INSERT INTO `t_web` VALUES (25005012,25,5,12,'Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.'),(25005013,25,5,13,'The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.'),(25005014,25,5,14,'The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.'),(25005015,25,5,15,'The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.'),(25005016,25,5,16,'The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.'),(25005017,25,5,17,'For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;'),(25005018,25,5,18,'For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.'),(25005019,25,5,19,'You, Yahweh, abide forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.'),(25005020,25,5,20,'Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?'),(25005021,25,5,21,'Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old.'),(25005022,25,5,22,'But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.'),(26001001,26,1,1,'Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.'),(26001002,26,1,2,'In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin\'s captivity,'),(26001003,26,1,3,'the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.'),(26001004,26,1,4,'I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.'),(26001005,26,1,5,'Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.'),(26001006,26,1,6,'Everyone had four faces, and everyone of them had four wings.'),(26001007,26,1,7,'Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf\'s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.'),(26001008,26,1,8,'They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]:'),(26001009,26,1,9,'their wings were joined one to another; they didn\'t turn when they went; they went everyone straight forward.'),(26001010,26,1,10,'As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.'),(26001011,26,1,11,'Their faces and their wings were separate above; two [wings] of everyone were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.'),(26001012,26,1,12,'They went everyone straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn\'t turn when they went.'),(26001013,26,1,13,'As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.'),(26001014,26,1,14,'The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.'),(26001015,26,1,15,'Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.'),(26001016,26,1,16,'The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.'),(26001017,26,1,17,'When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn\'t turn when they went.'),(26001018,26,1,18,'As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.'),(26001019,26,1,19,'When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.'),(26001020,26,1,20,'Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.'),(26001021,26,1,21,'When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.'),(26001022,26,1,22,'Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above.'),(26001023,26,1,23,'Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: everyone had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.'),(26001024,26,1,24,'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 a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.'),(26001025,26,1,25,'There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.'),(26001026,26,1,26,'Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.'),(26001027,26,1,27,'I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.'),(26001028,26,1,28,'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 Yahweh. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.'),(26002001,26,2,1,'He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.'),(26002002,26,2,2,'The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.'),(26002003,26,2,3,'He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.'),(26002004,26,2,4,'The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I do sent you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26002005,26,2,5,'They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.'),(26002006,26,2,6,'You, son of man, don\'t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: don\'t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.'),(26002007,26,2,7,'You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.'),(26002008,26,2,8,'But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don\'t be you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.'),(26002009,26,2,9,'When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;'),(26002010,26,2,10,'He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.'),(26003001,26,3,1,'He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.'),(26003002,26,3,2,'So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.'),(26003003,26,3,3,'He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.'),(26003004,26,3,4,'He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.'),(26003005,26,3,5,'For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;'),(26003006,26,3,6,'not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.'),(26003007,26,3,7,'But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.'),(26003008,26,3,8,'Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.'),(26003009,26,3,9,'As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don\'t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.'),(26003010,26,3,10,'Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.'),(26003011,26,3,11,'Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.'),(26003012,26,3,12,'Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, [saying], Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.'),(26003013,26,3,13,'[I heard] the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.'),(26003014,26,3,14,'So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.'),(26003015,26,3,15,'Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.'),(26003016,26,3,16,'It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26003017,26,3,17,'Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.'),(26003018,26,3,18,'When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.'),(26003019,26,3,19,'Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn\'t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.'),(26003020,26,3,20,'Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.'),(26003021,26,3,21,'Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.'),(26003022,26,3,22,'The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.'),(26003023,26,3,23,'Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.'),(26003024,26,3,24,'Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.'),(26003025,26,3,25,'But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands on you, and shall bind you with them, and you shall not go out among them:'),(26003026,26,3,26,'and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.'),(26003027,26,3,27,'But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.'),(26004001,26,4,1,'You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:'),(26004002,26,4,2,'and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.'),(26004003,26,4,3,'Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.'),(26004004,26,4,4,'Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.'),(26004005,26,4,5,'For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.'),(26004006,26,4,6,'Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.'),(26004007,26,4,7,'You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.'),(26004008,26,4,8,'Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.'),(26004009,26,4,9,'Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.'),(26004010,26,4,10,'Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.'),(26004011,26,4,11,'You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.'),(26004012,26,4,12,'You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.'),(26004013,26,4,13,'Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.'),(26004014,26,4,14,'Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.'),(26004015,26,4,15,'Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow\'s dung for man\'s dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.'),(26004016,26,4,16,'Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:'),(26004017,26,4,17,'that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.'),(26005001,26,5,1,'You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber\'s razor shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.'),(26005002,26,5,2,'A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.'),(26005003,26,5,3,'You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.'),(26005004,26,5,4,'Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.'),(26005005,26,5,5,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.'),(26005006,26,5,6,'She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.'),(26005007,26,5,7,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;'),(26005008,26,5,8,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.'),(26005009,26,5,9,'I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.'),(26005010,26,5,10,'Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.'),(26005011,26,5,11,'Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish [you]; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.'),(26005012,26,5,12,'A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.'),(26005013,26,5,13,'Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.'),(26005014,26,5,14,'Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.'),(26005015,26,5,15,'So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)'),(26005016,26,5,16,'when I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread;'),(26005017,26,5,17,'and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.'),(26006001,26,6,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26006002,26,6,2,'Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,'),(26006003,26,6,3,'and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.'),(26006004,26,6,4,'Your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.'),(26006005,26,6,5,'I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.'),(26006006,26,6,6,'In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.'),(26006007,26,6,7,'The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26006008,26,6,8,'Yet will I leave a remnant, in that you shall have some that escape the sword among the nations, when you shall be scattered through the countries.'),(26006009,26,6,9,'Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.'),(26006010,26,6,10,'They shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.'),(26006011,26,6,11,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.'),(26006012,26,6,12,'He who is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he who is near shall fall by the sword; and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath on them.'),(26006013,26,6,13,'You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.'),(26006014,26,6,14,'I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26007001,26,7,1,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26007002,26,7,2,'You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, An end: the end is come on the four corners of the land.'),(26007003,26,7,3,'Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations.'),(26007004,26,7,4,'My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26007005,26,7,5,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.'),(26007006,26,7,6,'An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes.'),(26007007,26,7,7,'Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.'),(26007008,26,7,8,'Now will I shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring on you all your abominations.'),(26007009,26,7,9,'My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, do strike.'),(26007010,26,7,10,'Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.'),(26007011,26,7,11,'Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.'),(26007012,26,7,12,'The time is come, the day draws near: don\'t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.'),(26007013,26,7,13,'For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude of it, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.'),(26007014,26,7,14,'They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all the multitude of it.'),(26007015,26,7,15,'The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.'),(26007016,26,7,16,'But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.'),(26007017,26,7,17,'All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.'),(26007018,26,7,18,'They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.'),(26007019,26,7,19,'They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.'),(26007020,26,7,20,'As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.'),(26007021,26,7,21,'I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.'),(26007022,26,7,22,'My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.'),(26007023,26,7,23,'Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.'),(26007024,26,7,24,'Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.'),(26007025,26,7,25,'Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.'),(26007026,26,7,26,'Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.'),(26007027,26,7,27,'The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26008001,26,8,1,'It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.'),(26008002,26,8,2,'Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.'),(26008003,26,8,3,'He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.'),(26008004,26,8,4,'Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.'),(26008005,26,8,5,'Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.'),(26008006,26,8,6,'He said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but you shall again see yet other great abominations.'),(26008007,26,8,7,'He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.'),(26008008,26,8,8,'Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.'),(26008009,26,8,9,'He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.'),(26008010,26,8,10,'So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall round about.'),(26008011,26,8,11,'There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.'),(26008012,26,8,12,'Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn\'t see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.'),(26008013,26,8,13,'He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.'),(26008014,26,8,14,'Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh\'s house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.'),(26008015,26,8,15,'Then said he to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? you shall again see yet greater abominations than these.'),(26008016,26,8,16,'He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh\'s house; and see, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.'),(26008017,26,8,17,'Then he said to me, Have you seen [this], son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, behold, they put the branch to their nose.'),(26008018,26,8,18,'Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.'),(26009001,26,9,1,'Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.'),(26009002,26,9,2,'Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer\'s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.'),(26009003,26,9,3,'The glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer\'s inkhorn by his side.'),(26009004,26,9,4,'Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.'),(26009005,26,9,5,'To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don\'t let your eye spare, neither have you pity;'),(26009006,26,9,6,'kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don\'t come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.'),(26009007,26,9,7,'He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. They went forth, and struck in the city.'),(26009008,26,9,8,'It happened, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell on my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?'),(26009009,26,9,9,'Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling [of judgment]: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn\'t see.'),(26009010,26,9,10,'As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.'),(26009011,26,9,11,'Behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.'),(26010001,26,10,1,'Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire{or, lapis lazuli} stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.'),(26010002,26,10,2,'He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.'),(26010003,26,10,3,'Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.'),(26010004,26,10,4,'The glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh\'s glory.'),(26010005,26,10,5,'The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.'),(26010006,26,10,6,'It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.'),(26010007,26,10,7,'The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.'),(26010008,26,10,8,'There appeared in the cherubim the form of a man\'s hand under their wings.'),(26010009,26,10,9,'I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.'),(26010010,26,10,10,'As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel.'),(26010011,26,10,11,'When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn\'t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn\'t turn as they went.'),(26010012,26,10,12,'Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had.'),(26010013,26,10,13,'As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels].'),(26010014,26,10,14,'Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.'),(26010015,26,10,15,'The cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.'),(26010016,26,10,16,'When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn\'t turn from beside them.'),(26010017,26,10,17,'When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.'),(26010018,26,10,18,'The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.'),(26010019,26,10,19,'The cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh\'s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.'),(26010020,26,10,20,'This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.'),(26010021,26,10,21,'Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.'),(26010022,26,10,22,'As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.'),(26011001,26,11,1,'Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh\'s house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.'),(26011002,26,11,2,'He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;'),(26011003,26,11,3,'who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.'),(26011004,26,11,4,'Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.'),(26011005,26,11,5,'The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus have you said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.'),(26011006,26,11,6,'You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain.'),(26011007,26,11,7,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.'),(26011008,26,11,8,'You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26011009,26,11,9,'I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.'),(26011010,26,11,10,'You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26011011,26,11,11,'This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst of it; I will judge you in the border of Israel;'),(26011012,26,11,12,'and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.'),(26011013,26,11,13,'It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?'),(26011014,26,11,14,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26011015,26,11,15,'Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession.'),(26011016,26,11,16,'Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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.'),(26011017,26,11,17,'Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.'),(26011018,26,11,18,'They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all the abominations of it from there.'),(26011019,26,11,19,'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 them a heart of flesh;'),(26011020,26,11,20,'that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.'),(26011021,26,11,21,'But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26011022,26,11,22,'Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.'),(26011023,26,11,23,'The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.'),(26011024,26,11,24,'The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.'),(26011025,26,11,25,'Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.'),(26012001,26,12,1,'The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,'),(26012002,26,12,2,'Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don\'t see, who have ears to hear, and don\'t hear; for they are a rebellious house.'),(26012003,26,12,3,'Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.'),(26012004,26,12,4,'You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.'),(26012005,26,12,5,'Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.'),(26012006,26,12,6,'In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, that you don\'t see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.'),(26012007,26,12,7,'I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.'),(26012008,26,12,8,'In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,'),(26012009,26,12,9,'Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do you?'),(26012010,26,12,10,'Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.'),(26012011,26,12,11,'Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.'),(26012012,26,12,12,'The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.'),(26012013,26,12,13,'My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.'),(26012014,26,12,14,'I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.'),(26012015,26,12,15,'They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.'),(26012016,26,12,16,'But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26012017,26,12,17,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26012018,26,12,18,'Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;'),(26012019,26,12,19,'and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.'),(26012020,26,12,20,'The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26012021,26,12,21,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26012022,26,12,22,'Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?'),(26012023,26,12,23,'Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.'),(26012024,26,12,24,'For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.'),(26012025,26,12,25,'For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26012026,26,12,26,'Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26012027,26,12,27,'Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.'),(26012028,26,12,28,'Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26013001,26,13,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26013002,26,13,2,'Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you the word of Yahweh:'),(26013003,26,13,3,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!'),(26013004,26,13,4,'Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.'),(26013005,26,13,5,'You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.'),(26013006,26,13,6,'They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.'),(26013007,26,13,7,'Haven\'t you seen a false vision, and haven\'t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?'),(26013008,26,13,8,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26013009,26,13,9,'My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.'),(26013010,26,13,10,'Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with whitewash:'),(26013011,26,13,11,'tell those who daub it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.'),(26013012,26,13,12,'Behold, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which you have daubed it?'),(26013013,26,13,13,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.'),(26013014,26,13,14,'So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26013015,26,13,15,'Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have daubed it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who daubed it;'),(26013016,26,13,16,'[to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26013017,26,13,17,'You, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against them,'),(26013018,26,13,18,'and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women who sew pillows on all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of [persons of] every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?'),(26013019,26,13,19,'You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.'),(26013020,26,13,20,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with which you there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls who you hunt to make [them] fly.'),(26013021,26,13,21,'Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26013022,26,13,22,'Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:'),(26013023,26,13,23,'Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26014001,26,14,1,'Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.'),(26014002,26,14,2,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26014003,26,14,3,'Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?'),(26014004,26,14,4,'Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;'),(26014005,26,14,5,'that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.'),(26014006,26,14,6,'Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return you, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.'),(26014007,26,14,7,'For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:'),(26014008,26,14,8,'and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26014009,26,14,9,'If the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.'),(26014010,26,14,10,'They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];'),(26014011,26,14,11,'that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26014012,26,14,12,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26014013,26,14,13,'Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;'),(26014014,26,14,14,'though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26014015,26,14,15,'If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;'),(26014016,26,14,16,'though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.'),(26014017,26,14,17,'Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;'),(26014018,26,14,18,'though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.'),(26014019,26,14,19,'Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;'),(26014020,26,14,20,'though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.'),(26014021,26,14,21,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!'),(26014022,26,14,22,'Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their way and their doings; and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it.'),(26014023,26,14,23,'They shall comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26015001,26,15,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26015002,26,15,2,'Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?'),(26015003,26,15,3,'Shall wood be taken of it to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?'),(26015004,26,15,4,'Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?'),(26015005,26,15,5,'Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!'),(26015006,26,15,6,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.'),(26015007,26,15,7,'I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.'),(26015008,26,15,8,'I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26016001,26,16,1,'Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26016002,26,16,2,'Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;'),(26016003,26,16,3,'and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.'),(26016004,26,16,4,'As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren\'t salted at all, nor swaddled at all.'),(26016005,26,16,5,'No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.'),(26016006,26,16,6,'When I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live.'),(26016007,26,16,7,'I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.'),(26016008,26,16,8,'Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.'),(26016009,26,16,9,'Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.'),(26016010,26,16,10,'I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.'),(26016011,26,16,11,'I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.'),(26016012,26,16,12,'I put a ring on your nose, and ear-rings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.'),(26016013,26,16,13,'Thus was you decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper to royal estate.'),(26016014,26,16,14,'Your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26016015,26,16,15,'But you did trust in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.'),(26016016,26,16,16,'You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].'),(26016017,26,16,17,'You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;'),(26016018,26,16,18,'and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.'),(26016019,26,16,19,'My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26016020,26,16,20,'Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your prostitution a small matter,'),(26016021,26,16,21,'that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the fire] to them?'),(26016022,26,16,22,'In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and was weltering in your blood.'),(26016023,26,16,23,'It is happen after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh),'),(26016024,26,16,24,'that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street.'),(26016025,26,16,25,'You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.'),(26016026,26,16,26,'You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.'),(26016027,26,16,27,'See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.'),(26016028,26,16,28,'You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren\'t satisfied.'),(26016029,26,16,29,'You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren\'t satisfied with