear, you nations, and ...
Jer 6:19 Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.
Jer 6:20 To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
Jer 6:21 For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.
Jer 6:22 The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.
Jer 6:23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.
Jer 6:24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
Jer 6:25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
Jer 6:26 O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.
Jer 6:27 I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.
Jer 6:28 All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
Jer 6:29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
Jer 6:30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
Jer 7:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jer 7:2 Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.
Jer 7:3 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.
Jer 7:4 Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Jer 7:5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
Jer 7:6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Jer 7:7 Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
Jer 7:8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Jer 7:9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Jer 7:10 And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
Jer 7:11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
Jer 7:12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.
Jer 7:13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:
Jer 7:14 For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Jer 7:15 And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.
Jer 7:16 And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.
Jer 7:17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer 7:18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
Jer 7:19 Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?
Jer 7:20 So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.
Jer 7:21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.
Jer 7:22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:
Jer 7:23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
Jer 7:24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
Jer 7:25 From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:
Jer 7:26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.
Jer 7:27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.
Jer 7:28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.
Jer 7:29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
Jer 7:30 For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.
Jer 7:31 And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.
Jer 7:32 For this cause, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death: for they will put the dead into the earth in Topheth till there is no more room.
Jer 7:33 And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.
Jer 7:34 And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
Jer 8:1 At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:
Jer 8:2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
Jer 8:3 And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.
Jer 8:4 Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?
Jer 8:5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
Jer 8:6 I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.
Jer 8:7 Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
Jer 8:8 How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.
Jer 8:9 The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?
Jer 8:10 So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
Jer 8:11 And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jer 8:12 Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jer 8:13 I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.
Jer 8:14 Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
Jer 8:15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Jer 8:16 The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.
Jer 8:17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
Jer 8:18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
Jer 8:19 The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?
Jer 8:20 The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.
Jer 8:21 For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
Jer 8:22 Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Jer 9:1 If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
Jer 9:2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
Jer 9:3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Jer 9:4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
Jer 9:5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
Jer 9:6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Jer 9:7 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.
Jer 9:8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
Jer 9:9 Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Jer 9:10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
Jer 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
Jer 9:12 Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?
Jer 9:13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;
Jer 9:14 But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.
Jer 9:15 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
Jer 9:16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.
Jer 9:17 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
Jer 9:18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
Jer 9:19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.
Jer 9:20 But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
Jer 9:21 For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
Jer 9:22 The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.
Jer 9:23 This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
Jer 9:24 But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
Jer 9:25 See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;
Jer 9:26 On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
Jer 10:1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:
Jer 10:2 This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
Jer 10:3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Jer 10:4 They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
Jer 10:5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
Jer 10:6 There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.
Jer 10:7 Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
Jer 10:8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
Jer 10:9 Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
Jer 10:10 But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
Jer 10:11 This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
Jer 10:12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
Jer 10:13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Jer 10:14 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
Jer 10:15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Jer 10:16 The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
Jer 10:17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.
Jer 10:18 For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.
Jer 10:19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.
Jer 10:20 My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.
Jer 10:21 For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.
Jer 10:22 News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.
Jer 10:23 O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.
Jer 10:24 O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.
Jer 10:25 Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
Jer 11:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jer 11:2 Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,
Jer 11:3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,
Jer 11:4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
Jer 11:5 So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
Jer 11:6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.
Jer 11:7 For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.
Jer 11:8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.
Jer 11:9 And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.
Jer 11:10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.
Jer 11:11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.
Jer 11:12 Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.
Jer 11:13 For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.
Jer 11:14 And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.
Jer 11:15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
Jer 11:16 You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.
Jer 11:17 For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.
Jer 11:18 And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.
Jer 11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
Jer 11:20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
Jer 11:21 So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:
Jer 11:22 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:
Jer 11:23 Not one of them will keep his life, for I will send evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.
Jer 12:1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
Jer 12:2 They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
Jer 12:3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
Jer 12:4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
Jer 12:5 If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?
Jer 12:6 For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.
Jer 12:7 I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
Jer 12:8 My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
Jer 12:9 My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
Jer 12:10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
Jer 12:11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
Jer 12:12 Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Jer 12:13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Jer 12:14 This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.
Jer 12:15 And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.
Jer 12:16 And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.
Jer 12:17 But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.
Jer 13:1 This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.
Jer 13:2 So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.
Jer 13:3 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,
Jer 13:4 Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.
Jer 13:5 So I went and put it in a secret place by Parah, as the Lord had said to me.
Jer 13:6 Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there.
Jer 13:7 So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.
Jer 13:8 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 13:9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.
Jer 13:10 These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.
Jer 13:11 For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.
Jer 13:12 So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?
Jer 13:13 Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.
Jer 13:14 I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.
Jer 13:15 Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.
Jer 13:16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Jer 13:17 But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Jer 13:18 Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
Jer 13:19 The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners.
Jer 13:20 Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?
Jer 13:21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?
Jer 13:22 And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.
Jer 13:23 Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
Jer 13:24 So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.
Jer 13:25 This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
Jer 13:26 So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.
Jer 13:27 I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Jer 14:1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.
Jer 14:2 Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Jer 14:3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
Jer 14:4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
Jer 14:5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.
Jer 14:6 And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
Jer 14:7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
Jer 14:8 O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
Jer 14:9 Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.
Jer 14:10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
Jer 14:11 And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
Jer 14:12 When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Jer 14:13 Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
Jer 14:14 Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
Jer 14:15 So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.
