LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PRINCETON, N. J. Presented by Herber+ Adeems Gr'ibbons Division..^^.^..\ OC3 Section...'.I^..\..\. \e>s4 Price Fifty Cents, or Two Shillings Sterling. Seventy-Five Cents, or Three Shillings, IF Postpaid. Passages from Holy Writ CHOSEN AND ARRANGED ' OCT 1 1951(1 FAMILY READING PRIVATE READING OF CHILDREN USE IN SCHOOLS Printed by ALLEN, LANE & SCOTT Philadelphia 1894 "Is that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed thena unto babes : even so Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight." Luke x. 2L "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom tiie Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John xiv. 26. " When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth." John xvi. 13. " He shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you." John xvi. 14. TO THE READER. The beginning of this little " labour of love " was an endeav- our, some years ago, to mark out beforehand the most suitable passages in some of the books of the Old Testament for reading in a large family, where there was considerable disparity in age and maturity of thought. In extending the design of the work to the books of the New Testament, the importance of presenting, as supreme, the teach- ings of our Saviour as they are appreciated and applied by the help of the Holy Spirit, has led to giving them the first place in order of arrangement ; that so it might contribute toward im- planting in the minds of even the youngest the belief that His words and life are set before us as guides in our thoughts and actions and as our standard of attainment ; and also as the stand- ard and test by which, with the Holy Spirit's help, Ave are to re- gard all other parts of the Bible as to how far they are aiDplicable to us as our direction, or example, or j^rohibition. A little help may be thus given to the more complete recog- nition, in reverence and simplicity, without doubts or confusion, that we who have received the fuller knowledge, purer standard, larger holy help, and blessed promises — not for this life alone, but for a life to come — which have been bestowed upon us through the coming of our Saviour on earth and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit which followed, are under a new and higher dispen- sation and accountability. As we are not, therefore, permitted to regard as intended for our rule or example, or sanction, anything contained in the Bible which, though profitable and instructive to read,'Ts yet not in (vii) Vlll TO THE READER. harmony with the spirit of our Saviour's teaching, it is desirable that children should be very early relieved from liability to doubts arising from seeming inconsistencies. So small a matter as precedence in order of arrangement may help to impress upon the mind the superseding authority of His law by whom " grace and truth came," and of whom it was prophesied that "the government shall be upon His shoulder," and " of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end." If we desire to be made individually instrumental in promot- ing the universal acceptance of this rule of the kingdom which is " righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost," we shall seek to have the humble and contrite spirit which will en- able us to give ourselves up wholly unto Christ's government ; and we will seek to follow His commandments in devotion of heart and unqualified obedience. In the nearness of spirit into which this close following of Christ brings, we shall receive a fuller sense of the deep, un- fathomable mercy and regard of the Father toward "the works of His own hands " in sending the Son, from the glory which He had with Him into the world, that the world might be saved through Him. We shall seek to have given to us a deeper feel- ing and appreciation of all of our Saviour's sufferings and temp- tations for our sake ; which in unbounded love and i)ity He freely gave Himself up to endure, with foreknowledge of the bitter assaults in which He should be " despised and rejected of men," and the agonies in which He should " pour out His soul unto death ; " and we shall remember His words to His disciples, " Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations ; " and again, " Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of" We shall not seek to penetrate the awful and un revealed mys- tery of the origin and existence of the power of evil, or to ex- plain and define the condition in the Divine sight of the Jews under the Mosaic dispensation, or of the peo])les of the ancient world, or of the heathen nations of the present day. And we shall rest in the certain assurance that perfect goodness — eternal. TO THE READER. IX unchanged, and unchangeable — and infinite love, and power to deliver, reigns over all. All the records of our Saviour's life and words are contained in the volume, except that where nearly identical accounts have been given in two or more of the Gospels, that which is the full- est has been presented. Frequent abbreviations — in the form of omissions but not of substitutions — have been made throughout the passages chosen ; but great care has been taken that no change in the intended meaning should be produced by any breakings of the continuity of the text. The text used is that of the Revised Version (or its alterna- tive readings), as being presumably the nearest approach to cor- rect discrimination as to the original documents and unprepos- sessed faithfulness in their translation. A variety of considerations had to have place and be balanced throughout the details of the work which caunot well be set before the reader. It is not, in the very nature of such an en- deavour, hardly possible that the governing conclusions of one person should correspond with the feelings and judgment and preferences of even one other. Even where the utmost desire to be charitable and uncritical exists, hallowed associations and pre- possessions will yet influence every one according to their varied experiences and differences of temperament and mental constitu- tion; and preferences in taste will in the finest natures cause a sense of something like neglect or unappreciative regard of pas- sages, not included in this collection, which have been to them, individually, sources of especial enjoyment. The only claim for the work is sincerity of purpose and a de- sire to be kept in a sense of responsibility in the Divine sight. T. P. C. AwBURY, 1893. CONTENTS. Passages from S. Luke 1 " S. Matthew 42 " 8. Mark 82 " S. John • 97 " Acts 134 " Romans 171 " I. Corinthians 177 " II. Corinthians 186 " Galatians 192 " El'HESIANS 195 " Philippians 198 " CoLOSSIANS 201 " I. Thessalonians 202 " II. Thessalonians 204 " I. Timothy 205 " II. Timothy 208 " Titus 210 " IIehrews 212 " James 218 " I. Peter 223 " II. Peter 227 " I. John 230 " Revelation 234 " Psalms 244 " Isaiah 300 " Jerkmiah 338 " Lamentations 352 " EzEKiEi 356 " Daniel 363 CONTENTS. XI Passages from Hosea 377 « Joel 379 « Amos 383 " Jonah 387 " Micah 390 " Nahum 392 " Habakkuk 393 " Zephaniah 395 " Haggai 397 " Zechariah 398 " Malachi 399 Job 402 Genesis "^28 Exodus '^'^ Leviticus ^l'* Numbers ^^2 Deuteronomy ''■*■'■ Joshua ^^3 Judges 566 EuTH 583 I. Samuel 588 II. Samuel 621 I. Kings • ^39 II. Kings 664 I. Chronicles 687 II. Chronicles 694 Ezra 696 Nehemiah '^3 Esther ■ '^^ Proverbs . . Ecclesiastes 720 739 PASSAGES HOLY WRIT PASSAGES FEOM THE GOSPEL A(XORDING TO S. LUKE. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewit- nesses and ministers of the word, it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus ; that thou mightest know the certainty concerning the things wherein thou wast instructed. There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordi- nances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, and they both were now well stricken in years. Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to enter into the temple of the Lord and burn in- cense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And Zacha- rias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell uj)on him. But the angel said unto him. Fear not, Zacharias : because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness ; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine or strong drink ; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his birth. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn unto the Lord their God. And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the 2, PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to urilk in the wisdom of the just ; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him. And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God ; and I was sent to si^eak unto thee, and to bring thee these good tidings. And behold, thou shalt be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou believedst not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season. And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marvelled while he tarried in the temple. And when he came out, he could not speak unto them : and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the tem- ple : and he continued making signs unto them, and remained dumb. And it came to pass, M'hen the days of his ministration were fulfilled, he departed unto his house. And after these days Elisabeth his wife hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon mc, to take away my reproach among men. Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David ; and the virgin's name was Mary. And he came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly fcivoured, the Lord is with thee. But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this might be. And the angel said unto hex-. Fear not, ]\Iary : for thou hast found favour with God. And behold, tliou shalt bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the INIost High : and the Lord God shall give unto hira the throne of his father David : and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be ? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and tlie power of the Most High shall overshadow thee : wherefore also that which is to be born shall be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, Elisa- beth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age : and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren. For no word from God shall be void of power. And Mary said. Behold, the handmaid of the Lord ; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. And Mary arose in these days and went into the hill countrj- with haste, into a city of Judah ; and entered into the liouse of Zacharias and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 6 salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb ; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit; and she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said. Blessed art thou among women. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come unto me ? And blessed is she that believed ; for there shall be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord. And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath looked upon the low estate of his handmaiden: ^ For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things ; And holy is his name. And his mercy is unto generations and generations On them that fear him. He hath shewed strength with his arm ; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart. He hath put down princes from their thrones, And hath exalted them of low degree. The hungry he hath filled with good things ; And the rich he hath sent empty away. He hath holpen Israel his servant, That he might remember mercy (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and his seed for ever. And ]\Iary abode with her about three months, and returned imto her house. Now Elizabeth's time was fulfilled that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. And her neighbours and her kinsfolk heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her; and they rejoiced with her. And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child ; and they would have called him Zach- arias, after the name of his father. And his mother answered and said. Not so; but he shall be called John. And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. And tliey made signs to his father, what he would have him called. And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying. His name is John. And they marvelled all. And his mouth was open immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, blessing God. And fear came on all that dwelt round about them : and all these sayings were noised abroad through- out all the hill country of Judaea. And all that heard them laid them up in their heart, saying. What then shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him. 4 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. And his ixither Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and proph- esied, saying, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel ; For he hath visited and wrought redemption for his i:)eople, And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of his servant David (As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began), Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us ; To shew mercy towards our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant ; The oatli which he sware unto Abraham our father, To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him all our days. Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways ; To give knowledge of salvation unto his jjeople In the remission of their sins, Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the dayspring from on high shall visit us, ,,. To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death ; To guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew, and waxed strong in sjiirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. Now it came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own city. And Josejih also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Juda?a, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David; to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him, being great with child. And it came to pass, while they were there, the days were fulfilled that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son ; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keei^ing watch by night over their flock. And an angel of the PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. O Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid ; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the peojile : for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this is the sign unto you ; Ye shall find a babe wrapi^ed in swaddling clothes, and lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multi- tude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, And on earth ^peace among ^men in whom he is well pleased. And it came to pass, when the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another. Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger. And when they saw it, they made known concerning the saying which was spoken to them about this child. And all that heard it wondered at the things which were spoken unto them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds re- turned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was sjjoken unto them. And when eight days were fulfilled for circumcising him, his name was called Jesus, which was so called by the angel before he was conceived. And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord. And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon ; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel : and the Holy Spirit was upon him. And it had been revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came in the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law, then he received him into his arms, and' blessed God, and said, Now lettest thou thy servant depart, O Lord, According to thy word, in peace ; For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, Which thou hast jsrepared before the face of all peoples; A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the gloiy of thy people Israel. And his father and his mother were marvelling at the things which 1 Many ancient authorities read peace, good pleasure among men. ' Gr. men of good pleasure. 6 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. were spoken concerning him ; and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel ; and for a sign which is spoken against ; yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul ; that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed. And there was one Anna, a prophet- ess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, and she had been a widow even for fourscore and four years), which de- parted not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplica- tions night and day. And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks unto God, and spake of him to all them that were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. Aiad when they hud accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. And the child grew, and waxed strong, filled with wisdom : and the grace of God was upon him. And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover. And w^hen he was twelve years old, they went up after the custom of the feast; and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem j and his parents knew it not; but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey ; and they sought for him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance: and when they found him not, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking for him. And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions : and all that heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. And when they saw him, they were astonished : and his mother said unto him. Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that j-e sought me? wist ye not that I must be Mn my Father's house? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them : and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Oosar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judiea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galik^e, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Itur;ea and Trachon- itis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, in the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias iQr, about my father'' 8 busiriess. Gr. in the things of my Father. PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 7 in the wilderness. And he came into all the region round about Jor- dan, preaching the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins; as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight. , Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straiglit. And the rough ways smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to he baptized of him. Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. And even now is the axe also laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then must we do? And he answered and said unto them. He that liath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise. And there came also Roman tax collectors to be baptized, and they said unto him, Master, what must we do? And he said unto them, Extort no more than that which is appointed you. And soldiers also asked him, saying. And we, what must we do ? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither exact anything wrongfully ; and be content with your wages. And as the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the Christ ; John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water ; but there cometh he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and u'iih fire: whose fan is in his hand, thoroughly to cleanse his threshing-floor, and to gather the wheat into his garner ; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire. With many other exhortations therefore preached he ^good tidings unto the peojjle; but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done, added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and lOr, the gospel. 8 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of age. And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days : and when they were completed, he hungered. And the devil said unto him. If thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread. And Jesus answered unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone. And he led him up, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them : for it hath been delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou there- fore M'ilt worship before me, it shall all be thine. And Jesus answered and said unto him, It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. And he led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him. If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence : for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard thee : and. On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone. And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee : and a fame went out concerning him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought U]-> : and he entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read. And there was delivered unto him the l)ook of the prophet Isaiah. And he opened the book, and found the place where it was Avritten, The spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor : He hath sent me to proclaim release t(j the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. \) And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been ful- filled in your ears. And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth : and they said, Is not this Joseph's son? And he said unto them, Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in thine own country. And he said. Verily I say unto you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country. But of a truth I say unto you. There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land ; and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian. And they were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things ; and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong. But he passing through the midst of them went his w^ay. And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath day : and they were astonished at his teaching; for his word was with authority. Now it came to pass, while the multitude pressed upon him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesa- ret ; and he saw two boats standing by the lake : but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he en- tered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the mul- titudes out of the boat. And when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answered and said, Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their nets were breaking ; and they beckoned unto their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying. Depart from me ; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was amazed, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken ; and so were also James and John, sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; fi'om henceforth thou 10 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. shalt catch men. And when they had brought their l)oats to land, they left all, and followed him. And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy: and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; l)e thou made clean. And straightway the leprosy departed from him. And he charged him to tell no man: but go thy way, and shew thy- self to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses com- manded, for a testimony unto them. But so much the more went abroad the report concerning him : and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities. But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed. And it came to pass on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every village of Galilee and Judtea and Jerusalem : and the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, men bring on a bed a man that was palsied : and they sought to bring him in, and to lay him before him. And not finding by what vmy they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his couch into the midst before Jesus. And seeing their faith, he said, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, say- ing. Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? But Jesus perceiving their reasonings, answered and said unto them. What reason ye in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee ; or to say. Arise and walk ? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins (he said unto him that was palsied), I say unto thee. Arise, and take up thy couch, and go unto thy house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his house, glorifying God. And amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God ; and they were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day. And after these things he went forth, and beheld a pu])lican, named Levi, sitting at the place of toll, and said unto him, Follow me. And he forsook all, and rose uj) and followed him. And Levi made him a great feast in his house: and there was a great multitude of ^publicans and of others that were sitting at meat with them. And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the ^publicans and sinners? And Jesua answering ^ Roman tax collectors. PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 11 said unto them, They that are whole have no need of a physician ; but they that are sick. I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often, and make supplications ; likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees ; but thine eat and drink. And Jesus said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come ; and when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then will they fast in those days. And he spake also a parable unto them ; No man rendeth a piece from a new gar- ment and putteth it upon an old garment ; else he will rend the new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old Hvine-skins ; else the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will perish. But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins. And no man having drunk old iclne desireth new : for he saith, The old is good. And it came to pass on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man there, and his right hand was withered. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath ; that they might find how to accuse him. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man that had his hand withered. Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. And Jesus said unto them, I ask you, Is it law- ful on the sabbath to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to desti'oy it ? And he looked round about on them all, and said unto him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so : and his hand was re- stored. But they w^ere filled with madness ; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the moun- tain to pray ; and he continued all night in i:)rayer to God. And when it was day, he called his disciples : and he chose from them twelve, whom also he named a^^ostles ; Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholo- mew, and Matthew and Thomas, and James the son of Alphseus, and Simon which was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, w^hich was the traitor ; and he came down with them, and stood on a level place, and a great multitude of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judjea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases ; and they that were troubled with unclean spirits were healed. And all the multitude sought to touch him : for power came forth from him, and healed them all. 1 That is, skins used as bottles. 12 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now : for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now : for ye shall laugh. Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice in that day, and leap /or joy : for behold, your reward is great in heaven : for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets. But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you, ye that are full now ! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now ! for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you ! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. But I say unto you which hear. Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despite- fully use you. To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and from him that taketh away thy cloke withhold not thy coat also. Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye ? for even sinners love those that love them. And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye ? for even sinners do the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive again as much. But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High : for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful. And judge not, and ye shall not be judged : and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : release, and ye shall be released : give, and it shall be given unto you ; good measure, pressed down, shaken to- gether, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with wliat measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again. And he spake also a parable unto them. Can the blind guide the blind ? shall they not both fall into a pit ? The disciple is not above his master : but every one when he is perfected shall be as his master. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Or how canst thou say to thy brother. Brother, let me cast out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Tliou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. For there is no good tree that bringeth forth corrupt PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 16 fruit ; nor again a corrupt tree that bringeth forth good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil : for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like : he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock : and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded. But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that built a house upon the earth without a foundation ; against which the stream brake, and straiglitway it fell in ; and the ruin of that house was great. After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he en- tered into Capernaum. And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and at the point of death. And when he heard concerning Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews, asking him that he would come and save his servant. And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying. He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him : for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue. And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, troul:)le not thy- self: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee : but say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, having under myself soldiers : and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another. Come, and he cometh; and to my servant. Do this, and he doeth it. And when Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned and said unto the multitude that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole. And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude. Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came nigh and touched the bier: and the bearers stood still. 14 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee. Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his motlier. And fear took hold on all : and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is arisen among us: and, God hath visited his people. And this report went forth concerning him in the whole of Judaea, and all the region round about. And the disciples of John told him of all these things. And John calling unto him tAVO of his disciples sent them to the Lord, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another? And when the men were come unto him, they said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another ? In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits ; and on many that were blind he bestowed sight. And he answered and said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have ^good tidings preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall tind none occa- sion of stumbling in me. And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wil- derness to behold ? a reed shaken with the wind ? But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they wliich are gorgeouslj^ apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. But what went ye out to see ? a i^rophet ? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee. I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there is none greater than John : yet he that is but little in the kingdom of God is greater than he. And all the i^eople when they heard, and the publi- cans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him. Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like? They are like unto chil- dren that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another ; which say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep. For John the Baptist is come, eating no bread nor drinking wine ; and ye say, He hath a ^devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking ; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebib- ber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified of all her children. ' Or, the gospel. " Gr. demon. PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 15 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. And beliold, a woman whicli was in tlie city, a sinner ; and wlien she knew tliat he was sitting at meat in the Pliarisee's house, slie brought an alabaster cruse of ointment, and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to Avet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the oint- ment. Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within liimself, saying. This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what manner of woman this is which toucheth him, that she is a sinner. And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. When they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. "Which of them therefore will love him most ? Simon an- swered and said, He, I suj^pose, to whom he forgave the most. And he said unto him. Thou hast rightly judged. And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet : but she hath wetted my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair. Thou gavest me no kiss : but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but she hath anointed my feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee. Her sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that even forgiveth sins? And he said unto the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee ; go in peace. And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the ^good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve, and certain women which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary that was called Magdalene, from whom seven ^devils had gone out, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto them of their substance. And when a great multitude came together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable : The sower went forth to sow his seed : and as he sowed, some fell by the way side ; and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it. And other fell on the rock ; and as soon as it grew, it withered away, be- cause it had no moisture. And other fell amidst the thorns; and the 1 Or, gospel. * Gr. demons. 16 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. thorns grew with it, and clicked it. And other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him what this parable might be. And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God : but to the rest in parables ; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. And those by the way side are they that have heard ; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. And those on the rock are they which, when they have heard, receive the word with joy ; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience. And no man, when he hath lighted a lamp, covereth it with a ves- sel, or putteth it under a bed ; but putteth it on a stand, that they which enter in may see the light. For nothing is hid, that shall not be made manifest; nor anything secret, that shall not be known and come to light. Take heed therefore how ye hear : for whosoever hath, to him shall be given ; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he thinketh he hath. And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face : and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he were going to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them? But he turned, and rebuked them.i And they went to another village. And as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said. Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my 1 Some ancient authorities add and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. Some, but fewer, add also For the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 17 father. But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead ; but go thou and pubhsh abroad the kingdom of God. And another also said, I will follow thee, Lord ; but first suffer me to bid farewell to them that are at my house. But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come. And he said unto them, The harvest is plenteous, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes : and salute no man on the way. And into whatsoever house ye shall enter first, say Peace he to this house. And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him : but if not, it shall turn to you again. And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. And into what- soever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you : and heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say, Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we do wipe off against you : howbeit know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh. I say unto you. It shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. "Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. Howbeit it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgement, than for you. And thou, CajDer- naum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt be brought down unto Hades. He that heareth you heareth me ; and he that reject- eth you rejecteth me ; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me. And the seventy returned with joy, saying. Lord, even the Mevils are subject unto us in thy name. And he said unto them, I Ijeheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you au- thority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy : and nothing shall in any wise hurt you. Howbeit in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you ; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. 1 Gr. demons. 18 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and eartli, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes : yea, Father ; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father ; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the son willeth to reveal him. And turning to the disciples, he said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see tlje things that ye see : for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings de- sired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not ; and to hear the things which j-e hear, and heard them not. And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying. Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life ? And he said unto him, What is written in the law ? how readest thou ? And he answering said. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God "with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind ; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right : this do, and thou shalt live. But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And Mho is my neighbour? Jesus made answer and said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, which both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving hini half dead. And by chance a certain priest was going down that way : and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain Samar- itan, as he journeyed, came where he was : and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion, and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine ; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow he took out t\\(j pence, and gave them to the host, and said. Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou spendest more, I, when I come back again, will repay thee. Wliich of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbour unto him that fell among the robbers? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. And Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. Now as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at the Lord's feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving; and she came up to him, and said. Lord, dost thou not care that my sister did leave me to serve alone? bid her tlierefore that she help me. But tlie Lord answered and said unto her, ]\Iartlia, Martlia, thou PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 19 art anxious and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful : for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her. And it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him. Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also tauglit his disciples. And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.^ Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation. ^ And he said unto them. Which of j-ou shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves ; for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him ; and he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed ; I cannot rise and give thee ? I say unto you. Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his im- portunity he will arise and give him as many as he needeth. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you ; seekj and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth ; and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone ? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serjiient? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he give him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? And he was casting out a ^devil which icas dumb. And it came to pass, when the Mevil was gone out, the dumb man spake; and the multitudes marvelled. But some of them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the "'devils casteth he out ''devils. And others, tempting /////;, sought of him a sign from heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them. Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation ; and a house divided against a house falleth. And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand ? because ye say that I cast out ^devils by Beelzebub. And if I by Beelzebub cast out ^devils by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I by the finger of God cast out ^devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. When the strong man fully armed ' Many ancient authorities add Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 2 Many ancient authorities add but deliver us from the evil one (or, from ei'il). ^Gr. demon. < Gr. demons. 20 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger tlian he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he takcth from him his whole armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. He that is not with me is against nie ; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. The unclean spirit when it is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless j^laces, seeking rest ; and finding none, it saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out. And when it is come, it findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth it, and taketh to him seven other spirits more evil than itself; and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. And it came to pass, as he said tlicse things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation : it seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah. For even as Jonali l^ecanie a sign unto the Isinevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgement with the men of this generation, and shall con- demn them:* for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgement with this genera- tion, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. Ko man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a cellar, neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which enter in may see the light. The lamp of thy body is thine eye : when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but wlien it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness. If therefore thy whole body l)e full of light, having no part dark, it shall be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining doth give thee liglit. Now as he spake, a Pharisee asketh him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. And the Lord said unto him. Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedne-ss. Ye foolish ones, did not he tliat made the outside make the inside also? H()wT)eit give for alms tliose things which are with- in; and behold, all things are clean unto you. PASSAGES FR03I S. LUKE. 21 But woe unto you Pharisees ! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and jxiss over judgement and the love of God : but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Woe unto you Pharisees ! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salu- tations in the marketplaces. AVoe unto you ! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not. And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, ]\Iaster, in say- ing this thou reproachest us also. And he said, "Woe unto you lawyers also ! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you ! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their tombs. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute ; that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation ; from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. Woe unto you lawyers ! for ye took away the key of knowledge : ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things ; laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth. In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. But there is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed : and hid, that shall not be known. Where- fore whatsoever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in tne light ; and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. And I say unto you my friends. Be not afraid of them wliich kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings ? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows. And I say unto you, Every one who shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also con- fess before the angels of God: but he that denieth me in the presence 22 PASSAGES FROM 8. LUKE. of men shall be denied in the presence of the angels of God. And every one who shall speak a word againsfe the Son of man, it shall l)e forgiven him : but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven. And when they bring you before the syna- gogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what ye ought to say. And one out of the multitude said unto him, Master, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me. But he said unto him, ]\Ian. who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them. Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousncss : for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground or a certain rich man brought forth plentifully : and he reasoned within himself, saying. What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater ; and there will I bestow all my corn and my goods. And I Avill say to my soul. Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said unto him. Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee ; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Fear not, little flock ; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms ; make for 3'our- selves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fail- eth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning ; and be ye yourselves like unto men looking for their lord, wdien he shall re- turn from the marriage feast; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may straightway open unto him. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he comelh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find ihnn so, blessed are those servnrifs. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in wliat hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to l)e broken through. Be ye also ready : for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh. And Peter said, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even unto all? And the Lord said, AVho then is the faithful and wise steward, wliom his lord shall set over his household, to give them PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE, 23 their portion of food in due season? Blessed is tliat servant, wliom his lord when he cometli shall find so doing. Of a truth I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath. But if that servant shall say in his heart. My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he know^eth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful. And that servant, which knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many strijyes ; but he that knew not, and did things worthy of strij^es, shall be beaten with few stripes. And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required : and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more. I came to cast fire upon the earth ; and what will I, if it is already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ! And he said to the multitudes also, "Wlien ye see a cloud rising in the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower ; and so it Cometh to pass. And when ye see a south wind blowing, ye say. There will be a scorching heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven ; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time? And why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him ;• lest haply he hale thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the ^officer, and the ^officer shall cast thee into prison. I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite. Now there were some present at that very season which told him of the Galilajans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered and said unto them, Think ye that these Galik^ans were sinners above all the Galilseans, because they have suffered these things? I tell you, Kay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish* Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard ; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none. And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come 1 Gr. exactor. 24 PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why dotlx it also cumber the ground ? And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit thenceforth, tcell; but if not, thou shalt cut it down. And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sab])ath day. And behold, a woman wdiich had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up. And when Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her. Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. And he laid his hands upon her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work : in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath. But the Lord answered him, and said. Ye hypocrites, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, these eighteen years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath ? And as he said these things, all his ad- versaries were put to shame : and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. And he went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and journeying on unto Jerusalem. And one said unto him. Lord, are they few that be saved ? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying. Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not whence ye are; then shall ye begin to say. We did eat and drink in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets; and he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without. And they shall come from the east and west, and from the north and south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. And behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. In that very hour there came certain Pharisees, saying to him, Get thee out, and go hence: for Herod would fain kill thee. And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out Hlevils and per- form cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected. ' Gr. demons. PASSAGES FROM S. LUKE. 25 Howbeit I must go on my way to-day and to-morrow and the day fol- lowing: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy chil- dren together, even as a hen gatherelh her own brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until ye shall say. Blessed is he that Cometh in the name of the Lord. And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him. And behold, there was before him a certain man which had the dropsy. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath, or not? But they held their i)eace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go. And he said unto them, AVhich of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day? And they could not answer again unto these things. And he spake a parable unto those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them, "When thou art bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him, and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the low- est place; that when he that hath bidden thee cometh, he may say to thee. Friend, go up higher : then shalt thou have gloiy in the pres- ence of all that sit at meat Avith thee. For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be ex- alted. And he said to him also that had bidden him, "When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbours ; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind : and thou shalt be blessed ; be- cause they have not wherewith to recompense thee : fur thou shalt 'be recompensed in the resurrection of the just. And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that sliall eat bread in the kingdom of God. But he said unto him, A certain man made a great supper; and he bade many: and he sent fjrth his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden. Come ; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The 26 TASSAGES FKOM S. J.UKK. first said iDito liim, I have bought a fie]re thieves break through and steal : l)ut lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal : for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also. The lamp of the body is the eye : if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 49 be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness ! No man can serve two masters : for either he will hate the one, and love the other ; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. There- fore I say unto you. Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink ; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiiuent? Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much, more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature? And why are ye anxious concerning raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin : yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is and to- morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Be not thei-efore anxious, saying. What shall we eat? or. What shall we drink ? or, AVherewithal shall we be clothed ? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek ; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness ; and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore anxious for the morrow : for the morrow jvill be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged : and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how Avilt thou say to thy brother. Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you. Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh. receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth ; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, wlio, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone ; or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much moi-e shall your Father which is in heaven ■give good things to them^that ask him? All things therefore whatso- 50 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. ever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the j^ropliets. Enter ye in by the narrow gate : for wide is the gate, and broad 'is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many be they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life,^ and few be they that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of tliistles? Even so eyery good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the Are. Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Fatlier which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not i)roi)hesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out klevils, and by thy name do many mighty works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Every one therefore which heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, which built liis house upon the rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon the rock. And every one that heareth these woi-ds of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house ; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof And it came to pasH, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching: for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes. And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying. Lord, my servant lieth in the liouse sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And he saith unto him, I will come and heal him. And the centurion answered and said. Lord, I am not worthy tliat thou shouldest come under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth ; and to another. Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. And when Jesus heard ' Gr. demons. » PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 51 it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed. Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven : but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way ; as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And the servant was healed in that hour. And when even was come, they brought unto him many demo- niacs : and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick : that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying. Himself took our infirmities, and bare our diseases. Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave com- mandment to depart unto the other side. And there came a scribe, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. And another of the disciples said unto him. Lord, suff'er me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus saith unto him. Follow me ; and leave the dead to bury their own dead. •And when he was entered into a boat, his disciples followed liim. And behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying. Save, Lord ; we perish. And he saith unto them. Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea ; and there was a great calm. And the men marvelled, saying. What manner of man is tliis, that even the winds and the sea obey hini? And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll : and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat in the house, behold, many 1 publicans and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his dis- ciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples. Why eateth your Master with the publicans and sinners? But when he heard it, he said. They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I de- sire mercy, and not sacrifice : for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying. Have mercy on us, thou son of David. And ' Roman tax collectors. 52 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him : and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, Accord- ing to your faith be it done unto you. And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly charged them, saying. See that no man know it. But they went forth, and spread abroad his fame in all that land. And as they went forth, behold, there was brought to him a dumb man possessed with a klevil. And when the 'devil was cast out, the dumb man spake : and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. But the Pharisees said, By the prince of the ^devils casteth he out ^devils. And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and heal- ing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest. And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sick- ness. Now the names of the twelve apostles are these : The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebe- dee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphfeus, and Thaddreus ; Simon the Canansean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans: but go ratlier to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out ^devils: freely ye receive, freely give. Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the labourer is worthy of his food. And into whatsoever city or village ye shall enter, search out who in it is worthy ; and there abide till ye go forth. And as ye enter into the house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you. It shall be iGr. demon. ^Gt. demons. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 53 more tolerable for the land of Sodom and GomoiTah in the day of judgement, than for that city. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : l)e ye tlierefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men : for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you ; yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought 'for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you. And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child : and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake : but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next : for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. A disciple is not above his master, nor a servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household ! Every one who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. Think not that I came to send peace on the earth : I came not to send peace, but a swoi'd. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law : and a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me ; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me re- ceiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a right- eous man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities. 54 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. Now when John heard in the prison tlie works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples, and said unto liini, Art thou he tliat cometh, or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go your way and tell John the things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, tlie lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have ^good tidings preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in me. And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold ? a reed shaken with the wind ? But what went ye out for to see? a man clothed in soft raiment f Behold, they that wear soft raiment are in kings' houses. But where- fore went ye out? to see a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee. Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: 3-et he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven sufFereth vio- lence, and men of violence take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, which is to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the marketplaces, which call unto their fellows, and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance ; we wailed, and ye did not mourn. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a ^devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say. Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebil)ber, a friend of pub- licans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Belhsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they M'ould have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Howl^cit I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgement, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades : for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day. Howbeit I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgement, than for thee. iQr, the gospel. ^Gt. demon. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 55 At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes : yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomso- ever the Son willeth to reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me ; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easj', and my burden is light. At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn- fields; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck ears of corn, and to eat. But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him. Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were w^ith him; how he en- tered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests? Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabljath, and are guiltless? But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here. But if ye had known what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath. And he departed thence, and went into their synagogue: and l)e- hold, a man having a withered hand. And they asked him, saying. Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? that they might accuse him. And he said unto them, "What man sliall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? How much then is a man of more value than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sab- bath day. Then saith he to the man. Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, as the other. But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him. And Jesus perceiving it withdrew from thence: and many followed him; and he healed them all, and charged them that they should not make him known: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying. Behold, my servant whom I have chosen ; My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit upon him. 56 PASSAGES FROM S, MATTHEW. And he shall declare judgement to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry aloud ; Neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgement unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles hope. Then was brought unto him a demoniac, blind and dumb : and he healed him, insomuch that the dumb man spake and saw. And all the multitudes were amazed, and said. Is this the son of David ? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said. This man doth not cast out ^devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the klevils. And knowing their thoughts he said unto them. Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation ; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand : and if Satan casteth out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out Mevils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. But if I by the Spirit of God cast out ^devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. Or how can one enter into the house of the strong 7nan, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man f and then he will spoil his house. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me seat- tereth. Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men ; but the blasphemy against the Spirit sliall not be forgiven. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come. Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt : for the tree is known by its fruit. Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things : and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account tliereof in the day of judgement. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet : for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the * Gr. demons. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 57 whale ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgement with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they re- pented at the preaching of Jonah ; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgement with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here. But the unclean spirit, when it is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. Then it saith, I will return into my house whence I came out ; and when it is come, it findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth it, and taketh with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter in and dwell there : and the last state of that man be- cometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation. While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. And one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him. Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said, Behold, my mother and my brethren ! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. On that day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And there were gathered unto him great multitudes, so that he en- tered into a boat, and sat; and all the multitude stood on the beach. And he spake to them many things in parables, saying. Behold, the sower went forth to sow ; and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them : and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth : and straightway they sprang up, because they had no deepness of earth : and when the sun was risen, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away. And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up, and choked them : and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He that hath ears, let him hear. And the disciples came, and said unto him. Why speakest thou unto them in parables? And he answered and said unto them. Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables ; because seeing they see not, 58 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, Cy hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand ; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive : For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed ; Lest haply they should perceive witli their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart. And should turn again. And I should heal them. But hlessed are your eyes, for they see ; and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not ; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not. Hear then ye the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side. And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it ; yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth. And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word ; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh un- fruitful. And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it ; who verily heareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Another paral)le set he before them, saying. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field : but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away. But when the blade sprang up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares? And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up ? But he saith, Nay ; lest hai)ly while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to tlie reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them : but gather the wheat into my barn. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 59 Another jiarable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is hke unto a grain of mustard seed, wliich a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is less than all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof Another parable spake he unto them ; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened. All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them : that it might be ful- filled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world. Then he left the m;iltitudes, and went into the house : and his dis- ciples came unto him, saying. Explain unto us the parable of the tares of the field. And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ; and the field is the world ; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom ; and the tares are the sons of the evil one ; and the enemy that sowed them is the devil : and the har- vest is the end of the world ; and the reapers are angels. As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire ; so shall it be in the end of the world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth. Tlien shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field ; which a man found, and hid ; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a mer- chant seeking goodly pearls : and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind : which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach ; and they sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast away. So shall it be in the end of the world : the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea. And he said unto them. Therefore every scribe who hath lieen made a 60 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a house- holder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. And coming into his own country he taught them in tlieir synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said. Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary ? and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house, And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus, and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist ; he is risen from the dead ; and therefore do these powers work in him. For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a proj^het. But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she should ask. And she, being put foi ward by her mother, saith, Give me here in a charger the head of Jolni the Baptist. And the king was grieved ; but for the .sake of his oaths, and of them which sat at meat with him, he com- manded it to be given ; and he sent, and beheaded John in the jmson. And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel : and she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and buried him ; and they went and told Jesus. Now when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from thence in a boat, to a desert place apart : and when the multitudes heard thereof, they fol- lowed him on foot from the cities. And he came forth, and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. And when even was come, the disciples came to him, saying. The place is desert, and the time is already past ; send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food. But Jesus said unto them, They have no need to go away ; give ye them to eat. 7\.nd they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. And he said, Bring them hither to me. And he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass ; and he took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and biake and gave the loaves to the discii)lcs, and the disciples to the nuilti- PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 61 tudes. And they did all eat, and were filled : and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And they that did eat were about five thousand men, beside women and children. And straightway he constrained the disciples to enter into the l)oat, and to go before him unto the other side, till he should send the multitudes away. And after he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain apart to pray : and when even was come, he was there alone. But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, dis- tressed by the waves; for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is an apparition ; and they cried out for fear. But straight- way Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer ; it is I ; be not afraid. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee upon the waters. And he said. Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked ujion the waters, to come to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid ; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying. Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and saith unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt ? And when they were gone up into the boat, the wind ceased. And they that were in the boat worshipped him, saying. Of a truth thou art the Son of God. And when they had crossed over, they came to the land, unto Gen- nesaret. And when the men of that place knew him, they sent into all that region round about, and brought unto him all that were sick ; and they besought him that they might only touch the border of his garment : and as many as touched were made whole. And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand : Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man ; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man. Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying? But he answered and said. Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up. Let them alone : they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit. And Peter an- swered and said unto him. Declare unto us the parable. And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out? But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart ; and they defile the man. For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, thefts, false witness, railings: 62 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. these are the things which defile the man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man. And Jesus went out thence, and withdrew into the parts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanitish woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying. Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a klevil. But he an- swered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying. Send her away ; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. But she said. Yea, Lord : for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Then Jesus an- swered and said unto her, 0 woman, great is thy faith : be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour. And Jesus departed thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee ; and -he went up into the mountain, and sat there. And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at his feet ; and he healed them : insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing : and they glorified the God of Israel. And Jesus called unto him his disciples, and said, I have compas- sion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat: and I would not send them away fasting, lest haply they faint in the way. And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place, as to fill so gi'eat a multitude? And Jesus saith unto them. How many loaves have ye? And they said. Seven, and a few small fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground ; and he took the seven loaves and the fishes ; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. And they did all eat, and were filled : and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full. And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and cliildren. And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan. And the Pharisees and Sadducces came, and tempting him asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; ' Gr. dcynon. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 63 and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed. And the disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread. And Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We took no bread. And Jesus perceiving it said, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have no bread? Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up ? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you con- cerning bread ? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sad- ducees. Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Now when Jesus came into the parts of Cpesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is? And they said. Some say John the Baptist ; some, Elijah : and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am ? And Simon Peter answered and said. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah : for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I also say unto thee, that thou art ^Peter, and upon this ^rock I will build my church ; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he the disciples that they should tell no man that lie was the Christ. From that time began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee. Lord : this shall never be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan : thou art a stumblingblock unto me : for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples. If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever would save his life shall lose it : and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. For 1 Gr. petroa, a stone. ^ Gr. petra, a rock. 64 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds. Verily I say unto you, There be sonie of them that stand here, which shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringetli them up into a high mountain apart: and he was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him. And Peter answered, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here : if thou wilt, I will make here three ^taljernacles ; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. While he was yet si)eaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them : and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased ; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, save Jesus only. And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus com- manded them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen from the dead. And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? And he answered and said, Elijah indeed cometh, and shall restore all things: but I say unto you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they listed. Even so shall the Son of man also sufier of them. Then understood the disciples that he spake unto them of John the Bajitist. And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay the half-shekel ? He saith. Yea. And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon ? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute ? from their sons, or from strangers? And when he said, From strangers, Jesus said unto him. Therefore the sons are free. But, lest we cause them to stumble, go thou to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou slialt find a shekel : that take, and give unto them for me and thee. 1 Or, booths. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 65 In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, and said. Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me : but whoso shall cause one of these little ones which believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of occa- sions of stumbling ! for it must needs be that the occasions come ; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh ! And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it oflT, and cast it from thee : it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire. See that ye despise not one of these little ones ; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. How think ye ? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. And if thy brother sin against thee, go, shew him his fault be- tween thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he hear tJiee not, take with thee one or two more, that at the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may be estab- lished. And if he refuse to hear them, tell it unto the church: and if he refuse to hear the church also, let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the ^publican. Verily I say unto you. What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any- thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 1 Renter of Roman taxes. 66 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHKW. Then came Peter, and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times ; but, Until seventy times seven. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a cer- tain king, which would make a reckoning with his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But forasniuch as he had not ivhereicith to pay, his loi'd commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying. Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, which owed him a hundred pence: and he laid hold on him, and took him by the throat, saying. Pay what thou owest. So hia fellow-servant fell down and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee. And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay that which wag due. So when his fellow-servants saw what was done, they were exceeding sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that wag done. Then his lord called him unto him, and saith to him. Thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, be- cause thou besoughtest me: shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee? And hia lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due. So shall also my heavenly Fath-er do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vine- yard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle ; and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them. Go ye also into the vine- yard. And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh houi-, they received every man a penny. And when the first came, tlicy supposed that they would receive more; PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 67 and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they re- ceived it, they murmured against tlie houselaolder, saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat. But he answered and said to one of them. Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take up that which is thine, and go thy way ; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last. Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping hun, and asking a certain thing of him. And he said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom. But Jesus answered and said. Ye . know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, "We are able. He saith unto them. My cup indeed ye shall drink: l)ut to sit on my right hand, and on my left hand, is not mine to give, but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared of my Father. And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said. Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister ; and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and came unto Beth- phage, unto the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village that is over against you, and straight- way ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose than, and bring them unto me. And if any one say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them ; and straightway he will send them. Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying. Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass. And upon a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them, and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their garments ; and he sat thereon. And the most part of the multitude spread their gar- 68 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. mentg in the way ; find others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in tlie way. And the muUitudes that went before him, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David : Blessed is he that Cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying. Who is this? And the multitudes said, This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth df Galilee. And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves ; and he saith unto them, It ia written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple : and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children that were crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David ; they were moved with indignation, and said unto him, Hearest thou what these are saying? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea : did ye never read. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? And he left them, and v/ent forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there. And the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said. By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one question, which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or from men? And tlicy reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven ; he will say unto us, Why then did ye not believe him? But if we shall say, From men; we fear the multitude; for all hold John as a prophet. And they answered Jesus, and said, We know not. He also said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard. And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented himself, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of the twain did the will of his father ? They say, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him : and ye, when ye saw it, did not even repent yourselves after- ward, that ye might believe him. PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 69 Hear another parable : There was a man that was a householder, which planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country. And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed an- other, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more thaiT the first: and they did unto them in like manner. But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance. And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him. He will miserably de- stroy those miserable men, and will let out the vineyard unto other hus])andmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them. Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner : This was from the Lord, And it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you. The kingdom of God shall be taken away from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust. And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet. And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, say- ing. The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, which made a marriage feast for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the marriage feast: and they would not come. Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner: my oxen and my failings are killed, and all things are ready : come to the marriage feast. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise : and the rest laid hold on his servants, and en- treated them shamefully, and killed them. But the king was wroth ; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then saith he to his servants. The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the 70 PASSAGES FKOM S. MATTIIKW. marriage feast. And those servants went out into the highways, antl gathered together all as many as they found, hotli ])ud and good: and the wedding was filled with guests. But when the king came in to hehold the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding- garment: and he saitli unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hitlier not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. Then tlie king said to the servants. Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness ; there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few chosen. Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might en- snare him in Ins talk. And they send to him their di.sciples, with the Herodians, saying. Master, we know that thou art ti-ue, and teachcst the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one : for thou regard- est not the person of men. Tell us therefore. What thinkest thou ? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cresar, or not ? But Jesus jjerceived their M'ickedness, and said. Why tempt ye me, ye hyp)Ocritcs? Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them. Whose is this image and supcr.scription ? Tliey say unto him, Ciesar's. Then saith he unto them. Render therefore unto C;csur the things that are Caesar's ; and unto God the things that are God's. And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, saying, What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, TJie son of David. He saith unto them, Ih)W then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying. The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand. Till I put thine enemies underneath tliy feet? If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son? And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions. Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying. The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat: all things therefoie whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works ; for they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be l)orne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their linger. P>ut all liieir works they do for to be seen of men : for tlii-y make bmad their i)liylac- teries, and enlarge the borders of tJwir e your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hyjiocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in your- selves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor. Ye fools and blind : for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing ; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is u^wn it, he is a debtor. Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? lie therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwellcth therein. And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. AVoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, judgement, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like nnto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but in- wardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all nncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. AVoe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and gai-nish the tombs of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been j)artakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Where- 72 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. fore ye witnesg to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye oflspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell? Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city : that upon you may come all the righteous blood shod on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Bar- achiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way ; and his disciples came to him to shew him the buildings of the temple. But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying. Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world ? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars : see that ye be not troubled : for these things must needs come to pass ; but the end is not yet. For nation shall arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom : and there shall be famines and earth- quakes in divers places. But all these things are the beginning of travail. Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you : and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. And many false proj^hets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. And because iniquity shall he multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold. But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come. When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, -which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy jjlace (let him that readeth undershmd), then let them that are in Jud;ca flee unto the mountains: let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house: and let him that is in tlie field not return back to take his cloke. But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! And pray yo tliat your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath: fur then shall PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 73 be great tribulation, siich as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or. Here; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you beforehand. If therefore they shall say unto you. Be- hold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the inner chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gath- ered together. But immediately, after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the sum- mer is nigh ; even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you. This gen- eration . shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Then shall two men be in the field ; one is taken, and one is left : two women shall be grinding at the mill ; one is taken, and one is left. Watch therefore : for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready : for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh. 74 PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. Then slmll the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took tlieir lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom ! Come ye forth to meet him. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil ; for our lamjis are going out. But the wise an- swered, saying, Perad venture there will not be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and l^uy for yourselves. And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came ; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast : and the door was shut. Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying. Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, A'erily I say unto you, I know you not. Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. For it is as when a man, going into another countrj% called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one ; to each according to his several ability ; and he went on his journey. Straightway he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents. In like manner he also that received the two gained other two. But he that received the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them. And he that received the five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredest unto me five talents : lo, I have gainely his disciples come and steal him away, and say unto the i)eople, He is risen from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first. Pilate said unto them. Ye have a guard: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the fitune, the guard being with them. Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other JNLuy to see the PASSAGES FROM S. MATTHEW. 81 sepulchre. And behold, there was a great earthquake ; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it. His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the watchers did quake, and be- came as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye : for I know that ye seek Jesus, which hath been crucified. He is not here ; for he is risen, even as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples. He is risen from the dead ; and lo, he goeth before you into Galilee ; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word. And behold, Jesus met them, saying. All hail. And they came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. Then saith Jesus unto them, Fear not: go tell my brethren that they depart into Galilee, and there shall they see me. Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city, and told unto the chief priests all the things that were come to pass. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slejit. And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and rid you of care. So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day. But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, bap- tizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit : teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I com- manded you : and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. PASSAGES FEOM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S. MARK. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Even as it is M^ritton in Isaiah the proi^het, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way ; The voice of one crying in the wilderness, 3Iake ye ready the way of the Lord, ]Make his paths straight ; John came, wlio baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins. And there M'ent out unto him all the country of Judoea, and all they of Jerusalem ; and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. And John Avas clothed with camel's hair, and had a leathern girdle about his loins, and did eat locusts and wild honey. And he preached, saying, There Cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I baptized you with water; but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent asunder, and the Spirit as a dove descending upon him: and a voice came out of the heavens. Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased. And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan ; and he was with the wild beasts ; and the angels ministered unto him. Now after that John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, Tlie time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: rei)ent ye, and believe in the gospel. And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to (82) PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. 83 become fishers of men. And straightway they left the nets, and fol- lowed him. And going on a little further, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending the nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him. And they go into Capernaum ; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at his teaching : for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes. And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit ; and he cried out, saying, "What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth ? art thou come to destroy us ? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked it, say- ing, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among them- selves, saying. What is this ? a new teaching ! with authority he com- mandeth even the unclean spirits, and they obey him. And the report of him went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee round about. And straightway, when they were come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John, Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever; and straightway they tell him of her: and he came and took her by the hand, and raised her up ; and the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were sick, and them that were demoniacs. And all the city was gath- ered together at the door. And he healed many that were sick with divers diseases, and cast out many ^devils ; and he suffered not the Mevils to speak, because they knew him. And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed. And Simon and they that were with him followed after him ; and they found him, and say unto him, All are seeking thee. And he saith unto them. Let us go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also ; for to this end came I forth. Arid he went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, jn-eacliing and casting out Mevils. And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day through the cornfields ; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees said unto him. Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? And he said unto them. Did ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an 1 Gr. demons. 84 PASSAGES FKOM S. MARK. hungred, he, and they that were with him? How he entered into the house of God when Abiathar was high jiriest, and did eat the t^hew- hread, which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him? And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath : so that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath. And the Pharisees with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him. And Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea : and a great multitude from Galilee followed : and from Judaja, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumtea, and beyond Jordan, and about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him. And he spake to his disciples, that a little boat should wait on him because of the crowd, lest they should throng him : for he had healed many ; insomuch that as many as had plagues pressed upon him that they might touch him. And the un- clean spirits, whensoever they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried, saying. Thou art the Son of God. And he charged them much that they should not make him known. And he cometh into a house. And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on him : for they said, He is beside himself. And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the klevils casteth he out the klevils. And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan ? And if a kingdom be di- vided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan hath risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. But no one can enter into the house of the strong man, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. Verily I say unto you, All their sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and their blasphemies where- with soever they shall blaspheme: but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin: because they said, He hath an unclean spirit. And again he began to teach by the sea side. And he said unto them. Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put on the stand ? For there is nothing hid, save that it should be manifested; neither was anything made secret, but that it should conie to light. If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear. And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what 1 Gr. demons. PASSAGES FROM 8. MARK. 85 measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you: and more shall be given unto you. For he that hath, to him shall be given : and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath. And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed upon the earth ; and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is ripe, straightway he putteth forth the sickle, because the harvest is come. And on that day, when even was come, he saith unto them. Let us go over unto the other side. And leaving the multitude, they take him with them, even as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling. And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him. Master, carest thou not that we perish ? And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, "Why are ye fearful? have ye not yet faith? And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain ; because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him. And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him ; and crying out with a loud voice, he saith. What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the ]\Iost High God ? I adjure thee by God, torment me not. For he said unto him. Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion ; for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding. And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into the swine : and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, ia number about two thousand ; and they were choked in 86 PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. the sea. And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And tliey came to see what it was that had come to pass. And they come to Jesus, and behold the demoniac sitting, clothed and in liis right mind, evim him that had the legion: and they were afraid. And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell the demoniac, and concerning the swine. And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders. And as he was entering into the boat, he that had been possessed with 'devils besought him that he might be with him. And he suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go to thy house unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he had mercy on thee. And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him : and all men did marvel. And when Jesus liad crossed over again in the boat unto the other side, a great multitude was gathered unto him: and he was by the sea. And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name ; and seeing him, he falleth at his feet, and beseecheth him much, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death : I pray thee, that thou come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be made whole, and live. And he went with him ; and a great multitude fol- lowed him, and they thronged him. And a woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suflfered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, having heard the things concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I touch but his garments, I shall be made whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up ; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her plague. And straightway Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power proceeding fi-om him had gone forth, turned him about in the crowd, and said. Who touched my garments? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou. Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her. Daughter, thy fiuth hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. While he yet sjiake, they come from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying. Thy daughter is dead: why trou))lest thou tlie ]\Iaster any further? But Jesus, not heeding the word spoken, saith unto the ruler of the synagogue. Fear not, only believe. And he suil'ered no 1 Gr. demons. PASSAGES FROM S, MARK. 87 man to follow with him, save Peter, and. James, and John the hrother of James. And they come to the house of the ruler of the syna- gogue ; and he beholdeth a tumult, and many weeping and wailing greatly. And when he was entered in, he saith unto them, "Why make ye a tumult, and weep ? the child is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was. And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her, Talitha cumi ; which is, being inter- preted, Damsel, I say unto thee. Arise. And straightway the damsel rose up, and walked ; for she was twelve years old. And they were amazed straightway with a great amazement. And he charged them much that no man should know this : and he commanded that some- thing should be given her to eat. And he went out from thence ; and he cometh into his own coun- try ; and his disciples follow him. And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were as- tonished, saying, Whence hath this mau these things? and, What is the wisdom that is given unto this man, and what mean such mighty works wrought by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon ? and are not his sisters here with us ? And they were oflended in him. And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages teaching. And king Ilerod heard thereof ; for his name had become known : and he said, John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and therefore do these powers work in him. But others said, It ia Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, even as one of the prophets. But Herod, when he heard thereof, said, John, whom I beheaded, he is risen. For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife : for he had married her. For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him ; and she could not ; for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous man and a holy, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was much perplexed ; and he heard him gladly. And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, and the high captains, and the 88 PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. chief men of Galilee ; and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and them that sat at meat with him ; and the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee. And he sware imto her, "Wliatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my king- dom. And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou forthwith give me in a charger the head of John the Baptist. And the king was exceeding sorry ; but for the sake of his oaths, and of them that sat at meat, he would not reject her. And straight- way the king sent forth a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring his head: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel ; and the damsel gave it to her mother. And when his disciples heard thereof, they came and took up his corj^se, and laid it in a tomb. And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had taught. And he saith unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desert place apart. And ilie people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran there together on foot from all the cities, and outwent them. And he came forth and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were aa sheep not having a shepherd : and he began to teach them many things. And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and cer- tain of the Bcril)es, which had come from Jerusalem, and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, un- washen, hands. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders: and when they come from the marketplace, except they wash themselves, they eat not: and many other things there be, which they have received to hold, washings ; of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels. And the Pharisees and the scri])e3 ask him, \Vhy walk not tliy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands? And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hyi)Ocrites, as it is written. This people honoureth me with their lii)S, But their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship nio, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men. PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. 89 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the command- ment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and. Pie that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death; but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother. That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God; ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother ; making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do. And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of De- capolis. And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an im- pediment in his sj^eech ; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it. And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. And they come unto Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man, and beseech him to touch him. And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village ; and when he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, Seest thou aught? And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking. Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked stedfastly, and was restored, and saw all things clearly. And he sent him away to his home, saying. Do not even enter into the village. And Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and bring- eth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them: and his garments became glistering, exceed- ing white ; so as no fuller on earth can whiten them. And there ap- peared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter answereth and saith to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. For he wist not what to answer ; for they became sore afraid. And there came a cloud overshadowing them : and there came a voice out of the cloud. This is my beloved Son : hear 90 PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. ye him. And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any more save Jesus only with themselves. And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, save when the Son of man should have risen again from the dead. And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the rising again from the dead should mean. And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great multitude about them, and scribes questioning with them. And straightway all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him. And he asked them, What question ye with them? And one of the multitude answered him. Master, I brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit ; and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down : and he foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth away : and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able. And he answereth them and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him unto me. And they brought him unto him : and when he saw him, straightway the spirit convulsed liim grievously ; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And he asked his father, How long time is it since this has come unto him? And he said. From a child. And oft-times it hath cast him both into the fire and into the waters, to destroy him : but if thou canst do any- thing, have compassion on us, and help us. And Jesus said unto him. If thou canst ! All things are possible to him that believeth. Straight- way the father of the child cried out, and said, I believe ; help thou mine unbelief. And when Jesus saw that a multitude came run- ning together, he re1:)uked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And having cried out, and convulsed him much, he came out : and tlie child became as one dead ; insomuch that the more part said. He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up ; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, saying, We could not cast it out. And he said unto them, This kind can come out by nothing, save by prayer. And they went forth from thence, and passed through Galilee ; and he would not that any man should know it. For he taught his dis- ciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they shall kill him ; and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise again. 13ut they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him. PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. 91 And they came to Capernaum : and when he was in the house he asked them, What were ye reasoning in the way ? But tliey held tlieir peace: for they had disputed one witli anotlier in the way, wlxo was tlie greatest. And he sat do\An, and called the twelve ; and he saith unto them. If any man would he first, he shall he last of all, and minister of all. And he took a little child, and set him in the midst of them : and taking him in his arms, he said unto them, Who- soever shall receive one of such little children in my name, receiv- eth me : and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. John said unto him, INIaster, we saw one casting out klevils in thy name: and we forbade him, because he followed not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is for us. For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink, because ye are Christ's, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. Salt is good : but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith w'ill ye season it ? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another. And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judaea and beyond Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife ; and the twain shall become one flesh : so that they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. And in the house the disciples asked him again of this matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall jnit away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her : and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery. And they brought unto him little children, that he should touch them: and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said unto them. Suffer the little chil- dren to come unto me ; forbid them not : for of such is the king- dom of God. Verily I say unto you. Whosoever shall not receive the 1 Gr. demons. 92 PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein. And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands upon them. And as he was going forth into the way, there ran one to him, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, AVhy callest thou me good? none is good save one, even God. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Dg not steal. Do not bear false witness. Do not defraud. Honour thy father and mother. And he said unto him, INIaster, all these things have I observed from my youth. And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou laokest: go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, fol- low me. But his countenance fell at the saying, and he went away sorrowful : for he was one that had great possessions. And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples. How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesua answereth again, and saith unto them. Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God ! It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished exceedingly, saying unto him, Then who can be saved? Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are pos- sible with God. Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. Jesus said. Verily I say unto you. There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake, but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions ; and in the world to come eternal life. But many tliat are fust shall be last; and the last first. And they were in the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell tlu'Ui the things that were to happen unto him, saying, Behold, we go iij) to Jerusalem ; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief prit's^ts and the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall de- liver him unto the Gentiles ; and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him ; and after three days he shall rise again. And they come to Jericho: and as he went out from Jt'iicho, with PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. 93 his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timgeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the way side. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And many rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried out the more a great deal. Thou son of David, have mercy on me. And Jesus stood still, and said, Call ye him. And they call the blind man, saying unto him. Be of good cheer: rise, he calleth thee. And he, casting away his garment, sprang up, and came to Jesus. And Jesus answered him, and said, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? And the blind man said unto him, Rab- boni, that I may receive my siglit. And Jesus said unto him. Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And straightway he received his sight, and followed him in the way. And he entered into Jenisalem, into the temple ; and when he had looked round about upon all things, it being now eventide, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve. And on the morrow, when they were come out from Bethany, he hungered. And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered and said unto it. No man eat fruit from thee henceforward for ever. And his disciples heard it. And every evening he went forth out of the city. And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree with- ered away from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him. Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering saith unto them. Have faith in God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. Therefore I say unto you. All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall have them. And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. And one of the scribes came, and asked him, TMiat commandment is the first of all ? Jesus answered, The first is. Hear, O Israel ; The Lord our God, the Lord is one : and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neigh- bour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him. Of a truth. Master, thou hast well said 94 PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. that ho is one ; and there is none other hut he: and to love him ■s\ith all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all tlie strengtli, and to love his neighbour as himself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question. And the common peojile heard him gladly. And in his teaching he said. Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and to have salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts: they which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation. And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money into the treasury : and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them. Verily I say unto you. This poor widow cast in more than all they which are casting into the treasury : for they all did cast in of their superfluity ; hut she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living. And as he went forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, IMaster, behold, what manner of stones and w"hat manner of buildings! And Jesus said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down. And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately. Tell us, when shall these things be? and what sltall be the sign when these things are all about to be accomplished? And Jesus began to say unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray. Many shall come in my name, saying, I am he; and shall lead many astray. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not troubled : these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: there shall 1)C earthcpiakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail. But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils ; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten ; and before governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake, fcjr a testimony unto them. And the gospel must first be preached unto all the nations. And when they lead you to judgement, and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand what ye sliall sj^eak : l)ut wliatsoever shall l^e given you in PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. 95 that hour, that speak ye ; for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child ; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to he put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing whore he ought not (let him that readcth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains: and let him that is on the house- top not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house: and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloke. And pray ye that it be not in the winter. For those days shall be triljulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be. And except the Lord had sliortened the days, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days. And then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ; or, Lo, there ; believe it not : for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall shew signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, the elect. But take ye heed : behold, I have told you all things beforehand. But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send forth the angels, and shall giither together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. Now from the fig tree learn her parable : when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh; even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to jmss, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, until all these things be accom- plished. Heaven and earth shall pass away : but my words shall not pass away. But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye knoxT not when the time is. It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch. Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cock crowing, or in the morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. 96 PASSAGES FROM S. MARK. And while lio was in Bethany in the honse of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of spikenard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and jjoured it over his head. But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ohitment been made? For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her. But Jesus said. Let her alone ; why trouble ye her ? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she hath anointed my body aforehand for the burying. And verily I say unto you. Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout tlie whole world, that also wliich this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. PASSAGES FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S. JOHN. In the beginning was the "\Voi\l, and the "Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him ; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. In him was life ; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness ; and the darkness ap- prehended it not. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came that he might bear witness of the light. There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, ei'en to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begot- ten from the Father), full of grace and truth. John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, This was he of whom I said. He that cometh after me is become before me : for he was before me. For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses ; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time ; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him. Who art thou ? And he con- fessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No. They said there- fore unto him, Who art thou ? that we may give an answer to them (97) 98 PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. that sent us. "What sayest thou of thyself? lie said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. And they had been sent from the Phar- isees. And they asked him, and said unto him, Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Christ, neither Elijah, neither the prophet? John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: in the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not, evm he that cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose. These things were done in Bethany beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto hina, and saith. Behold, the Lamb of God, which Haketh away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said. After me cometh a man which is become before me : for he was before me. And I knew him not ; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, for this cause came I baptizing with water. And John bare witness, saying, I have beheld the Sphit descending as a dove out of heaven ; and it abode upon him. And I knew him not : but he that sent me to baj^tize with water, he said unto me, L^pon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizeth with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God. Again on the morrow John was standing, and two of his disciples ; and he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and saith. Behold, the Lamb of God! And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. And Jesus turned, and beheld them following, and saith unto them. What seek ye? And they said unto him. Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted. Master), where abidest thou? He saith unto them. Come, and ye shall see. They came therefore and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day: it was about the tenth hour. One of the two that heard John sijmh, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He findeth first his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messiah (which is, being interpreted, ^Christ). He brought him unto Jesus. Jesus looked upon him, and said. Thou art Simon the son of John : thou shalt be called Cephas (which is by interpretation, -'Peter). On the morrow he was minded to go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip: and Jesus saith unto him. Follow me. Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And Nathanael said unto him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. Jesus saw Nath- iQr, beareth the sin. =That is, Anointed. STli.at is, Jlock or Stone. PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. 99 anael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an IsraeHte indeed, in whom is no guile ! Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me ? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. Nathanael answered him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God ; thou art King of Israel. Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee underneath the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. And he saith unto him. Verily, verily, I say unto you. Ye shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. > And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee ; and the mother of Jesus was there: and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, Tliey have no wine. And Jesus saith unto her. Woman, what have I to do with thee ? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the feast. And they bare it. And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not whence it was (iKit the servants which had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom, and saith unto him. Every man setteth on first the good wine; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory ; and his disciples believed on him. After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and there they abode not many days. And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both tlie sheep and the oxen ; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables ; and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence ; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. His disciples remembered that it was written. The zeal of thine house shall eat me up. The Jews therefore answered and said unto him. What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto tliem. Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years 100 PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he sj^ake this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man. Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came unto him by night, and said to him. Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God : for no man can do these signs that thou doest, excei:)t God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Excei)t a man be born ^anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God, Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Jesus an- swered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Except a man be born of water and the Sj^irit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee. Ye must be born ^anew. ^The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him. Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and bear witness of that we have seen ; and ye receive not our witness. If I told you eartlily things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things? And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven. And as INIoses lifted uj:) the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever ^believeth may in him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever belie veth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. He that belie veth on liim is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because lie hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the judgement, that the light is come into the ^ Or, from above. ^ Or, The Spirit brealhelh. "Or, believeth in him may have. ' PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. 101 world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light ; for their works were evil. For everj' one that doeth ill hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God. After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judica; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. And John also was bai:)tizing in ^non near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. For John was not j'et cast into prison. There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purifying. And they came unto John, and said to him. Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fuldlled. He must increase, but I must decrease. He that cometh from above is above all : lie that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaketh: he that cometh from heaven is above all. What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; and no man receiveth his witness. He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for he giveth not the Spirit by measure. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life ; but he that ^obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. When therefore the Lord knew how that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (al- though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples), he left Judtea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs pass through Samaria. So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph : and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water : Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. The Sa- maritan woman therefore saith unto him. How is it that thou, being a iQr, believeth not. 102 I'A8.SA(iES FKOM S. JOHN. Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest tlie gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him. Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deei) : from whence then hast thou that living water ? Art thou greater than our fatlier Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle ? Jesus answered and said unto her. Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again : but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eter- nal life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her. Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband : for thou hast had Ave husbands ; and he whona thou now hast is not thy husband : this hast thou said truly. The woman saith unto him. Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain ; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour conieth, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. Ye worship that which ye know not : we worship that which we know : for sal- vation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipi)ers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers. ^God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (which is called Christ) : when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. Jesus eaith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. And upon this came his disciples ; and they marvelled that lie was speaking with a woman ; yet no man said, "What seekest th(ju ? or, Why speakest thou with lier? So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men. Come, see a man, which told me all things that erer I did: can this be the Christ? They went out of the city, and were coming to him. In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him ai(areth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that bearcth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have si^oken unto you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart fi'om me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered ; and they gather them, and cast them into the lire, 1 Or, Advocate. Or, Helper. Gr. Paraclete. PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. 123 and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, asli whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my dis- ciples. Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you : abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be fulfilled. This is my com- mandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I com- mand you. No longer do I call you servants ; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye may love one another. If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. If ye w^ere of the world, the world would love its own : but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, A servant is not gi-eater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also per- secute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. But when the ^ Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me : and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be made to stumble. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he oflTereth service unto God. And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come ye may remember them, how that I told iQr, Advocate. Or, Helper. Gr. Paraclete. 124 PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN, you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, be- cause I was with you. But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketii me, Whither goest thou? But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Never- theless I tell you the truth ; It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I go not away, the ^Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. And he, when he is come, will con- vict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judge- ment : of sin, because they believe not on me ; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more ; of judgement, because the prince of this world hath been judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak : and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall glorify me : for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and ye behold me no more ; and again a little while, and ye shall see me. Some of his disciples therefore said one to an- other, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye behold me not ; and again a little while, and ye shall see me : and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore. What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith. Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see me? Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice : ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sor- row, because her hour is come : but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world. And ye therefore now have sorrow : but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you. If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name : ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled. Those things have I spoken unto you in j)arables : the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in i)arat)lcs, but shall tell you plainly of the Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I ^Or, Advocate. Or, Helper. Gr. Paraclete. PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. 125 say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and am come into the world : again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father. His disciples say, Lo, now sj:)eakest thou plainly, and speakest no para- ble. Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee : by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. Jesus answered them. Do ye now believe ? Behold, the hour Cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone : and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come ; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glor- ify thee : even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that what- sover thou hast given him, to them he should give eternal life. And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me ; and they have kept thy word. Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: for the words wdiich thou gavest me I have given unto them ; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me. I ^pray for them: I ^pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me ; for they are thine : and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine : and I am glorified in them. And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are. While I was with them, I kej)t them in thy name which thou hast given me : and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to thee ; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word ; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I ■'pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keej) them from the evil 1 Gr. make request. 12(5 PASSAGES FROM S. JOHN. reaching the word of the Lord, with many otliers also. And after some days PASSAGK8 J^ROM THE ACTS. 153 Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they fare. And Barnabas was minded to take with them John also, who was called Mark. But Paul tiiought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them fi-om Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted asunder one from the other, and Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away unto Cyprus ; but Paul chose Silas, and went forth, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us : whose heart the Lord opened, to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, say- ing, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, which proclaim unto you the way of salvation. And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour. But wlien her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the market- X)lace before the rulers, and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said. These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans. And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them ; and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken : and immediately all the doors were opened ; and every one's bands were loosed. And the jailor being roused out of sleep, and see- ing the prison doors open, drew his sword, and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul cried with 154 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. And he called for lights, and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said. Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said. Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house. And they s^jake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately. And he brought them up into his house, and set meat before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God. But when it was day, the magistrates sent the Serjeants, saying. Let those men go. And the jailor reported the words to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent to let you go : now therefore come forth, and go in peace. But Paul said unto them. They have beaten us pub- licly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily ? nay, verily ; but let them come themselves and bring us out. And the Serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates : and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans ; and they came and besought them ; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city. And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and de- parted. Now while Paul waited at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him, as he beheld the city full of idols. So he reasoned in the syna- gogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met with him. And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said. What would this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange ^gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee ? For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. (Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are somewhat religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, to an unknown- GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth unto iGr. demons. PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 155 you. The God that made the world and all things therein, he, heing Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things ; and he made of one every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from each one of us : for in him we live, and move, and have our being ; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his oifspring. Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked ; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: inasmuch as he hath ap- pointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again. After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome : and he came unto them; and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought ; for by their trade they were tentmakers. And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision. Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace : for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much j^eople in this city. And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. And Paul sailed for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; hav- ing shorn his head in Cenchrese: for he had a vow. And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, a learned man, came to E2:)hesus ; and he was mighty in the scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord ; and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught carefully the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John : and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more carefully. And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, 156 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him : and when he was come, he helped them much which had be- lieved through grace : for he powerfully confuted the Jews, and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus. And he entered into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, reasoning and persuading as to the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he dejiarted from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyi'annus. And this continued for the space of two years ; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his body hand- kerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out. But certain also of the strolling Jews, exorcists, took upon them to name over them which had the evil sijirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, which did this. And the evil spirit answered and said unto them, Jesus I know, and Paul I know ; but who are ye ? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and mastered both of them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, that dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. And not a few of them that practised magical arts brouglit their books together, and burned them in the sight of all : and they counted the price of tliem, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed. Now after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jeru- salem, saying. After I have been there, I nuist also see Rome. And having sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered ixnto him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. And about that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way. For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines of Diana, brought no little business unto the craftsmen ; whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that l^y tliis business we have our wealth. And ye see PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 157 and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but ahnost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands : and not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute ; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana be made of no account, and that she should even be deposed from her magnificence, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. And when they heard this, they w-ere filled with wrath, and cried out, saying. Great is Diana of the Ephesians. And the city was filled with the confusion : and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gains and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel. And when Paul was minded to enter in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. And cer- tain also of the chief officers of Asia, being his friends, sent unto him, and besought him not to adventure himself into the theatre. Some therefore cried one thing, and some another : for the assembly was in confusion ; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. And they brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made a defence unto the people. But when they per- ceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out. Great is Diana of the Ephesians. And when the town- clerk had C[uieted the multitude, he saith, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is templekeeper of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? Seeing then that these things cannot be gainsaid, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash. For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of temples nor blasj^hemers of our goddess. If therefore Demetrius, and the craftsmen that are with him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls : let them accuse one another. But if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be settled in the regular assembly. For indeed we are in danger to be accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause for it : and as touching it we shall not be able to give account of this concourse. And when he had thus spoken, he dis- missed the assembly. And after the uproar w^as ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church. And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with j'ou all the time, serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by 158 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. the plots of the Jews : how that I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Chi-ist. And now, be- hold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there : save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. And now, be- hold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more. Wherefore" I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God. Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he pur- chased with his own blood. I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock ; and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Wherefore watch ye, remember- ing that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears. And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified. I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. In all things I gave you an example, how that so labouring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the shij). And when we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais; and we saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. And on the morrow we departed, and came unto Cajsarea: and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode with him. No,w this man had four daughters, virgins, which did i^rophesy. And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judira a certain prophet, named Agabus. And coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS, 159 said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. And after these days we took up our baggage, and went up to Jeru- salem. And when we were come to 'Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. And the day following Paul went in with us unto James ; and all the elders were present. And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. And the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude, and laid hands on him, crying out. Men of Is- rael, help : This is the man, that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place: and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place. For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple. And all the city was moved, and the people ran together : and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and straightway the doors were shut. And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in con- fusion. And forthwith he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down upon them : and they, when they saw the chief captain and the sol- diers, left off beating Paul. Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains ; and inquired who he was, and what he had done. And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd : and when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle. And when he came ujoon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the crowd ; for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out. Away with him. And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith unto the chief captain. May I say something unto thee ? And he said. Dost thou know Greek? Art thou not then the Egyjitian, which before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins ? But Paul said, I am a Jew, of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city : and I beseech thee, give me leave to speak unto the people. And when he had given him 100 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. leave, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with the hand unto the people ; and when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, saying. Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you. And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew language, they were the more quiet: and he saith, I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day: and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and deliver- ing into prisons both men and women. As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the eldei's: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus, to bring them also which were there unto Jerusalem in bonds, for to be pun- ished. And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and drew nigh unto Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And I answered, Who art thou. Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou jiersecutest. And they that were with me beheld indeed the light, but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me. Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do. And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. And one Ananias, a devout man ac- cording to the law, well reported of Ijy all the Jews that dwelt there, came unto me, and standing by me said unto me. Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And in that very hour I looked up on him. And he said, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth. For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. And now why tarriest thou ? arise, and ])e baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name. And it came to pass, that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance, and saw him saying unto me. Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: because they will not receive of thee testi- mony concerning me. And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was stand- ing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of tlu'Ui tliat slew PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 161 him. And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles. And they gave him audience unto this word ; and they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live. And as they cried out, and threw oflf their garments, and cast dust into the air, the chief captain com- manded him to he brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him. And when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned ? And when the centurion heard it, he went to the chief captain, and told him, saying. What art thou about to do ? for this man is a Roman. And the chief captain came, and said unto him. Tell me, art thou a Roman ? And he said. Yea. And the chief caj^tain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, P>ut I am a Roman born. They then which were about to examine him straight- way departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid, when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. But on the morrow, desiring to know the certainty, wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down, and set him before them. And Paul, looking stedfastly on the council, said, Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day. And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall : and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and command- est me to be smitten contrary to the law? And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest ? And Paul said, I wist not, brethren, that he was high priest: for it is written. Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of thy people. But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hoi)e and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the assembly was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Phari- sees confess both. And there arose a great clamour : and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man : and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel? And when there arose a great dissension, tlie chief captain. 162 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle. And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said. Be of good cheer : for as thou hast testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. And when it was day, the Jews banded togethei', and bound them- selves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty which made this conspiracy. And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste noth- ing until we have killed Paul. Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly : and we, or ever he come near, are ready to slay him. But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the castle, and told Paul. And Paul called unto him one of the centurions, and said. Bring this young man unto the chief captain : for he hath something to tell him. So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked mo to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say to thee. And the chief captain took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately. What is that thou hast to tell me ? And he said. The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring down Paul to-morrow unto the council, as though thou wouldest inquire somewhat more exactly con- cerning him. Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound them- selves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee. So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him, Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me. And he called unto him two of the centurions, and said. Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Csesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night: and he hade them pro- vide beasts, that they might set Paul thereon, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor. And he wrote a letter after this form : Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix, greeting. This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to bo slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers, and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. And desiring to know the cause where- fore they accused him, I brought him down unto their council : whom I found to bo accused about questions of their law, but to liave noth- PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 163 ing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds. And when it was shewn to me tliat there wonld be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee. So the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris. But on the morrow they left the horse- men to go with him, and returned to the. castle: and they, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, presented Paul also before him. And when he had read it, he asked of what province he was ; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia, I will hear thy cause, said he, when thine accusers also are come : and he commanded him to be kept in Herod's palace. And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and uith an orator, one Tertullus; and they informed the gov- ernor against Paul. And when he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee Ave enjoy much j^eace, and that by thy provi- dence evils are corrected for this nation, we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. But," that I be not further tedious unto thee, I intreat thee to hear us of thy clemency a few words. For we have found this man a pestilent fel- low, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: who moreover assayed to profane the temple : on whom also we laid hold : from whom thou wilt be able, by examining him thyself, to take knowl- edge of all these things, whereof we accuse him. And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so. And when the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, Paul answered. Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do cheerfully make my defence : seeing that thou canst take knowledge, that it is not more than t^velve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem : and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city. Neither can they prove to thee the things whereof they now accuse me. But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, be- lieving all things which are according to the law, and whicli are written in the prophets : having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust. Herein do I also exercise myself to have a eon- science void of oflence toward God and men alway. Now after some 16-4 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. years I came to bring alms to my nation, and ofiFerings: amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult : but there were certain Jews from Asia — who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me. Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found, when I stood before the council, except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing . among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day. But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, de- ferred them, saying. When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will determine your matter. And he gave order to the centurion that he should be kept in charge, and should have indulgence; and not to forbid any of his friends to minister unto him. But after certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his Avife, which was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. And as he reasoned of righteousness, and temper- ance, and the judgement to come, Felix was terrified, and answered. Go thy way for this time; and when I have a convenient season, I will call thee unto me. He hoped withal that money would be given him of Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener, and com- muned with him. But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was suc- ceeded by Porcius Festus; and desiring to gain favour with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds. Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Ca^sarea. And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul ; and they be- sought him, asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way. Howbeit Festus answered, that Paul was kept in charge at Caesarea, and that he him- self was about to depart thither shortly. Let them thei'efore, saith he, which are of power among you, go down with me, and if there is any- thing amiss in the man, let them accuse him. And when he had tarried among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down unto Csesarea; and on the morrow he sat on the judgement-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought. And when he was come, the Jews which had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against liim many and grievous charges, which they could not prove; Mdiile Paul said in his defence. Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all. But Festus, desiring to gain favour with the Jews, answered Paul, and said. Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? But Paul said, I am standing PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 165 before Csesar's judgement-seat, where I ought to be judged : to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest. If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if none of those things is true, whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Csesar. Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered. Thou hast appealed unto Caesar: unto Ctcsar shalt thou go. Now when certain days were passed, Agripjaa the king and Bernice arrived at Cissarea, and saluted Festus. And as they tarried there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying. There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix : about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for sentence against him. To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had oi:)i3ortunity to make his defence concerning the matter laid against him. "When therefore they were come together here, I made no delay, but on the next day sat down on the judgement-seat, and commanded the man to be brought. Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such evils things as I supposed ; but had certain questions against him of their own religion, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. And I, being perplexed how to incjuire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept till I should send him to Caesar. And Agripjm said unto Festus, I also could wish to hear the man myself. To-morrow, saith he, thou shalt hear him. So on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and they were entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and the princij^al men of the city, at the command of Festus Paul was brought in. And Festus saith. King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye behold this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews made suit to me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death : and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him. Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agripj^a, that, after examination had, I may have somewhat to write. For it seemeth to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not withal to signify the charges against him. And Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thy- self. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and made his defence: 166 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. I think myself happy, king Agripim, that I am to make my defence before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews : especially because thou art expert in all customs and ques- tions which are among the Jews : wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. My manner of life then from my youth up, which was from the beginning among mine own nation, and at Jerusalem, know all the Jews ; having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to tes- tify, how that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers ; unto- which promise our twelve tribes, ear- nestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, 0 king! Why is it judged incred- ible with you, if God doth raise the dead ? I verily thought with my- self, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they w'ere put to death, I gave my vote against them. And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme ; and being exceedingly mad against them, I i:)ersecuted them even unto foreign cities. Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the M'ay a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that jour- neyed with me. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why perse- cutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad. And I said. Who art thou. Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But arise, and stand upon thy feet : for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear unto thee ; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee, to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan untb God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. W^herefore, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision : but declared both to them of Damascus first, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Jud;ea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of reiK'ntance. For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me. Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day tes- tifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 167 and Moses did say should come ; how that the Christ must suffer, and how that he first by tlie resurrection of the dead sliould proclaim liglit both to the people and to the Gentiles. And as he thus made his defence, Festus saith with a loud voice, Paul, thou art mad ; thy much learning doth turn thee to madness. But Paul saith, I am not mad, most excellent Festus ; but speak forth words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things, unto whom also I speak freely : for I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him ; for this hath not been done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets ? I know that thou believest. And Agrippa said unto Paul, With but little persuasion thou wouldest fain make me a Christian. And Paul said, I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds. And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them : and when they had withdrawn, they spake one to an- other, saying. This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at lib- erty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar. And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they de- livered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail unto the places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea. And we came to Myra, a city of Lycia. And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy ; and he put us therein. And when we had sailed slowly many days, and were come with diffi- culty over against Cnidus, the wind not further suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete, over against Salmone ; and with difficulty coast- ing along it we came unto a certain place called Fair Havens ; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea. And when much time was spent, and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast was now already gone by, Paul admonished them, and said unto them. Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the lading and tlie ship, but also of our lives. But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship, than to those things which were spoken by Paul. And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to put to sea from thence, if by any means they could reach Phcenix, and winter there ; which is a haven of Crete, looking north-east and south-east. And when the south wind blew softly, sui^posing that they had obtained their jiurpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close in shore. But after no long time there beat down from it 168 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. a tempestuous wind, which is called Euraquilo : and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driv^en. And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were alile, with difficulty, to secure the boat : and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship ; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven. And as we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard ; and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship. And when neither sun nor stars shone upon us for many days, and no small tem- pest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away. And when they had been long without food, then Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss. And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. For there stood by me this night an angel of the God whose I am, whom also I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Csesar: and lo, God hath granted thee all them that sail with thee. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even so as it hath been spoken unto me. Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country ; and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms : and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. And fearing lest haply we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for the day. And as the sailors were seeking to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would lay out anchors from the foreship, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, 'This day is the fourteenth day that ye wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I beseech you to take some food : for this is for your safety : for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you. And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all : and he brake it, and began to eat. Then were they all of good cheer, and themselves also took food. And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. 169 the sea. And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they perceived a certain bay with a beach, and they took counsel whether they could drive the ship upon it. And casting ofi" the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosing the bands of the rud- ders ; and" hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach. But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground ; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up Ijy the violence of the waves. And the soldiers' counsel M"as to kill the i>risoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stayed them from their purpose ; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves overboard, and get first to the land: and the rest, some on planks, and some on otJier things from the ship. And so it came to pass, that they all escaped safe to the land. And when we were escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarians shewed us no common kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us all, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, a viper came out by reason of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live. Howbeit he shook off the beast into the fire, and took no harm. But they expected that he would have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they were long in expectation, and beheld nothing amiss come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers. And touching at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. And from thence we made a circuit, and arrived at Ehegium : and after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli : wliere we found brethren, and were intreated to tarry with them seven days: and so we came to Rome. And from thence the brethren, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Llarket of Appius, and The Three Taverns : whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage. And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him. And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews : and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the 170 PASSAGES FROM THE ACTS. people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Eomans : who, when they had exam- ined me, desired to set me at liberty, because there was no cause of death in me. But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had aught to accuse my nation of. For this cause therefore did I intreat you to see and to speak with me: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. And they said unto him. We neither received letters from Judtea concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither and report or speak any harm of thee. But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest : for as concerning this sect, it is known to us that every- where it is Slacken against. And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number ; to wdiom he expounded the matter, testify- ing the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of INIoses and from the prophets, from morning till even- ing. And some believed the things which were spoken, and some dis- believed. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word. Well spake the Holy Spirit by Isaiah the prophet unto your fathers, saying. Go thou unto this peoj^le, and say. By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand ; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: For this peoi:»le's heart is waxed gross. And their ears are dull of hearing. And their eyes they have closed ; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again. And I should heal them. Be it known therefore unto you, that this salvation of Gud is sent unto the Gentiles : they wall also hear. And he al)ode two whole j^ears in his own hiri'd dwelling, and re- ceived all that went in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him. PASSAGES FEOM THE EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE. ROMANS. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to he an apostle, to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, alM'ays in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be estab- lished ; that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel : for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek : for there is no respect of persons with God. For when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves ; in that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts. But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness; thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonourest thou God? For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law. But now apart from the law a right- (171) 172 PASSAGES FROM ROMANS. eousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets ; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Clirist unto all them that believe ; for there is no distinction ; for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God ; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God set forth to he a ^j^ropitiation, through faith, by his blood, to shew his righteousness, because of the passing over .of the sins done afore- time, in the forbearance of God. Being therefore justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ ; through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand ; and let us rejoice in hojie of the glory of God. And not only so, but let us also rejoice in our trib- ulations : knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; and patience, pro- bation ; and probation, hope : and hope putteth not to shame ; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us. For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly. God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. If, while we were enemies, we were ^reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being ^reconciled, shall we be saved by his life; and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the ^reconciliation. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusta thereof: neither present your members unto sin as in- struments of unrighteousness ; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness ? But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life. For the wages of sin is death ; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not. For the good which I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I practise. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin 1 Qr. tXaSrTjptov, place of propitiation. Translated mercy scat in Heb. is. 5. *Qr. KaTa?iXayEt'Tcr^ cluinged thoroughly. *Gr. /caraAAu)//!', thorough cluinge. PASSAGES FKOM ROMANS. 173 which is in my membera. O wretched man that I am ! who shall de- hver me ont of the body of this death ? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. There is tlierefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. For the mind of the flesh is death : but the mind of the spirit is life and peace : because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: and they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. For if ye live after the flesh, ye must die ; but if by the spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these ai-e sons of God. For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear ; but ye received the spirit of adoi> tion, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Si)irit himself beareth wit- ness with our spirit, that we are children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. By hope were we saved : but hope that is seen is not hope : for who hopeth for that which he seeth ? But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity : for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered; and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, be- cause he maketh intercession for the saints according to the mu of God. And we know that to them that love God ^all things work to- gether for good. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who vi against us? lie that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long ; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him 1 Some ancient authorities read God worketh all things vnth them for good. 174 PASSAGES FROM ROMANS. that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart for my breth- ren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth. For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby. But the righteousness which is of faith saith thus. Say not in thy heart. Who shall ascend into heaven ? (that is, to bring Christ down :) or. Who shall descend into the abyss ? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith, which we preach: because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus (w Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God. raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved: for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the^ same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him: for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgements, and his waj'^s past tracing out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen. 1 beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your 'reasonable ^service. And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 'Or, spiritual. =0r, worship. PASSAGES FROM ROMANS. 175 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think ; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith. For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the pro- portion of our faith ; or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry ; or he tliat teacheth, to his teaching ; or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting : he that giveth, let him do it with liberality ; he that ruleth, with diligence ; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that w^iich is evil ; cleave to that which is good. In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honour preferring one another ; in diligence not slothful ; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord ; rejoicing in hope ; patient in tribulation ; continuing stedfastly in prayer ; communicating to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality. Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that rejoice ; weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. Render to no man evil for evil. But if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him to drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom ; fear to whom fear ; honour to whom honour. Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour : love therefore is the fulfilment of the law. And this, knowing the season, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep : for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand : let ue therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provis- ion for the flesh, to fidfil the lusts thereof. 176 PASSAGES FROM ROMANS. But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not to doubtful dis- putations. One man hath faith to eat all things : but lie that is weak eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not ; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him. "Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand ; for the Lord hath power to make him stand. One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth. every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord : and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks , and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord ; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. But thou, .why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgement-seat of God. For it is written. As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow. And every tongue shall confess to God. So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more : but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block in liis brother's way, or an occasion of falling. I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself : save that to him who accounteth any- thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died. Let not then your good be evil spoken of: for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he that herein serveth Christ is well-pleasing to God, and approved of men. So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. Al things indeed are clean ; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stuml)leth. The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God, But lie that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith ; and whatsoever is not of faith ia sin. Now we that are strong ought to l)car the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbour PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. 177 for that which is good, unto edifying. For Christ also pleased not him- self ; but, as it is written. The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through ^ comfort of the scriptures we might have hope. Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another accord- ing to Christ Jesus : that with one accord ye may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore re- ceive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the cir- cumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises giveji unto the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy ; as it is written. Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name. And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles ; And let all the peoples praise him. And again, Isaiah saith. There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles ; On him shall the Gentiles hope. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. I. CORINTHIANS. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every l)lace, their Lord and ours : Grace to you and peace from God our Fa- ther and the Lord Jesus Christ. I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among iQr. TzapanTiTjoeu^ 178 PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. you ; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgement. For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them which are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius ; lest any man should say that ye were baptized into my name. And I baptized also the household of Steph- anas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel : not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void. For the word of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness ; but unto us which are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the prudence of the prudent will I reject. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world ? For seeing that in tlie wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the ^preaching to save them that believe. Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness ; but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men ; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For behold your calling, brethren, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, have part therein: but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong ; and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God chose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: that no flesh should glory before God. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteous- ness and sanctification, and redemj>tion : that, according as it is written. He that glorictli, let him glory in the Lord. And I, brctliren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in ' Qr. thing preached. PASSAGES FROM 1. CORIXTIIIAXS. 179 much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not in per- suasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him ? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Siiirit teacheth; ^comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness unto him ; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousj' and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men? For when one saith, I am of Paul ; and another, I am of AjjoUos ; are ye not men? "What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him. I planted, Apollos watered ; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are God's fellow- workers : ye are God's husbandry, God's building. According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise master-builder I laid a foundation ; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon. For other founda- tion can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble ; each man's work shall be made manifest : for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire ; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall Ije burned, he shall suffer loss : but he himself shall be saved ; yet so as through fire. ^ Or, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men. 180 PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and iliat the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him- shall God destroy ; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a foul, that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. "Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make mani- fest the counsels of the hearts ; and then shall each man have his praise from God. For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbour, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints ? Is it so, that there cannot be found among you one wise man, who shall be able to decide between his brethren, but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers ? Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? Nay, biit ye yourselves do wrong, and de- fraud, and that your brethren. Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body. Now concerning things sacrificed to idols : "We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know ; but if any man loveth God, the same is known of him. Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth ; as there are gods many, and lords many ; yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him ; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him. Howbeit in all men there is not that knowledge; but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. But take heed lest by any means this lib- erty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. For if a man see thee which hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to cat thhigs .sacrificed PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. 181 to idols? For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I make not my brother to stumble. Know ye not that they which minister about sacred things eat 0/ the things of the temple, and they which wait upon tiie altar have their portion with the altar? Even so did the Lord ordain that they which proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. But I have used none of these things : and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case : for it ivere good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. For if I preach the gos])el, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. And I do all things for the gos- pel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run, that ye may attain. And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things. Now they do it to receive a cor- ruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly ; so fight I, as not beating the air : but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should he rejected. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you l)ut such as man can bear : but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way* of escape, that ye may be able to endure it. Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men ; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ ? seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body : for we all partake of the one bread. But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to Mevils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have com- munion with ^devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of ^devils: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of ^devils. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question for con- science sake; for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. If one of them that believe not biddeth you to a feast, and ye are dis- posed to go ; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for 1 Gr. demons. 182 PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice, eat not, for his sake that sliewed it, and for conscience sake. Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God. When ye come together in the church, I liear that divisions exist among you. When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper : for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you ? shall I praise you in this ? I praise you not. For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you : this do in remembrance of me. In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood : this do, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death till he come. Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgement unto himself, if he discern not the body. Where- fore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another. If any man is hungry, let him eat at home ; that your coming to- gether be not unto judgement. And the rest will I set in order when- soever I come. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye ivere led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema ; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Sjtirit. And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. And there are diversities of workings, but the same God, who worketh all things in all. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: to another faith, in the same Spirit ; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit ; and to another workings of miracles ; and to another PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. 183 prophecy ; and to another discernings of spirits : to another divers kinds of tongues ; and to another the interpretation of tongues : but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally- even as he will. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body ; so also is Christ. For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body ; it is not therefore not of the body. And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; it is not therefore not of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. And if they M'ere all one member, where were the body ? But now they are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee : or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. But God tempered the body together, that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof. And God hath set some in the church, fii-st apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of heal- ings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues. Are all apostles ? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And a still more excellent way sliew I unto you. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed tlte j)oor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind ; love envieth not ; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil ; re- joiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth ; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never failetli : but whether there he prophecies, they shall be 184 PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. done away ; whether there be tongues, they shall cease ; whether there be knowledge, it shall he done away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child : now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I have been known. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three ; and the greatest of these is love. Follow after love ; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God ; for no man understandeth ; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and comfort, and consolation. He that speaketh in a tongue edifleth himself ; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. Since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church. Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. If therefore the whole church be assembled together, and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all ; the secrets of his heart are made manifest ; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed. What is it then, brethren ? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn ; and let one interpret : but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church ; and let him speak to himself, and to God. And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern. But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence. For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted ; and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets ; for God is not a God' of confusion, but of i)eace ; as in all the churches of the saints. Wherefore, my brethren, desire ear- nestly to prophesy, and forl)id not to speak with tongues. Jiut let all things be dune decently and in order. PASSAGES FROM I. CORINTHIANS. 185 Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you. For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I re- ceived, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried ; and that he hath been raised on the third day according to the scriptures ; and that he appeared to Cephas ; then to the twelve ; then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep ; then he appeared to James ; then to all the apostles ; and last of all, as unto one born out of due time, he appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am : and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. Now if Christ is preached that he hath been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of tjie dead? For if the dead are not raised, neither hath Christ been raised : and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? Thou foolish one, that wliich thou thyself Bowest is not quickened, except it die: and that which thou Bowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind ; but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. All flesh is not the same flesh : but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial : but the glory of the celes- tial is one, and the glonj of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption ; it is raised in incorruption : it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness ; it is raised in power : it is sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written. The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; then that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy : the sec- ond man is of heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy : and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 186 PASSAGES FROM II. CORINTHIANS. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shah also hear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corrui^tion inherit incorrui^tion. Be- hold, I tell you a mystery : We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumjiet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruj^tible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorrup- tion, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this corrup- tible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law : but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye sted- fast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, foras- much as 'ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord. II. CORINTHIANS. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Tim- othy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in the whole of Achaia: Grace to j-ou and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed he the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,-the Father of mercies and God of all comfort ; who comforteth us in all our afflic- tion, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. And our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort. For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concern- ing our affliction whicli befell vs in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life : yea, we ourselves have had the answer of death witliin ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God whirh raiseth the dead : who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver : on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us. For our PASSAGES FROM II. CORINTHIANS. 187 glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. But thanks be unto God, which always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savour of liis knowledge in every place. For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ. Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you ? Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men ; being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh. And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves ; but our sufficiency is from God; who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of INIoses for the glory of his face ; which glory was passing away : how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory ? Now the Lord is the Spirit : and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not : but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully ; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But and if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that are perishing: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gos- pel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the' light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves ; we arc pressed on every side, yet not straitened ; perplexed, yet not unto despair ; pursued, yet not forsaken ; smitten down, yet not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesua may be manifested in our body. For we which live are alway 188 PASSAGES FROM II. CORINTHIANS. delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesas may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dis- solved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. For verily in this w^e groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we must all be made manifest before the judgement-seat of Christ ; that each one may re- ceive the things doiie in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it he good or bad. Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because w^e thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died ; and he died for all, that they which live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again. Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesli : even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know Jiim so no more. Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature : the old things are passed away ; behold, they are become new. But all things ai-e of God, who ^reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of ^reconcilia- tion ; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto him- self, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of ^ reconciliation. We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were intreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye 'rec- onciled to God. Him who knew no sin he made to he sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. And ^working together with him we intreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain (for he saitli, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee. And in a day of salvation did I succour thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salva- tion) : giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministra- tion be not blamed ; but in everything commending ourselves, as min- 1 Qr. «ara?-/'.nrro, to change thoroughly. ^Gr. AY(r«A/a} ;/, a thorough change. PASSAGES FROM II. CORINTHIANS. 189 isters of God, in much jiatience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; in pureness, in knowledge, in longsufiering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned, in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by glory and dishonour, by evil report and good report ; as deceivers, and yet true ; as unknown, and yd well known ; as dying, and behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing ; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged. Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with dark- ness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing ; And I will receive you, And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfect- ing holiness in the fear of God. Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia ; how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, tliey gave of their own accord, beseeching us with much intreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints. But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all ear- nestness, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he w^as rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich. And herein I give my judgement : for this is expe- dient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not 190 PASSAGES FROM II. CORINTHIANS. only to do, but also to will. But now complete the doing also ; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may he the completion also out of your ability. For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable ac- cording as a man hath, not according as he hath not. But this / say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly ; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart ; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound unto you ; that ye, having always all suffi- ciency in everything, may abound unto every good work : as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor ; His righteousness abideth for ever. And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall sup- ply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. Now I Paul myself intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you : yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present shew courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, which count of us as if we walked according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strong holds) ; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowl- edge of God, and bringing every thought into captivitj^ to the obedi- ence of Christ. For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding. But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Would that ye could bear with' me. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy : for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the seri)ent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. Even Satan foshioncth himself into an angel of light. It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works. Whereinsoever any is bold, I am bold also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? PASSAGES FROM II. COKINTHIANS. 191 SO am I. Are they ministers of Christ? I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suf- fered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep: in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.. "Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to stumble, and I burn not ? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness. But I wall come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not ; or whether out of the body, I know not ; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not ; God knoweth), how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakal^le words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. On behalf of such a one will I glory : but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in mt/ weaknesses. And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revela- tions— wherefore, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. Concerning this thing I be- sought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he hath said unto me. My grace is sufficient for thee: for viy power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ may rest uj^on me. Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Behold, this is the third time' I am ready to come to you ; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected ; be comforted ; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Salute one another with a holy kiss. All the saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 192 PASSAGES FROM GALATIANS. GALATIANS. Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him fi-om the dead), and all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father: to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel ; which is not another gospel: only there are some that trouble you, and would jjervert the gospel of Christ. For I make known to you, brethren, as touching the gospel which was preached by me, that it is not after man. For neither did I re- ceive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through reve- lation of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havock of it: and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it was the good pleasure of God, who called me through his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles ; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood : neither went I up to JerustUem to them which were apostles before me : but I went away into Arabia ; and again I returned unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea wliich were in Christ: but they only heard say. He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havock ; and they glorified God in me. Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jeru- salem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. And I went up by revelation ; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles. When they saw that I had been intrusted with the gos- pel of the unciniumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circum- cision ; and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars. PASSAGES FROM GALATIAXS. 193 gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision. But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, be- cause he stood condemned. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing them that were of the circumcision. And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him ; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all. If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, save through faith in Jesus Christ, even we be- lieved on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law : because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. I have been crucified with Christ ; yet I live ; and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me : and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. I do not make void the grace of God : for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought. O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ w^as openly set forth crucified? This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hear- ing of faith ? Are ye so foolish ? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh? Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain. He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith ? Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. Know therefore that they which be of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foresee- ing that God w'ould justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel be- forehand unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. Before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. So that the law hath been our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor. For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female : for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus. 194 PASSAGES FROM GALATIANS. But now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known of God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again? Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years. I am afraid of you, lest by any means I have bestowed labor uj^on you in vain. With freedom did Christ set us free : stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. Yea, I testify again to every man that re- ceiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision ; but faith working through love. Ye were running well ; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth ? For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your free- dom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh ; for these are contrary the one to the other. Now the works of the flesh are manifest ; of the which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they which practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuflering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temper- ance : against such there is no law. And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof. If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness ; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and BO fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man thinketh himself to be some- thing, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not be weary in well-doing : for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your epii'it, brethren. Amen. PASSAGES FROM EPHESIAN8. 195 EPHESIANS. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed he the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ : even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory. For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which ye shew toward all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers ; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us- ward who believe. And you did he quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, wherein aforetime ye walked accoi-ding to the course of this world, according to the i^rince of the i>ower of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience ; but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, quickened us together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly j)laces, in Christ Jesus. Wherefore remember, that aforetime ye, the Gentiles, were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition, havmg abol- ished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances ; and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh: for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father. So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and 196 PASSAGES FROM EPHESIAN8. of the household of God, being built upon the foundation of the apos- tles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone ; in whom each several building, fitly framed together, grovveth into a holy temple in the Lord ; in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man ; that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith ; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all genera- tions for ever and ever. Amen. I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling ; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive. And gave gifts unto men. And he gave some to be apostles ; and some, prophets ; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgruwn man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we may be no longer chil- dren, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error ; l)iit speak- ing truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, which is the head, even Christ; from whom all the body fitly framed and knit to- gether through that which every joint supplietli, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building u]) of itself in love. PASSAGES FROM EPHESIANS. 197 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, Ijut such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice : and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you. Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children ; and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell. Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even re- prove them; for the things which are clone by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of. But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee. Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord ; giving- thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. Wives, he in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in every- thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it ; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing ; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Children, obey your parents in the Lord : for this is right. Honour thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath : but nurture them in the chastenmg and admonition of the Lord. 198 PASSAGES FROM PIIILIPPIANS. Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers ; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening : know- ing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, and, having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the prep- aration of the gospel of peace; withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the liery darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance. Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in uncorruptness. PHILIPPIAKS. Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the Mji.shops and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the liord Jesus Christ. I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you, always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy, for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he which ])egan a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. Fur to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ ; for it is very far better: yet to abide in the flesh is more needful for your sake. Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ; be- cause to you it hath boon graiitcd in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to sufier in his behalf. J Or, overseers. PASSAGES FROM PHILIPPIAKS. 199 If there is therefore any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and com- passions, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others. Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, ^ being in the form of God, counted it not ^a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, ^ being made in the likeness of men ; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, be- coming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. Where- fore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling ; for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. Do all things with- out murmurings and disputings ; that ye may be blameless and harm- less, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life ; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labour in vain. Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all : and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision : for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh : though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more : circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee; as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I suffered the loss of 1 Gr. being originally. 2 Qr. a thing to be grasped. ' Gr. becoming in. 200 PASSAGES FROM PHILIPPIANS. all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith : that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, be- coming conformed unto his death ; if by any means I may attain unto the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect : but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are be- fore, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. For our citizenship is in heaven ; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself. Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved. I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord alway : again I will say. Rejoice. Let your for- bearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious ; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanks- giving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honourable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me ; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in respect of want: for 1 have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. I can do all things in him that strengtheneth mo. Howbeit ye did well, that ye had fellowship with my aflliction. And my God shall fulfll every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Now unto our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. PASSAGES FROM COLOSSIANS. 201 OOLOSSIANS/ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Tim- othy our brother, to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ ivhich are at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, pray- ing always for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowl- edge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God ; strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy ; giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light ; who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins : who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all cre- ation ; for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible ; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church. For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell, and through him to ^ reconcile all things unto him- self, having made peace through the blood of his cross. And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him. Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church; whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God, even the mystery which hath been hid from all ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and builded up in him, and stablished in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. ^Gr. KaraXlarTU, to change thoroughly. 202 PASSAGES FROM I. THESSALONIANS. Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all i^rincipality and power : having been buried with him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you did he quicken together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses ; having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us : and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day : which are a shadow of the things to come ; but the body is Christ's. If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of com- passion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any ; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye : and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body ; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms ayid hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God. And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. I. THESSALONIANS. Paul, and Silvanus, and Thnothy, xmto the church of the Thessa- lonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers ; remembering without ceasing your work of faith and PASSAGES FROM I. THESSALONIANS. 203 labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father ; knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election, how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance. For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you. For neither at any time w^ere we found using w^orda of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness ; nor seeking glory of men, neither from you, nor from others, when we might have claimed honour, as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children. For ye remem- ber, brethren, our labour and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God ; pray- ing exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you: and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you ; to the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesua with all his saints. But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedo- nia. But w^e exhort lyou, brethren, that ye abound more and more; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing. But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleej); that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. When they are saying. Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief: for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day : we are not of the night, nor of darkness ; so then let ua not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night ; and they that be drunken are drunken 204 PASSAGES FROM II. THESSALONIANS. in the night. But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for a helmet, the hope of sal- vation. For God ajipointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Where- fore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do. But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you ; and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disor- derly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsufTering toward all. See that none render unto any one evil for evil ; but alway follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all. Eejoice ahvuy ; pray without ceasing ; in everything give thanks : for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward. Quench not the Spirit ; despise not prophesyings ; prove all things ; hold fast that which is good ; abstain from every form of evil. And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly ; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calletli you, who will also do it. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. II. THESSALONIANS. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessa- lonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ : Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ■\Ve are bound to give thanks to God alway for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth ; so that we our- selves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure. Kow our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father which loved ua and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and stablish them in every good work and word. Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also it is with you; and that we may be delivered PASSAGES FROM I. TIMOTHY. 205 from unreasonable and evil men ; for all have not faith. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and guard you from the evil one. And tlie Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ. Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from, every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us. For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us : for we behaved not our- selves disorderly among you ; neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labour and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you : not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us. For even when we were with you, this we commanded you. If any will not work, neither let him eat. For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busy- bodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all. I. TIMOTHY. Paul, an aiwstle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope ; unto Timothy, my true child in faith : Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank hiiu that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to liis service ; though I was be- fore a blasphemei', and a persecutor, and injurious : howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unljelief ; and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners ; of whom I am chief: howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ shew forth all his longsuffering, for an ensamj^le of them which should hereafter believe on him unto eternal life. Now unto the King eternal, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. 206 PASSAGES FROM I. TIMOTHY. I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, interces- sions, thanksgivings, be made for all men ; for kings and all that are in high place; ;that we may lead a trancjuil and quiet life in all god- liness and gravity. This is good and accej^table in the sight of God our Saviour; who willelh that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing. In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety ; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment ; but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works. Faithful is the saying. If a man seeketh the office of a ^bishop, he desireth a good work. The ^bishop therefore must be without re- proach, the husband of one wife, temperate, soberminded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach; no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover' of money; one that ruleth well his own house, having Ms children in subjection with all gravity (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God ?) Deacons in like manner must he grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filtliy lucre. "Women in like manner must he grave, not slanderers, temperate, faith- ful in all things. But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of ^devils, through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron ; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to ])e received with thanks- giving by theni that believe and know the truth. For every creatui-e of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanks- giving: for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now: but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto god- liness: for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. These things command and teach. I^et no man despise thy youth ; but be thou an ensample to them tliat believe in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. Till I come, ' Or, overseer, - Gr. demons. PASSAGES FROM I. TIMOTHY. 207 give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. Neglect not tlie gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Be diligent in these things ; give thy- self wholly to them ; that thy progress may be manifest unto all. Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren : the elder women as mothers ; the younger as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows that are widows indeed. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and contin- ueth in supplications and prayers night and day. But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially those who labour in the word and in teaching. For the scripture saith. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his hire. Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses. Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear. I charge thee in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality. If any man consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness ; he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmis- ings, wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain. But godliness with con- tentment is great gain : for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out; but having food and covering we shall be therewith content. But they that desire to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have jjierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after right- eousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many wit- nesses. I charge thee in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and of Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed the good confession; that thou keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which in its own times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the 208 PASSAGES FROM II. TIMOTHY. King of kings, and Lord of lords ; who only hath immortality, dwell- ing in light unapproachable ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom he honour and power eternal. Amen. Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, or have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, will- ing to communicate ; laying up in store for themselves a good founda- tion against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed. O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge Avhich is falsely so called ; which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. II. TIMOTHY. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my be- loved child : Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers in a pure con- science, how unceasing is my remembrance of thee in my supi^lications, night and day longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy ; having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee ; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also. For the which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands. For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline. Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, ncjr of me his prisoner; but suffer hardshii) with the gos])eI according to the power of God; who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, but hath now been manifested by the api)earing of our Saviour Chri^^t Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and incorruption to light through the gos])el, where- unto I was appointed a pn>aclior, and an apostle, and a teacher. For the which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I PASSAGES FROM II. TIMOTHY. 209 know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that ■svliich I have committed unto him against that day. Hold tire pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was com- mitted unto thee guard through the Holy Spuit which dwelleth in us. Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to foithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also live with him : if we endure, we shall also reign with him : if we shall deny him, he also will deny us : if we are faithless, he abideth faithful ; for he cannot deny himself. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear. Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth. But shun profane babblings : for they will proceed further in ungodliness, and their word will eat as doth a gangrene. Ilowbcit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal. The Lord knoweth them that are his : and. Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness. Kow in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some unto honour, and some unto dis- honour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work. But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteous- ness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes. And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves. But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God ; holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience, persecutions, sufferings ; what things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra ; what persecutions I en- dured : and out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that 210 PASSAGES FROM TITUS. would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them ; and tliat from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every Bcrijiture in- spired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness : that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work. I charge ihee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the quick and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word ; be instant in season, out of season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine ; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts : and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables. But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evan- gelist, fulfil thy ministry. For I am already being oflered, and the time of my dei^arture is come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day : and not only to me, but also to all them that have loved his appearing. TITUS. Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that W'ere wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge ; if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly. For the ^bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not selfwilled, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre ; but given to hospitality, a lover of good, soberminded, just, hoi}', temperate; holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be al)le both to exlujrt in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsay ers. iQr, overseer. PASSAGES FROM TITUS. 211 For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped ; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish ftibles, and com- mandments of men who turn away from the truth. To the pure all things are pure : but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure ; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: that aged men be temperate, grave, soberminded, sound in faith, in love, in patience : that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good ; that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to he soberminded, chaste, w'orkers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed : the younger men likewise exhort to be soberminded : in all things shewing thyself an ensamjile of good works ; in thy doctrine sheuing uncorruptness, gravity, sound speech, that cannot be con- demned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us. Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things ; not gainsay- ing ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity ; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. For the grace of God hath appeared to all men, bringing salvation, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present w^orld; looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might, redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works. These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, shewing all meekness toward all men. For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serv- ing divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he poui'ed out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour ; that, 212 PASSAGES FROM HEBREWS. being justified l)y liis jj;rare, wo might l^e made heirs according to the hope of eternal hfc. Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I will that thou affirm confldenth', to the end that they which have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are gt)od and profitable unto men : but shun foolish question- ings and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law ; for they are unprofitable and vain. Grace be M'ith you all. HEBREWS. God, having of old time spoken unto tlie fiithers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in Jiis Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; having become by so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they. For unto which of tlie angels said he at any time. Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee ? But we behold him who hath been made for a little while lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honour, that by the grace of God he should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For l)oth he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: fcr which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare tliy name unto my brethren. In the midst of the congregation will I sing thy jiraise. And again. Behold, I and the children which God hath given me. Since then the cliildren are sharers in flesh and blood, he also him- self in like manner partook of tlie same ; that through death he might l)ring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. "Wlicrefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and PASSAGES FROM HEBREWS. 213 faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for tlie sins of tlie people. For in that he himself hath suffered heing tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from tlie living God : but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day ; le.«t any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin : for yve are become jDartakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confi- dence firm unto the end. For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and in- tents of the heart. And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as ive are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help xis in time of need. Now in the things which we are saying the chief point is iJtis: "We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the tlirone of the Majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tal)ernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon l)etter promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah ; Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt ; For they continued not in my covenant. And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with tlie house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord ; 214 PASSAGES FROM HEBREWS. I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them : And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them. For I will he merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. The first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctu- ary of this world. For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein were the candlestick, and the table, and the shewljread ; which is called the Holy place. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies; having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant ; and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing ^the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally. Now these things having been thus prepai-ed, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services ; but into the sec- ond the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people : the Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holy place hath not yet been made manifest, while as the first tabernacle is yet standing; which is a parable for the time now present; according to which are oflered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshipper perfect, being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation. But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in ont'e for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh ; and having a great priest over the house of God ; let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed with 2)ure water: let us hold fast the confession iGr. the propitiatory. i?.uSr/)f)ioi>, translated propi^i'afio?!, Rom. iii. 25. PASSAGES FROM HEBREWS. 215 of our hope that it waver not ; for he is faithful that promised : and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works ; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh. Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry. But my righteous one shall live by faith : And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition ; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul. Now faith is the assurance of things hojied for, the proving of things not seen. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death ; and he was not found, because God translated him: for before his translation he hath had witness borne to him that he had been well-pleasing unto God : and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him. By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house ; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the right- eousness which is according to faith. By faith Abraham, wheii he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance ; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son ; even he to whom it was said. In Isaac shall thy seed be called : accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead ; from whence he did also in a parable receive him back. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipjjed, leaning upon the top of his staflf. By faith Joseph, when his end was 21G PASSAGES FROM HEBREWS. nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's command- ment. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to be evil entreated with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the tl-easures of Egypt : for he looked unto the recompense of reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king : for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land : which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up. And what shall I more say ? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through feitli subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, es- caped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens. "Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance ; that they might obtain a better resurrection : and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and im- prisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword : they went about in sheep- skins, in goatskins; being destitute, aflfiicted, evil entreated (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth. Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set be- fore us, looking unto Jesus the author and perfeeter of our faith, who fol- the joy that w'as set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For con- sider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls. Ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoncth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the k-hastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; For whom the Lord loveth he ^chasteneth. And scourgeth every son whom he receivcth. 1 Or. naideia. instruction, training. PASSAGES FROM HEBREWS. 217 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous, but grievous: yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been ex- ercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness. Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees ; and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed. Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord : looking carefully lest tliere be any man that falleth short of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled. For ye are not come unto fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that no word more should be spoken unto them : for they could not endure that which was enjoined. If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned ; and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better Hhan that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not, when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape, who turn away from him that icarneth from heaven. Let love of the brethren continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that had the rule over you, which spake unto you the word of God ; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever. Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, eveii our Lord Jesus, make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, work- ing in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Or, than Abel. PASSAGES FROM THE GEI^ERAL EPISTLE OF JAMBS. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold tempta- tions; knowing that the proof of your faith worketh patience. And let patience have its i:)erfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all lil)erally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting : for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth : so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hat>i been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord prom- ised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he him- self tempteth no man : but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, com- ing down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. (218) PASSAGES FROM JAMES. 219 Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath : for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his nat- ural face in a mirror : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth,. but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep him- self unspotted from the world. My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come into your syna- gogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing ; and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say. Sit thou here in a good place ; and ye say to the poor man. Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; do ye not make distinctions in your own mind, and become judges with evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him ? But ye have dis- honoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats? Do not they blaspheme the honourable name by the which ye are called. Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neigh- bour as thyself, ye do well : but if ye have respect of persons, ye com- mit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them. Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, ana I have works; shew me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will shew thee my faith. Thou believest that God is one ; thou doest well: the Mevils also believe, and shudder. But wilt thou know, iQr. demons. 220 PASSAGES PROM JAMES. O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not Abra- ham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the aUar ? Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect ; and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God. Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their wliole body also. Behold, the ships also, though they are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. So the tongue also is a little member, and Iwasteth great things. Behold, how great a forest is kin- dled by how small a fire ! And tlie tongue is a fire : the world of in- iquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on lire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and liath been tamed by mankind : but the tongue can no man tame ; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the likeness of God : out of the same mouth Cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet ivater and bitter? can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet. Who is wise and understanding among you ? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. But if ye liave bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom is not a tvisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteouness is sown in peace for them that make i)eace. Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, Ijecause ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendshii) of the world is enmity with God? PASSAGES FROM JAMES. 221 Whosoever therefore -would be a friend of the world mixketh himself an enemy of God. Be subject therefore unto God ; but resist the devil, and he will fiee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners ; and purify your hearts, ye double- minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and M'eep : let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. Go to now, ye that say. To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain : whei'eas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life ? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. But now ye glory in your vauntings : all such glorying is evil. To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Go to now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are com- ing upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth- eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted ; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the hire of the la- bourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure ; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous onr ; he doth not resist you. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Be- hold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient ; stablish your hearts : for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors. Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord. Behold, we call them blessed which endured : ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath : but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay ; that ye fall not under judgement. Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any among you sick ? let him call for the elders 222 PASSAGES FROM JAMES. of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing liim with oil in the name of the Lord : and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise hini up ; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. Confess therefore your sins one to an- other, and pray one for another, that ye may l)e healed. Tlie sui^pli- cation of a righteous man availeth much in its working. EHjah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. And lie prayed again ; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. My brethren, if any among you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know, that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. PASSAGES FEOM THE EPISTLES GENERAL OF PETER. I. PETER Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who ac- cording to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incor- ruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, that the proof of your faith, being more pre- cious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, might be found unto praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ : whom not having seen ye love ; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory : receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they min- ister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven ; which things angels desire to look into. Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the rev- elation of Jesus Christ ; as children of obedience, not fashioning your- selves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance : but (223) 224 PASSAGES FROM I. PETER. like as he which called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of per- sons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your so- journing in fear : knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corrupti- ble things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers ; but with precious blood, as of a lamb with- out blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ : who was fore- known indeed before the foundation of the Avorld, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake, who through him are believers in God, which raised him from the dead, and gave him glory ; so that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the breth- ren, love one another from the heart fervently: having been begotten again, not of corruptiljle seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth. For, All flesh is as grass. And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth : But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you. Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypoc- risies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation; if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Because it is contained in a scripture. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious : And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame. For you therefore which believe is the preciousness : but for such as disbelieve. The stone whicli the builders rejected, The sauie was made the head of the corner and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence for they stumble at the word, being disobedient : whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a lioly nation, a people for God's own possession, that ye may shew forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvel- lous light: which in time past were no i^eoplc, l)ut now arc the peo- PASSAGES FROM I. PETER. . 225 pie of God : which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul ; having your behaviour seemly among the Gentiles ; that, wherein they speak against you as evil- doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well. For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ig- norance of foolish men : as free, and not using your freedom for a cloke of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is accepta- ble, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are bufleted /or it, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For here- unto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously : who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto right- eousness ; by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and ^Bishop of your souls. In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives ; beholding your chaste behav- iour coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of put- ting on apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the in- corruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands : as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, ' Or, Overseer. 