this.'),(26016030,26,16,30,'How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;'),(26016031,26,16,31,'in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.'),(26016032,26,16,32,'A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!'),(26016033,26,16,33,'They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.'),(26016034,26,16,34,'You are different from [other] women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you, therefore you are different.'),(26016035,26,16,35,'Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh:'),(26016036,26,16,36,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;'),(26016037,26,16,37,'therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.'),(26016038,26,16,38,'I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.'),(26016039,26,16,39,'I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.'),(26016040,26,16,40,'They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.'),(26016041,26,16,41,'They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.'),(26016042,26,16,42,'So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.'),(26016043,26,16,43,'Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.'),(26016044,26,16,44,'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.'),(26016045,26,16,45,'You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.'),(26016046,26,16,46,'Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.'),(26016047,26,16,47,'Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.'),(26016048,26,16,48,'As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.'),(26016049,26,16,49,'Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.'),(26016050,26,16,50,'They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].'),(26016051,26,16,51,'Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.'),(26016052,26,16,52,'You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.'),(26016053,26,16,53,'I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;'),(26016054,26,16,54,'that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.'),(26016055,26,16,55,'Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.'),(26016056,26,16,56,'For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,'),(26016057,26,16,57,'before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.'),(26016058,26,16,58,'You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.'),(26016059,26,16,59,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.'),(26016060,26,16,60,'Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.'),(26016061,26,16,61,'Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.'),(26016062,26,16,62,'I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;'),(26016063,26,16,63,'that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26017001,26,17,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26017002,26,17,2,'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;'),(26017003,26,17,3,'and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:'),(26017004,26,17,4,'he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.'),(26017005,26,17,5,'He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.'),(26017006,26,17,6,'It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots of it were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.'),(26017007,26,17,7,'There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.'),(26017008,26,17,8,'It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.'),(26017009,26,17,9,'Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots of it, and cut off the fruit of it, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots of it.'),(26017010,26,17,10,'Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.'),(26017011,26,17,11,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26017012,26,17,12,'Say now to the rebellious house, Don\'t you know what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king of it, and the princes of it, and brought them to him to Babylon:'),(26017013,26,17,13,'and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;'),(26017014,26,17,14,'that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.'),(26017015,26,17,15,'But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?'),(26017016,26,17,16,'As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.'),(26017017,26,17,17,'Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.'),(26017018,26,17,18,'For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.'),(26017019,26,17,19,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it on his own head.'),(26017020,26,17,20,'I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.'),(26017021,26,17,21,'All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.'),(26017022,26,17,22,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain:'),(26017023,26,17,23,'in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches of it shall they dwell.'),(26017024,26,17,24,'All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.'),(26018001,26,18,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,'),(26018002,26,18,2,'What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children\'s teeth are set on edge?'),(26018003,26,18,3,'As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.'),(26018004,26,18,4,'Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.'),(26018005,26,18,5,'But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,'),(26018006,26,18,6,'and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor\'s wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity,'),(26018007,26,18,7,'and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;'),(26018008,26,18,8,'he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,'),(26018009,26,18,9,'has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26018010,26,18,10,'If he fathers a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these things,'),(26018011,26,18,11,'and who does not any of those [duties], but even has eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor\'s wife,'),(26018012,26,18,12,'has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,'),(26018013,26,18,13,'has given forth on interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.'),(26018014,26,18,14,'Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father\'s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;'),(26018015,26,18,15,'who has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor\'s wife,'),(26018016,26,18,16,'neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;'),(26018017,26,18,17,'who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.'),(26018018,26,18,18,'As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.'),(26018019,26,18,19,'Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.'),(26018020,26,18,20,'The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.'),(26018021,26,18,21,'But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.'),(26018022,26,18,22,'None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.'),(26018023,26,18,23,'Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?'),(26018024,26,18,24,'But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.'),(26018025,26,18,25,'Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren\'t your ways unequal?'),(26018026,26,18,26,'When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.'),(26018027,26,18,27,'Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.'),(26018028,26,18,28,'Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.'),(26018029,26,18,29,'Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?'),(26018030,26,18,30,'Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.'),(26018031,26,18,31,'Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?'),(26018032,26,18,32,'For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.'),(26019001,26,19,1,'Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,'),(26019002,26,19,2,'and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.'),(26019003,26,19,3,'She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.'),(26019004,26,19,4,'The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.'),(26019005,26,19,5,'Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.'),(26019006,26,19,6,'He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.'),(26019007,26,19,7,'He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring.'),(26019008,26,19,8,'Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.'),(26019009,26,19,9,'They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.'),(26019010,26,19,10,'Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.'),(26019011,26,19,11,'It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.'),(26019012,26,19,12,'But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.'),(26019013,26,19,13,'Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.'),(26019014,26,19,14,'Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.'),(26020001,26,20,1,'It happened in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.'),(26020002,26,20,2,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26020003,26,20,3,'Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you.'),(26020004,26,20,4,'Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;'),(26020005,26,20,5,'and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I chose Israel, and swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;'),(26020006,26,20,6,'in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.'),(26020007,26,20,7,'I said to them, Cast you away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don\'t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.'),(26020008,26,20,8,'But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.'),(26020009,26,20,9,'But I worked for my name\'s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.'),(26020010,26,20,10,'So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.'),(26020011,26,20,11,'I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.'),(26020012,26,20,12,'Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'),(26020013,26,20,13,'But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn\'t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.'),(26020014,26,20,14,'But I worked for my name\'s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.'),(26020015,26,20,15,'Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;'),(26020016,26,20,16,'because they rejected my ordinances, and didn\'t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.'),(26020017,26,20,17,'Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn\'t destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.'),(26020018,26,20,18,'I said to their children in the wilderness, Don\'t you walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.'),(26020019,26,20,19,'I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them;'),(26020020,26,20,20,'and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.'),(26020021,26,20,21,'But the children rebelled against me; they didn\'t walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.'),(26020022,26,20,22,'Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name\'s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.'),(26020023,26,20,23,'Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;'),(26020024,26,20,24,'because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers\' idols.'),(26020025,26,20,25,'Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;'),(26020026,26,20,26,'and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through [the fire] all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.'),(26020027,26,20,27,'Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.'),(26020028,26,20,28,'For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.'),(26020029,26,20,29,'Then I said to them, What means the high place whereunto you go? So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.'),(26020030,26,20,30,'Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do you pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play you the prostitute after their abominations?'),(26020031,26,20,31,'and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;'),(26020032,26,20,32,'and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.'),(26020033,26,20,33,'As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you:'),(26020034,26,20,34,'and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;'),(26020035,26,20,35,'and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.'),(26020036,26,20,36,'Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26020037,26,20,37,'I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;'),(26020038,26,20,38,'and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26020039,26,20,39,'As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go you, serve everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name shall you no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.'),(26020040,26,20,40,'For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.'),(26020041,26,20,41,'As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.'),(26020042,26,20,42,'You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.'),(26020043,26,20,43,'There shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.'),(26020044,26,20,44,'You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name\'s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26020045,26,20,45,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26020046,26,20,46,'Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;'),(26020047,26,20,47,'and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.'),(26020048,26,20,48,'All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.'),(26020049,26,20,49,'Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn\'t he a speaker of parables?'),(26021001,26,21,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26021002,26,21,2,'Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;'),(26021003,26,21,3,'and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.'),(26021004,26,21,4,'Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:'),(26021005,26,21,5,'and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.'),(26021006,26,21,6,'Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your loins and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.'),(26021007,26,21,7,'It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26021008,26,21,8,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26021009,26,21,9,'Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;'),(26021010,26,21,10,'it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.'),(26021011,26,21,11,'It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.'),(26021012,26,21,12,'Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.'),(26021013,26,21,13,'For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26021014,26,21,14,'You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.'),(26021015,26,21,15,'I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.'),(26021016,26,21,16,'Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.'),(26021017,26,21,17,'I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.'),(26021018,26,21,18,'The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,'),(26021019,26,21,19,'Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.'),(26021020,26,21,20,'You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.'),(26021021,26,21,21,'For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.'),(26021022,26,21,22,'In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.'),(26021023,26,21,23,'It shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.'),(26021024,26,21,24,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because you have come to memory, you shall be taken with the hand.'),(26021025,26,21,25,'You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,'),(26021026,26,21,26,'thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.'),(26021027,26,21,27,'I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him].'),(26021028,26,21,28,'You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say you, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;'),(26021029,26,21,29,'while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.'),(26021030,26,21,30,'Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.'),(26021031,26,21,31,'I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.'),(26021032,26,21,32,'You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.'),(26022001,26,22,1,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26022002,26,22,2,'You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.'),(26022003,26,22,3,'You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!'),(26022004,26,22,4,'You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.'),(26022005,26,22,5,'Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.'),(26022006,26,22,6,'Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.'),(26022007,26,22,7,'In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.'),(26022008,26,22,8,'You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.'),(26022009,26,22,9,'Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.'),(26022010,26,22,10,'In you have they uncovered their fathers\' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.'),(26022011,26,22,11,'One has committed abomination with his neighbor\'s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father\'s daughter.'),(26022012,26,22,12,'In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26022013,26,22,13,'Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.'),(26022014,26,22,14,'Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.'),(26022015,26,22,15,'I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.'),(26022016,26,22,16,'You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26022017,26,22,17,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26022018,26,22,18,'Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.'),(26022019,26,22,19,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.'),(26022020,26,22,20,'As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.'),(26022021,26,22,21,'Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.'),(26022022,26,22,22,'As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.'),(26022023,26,22,23,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26022024,26,22,24,'Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.'),(26022025,26,22,25,'There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it.'),(26022026,26,22,26,'Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.'),(26022027,26,22,27,'Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.'),(26022028,26,22,28,'Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.'),(26022029,26,22,29,'The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.'),(26022030,26,22,30,'I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.'),(26022031,26,22,31,'Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26023001,26,23,1,'The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,'),(26023002,26,23,2,'Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:'),(26023003,26,23,3,'and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.'),(26023004,26,23,4,'The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.'),(26023005,26,23,5,'Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,'),(26023006,26,23,6,'who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.'),(26023007,26,23,7,'She bestowed her prostitution on them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.'),(26023008,26,23,8,'Neither has she left her prostitution since [the days of] Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their prostitution on her.'),(26023009,26,23,9,'Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.'),(26023010,26,23,10,'These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.'),(26023011,26,23,11,'Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her prostitution which were more than the prostitution of her sister.'),(26023012,26,23,12,'She doted on the Assyrians, governors and rulers, [her] neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.'),(26023013,26,23,13,'I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.'),(26023014,26,23,14,'She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,'),(26023015,26,23,15,'girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.'),(26023016,26,23,16,'As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.'),(26023017,26,23,17,'The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.'),(26023018,26,23,18,'So she uncovered her prostitution, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.'),(26023019,26,23,19,'Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.'),(26023020,26,23,20,'She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.'),(26023021,26,23,21,'Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.'),(26023022,26,23,22,'Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:'),(26023023,26,23,23,'the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.'),(26023024,26,23,24,'They shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.'),(26023025,26,23,25,'I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.'),(26023026,26,23,26,'They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.'),(26023027,26,23,27,'Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your prostitution [brought] from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.'),(26023028,26,23,28,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;'),(26023029,26,23,29,'and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.'),(26023030,26,23,30,'These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.'),(26023031,26,23,31,'You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.'),(26023032,26,23,32,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister\'s cup, which is deep and large; you shall ridiculed and had in derision; it contains much.'),(26023033,26,23,33,'You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.'),(26023034,26,23,34,'You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the broken pieces of it, and shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26023035,26,23,35,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.'),(26023036,26,23,36,'Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare to them their abominations.'),(26023037,26,23,37,'For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.'),(26023038,26,23,38,'Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.'),(26023039,26,23,39,'For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.'),(26023040,26,23,40,'Furthermore you have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent, and, behold, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck yourself with ornaments,'),(26023041,26,23,41,'and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.'),(26023042,26,23,42,'The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of them [twain], and beautiful crowns on their heads.'),(26023043,26,23,43,'Then said I of her who was old in adulteries, Now will they play the prostitute with her, and she [with them].'),(26023044,26,23,44,'They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute: so went they in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.'),(26023045,26,23,45,'Righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.'),(26023046,26,23,46,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.'),(26023047,26,23,47,'The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.'),(26023048,26,23,48,'Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.'),(26023049,26,23,49,'They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.'),(26024001,26,24,1,'Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26024002,26,24,2,'Son of man, write you the name of the day, [even] of this same day: the king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.'),(26024003,26,24,3,'Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:'),(26024004,26,24,4,'gather the pieces of it into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.'),(26024005,26,24,5,'Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let the bones of it be boiled in the midst of it.'),(26024006,26,24,6,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen on it.'),(26024007,26,24,7,'For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn\'t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.'),(26024008,26,24,8,'That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.'),(26024009,26,24,9,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.'),(26024010,26,24,10,'Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.'),(26024011,26,24,11,'Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.'),(26024012,26,24,12,'She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn\'t go forth out of her; her rust doesn\'t [go forth] by fire.'),(26024013,26,24,13,'In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren\'t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.'),(26024014,26,24,14,'I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26024015,26,24,15,'Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26024016,26,24,16,'Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.'),(26024017,26,24,17,'Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don\'t cover your lips, and don\'t eat men\'s bread.'),(26024018,26,24,18,'So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.'),(26024019,26,24,19,'The people said to me, Won\'t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?'),(26024020,26,24,20,'Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26024021,26,24,21,'Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.'),(26024022,26,24,22,'You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.'),(26024023,26,24,23,'Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.'),(26024024,26,24,24,'Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done shall you do: when this comes, then shall you know that I am the Lord Yahweh.'),(26024025,26,24,25,'You, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,'),(26024026,26,24,26,'that in that day he who escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?'),(26024027,26,24,27,'In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so shall you be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26025001,26,25,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26025002,26,25,2,'Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:'),(26025003,26,25,3,'and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:'),(26025004,26,25,4,'therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.'),(26025005,26,25,5,'I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26025006,26,25,6,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel;'),(26025007,26,25,7,'therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26025008,26,25,8,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Moab and Seir say, Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations;'),(26025009,26,25,9,'therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,'),(26025010,26,25,10,'to the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.'),(26025011,26,25,11,'and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26025012,26,25,12,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them;'),(26025013,26,25,13,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.'),(26025014,26,25,14,'I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26025015,26,25,15,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;'),(26025016,26,25,16,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.'),(26025017,26,25,17,'I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.'),(26026001,26,26,1,'It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26026002,26,26,2,'Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:'),(26026003,26,26,3,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.'),(26026004,26,26,4,'They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.'),(26026005,26,26,5,'She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.'),(26026006,26,26,6,'Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26026007,26,26,7,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people.'),(26026008,26,26,8,'He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.'),(26026009,26,26,9,'He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.'),(26026010,26,26,10,'By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.'),(26026011,26,26,11,'With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.'),(26026012,26,26,12,'They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.'),(26026013,26,26,13,'I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.'),(26026014,26,26,14,'I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26026015,26,26,15,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?'),(26026016,26,26,16,'Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.'),(26026017,26,26,17,'They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!'),(26026018,26,26,18,'Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.'),(26026019,26,26,19,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;'),(26026020,26,26,20,'then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:'),(26026021,26,26,21,'I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26027001,26,27,1,'The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,'),(26027002,26,27,2,'You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;'),(26027003,26,27,3,'and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many isles, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.'),(26027004,26,27,4,'Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.'),(26027005,26,27,5,'They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.'),(26027006,26,27,6,'Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.'),(26027007,26,27,7,'Of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.'),(26027008,26,27,8,'The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.'),(26027009,26,27,9,'The old men of Gebal and the wise men of it were in you your repairers of ship seams: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.'),(26027010,26,27,10,'Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.'),(26027011,26,27,11,'The men of Arvad with your army were on your walls round about, and valorous men were in your towers; they hanged their shields on your walls round about; they have perfected your