Jer 14:16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.
Jer 14:17 And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.
Jer 14:18 If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
Jer 14:19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
Jer 14:20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
Jer 14:21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
Jer 14:22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Jer 15:1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Jer 15:2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.
Jer 15:3 And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
Jer 15:4 And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
Jer 15:5 For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?
Jer 15:6 You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.
Jer 15:7 And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.
Jer 15:8 I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.
Jer 15:9 The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.
Jer 15:10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
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Jer 15:12 Is it possible for iron to be broken; even iron from the north, and brass?
Jer 15:13 I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.
Jer 15:14 They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.
Jer 15:15 O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;
Jer 15:16 But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
Jer 15:17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
Jer 15:18 Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
Jer 15:19 For this cause the Lord has said, If you will come back, then I will again let you take your place before me; and if you give out what is of value and not that which has no value, you will be as my mouth: let them come back to you, but do not go back to them.
Jer 15:20 And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.
Jer 15:21 I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.
Jer 16:1 Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 16:2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.
Jer 16:3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
Jer 16:4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
Jer 16:5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.
Jer 16:6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:
Jer 16:7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
Jer 16:8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.
Jer 16:9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
Jer 16:10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
Jer 16:11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;
Jer 16:12 And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:
Jer 16:13 For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.
Jer 16:14 For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.
Jer 16:15 But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.
Jer 16:16 See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jer 16:17 For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
Jer 16:18 And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
Jer 16:19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
Jer 16:20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?
Jer 16:21 For this reason, truly, I will make them see, this once I will give them knowledge of my hand and my power; and they will be certain that my name is the Lord.
Jer 17:1 The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
Jer 17:2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
Jer 17:3 I will give your wealth and all your stores to be taken away in war without a price, because of your sins in every part of your land.
Jer 17:4 And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.
Jer 17:5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.
Jer 17:6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
Jer 17:7 A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
Jer 17:8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.
Jer 17:9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
Jer 17:10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Jer 17:11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
Jer 17:12 A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.
Jer 17:13 O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
Jer 17:14 Make me well, O Lord, and I will be well; be my saviour, and I will be safe: for you are my hope.
Jer 17:15 See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.
Jer 17:16 As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.
Jer 17:17 Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.
Jer 17:18 Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.
Jer 17:19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;
Jer 17:20 And say to them, Give ear to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who come in by these doors:
Jer 17:21 This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem;
Jer 17:22 And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;
Jer 17:23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.
Jer 17:24 And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;
Jer 17:25 Then through the doors of this town there will come kings and princes, seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, they and their princes, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem: and this town will keep its place for ever.
Jer 17:26 And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands, and from the mountains, and from the South, with burned offerings and offerings of beasts and meal offerings and perfume and offerings of praise, to the house of the Lord.
Jer 17:27 But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.
Jer 18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
Jer 18:2 Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.
Jer 18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones.
Jer 18:4 And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.
Jer 18:5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Jer 18:6 O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.
Jer 18:7 Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;
Jer 18:8 If, in that very minute, that nation of which I was talking is turned away from its evil, my purpose of doing evil to them will be changed.
Jer 18:9 And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;
Jer 18:10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.
Jer 18:11 Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.
Jer 18:12 But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.
Jer 18:13 So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.
Jer 18:14 Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?
Jer 18:15 For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;
Jer 18:16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.
Jer 18:17 I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.
Jer 18:18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
Jer 18:19 Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.
Jer 18:20 Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.
Jer 18:21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
Jer 18:22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.
Jer 18:23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.
Jer 19:1 This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;
Jer 19:2 And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;
Jer 19:3 Say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem; the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send evil on this place which will be bitter to the ears of anyone hearing of it.
Jer 19:4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;
Jer 19:5 And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:
Jer 19:6 For this cause, see, a time is coming, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be named Topheth, or, The valley of the son of Hinnom, but, The valley of Death.
Jer 19:7 I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.
Jer 19:8 And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.
Jer 19:9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
Jer 19:10 Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,
Jer 19:11 And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.
Jer 19:12 This is what I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to its people, making this town like Topheth:
Jer 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.
Jer 19:14 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,
Jer 19:15 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send on this town and on all her towns all the evil which I have said; because they made their necks stiff, so that they might not give ear to my words.
Jer 20:1 Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;
Jer 20:2 And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.
Jer 20:3 Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib (Cause-of-fear-on-every-side), not Pashhur.
Jer 20:4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.
Jer 20:5 And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.
Jer 20:6 And you, Pashhur, and all who are in your house, will go away prisoners: you will come to Babylon, and there your body will be put to rest, you and all your friends, to whom you said false words.
Jer 20:7 O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.
Jer 20:8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.
Jer 20:9 And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.
Jer 20:10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
Jer 20:11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.
Jer 20:12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.
Jer 20:13 Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.
Jer 20:14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Jer 20:15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
Jer 20:16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
Jer 20:17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
Jer 20:18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
Jer 21:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
Jer 21:2 Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.
Jer 21:3 Then Jeremiah said to them, This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:
Jer 21:4 The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.
Jer 21:5 And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.
Jer 21:6 And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.
Jer 21:7 And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.
Jer 21:8 And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.
Jer 21:9 He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.
Jer 21:10 For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.
Jer 21:11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;
Jer 21:12 O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
Jer 21:13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?
Jer 21:14 I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.
Jer 22:1 This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,
Jer 22:2 And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.
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