22G PASSAGES FROM I. PETER. as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life ; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. Finally, he ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded : not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling ; but contrariwise blessing ; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing. For, He that would love life, And see good days. Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile ; And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication : But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? But and if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye : and fear not their fear, neither be troubled ; but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord : being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear : having a good conscience ; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ. For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind ; that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to tlie lusts of men, but to the will of God. The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins: using hospi- tality one to another without murmuring : according as each hath re- ceived a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God ; if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God ; if any man ministereth, minidering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. ]jeloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing hap- pened unto you: but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's suffer- ings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice PASSAGES FROM II. PETER. 227 with exceeding joy. If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Sph-it of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you. For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters: but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name. For the time is come for judgement to begin at the house of God : and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gosjiel of Go(l ? And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear? Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well- doing unto a faithful Creator. The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, accord- ing unto God ; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall be man- ifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away. Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to sei've one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time ; casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you. Be sober, be watchful : your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour : whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your breth- ren who are in the world. And the God of all grace, ,vho called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, stablish, strengthen you. To him be the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. II. PETER. Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus om- Lord ; seeing that his divine 228 PASSAGES FROM II. PETER. power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and god- liness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue; whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceed- ing great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue ; and in your virtue knowledge ; and in yoxir knowledge temperance; and in your temperance patience; and in your patience godliness ; and in your godliness love of the breth- ren; and in your love of the brethren love. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleans- ing from his old sins. Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure : for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble : for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the i)ower and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased : and this voice we ourselves heard come out of heaven, wlien we were with him in the holy mount. And we have the word of prophecy made more sure ; whcreunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day- star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of scrip- ture is of ^private interpretation. For no prophecy ever came by the will of man : but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit. But there arose false i)rophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily luring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, l)ringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their lascivious doings ; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom tlie blackness of darkness hath been rescr\'ed. For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousnesH, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; promising them liberty, wiiile they themselves are bondservants of corruption ; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the delilements 1 Or, special. PASSAGES FROM II. PETER. 229 of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour JesuS Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir u,p your sincere mind by putting you in remem- brance ; that ye should remember the words which were spoken be- fore by the holy prophets, and the commandment of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles: knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, and saying. Where is the promise of his ^coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the be- ginning of the creation. But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuflfering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the ^elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be ^burned up. Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, looking for and ^earnestly desiring the ^coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the -elements shall melt with fer- vent heat? But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens arid a new earth, wherein dweileth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give dili- gence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight. And account that the longsufFering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfa.st wrest, as tliey do also the other scrijDtures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in the grace and knowl- edge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him he the glory both now and for ever. Amen. ' Gr. presence. ■ Or, heavenly bodies. 2 The most ancient manuscripts read discovered. *Or, hastening. PASSAGES FEOM THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF JOHN. That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which he have seen with our eyes, that whicli we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life (and the life was mani- fested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us) ; that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowshii^ with us: yea, and our fellow- shij) is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: and these things we write, that our joy may be fulfilled. And this is the message which we have heard from him, and an- nounce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in the dark- ness, we lie, and do not the truth : but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no ein, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an ^Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous : and he is the propitiation for our sins ; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. And hereby know we that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him: but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby know we tluit we are in him: iQr, Comforter. Or, Helper. Gr. Paraclete. (230) PASSAGES FROM I. JOHN. 231 he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but be- cause ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father : he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also. As for you, let that abide in you W'hich ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise which he promised us, even the life eternal. These things have I written unto you concerning them that would lead you astray. And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anoint- ing teacheth j'^ou concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him. And now, my little children, abide in him ; that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his ^coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him ; for we shall see him even as he is. And every one that hath tliis hope set on him purifleth himself, even as he is pure. And ye know that he was manifested to ^take away sins; and in him is 1 Gr. presence. - Or, bear sins. 232 PASSAGES FROM I. JOHN. no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knovveth him. My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous : he that doeth sin is of the devil ; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God mani- fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is begotten of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil : whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Hereby know we love, because he laid downa his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up hia compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue ; but in deed and truth. Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him, whereinsoever our heart con- demn us; because God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness to- ward God; and whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God ; for God is love. Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitia- tion for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man hath beheld God at any time : if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us: hereby know we that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to he the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall PASSAGES FROM I. JOHN. 233 confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. And we know and have beheved the love which God hath in us. God is love ; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgement ; because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God : and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments : and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is begotten of God overconieth the world : and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith. And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. My little children, guard yourselves from idols. PASSAGES FEOM THE REVELATION OF S. JOHK THE DIYIIsTE. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, wliich God gave him to shew unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass : and lie sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John ; who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things which are written therein : for the time is at hand. John to the seven churches which are in Asia : Grace to you and peace, from him which is and which was and which is to come ; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne ; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood ; and he made us io be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the do- minion for ever and ever. Amen. Behold, he cometh with the clouds ; and every eye shall see him, and they which pierced him ; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tril:>ulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet saying. What thou seest, write in a 1)ook, and send it to the seven churches; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Per- gamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Pliiladclpliia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice which spake with (234) PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. 235 me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks ; and in the midst of the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle. And his head and his hair wei'e white as white wool, wJiitc as snow ; and his eyes were as a flame of fii'e ; and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace ; and his voice as the voice of many waters. And he liad in his right hand seven stars : and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword : and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying. Fear not ; I am the first and the last, and the Living one ; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. "Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter ; the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches : and the seven can- dlesticks are seven churches. To the angel of the church in Ejihesus write ; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks : I know thy works, and thy toil and patience, and that thou canst not bear evil men, and didst try them which call themselves apostles, and they are not, and didst find them false; and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name's sake, and hast not grown weary. But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love. Remember there- fore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God. And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write ; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and lived again: I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Fear not the things which thou art about to suflfer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. 236 PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write ; These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword: I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan's throne is: and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel. Repent there- fore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it. And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write ; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass: I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first. But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants. Howbeit that which ye have, hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations: and I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. And to the angel of the church in Sardis write ; These things saith he that hatli the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars : T know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead. Be thou watchful, and stablish the things that remain, which were ready to die : for I have found no works of thine fulfilled before my God. Eemember therefore how thou hast re- ceived and didst hear ; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. But thou hast a few names in Sardis which did not defile their garments : and they shall walk with me in white ; for they are worthy. He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write ; These things saitli he that is holy, lie that is tru(>, he that liuth the key of David, he that openeth, and none shall shut, and that PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. 237 shuttetli, and none openeth : I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut), that thou hast a Httle power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name. Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them which say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make thena to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which Cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write ; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the be- ginning of the creation of God : I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked : I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest ; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I reprove and ^chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and I will sup with him, and he with me. He that over- cometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Sj^irit saith to the churches. After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things which must come to i^ass hereafter. Straightway I was in the Spirit : and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting ui5on the throne; and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an 1 Gr. Trauhvcjj train, instruct. 238 PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. emerald to look upon. And round about the throne v:t're four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones / scuv four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments ; and on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of tire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God ; and before the throne, as it were a glassy sea like unto crystal ; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. And the tirst creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within : and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, which was and which is and which is to come. And when tlie living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before tlie throne, saying, Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honour and the power : for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon : and one of the elders saith unto me. Weep not: behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome, to open the book and the seven seals thereof. And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb stand- ing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. And he came, and he taketh it out of the right hand of him that sat on tlie throne. And when he had taken the book, the four living crea- tures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, hav- ing ea(;h one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sing a new song, saying, AVorthy ait thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and did purchase unto God with thy blood m.cn of every tribe, PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. 239 and tongue, and people, and nation, and madest them to he unto God a kingdom and priests ; and they reign upon the earth. And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders ; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands ; saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things that are in them heard I saying, Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, he the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever. And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshipped. After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation, and of all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands ; and they cry with a great voice, saying. Salvation unto our God which sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels were standing round about the throne, and about the elders and the four living creatures ; and thej'' fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying. Amen : Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, he unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, These which are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and whence came they ? And I say unto him, My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me. These are they which come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God ; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his taber- nacle over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat: for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life : and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And the seventh angel sounded ; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ : and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, saying. We give thee thanks, O Lord 240 PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. God, the Almighty, which art and wliich wast ; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign. And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world ; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accuseth them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony ; and they loved not their life even unto death. Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heard was as the voice of harpers harping with their harps : and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and l^efore the four living creatures and the elders : and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, even they that had been purchased out of the earth. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no lie : they are without blemish. And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people ; and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory ; for the hour of his judgement is come: and worship him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, AVrite, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours ; for their works follow with them. And I saw as it were a glassy sea mingled with fire ; and them that came victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the glassy sea, having harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the I^amb, saying. Great and marvellous are thy works, 0 Lord God, the Almighty ; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages. PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. 241 Who shall not fear, 0 Lord, and glorify thy name ? for thou only art holy ; for all the nations shall come and worship before thee ; for thy righteous acts have been made manifest. And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpetei-s shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatso- ever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee ; and the voice of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bride- groom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy merchants were the princes of the earth ; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.. After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying. Hallelujah ; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God : for true and righteous are his judgements. And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Give praise to our God, all ye his servants, ye that fear him, the small and the great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunders, saying. Halle- lujah : for the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigneth. Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright cmd pure : for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me. These are true words of God. And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not : I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus : worship God : for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And I saw a great white throne, and him tliat sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there was found no ])lace for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne ; and books were opened : and another book was opened, which is the book of life : and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according- to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it ; and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them : and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and Hades 242 PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away ; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a gi'eat voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and he their God : and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes ; and death shall be no more ; neither shall there, be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away. And he that sitteth on the throne said. Be- hold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true. And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit these things ; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. And there came one of the seven angels, and he spake with me, say- ilig, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me av/ay in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and shewed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God : her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal : having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written thereon, which are the iiumes of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And the building of the wall thereof was jasper : and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls ; each one of the several gates was of one pearl ; and the street of the city was jiure gold, as it wei'e transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof. And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb. And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory into it. And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there) : and tliey shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it: and there shall in no wise PASSAGES FROM THE REVELATION. 243 enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. And he shewed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceed- ing out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the midst of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits, yielding its fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no curse any more : and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein : and his servants shall do him service ; and they shall see his face ; and his name shall he on their foreheads. And there shall be night no more ; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun ; for the Lord God shall give them light : and they shall reign for ever and ever. And he said unto me. These words are faithful and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass. And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book. And I John am he that heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worshii? before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. And he saith unto me. See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren the prophets, and with them which keep the words of this book : worship God. And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of tlie prophecy of this book ; for the time is at hand. Behold, I come quickly ; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Blessed are they that wash . their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say. Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of tlie wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord ; And in his law doth he meditate day and ni^ht. And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither ; And whatsoever he doeth shall i)rosper. The wicked are not so ; But are like the chaff which tlie wind driveth away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgement, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous But the way of the wicked shall perish. Answer me when I call, 0 God of my righteousness Thou hast set me at large when I uxis in distress : Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonour? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood ? But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: The Lord will hear when I call unto him. Stand in awe, and sin not : Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. And put your trust in the Lord. Many there be that say. Who will shew us any good ? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than tliey have when their corn and their wine are increased. (244) PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 245 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep : For thou, Lord, alone niakest me dwell in safety. Give ear to my words, O Lokd, Consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God : For unto thee do I pray. O Lord, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice ; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch. For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness : Evil shall not sojourn with thee. But as for mo, in the multitude of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house : In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies ; Make thy way plain before my face. Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them : Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou wilt bless the righteous ; O Loud, thou wilt compass him with favour as with a shield. O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth ! Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy lingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ; What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? And the son of man, that thou visitest him ? For thou hast made him but little lower than ^God, And crownest him with gloiy and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, Whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth ! > Or, the angels. Heb. Elohim. 246 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth ; For the faithful fail from among the children of men. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour : With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things : Who have said. With our tongue will we prevail : Our lips are our own : who is lord over us ? For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, Now will I arise, saith the Lord ; I will set him in safety at whom they puff. The words of the Lord are pure wonis ; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth. Purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, 0 Lord, Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men. Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle ? Who shall dwell in thy holy iiill ? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart. He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a reprobate is despised ; But he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hui't, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury. Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. Preserve me, 0 God : for in thee do I i>ut my trust. I have said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord : I have no good beyond thee. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places ; Yea, I have a goodly heritage. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 247 I have set the Lord always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, an(V my glory rejoiceth : My flesh also shall dwell in safety. For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol ; Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : In thy presence is fulness of joy ; .In thy right hand there are pleasui-es for evermore. Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry : Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from thy presence ; Let thine eyes look upon equity. Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing ; I am i3urposed that my mouth shall not transgress. As for the w^orks of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped. I have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God: Incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest them which put their trust in thee From those that rise up against them, l»y thy right hand. Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings, From the wicked that spoil me, My deadly enemies, that comixiss me about. As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness : I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. The heavens declare the glory of God ; And the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language ; Their voice cannot be heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, 248 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course. His going forth is from the end of the heaven. And his circuit unto the ends of it: And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul : The testimony of the Lokd is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart : The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever : The judgements of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold : Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned : In keeping of them there is great reward. Who can discern Ids errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me : then sliall I be perfect, And I shall be clear from great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart l)e ac- ceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock, and my redeemer. The Lord answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high Send thee help from the sanctuary, And strengthen thee out of Zion; Remember all thy offerings. And accept thy burnt sacrifice ; Grant thee thy heart's desire. And fulfil all thy counsel. We will triumph in thy salvation. And in the name of our God wo will set up our banners The Loud fulfil all thy petitions. Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed ; He will answer him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: But we will make mention of the name of the Lord our God. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 249 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou answerest not ; And in the night season, but find no rest. But thou art holy, 0 thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee : They trusted, and thou didst deliver them. Be not far from me ; for trouble is near ; For there is none to help. The assembly of evil-doers have inclosed me ; They pierced my hands and my feet. 1 may tell all my bones ; They look and stare upon me : They part my garments among them, And upon my vesture do they cast lots. But be not thou far off, O Lord : O thou my succour, haste thee to help me. The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want, He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He guideth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me: Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table l^efore me in the presence of mine enemies : Thou hast anointed my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: And I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas. And established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity. 250 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. And hath not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. O my God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be ashamed ; Let not mine enemies ti'iumph over me. Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed : They shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause. Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; Teach me thy paths. Guide me in thy truth, and teach me ; For thou art the God of my salvation ; On thee do I wait all the day. Remember, 0 Lord, thy tender mercies and tliy lovingkindnesses ; For they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions According to thy lovingkindness remember thou me. For thy goodness sake, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord : Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgement : And the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. For thy name's sake, O Lord, Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. What man is he that feareth the Lord? Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit the land. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him ; And he will shew them his covenant. Judge me, 0 Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity : I have trusted also in the Lord without wavering. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; Try my reins and my heart. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 251 For thy lovingkinclness is before mine eyes ; And I liave walked in thy truth. I have not sat with vain persons ; Neither will I go in with dissemblers. I hate the congregation of evil-doers^, And will not sit with the wicked. I will wash mine hands in innocency ; So wall I compass thine altar, O L( )Rd : That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard. And tell of all thy wondrous works. Lord, I love the habitation of thy house* And the place where thy glory dwelleth. Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood : In whose hands is mischief. And their right hand is full of bribes. But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity : Redeem me, and be merciful unto me. • My foot standeth in an even place : In the congregations will I bless the Lord. The Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom shall I fear ? The Lord is the strength of my life ; of whom shall I be afi'aid ? Though an host should encamp against me. My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me. Even then will I be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the day of trouble he shall keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle shall he hide me ; He shall lift me up upon a rock. When thou saidd, Seek ye my face ; my heart said unto thee. Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Thou hast been my help ; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, The Lord wall take me up. Teach me thy way, O Lord ; And lead me in a plain path, 252 PASSAGES FEOM THE PSALMS. Because of mine enemies. I had fainted, unless I liad believed to see the goodness of the T^ord In the land of the living. Wait on the Lord : Be strong, and let thine heart take courage ; Yea, wait thou oii tlie Lord. In thee, 0 Lord, do I jmt my trust ; let me never l)e ashannNl : Deliver me in thy righteousness. Bow down thine ear unto me ; deliver me speedily : Be thou to me a strong rock, an house of defence to save me. For thou art my rock and my fortress ; Therefore for tliy name's sake lead me and guide me. Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me For thou art my strong hold. Into thine hand I commend my spirit: Thou liiist redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth. But I trusted in thee, 0 Lord : I said, Tliou art my God. My times are in thy hand : Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from tliem that per- secute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in thy lovingkindness. Oh how great is thy goodness, whicli thdu luist laid up for them that fear thee, Which thou hast wrought for them that put their trust in tlu>e, before the sons of men ! In the covert of thy jiresence shalt tliou liide them from the plottings of man : Thou shalt keep them secretly in a jiaviUon from tlie strife of tongues. O love the Lord, all ye his saints : The Lord preserveth the faithful. And plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All ye that hope in the Lord. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Loud iinputeth not iniquity. And in whose spirit there is no guile. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 253 I acknowledged iny sin unto thee, and mine iniciuity have I not hid: I said, I will confess my trangressions unto the Lord ; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest he found : Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him. Thou art my hiding place ; thou wilt preserve me from troul)le ; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye ujion theo. Many sorrows shall he to the wicked : But he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. I WILL bless the I^>rd at all times: His jjraise shall continually be in my mouth. I sought the Lord, and he answered me. And delivered me from all my fears. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, And delivereth them. O taste and see that the Lord is good : Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 0 fear the Lord, ye his saints : For there is no want to them that fear him. What man is he that desireth life, And loveth 7nany days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil. And thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good ; Seek peace, and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And his ears are open unto their cry. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a liroken heart, And saveth such as be of a contrite sj^irit. Many are the afflictions of the righteoiis : But the Lord delivereth him out of them all. 254 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. TiiY lovingkindnoss, 0 Lord, is in the heavens ; Tliy faithfuhiess reacheth unto the skies. Thy righteousness is like tlie mountains of God ; Thy judgements are a great deep : O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God ! And the children of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house ; And thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life : In thy light shall we see light. O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee ; - And thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good ; Dwell in the land, and follow after faithfulness. Delight thyself also in the Lord ; And he shall give thee the desires of thine lieai-t. Commit thy way unto the Lord ; Trust also in him, and he shall bring it \o pass. And he shall make thy righteousness to go fortli as the light, And thy judgement as the noonday. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him : Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way. Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath : Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing. For evil-doers shall be cut off: But those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inhfrit the land. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and lie shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the land ; And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Better is a little that the righteous hath Than tlie abundance of many wicked. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken : But the Lord uj)holileth the righteous. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 255 A man's goings are established of the Lord ; And he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. I have been young, and now am old ; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging tJieir bread. Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, And he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : For the latter end of that man is peace. I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle. While the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my jieace, even from good And my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me ; While I was musing the nre kindled: Then spake I with my tongue : Lord, make me to know mine end. And the measure of my days, what it is ; Let me know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths ; And mine age is as nothing before thee : Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : Surely they are disquieted in vain : He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions : Make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; Because thou didst it. 256 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Remove thy stroke away fi-om nie : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away Uke a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me,, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and l^e no more. I WAITED patiently for the Lord ; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward: They cannot be set in order unto thee ; If I would declare and speak of them. They are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and oflt'ering thou hast no delight in ; Mine ears hast thou opened : Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I am come ; In the roll of the book it is written of me : I delight to do thy will, O my God ; Yea, thy law is within my heart. I have published righteousness in the great congregation ; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, 0 Lord, thou knowest. 1 have not hid thy righteousness within my heart ; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation : I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 257 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, 0 Lord : Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually i^reserve me. For innumerable evils have compassed me about, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; Tliey are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me : Make haste to help me, O Lord. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee : Let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. But I am poor and needy ; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me : Thou art my help and my deliverer Make no tarrying, O my God. Blessed is he that considereth the poor : The Lord Avill deliver him in tlio day of evil. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth ; And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will support him upon the couch of languishing : Thou makest all his bed in his sickness. I said, 0 Lord, have mercy upon me : Heal my soul ; for I have sinned against thee. Mine enemies speak evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish ? Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me. As for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity And settest me before thy face for ever. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. As THE hart panteth after the water brooks. So panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God When shall I come and appear before God ? My tears have been my meat day and night. 258 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me. How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday. Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise him For the health of his countenance. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day-time. And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life. Judge me, O God, and jilead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength ; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ? O send out thy light and thy truth ; let them lead me : Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my exceeding joy : And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God. Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? And why art thou disquieted within me ? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him. Who is the health of my countenance, and my God. My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter : I speak the things which I have made touching the king. Thy throne is the throne of God for ever and ever : A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows. All thy garments .viull of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia ; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad. Kings' daughters are among thy honourable women : PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 259 At thy right hand cloth stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incHne tliine ear Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house ; So shall the king desire thy beauty : For he is thy Lord ; and worship thou him. The king's daughter within the palace is all glorious : , Her clothing is inwrought with gold. She shall be led unto the king in broidered work : The virgins her companions that follow her Shall be brought unto thee. With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led : They shall enter into the king's palace. God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change. And though the mountains be moved in the heart of the seas Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her ; she shall not be moved : God shall help her, and that right early. The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved : He uttered his voice, the earth melted. Come, behold the works of the Lord, What desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto tha end of the eartb ; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariots in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God : I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us ; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, 260 PASSAGES FROM THE PSAEMS. Ih mount Zion, on the sides of tlic north, The city of tlie great King. God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge. Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of thy judgements. Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death. God, even God, the Lokj), hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto (he going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth. Gather my saints together unto me ; Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness ; For God is judge himself. Hear, O my people, and I will speak ; 0 Israel, and I will testify unto thee : 1 am God, even thy God. I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds. For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains : And the w^ild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee : For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls. Or drink the blood of goats? Ofier unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving ; And i)ay thy vows unto th(! I\Iost High : And call upon me in tlic day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. But unto the wicked God saith, PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 261 What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth ? Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee. Whoso oftereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me ; And to him that ordereth his conversation aright Will I shew the salvation of God. Have mercy ui^on me, 0 God, according to thy lovingkindness ; According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my trans- gressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions : And my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight: That thou mayest be justified when thou si^eakest, And be clear when thou judgest. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness ; That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation : And uphold me with thy free sj^irit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways ; And sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation ; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. O Lord, open thou my lips ; And ray mouth shall shew forth thy praise. For thou delightest not in sacrifice ; else would I give it : Thou hast no pleasure in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 262 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Give ear to ray prayer, O God ; And hide not thyself from my suppUcation. Attend unto me, and answer me: Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked : Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove Then would I fly away, and be at rest. Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me tliat did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him ; But it was thou, a man mine equal. My companion, and my familiar friend. We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng. As for me, I will call upon God ; And the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan: And he shall hear my voice. He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: For they were many i}iat strove with me. God shall hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth of old, Tlie men who have no changes, And who fear not God. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Br merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up All the day hjug he fighting oppresseth inc. Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long : For they be many that fight proudly against me. What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 263 All the day long they wrest my words : All their thoughts are against me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps. Thou tellest my wanderings: Put thou my tears into thy bottle; Are they not in thy book ? In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid ; What can man do unto me? Thy vows are upon me, O God : I will render thank offerings unto thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death : Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling? That I may walk before God In the light of the living. Be merciful unto me, 0 God, be merciful unto me ; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy w'ings will I take refuge. Until these calamities be overpast. I will cry unto God IMost High; Unto God that performeth all things for me; He shall send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth ; God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. They have prepared a net for my steps ; My soul is bowed down : They have digged a jjit before me ; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed : I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, And thy truth unto the skies. Be thou exalted, 0 God, above the heavens Let thy glory he above all the earth. Hear my cry, 0 God ; Attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed : 264 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a refuge for me, A strong tower from the enemy. I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. For thou, 0 God, hast heard my vows : Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. My soul waiteth only upon God : J^rom him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation : He is my high tower ; I shall not be greatly moved. My soul, wait thou only upon God ; For my expectation is from him. Trust in him at all times, ye people ; Pour out your heart before him : God is a refuge for us. Trust not in oppression. And become not vain in robbery : If riches increase, set not your heart thereon. God hath spoken once, Twice have I heard this ; That power belongeth unto God : Also unto thee, 0 Lord, belongeth mercy : For thou renderest to every man according to his work. God, thou art my God ; early will I seek theo : My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is. So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary. To see thy power and thy glory. For thy lovingkindness is better than life ; My lips shall praise thee. So will I bless thee while I live : I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips ; When I remember thee upon my bed. And meditate on thee in the night watches. For thou hast been my help, PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 265 And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. My soul followeth hard after thee : Thy right hand upholdetli me. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion : And unto thee shall the vow be lierformed. O thou that hearest prayer, Unto thee shall all flesh come. Iniquities prevail against me : As for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, That he may dwell in thy courts : We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, The holy place of thy temple. Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it ; Thou makest it soft with showers ; Thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crow nest the year with thy goodness ; And the hills are girded with joy. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing. Make a joyftil noise unto God, all the eaith Sing forth the glorj^ of his name : Make his praise glorious. All* the earth shall worship thee, And shall sing unto thee ; They shall sing to thy name. 0 bless our God, ye peoples, And make the voice of his praise to be heard : Which holdeth our soul in life. And suffereth not our feet to be moved. For thou, 0 God, hast proved us : Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. We went through fire and through water ; But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy }ilace. 1 will come into thy house with burnt offerings. 266 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. I will i^ay thee my vows, Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in distress. Come, and hear, all ye that fear God, And I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth. And he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear : But verily God hath heard ; He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, Which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name : Cast up a high way for him that rideth through the deserts ; His name is .iaii ; and exult ye before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families : He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity: But the rebellious dwell in a parched land. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led ///// captivity captive ; Thou hast received gifts among men. Yea, among the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell with titcin. Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden, Even the God who is our salvation. God is unto us a God of deliverances ; And unto .iehovah the Lord belong the issues from death. Thy God hath commanded thy strength : Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. Because of thy temple at Jerusalem Kings shall bring presents untS thee. Princes shall come out of Egyi)t; Ethioi)ia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto (iod. Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth ; () sing i)raises unto the Lord ; To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which are of old. Savk me, O God ; For the waters are come in unto inv soul. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS, 267 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing : I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying ; my throat is dried : Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head : They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty : Then I restored that wdiich I took not away. 0 God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee. Let not them that wait on thee be ashamed tlirough me, 0 Lord God of hosts. Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonour through me, O God of Israel. Because for thy sake I have borne rei^roach ; Shame hath covered my face. 1 am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up ; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a proverb unto them. They that sit in the gate talk of me ; And I am the song of the drunkards. But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy. Answer me in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink : Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up ; And let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Answer me, O Lord ; for thy lovingkindness is good : According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies. Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: Mine adversaries are all before thee. 208 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Reproach hath broken my heart; and T am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, Init there was none; And for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten ; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded. I am poor and sorrowful : Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. Ye that seek after God, let your heart live. For the Lord heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners. Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked. Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou art my hope, 0 Lord God: Thou art my trust from my youth. I am as a wonder unto many ; But thou art my strong refuge. My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, And with thy honour all the day. Cast me not otl' in the time of old age ; Forsake me not when my strength faileth. For mine enemies speak concerning me ; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together, Saying, God hatli forsaken liim : Pursue and take him ; for there is none to deliver. O God, be not far from me : 0 my God, make haste to help me. Let them he ashamed and corisumed that are adversaries to my soul ; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. But I will hope continually, And will praise thee yet more and more. My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness. And of thy salvation all the day ; For I know not the numbers thereof. 1 will come with the mighty acts of the Lord God : I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. O God, thou hast taught me from my youth ; PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 269 And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Yea, even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not ; Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high ; Thou who hast done great things, 0 God, who is like unto thee? Thou, which hast shewed us many and sore troubles, Shalt quicken us again. And shalt bring us up again from the depths of the earth. Increase thou my greatness. And turn again and comfort me. 1 will also praise thee with the psaltery. Even thy truth, 0 my God : Unto thee will I sing praises with the harj), O thou Holy One of Israel. Give the king thy judgements, 0 God, And thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy, And shall break in pieces the oppressor. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass ; As showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish ; And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him. For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth ; And the i)00r, that hath no helper. And men shall pray for him continually ; They shall bless him all the day long. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, AVho only doeth wondrous things: And blessed be his glorious name for ever ; And let the whole earth be filled with his glorv. Surely God is good to Israel, Even to such as are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone 270 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS, My steps had well nigh slii^ped. For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. They are not in trouble as other men ; Neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck ; Violence covereth them as a garment. They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth. And they say, How doth God know ? And is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these are the wicked ; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches. Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency ; For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning. When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me ; Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. How are they become a desolation in a moment? They are utterly consumed with terrors. Nevertheless I am continually with thee : Thou hast holden my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel. And afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven hut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth : Bui God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. I WILL cry unto God with my voice ; Even unto God with my voice, and he will give ear unto me. In the day of my trouV)le I sought the Lord : My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not ; My soul refused to be comforted. I remember God, and am disquieted : I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Thou boldest mine eyes watching : I am so troubled that I cannot speak. PASSAGES FROM THE PSAOIS. 271 I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night : I commune witli mine own heart ; And my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever ? And will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth Ills promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I said, This is my infirmity ; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will make mention of the deeds of the Lord : For I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also upon all thy work. And muse on thy doings. Thy way, 0 God, is in holiness : Who is a great god like unto God? Thou art the God that doest wonders : Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. The waters saw thee, O God ; The waters saw thee, they were afraid : The depths also trembled. The clouds poured out water ; The skies sent out a sound : Thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind The lightnings lightened the world : The earth trembled and shook. Thy way was in the sea. And thy paths in the great waters. And thy footsteps were not known. Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of jMoses and Aaron. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock ; Thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth. 272 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Before Ei)hraim and Benjamin and IManasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. Turn us again, 0 God ; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt : Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it. Thou preparedst room before it. And it took deep root, and filled the land. The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God. She sent out her branches unto the sea. And her shoots unto the River. Why hast thou broken down her fences. So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. Turn again, we beseech thee, 0 God of hosts : Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, And the stock which thy right hand hath planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. It is burned with fire, it is cut down : They ]ierish at the reljuke of thy countenance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand. Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. So shall we not go back from thee : Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. Turn us again., 0 Lord God of hosts ; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. SixG aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise uiato the God of Jacob. Take up the psalm, and bring hither the timbrel. The pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon. At the full moon, on our solemn feast day. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: 0 Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me ! There shall no strange god be in thee ; Neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 1 am the Lord tliy God, Which brought thee \\\^ out of the land of Egypt: PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 273 Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 0 that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways! 1 should soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. He should feed them also with the finest of the wheat And with honey out of the rock should I satisfy thee. How lovely are thy tabernacles, 0 Lord of hosts ! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord ; My heart and my fiesh cry out unto the living God. Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house. And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Lord of hosts. My King, and my God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house : They will be still praising thee. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee ; In whose heart are the high ways to Zion. They go from strength to strength. Every one of them apj^eareth before God in Zion. 0 Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer : Give ear, O God of Jacob. Behold, 0 God our shield. And look upon the face of thine anointed. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. 1 had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a sun and a shield : The Lord will give grace and glory : No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts. Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land : Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou hast covered all their sin. Wilt thou not quicken us again : 274 PASSAGES FROM THE PSAEMS. That thy people may rejoice in thee? I will hear what God the Lokd will speak : For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints; But let them not turn again to folly. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear hiui ; That glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together ; Righteousness and peace liave kissed each other. Truth springeth out of the earth ; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; And our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him ; And shall make his footsteps a way to ^ra/^• in. Bow down thine ear, O Lord, and answer me ; For I am poor and needy. 0 thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in tliee. Rejoice the soul of thy servant ; For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord ; And they shall glorify thy name. For thou art gi'eat, and doest wondrous things : Thou art God alone. Teach me thy way, O Lord ; I will walk in thy truth : Unite my heart to fear thy Jiame. 1 will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart ; And I Avill glorify thy name for evermore. O God, the proud are risen up against me, And the congregation of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them. But thou, 0 Lord, art a God full of com])aspiou and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me ; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thine handmaid. Shew me a token for good ; That they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed, Because thou, Loud, hast holjten me, and comfortetl me. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 275 I WILL sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever : With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever ; Thy fixithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine : The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south, thou hast created them : Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm : Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. Righteousness and judgement are the foundation of thy throne : Mercy and truth go before thy face. Blessed is the peopl,e that know the joyful sound : They walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name do they rejoice all the day : And in thy righteousness are they exalted. Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty ; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him : With whom my hand shall be established ; Mine arm also shall strengthen him. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. I also will make him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth. My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness ; I will not lie unto David ; His seed shall endure for ever. And his throne as the sun before me. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling jjlace In all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth. Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to dust ; And sayest, Return, ye children of men. 276 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; In the evening it is cut down and withereth. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years ; Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow ; For it is soon gone, and we fly away. So teach us to number our days, That we may get us an heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord ; how long ? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy ; That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants. And thy glory upon their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us : And establish thou the work of our hands upon us ; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust. He shall cover thee with his pinions. And under his wings shalt thou take refuge : His truth is a shield and a buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day ; For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wastcth at noonday. Because thou hast said, The Lord is my refuge Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh tliy tent. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, PASSAGES FROM THE PSAL:\IS. 277 To keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him ; I will be with him in trouble : I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, And shew him my salvation. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High : To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, And thy faithfulness every night, With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery ; With a solemn sound upon the harp. For thou. Lord, hast made me glad through tliy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. How great are thy works, O Lord ! Thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not ; Neither doth a fool understand this : When the wicked spring as the grass. And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish ; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever : The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree : He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They that are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age ; They shall be full of sap and green : To shew that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, And teachest out of thy law ; That thou mayest give him rest froin the days of adversity. Until the pit be digged for the wicked. 278 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALBIS. For the Lord -svill not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance. For judgement shall return unto righteousness : And all the upright in heart shall follow it. Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? AVho will stand up for me against the porkers of iniquity ? Unless the Lord had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence. When I said, My foot slippeth ; Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. The Lord reigneth ; let the earth rejoice ; Let the multitude of isles be glad. The heavens declare his righteousness, And all the peoples have seen his glory. For thou, Lord, art most high above all the earth: Thou art exalted far above all gods. O ye that love the Lord, hate evil : He preserveth the souls of his saints ; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous. And gladness for the upright in heart. Be glad in the Lord, ye righteous ; And give thanks to his holy name. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all yo lands. Serve the Lord with gladness : Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God : It is he that hath made us, and we are his ; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving. And into his courts with praise : Give thankg unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy cnchirdh for ever; And his faithfulness unto all generations. PASSAGES FKOM THE PSALMS. 279 Hear my prayer, 0 Lord, And let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress IncHne thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily. For my days consume away like smoke, My heart is smitten like grass, and withered. I am like a pelican of the wilderness ; I am become as an owl of the. waste places. I watch, and am become Like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop. My days are like a shadow that declineth ; And I am withered like grass. But thou, O Lord, shalt abide for ever ; And thy memorial unto all generations. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : For it is time to have pity upon her, yea, the set time is come. For thy servants take pleasure m her stones, And have pity upon her dust. So the nations shall fear the name of the IjOrd, And all the kings of the earth thy glory : For the Lord hath built up Zion, He hath appeared in his glory ; He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come : And a people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary From heaven did the Lord behold the earth ; To hear the sighing of the prisoner ; To loose those that are appointed to death. He weakened my strength in the way ; He shortened my days. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth ; And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture . shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end. 280 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Bless the Lord, O my soul ; And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits : Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; Who healeth all thy diseases ; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies : Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle. The Lord is full of compassion and gracious, Slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide ; Neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, Nor rewarded us after our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, So great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth his children, So the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame ; He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; And the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. And his righteousness unto children's children ; To such as keep his covenant. And to those that remember his precepts to do them. The Lord hath established his throne in the heavens ; And his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye angels of his: Ye nughty in strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts ; Ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. Bless the Lord, all ye his works. In all places of his dominion : Bless the Lord, O my soul. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 281 Bless the Lord, 0 my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great ; Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment ; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters ; Who maketh the clouds his chariot ; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind : Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever. Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture ; The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away ; ^They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over ; That they turn not again to cover the earth. 0 Lord, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all : The earth is full of thy creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide. Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. These wait all upon thee. That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. 1 will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. Let my meditation be sweet unto him. Praise ye the Lord O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : For his mercy endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord, Or shew forth all his praise ? Blessed are they that keep judgement, And he that doeth righteousness at all times. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people ; O visit me with thy salvation : ^Or, {The mountains rose, the valleys sank dovm). 282 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That I may glory with thine inheritance. O GIVE thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good ; For his mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary ; And gathered them out of the lands, From the east and from the west. From the north and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way They found no city of habitation. Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses. He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness. And for his wonderful works to the children of men ! For he satisfieth the longing soul, And the hungry soul he fiUeth with good. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death. Being bound in affliction and iron ; Because they rebelled against the words of God, And contemned the counsel of the Most High : Therefore he brought down their heart with labour ; They fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble. And he saved them out of their distresses. lie brought thcni out of darkness and the shadow of death. And brake their ])ands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men ! For he hath broken the gates of brass. And cut the bars of iron in sunder. Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat : And they draw near unto the gates of death. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 283 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, And he saveth them out of their distresses. He sendeth his woi-d, and healeth them, And delivereth them from their destructions. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving. And declare his works with singing. They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters-; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, And he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm. So that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; So he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness. And for his wonderful works to the children of men ! Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, And praise him in the seat of the elders. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground ; He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water. And a dry land into watersprings. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, That they may prepare a city of habitation And sow fields, and plant vineyards. And get them fruits of increase. He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly ; And he sufTereth not their cattle to decrease. Again, they are minished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way. 284 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Yet setteth he the needy on high from affliction, And maketh him families like a flock. The upright shall see it, and be glad ; And all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Whoso is wise shall give heed to these things, And they shall consider the mercies of the Lord. The Lord saith unto my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion : Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power: In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth. The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever After the order of Melchizedek. Praise ye the Lord. I will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart, He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered : The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. The works of his hands are truth and judgement; All his precepts are sure. They are established for ever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness. He hath sent redemption unto his people; He h»th counuanded his covenant for ever: Holy and reverend is his name. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ; A good understanding have all they that do thereafter : His praise endureth for ever. Pr.^ise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, That delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon earth : The generations of the upright shall be blessed. Wealth and riches are in his house : And liis righteousness endureth for ever. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 285 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy ; His righteousness endureth for ever. I LOVE the Lord, because he hath heard My voice and my suiiplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore vi'ill I call upon him as long as I live. The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of the grave gat hold upon me : I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; 0 Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous ; Yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple : 1 was brought low, and he saved me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul ; For the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears. And my feet from falling. What shall I render unto the Lord For all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation. And call upon the name of the Lord, I will pay my vows unto the Lord, Yea, in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of his saints. 0 Lord, truly I am thy servant : 1 am thy servant, the son of thine handmaid ; Thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, Yea, in the presence of all his peojile ; 286 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. In the courts of the Lord's house, In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. 0 GIVE thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : For his mercy endureth for ever. Out of my distress I called upon the Lord : The Lord answered me and set me in a large place. The Lord is on my side ; I will not fear : What can man do unto me? It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord Than to put confidence in princes. The Lord is my strength and song ; And he is become my salvation. 1 shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord. The Lord hath chastened me sore : But he hath not given me over unto death. Open to me the gates of righteousness : I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord ; The righteous shall enter into it. The stone which the builders rejected Is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing ; It is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord hath made ; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord : We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. The Lord is God, and he hath given us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar. Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto thee: Thou art my God, I will exalt thee. O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good : For his mercy endureth for ever. Blessed are they that ai-o upright in way, Who walk in the law of the Lord. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 287 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart. Thou hast commanded us thy precepts, That we should observe them diligently. Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes ! Then shall I not be ashamed. When I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will give thanks unto thee with uprightness of heart, When I learn thy righteous judgements. I will observe thy statutes : O forsake me not utterly. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee : 0 let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I laid uj) in mine heart, That I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord : Teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared All the judgements of thy mouth. 1 have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, As much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts, And have respect unto thy ways. I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live; So will I observe thy word. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law. "* I am a sojourner in the earth : Hide not thy commandments from me. My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thy judgements at all times. My soul cleaveth unto the dust : Quicken thou me according to thy word. JMake me to understand the way of thy precepts : 288 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. So shall I meditate of thy wondrous works. My soul melteth for heaviness : Strengthen thou me according unto thy word. Eemove from me the way of falsehood: And grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way cf faithfulness : Thy judgements have I set before me. I cleave unto thy testimonies: 0 Lord, put me not to shame. 1 will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart. Let thy mercies also come unto me, O Lord, Even thy salvation, according to thy word. So shall I have an answer for him that reproacheth me ; For I trust in thy w^ord. And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth ; For I have hoped in thy judgements. So shall I observe thy law continually For ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty ; For I have sought thy precepts. I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, And will not be ashamed. Remember the word unto thy servant, Wherein thou hast made me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction: That thy word hath quickened me. The proud have had me greatly in derision : Yet have I not swerved from thy law. I have remembered thy judgements of old, O IjOkd, And have comforted myself. Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, And have observed thy law. I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies. At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee Because of thy righteous judgements. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 289 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy : Teach me thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray ; But now I observe thy word. Thou art good, and doest good ; Teach me thy statutes. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; That I might learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver. My soul fainteth for thy salvation : But I hope in thy word. Mine eyes fail for thy word. While I say, When wilt thou comfort me? For I am become like a wineskin in the smoke ; Yet do I not forget thy statutes. For ever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: Thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They abide this day according to thine ordinances; For all things are thy servants. Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I have seen an end of all perfection ; But thy commandment is exceeding broad. Oh how love I thy law ! It is my meditation all the day. I have more understanding than all my teachers ; For thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged. Because I have kept thy precepts. I have not turned aside from thy judgements ; For thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! Yea, siueeter than honey to my mouth ! Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path. 290 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever ; For they are the rejoicing of my heart. The opening of thy words giveth light ; It giveth understanding unto the simple. I opened wide my mouth, and panted ; For I longed for thy commandments. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, As thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my footsteps in thy word ; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me. I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil. Great peace have they which love thy law ; And they have none occasion of stumbling. I have longed for thy salvation, 0 Lord ; And thy law is my delight. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee ; And let thy judgements help me. I have gone astray like a lost sheep ; seek thy servant ; For I do not forget thy commandments. I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the mountains : From whence shall my help come ? My help cometh from the Lord, Which made heaven and earth. He will not sufter thy foot to be moved : He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel Shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper : The Lord is thy shade upon tliy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night. The Lord shall keep thee from all evil ; He shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall keep thy going out and thy coming in, From this time forth and for evermore. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 291 I WAS glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of the Lord. Our feet are standing Within thy gates, O Jerusalem ; Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together: "Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord, For a testimony unto Israel, To -give thanks unto the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones for judgement, The thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : They shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls. And prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say. Peace be within thee. For the sake of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good. Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress ; So our eyes look unto the Lord our God, Until he have mercy upon us. Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scorning of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side. Let Israel now say ; If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, When men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up alive. When their wrath was kindled against us : Then the waters had overwhelmed us. The stream had gone over our soul : Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. Blessed be the Lord, Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 292 PASSAGES FROM THE TSALMS. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of tlie guare of the fowlers : The snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. They that trust in the Lord Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So the Lord is round about his people. From this time forth and for evermore. For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous ; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto inifjuity. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, We were like unto them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations. The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us ; Whereof we are glad. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, As the streams in the South. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Though he goeth on his way weeping, bearing forth the seed ; He shall come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him. Except the Lord l)uild the house. They labour in vain that build it : Except the Lord keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you that ye rise up early, and so late take rest, And eat the bread of toil : For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, That walketh in liis ways. For thou slialt eat the labour of thine hands PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 293 Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of thine house : Thy children like olive plants, round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed That feareth the Lokd. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice : Let thine ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, 0 Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, That thou mayest be feared. 1 wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, And in his word do I hope. My soul looketh for the Lord, More than watchmen look for the morning; Yea, more than watchmen for the morning. O Israel, hope in the Lord ; For with the Lord there is mercy. And with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel From all his iniquities. Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty ; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters. Or in things too wonderful for me. Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul ; Like a weaned child with his mother, My soul is with me like a weaned child. O Israel, hope in the Lord From this time forth and for evermore. Lord, remember for David All his affliction; How he sware unto the Lord, And vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob : Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go up into my bed; 294 PASSAGES FROM THE PSAI.MH. I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids ; Until I find out a place for the Lord, A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacol). Arise, O Lord, into thy rcHting place; Thou, and the ark of thy strength. Let thy "priests be clothed with righteousness: And let thy saints shout for joy. For the Lord hath chosen Zion ; He hath desired it for his habitation. This is my resting place for ever : Here will I dwell ; for I have desired it. I will abundantly bless her provision : I will satisfy her poor with bread. Her priests also will I clothe with salvation : And her saints shall shout aloud for joy. There will I make a horn to spring forth unto David I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. Behold, how good and how i)leasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the precious oil ujion the head, That ran down upon the beard. Even Aaron's beard ; That came down upon tlie skirt of his garments ; Like the dew of Hermon, That Cometh down upon the mountains of Zion : For there the Lord commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore. By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept. When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 295 Let my right hand forget Iwr cvnning. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not ; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy. I WILL give thee thanks with my whole lieart: I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth : In the day that I called thou answeredst me, Thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul. For though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: But the haughty he knoweth from afar. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me ; Thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies. And thy right hand shall save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy mercy, O Lord, endurcth for ever ; Forsake not the works of thine own hands. 0 Lord, thou hast searched me, and known vie. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine ui)rising. Thou understandest my thought aiiir off. Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thine hand upon me. Such knowedge is too wonderful for me ; It is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:- If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning. And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall thy hand lead me. And thy right hand shall hold me. If I say. Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, 296 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. And the light al:)ont me shall be night; Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day ; The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works ; And that my soul knoweth right well. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O CJod ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any way of wickedness in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. Lord, I have called upon thee; make haste upto me: Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee. Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee ; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifux-. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To be occupied in deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties. Ijet the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness ; And let him reprove me, it shall he as oil upon the head ; Let not my head refuse it. For mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord : In thee do I put my trust ; leave not my soul destitute. I CRY with my voice unto the Lord ; I shew before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knewest my j)ath. In the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me. Look on my right hand, and see ; for there is no man that knoweth me: Rtifuge hath failed me ; no man careth for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Loud ; I said, Thuu art my refuge, PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 297 My portion in the land of the Hving. Attend unto my cry ; for I am brought very low : Deliver me from my persecutors ; for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy name: The righteous shall compass me about ; For thou shalt deal bountifully with me. Hear my prayer, 0 Lord ; give ear to my supplications : In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. And enter not into judgement with thy servant ; For in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul ; He hath smitten my life down to the ground : He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me ; My heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old ; I meditate on all thy doings : I muse on the work of thy hands. I spread forth my hands unto thee : ]\Iy soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Make haste to answer me, O Lord ; my spirit faileth Hide not thy face from me ; Lest I become like them that go down into the pit. Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning For in thee do I trust : Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk ; For I lift up my soul unto thee. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies : I flee unto thee to hide me. Teach me to do thy will ; for thou art my God : Thy spirit is good ; lead me in the land of uprightness. I WILL extol thee, my God, O King ; And I will bless thy name for ever and ever. One generation shall laud thy works to another. And shall declare thy mighty acts. They shall utter the memory of thy great goodness, And shall sing of thy righteousness. 298 PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion ; Slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all ; And his tender mercies are over all his works. All thy works shall give thanks unto thee, O Lord ; And thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, And talk of thy power. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And thy dominion endurcth throughout all generations. The Lord upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that be bowed down. The eyes of all wait upon thee ; And thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand. And satisfiest the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, And gracious in all his works. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him. To all that call ujion him in truth. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord ; And let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. Praise ye the Lord ; For it is good to sing praises unto our God ; For it is pleasant, and praise is comely. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem ; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart. And bindeth up their wounds. The Lord ui)holdeth the meek : He bringeth the wicked down to the ground. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fcur him. In those that hojje in his mercy. Praise the Lf)RD, O Jerusalem ; Praise thy God, 0 Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates ; He hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders ; He filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. PASSAGES FROM THE PSALMS. 299 Pkaise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary : Praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts : Praise Iiim according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: Praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance Praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe. Praise him upon the loud cymbals : Praise him upon the high sounding cym])als. Let every thing that hath breath praise the LoiiD. Praise ye the Lord. PASSAGES FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hez- ekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, 0 earth, for the Lord hath spoken : I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly : they have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward. Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Your country is desolate ; your cities are burned with fire ; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a ))ooth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucum- bers, as a besieged city. Excei)t the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tramjjle my courts? Bring no more vain obla- tions ; incense is an abomination unto me ; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies, — I cannot away with : it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul . hateth : they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you : yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are (300) PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 301 full of blood. Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do evil : learn to do well ; seek judgement, relieve the ojjpressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saitli the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall -eat the good of the land : but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, I will turn my hand upon thee, and throughly purge away thy dross, and will take away all thy tin : and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning : afterward thou ehalt be called The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgement, and her converts with righteousness. But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. And the strong shall be as tow, and his work as a spark ; and they shall both Ijurn together, and none shall quench them. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. For there shall be a day of the Lord of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up ; and it shall be brought low : and ujion all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan ; and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up ; and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fenced wall ; and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low : and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. And the idols shall utterly pass away. In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats ; to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of? For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jenisalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and 302 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. the whole stay of water ; the mighty man, and the man of war ; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the ancient ; tlie captain of tifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the skilful enchanter. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen : because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. Woe unto their soul ! for they have rewarded evil unto tliemselves. Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well icith him : for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it sliall be ill v-'dh him : for the reward of his hands shall be given him. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. The Lord will enter into judge- ment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof : It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor is in your houses: what mean ye that ye crush my peojile, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Moreover the I^ord said. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: therefore the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the networks, and the crescents; the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume boxes, and the amulets; the rings, and the nose jewels; the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels; the hand mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils. And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rotten- ness ; and instead of a girdle a rope ; and instead of well set hair bald- ness ; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth : branding in- stead of beauty. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the laiid shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem : when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have j^urgcd tl^e blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgement, and by the spirit of burning. And the Lord will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for over all the glory shall be spread a canopy. And there shall be a pavilion for a sliadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain. PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 308 Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching Iiis vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he made a trench about it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O in- habitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. "What could have been done more to my vine- yard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth gravies, brought it forth wild grapes? And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be burnt ; I will break down the fence thereof, and it shall be trodden down : and I will lay it waste ; it shall not be pruned nor hoed ; but there shall come up briers and thorns : I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant : and he looked for judgement, but behold oppression ; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land ! Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them ! And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. Therefore my peo- ple are gone into captivity, for lack of knowledge : and their honour- able men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put dark- ness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight ! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink : which justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him ! Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blos- som shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above him 304 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH, stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered liis feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of his glory. And the foun- dations of the thresholds were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me ! for I iim undone ; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from ofi" the altar : and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ? Then I said. Here am I ; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not ; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste, and the Lord have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land. And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it ; but could not prevail against it. And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Eph- raim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind. Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field ; and say unto him. Take heed, and be quiet ; fear not, neither let thine heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. And the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying. Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God ; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said. Hear ye now, O house of David ; is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 305 shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah ; even the king of Assyria. And the Lord spake unto me yet again, saying. Forasmuch as this people hath refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son ; now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory : and he shall come up over all hia channels, and go over all his banks : and he shall sweep onward into Judah ; he shall overflow and pass through ; he shall reach even to the neck ; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, 0 Immanuel. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy : they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given ; and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Mighty God, ^Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his govern- ment and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judge- ment and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this. Woe to Asshur, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation ! For he saith. Are not my princes all of them kings? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath per- formed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. For he . hath said. By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treas- 1 Heb. Father of Eternity. 306 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. ures, and I liave brought down as a valiant man them that sit on thrones: and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth : and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped. Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leaniiess ; and instead of his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire. And he shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body : and it shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Isi-ael, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. A* remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the boughs with terror : and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low. And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit: and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord ; and his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord : and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and re- prove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down together : and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, which standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 307 and his resting place shall be glorious. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord ; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortest me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and will not be afraid : for the Lord jehovah is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted. Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excellent things : let this be known in all the earth. Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. The burden of Babylon. Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to genera- tion : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall shep- herds make their flocks to lie down there. For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land : and the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And they shall take them captive, whose captives they were ; and they shall rule over their oppressors. And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this jxirable against the king of Babylon, and say. How hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased! The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? ,How art thou fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations ! And thou saidst in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms? All the kings of the nations, 308 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abomiuahle branch, as a carcass trodden under foot. The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of INIoab is laid waste, and brought to nought. For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be. And a throne shall be established in mercy, and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David ; judging, and seeking judgement, and swift to do righteousness. We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud ; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath ; his boastings are nought. Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl. For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah. Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen. And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise. And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn, and his arm reapeth the ears. Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shak- ing of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith the Lord, the God of Israel. In that day shall a man look unto his INIaker, and hia eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he have respect to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images. For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength ; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips: in the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom: but the harvest flecth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 0 Lord, thou art my God ; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name ; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin : a palace of strangers to be no city ; it shall PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 309 never be built. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strong hold to the poor, a strong hold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. As the heat in a dry place shalt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fiit things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the re- proach of his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us : this is the Lord ; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah : We have a strong city ; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth truth may enter in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord jehovah is an everlasting rock. For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city : he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground ; he bringeth it even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down ; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy. The way of the just is uprightness : thou that are upright dost direct the path of the just. Yea, in the way of thy judgements, O Lord, have we waited for thee ; to thy name and to thy memorial is the desire of our soul. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn right- eousness. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us : for thou hast also wrought all our works for us. O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer wheri thy chastening was upon them. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doorg about thee : hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be 310 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. In that day : A vine- yard of wine, sing ye unto it. I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. In days to come shall Jacob take root ; Israel shall blossom and bud : and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of E^jhraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty. The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot : and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the firstripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh ujjon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people: and for a spirit of judgement to him that sitteth in judgement, and for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate. But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are gone astray ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are gone astray through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stum1:)le in judgement. Whom will he teach knowledge ? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? For it is precept upon precei^t, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line : here a little, there a little. Nay, but by men of strange lii)s and with another tongue will he speak to this people: to whom he said. This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing; yet they would not hear. Therefore shall the word of the Lord be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a little, there a little ; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem: Because ye have said. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto ua ; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood liave we hid ourselves : therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone of sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste. And I will make judgement the line, and righteousness the plummet: and the hail shall sweei) away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death sliall l)c disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH, 311 scourge shall pass thi-ough, then je shall be trodden down by it. As often as it passeth through, it shall take you ; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it ; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon ; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act. Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bands be made strong : for a consummation, and that determined, have I heard from the Lord, the Lord of hosts upon the whole earth. Ho ^ Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye 5^ear to year ; let the feasts come round : then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation : yet she shall be unto me as Ariel. And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a fort, and I will raise siege works against thee. And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust ; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the gi'ound, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away : yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. There shall be a visita- tion from the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her strong hold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. And it shall be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth ; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty : or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh ; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite : so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. Tarry ye and wonder ; take your pleasure and be blind : they are drunken, but not with wine ; they stagger, but not with strong drink. For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes ; the prophets, and your heads, the seers, hath he covered. And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Eead this, I pray thee : and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed : and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Eead this, I pray thee : and he saith, I am not learned. 1 That is, The lion of God, or, The hearth of God. 312 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with tlaeir Ups do honour me, but have re- moved their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a command- ment of men which hath been taught Hiem: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us ? Ye turn things upside down ! Shall the potter be counted as clay ; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not ; or the thing framed say of him that framed it, He hath no understanding ? Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be counted for a forest? And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off: that make a man an offender in a cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought. Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. But when his children see the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name ; yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel. They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall learn doctrine. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me ; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin : that walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth ; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the sliadow of Egypt your confusion. Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever. For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: which say to the seers. See not ; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits : get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from be- PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 318 fore us. "Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon ; thei'efore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high w"all, wliose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, break- ing it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the cistern. For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quiet- ness and in confidence shall be your strength : and ye would not. But ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses ; therefore shall ye flee : and, We will ride upon the swift ; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee : till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be ex- alted, that he may have mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judgement ; blessed are all they that wait for him. O people that dwellest in Zion at Jerusalem : thou shalt weep no more ; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry ; when he shall hear, he will answer thee. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be hidden any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teach- ers: and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing ; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. And he shall give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous : in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. The oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savoury provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. And there shall be upon every lofty moun- tain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. INIoreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke : his lips are full of indignation, and 314 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. his tongue is as a devouring fire: and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that'reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity : and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples. Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy- feast is kept ; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel. And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to l)e heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be broken in pieces. Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgement. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry jilace, aa the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work in- iquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil : he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and in liberal things shall he continue. Rise up, ye women that ai-e at ease, and hear my voice ; ye care- less daughters, give ear unto my speech. For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women : for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come. Tremble, ye women that are at ease ; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins. They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Upon the land of my i)eople shall come up thorns and briers ; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city : for the palace shall be forsaken ; the populous city shall be deserted ; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks ; until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. Then judgement shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the eflfect of righteous- ness quietness and confidence for ever. And my people shall abide in PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 315 a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters. O Lord, be gracious unto us ; we have waited for thee : be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. The Lord is exalted ; for he dwelleth on high : he hath filled Zion with judgement and righteousness. And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom and knowledge : the fear of the Lord is his treasure. Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done ; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners in Zion ai'e afraid ; trembling hath surprised the godless ones. Who among us shall dwell, with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell, with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly ; he that de- spiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil ; he shall dwell on high : his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks : his bread shall be given Mm ; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty : they shall behold a land that is very far off. Look upon. Zion, the city of our solemnities : thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habita- tion, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the Lord will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams ; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law- giver, the Lord is our king ; he will save us. And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick : the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon : they shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God ! vengeance will come, even the recompence of God ; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water : in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds 31(5 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. and rushes. And an high way shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness ; the unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those : the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon, they shall not be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk there : and the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion ; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads : they shall ob- tain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, and said, Rememljer now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to He5;ekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears : behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria : and I will defend this city. And this shall be the sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he hath spoken: behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. I said. In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Mine habitation is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; ho will cut me off from the loom. I did mourn as a dove: mine ej^es fail vith louhimj upward; 0 Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety. What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto mo, and himself hath done it: 1 shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of mv soul. PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 317 O Lord, by these things men live, And wholly therein is the life of my spirit : Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live. Behold, it was for ?n?/ peace that I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption ; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the jiit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall i:)raise thee, as I do this day : The father to the children shall make known thy truth. The Lord is ready to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of the Lord. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saitli your God. Speak ye com- fortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accom- plished, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a high way for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain : and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, "What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : the grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; because the breath of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : but the word of our God shall stand for ever. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain ; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength ; lift it up, be not afraid ; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God ! Behold, the Lord God will come as a mighty one, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.' He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, a7id shall gently lead those that give suck. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who 318 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgement, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Be- hold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt oflFering. All the .nations are as nothing before him ; they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? Tlie graven image, a workman melted it, and the gold- smith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth for it silver chains. He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he eeeketh unto him a cunning workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved. Have ey not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not un- derstood from the foundations of the earth ? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : that bringeth princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Yea, they have not been planted ; yea, they have not been sown ; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth : moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble. To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to hbnf saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by name ; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking. Why sayest thou, 0 Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, INIy way is hid from the Lord, and my judgement is passed away from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary ; they shall walk, and not faint. Keep silence before me, O islands ; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgement. "Who hath raised up one from the east, wliom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings. Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Loud, the first, and PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 319' with the last, I am he. The isles saw, and feared ; the ends of the earth trembled: they drew near, and came. But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend ; thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the corners thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away ; fear thou not, for I am with thee ; be not dismayed, for I am thy God : I will strengthen thee ; yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded : they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish. For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee. Fear not ; I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel ; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. The poor and needy seek water and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst ; I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree ; I will set in the desert the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together: that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. Behold my servant, whom I uphold ; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth : I have put my spirit upon him ; he shall bring forth judge- ment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : he shall bring forth judgement in truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgement in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law. Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord; that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I de- clare : before they spring forth I tell you of them. 320 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the cartli ; ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands. And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not ; in paths that they know not will I lead them: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked jDlaces straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them. Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace with me, and blind as the Lord's servant? But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel : Fear not, for I have redeemed thee ; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy saviour ; I have given Egyi:»t as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honourable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and peoples for thy life. Fear not; for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west ; I will say to the north, Give up ; and to the south, Keep not back ; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth; every one that is called by my name, and whom I have cre- ated for my glory ; I have formed him ; yea, I have made him. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be as- sembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things ? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified : or let them hear, and say. It is truth. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen : that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he ; before ine there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the I^ord; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shewed, and there was no strange god among you: there- fore ye are my witnesses, saith the Loud, and I am God. Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who sliall let it? Yet thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 321 weaiy of me, O Israel. Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings ; neither hast thou honoured nae with thy sacrifices. I have not made thee to serve with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast tliou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake ; and I will not remember thy sins. Fear not, O Jacob my servant ; and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground : I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob ; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts : I am the first, and I am the last ; and beside me there is no God. The smith maketh an axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm. The carjienter stretcheth out a line ; he marketh it out with a i^encil ; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in the house. He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest : he planteth a fir tree, and the rain doth nourish it. Then shall it be for a man to burn ; and he taketh thereof, and warmeth himself ; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread ; yea, he maketh a god, and worshii^peth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. He burnetii part thereof in the fire ; with jiart thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith. Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire : and the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image : he falleth down unto it and worshippeth, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me ; for thou art my god. And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it : and shall I make the residue thereof au abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? Remember these things, O Jacob ; and Israel, for thou art my serv- ant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, tliou shalt not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have 322 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. redeemed thee. Sing, 0 ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye niountaina, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel. Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and lie that formed thee: I am the Lord, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth ; who is with me ? that frus- trateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad ; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish: that con- firmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof: that saith to the deep. Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: that saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my i^leasure: even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and to the temple. Thy foundation shall be laid. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. I am the Lord, and there is none else ; beside me there is no God : I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me : that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down' righteousness : let the earth open, that they may bring forth salvation, and let her cause righteousness to spring up together ; I the Lord have created it. Woe unto him that striveth with his ]\Iaker ! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth ! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it. What makest thou? Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts. Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine ; they shall go after thee ; in chains they shall come over: and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make sup- plication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee ; and there is none else, there is no God. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. They shall bo ashamed, yea, confounded, PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 323 all of them : they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols. But Israel shall be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation : ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens ; he is God ; that formed the earth and made it ; he established it, he created it not a waste, he formed it to be inhabited : I am the Lord ; and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of dark- ness ; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain : I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. Who hath shewed this from ancient time? who hath declared it of old? have not I the Lord ? and there is no God else beside me ; a just God and a saviour ; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth : for I am God, and there is none else. By my- self have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth in righteous- ness, and shall not return, that unto me eveiy knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon ; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be tailed tender and delicate. Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans : for thou shalt no more be called The lady of kingdoms. I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy ; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof. Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and there is none else beside me ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children : but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood : in heir full measure shall they come upon thee, despite of the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments. For thou hast trusted •in thy wickedness ; thou hast said, None seeth me ; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee : and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and there is none else beside me. Stand now with thine enchantments, and wath the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou "hast laboured from thy youth ; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly isrognos- ticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon 324 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble ; the fire shall burn them ; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame : it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before. Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah ; which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. Because I knew that thou ai-t obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass ; therefore I have declared it to thee from of old ; before it came to pass I shewed it thee : lest thou shouldest say. Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another. Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called : I am he ; I am the first, I also am the last. Yea, mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens. Come ye near unto me, hear ye this ; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret ; from the time that it was, there am I : and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit. Thus saith the Lono, thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel : I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: the Lord hath called me, and he hath made my mouth like a sharj) sword, in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me ; and he hath made me a polished shaft, in his quiver hath he kept me close : and he said unto nie. Thou art my servant ; Israel, in whom I will be glorified. But I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity : yet surely my judgement is with the Lord, and my recompence with my God. And now saith the Lord that formed me to be his serv- ant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered unto him : (for I am honourable in the eyes of the Lord, and my God is become my strength :) yea, he saith. It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore tlic pre-' served of Israel : I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith the Lord, the redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 325 man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers : Kings shall see and arise ; princes, and they shall worship ; be- cause of the Lord that is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee. Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee : and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages; saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture. They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them : for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my high ways shall be exalted. Lo, these shall come from far : and, lo, these from the north and from the west ; and these from the land of Sinim. Sing, O heavens ; and be joyftil, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted. But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath for- gotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land that hath been de- stroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me : give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in thine heart. Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who hath brought up these ? Behold, I was left alone ; these, where were they? Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples : and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and they that wait for me shall not be ashamed. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught. The Lord God hath opened mine ear, 326 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward. I gave my back to the smitei-s, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help me ; therefore have I not been confounded : therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me ; who will contend with me ? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help me ; who is he that shall condemn me ? be- hold, they all shall wax old as a garment ; the moth shall eat them up. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands: walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand ; ye shall lie down in sorrow. Heaiken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you : for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many. For the Lord hath com- forted Zion: he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord ; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. Attend unto me, 0 my people ; and give ear unto me, 0 my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will make my judgement to rest for a light of the peoples. IMy righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on mine arm shall they trust. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salva- tion shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Awake, awake, put on strength, O ai*m of the Lord ; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou art afraid of man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; and hast forgotten the Lord thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth ; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy ? PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 327 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thy- self from the dust ; arise, sit thee down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bring- eth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reign- eth ! The voice of thy watchmen ! they lift up the voice, together do they sing ; for they shall see, eye to eye, when the Lord returneth to Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusa- lem : for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jeru- salem. The Lord hath made l^are his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations ; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Depart ye, depart ye, go j'e out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, ye that bear the' vessels of the Lord. For ye shall not go* out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight : for the Lord will go before you : and the God of Israel will be your rearward. Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. Like as many were astonied at thee, (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men,) so shall he sprinkle many nations ; kings shall shut their meuths at him : for that which had not been told them shall they see ; and that which they had not heard shall they understand. Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up Ijefore him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised, and rejected of men ; a man of sorrows, and ac- quainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was desi^ised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows : yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our -transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities : the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, yet he humbled himself and opened not his mouth ; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb ; yea, he opened not his mouth. By 328 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. oppression and judgement he was taken away ; and his hfe who shall recount? for he was cut off out of the land of the living? for the trans- gression of my people was he stricken. And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death ; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the i)leasuro of the Lord shall jorosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be sat- isfied : by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many : and he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he i^oured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the trans- gressors : yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear ; break forth into singing, and cry aloud ; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations; spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed : neither be thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be put to shame : for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more. For thy Maker is thine husband ; the Lord of hosts is his name : and the Holy One of Israel is thy redeemer ; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me : for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed ; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sap- phires. And I will make thy iiinnacles of rubies, and tliy gates of car- PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 329 buncles, and all thy border of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the peace of thy chil- dren. In righteousness shalt thou be established : thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness which is of me, saith the Lord. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money ; come ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satis- fieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me ; hear, and your soul shall live : and I will make an everlast- ing covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel ; for he hath glori- fied thee. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near : let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy ujwn him ; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater ; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not retm-n unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosjjer in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut oS". Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgement, and do righteousness: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 330 PASSAGES FEOM ISAIAH, Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it ; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. For thus saith the Lord of them that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast by my covenant: Unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters ; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. Also the strangers, that join themselves to the Lord, to minister unto him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sal^bath from profaning it, and holdeth fast by my cove- nant; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer ; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted ujion mine altar : for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all peoples. The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith. Yet will I gather others to him, beside his own that are gathered. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart ; and merci- ful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. He entereth into peace ; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth : for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, I hid my face and was wroth: and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him that is far off and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him. But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. Tliere is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure, and exact PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 331 all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness : ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy heal- ing shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lokd shall be thy rearward. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer ; thou shalt cry, and he shall say. Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the put- ting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly ; and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the noonday: and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach. The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of the Lord hon- ourable; and shalt honour it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine oivn words : then shalt thou de- light thyself in the Lord ; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. The way of peace they know not ; and there is no judgement in their goings : they have made them crooked paths ; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace. Therefore is judgement far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us : we look for light, but behold darkness ; for brightness, but we walk in 332 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. obscurity. We grope for the wall like the blind, yea, we grope as they that have no eyes : we stumble at noonday as in the twilight. And judgement is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. Yea, truth is lacking ; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgement. And he saw that thei-e was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation unto him ; and his righteousness, it upheld him. And he put on right- eousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head ; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun : for he shall come as a rushing stream, which the breath of the Lord driveth. And a re- deemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgres- sion in Jacob, saith the Lord. And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord : my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. Arise, shine ; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see : they all gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be car- ried in the arms. Then thou shalt see and be lightened, and thine heart shall tremble and be enlarged ; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ; they all shall come from Shcba : they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of the Lord. All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with accept- ance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tanshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. And strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 333 but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. Thy gates also shall be open continually ; they shall not be shut day nor night ; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and their kings led with them. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together ; to beautify the place of my sanct- uary, and *I will make the place of my feet glorious. And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Isi'ael. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy saviour, and thy redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron : I will also make thy officers i^eace, and thine ex- actors righteousness. Violence shall no more be heard in thy laud, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Thy people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land for ever ; the branch of my ijlanting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in its time. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the ac- ceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God ; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the des- olations of many generations. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and aliens shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord: men shall call you the ministers of our God. For I the Lord love judgement, I hate robbery 334 PASSAGES FPwOM ISAIAH. for a burnt offering; and I will give them their recompence in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God ; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her sal- vation as a lamp that biirneth. And the nations shall see thy right- eousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate : but thou shalt be called ^Hephzi-bah, and thy land ^Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee : and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are the Lord's remem- brancers, take ye no rest, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the peo- ple ; cast up, cast up the high way ; gather out the stones ; lift up an ensign for the peoples. Behold, the Lord hath i^roclaimed unto the end of the earth. Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salva- tion Cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence be- fore him. And they shall call them The holy people. The redeemed of the Lord : and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. AVliere- fore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat ? I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the peoples there was no man with me. I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Loi:d, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on iThat is, Mij delight is in her. ^xhat is, Married. PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 335 US ; and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to tlie mul- titude of his lovingkindnesses. For he said, Surely, they are my peo- ple, children that will not deal falsely : so he was their saviour. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in hig love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them, all the days of old. But they rebelled, and grieved his holy spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them. Then his people remembered the ancient days of Moses, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put his holy spirit in the midst of them? that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name ? that led them through the depths, as an horse in the wilderness, that they stumbled not ? As the cattle that go down into the valley, the spirit of the Lord caused them to rest : so didst thou lead thy jseople, to make thyself a glorious name. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holi- ness and of thy glory : where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts ? the yearning of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me. For thou art our father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us : thou, O Lord, art our Father ; our redeemer from everlasting is thy name. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence. For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside thee, which worketh for him that waiteth for him. For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our right- eousnesses are as a polluted garment : and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: be- hold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a des- olation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire ; and all our pleasant things are laid waste. I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not : I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all 336 PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; a people that jirovoketh me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks; which sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou ; these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it : so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my moun- tains: and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. But ye that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy momitain, that pre- pare a table for Fortune, and that fill up mingled wine unto Destiny ; I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter : because when I called, ye did not answer ; when I spake, ye did not hear; but ye did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not. Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty : behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed : behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I Avill rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer ; and while they are yet Bi)eaking, I will hear. The Avolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox : and dust shall be the ser2)ent'a meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Loud, The heaven is my throne, and the earth ia my footstool : what manner of house will ye build unto me ? and what place shall be my rest? For all these things hath mine hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith the Lord : l)ut to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word. PASSAGES FROM ISAIAH. 337 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, T will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. The time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues ; and they shall come, and shall see my glory. PASSAGES FEOM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin : to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, king of Judah. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah ; unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee I knew thee, and before thou camest forth I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, Lord God ! behold, I cannot speak : for I am a child. But the Lord said unto me. Say not, I am a child : for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid because of them : for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth ; and the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth : see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, and to destroy and to overthrow ; to build, and to plant. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying. Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying. Thus saith the Lord, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentcst after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase : all that devour him shall bo held guilty ; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. Hear ye the word of the Loi;n, 0 house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: thus saith the Lord, What unright- eousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? Neither (338) PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 339 said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt; that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of di'ought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt? And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. The priests said not. Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children's children will I plead. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Eiver ? Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee : know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed : how then art thou turned into the degen- erate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked be- fore me, saith the Lord God. How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim ? As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed ; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets ; which say to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone. Thou hast brought me forth : for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face : but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee ? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble : for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way ? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me. My father, thou art the guide of my youth ? Return, O backsliding children, saith the Lord ; for I am a husband unto you : and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: and I will give you shepherds according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. At 340 PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord ; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem : neither shall they walk any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers. A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplica- tions of the children of Israel ; for that they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God. Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee ; for thou art the Lord our God. Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying. Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not ; which have ears, and hear not : Fear ye not me ? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof tosa themselves, yet can they not prevail ; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it. But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart ; they are revolted and gone. Neither say they in their heart. Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season ; that reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you. For among my people are found wicked men : they watch, as fowlers lie in wait ; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit : therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine : yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness : they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land ; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my peoi)le love to have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof? For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness ; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of my people lightly, saying. Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said. We will not walk tlirrciu. And I PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 341 set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet ; but they said, We will not hearken. Hear, O earth : behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words ; and as for my law, they have rejected it. To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offer- ings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me. Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow ! my heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not the Lord in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt : I am black ; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead ? is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered ? Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men ; that I might leave my people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongue as it were their bow for falsehood ; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth : for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgement, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord. Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel : thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are vanity : for one cutteth a tree 'out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold ; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them ; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good. There is none like unto thee, O Lord ; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as 842 PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee. Gather up thy wares out of the land, 0 thou that abidest in the siege. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabi- tants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it. "Woe is me for my hurt ! my wound is grievous : but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it. My tent is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not in- quired of the Lord : therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. O Lord, correct me, but with judgement ; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground ; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And their nobles send their little ones to the waters : they come to the pits, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty. Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Lord: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. O thou hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfar- ing man that turneth aside to tarry for a night ? Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save ? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not. Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for ix>ace, but no good came ; and for a time of healing, and behold dis- may ! We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake ; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory : remember, break not thy covenant with us. Are there any among the vanities of the heathen that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God ? therefore we will wait upon thee ; for thou hast made all these things. Then said the Lord unto me. Though Moses and Sanuiel stood be- fore me, yet my mind could not be toward this people : cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 343 Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall turn aside to ask of thy wel- fare ? Thou hast rejected me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward : therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed, thee ; I am weary with repenting. Thus saith the Lord: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good Cometh ; but shall inhabit the inarched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out his roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be gi-een; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is desperately sick : who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. As the partridge that gathereth young which she hath not brought forth, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed; they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed ; save me, and I shall be saved : for thou art my praise. Behold, they say unto me. Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now. Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture ! saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, against the sliepherds that feed my people : Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord. And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds ; and they shall be fruitful and multiply. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them : and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith the Lord. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute judgement and justice in the land. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely : and this is his name 344 PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. whereby he shall be called, The Lord is our righteousness. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say. As the Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ; but, As the Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. Concerning the prophets. Mine heart within me is broken, all my bones shake ; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome ; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words. For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you ; they teach you vanity : they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. They say continually unto them that despise me. The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace ; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you. I sent not these prophets, yet they ran : I sj^ake not unto them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. I have heard what the prophets have said, that projihesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed, How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies; even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart? which think to cause my peoj^le to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal. The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream ; and he that hath my word, let him sjieak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that broaketh the rock in pieces. Now these arc tlie words of the letter that Jeremiah the pro])het Bent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the cai)tivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon : Thus saith the Lord of liosts, the God of Israel : Build ye houses, and dwell in them ; and ]>lant gardens, and eat the fruit of them ; take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters ; and take wives for your sons, PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 345 and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and muhiply ye there, and be not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel : Let not your prophets that be in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you, neither hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name : I have not sent them, saith the Lord. For thus saith the Lord, After seventy years be accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye sliall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord ; and I will bring you again unto the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying. Thus speak- eth the Lord, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will turn again the captivity of my jieople Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall jiossess it. Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord; neither be dismayed, O Israel : for, lo, I .will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity ; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. At that time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness ; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. The Lord appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the moun- tains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit thereof. For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord 346 PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. our God. For thus saith the Lord, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth. They shall come with weeping, and with supplica- tions will I lead them : I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattereth Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the Lord hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together unto the goodness of the Lord, to the corn, and to the wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd : and their soul shall be as a watered garden ; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together : for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord : A voice is heard in Eamah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Eachel weeping for her children ; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not. Thus saith the Lord: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope for thy latter end, eaith the Lord ; and thy children shall come again to their own bor- der. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned ; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was in- structed, I smote upon my thigh : I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troul)k'd for hini; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Loud of hosts, the God of Israel: Yet again shall they use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity: The Lord bless thee, O hab- itation of justice, O mountain of holiness. And Judah and all the cities thereof shall dwell therein together; the husbandmen, and they that PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 347 go about with flocks. For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished. Upon this I awaked, and beheld ; and my sleej? was sweet unto me. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new cov- enant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not ac- cording to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by tlie hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord ; I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people : and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying. Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the Lord of hosts is his name: If these ordi- nances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Thus saith the Lord : If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also oast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the Lord. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah. Thus saith the Lord that doeth it, the Lord that formeth it to establish it; the Lord is his name : Call unto- me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, which thou knowest not. Thus saith the Lord : Yet again there shall be heard in this place, wherec>f ye say. It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the citiea of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice- of the bride, the voice of them that say. Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endureth for ever : and of them that bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of the Lord. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to 348 PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. lie down. In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the low- land, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the Lord. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform that good word which I have siooken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah. In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David ; and he shall execute judgement and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely : and this is the name whereby she shall be called. The Lord is our righteousness. For thus saith the Lord : David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel ; neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn oblations, and to do sacrifice continually. The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak -unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Hab- azziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites ; and I brought them into the house of the Lord : and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them. Drink ye wine. But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father com- manded us, saying. Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever: neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vine- yard, nor have any : but all your days ye shall dwell in tents ; that ye may live many days in the land wherein ye sojourn. And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he charged us. But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem. Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel : Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words ? saith the Lord. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, tliat he commanded his sons, not to drink win(>, are per- formed, and unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment : but I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speak- PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 349 ing; and ye have not hearkened unto me. I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people have not hearkened unto me ; therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel : Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them. And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel : Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever. And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying. Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah ; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up ; I cannot go in to the house of the Lord : therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord's house upon the fast day : and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. It may be they will present their supiDlication before the Lord, and will return every one from his evil way. And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, read- ing in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house. Now it came to pass that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fiist before the Lord. Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord, in the ears of all the people. And when Micaiah had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord, he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber : and, lo, 350 PASSAGES FROM JEKEMIAH. all the princes sat there. Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the hook in the ears of the people. Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We wull surely tell the king of all these words. And they asked Baruch, saying. Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know whei'e ye be. And they went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe ; and they told all the words in the ears of the king. So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of the chamber of Eiishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. Now the king sat in the winter house in the ninth month: and there vms a fire in the brasier burning before him. And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brasier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brasier. And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. Moreover Elnathan and Dolaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not l)urn the roll : but he would not hear them. Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying. Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll. And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say : He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David : and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah ; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire : and there were added besides unto them many like words. The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto r.anu'li the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at tlie mouth of Jere- miah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, PASSAGES FROM JEREMIAH. 351 saying, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, 0 Baruch: Thou didst say, Woe is me now ! for the Lord hath added sorrow to my pain ; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest. Thu3 ehalt thou say unto him, Thus saith the Lord : Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up ; and this in the whole land. And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not : for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord : but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest. The word that the Lord spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed ; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed. For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate. In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek the Lord their God. They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherwai-d, saying, Come ye, and join yourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. PASSAGES FEOM THE LAMEE^TATIONS OF JEREMIAH. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the prov- inces. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude ; She dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to tlie solemn assembly ; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh. And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed : Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture. And they are gone without strength before the pursuer. Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries All her pleasant things that were from the days of old. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned ; therefore she is become as an un- clean thing : Therefore is she come down wonderfully ; she hath no comforter. All her people sigh, they seek bread : See, O Lord, and behold ; for I am become vile. Is it nothing to you, all ye that j)ass by ? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judab. For these things I weep ; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water ; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My childi-en are desolate, because the enemy liath prevailed. Zion spreadeth forth her hands ; there is none to comfort her. The Lord is righteous ; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow : My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. (352) PASSAGES FROM THE LAMENTATIONS. 353 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me : My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them meat to refresh their souls. Mine heart is turned within me ; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger ! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel. The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion ; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying : But he hath made the rampart and wall to lament ; they languish together. Her gates are sunk into the ground ; he hath destroyed and broken her bars : Her king and her j^rinces are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her proi^hets find no vision from the Lord. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence ; They have cast up dust ujDon their heads ; they have girded themselves with sackcloth : The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. What shall I testify unto thee ? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem ? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, 0 virgin daugh- ter of Zion ? For thy breach is great like the sea : who can heal thee ? Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and foolishness ; And they have not discovered thine iniquity, to bring again thy captivity : But have seen for thee oracles of vanity and things to draw thee aside. All that pass by clap their hands at thee ; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light. He hath fenced me about, that I cannot go forth ; he hath made my chain heavy. Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. 854 PASSAGES FROM THE LAMENTATIONS, And thou hast removed my soul fer off from peace; I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the Lord. Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and ia bowed down within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because hia com- passions fail not. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seek- eth him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him ; let him be filled full with repi'oach. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let ua lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. We have transgressed and have rebelled ; thou hast not pardoned. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon. Thou heardest my voice ; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon tlice : thou saidst, Fear not. How is the gold become dim ! liow is the most pure gold changed ! The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold. How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter ! The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from tlieir music. The joy of our heart is ceased ; Our dance is turned into mourning. PASSAGES FROM THE LAMENTATIONS. 355 The crown is fallen from our head : Woe unto us ! for we have sinned. For this our heart is faint ; For these things our eyes are dim ; For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate ; The foxes walk upon it. Thou, 0 Lord, abidest for ever ; Thy throne is from generation to generation. "Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. PASSAGES FEOM THE BOOX OF THE PEOPHET EZEKIEL. Now it came to pass, as I was among the captives by the river Che- bar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of fom- liv- ing creatures : they had the likeness of a man, and every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went. Their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; it went up and down among the living creatures: and the fii-e was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living crea- tures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth be- side the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof. The ap- pearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl, and full of eyes round about. And when the living creatures went, the Avheels went beside them: and when the living creatures Avere lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Whitherso- ever the spirit was to go, they went; for the spirit of the living crea- ture was in the wheels. And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads. And above the firmanient that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appear- ance of a sapi^hire stone : and upon the likeness of the throne was a (356) PASSAGES FROM EZEKIEL. 357 likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above, and there was brightness round about him. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak with thee. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet ; and I heard him that spake unto me. And he said unto me. Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. And the children are impudent and stifFhearted ; I do send thee unto them: and thou shalt say unto them. Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions : be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Juclah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon • me. Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire ; from the apjiearance of his loins and downward, fire: and fi-om his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the north ; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jeal- ousy. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, accord- ing to the appearance that I saw in the plain. Then said he unto me. Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the gi-eat abom- inations that the house of Israel do commit here ? but thou shalt again see yet other great abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had 858 PASSAGES FROM EZEKIEL. digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominationa that they do here. So I went in and saw ; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pomlrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniuh the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand ; and the odour of the cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery ? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me. Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north ; and behold, there sat the women weep- ing for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these. And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said. Get you far from the Lord ; unto us is this land given for a possession : therefore say. Thus saith the Lord God : Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come. Therefore say. Thus saith the Lord God : I will gather you from the i^eoplos, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you ; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give tliem an heart of flesh: that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them : and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable tilings and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them ; and the glory of the God of Israel was PASSAGES FROM EZEKIEL. 359 over them above. And tlie glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city. And the spirit Hfted me up, and brought me in the vision by the spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of tlie captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed me. The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father ? 'Wlien the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. The soul that sinneth, it shall die : the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son ; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keej) all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord God : and not rather that he should return from his way, and live? But when the righteous turneth away from his right- eousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered : in his tres- pass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Yet ye say. The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel : Is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal ? Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions ; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live. The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre ; and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, which art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord God : Thou, O Tyre, hast 360 PASSAGES FROM EZEKIEL. said, I am perfect in beauty. Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. They have made all thy planks of fir trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make a mast for thee. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars ; they have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in box- wood, from the isles of Kittim. Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign ; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning. The inhabi- tants of Zidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots. The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadim were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about ; they have perfected thy beauty. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches ; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise. They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and warhorses and mules. The men of Dedan were thy traffickers : many isles were the mart of thine hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony. Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handy- works : they traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and l^roidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers: they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. Da- mascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy handyworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise. Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding. Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand ; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants. The traffick- ers of Shcba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers: they traded for thy wares with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were thy traffickers. These were thy traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. PASSAGES FROM EZEKIEL. 361 The ships of Tarshish were thy cartwans for thy merchandise: and thou -wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas. Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the oc- cupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin. At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake. And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land, and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, "Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying. The city is smitten. Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning ; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Thus saith the Lord God : Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood : and shall ye possess the land ? And as for thee, son of man, the children of thy people talk of thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that Cometh forth from the Lord. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not : for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their gain. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. And when this cometh to pass, (behold, it cometh,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds. Thus saith the Lord God : Woe unto the shep- herds of Israel that do feed themselves ! should not the shej)herds 362 PASSAGES FROM EZEKIEL. feed the sheep? Ye eat the fat^and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings ; but ye feed not the sheep. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which w^as broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost ; but with force and with rigour have ye ruled over them. And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd : and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth ; and there was none that did search or seek after them. Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord : As I live, saith the Lord God, surely for- asmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my sheep; therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God : Behold, I am against the shepherds ; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep ; neither shall the shejiherds feed themselves any more ; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shep- herd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep ; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them with good pasture, and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be. I myself will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God. I will seek that which was lost, and will bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David ; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I the Lord will be their God, and my serv- ant David prince among them ; I the Lord have spoken it. And they shall know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God. And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are meu, and I am your God, saith the Lord" God. PASSAGES FROM THE BOOK: OP DAKIEL. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God ; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god : and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master that he should bring in certain of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles ; youths in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace ; and that he should teach them the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years ; that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. And Ash- penaz gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belte- shazzar ; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach ; and to INIishael, of Meshach ; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego. But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank : therefore he requested of Ashpenaz that he might not defile himself Now God made Daniel to find favour and compassion in his sight. And he said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink : for why should he see your faces worse liking than the youths which are of your own age? so should ye endanger my head with the king. Then said Daniel to the steward appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, INIishael, and Azariah : Prove thy servants, I l^eseech thee, ten days ; and let them give us herbs to eat, and water to drink. Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the youths that eat of the (363) 364 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. king's meat ; and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he heark- ened unto tliem in tliis matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesli, than all the youths which did eat of the king's dainties. So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them herbs. Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, Ashpenaz brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, iMishael, and Azariah : therefore stood they before the king. And in every mat- ter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm. And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus. And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchad- nezzar dreamed dreams ; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said tinto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. But if ye shew the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour : therefore shew me the dream and the interpretation thereof. They answered the second time and said. Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the inter- pretation. The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. But if ye make not known unto me the dream, there is but one law for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed : therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof. The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said. There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: forasmuch as no king, lord, nor ruler, hath asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. 365 can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelhng is not with flesh. For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain ; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain. Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Ai'ioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon ; he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, AVherefore is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would shew the king the interpretation. Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Han- aniah, ]Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret ; tliat Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said. Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: and he changeth the times and the seasons: he re- moveth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: he revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast now made known unto me what we desired of thee: for thou hast made known unto us the king's matter. Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon : he went and said thus unto him ; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation. Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded can neither wise men, en- chanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, shew unto the king; but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these: as for thee, 0 king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what 366 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. should come to pass liereafter : and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that thou mayest know the thoughts of thy heart. Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee ; and the aspect thereof was terrible. As for this image, his head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron, and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaflf of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them : and the stone that smote the image be- came a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the dream ; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory ; and whereso- ever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee to rule over them all: thou art the head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee ; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron : forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and sub- clueth all things: and as ii"on that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush. And Avhereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay. And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sov- ereignty thereof be left to another people ; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Foras- much as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain with- out hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. 367 ■what shall come to pass hereafter : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou hast been able to reveal this secret. Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon. And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Me- shach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon : but Daniel was in the gate of the king. Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon, Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sherifls, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, 0 peoples, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up : and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. Therefore at that time, when all the peoj)le3 heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell clown and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews. They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever. Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image : and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. There are certain Jews whom thou hast appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego ; these men, O king, have not re- 368 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. garded thee : they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set np. Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar answered and said unto them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, ]\Ieshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worshij) the golden image which I have set up ? Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall de- liver you out of my hands ? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O- Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to auswer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is a])le to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace ; and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego : tJierefore he spake, and commanded that they sliould heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated. And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Sha- drach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the king's com- mandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the fiame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery fui-nace. Then Nebuchad- nezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste: he spake and said unto his counsellors. Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? Tliey answered and said unto the king. True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace : he spake and said, Shadrach, IMeshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshacli, and Abed-nego, came forth out of the midst of the fire. And the satraps, the deputies, and the gov- ernors, and tlie king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was the hair PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. 369 of their head singed, neither was their hoseu changed, nor had tlie smell of fire passed on them. Nebuchadnezzar spake and said. Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Therefore I make a decree, that every peoj^le, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill : because there is no other god that is able to deliver after this sort. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Lleshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all the i:»eoples, nations, and lan- guages, that dwell in all the earth ; j^eace be multiplied unto you. It hath seemed good unto me to shew the signs and wonders that the Most High God hath wrought toward me. How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders ! his kingdom is an everlasting king- dom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace. I saw a dream which made me afraid ; and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Tlierefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers : and I told the dream before them ; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holj'- gods : and I told the dream befbre him, saying, O Belteshazzar, master of the magi- cians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed : I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great. The tree grew, and was strong, and the lieight thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth. The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, aiid in. it was meat for all : the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the branches thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the 370 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches. Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field ; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth : let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him: and let seven times pass over him. The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones : to the intent that the living may know tliat the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the lowest of men. This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen : and thou, O Belteshazzar^ declare the interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my king- dom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation ; but thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee. Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine adversaries. The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth ; whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation : it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong : for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven,, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; this is the interpretation, 0 king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king : that thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen,, and shalt be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee ; till thou know that the IVIost High ruleth in the Jvingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acccptal)lo unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. 371 mercy to the poor ; if there may be a lengthening of thy tranquiUity. AU this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty ? While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken : the kingdom is departed from thee. And thou shalt be driven from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field ; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee ; until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation: and all the inhabitants of the earth are re- puted as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou ? At the same time mine understanding returned unto me ; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned unto me ; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me ; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added unto me. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven ; for all his works are truth, and his ways judgement : and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebu- chadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jeru- salem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem ; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw 372 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him ; and the joints of Iris loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the sooth- sayers. The. king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Who- soever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. Then came in all the king's wise men : but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation. Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed. Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house : the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever; let not thy thoughts trou])le thee, nor let thy coun- tenance be changed : there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods ; and in the days of thy father light and un- derstanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him : and the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and un- derstanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? I have heard of tliee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpre- tation thereof : but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing. But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and dis- solve doubts: now if thou canst i-ead the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. Then Daniel answered and said before the king. Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another ; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpreta- tion. O thou king, the ]\Iost High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty : and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peojiles, nations, and languages PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. 373 trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive ; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down. But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened that he dwelt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: and he was driven from the sons of me«; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven : until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this ; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven ; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concul)ines, have drunk wine in them ; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and wdiose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified : then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed. And this is the writing that was inscribed, ^mexe, mene, tekel, iiphar- six. This is the interpretation of the thing : jiene ; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. tekel; thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting, ^peres; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the IVIedes and Persians. Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. In that night Belshazzar the Chal- dean king was slain. And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty satraps, which should be throughout the whole kingdom ; and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one ; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage. Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him ; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the king- dom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said iThat is, Numbered, numbered, iveighed, and divisions, 2 That is, Divided. 874 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. thus unto him, King Darius, live forever. All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the gov- ernors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, 0 king, he shall be cast into tiie den of lions. Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the ]Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writ- ing and the interdict. And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem ;) and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel mak- ing petition and supplication before his God. Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's interdict; Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto any god or man within thirty days, save unto thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions ? The king answered and said. The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Then answered they and said before the king. That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to rescue him. Then these men assembled together unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords ; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he came near unto the den to Daniel, he cried with a lament- able voice : the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is tliy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. 375 and they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innooency was found in me ; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he had trusted in his God. And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives ; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, or ever they oame at the bottom of the den. Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth ; Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a •decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel : for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end; he delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth ; who hath de- livered Daniel from the power of the lions. So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia I Daniel was mourning three whole weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pyre gold of Uphaz ; his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to bur- nished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. And I Daniel alone saw the vision : for the men that were with me saw not the vision ; but a great quaking fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves. So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me : for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Yet heard I the voice of his words : and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen* into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground. And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto me, O Daniel, thou man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright ; for unto thee am I now sent : and when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. Then said he unto me. Fear not, Daniel ; for from the first day that thou didst set 376 PASSAGES FROM DANIEL. thine heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for the vision is yet for 7nany days. And when he had spoken unto me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was dumb. And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips : then I opened my mouth, and spake and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord,. l)y reason of the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I retain no strength. For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me. Then there touched me again one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me. And he said, O man greatly beloved, fear not : peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. There shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy jieople shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and ever- lasting contempt. And they that be w'ise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run to and fi'o, and knowledge shall ])e increased. Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on the brink of the river on this side, and the other on the brink of the river on that side. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things? And he said, (io tliy way, Daniel : for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end. Many sliall purify themselves, and-make them- selves white, and be refined ; but the wicked shall do wickedly ; and none of the wicked shall understand : but they that be wise shall understand. But go thou thy way till the end be : for ihou shalt rest, and shalt stand in tliy lot, at the end of the days. PASSAGES FEOM HOSEA. The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jothani, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us : on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. And let us know, let us follow on to know the Lord; his going forth is sure as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away. For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Ephraim, he mixeth himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not : yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not. And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto the Lord their God, nor sought him, for all this. And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria. When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have trespassed against me : though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me. And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds : they assemble themselves for corn and wine, they rebel against me. When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them : they sacri- (377) 378 PASSAGES FROM HOSEA. ficed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven imaojes. Yet I taught Ephraim to go ; I took them on my arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how sliall I make thee as Admah? hoiv shall I set thee aa Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim : for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee. When Ephraim spake, there was trembling ; he exalted himself in Israel: but when he offended in Baal, he died. And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen : they say of them. Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt ; and thou shalt know no god but me, and beside me there is no saviour. I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. According to their pasture, 'so were they filled ; they were filled, and their heart was ex- alted : therefore have they forgotten me. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God ; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and return unto the Lord: say unto him. Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good : so will we render as bullocks the offering of our lips. Asshur shall not save us ; we will not ride upon horses : neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods : for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely : for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Leb- anon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall l)e as the wine of Lebanon. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him : I am like a green fir tree ; from me is thy fruit found. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them ; but transgressors shall fall therein. PASSAGES FROM JOEL. The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten ; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. Awake, ye drunkards, and weep ; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine ; for it is cut off from your mouth. For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number ; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away ; the branches thereof are made white. Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the hus- band of her youth. The meal offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lokd ; the priests, the Lord's nainisters, mourn. The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. Be ashamed, O ye husband- men, howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley ; f(3r the harvest of the field is perished. The vine is withered, and the fig tree languisheth ; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the ajjple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered : for joy is withered away from the sons of men. Gird yourselves loith sackcloth, and lament, ye i^riests ; howl, ye ministers of the altar ; come, lie all night in sack- cloth, ye ministers of my God : for the m^eal offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord. Alas for the day ! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as destruc- tion from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? The (379) 380 PASSAGES FROM JOEL. seeds rot uutler their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barng are broken down ; for the corn is withered. How do the beasts groan ! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture ; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. O Lord, to thee do I cry : for the fire hath devoured the jiastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee : for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath de- voured the pastures of the wilderness. Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain ; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and gloom- iness, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains ; a great people and a strong, there liath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and none hath escaped them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so do they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the moun- tains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stuljble, as a strong 2>eoi)le set in battle array. At their presence the peoples are in anguish : all faces are waxed pale. They run like mighty men ; they climb the wall like men of war ; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks. Neither doth one thrust another ; they march every one in his path : and they burst through the weapons, and break not off tlieir course. They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall ; they climb up into the houses ; they enter in at the windows like a thief. The earth quakcth before them ; the heavens tremble : the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining : and the Lord uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his woid : for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible ; and who can abide it? Yet even now, saith the Lord, turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourn- ing : and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God : for he is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and repcnteth him of the evil. Who knoweth whetlier he will not turn and repent, and leave a l)lessing behind him, even a meal ofiering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: gather the peoi)le, sanctify the congregation, assemble the old men, PASSAGES FROM JOEL. 381 gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bride- groom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them : where- fore should they say among the peoples. Where is their God? Then was the Lord jealous for his land, and had pity on his peojile. And the Lord answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisQed therewith : and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations: but I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, his forepart into the eastern sea, and his hinder part into the western sea ; and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice ; for the Lord hath done great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field ; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dwelt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is none else: and my jjeople shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that who- soever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered : for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as the Lord hath said, and among the remnant those whom the Lord doth call. For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations, 382 PASSAGES FROM JOEL. and ^vill l)riiig them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will plead with them there for my people and for my heritjige Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of ^Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winei)ress is full, the fats overflow ; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multi- tudes in the valley of decision ! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. And the Lord shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens and the earth shall shake : but the Lord will be a refuge unto his people, and a strong hold to the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain : then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters ; and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the vio- lence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. And I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed : for the Lord dwelleth in Zion. J That is, The Lord judgeth. PASSAGES FEOM AMOS. The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Jndah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. Hear this word that the Lokd hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities. Shall two walk together, except they have agreed? Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey ? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all ? Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he re- vealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear ? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy ? I have overthrown some among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, aiid ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning : yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lokd. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel : and because I will do this unto thee, pre- pare to meet thy God, O Israel. For, lo, he that formeth the moun- tains, and createth the . wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth ; the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name. Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. The virgin of Israel is fallen ; she shall no more rise : she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up. For thus saith the Lord God: The city that went forth a thousand shall have an hundred left, and that which went forth an hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel. For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live : seek him that maketh (383) 384 PASSAGES FROM AMOS. the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night : that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth ; the Lord is his name ; that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong. Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat : ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them ; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. For I know how manifold are your transgressions and how mighty are your sins; ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right. Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time. Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live : and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye say. Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgement in the gale: it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Therefoi-e thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord : Wailing shall be in all the broad ways ; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. And in all vineyards shall be v»'ailing: for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith the Lord. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! wherefore would ye have the day of the Lord ? it is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Yea, though ye offer me your l:>urnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs ; for I will not hear the mel- ody of thy viols. But let judgement roll down as waters, and right- eousness as a mighty stream. Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Yea, ye have borne Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the na- tions, to whom the house of Israel come ! Pass ye unto Calneh, and see ; and from thence go ye to Ilamath the gi-eat: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or is their PASSAGES FROM AMOS. 385 border greater than your border? Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near ; that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall ; that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David ; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments ; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves, shall pass away. Thus the Lord God shewed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in' the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth ; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. And it came to pass that when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee : how shall Jacob stand ? for he is small. The Lord repented concerning this : It shall not be, saith the Lord. Thus the Lord God shewed me : and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire ; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. The Lord repented concern- ing this : This also shall not be, saith the Lord God. Thus he shewed me : and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel ; I will not again pass by them any more : and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste ; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel : the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there : but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el : for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house. Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son ; but I was an herdman, and a- dresser of sycamore trees : and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord : Thou sayest, Prophesy not against 386 PASSAGES FROM AMOS. Israel, and drop not thy tvord against the house of Isaac ; therefore thus saith the Lord : Thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the Bword, and thy land shall be divided by line ; and thou thyself shalt die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. Thus the Lord God shewed me : and behold, a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me. The end is come upon my people Israel ; I will not again pass ]jy them any more. And the songs of the temple shall be bowlings in that day, saith the Lord God : the dead bodies shall be many ; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence. Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail, saying. When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit; that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat. The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. And they shall v/ander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east ; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say. The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old ; that they may possess the rem- nant of Edom, and all the nations, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that docth this. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant .vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. PASSAGES FROM JONAH. Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it ; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from tlie presence of the Lord ; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarsliish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from tlie pres- ence of the Lord. But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the shij) was hke to be broken. Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god ; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into tlie sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the shii^ ; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him. What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. And they said every one to his fellow. Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. Then said they unto him. Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us ; what is thine occupation ? and whence comest thou ? what is thy country ? and of what people art thou ? And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew ; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. Then were the men ex- ceedingly afraid, and said unto him. What is this that thou hast done ? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, be- cause he had told them. Then said they unto him. What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us ? for the sea grew more and more tempestuous. And he said unto them. Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea ; so shall the sea be calm unto you : for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land ; but they could not : for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. Wherefore (387) 366 PASSAGES FROM JONAH. they cried unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we be- seech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood : for thou, O Lord, hast done as it j)leased thee. So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows. And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly. And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, And he answered me. For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me ; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me. And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul The deep was round about me ; The weeds were wrapjjed about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains ; The earth with her bars closed upon me for ever : Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord : And my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving ; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, say- ing, Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said. Yet forty days, and Nine- veh shall be overthrown. And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast;, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his rol)c from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he made PASSAGES FROM JONAH. 389 proclamation and puljlished through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything : let them not feed, nor drink water : but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not ? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God repented of the evil, which he said he would do unto them ; and he did it not. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and fall of compassion, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and re- pentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live. And the Lord said, Doest thou well to be angry ? Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind ; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said. It is better for me to die than to live. And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd ? And he said, I do well to be angry even unto death. And the Lord said, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night : and should not I have pity on Nineveh, that great city ; wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ? PASSAGES- FROM MICAH. The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morashtitc in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judali, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people to err ; that bite with their teeth and ci-y, Peace ; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him : Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision ; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine ; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them. And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded ; yea, they shall all cover their lips : for there is no answer of God. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high i)laces of a forest. But in the latter days it shall come to i)ass,that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established, in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples shall flow unto it. And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord fi'om Jerusalem. And he shall judge between many peoi)les, and shall re- prove strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks : nation shall not lift up swoid against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man mider his vine and under his fig tree ; and none shall make them afraid : for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all the peoples will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for 'ever and ever. In that day, saith the Lord, will T assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven away, and her that I have afflicted ; and I will make lier that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far (390) PASSAGES FROM MICAH, 391 off a strong nation : and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come ; yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel ; whose goings forth are from of old, from ever- lasting. And he shall stand, and shall feed his floch in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God : and they shall abide ; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. And this laan shall be our peace. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good ; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ? Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage : there is no cluster to eat ; nor firstripe fig which my soul desired. The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men : they all lie in wait for blood ; they hunt every man his brother with a net. Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently ; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward ; and the great man, he uttereth the mischief of his soul: thus they weave it together. The best of them is as a Ijrier : the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. But as for me, I will look unto the Lord ; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy : when I fall, I shall arise ; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him ; until he plead my cause, and execute judgement for me : he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again and have compassion upon us ; he will tread our iniquities under foot : and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. PASSAGES FEOM NAHUM. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers : Bashan lan- guisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt ; and the earth is up- heaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that put their trust in him. Behold, wgon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace ! Keep thy feasts, O Judah, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. He that dasheth in pieces ia come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. For the Lord bringeth again the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel. But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water. She is empty, and void, and waste : and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departcth not. The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels ; and pransing horses, and jumping chariots; the horseman mounting, land the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of carcases: and there is none end of the corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses. Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy marslials as the swarms of grasshojipers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria : thy worthies are at rest : thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them. There is no assuaging of thy hurt; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee clap the hands over thee ; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? (392) PASSAGES FROM HABAKKUK. The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. Behold ye among the nations, and regard, and wonder marvel- lously : for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation ; which march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves ; aaid their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour, and they gather captives as the sand. Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty : even he whose might is his god. Art not thou from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained him for judgement ; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction. Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and boldest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he. I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall an- swer concerning my complaint. And the Lord answered me, and said. Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie : though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not delay. Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil ! For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity ! Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the peo- ples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity ? For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Woe unto him that saith to the wood. Awake ; to the dumb stone, (393) 394 PASSAGES FROM HABAKKUK. Arise ! But the Lord is in his holy temple : let all the earth keep silence before him. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth. O Lord, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid : 0 Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known ; In wrath remember mercy. For though the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail. And the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 1 will joy in the God of my salvation. Jehovah, the Lord is my strength, And he maketh my feet like hinds' feet, And will make me to walk upon mine high places. PASSAGES FROM ZEPHANIAH. The word of the Lord which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, in the days of Josiah the son of Anion, king of Judah. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God : for the day of the Lord is at hand : for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath sancti- fied his guests. And it sliall come to pass in tlie day of the Lord's sacrifice, tliat I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel. And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, which fill their master's house with violence and deceit. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles ; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the Lord; the mighty man crieth there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet and alarm. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgement ; seek righteousness, seek meekness : it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger. For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon- day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites ! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah ; they shall feed their flocls thereupon : in the house of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening ; for the Lord their God shall visit them, and bring again their caistivity. And he ^'^"ill stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria ; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness. And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all (395) 396 PASSAGES FROM ZEPHANIAH. the beasts of the nations: both the peUcan and the porcupine shall lodge in the chapiters thereof: their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar work. This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none else beside me : how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand. Woe to her that is rebelUous and polluted, to the oppressing city ! She obeyed not tlie voice ; she received not correction ; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. The Lord in the midst of her is righteous ; he will not do iniquity ; every morning doth he bring his judgement to light, he faileth not. Therefore wait ye for me, saith the Lord. For then will I turn to the peoples a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine oflbring. In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wdiercin thou hast trans- gressed against me : for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proudly exulting ones, and thou shalt no more be haughty in my holy mountain. But I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. The rem- nant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies ; neither shall a de- ceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. Sing, 0 daughter of Zion; shout, 0 Israel ; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The Lord hath taken away thy judgements, he hath cast out thine enemy : the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not fear evil any more. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: 0 Zion, let not thine hands be slack. The Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save : he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. PASSAGES FEOM HAGGAI. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth montli, in the first day of tlie niontli, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, Tlius speaketh tire Lord of hosts, saying. This people say, It is not tlie time for us to come, the time for the Lord's liouse to be built. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste? Now there- fore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleas- ure in it, and I will be gloi'ified, saith the Lord. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little ; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why ? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that lieth waste, wliile ye run every man to his own house. Therefore for your sake the heaven is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And the Lord stirred up the sjiirit of Zerubbabel the son Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jeho- zadak, the high i)riest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the jieople; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts. In the seventh month came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying. Who is left among you that saw this house in its for- mer glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes as noth- ing ? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord ; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest ; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work : for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts, according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my spirit abode among you : fear ye not. For thus saith the Lord of hosts : Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land ; and I will shake all nations, and the desirable things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord of hosts : and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts. (397) PASSAGES FEOM ZEOHARIAH. Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion : for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. And the Lord shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord : for he is waked up out of his holy habitation. Rejoice greatly, 0 daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass ; and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hojie : even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplica- tion ; and they shall look unto me whom thoy have pierced : and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be with brightness and with j^loom : but it shall be one day which is known unto the Lord; not day, and not night: l)ut it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light. And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem ; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea : in summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth : in that day shall the Lord be one, and his name one. (398) PASSAGES FROM MALACHI. The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, 0 priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name ? Ye otfer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say. Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say. The table of the Lord is contemptible. And when j'e offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil ! and when ye offer the lame and sick, it is no evil ! Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not kindle fire on mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place incense is offered unto my name, and a i^ure offering : for my name shall be great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. Ye say also. Behold, what a weariness is it ! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts ; and ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick ; thus" ye bring the offering : should I accept this of your hand ? saith the Lord. And now, O ye lariests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. My covenant was with him of life and peace ; and I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips : he walked with me in peace (399) 400 PASSAGES FROM MALACHI. and upriglitness, and did turn many away from iniquity. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. But ye are tui'ned aside out of the way ; ye have caused many to stumble in the law ; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say. Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say. Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them ; or where is the God of judgement ? Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall sud- denly come to his temple ; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he ap- peareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and they shall offer unto tlie Lord offerings in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years. And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers ; and against those that opi:)ress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. For I the Lord change not ; there- fore ye, 0 sons of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine or- dinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we re- turn ? Will a man rob God ? yet ye rob me. But ye say. Wherein have we rob))ed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with the curse ; for ye rob me, even this 'O'hole nation. Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground ; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. And all nations shall call you happy: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts. Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein have we spoken against thee? Ye have said. It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfullv before the Lord of hosts? And now PASSAGES FROM MALACHI. 401 we call the proud liapi:)y ; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and are delivered. Then they that feared the Lord spake one with another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do make, even a pecu- liar treasure; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. For, behold, the day cometh, it burnetii as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble ; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. PASSAGES FROM THE BOOK OF JOB. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and es- chewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the great- est of all the children of the east. And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day ; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all : for Job said. It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present them- selves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said. From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fearcth (Jod, and escheweth evil. Then Satan answered the Lord, and said. Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power ; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them : and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them (402) PASSAGES FROM JOB. 403 away ; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speak- ing, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and con- sumed them ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. \Vhile he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead ; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped ; and he said. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God with foolishness. Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present them- selves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord. And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said. From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job ? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil : and he still holdeth fast his integ- rity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the Lord, and said. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in» thine hand; only spare his life. So Satan went forth from the pres- ence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal ; and he sat among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him. Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die. But he said unto her. Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place ; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite : and 404 PASSAGES FROM JOB. they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him. And when they lifted up tlieir eyes afar off, and knew him not, they hfted up their voice, and wept ; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads tow'ard heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very gi-eat. After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day, and said : Let the day perish wherein I was born ; Let not God regard it from above. Neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own : Let it not rejoice among the days of the year ; Let it not come into the number of the months. For now should I have lien down and been quiet ; I should have slept ; then had I Ijeen at rest : Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been ; As infants which never saw light. There the wicked cease from troubling ; And there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. The small and great are there ; And the servant is free from his master. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery. And life unto the bitter in soul ; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; And dig for it more than for hid treasures ; Which rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave ? Why is light given to a man whose light is hid, And whom God hath hedged in? For my sighing cometh like my meat, And my roarings are poured out like water. For the thing which I feared is come ui)on me. I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh. Then answered Eliphaz, If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou l)e grieved? But who can withhold himself from sjieaking? PASSAGES FROM JOB. 405 Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast confirmed the feeble knees. But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Is not thy fear of God thy confidence. And thy hope the integrity of thy ways ? Remember, I pray thee, who erer perished, being innocent ? Or where were the upright cut ofl"? According as I have seen, thej' that plow iniquity. And sow trouble, reap the same. Now a thing was secretly brought to me. And mine ear received a whisper thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men. Fear came upon me, and trembling. Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before mine eyes : There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly : How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust. For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; But n^an is born unto trouble. As the sparks fly upward. But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause : Which doeth great things and unsearchable ; Marvellous things without number: Who giveth rain upon the earth. And sendeth waters upon the fields : So that he setteth up on high those that be low ; And those which mourn are exalted to safety. He trustrateth the devices of the crafty. 406 PASSAGES FROM JOB. So tliat their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: And the counsel of the froward is carried lieadlong. They meet with darkness in tlie daytime, And grope at noonday as in tlie night. Behold, hapi:)y is the man whom God correcteth : Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up ; He woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles ; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace ; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age. Like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season. Lo this, we have searched it, so it is ; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good. Then Job answered and said, Oh that my vexation were but weighed. And my calamity laid in the balances together ! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas : Therefore have my words been rash. Oh that I might have my request ; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Even that it would please God to crush me ; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Then should I yet have comfort ; Yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not : For I have not denied the words of the Holy One. What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient? Is my strength the strength of stones ? Or is my flesh of brass? To him that is ready to faint kindness should he shewed from his friend My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a l>rook, As the channel of brooks that pass away. Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your su))stancc? Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand ? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors? PASSAGES FROM JOB. 407 Teach me, and I will hold my peace : And cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are words of uprightness ! But what doth your arguing reprove? Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind. Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice ; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous. Is there not a time of service to man upon earth ? And are not his days like the days of an hireling ? As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as an hireling that looketh for his wages: 80 am I made to possess months of vanity. And wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise ? but the night is Icmg ; And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and clouds of dust ; My skin closeth up and breaketh out afi'esh. ]\Iy days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. Oh remember that my life is wind. When I say. My b§d shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions. I loathe my life; I would not live alway : Let me alone ; for my days are as a breath. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him. And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him, And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment? If I have sinned, what can I do unto thee, O thou watcher of men ? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee. So that I am a burden to myself? Then answered Bildad, How long wilt thou speak these things? And hoiv long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind? Doth God pervert judgement ? Or doth the Almightj' pervert justice ? If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty ; 408 PASSAGES FROM JOB. If thou wert pure and upright; Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out : (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow :) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter woixls out of their heart? Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man. Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter. And thy lips with shouting. Then Job answered and said. Of a truth I know that it is so : But how can man be just with God ? If he be pleased to contend with him. He cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength : Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered ? Which shaketh the earth out of her place, • , And the pillars thereof tremble. Which alone stretcheth out the heavens. And treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Which maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south. Which doeth great things past finding out ; Yea, marvellous things without number. Who will say unto him, What doest thou ? How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him? My days are swifter than a }X)st : They flee away, they see no gootl. They are passed away as the swift ships: As the eagle that swoo^xith on the prey. If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer : I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I waf?h myself witii snow water. And make my hantlH never so clean ; PASSAGES FROM JOB. 409 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgement. There is no daysman betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both. My soul is weary of my life ; I will give free course to my complaint ; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me ; Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands ? Thine hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about ; yet thou dost destroy me. Thou hast granted me life and favour. And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Are not my days few? cease then. And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little. Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death ; A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; A land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness. Then answered Zophar, Should thy boastings make men hold their peace ? For thou sayest. My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes. But Oh that God would sjieak, And open his lips against thee. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Canst thou find out the deep things of God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? If thou set thine heart aright. And stretch out thine hands toward him ; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away. And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents; Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear : For thou shalt forget thy misery ; 410 PASSAGES FROM JOB. Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away : And thy hfe shall be clearer than the noonday ; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning. And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope ; Yea, thou shalt search about thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety. Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid. Then Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people. And wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding as well as you. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee ; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these. That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ? In wliose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind. Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, And judges maketh he fools. He removeth the speech of the trusty. And taketh away the understanding of the elders. He poureth contempt upon princes. He taketh away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth. And causeth them to wander in a wilderness wliere there is no way. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, Mine ear hath heard and understood it. What ye know, the same do I know also. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God. Ye are all physicians of no value. Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it should be your wisdom. Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, And let come on me what will. Though he slay me, yet will I wait for him. PASSAGES FROM JOB. 411 Behold now, I have ordered my cause ; I know that I shall be justified. Only do nOt two things unto me, Then will I not hide myself from thy face : Withdraw thine hand far from me ; And let not thy terror make me afraid. Then call thou, and I will answer ; Or let me speak, and answer thou me. How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. Wherefore hidest thou thy face. And holdest me for thine enemy ? Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble ? For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He Cometh forth like a tlower, and is cut down : He tieeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, And bringest me into judgement with thee? Look away from him, that he may rest. Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground ; Yet through the scent of water it will bud. And put forth boughs like a plant. But man dieth, and wasteth away : Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? If a man die, shall he live again f All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come. Then answered Eliphaz, Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou doest away with fear. 412 PASSAGES FROM JOB. And restrainest devotion before God. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I ; Yea, thine own hps testify against thee. Art thou the first man that was born ? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills ? Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father. Are the consolations of God too small for thee. And the word that dealeth gently with thee? Why doth thine heart carry thee away ? That thou turnest thy spirit against God, And lettest such words go out of thy mouth. AVhat is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water ! I will shew thee, hear thou me ; And that which I have seen I will declare : The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, A sound of terrors is in his ears : He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand : Distress and anguish make him afraid. Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty ; He shall not depart out of darkness ; The flame shall dry up his branches. He shall shake ofl" his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive. TiiEN Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all. I also could speak as ye do ; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake mine head at you. PASSAGES FROM JOB. 413 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips should assuage your grief. God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, and he brake me asunder ; He breaketh me with breach upon breach ; He runneth upon me like a mighty man. My face is foul with weeping. And on my eyelids is the shadow of death ; Although there is no violence in mine hands, And my prayer is pure. 0 earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no resting place. Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high. My friends scorn me : But mine eye poureth out tears unto God. For when a few years are come, 1 shall go the way whence I shall not return. My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me. He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day : The light, say they, is near because of darkness. If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father ; To the worm, TJiou art my mother, and my sister; Where then is my hop>e ? And as for my hope, who shall see it ? It shall go down to the bars of the grave, When once there is rest in the dust. Then answered Bildad, Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place ? Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, 414 PASSAGES FROM JOB. And the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out. His own counsel shall cast him down. For he is cast into a net by his own feet. His roots shall be dried up ])eneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God. Then Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me : Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net. He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths. He hath stripped me of my glory. And taken the crown from my head. He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger : I am an alien in their sight. I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer; Even young children despise me ; And tliey whom I loved are turned against me. My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh. And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; For the hand of God hath touched me. Oh that my words were now written ! PASSAGES FROM JOB. Oh that they were inscribed in a book ! That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in tlie rock for ever ! But I know that my redeemer Uveth, And that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth : And after my skin hath been destroyed, Yet without my tiesh shall I see God : Whom I shall see for myself, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger Then answered Zophak, Knowest thou not this of old time. Since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment ? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds ; He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found : Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue ; Though he spare it, and will not let it go. But keep it still within his mouth ; It is the gall of asps within him. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again : That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down ; For he hath opi:)ressed and forsaken the poor ; He hath violently taken away an house, which he builded not. Because he knew no quietness in his greed. He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. The increase of his house shall depart. His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. This is the jwrtion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God. Then Job answered and said, Suffer me, and I also will speak ; And after that I have spoken, mock on. As for me, is my complaint to man ? And why should I not be impatient? Mark me, and be astonished. 416 PASSAGES FROM JOB. And lay your hand upon your mouth. Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. They sing to the timbrel and harp. And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to the grave. Yet they said unto God, Depart from us ; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? The counsel of the wicked is far from me. How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out ? That their calamity cometh upon them? That God distributeth sorrows in his anger ? That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away ? Shall any teach God knowledge? Seeing he judgeth those that are high. One dieth in his full strength. Being wholly at ease and quiet : And another dieth in bitterness of soul. And never tasteth of good. They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them. Behold, 1 know your thoughts. And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say. Where is the house of the prince ? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt? Have ye not asked them that go by the way ? And do ye not know their tokens? That the evil man is spared in the day of calamity ? Moi*eover he is borne to the grave. And they shall keep watch over his tomb. The clods of the valley are sweet unto him ; And all men draw after him, * PASSAGES FROM JOB. 417 As there were innumerable before him. How then comfort ye me with vanity, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only faithlessness. Then answered Eliphaz, Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous ? Or is it gain to Mm that thou makest thy ways perfect? Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities. For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing. Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken. Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee. Or darkness, that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters covers thee. Is not God in the height of heaven ? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are ! And thou sayest, What doth God know ? Can he judge through the thick darkness ? Tliick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not,;: And he walketh in the circuit of heaven. Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace : Thereby good shall come unto thee. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thine heart. And lay thou thy treasure in the dust. And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks ; And the Almighty shall be thy treasure, And precious silver unto thee. For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, And shalt lift up thy face unto God. Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee. AVhen they cast thee down, thou shalt say, There is lifting up ; And the humble person he shall save. Then Job answered, Oh that I knew where I might find him, That I might come even to his seat! 418 PASSAGES FROM JOB. I would order my cause before him, And fill my mouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him : On the left hand, when he doth work, l)ut I cannot behold him : He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. But he knoweth the way that I take ; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside. I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips ; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. There are that remove the landmarks ; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, They take the widow's ox for a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way : There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor: So that they go about naked without clothing. God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon ; But his eyes are upon their ways. They are exalted ; yet a little while, and they are gone ; Yea, they are brought low, they are gathered in as all other, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. Then answered Bildad, Dominion and fear are with him ; And upon whom doth not his light arise? How then can man be just before God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman ? Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight: How much less man, that is a worm ! And Job again took up his parable, and said, As God liveth, who hath taken away my right; And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul ; (For my life is yet whole in me. PASSAGES FROM JOB. ' 419 And the spirit of God is in my nostrils ;) Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit. God forbid that I should justify you : Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go : My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone. He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn ; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro. He cutteth out channels among the rocks ; And his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the streams that they trickle not ; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The deep saith, It is not iu me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold. Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. Whence then cometh wisdom ? And where is the place of understanding? Destruction and Death say. We have heard a rumour thereof with our ears, God understandeth the way thereof. And he knoweth the place thereof. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding. And Job again took up his parable, and said, Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me ; When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness ; As I was in the ripeness of my days, 420 PASSAGES FROM JOB. When the secret of God was upon my tent ; When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me. When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street, The young men saw me and hid themselves. And the aged rose up and stood ; The princes refrained talking. And laid their hand on their mouth ; The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me: Because I delivered the poor that cried. The fatherless also, that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem. . I was eyes to the blind. And feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the needy : And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous. And plucked the prey out of his teeth. Then I said, I shall die in my nest. And I shall multiply my days as the sand : My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch: My glory is fresh in me. And my bow is renewed in my hand. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel. After my words they spake not again; And my speech dropped upon them. And they waited for me as for the rain ; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my Hock, And now I am become their song. Yea, I am a byword unto them. Upon my right hand rise the rabble; PASSAGES FROM JOB. 421 As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me: They chase mine honour as the wind. And now my soul is poured out within me ; Days of affliction have taken hold ui^on me. In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me : I stand up, and thou lookest at me. Thou art turned to be cruel to me : With the might of thy hand thou i^ersecutest me. Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride iqwn it; And thou dissolvest me in the storm. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy ? When I looked for good, then evil came ; And when I waited for light, there came darkness. Oh that I had one to hear me ! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me ;) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written ! Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder ; I would bind it unto me as a crown. I would declare unto him the number of my steps ; As a prince would I go near unto him. The words of Job are ended. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel : against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified him- self rather than God. Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled. And Elihu said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not shew you mine opinion. I said, Days should sjieak, 422 PASSAGES FROM JOB. And multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding. It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand judgement. Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasons. Whilst ye searched out what to say, Yea, I attended unto you. And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you. And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more? I also will shew mine opinion. For I am full of words ; The spirit within me constraineth me. I will speak, that I may find relief. Let me not, I pray j^ou, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man. For I know not to give flattering titles ; Else would my Maker soon take me away. Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words. My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart : And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely. The spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Almighty giveth me life. If thou canst, answer thou me ; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth. Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, And I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean, without transgression ; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me: Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy ; He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths. Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man. Why dost thou strive against him? For he giveth not account of any of his matters. For God speaketh once. PASSAGES FROM JOB. 423 Yea twice, tJiough man regardeth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men. In slumberings upon the bed ; Then he oiienetli the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man ; That he may keep back his soul from the pit. And his life from perishing by the sword. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit. And his life to the destroyers. If there be with him a messenger. An interpreter, one among a thousand, To shew unto man what is right for him ; And he be gracious unto him, and saith. Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's ; He returneth to the days of his youth : He prayeth unto God, and he is favourable unto him ; So that he seeth his face with joy : And he restoreth unto man his righteousness. Lo, all these things doth God work. Twice, yea thrice, with a man. To bring back his soul from the pit. That he may be enlightened with the light of the living. Mark well, 0 Job, hearken unto me : If thou hast anything to say, answer me : Speak, for I desire to justify thee. Moreover Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, ye wise men ; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear trieth words, As the palate taste th meat. Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good. For Job hath said, I am righteous. And God hath taken away my right : My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression. What man is like Job, 424 PASSAGES FROM JOB, Who drinketh up scorning like water ? For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God. Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding : Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. For the work of a man shall he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways. Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly. Neither will the Almighty pervert judgement. Is it fit to say to a king. Thou art vile ? Or to nobles. Ye are wicked ? How much less to him that respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? For they all are the work of his hands. For his eyes are upon the ways of a man. And he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn ? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man, alike. For hath any said unto God, I have borne chastisement, though I offend not. That which I see not teach thou me : If I have done ini(juity, I will do it no more ? Moreover Elihu answered and said, Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's, That thou sayest, Wliat advantage will it be unto thee ? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned? I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee. Look unto the heavens, and see ; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou. If thou be righteous, what givest thou him ? Or what receiveth he of thine hand? But none saith, Where is God my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night; Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth. And maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven ? PASSAGES FROM JOB. 425 Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him? Who hath enjoined him his way ? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought tinrighteouaness ? Remember that thou magnify his work. Whereof men have sung. All men have looked thereon ; Man beholdeth it afar ofl'. Behold, God is great, and we know him not ; The number of his years is unsearchable. Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge ? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it? Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened ? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; AVhen the morning stars sang together. And all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, AVhen I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And prescribed for it my decree, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place? Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea ? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep ? Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? Hast thou comprehended the breadth of the earth ? Declare, if thou knowest it all. Where is the way to the dwelling of light, And as for darkness, where is the place thereof? 426 PASSAGES FROM JOB. By what way is the hght parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth ? Who hath cleft a channel for the water-flood, To satisfy the waste and desolate ground ; And to cause the tender grass to spring forth ? Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drojis of dew ? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it ? The waters are congealed like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen. Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion ? Canst thou lead forth the signs of the Zodiac in their season ? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train? Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens ? Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are ? Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said. Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it. Then Job answered the Lord, and said. Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken, and I will not answer ; Yea twice, but I will proceed no further. Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said. Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare tliou unto me. Wilt thou even disannul my judgement? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified? Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like liim? Who then is he that can stand Ijefore me ? Who liath first given unto me, that 1 should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. Then Job answered the Lord, and said, I know that thou canst do all things, And that no i)urpose of thine can be restrained. PASSAGES FROM JOB. 427 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge ? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak ; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear ; But now mine ej'e seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent In dust and ashes. And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering ; and my servant Job shall pray for you ; for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them : and the Lord accepted Job. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends : and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there unto him all hia brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house : and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him : every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold. So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. He had also seven sons and three daughters. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job : and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. And after this Job lived an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days. PASSAGES FEOM THE FIEST BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED GENESIS. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was waste and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep : and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be Hght : and there was Hght. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the hght from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. And God said. Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the fir- mament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth : and it was 60. And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind : and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. And God said. Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years : and let them be for lights in the fir- mament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so. And God made the two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the C428) PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 429 earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. And God said. Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl mul- tiply in the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind : and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind : and God saw that it was good. And God said. Let us make man in our image, after our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him ; male and female created he them. And God blessed theni : and God said unto them. Be fruit- ful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it ; and have do- minion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yield- ing seed ; to you it shall be for meat : and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat : and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, be- hold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morn- ing, the sixth day. And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made ; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it : because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the 430 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. field had yet sprung up : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground ; but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward, in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the gar- den, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. The name of the first is Pishon : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon : the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Gush. And the name of the third river is Hid- dekel : that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God com- manded the man, saying. Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat : but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it ; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the Lord God said. It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them : and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field ; but for ^man there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slei)t ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from the man, made lie a woman, and brought her unto the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called ^ Woman, because she was taken out of ^Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of tlic field which the Loud God had made. And he saiil unto the woman. Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden ? And the woman 1 Or, Adam. - Heb. lashah. = Heb. Ish. PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 431 said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said. Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a de- light to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat ; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God -amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto the man, and said unto him. Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked ; and I hid myself. And he said. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat ? And the man said. The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she ga^^e me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent. Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and ^ above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed : it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception ; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said. Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field ; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And the man called his wife's name Eve ; because she was the mother of all living. And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. 1 Or, from among. 432 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of ua, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever : therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. And Eve bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord. And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And injirocess of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee is its desire, but thou shouldest rule over it. And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper ? And he said. What hast thou done ? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand ; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not hence- forth yield unto thee her strength ; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that whosoever findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him. Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Kod, on the east of Eden. And Adam's wife again bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, mid she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel ; for Cain slew him. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son ; and he called his name Enosh.: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. This is tlie book of the generations from Adam to Noah. In the PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 433 (lay that God created man, in the hkeness of God made he hhn ; male and female created he them ; and blessed them, and called their name 'Adam, in the day when they were created. Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah: and Noah l)e,ti;at Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood ; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit slialt thou finish it upward ; and the door of the ark shalt tliou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. And I, behold, I do luring the flood of waters u})on the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; every thing that is in the earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee ; they shall ])e male and female. Of the fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee ; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah ; according to all that God com- manded him, so did he. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark ; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female ; and of the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female ; of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female: to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights ; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord connnanded him. 1 Or, Man. 434 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the ground, there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark ; they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and the Lord shut him in. And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters i:)revailed, and increased greatly upon the earth ; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters j^revailed exceedingly upon the eai-tli ; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : all in whose nostrils Avas the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters pre- vailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of an hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 435 seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the moun- tains seen. And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made : and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground ; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days ; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark ; and the dove came in to him at eventide ; and, lo, in her mouth an olive leaf pluckt oS: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days ; and sent forth the dove ; and she returned not again unto him any more. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first .year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah re- moved the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry. And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth ; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him : every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and oflFered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and har- vest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air ; with all wherewith the ground 436 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. tcemelh, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they deliv- ered. Every moving thing tliat liveth shall he food for you; as the green lierb have I given you all. But flesh with the life thereof, u-Mch ?> the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood, tJie blood of your lives, will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply ; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creatui-e that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you ; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the eai-th. And I will establish my cov- enant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither sliall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with j^ou, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over tiie earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant, which is be- tween me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noali : and of these was the whole earth overspread. And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as tliey journeyed east, that they found a i)lain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another. Go to, let us make l^rick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had l)rick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And they said. Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and .let us make us a name ; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which tlie children of men builded. And the Lord said. Be- hold, they are one people, and they have all one language ; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face PAaSAGES FROM GENE8I8. 437 of all the earth : and they left off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lokd scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. These are the generations of Sheni in direct descent. Shem, Ar- pachshad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Senig, Nahor, Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran ; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai. And Sarai had no child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from TJr of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. Now the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and be thou a blessing : and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. So Abram went, as the Lord had spoken unto him ; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of INIoreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said. Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent; and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ; for the famine was sore in the land. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord. And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might 438 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdinen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle : and the Canaanite and the Per- izzite dwelled then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herd- men and thy herdmen ; for we are brethren. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou udlt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and be- held all the Plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar. So Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sin- ners against the Lord exceedingly. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him. Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward : for all the land Avhich thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can numjjer the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for unto thee will I give it. And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord. And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela; and they set the battle in array in the vale of Siddim against Chedor- laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Anu-apliel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of EUasar ; four kings against the five. Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits , and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain. And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, l)orn in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. And he divided himself against them by night, he and his ser- vants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his g(jods, and the women also, and the people. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 439 return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King's Vale). And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was priest of God Most High. And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth : and blessed be God Most High, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all. After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram : I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, O Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Dammesek Eliezer? And Abram said. Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying. This man shall not be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said. Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to tell them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him. Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, arid a young pigeon. And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other : but the birds divided he not. And the birds of prey came down upon the carcases, and Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a sui-ety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years ; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. Xow Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children ; and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai Abram's 440 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. wife took Hagar the Egj^ptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. And her mistress was despised in her eyes. And Sarai said unto Abram, ]My wrong be upon thee : I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee. But Abram said unto Sarai, Beliold, thy maid is in thy hand ; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face. And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness by the foun- tain in the way to Sliur. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence earnest thou ? and whither goest thou ? And she said, I flee from tlie face of my mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Eeturn to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou shalt bear a son ; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. And he shall be as a wild-ass among men ; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her. Thou God seest me. And Hagar bare Abram a son : and Abram called the name of his son, which Plagar bare, Ishmael. And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord aj)- peared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty ; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, As for me, behold, my cov- enant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will estab- lish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; every male among you shall be circumcised: and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you. And he that is eight days PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 441 old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your gen- erations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised shall be cut off from liis j^eople ; he hath broken my covenant. And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but ^Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her : yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations ; kings of people shall be of her. Then Al)raham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart. Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee ! And God said. Nay, but Sarah thy M^fe shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee. And he left off talking with him, and God went uj) from Abraham. And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised them, as God had said unto him. And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised. And the Lord appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them fi'om tlie tent door, and bowed himself to the earth, and said. My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree : and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said. So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said. Make ready cxuickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant ; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. And they said unto him, Where is 1 That is, Princess. 442 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age ; and Sarah laughed within herself. And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said. Nay ; but thou didst laugh. And the men rose up from thence, and looked towards Sodom : and Abraham went with them to bring them on tiie way. And the Lord said. Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do ; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, to the end that he may command his cliildren and his household after him, that they may keeji the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgement ; to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know. And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? Perad venture there be fifty righteous within the city : wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked ; that be far from thee : shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: perad venture there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. And he said. Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: jieradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord : peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will si)eak yet but this once : peradventure PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 443 ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake. And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left com- muning with Abraham : and Abraham returned unto his place. And the two angels came to Sodom at even ; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth ; and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said. Nay ; but we will abide in the street all night. And he urged them greatly ; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake un- leavened bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter ; and they called unto Lot, and said unto him. Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us. And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly : unto these men do nothing ; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof And they said. Stand back. And they said. This one fellow came in to sojoui'n, and he will needs be a judge : now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great : so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city; bring them out of the place: for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the Lord ; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place ; for the Lord will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons in law as one that mocked. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying. Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters which are here ; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. But he lingered ; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters ; the Lord being inerciful unto him : and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said. Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain ; 444 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord : behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to tlie moun- tain, lest evil overtake me, and I die : behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one : Oh, let uie escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, escape thither ; for I can- not do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Go- morrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back fi-om behind him, and she became a i)illar of salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord: and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the lahd of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. And Sarah bare Abraham a son in liis old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to liim. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. And A))raham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. And the child grew, and was weaned : and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyj^tian, which she had borne unto Al)rahani, mocking. Wherefore slid said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son. even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bond- woman; in all that Sarah saith unto tliee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bond- woman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away : and she departed, and wandered in the wihlerness of Beer- sheba. And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over again?t PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 445 him a good way off, as it were a bowshot : for she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. And God heard the voice of tlie lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where, he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation. And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water ; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. And God was with the lad, and he grew ; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. And God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. And he said. Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son ; and he clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young men. Abide ye herewith the ass, audi and the lad will go yonder ; and we will worship, and come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son ; and lie took in his hand the fire and the knife ; and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abra- ham his father, and said. My father : and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said. Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son : so they went both of them to- gether. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, U2:>on the wood. And Abra- ham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : and he said. Here am I. And he said. Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place ^ Jehovah-jireli : as it is said to this day, In the mount of 1 That is, The Lord will see, or, provide. 446 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. the Lord it shall be provided. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said, By myself have 1 sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall pos- sess the gate of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice. So Abra- ham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went to- gether to Bcer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age : and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Al)raham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and tlie God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell : but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. And the servant said unto him, Per- adventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land : must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. The Lord, the God of heaven, that took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and that spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying. Unto thy seed will I give this land ; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence. And if the woman be not will- ing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son thither again. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him con- cerning this matter. And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed ; for all the goods of his master were in his hand : and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abra- ham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraliam. Behold, I stand by the fountain of water ; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water : and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink ; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also : let the same be she that thou hast api)ointed for thy servant Isaac ; and thereby shall I know that PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 447 thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. And it came to pass, be- fore he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's ])rother, with her pitclier upon her shoulder. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher. And she said, Drink, my lord : and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. And the, man looked stedfastly on her ; holding his peace, to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosi:)erous or not. And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold ; and said. Whose daughter art thou ? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in ? And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. And the man bowed his head, and worshipped the Lord. And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his mercy and his truth toward my master: as for me, the Lord hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren. And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban : and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain. And it came to "pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me ; that he came unto the man ; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain. And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord ; wherefore standest thou without ? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels ; and he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that were with him. And there was set meat before him to eat : but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. And he said, I am Abraham's servant. And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly ; and he is become great : and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and menservants and maidservants, and camels and asses. And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my 448 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. master when she was old : and unto him hath he given aU that he hath. And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell : but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. And I said unto my master, Peradven- ture the woman will not follow me. And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and pi'osper thy way ; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house : then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred ; and if thej' give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath. And I came this day unto the fountain, and said, 0 Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go : behold, I stand by the fountain of water ; and let it come to pass, that the maiden which cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say. Give me, I pray thee, a little water .of thy pitchei- to drink ; and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels : let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed for my master's son. And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew: and I said unto hei', Let me drink, 1 pray thee. And .'^he made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also : so I drank, and she made the camels drink also. And I asked her, and said. Whose daughter art thou ? And she said. The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom jNIilcah l)are unto him : and I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands. And I bowed my head, and worshipi)ed the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, wliich had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my muster, tell me : and if not, tell me ; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said. The thing i)roceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee ])ad or good. Behold, Rel)ekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath sjioken. And it came to i)ass, that, when A])raham'9 servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth unto the Lord. And the servant ])rought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah : he gave also to her l)rother and to her mother precious things. And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away ujito my master. And her brother ami her mother said, Ix't the damsel abidi> PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 449 with us a few days, at the least ten ; after that she shall go. And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way ; send me away that I may go to my master. And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, "Wilt thou go with this man ? And she said, I will go. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man : and the servant took Re- bekah, and went his way. And Isaac came from the way of Beer- lahai-roi : for he dwelt in the land of the South. And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide : and he lifted uji his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted ofi" the camel. And she said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us ? And the servant said, It is my master : and she took her veil, and covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife ; and he loved her : and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundi'ed threescore and fifteen years. And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his peoj^le. And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ; the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth : there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his T^'ife. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son ; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi. And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son : Abraham begat Isaac : and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife. And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins. And the first came forth ruddy, all over like an hairy garment ; and they called his name Esau. And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel ; and his name was called ^ Jacob : and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them. And the boys grew : and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field ; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents. Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison : and Rebekah loved Jacob. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint : and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage ; for I am faint : therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said. Sell me first of all thy birthright. And 1 That is, One that takes by the heel or supplants. 450 PASSAGES FPwOM GENESIS. Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die : and what profit shall the birthright do to me ? And Jacol) said, Swear to me first of all ; and he sware unto him : and he sold his l)irthright unto Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils ; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way : so Esau despised his birthright. And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared unto him, and said. Go not down into Egypt ; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee ; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because that Al)raham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. And Isaac soAved in that land, and found in the same year an hundredfold : and the Lord blessed him : and he had posses- sions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household ; and the Philistines envied him. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us ; for thou art much mightier than we. And Isaac dei)arted thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father : fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there : and there Isaac's servants digged a well. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him. My son: and he said unto him. Here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. Now there- fore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison ; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may cat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying. Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying. Bring me venison, and make me savoury moat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. Now tlierefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Go now to the flock, and fetch me from PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 451 thence two good kids of the goats ; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth : and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death. And Jacob said to Eebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. And his mother said unto him. Upon me be thy curse, my son : only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. And Rebekah took the goodly raiment of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob, her younger son : and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck : and she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.' And he came unto his father, and said. My father: and he said, Here am I ; who art thou, my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me : arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my ven- ison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son. How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said. Because the Lord thy God sent me good speed. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said. The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands : so he blessed him. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said. Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat : and he brought him wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto him. Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he came near and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said. See, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed : And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and wine : Let peoples serve thee. And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth thee. 452 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. And he also made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac his father said unto him. Who art thou ? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou earnest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceed- ing great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. And he said. Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing. And he said. Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his T)rethren have I given to him for servants ; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what then shall I do for thee, my son? And Esau said unto his fother, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, ^of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And ^of the dew of heaven from above ; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother ; And it shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose. That thou shalt shake his yoke from oflf thy neck. And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him : and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand ; then will I slay my brothc Jacob. And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah ; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him. Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran ; and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him : then I will send and fetch thee from thence : why should I be bereaved of you both in one day ? 1 Or, away from. PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 453 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth : if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me ? And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him. Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father ; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples ; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob : and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, the brother of Rebekah. And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Ilaran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, be- cause the sun was set ; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and de- scending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed ; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south : and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whither- soever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land ; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place ! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place ^Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first. And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God, and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. 1 That is, The house of Ood. 454 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east. And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it ; for out of that well they watered the flocks : and the stone upon the well's mouth was great. And Jacob said unto them. My brethren, whence be ye ? And they said, Of Haran are we. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said. We know him. And he said unto them. Is it well with him? And they said. It is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered to- gether : water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth ; then we water the sheep. While he yet spake with them, Eachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them. And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son : and she ran and told her father. And it came to pass, when Laban heard th^e tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and em- braced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these tilings. And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be ? And Laban had two daughters : the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of tlie younger was Rachel. And Leah's eyes were tender ; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. And he took Leah his dauglitor, and brought her to him. And he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? And Laban said. It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. We will give thee the other also for the service which thou PASSAGES FROM GENESIS, 455 shalt serve with me yet seven other years: and he gave him Racliel his daughter to wife. And he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her. And she bare a son : and said, God hath taken away my re- proach : and she called his name Joseph, saying, The Lord add to me another son. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime. And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred ; and I will be with thee. And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime ; but the God of my father hath been with me. And ye know that with* all my power I have served your father. And your fatlier hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times ; but God suffered him not to hurt me. If he said thus. The speckled shall be thy wages ; then all the flock bare speckled : and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy wages ; then bare all the flock ringstraked. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. And the angel of God said unto me in a dream, Jacob: and I said. Here am I. And he said, I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me : now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any por- tion or inheritance for us in our father's house? Ai'e we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money. For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's : now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels ; and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep : and Rachel stole the ^teraphim that were her father's. And Jacob stole away un- awares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over *the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. And Laban pursued after him seven days' journey ; and he over- took him in the mountain of Gilead. And Laban said to Jacob, What 1 Or, idols, gods. 2 That is, the Euphrates. 456 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and car- ried awa^'' my daughters as captives of the sword ? Wherefore didst tliou flee secretly, and steal away from me ; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, wdth tabret and with harp ; and hast not suflTered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt : hut the God of your father spake unto me yester- night, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass ? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me ? These twenty years havfe I been in thy house ; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock : and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God bath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine ; and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne? And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou ; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob ofiered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain. And early in the morning Lal)an rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban dei")arted, and returned unto his place. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And Jacob said when he saw them. This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom. And he comuTanded theni, saying. Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau ; Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now : and I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and menservants and maidservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying. We came to thy bi-other Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 457 him. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed : and he di- vided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies ; and he said. If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall es- cape. And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, which saidst unto me, Eeturn unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good : I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two companies. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau : for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. And he lodged there that night ; and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother ; two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. And he de- livered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants. Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. And he commanded the foremost, saying. When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying. Whose art thou ? and whither goest thou ? and whose are these before thee ? then thou shalt say, They he thy servant Jacob's ; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau : and, behold, he also is behind us. And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, say- ing. On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him ; and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me. So the present passed over before him ; and he himself lodged that night in the company. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone ; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he pre- vailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him. What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said. Thy name shall be called 458 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. no more Jacob, but ^Israel: for ^thoii hast ^striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name ? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place *Peniel : for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And the sun rose ui)on him as he passed over Penuel. And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with hiin four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Eachel and Josej^h hindermost. And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children ; and said. Who are these with thee? And he said. The children which God hath gra- ciously given thy servant. Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met ? And he said. To find grace in the sight of my lord. And Esau said, I have enough ; my brother, let that thou hast be thine. And Jacob said. Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand : forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and be- cause I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it. And he said. Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. And he said unto him. My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me give suck : and if they over- drive them one day, all the flocks will die. Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly, according to the pace of the cattle that is before me and according to the pace of the chihlren, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. And Esau said. Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, AVhat needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord. So 1 That is, He who striveth with God, or, Ood striveth. 2 The Sept. and Vulgate have, thou hast had power with Ood, and thou shall 'prevail against men. ■'Or, had poiver with. 4 That is, The face of Ood. PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 459 Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan. And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there : and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fieddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments: and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el ; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the i-ings which were in their ears ; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. And they journeyed: and a great terror was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him. And God appeared unto Jacol) again, when he came from Paddan- aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob : thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty : be fruitful and multiiDly ; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins ; and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. And God went up from him in the place where he spake with. him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him, a pillar of stone : and he poured out a drink offering thereon, and poured oil thereon. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve : the sons of Leah ; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun : the sons of Rachel ; Joseph and Benjamin : and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid ; Dan and Naphtali ; and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid ; Gad and Asher : these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Paddan-aram. And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abra- ham and Isaac sojourned. And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him. And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan ; and went 460 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. into a land away from his brother Jacob. For their substance was too great for them to dwell together ; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle. And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom. And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his chil- dren, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours. And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren ; and they hated him, and could not S]ieak peacealjly unto him. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren : and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them. Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed : for, be- hold, we were binding sheaves in the tield, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright ; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us ? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said. Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream ; and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren ; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him. What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ? And his brethren envied him ; but his father kept the saying in mind. And his brethren went to feed their fiither's flock in Shechem. And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him. Here am I. And' he said to him, Go now, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flock ; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field : and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou ? And he said, I seek my breth- ren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock. And the man said, They are departed hence : for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. And they saw him afar off", and before he came near unto them, they consi>ired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say. An evil beast hath devoured him : and we shall see what will become of hia dreams. And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of tlusir hand; PASSAGES FROM GENESIS, 461 and said, Let us not take his life. And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood ; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him : that he might deliver him out of their hand, to re- store him to his father. And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colours that was on him ; and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a travelling company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to cany it down to Egypt. And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood ? Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him ; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him. And there passed l^y Midianites, merchantmen ; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Josejah into Egypt. And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go? And they took Josei^h's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood ; and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father ; and said. This have we found : know now whether it be thy son's coat or not. And he knew it, and said. It is my son's coat ; an evil beast hath devoured him ; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to com^ fort him ; but he refused to be comforted ; and he said. For I will go down to the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him. And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard. And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, which had brought him down thitiiier. And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man ; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to pros- per in his hand. And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he minis- tered unto him : and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake ; and the 462 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field. And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand ; and he knew not aught that ivas with him, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was comely, and well favoured. And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph. But he said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand; there is none greater in this house than I ; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to be with her. And she spake unto his master, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came to mock me. And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying. After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound : and he was there in the i^rison. But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Jo- seph's hand all the prisoners that were in tlie j^rison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand, because the Lord was with him ; and tliat which he did, the Lord made it to i^rosper. And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt. And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. And he i^ut them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound. And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered unto them : and they continued a season in ward. And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad. And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to-day ? And they said unto him. We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him. In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; and in tlie " PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 463 vine were three branches : and it was as though it budded, and its blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand ; and I took the grai)es, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days ; within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thine otfice: and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. But have me in thj^ remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make men- tion of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house : for indeed I was stolen away out of the land, of the Hebrews : and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head : and in the uppermost basket there was of all man- ner of bakemeats for Pharaoh ; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. And Josei^h answered and said, This is the in- terpretation thereof: the three baskets are three days ; within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree ; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants : and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants. And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again ; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand : but he hanged the chief baker : as Joseph had interjireted to them. Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. And it came to j^ass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the ^ river. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well favoured and fatfleshed ; and they fed in the reed-grass. And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out o'f the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed ; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, be- hold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled ; and he sent and 1 Heb. Yeor, that is, the Nile. 464 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could in- terjjret them unto Pharaoh. Then spake the chief butler unto Pha- raoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker : and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he ; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. And there was with us there a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he inter- preted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was ; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it : and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, be- hold, I stood upon the brink of the river: and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured ; and they fed in the reed-grass: and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness : and the lean and ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine : and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them ; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good: and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them : and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears : and I t(jld it unto the magicians ; but there was none that could declare it to me. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pha- raoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declare'd unto Pharaoh. The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. And the seven lean and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind ; they shall be seven years of famine. That is tlie thing which I spake unto Pharaoh : wdiat God is about to do he hath shewed unto Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine ; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; and the PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 465 })lenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth ; for it shall be very grievous. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou : thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh took oS" his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck ; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him. Bow the knee. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. And Pha- raoh gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years •which were in the land of Egj'pt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering ; for it was without number. And unto Joseph were born two sons. And Joseph called the name of the firstborn ^Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. And the name of the second called he ^Ephraim : For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my afiiiction. And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had ' That is, Making to forget. - From a Hebrew word signifying to be fruitful. 466 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. said : and there was famine in all lands ; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph ; what he saith to you, do. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn ; because the famine was sore in all the earth. Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons. Why do ye look one upon another? And he said. Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt : get you down thither, and buy for us from thence ; that we may live, and not die. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren ; for he said. Lest peradventure mischief befall him. And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth. And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them ; and he said unto them. Whence come ye? And they said. From the land of Canaan to buy food. And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them. Ye are spies ; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy serv- ants come. We are all one man's sons ; we are true men, thy servants are no spies. And he said unto them. Nay, but to sec the nakedness of the land ye are come. And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethi-en, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. And Joseph said unto them. That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies: hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, excej^t your youngest brother come hither. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. And he put them all together into ward three days. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live ; for I fear God : if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison house ; but go ye, carrj' corn for the famine of your houses: and bring your youngest brotlicr unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. And they said one to another. We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. And Reuben answered them, saying. Spake I not unto you, saying. Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 467 blood is I'equired. And they knew not that Joseph understood them ; for there was an interpreter between them. And he turned himself about from them, and wept ; and he returned to them, and spake to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. Then Josejih commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man'a money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way : and thus was it done unto them. And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence. And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging place, he espied his money ; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored ; and, lo, it is even in my sack : and their heart failed them, and they turned tremb- ling one to another, saying. What is this that God hath done unto us? And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them ; saying. The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. And we said unto him. We are true men; we are no spies: we be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men ; leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the fiimine of your houses, and go your way : and bring your youngest brother unto me : then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are time men ; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children : Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away : all these things are against me. And Reuben spake unto his father, saying. Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee : deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying. Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down : for the man said 468 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. unto us, Ye sliall not see my face, except your brother be with you. And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother ? And they said, The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words : could we in any wise know that he would say, Bring your brother down? And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go ; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. I will be surety for him ; of my hand shalt thou require him : if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a sec- ond time. And their father Israel said unto them, If it be so now, do this; take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and myrrh, nuts, and almonds : and take double money in your hand ; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand ; perad venture it was an oversight : take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man : and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin ; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, ha said to the steward of his house. Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make ready ; for the men shall dine with me at noon. And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said. Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in ; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spake unto him at the door of the house, and said, Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food : we know not wlio put our money in our sacks. And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they waslied their feet ; and he gave their asses provender. PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 469 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth. And he asked them of their welfare, and said. Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive? And they said, Thy serv- ant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spake unto me ? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. And he washed his face, and came out ; and he refrained himself, and said. Set on bread. And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyp- tians. And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birth- right, and the youngest according to his youth : and the men marvelled one with another. And he took and sent messes unto them from before him : but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did ac- cording to the word that Joseph had spoken. As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward. Up, follow after the men ; and when thou dost over- take them, say unto them. Wherefore have j^e rewarded evil for good ? Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth ? ye have done evil in so doing. And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these words. And they said unto him. Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? God forbid that thy servants should do such a thing. Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan : how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. And he said. Now also let it be ac- cording unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman ; and ye shall be blameless. Then they hasted, and took 470 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. And he searclied, and began at tlie eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; and he was yet there : and they fell before him on the ground. And Joseph said unto them. What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine ? And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found. And he said, God forbid that I should do so : the man in whose hand the cup is found, lie shall be my bondman ; but as for you, get you UY> in peace unto your father. Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his flither* loveth him. And thou saidst unto thy servants. Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. And thou saidst unto thy servants. Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my fece no more. And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. And we said. We cannot go down : if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down : for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. And thy servant my father said unto us. Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: and the one went out from me, and I said. Surely he is torn in pieces ; and I have not seen him since : and if ye take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life ; it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not ivith us that he will die : and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of tliy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. For thy servant became surety for tlae lad unto my father, saying. If I bring him not unto .thee, then shall I bear the blame to mv father fur ever. Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 471 thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord ; and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father. Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him ; and he cried. Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud ; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph ; doth my father yet live ? And his brethren could not answer him ; for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land : and there are yet five years, in the which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God :. and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egyjot : come down unto me, tarry not : and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, 'thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine ; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast. And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept ; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them : and after that his brethren talked with him. And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye ; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan ; and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. Now thou art commanded, this do ye ; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and 472 PASSAGES FBOM GENESIS. bring your father, and come. Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. And the sons of Israel did so : and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment ; but to Benjamin lie gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. And to his father he sent after this manner ; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. So he sent his brethren away, and they departed : and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father. And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he i.s ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them : and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: and Israel said, It is enough ; Jose])h my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die. And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of tlie night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said. Here am I. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation : I will go down with thee into Egypt ; and I will also surely bring thee up again : and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and theii- wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought lie with him into Egypt. All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six ; and the sons of Joseph, which were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacol), which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to shew the way be- fore him unto Goshen ; and they came into the land of Goshen. And Josei)li made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen ; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck. . and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Jose])h, Now let me die, since I have seen thv f:u'(>, tjiat thou art vet alive. PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 473 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me ; and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle ; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, "What is your occupation? that ye shall say. Thy servants have been keejiers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers : that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said. My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan ; aijd, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And from among his brethren he took five men, and pre- sented them unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren What is your occupation ? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers. And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come ; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks ; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan : now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying. Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee : the land of Egypt is before thee ; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell ; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh : and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life ? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. And Joseph placed liis father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. And there was no bread in all the land ; for the famine was very sore, BO that the land of Egyi^t and the land of Canaan fainted by rea- son of the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought : and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's 474 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. house. And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyjjtians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread : for why should we die in thy presence ? for our money faileth. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph : and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses : and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent ; and the herds of cattle are my lord's ; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands : .wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our laud ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh ; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon theia: and the land became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. Then Joseph said unto the people. Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. And they said. Thou hast saved our lives : let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. And Josei)h made it a statute con- cerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth ; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen ; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years : so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were an hundred forty and seven years. And the time drew near that Israel must die : and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, l)ut, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 475 buryingplace. And lie said, I will do as thou hast said. And he said, Swear unto me : and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick : and he took with him his two sons, Ma- nasseh and Ephraim. And one told Jacob, and said. Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee : and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, and said unto me. Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples ; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. And now thy two sons, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine ; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine. And thy issue, which thou hast begotten, shall be thine ; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem). And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said. Who are these ? And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him ; and he kissed them, and embraced them. And Israel said unto Josej)h, I had not thought to see thy face : and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees ; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, crossing his hands wittingly ; for Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Josejoh, and said. The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day, the angel which hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads ; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac ; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him : and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's 47 H PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. liead. Ami Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father : for this is the firstborn ; put thy right hand upon his head. And liis father re- fused, and said, I know it, my son, I Icnow it: he also shall become a' people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, say- ing, God make thee as E])hraim and as ]Manasseh : and he set Epliraim before Manasseh. And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die : but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy breth- ren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said : Gather yourselves to- gether, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days. Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob ; And hearken unto Israel your father. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength : The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, thou shalt not have the excellency. Simeon and Levi are brethren ; Weapons of violence are their swords. 0 my soul, come not thou into their council ; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ; And their wrath, for it was cruel : 1 will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise : Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies ; Thy father's son shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp ; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up : He stooped down, he couched as a lion. And as a lioness; who shall rouse him uj)? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet. Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the obedience of tlu^ peoples be. Binding his foal unto the vine. And his ass's colt unto the choice vine ; PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. 477 He hath washed his garments in wine, And his vesture in the blood of grapes : His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk. Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea : And he shall be for an haven of ships ; And his border shall be upon Zidon. Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds : And he saw a resting place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant ; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork. Dan shall judge his people. As one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent in the way. An adder in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider falleth backward. I have waited for tliy salvation, O Lord. Gad, a troop shall press upon him : But he shall press upon their heel. Out of Asher his bread shall be fat. And he shall yield royal dainties. Naphtali is a hind let loose : He giveth goodly words. Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain ; His branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him : But his bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel,) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee. With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors, 478 PASSAGES FROM GENESIS. Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills : They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. Benjamin is a wolf that ravineth : In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil. All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them ; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my peoj)le : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace : there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there J buried' Leah. And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. And Joseph fell upon his father's fiice, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Jose})h commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. And forty days were fulfilled for him : for so are fulfilled the days of em])alming: and the Egyptians wept for him three- score and ten days. And when the days of weej^ing for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying. If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die : in my grave which I bought for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. And Pharaoh said. Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. And Joseph went up to bury his father : and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great com- pany. And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which la beyond Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamenta- tion ; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him iu the cave of the field of Machpelah. PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 479 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his In-ethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy fother did command before he died, saying, So shall ye say nnto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil : and now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. And his brethren also went and fell down before his face ; and they said, Be- hold, we be thy servants. And Joseph said unto them. Fear not : for am I in the place of God ? And as for you, ye meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not : I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house : and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die : but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died: and they embalmed him, and he was i^ut in a coffin in Egypt. PASSAGES FEOM THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED EXODUS. Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, which came into Egypt ; every man and his household came with Jacob. Eeuben Simeon, Levi, and Judah ; Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin ; Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher: and Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multi- plied, and waxed exceeding mighty ; and the land was filled with them. 480 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : come, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multii^lied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. And the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying. Every Hebrew son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. And there went a man of the house of I^evi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman bare a son : and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bul- rushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch ; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off", to know what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river ; and her maid- ens walked along by the river side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said. This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her. Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought liim unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name ^ Moses, and said, Because I ^drew him out of the water. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens : and he saw an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. And he went 1 Heb. MoBheh. '-' Heb. mashah, to draw out. PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 481 out the second day, and, Ijehold, two men of the Hebrews strove to- gether : and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow ? And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said. Surely the thing is known. Now when Pha- raoh heard this thiiig, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian : and he sat down by a well. Now the priest of ]\Iidian had seven daughters : and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And tb.e shepherds came and drove them away : but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day? And they said. An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock. And he said unto his daughters. And where is he ? why is it that ye have left the man ? call him, that he may eat bread. And Moses was content to dwell with the man : and he gave Moses Zip- porah his daughter. Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian : and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And Avhen the I.,okd saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said. Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the afilic- tion of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows ; and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey ; unto the place of the Ca- naanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression where- with the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the 482 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoli, and that I should bring forth the chil- dren of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee ; and this shall be the token unto thee, that I have sent thee : when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them. The God of your fiithers hath sent me unto you ; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, i ah that i am: and he said. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, i am hath sent me unto you. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you : this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath ap- peared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt : and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. And they shall hearken to thy voice : and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us : and now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will put forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. And I will give this people flwour in the sight of the Egyptians : and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty : but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment : and ye shall put them upon your sons, and ujxju your daugliters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. And Moses answered and said. But, behold, they will not believe me, nor liearken unto my voice : for they will say. The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. And he said. Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it be- came a serpent ; and Moses fled from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth tliine hand, and take it ))y the tail : (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand:) that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 483 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow. And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again ; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.) And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land : and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land. And Moses said unto the Lord, Oh Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him. Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? is it not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak. And he said. Oh Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said. Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite ? I know that he can sjieak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth : and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God. And thou shalt take in thine hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs. And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him. Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt : and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had charged him. And 484 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had' seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, AYho is the Lord, that I should hearken unto his vf)ice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go. And they said, The (lod of the He- brews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three daj's' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God ; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. And the king of Egypt said unto them, "Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as here- tofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them ; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle ; therefore they cry, saying. Let us go and sacrifice to our God. So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. And the taskmasters were urgent, saying. Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters ihad set over them, were beaten, and demanded. Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore? Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick : and, behold, thy servants are beaten ; but the fault is in thine own people. P>ut he said. Ye are idle, ye are idle : therefore ye say. Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. Go therefore now, and work ; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not minish aught from your bricks, your daily tasks. And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh : and they said unto them. The Lord look upon you, and judge ; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Phara •»h, and in the eyes of liis servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. And IMoees returned unto the PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 485 Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath evil entreated this people ; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. And the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh : for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am jehovah : and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name jehovah I was not known to them. And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgements : and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God : and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted ujo my hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob ; and I will give it you for an heritage : I am Jehovah. And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel : but they hearkened not unto Moses for ^anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. And Moses spake before the Lord, saying. Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me ; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of un- circumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me? And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee : and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh. And j\Ioses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they si")ake unto Pharaoh. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, "When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a wonder for you: then 1 Or, impatience. Heb. shortness of spirit. 48G PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it down hefore Pharaoh, that it become a ^Serpent. And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had commanded : and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers : and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments. For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents : but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. . And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them ; as the Lord had spoken. And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he re- fuseth to let the people go. Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water ; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him ; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand. And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying. Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness : and behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened. Thus saith the Lord, In this thou •shalt know that I am the Lord : behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to lilood. And the fish that was in the river died ; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river ; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians of Egjqjt did in like manner with their enchantments : and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them ; as the Lord liad spoken. And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LoitD had smitten the river. And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs : and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go u}) and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and uj)on thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs : and the frugs shall come up both upon thee, and upon tliy people, and upon all thy servants. And Aaron stretcheI EXODUS. And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and tlireescore and ten pahn trees: and they encamped there hy the waters. And they took their journej' from Ehm, and came unto the wilder- ness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. And the whole con- gregation of the children of Israel murmured against INIoses and against Aaron in the wilderness ; and said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of the Lokd in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you ; and the i:ieople shall go out and gather a day's portion eveiy day, that I may prove them, whether they wiU walk in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass c>n the sixth day, that they shall pre- pare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. And Moses and Aai'on said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt : and in the morning, then ye shall see tlie glory of the Lord, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full ; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him : and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the chil- dren of Israel, Come near before the Ix)rd : for he hath heard your murmurings. And it came to pass, as Aaron spake, that tliey looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp : and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another. What is it? for they wist not what it was. And INIoses said unto them. It is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. Gather ye of it every man according to his eating ; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for theni which are in his tent. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. And IMoses .said unto them. Let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwith- standing they hearkened not unto Moses ; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank : and Moses was PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 497 wroth with them. And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to liis eating : and wlaen the sun waxed hot, it melted. And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for eacli one : and all the rulers of the con- gregation came and told Moses. And he said unto them. That is tliat which the Loed hath spoken, To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sab- bath unto the Lord : bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye wiU seethe ; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade : and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. And Moses said, Eat that to-day ; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Lord : to-day ye shall not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it ; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people for to gather, and they found none. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, there- fore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. And the house of Israel called the name thereof ^ Manna : and it was like coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it was like wafers made -with honey. And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept for your generations ; that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord. So Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited, unto the borders of the land of Canaan. And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the command- ment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim : and there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said. Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them. Why strive ye with me ? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord ? And the people thirsted there for water ; and the people murmured against Moses, and said. Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said unto Moses, Pass on 1 Heb. Man. 498 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel ; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Be- hold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb ; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place ^Massah, and ^Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not,? Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Eephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as IMoses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua dis- comfited Amalek and his jieople with the edge of the sword. Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for IVIoses, and for Israel his jieople, how that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. And Jethro took Zippo- rah, Moses' wife, and her two sons, and came unto Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God : and he said unto Moses, I thy father in law. Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him ; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. And IMoses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel. And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods. And Jethro took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the ciders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening. And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said. What is this iThat is, Tempting, or, Proving. =That is, Chiding, or, Strife. PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 499 thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even ? And Moses said, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God : when they have a matter, they come unto me ; and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. And Moses' father in law said unto him. The thing that thou doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee : be thou for the peoiDle to God- ward, and bring thou the causes unto God : and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must Avalk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thou- sands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens : and let them judge the peojile at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves : so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear tlie burden with thee. If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. So IMoses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land. In the third month after the children of Israel were come to the wilderness of Sinai, there Israel camped before the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying. Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel ; Ye have seen what 1 did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself Now there- fore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall l)e a peculiar treasure unto me from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine : and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord com- manded him. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I sjieak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever. And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments, and be ready against 500 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS the third day : for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death : no hand shall touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through ; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. And Moses went down from the mount nnto the people, and sanctified the people ; and they Avashed their garments. And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud ; and all the people that were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God , and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai Avas altogether on smoke, because the Lord descended upon it m fire : and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. And the Lord came down ui:)on mount Sinai, to the top of the mount ; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mount ; and Moses went up. And the Lord said unto Closes, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. And let the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them. And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai, for thou didst charge us, saying. Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. And the Lord said unto him. Go, get thee doAvn ; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee : but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. So Moses went clown unto the people, and told them. And God spake all these words, saying, L am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other gods beside me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor the likeness of any form that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth ; thou shalt not bow down tliy- self unto them, nor serve them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of tlie fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me , and shew- ing mercy unto a thousand generations, of them that love me and keep my commandments. PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 501 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God Hn vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name ^m vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt do no murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbom-'s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. And all. the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking ; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not : for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not. And the people stood afar oflF, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the chil- dren of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. • Ye shall not make other gods with me ; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen : in every place where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.^ Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof : but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow ; that the poor of thy people may eat : and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 1 Or, for vanity or falsehood. " Then follow laws respecting injuries, wrongs, &c., and servants. i 502 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep : seven days thou shalt eat un- leavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it thou earnest out from Egypt) ; and none shall appear before me empty : and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field : and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Take ye heed of him, and hearken unto his voice ; provoke him not : for he will not pardon your transgression ; for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak ; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adver- saries. For mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite : and I will cat them off. Thou slialt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water ; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto Hhe River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me : for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel ; and worship ye afar off: and Moses alone shall come near unto the Lord ; but they shall not come near ; neither shall the people go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgements : and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath sproclaini the name of the Lord before thee ; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. And he said. Thou canst not see my face : for man shall not see me and live. And the Lord said. Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock : and it sliall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by : and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back : but my face shall not be seen. And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first : and I will write upon the tables the words that were PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 511 on the first tables, which thou brakest. And be ready by the morn- ing, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present tliy- self there to me on the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount ; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first ; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had com- manded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and pro- claimed. The Lord, the Lord, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and truth; keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving ini(juity and transgression and sin: and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of tlie fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. And IMoses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. And he said. If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us ; for it is a stifi"necked people ; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation : and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord, for it is a terri1)le thing that I do with thee. Observe thou that which I command thee this day : behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim : for thou shalt worship no other god : for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words : for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he wrote ujion the tables the words of the cov- enant, the ten commandments. And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone: and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them ; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him : 512 PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. and Moses spake to them. And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. And when Moses had done speak- ing with them, he put a veil on his face. And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying, Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the Lord's offering; gold, and silver, and brass; and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hnir; and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood ; and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense ; and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ei^hod, and for the breast- plate. And let every wise hearted man among you come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded ; the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets ; the ark, and the staves thereof, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen; the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the ^shew- bread ; the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light ; and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle ; the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base ; the hang- ings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court; the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords; the finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron tlie priest, and the gar- ments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. And tliey came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and brought the Lord's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brouglit brooches, and earrings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold ; even every man that offered an offering of gold unto the Lord. And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brouglit them. Every one that did offer an ofteiing of silver and brass brought the Lord's offering: and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brouglit it. And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that 'Or, Presence-bread. PASSAGES FROM EXODUS. 513 which they had spun, the bkie, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. And all the women wiiose heart stirred them up in wis- dom spun the goats' hair. And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breaniplate ; and the spice, and the oil ; for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. The children of Israel brought a freewill offering unto the Lord ; every man and woman, whose heart made them will- ing to bring for all the work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. According to all that the Lord com- manded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it : and Moses blessed them. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil. And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are upon it ; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. And thou shalt set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meet- ing. And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein. And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the furniture thereof: and it shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt offer- ing, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar: and the altar shall be most holy. And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it. And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments; and thou shalt anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them: and thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: and their anointing shall be to them for an Everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the 514 PASSAGES FROM LEVITICUS. tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys : but if the cloud were not taken up, then they jour- neyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. PASSAGES FEOM THE THIED BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED LEVITICUS. And the Lord called unto INIoses, and spake unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them. When any man of you ofFereth an oblation unto the Lord, ye shall offer your oblation of the cattle, even of the herd and of the flock. 1 And every oblation of thy meal offering shalt thou season with salt ; neither shalt thou suflfer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt. And if thou offer a meal offering of firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meal offering of thy firstfruits corn in the ear parched with fire, bruised corn of the fresh ear.^ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of tlie things which the Lord hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them : if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the I^eoplc ; then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.^ 'Then follow minute directions for the offering of the herd; of the flock; of fowls ; of a meal offering ; of a meal offering baken. 2 Then follow minute directions for sacrifice of peace offerings— if of the herd : of a lamb ; of a goat. 3 Then follow minute directions for the offerings in various cases of sinning unwittingly. PASSAGES FROM LEVITICUS. 515 If any one sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and deal falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robber}', or have oppressed his neighbour ; or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear to a lie ; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein : then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by rob- bery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression, or the cleposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, or any thing about which he hath sworn falsely ; he shall even restore it in full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto. And he shall bring his guilt offering unto the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he shall be forgiven. And the Lord spake unto ]\Ioses, saying. Command Aaron and his sons, saying. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night unto the morning. Fire shall he kept burning upon the altar continually ; it shall not go out.^ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread ; and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the tent of meet- ing. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him ; and the congrega- tion was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting. And INIoses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord hath com- manded to be done. And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the cunningly woven band of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he placed the breast- plate upon him : and in the breastplate he put ^the Urim and the Thummim. And he set the mitre upon his head ; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden plate, the holy crown ; as the Lord com- manded IMoses. And he poured of the anointing oil uj^on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound headtires upon them ; as the Lord commanded Moses. And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him ; and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 1 Then follow the law of the meal oflFering ; the oblation of Aaron and his sons when he is anointed ; the law of the guilt offering ; and the law of peace offerings. 2 That is, the JAghts and the Perfections. 516 PASSAGES FROM LEVITICUS. And Nadab and Abilm, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put tire tlierein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, wliich he had not commanded tliem. And tliere came fortli fire from before the Lord, and devoured tliem, and tliey died before the Lord. Tlien Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spalie, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying. These are the living things which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.' Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shalf ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. For I am the Lord your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy ; for I am holy : neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth. • This is the law of the beast, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creep- eth upon the earth : to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten. ^ And the Lord spake unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord, and died ; and the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy- seat which is upon the ark ; that he die not : for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place : with a young bullock for a sin ofl'ering, and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired : they are the holy gar- naents ; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on. And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin ottering, and one ram for a burnt offering. And Aaron shall ])resent the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house. And he shall take the two goats, and set them before the Lord at the door of the tent of meet- ing. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the iThen follows the list of clean and unclean animals. 2 Then follows the minute details of the law in case of child bearing ; leprosy; and issues in the flesh. PASSAGES FROM LEVITICUS. 517 Lord, and the other lot for ^Azazel. And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before the Lord, to make atonement ^for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness. And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off' the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil : and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the niercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not : and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy-seat on the east ; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bul- lock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy -seat, and before the mercy-seat: and he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the un- cleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins: and so shall he do for the tent of meeting, that dwelleth with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth in to make atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made atone- ment for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make atonement for it ; and shall take of the blood of the bul- lock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with liis finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the unclean- nesses of the children of Israel. And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat: and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their sins ; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man ^that is in readiness into the wilderness : and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will set ^ Or, dismissal. 2 Or, over. 3 Or, appointed. 518 PASSAGES FROM LEVITICUS. my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the Uife of the flesh is in the blood : and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the 'life. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, which taketh in hunting any beast or fowl that may be eaten ; he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh : for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do : and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do : neither shall ye walk in their statutes. My judgements shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein : I am the Lord your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgements: which if a man do, he shall live -in them: I am the Lord. The na- tions are defiled which I cast out from before you : and the land i.s defiled. Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein : I am the Lord your God. Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to your- selves molten gods : I am the Lord your God. And when ye reaj) the harvest of your land, thou shalt not whollj' reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall not steal ; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another. And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, so that thou profane the name of thy God : I am the Lord. Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor j)ut a stumblingblock before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement: thou shalt not respect the ])erson of the poor, nor honour the ])orson of the mighty : but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. Thou iHeb. scml. 2 Or, by. PASSAGES FROM LEVITICUS. 519 shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people : neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour : I am the Lord. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt surely re- buke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him. Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind : thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed : neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together. Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the Lord. Turn ye not unto them that have familiar spirits, nor unto the wizards ; seek them not out, to be defiled by them : I am the Lord your God. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the homeborn among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just bin, shall ye have : I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy : for I am the Lord your God. And ye shall keep my statutes, and do themv I am the Lord which sanctify you. For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, saying. Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God ; a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or is scurvj% or scabbed. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish. What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. Whosoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Is- rael, that offereth his oblation, whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer. And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto 520 PASSAGES FKOM LEVITICUS. the Lord to accomplish a vow. or for a free will oflfering, it shall be perfect to be accepted. "When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you : on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched com, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God. And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering ; seven sabbaths shall there l>e complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal offering unto the Lord. In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work. Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation iinto you, and ye shall afllict yoiu- souls. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, and whatsoever soul it be that doeth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of taber- nacles for seven days unto the Lord. And ye shall take you on the first day the finit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; -and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are homeborn in Israel shall dwell in booths: that your gen- erations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egj'pt. When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof; but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather : it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years ; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sab- baths of years, even forty and nine years. Then shalt thou send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month ; in the day PASSAGES FROM LEYITICrS, 521 of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another : according to the nimiber of years after the jubile thou ghalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee. According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the few- ness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it ; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee. If thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee ; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant : as an hired serv- ant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee ; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubile : then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his father shall he return. And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: after that he is sold he may be redeemed ; any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him ; or if he be waxen rich, he may redeem himself. And if he be not redeemed, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, he, and his children with him. Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or ^a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary : I am the Lord. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their frait. And j'our threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the fiill. and dwell in your land safely. And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And ye shall chase j'Our enemies, and they shall fall befoi-e you by the sword. And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall chase ten thousand. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. But if ye will not hearken unto me, and vdW. not do all these 1 Or, an obelisk. 022 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. commandments, ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies : they that hate you shall rule over you ; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your jiower ; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: and your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall tlie trees of the land yield their fruit. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, I will bring the land into desolation. And you will I scatter among the nations. And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them. And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity ; then will I remember my covenant with Jacob ; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also mj' covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. PASSAGES FEOM THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED NUMBERS. And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in tlie second year after they were come out of the land of Egyi)t, saying, Take ye the sum of all tlie congregation of the children of Israel, by their fam- ilies, by their fathers' houses, according to tlie number of the names, every male, by their polls ; from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. As the Loud commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. So all they that were numl)erod were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 523 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. For the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the suin of them among the children of Israel : but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it. So the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel ; as the Lord commanded Moses. ^ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow,.the vow of a Nazirite, to consecrate himself unto the Lord: he shall sepai-ate himself from wine and strong drink ; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. All the days of his =* separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk. All the days of his vow of separa- tion there shall no razor come upon his head : until the days be ful- filled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.^ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel ; ye shall say unto them, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee : The Lord make his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel ; and I will bless them. And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and sanctified them ; that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered; these were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered: and they brought their oblation before the Lord, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen ; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox : and they presented them before the tabernacle. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take it of them, that they may be to do the 1 Then follow the generation of Levi ; the enumeration of the descendants of Levi, his sons, their appointment to the priestly ofiBce, and details of their special services. And also the law of jealousy : in case of suspicion of infidelity of a wife. - Or, Consecration. Or, Naziriteship. 3 Then follow other rules and directions for ofiFerings by the Nazirite. 524 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. service of the tent of meeting; and thon shalt give tliem unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.^ This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel. And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to si)eak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim : and he spake unto him. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.'-' And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud cov- ered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony : and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morn- ing. So it was alway : the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed : and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. At the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the Lord they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped. Sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning ; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed. Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. And it came to jaass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai. They set forward from the mount of the Loud three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them. And the cloud of the Lord was over them by daj% when they set forward from the camp. And it came to jiass, when the ark set forward, that IMoses said. Else up, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered ; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. And when it rested, he said. Return, O Lord, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel. And the people were as murmurers, which was evil in the ears of the Lord: and when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled; and 1 Then follow the details of the oblations of the twelve princes of Israel on twelve successive days. - Then follow directions for their cleansings and offerings and service. PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 525 the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and devoured in the utter- most part of the camp. And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the Lord, and the fire abated. And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee. And I will come down and talk with thee there : and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them ; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord : and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. And the Lord came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders : and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. But there remained two men in the camp, Eldad and Medad : and the spirit rested upon them ; and they prophesied in the camp. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of hia chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him. Art thou jealous for my sake ? would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his spirit upon them! And INIiriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married : for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said. Hath the Lord indeed spoken only with Moses ? hath he not spoken also with us? And the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting. And they three came out. And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam : and they both came forth. And he said. Hear now my words : if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream. My servant Moses is not 80 ; he is faithful in all mine house: with him w.ill I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches ; and the form of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them ; and he departed. And the cloud removed from over the Tent ; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow : and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. And Aaron 526 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. said unto Mosef=, Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. And iMoses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee. And the Lord said unto Moses, Let her be sliut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again. And INIiriam was shut up without the camp seven days • and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in tlie wilderness of Paran. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince among them. And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran : all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the moun- tains, and see tlie land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, whether they be few or many ; and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strong holds; and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of tlie fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes. So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob. And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two ; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh ; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, and said. We came unto tlie land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey ; and this is the fruit of it. Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fenced, and very great. Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South : and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, ami along Ijy the side of Jordan. And Caleb stilled the peoi)le before Moses, and said. Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people ; for they are stronger than we. The land, through which we have gone to spy it PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 527 out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron : and the whole congregation said unto them. Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore doth the Lord bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones shall be a prey : were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. And Joshua tlie son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes: and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which fioweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land ; for they are bread for us : their defence is removed from over them, and the Lord is with us : fear them not. But all the congrega- tion bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord ap- peared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them ? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. And Moses said unto the Lord, Then the Egyp- tians shall hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them; and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: they have heard that thou Lord art in the midst of this people ; for thou Lord art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The Lord is slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear 528 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. Pardon, I jjray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of tliy mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to tliy word: but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall he filled with the glory of the Lord; because all those men which have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: but my servant Calel), because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land wliereinto he went ; and his seed shall possess it. Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley : to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Eed Sea. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Ho.w long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me ? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they mur- nmr against me. Say unto them. As I live, saith the Lord, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you : your carcases shall fall in this wilderness ; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, surely ye shall not come into the land, concern- ing which I lifted up my hand that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. But as for you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years. After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation. And Moses told these words unto all the chiUlren of Israel : and the people mourned greatly. And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord, seeing it shall not prosper? Go not up, for the Lord is not among you ; that ye be not smitten down be- fore your enemies. But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain : nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. Then the Amalekite came down, PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 529 and the Canaanite which dwelt in tliat mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah. And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what sliould be done to him. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall surely l)e put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. -And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died ; as the Lord commanded Moses. Now Korah, with Dathan and Abiram, and two hundred and fifty princes of the congregation, assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them. Ye take too much ujxjn you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assem- bly of the Lord? And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: and he s^^ake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying. In the morning the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him : even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near unto him. This do ; take you censers, Korah, and all his company ; and put fire therein, and put incense upon them before the Lord to-morrow : and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy : ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi. And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi : seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself; to do the service of the tabernacle ,of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them ; and that he hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee ? and seek ye the priesthood also? Therefore thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him ? And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab : and they said. We will not come up : is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us? We will not come up. And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering : I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy congregation before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow : and take ye every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before the Lord 530 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers ; tliou also, and Aaron, each his censer. And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. And Korah assembled all the congregation against them unto the door of the tent of meeting : and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And, they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, aiid wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tab- ernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spake unto the congregation, saying. Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. So they gat them up fiom the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side : and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. And Moses said. Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works ; f jr / have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; theii the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that ap- pertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have desi^ised the Lord. And it came to pass, as he made an, end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that ap- pertained unto Korah, and all their goods. And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them : for they said. Lest the earth swallow us up. And fire came forth from the Lord, and de- voured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense. But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying. Ye have killed the people of the Lord. And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, CJet yon lip from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 531 And they fell upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them : for there is wrath gone out from the Lord ; the plague is begun. And Aaron took as Moses spake, and ran into the midst of the as- sembly ; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people : and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. And he stood between the dead and the living ; and the plague was stayed. Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak imto tlie children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each of all their princes, twelve rods : write thou every man's name upon his rod. And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, Avhich they murmur against you. And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tent of the testimony. And it came to pass on the morrow, that, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bare ripe almonds. And Moses brought out all the rods from be- fore the Lord unto all the children of Israel : and they looked, and took every man his rod. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion ; that thou mayest make an end of their murmur- ings against me, that they die not. Thus did Moses : as the Lord com- manded him, so did he. And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying. Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the Lord, dieth : shall we' perish all of us?^ And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in the land, neither shalt tliou have any portion among them : I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave olTering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: there- fore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.^ 1 Then follow directions to Aaron as to the service, and compensation in tithes, of the Levites. 2 Then follow minute directions for preparation of the water of separation and its use in uncleanness from a dead body. 532 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land : we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells : we will go along the king's high way, we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border. And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass tlirough me, lest I come out with the sword against thee. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border : where- fore Israel turned away from him. And they journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, Aaron shall be gath- ered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor : and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son : and Aaron shall be gathered unto his peojile, and shall die there. And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all tlie congrega- tion. And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And wdien all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wei)t for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom : and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. And the people spake against God, and against IVIoses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery ser- pents among the people, and they bit the people ; and much people of Israel died. And the people came to ]\Ioses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee ; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery ser- pent, and set it upon a standard : and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live. And Moses made a ser- pent of brass, and set it upon the standard : and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived. And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard ; we will not drink of the water of the wells : we will PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 533 go by the king's high way, until we have passed thy border. And Si- hon would . not suffer Israel to jmss through his border : but fought against Israel. And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land. Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in the plains of Moab. And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me : come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people ; for they are too mighty for me : peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cm-sest is cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand ; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. And he said unto them. Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord shall speak unto me : and the princes of INIoab abode with Balaam. And God came unto Balaam, and said, "What men are these with thee ? And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, sai/- ing, Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth : now, come curse me them ; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out. And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them ; thou shalt not curse the people : for they are blessed. And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land : for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you. And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. And they came to Balaam, and said to him. Thus saith Balak, the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come there- fore, I pray thee, curse me this people. And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more. Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will speak unto me more. . And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men 534 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. he come to call thee, rise up, go with them ; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do. And Balaam rose, up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of INIoab. And God's anger was kindled because he went : and the angel of the Lord placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand : and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. Then the angel of the Lord stood in a hollow way between the vine- yards, a fence being on this side, and a fence on that side. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and she thriist herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall : and he smote her again. And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow ijlace, where was no way to tui-n either to the right hand or to the left. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and she lay down under Balaam : and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with his staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me : I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now I had killed thee. And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day ? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said. Nay. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord stand- ing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand : and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast tliou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is perverse before me : and tlie ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive. And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned ; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men : but only the word that I sliall speak unto thee, that th(ju shalt speak. So Balaam went witli tlie i)rinces of Balak. And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto the City of Moal), which is on the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost part f)f the border. And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest tliou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote tliee to honour? And Balaam said unto PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 535 Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee : have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak. And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kiriath- huzoth. And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him. And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, and he saw from thence the utmost part of the people. And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Balaam had spoken ; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go ; peradventure the Lord will come to meet me : and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height. And God met Balaam : and he said unto him, I have pre- pared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Bloab from the mountains of the East : Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel. How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied ? For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him : Lo, it is a people that dwell alone. And shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous. And let my last end be like his ! And Balak said unto Balaam, AVhat hast thou done unto me ? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord putteth in my mouth? And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them ; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all : and curse me them from thence. And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. And 536 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder. And the Lord met Balaam, and \)\xi a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt offering, and tlie princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken? And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear ; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: God is not a man, that he should lie ; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless : And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel : The Lord his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them. God bringeth them forth out of Egypt ; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, Neither is there any divination against Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought ! Behold, the people riseth uj) as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up : He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain. And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do ? And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place ; perad- venture it will please God that thou maycst curse me them from thence. And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered ui> a bullock and a ram on every altar. And when Balaam saw tliat it pleased tlie Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with cnc^liantments, but he .set his face toward the wilderne&s. And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Bpirit of God came upon him. And he took up his jjarable, and said. PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. 637 Balaam the son of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith : He saith, which heareth the words of God, Which seeth the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open : How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel ! As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river side. As lign-aloes which the Lord hath planted. As cedar trees beside the waters. Water shall flow from his buckets. And his seed shall be in many waters. And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted. God bringeth him forth out of Egypt ; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox : He shall eat up the nations his adversaries. And shall break their bones in pieces. And smite them through with his arrows. He couched, he lay down as a lion. And as a lioness ; Mdio shall rouse him up ? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee. And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times. Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to pro- mote thee unto great honour ; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour. And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying. If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; what the Lord speaketh, that will I speak? And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days. And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor saith. And the man whose eye was closed saith : He saith, which heareth the words of God, And knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Which seeth the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open : 538 PASSAGES FROM NUMBERS. I see him, but not now : I behold him, but not nigh : There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of IMoab, And break down all the sons of tumult. And Edom shall lie a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, wldcli were his enemies ; While Israel doeth valiantly. And out of Jacob shall one have dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from the city. And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, an