beauty.'),(26027012,26,27,12,'Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.'),(26027013,26,27,13,'Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.'),(26027014,26,27,14,'They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and war-horses and mules.'),(26027015,26,27,15,'The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many isles were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.'),(26027016,26,27,16,'Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and embroidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.'),(26027017,26,27,17,'Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.'),(26027018,26,27,18,'Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.'),(26027019,26,27,19,'Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.'),(26027020,26,27,20,'Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.'),(26027021,26,27,21,'Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.'),(26027022,26,27,22,'The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.'),(26027023,26,27,23,'Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.'),(26027024,26,27,24,'These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and embroidered work, and in chests of rich clothing, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your merchandise.'),(26027025,26,27,25,'The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.'),(26027026,26,27,26,'Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.'),(26027027,26,27,27,'Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.'),(26027028,26,27,28,'At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.'),(26027029,26,27,29,'All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,'),(26027030,26,27,30,'and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust on their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:'),(26027031,26,27,31,'and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.'),(26027032,26,27,32,'In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?'),(26027033,26,27,33,'When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.'),(26027034,26,27,34,'In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.'),(26027035,26,27,35,'All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.'),(26027036,26,27,36,'The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.'),(26028001,26,28,1,'The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,'),(26028002,26,28,2,'Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God;-'),(26028003,26,28,3,'behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;'),(26028004,26,28,4,'by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;'),(26028005,26,28,5,'by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;-'),(26028006,26,28,6,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,'),(26028007,26,28,7,'therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.'),(26028008,26,28,8,'They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.'),(26028009,26,28,9,'Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.'),(26028010,26,28,10,'You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26028011,26,28,11,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26028012,26,28,12,'Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.'),(26028013,26,28,13,'You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire{or, lapis lazuli}, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.'),(26028014,26,28,14,'You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.'),(26028015,26,28,15,'You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.'),(26028016,26,28,16,'By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.'),(26028017,26,28,17,'Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.'),(26028018,26,28,18,'By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.'),(26028019,26,28,19,'All those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.'),(26028020,26,28,20,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26028021,26,28,21,'Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,'),(26028022,26,28,22,'and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.'),(26028023,26,28,23,'For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26028024,26,28,24,'There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.'),(26028025,26,28,25,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.'),(26028026,26,28,26,'They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.'),(26029001,26,29,1,'In the tenth year, in the tenth [month], in the twelfth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26029002,26,29,2,'Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;'),(26029003,26,29,3,'speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'),(26029004,26,29,4,'I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.'),(26029005,26,29,5,'I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall on the open field; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.'),(26029006,26,29,6,'All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.'),(26029007,26,29,7,'When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and did tear all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and mad all their loins to be at a stand.'),(26029008,26,29,8,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off from you man and animal.'),(26029009,26,29,9,'The land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it;'),(26029010,26,29,10,'therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.'),(26029011,26,29,11,'No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.'),(26029012,26,29,12,'I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.'),(26029013,26,29,13,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;'),(26029014,26,29,14,'and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.'),(26029015,26,29,15,'It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.'),(26029016,26,29,16,'It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.'),(26029017,26,29,17,'It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26029018,26,29,18,'Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.'),(26029019,26,29,19,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.'),(26029020,26,29,20,'I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they worked for me, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26029021,26,29,21,'In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26030001,26,30,1,'The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,'),(26030002,26,30,2,'Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!'),(26030003,26,30,3,'For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.'),(26030004,26,30,4,'A sword shall come on Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.'),(26030005,26,30,5,'Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mixed people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.'),(26030006,26,30,6,'Thus says Yahweh: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26030007,26,30,7,'They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.'),(26030008,26,30,8,'They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.'),(26030009,26,30,9,'In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.'),(26030010,26,30,10,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.'),(26030011,26,30,11,'He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.'),(26030012,26,30,12,'I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.'),(26030013,26,30,13,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.'),(26030014,26,30,14,'I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.'),(26030015,26,30,15,'I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.'),(26030016,26,30,16,'I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.'),(26030017,26,30,17,'The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.'),(26030018,26,30,18,'At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.'),(26030019,26,30,19,'Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26030020,26,30,20,'It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26030021,26,30,21,'Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up, to apply [healing] medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword.'),(26030022,26,30,22,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.'),(26030023,26,30,23,'I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.'),(26030024,26,30,24,'I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.'),(26030025,26,30,25,'I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out on the land of Egypt.'),(26030026,26,30,26,'I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26031001,26,31,1,'It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26031002,26,31,2,'Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?'),(26031003,26,31,3,'Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.'),(26031004,26,31,4,'The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.'),(26031005,26,31,5,'Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.'),(26031006,26,31,6,'All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.'),(26031007,26,31,7,'Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.'),(26031008,26,31,8,'The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.'),(26031009,26,31,9,'I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.'),(26031010,26,31,10,'Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;'),(26031011,26,31,11,'I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.'),(26031012,26,31,12,'Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.'),(26031013,26,31,13,'On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;'),(26031014,26,31,14,'to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.'),(26031015,26,31,15,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers of it; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.'),(26031016,26,31,16,'I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.'),(26031017,26,31,17,'They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.'),(26031018,26,31,18,'To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26032001,26,32,1,'It happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26032002,26,32,2,'Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.'),(26032003,26,32,3,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.'),(26032004,26,32,4,'I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.'),(26032005,26,32,5,'I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.'),(26032006,26,32,6,'I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.'),(26032007,26,32,7,'When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.'),(26032008,26,32,8,'All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26032009,26,32,9,'I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.'),(26032010,26,32,10,'Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.'),(26032011,26,32,11,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.'),(26032012,26,32,12,'By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nothing the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude of it shall be destroyed.'),(26032013,26,32,13,'I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.'),(26032014,26,32,14,'Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26032015,26,32,15,'When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh.'),(26032016,26,32,16,'This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26032017,26,32,17,'It happened also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26032018,26,32,18,'Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.'),(26032019,26,32,19,'Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.'),(26032020,26,32,20,'They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.'),(26032021,26,32,21,'The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'),(26032022,26,32,22,'Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;'),(26032023,26,32,23,'whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.'),(26032024,26,32,24,'There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.'),(26032025,26,32,25,'They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.'),(26032026,26,32,26,'There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.'),(26032027,26,32,27,'They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.'),(26032028,26,32,28,'But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword.'),(26032029,26,32,29,'There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.'),(26032030,26,32,30,'There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.'),(26032031,26,32,31,'Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26032032,26,32,32,'For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26033001,26,33,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26033002,26,33,2,'Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;'),(26033003,26,33,3,'if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;'),(26033004,26,33,4,'then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn\'t take warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be on his own head.'),(26033005,26,33,5,'He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn\'t take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.'),(26033006,26,33,6,'But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn\'t blow the trumpet, and the people aren\'t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman\'s hand.'),(26033007,26,33,7,'So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.'),(26033008,26,33,8,'When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don\'t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.'),(26033009,26,33,9,'Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn\'t turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.'),(26033010,26,33,10,'You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?'),(26033011,26,33,11,'Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?'),(26033012,26,33,12,'You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.'),(26033013,26,33,13,'When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.'),(26033014,26,33,14,'Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;'),(26033015,26,33,15,'if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.'),(26033016,26,33,16,'None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.'),(26033017,26,33,17,'Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.'),(26033018,26,33,18,'When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.'),(26033019,26,33,19,'When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.'),(26033020,26,33,20,'Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways.'),(26033021,26,33,21,'It happened in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, that one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been struck.'),(26033022,26,33,22,'Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who 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 mute.'),(26033023,26,33,23,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26033024,26,33,24,'Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.'),(26033025,26,33,25,'Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?'),(26033026,26,33,26,'You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor\'s wife: and shall you possess the land?'),(26033027,26,33,27,'Thus shall you tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him who is in the open field will I give to the animals to be devoured; and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.'),(26033028,26,33,28,'I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.'),(26033029,26,33,29,'Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.'),(26033030,26,33,30,'As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.'),(26033031,26,33,31,'They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don\'t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.'),(26033032,26,33,32,'Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don\'t do them.'),(26033033,26,33,33,'When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.'),(26034001,26,34,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26034002,26,34,2,'Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn\'t the shepherds feed the sheep?'),(26034003,26,34,3,'You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don\'t feed the sheep.'),(26034004,26,34,4,'You haven\'t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have you ruled over them.'),(26034005,26,34,5,'They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.'),(26034006,26,34,6,'My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.'),(26034007,26,34,7,'Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:'),(26034008,26,34,8,'As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn\'t feed my sheep;'),(26034009,26,34,9,'therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:'),(26034010,26,34,10,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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 shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.'),(26034011,26,34,11,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.'),(26034012,26,34,12,'As a shepherd seeks 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 where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.'),(26034013,26,34,13,'I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.'),(26034014,26,34,14,'I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.'),(26034015,26,34,15,'I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26034016,26,34,16,'I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.'),(26034017,26,34,17,'As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.'),(26034018,26,34,18,'Seems it a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?'),(26034019,26,34,19,'As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.'),(26034020,26,34,20,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.'),(26034021,26,34,21,'Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;'),(26034022,26,34,22,'therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.'),(26034023,26,34,23,'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.'),(26034024,26,34,24,'I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.'),(26034025,26,34,25,'I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.'),(26034026,26,34,26,'I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.'),(26034027,26,34,27,'The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.'),(26034028,26,34,28,'They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.'),(26034029,26,34,29,'I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.'),(26034030,26,34,30,'They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26034031,26,34,31,'You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26035001,26,35,1,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26035002,26,35,2,'Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,'),(26035003,26,35,3,'and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.'),(26035004,26,35,4,'I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26035005,26,35,5,'Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;'),(26035006,26,35,6,'therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.'),(26035007,26,35,7,'Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.'),(26035008,26,35,8,'I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.'),(26035009,26,35,9,'I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26035010,26,35,10,'Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:'),(26035011,26,35,11,'therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.'),(26035012,26,35,12,'You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.'),(26035013,26,35,13,'You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.'),(26035014,26,35,14,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.'),(26035015,26,35,15,'As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26036001,26,36,1,'You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.'),(26036002,26,36,2,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;'),(26036003,26,36,3,'therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;'),(26036004,26,36,4,'therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;'),(26036005,26,36,5,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.'),(26036006,26,36,6,'Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:'),(26036007,26,36,7,'therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.'),(26036008,26,36,8,'But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.'),(26036009,26,36,9,'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;'),(26036010,26,36,10,'and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built;'),(26036011,26,36,11,'and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26036012,26,36,12,'Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.'),(26036013,26,36,13,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;'),(26036014,26,36,14,'therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;'),(26036015,26,36,15,'neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26036016,26,36,16,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26036017,26,36,17,'Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.'),(26036018,26,36,18,'Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;'),(26036019,26,36,19,'and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.'),(26036020,26,36,20,'When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.'),(26036021,26,36,21,'But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.'),(26036022,26,36,22,'Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don\'t do [this] for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.'),(26036023,26,36,23,'I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.'),(26036024,26,36,24,'For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.'),(26036025,26,36,25,'I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.'),(26036026,26,36,26,'A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.'),(26036027,26,36,27,'I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.'),(26036028,26,36,28,'You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.'),(26036029,26,36,29,'I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.'),(26036030,26,36,30,'I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.'),(26036031,26,36,31,'Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.'),(26036032,26,36,32,'Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.'),(26036033,26,36,33,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.'),(26036034,26,36,34,'The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.'),(26036035,26,36,35,'They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'),(26036036,26,36,36,'Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.'),(26036037,26,36,37,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.'),(26036038,26,36,38,'As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26037001,26,37,1,'The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.'),(26037002,26,37,2,'He caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, behold, they were very dry.'),(26037003,26,37,3,'He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.'),(26037004,26,37,4,'Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.'),(26037005,26,37,5,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.'),(26037006,26,37,6,'I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26037007,26,37,7,'So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.'),(26037008,26,37,8,'I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.'),(26037009,26,37,9,'Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.'),(26037010,26,37,10,'So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.'),(26037011,26,37,11,'Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.'),(26037012,26,37,12,'Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.'),(26037013,26,37,13,'You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.'),(26037014,26,37,14,'I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.'),(26037015,26,37,15,'The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,'),(26037016,26,37,16,'You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:'),(26037017,26,37,17,'and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.'),(26037018,26,37,18,'When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?'),(26037019,26,37,19,'tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.'),(26037020,26,37,20,'The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.'),(26037021,26,37,21,'Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:'),(26037022,26,37,22,'and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;'),(26037023,26,37,23,'neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.'),(26037024,26,37,24,'My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.'),(26037025,26,37,25,'They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children\'s children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.'),(26037026,26,37,26,'Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.'),(26037027,26,37,27,'My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.'),(26037028,26,37,28,'The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.'),(26038001,26,38,1,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(26038002,26,38,2,'Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,'),(26038003,26,38,3,'and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:'),(26038004,26,38,4,'and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;'),(26038005,26,38,5,'Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;'),(26038006,26,38,6,'Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.'),(26038007,26,38,7,'Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.'),(26038008,26,38,8,'After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.'),(26038009,26,38,9,'You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.'),(26038010,26,38,10,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:'),(26038011,26,38,11,'and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;'),(26038012,26,38,12,'to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.'),(26038013,26,38,13,'Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?'),(26038014,26,38,14,'Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?'),(26038015,26,38,15,'You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;'),(26038016,26,38,16,'and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.'),(26038017,26,38,17,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?'),(26038018,26,38,18,'It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.'),(26038019,26,38,19,'For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;'),(26038020,26,38,20,'so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.'),(26038021,26,38,21,'I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man\'s sword shall be against his brother.'),(26038022,26,38,22,'With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.'),(26038023,26,38,23,'I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26039001,26,39,1,'You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:'),(26039002,26,39,2,'and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel;'),(26039003,26,39,3,'and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.'),(26039004,26,39,4,'You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.'),(26039005,26,39,5,'You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26039006,26,39,6,'I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.'),(26039007,26,39,7,'My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.'),(26039008,26,39,8,'Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day about which I have spoken.'),(26039009,26,39,9,'Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;'),(26039010,26,39,10,'so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26039011,26,39,11,'It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.'),(26039012,26,39,12,'Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.'),(26039013,26,39,13,'Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26039014,26,39,14,'They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.'),(26039015,26,39,15,'Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man\'s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.'),(26039016,26,39,16,'Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.'),(26039017,26,39,17,'You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.'),(26039018,26,39,18,'You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.'),(26039019,26,39,19,'You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.'),(26039020,26,39,20,'You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26039021,26,39,21,'I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.'),(26039022,26,39,22,'So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and forward.'),(26039023,26,39,23,'The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.'),(26039024,26,39,24,'According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.'),(26039025,26,39,25,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.'),(26039026,26,39,26,'They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;'),(26039027,26,39,27,'when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies\' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.'),(26039028,26,39,28,'They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave none of them any more there;'),(26039029,26,39,29,'neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26040001,26,40,1,'In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was struck, in the same day, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.'),(26040002,26,40,2,'In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.'),(26040003,26,40,3,'He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.'),(26040004,26,40,4,'The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.'),(26040005,26,40,5,'Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man\'s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.'),(26040006,26,40,6,'Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.'),(26040007,26,40,7,'Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.'),(26040008,26,40,8,'He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.'),(26040009,26,40,9,'Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.'),(26040010,26,40,10,'The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.'),(26040011,26,40,11,'He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;'),(26040012,26,40,12,'and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side], and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.'),(26040013,26,40,13,'He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.'),(26040014,26,40,14,'He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached] to the posts, round about the gate.'),(26040015,26,40,15,'[From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.'),(26040016,26,40,16,'There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post were palm trees.'),(26040017,26,40,17,'Then brought he me into the outer court; and, behold, there were chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were on the pavement.'),(26040018,26,40,18,'The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.'),(26040019,26,40,19,'Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits, [both] on the east and on the north.'),(26040020,26,40,20,'The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.'),(26040021,26,40,21,'The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.'),(26040022,26,40,22,'The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.'),(26040023,26,40,23,'There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate, [both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate one hundred cubits.'),(26040024,26,40,24,'He led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according to these measures.'),(26040025,26,40,25,'There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.'),(26040026,26,40,26,'There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.'),(26040027,26,40,27,'There was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.'),(26040028,26,40,28,'Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;'),(26040029,26,40,29,'and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.'),(26040030,26,40,30,'There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long, and five cubits broad.'),(26040031,26,40,31,'The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.'),(26040032,26,40,32,'He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;'),(26040033,26,40,33,'and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it, according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long, and twenty-five cubits broad.'),(26040034,26,40,34,'The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.'),(26040035,26,40,35,'He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according to these measures;'),(26040036,26,40,36,'the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.'),(26040037,26,40,37,'The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.'),(26040038,26,40,38,'A chamber with the door of it was by the posts at the gates; there they washed the burnt offering.'),(26040039,26,40,39,'In the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to kill thereon the burnt offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering.'),(26040040,26,40,40,'On the [one] side outside, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.'),(26040041,26,40,41,'Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices].'),(26040042,26,40,42,'There were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.'),(26040043,26,40,43,'The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.'),(26040044,26,40,44,'Outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.'),(26040045,26,40,45,'He said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;'),(26040046,26,40,46,'and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.'),(26040047,26,40,47,'He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.'),(26040048,26,40,48,'Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.'),(26040049,26,40,49,'The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.'),(26041001,26,41,1,'He brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tent.'),(26041002,26,41,2,'The breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.'),(26041003,26,41,3,'Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.'),(26041004,26,41,4,'He measured the length of it, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.'),(26041005,26,41,5,'Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.'),(26041006,26,41,6,'The side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.'),(26041007,26,41,7,'The side-chambers were broader as they encompassed [the house] higher and higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house [continued] upward; and so one went up [from] the lowest [chamber] to the highest by the middle [chamber].'),(26041008,26,41,8,'I saw also that the house had a raised base round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.'),(26041009,26,41,9,'The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.'),(26041010,26,41,10,'Between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.'),(26041011,26,41,11,'The doors of the side-chambers were toward [the place] that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.'),(26041012,26,41,12,'The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.'),(26041013,26,41,13,'So he measured the house, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls of it, one hundred cubits long;'),(26041014,26,41,14,'also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, one hundred cubits.'),(26041015,26,41,15,'He measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back of it, and the galleries of it on the one side and on the other side, one hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;'),(26041016,26,41,16,'the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),'),(26041017,26,41,17,'to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.'),(26041018,26,41,18,'It was made with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;'),(26041019,26,41,19,'so that there was the face of a man toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. [thus was it] made through all the house round about:'),(26041020,26,41,20,'from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm trees made: thus was the wall of the temple.'),(26041021,26,41,21,'As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].'),(26041022,26,41,22,'The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.'),(26041023,26,41,23,'The temple and the sanctuary had two doors.'),(26041024,26,41,24,'The doors had two leaves [apiece], two turning leaves: two [leaves] for the one door, and two leaves for the other.'),(26041025,26,41,25,'There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.'),(26041026,26,41,26,'There were closed windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the thresholds.'),(26042001,26,42,1,'Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.'),(26042002,26,42,2,'Before the length of one hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.'),(26042003,26,42,3,'Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.'),(26042004,26,42,4,'Before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits\' breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.'),(26042005,26,42,5,'Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.'),(26042006,26,42,6,'For they were in three stories, and they didn\'t have pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middle from the ground.'),(26042007,26,42,7,'The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.'),(26042008,26,42,8,'For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, behold, before the temple were one hundred cubits.'),(26042009,26,42,9,'From under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them from the outer court.'),(26042010,26,42,10,'In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers.'),(26042011,26,42,11,'The way before them was like the appearance of [the way of] the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their exits were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.'),(26042012,26,42,12,'According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.'),(26042013,26,42,13,'Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy.'),(26042014,26,42,14,'When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the people.'),(26042015,26,42,15,'Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.'),(26042016,26,42,16,'He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.'),(26042017,26,42,17,'He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.'),(26042018,26,42,18,'He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.'),(26042019,26,42,19,'He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.'),(26042020,26,42,20,'He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.'),(26043001,26,43,1,'Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.'),(26043002,26,43,2,'Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.'),(26043003,26,43,3,'It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.'),(26043004,26,43,4,'The glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.'),(26043005,26,43,5,'The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house.'),(26043006,26,43,6,'I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.'),(26043007,26,43,7,'He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;'),(26043008,26,43,8,'in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was [but] the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed them in my anger.'),(26043009,26,43,9,'Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.'),(26043010,26,43,10,'You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.'),(26043011,26,43,11,'If they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and the exits of it, and the entrances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the ordinances of it, and all the forms of it, and all the laws of it; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all the ordinances of it, and do them.'),(26043012,26,43,12,'This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit of it round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.'),(26043013,26,43,13,'These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.'),(26043014,26,43,14,'From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.'),(26043015,26,43,15,'The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.'),(26043016,26,43,16,'The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.'),(26043017,26,43,17,'The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about; and the steps of it shall look toward the east.'),(26043018,26,43,18,'He said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.'),(26043019,26,43,19,'You shall give to the priests the Levites who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bull for a sin-offering.'),(26043020,26,43,20,'You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it.'),(26043021,26,43,21,'You shall also take the bull of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.'),(26043022,26,43,22,'On the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bull.'),(26043023,26,43,23,'When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bull without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.'),(26043024,26,43,24,'You shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt on them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.'),(26043025,26,43,25,'Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.'),(26043026,26,43,26,'Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.'),(26043027,26,43,27,'When they have accomplished the days, it shall be that on the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings on the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26044001,26,44,1,'Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.'),(26044002,26,44,2,'Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.'),(26044003,26,44,3,'As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.'),(26044004,26,44,4,'Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell on my face.'),(26044005,26,44,5,'Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahweh, and all the laws of it; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.'),(26044006,26,44,6,'You shall tell the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: you house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,'),(26044007,26,44,7,'in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.'),(26044008,26,44,8,'You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.'),(26044009,26,44,9,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.'),(26044010,26,44,10,'But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.'),(26044011,26,44,11,'Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.'),(26044012,26,44,12,'Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.'),(26044013,26,44,13,'They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.'),(26044014,26,44,14,'Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that shall be done therein.'),(26044015,26,44,15,'But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord Yahweh:'),(26044016,26,44,16,'they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.'),(26044017,26,44,17,'It shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come on them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.'),(26044018,26,44,18,'They shall have linen tires on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their loins; they shall not gird themselves with [anything that causes] sweat.'),(26044019,26,44,19,'When they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.'),(26044020,26,44,20,'Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.'),(26044021,26,44,21,'Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.'),(26044022,26,44,22,'Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.'),(26044023,26,44,23,'They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.'),(26044024,26,44,24,'In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.'),(26044025,26,44,25,'They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.'),(26044026,26,44,26,'After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.'),(26044027,26,44,27,'In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26044028,26,44,28,'They shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.'),(26044029,26,44,29,'They shall eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.'),(26044030,26,44,30,'The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest: you shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.'),(26044031,26,44,31,'The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird or animal.'),(26045001,26,45,1,'Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border of it round about.'),(26045002,26,45,2,'Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about.'),(26045003,26,45,3,'Of this measure shall you measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.'),(26045004,26,45,4,'It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.'),(26045005,26,45,5,'Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty chambers.'),(26045006,26,45,6,'You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.'),(26045007,26,45,7,'[Whatever is] for the prince [shall be] on the one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy offering and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.'),(26045008,26,45,8,'In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.'),(26045009,26,45,9,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26045010,26,45,10,'You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.'),(26045011,26,45,11,'The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure of it shall be after the homer.'),(26045012,26,45,12,'The shekel shall be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.'),(26045013,26,45,13,'This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;'),(26045014,26,45,14,'and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)'),(26045015,26,45,15,'and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel; -for a meal-offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26045016,26,45,16,'All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the prince in Israel.'),(26045017,26,45,17,'It shall be the prince\'s part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.'),(26045018,26,45,18,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, you shall take a young bull without blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.'),(26045019,26,45,19,'The priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it on the door-posts of the house, and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.'),(26045020,26,45,20,'So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so shall you make atonement for the house.'),(26045021,26,45,21,'In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.'),(26045022,26,45,22,'On that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin-offering.'),(26045023,26,45,23,'The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin-offering.'),(26045024,26,45,24,'He shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26045025,26,45,25,'In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin-offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal-offering, and according to the oil.'),(26046001,26,46,1,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.'),(26046002,26,46,2,'The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.'),(26046003,26,46,3,'The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.'),(26046004,26,46,4,'The burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the Sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;'),(26046005,26,46,5,'and the meal-offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal-offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26046006,26,46,6,'On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:'),(26046007,26,46,7,'and he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the bull, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26046008,26,46,8,'When the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way of it.'),(26046009,26,46,9,'But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth straight before him.'),(26046010,26,46,10,'The prince, when they go in, shall go in with of them; and when they go out, he shall go out.'),(26046011,26,46,11,'In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.'),(26046012,26,46,12,'When the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace-offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.'),(26046013,26,46,13,'You shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning shall you prepare it.'),(26046014,26,46,14,'You shall prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.'),(26046015,26,46,15,'Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal-offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.'),(26046016,26,46,16,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.'),(26046017,26,46,17,'But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.'),(26046018,26,46,18,'Moreover the prince shall not take of the people\'s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not be scattered every man from his possession.'),(26046019,26,46,19,'Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.'),(26046020,26,46,20,'He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, [and] where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.'),(26046021,26,46,21,'Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.'),(26046022,26,46,22,'In the four corners of the court there were courts enclosed, forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one measure.'),(26046023,26,46,23,'There was a wall round about in them, round about the four, and boiling-places were made under the walls round about.'),(26046024,26,46,24,'Then said he to me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.'),(26047001,26,47,1,'He brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.'),(26047002,26,47,2,'Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.'),(26047003,26,47,3,'When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.'),(26047004,26,47,4,'Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the loins.'),(26047005,26,47,5,'Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.'),(26047006,26,47,6,'He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.'),(26047007,26,47,7,'Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.'),(26047008,26,47,8,'Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.'),(26047009,26,47,9,'It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.'),(26047010,26,47,10,'It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.'),(26047011,26,47,11,'But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.'),(26047012,26,47,12,'By the river on the bank of it, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit of it fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters of it issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit of it shall be for food, and the leaf of it for healing.'),(26047013,26,47,13,'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, by which you shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph [shall have two] portions.'),(26047014,26,47,14,'You shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.'),(26047015,26,47,15,'This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;'),(26047016,26,47,16,'Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.'),(26047017,26,47,17,'The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.'),(26047018,26,47,18,'The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure. This is the east side.'),(26047019,26,47,19,'The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward.'),(26047020,26,47,20,'The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.'),(26047021,26,47,21,'So shall you divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.'),(26047022,26,47,22,'It shall happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the strangers who sojourn among you, who shall father children among you; and they shall be to you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.'),(26047023,26,47,23,'It shall happen, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, there shall you give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26048001,26,48,1,'Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east [and] west), Dan, one [portion].'),(26048002,26,48,2,'By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one [portion].'),(26048003,26,48,3,'By the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one [portion].'),(26048004,26,48,4,'By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one [portion].'),(26048005,26,48,5,'By the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one [portion].'),(26048006,26,48,6,'By the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one [portion].'),(26048007,26,48,7,'By the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one [portion].'),(26048008,26,48,8,'By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand [reeds] in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.'),(26048009,26,48,9,'The offering that you shall offer to Yahweh shall be twenty-five thousand [reeds] in length, and ten thousand in breadth.'),(26048010,26,48,10,'For these, even for the priests, shall be the holy offering: toward the north twenty-five thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south twenty-five thousand in length: and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it.'),(26048011,26,48,11,'[It shall be] for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who didn\'t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.'),(26048012,26,48,12,'It shall be to them an offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.'),(26048013,26,48,13,'Answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be twenty-five thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.'),(26048014,26,48,14,'They shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first fruits of the land be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.'),(26048015,26,48,15,'The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst of it.'),(26048016,26,48,16,'These shall be the measures of it: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.'),(26048017,26,48,17,'The city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred fifty, and toward the south two hundred fifty, and toward the east two hundred fifty, and toward the west two hundred fifty.'),(26048018,26,48,18,'The remainder in the length, answerable to the holy offering, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy offering; and the increase of it shall be for food to those who labor in the city.'),(26048019,26,48,19,'Those who labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall until it.'),(26048020,26,48,20,'All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering four-square, with the possession of the city.'),(26048021,26,48,21,'The residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy offering and of the possession of the city; in front of the twenty-five thousand of the offering toward the east border, and westward in front of the twenty-five thousand toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst of it.'),(26048022,26,48,22,'Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince\'s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.'),(26048023,26,48,23,'As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one [portion].'),(26048024,26,48,24,'By the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one [portion].'),(26048025,26,48,25,'By the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one [portion].'),(26048026,26,48,26,'By the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one [portion].'),(26048027,26,48,27,'By the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one [portion].'),(26048028,26,48,28,'By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.'),(26048029,26,48,29,'This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.'),(26048030,26,48,30,'These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;'),(26048031,26,48,31,'and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.'),(26048032,26,48,32,'At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.'),(26048033,26,48,33,'At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.'),(26048034,26,48,34,'At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.'),(26048035,26,48,35,'It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.'),(27001001,27,1,1,'In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.'),(27001002,27,1,2,'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.'),(27001003,27,1,3,'The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in [certain] of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles;'),(27001004,27,1,4,'youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with 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 language of the Chaldeans.'),(27001005,27,1,5,'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 of it they should stand before the king.'),(27001006,27,1,6,'Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.'),(27001007,27,1,7,'The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave [the name of] Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, [of] Shadrach; and to Mishael, [of] Meshach; and to Azariah, [of] Abednego.'),(27001008,27,1,8,'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 the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.'),(27001009,27,1,9,'Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.'),(27001010,27,1,10,'The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.'),(27001011,27,1,11,'Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:'),(27001012,27,1,12,'Prove your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.'),(27001013,27,1,13,'Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king\'s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.'),(27001014,27,1,14,'So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.'),(27001015,27,1,15,'At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king\'s dainties.'),(27001016,27,1,16,'So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.'),(27001017,27,1,17,'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.'),(27001018,27,1,18,'At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.'),(27001019,27,1,19,'The king talked with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.'),(27001020,27,1,20,'In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.'),(27001021,27,1,21,'Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.'),(27002001,27,2,1,'In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.'),(27002002,27,2,2,'Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.'),(27002003,27,2,3,'The king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.'),(27002004,27,2,4,'Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.'),(27002005,27,2,5,'The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you don\'t make known to me the dream and the interpretation of it, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.'),(27002006,27,2,6,'But if you show the dream and the interpretation of it, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it.'),(27002007,27,2,7,'They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.'),(27002008,27,2,8,'The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.'),(27002009,27,2,9,'But if you don\'t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation of it.'),(27002010,27,2,10,'The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man on the earth who can show the king\'s matter, because no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.'),(27002011,27,2,11,'It is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is no other who can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.'),(27002012,27,2,12,'For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.'),(27002013,27,2,13,'So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.'),(27002014,27,2,14,'Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king\'s guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon;'),(27002015,27,2,15,'he answered Arioch the king\'s captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.'),(27002016,27,2,16,'Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.'),(27002017,27,2,17,'Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:'),(27002018,27,2,18,'that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should nor perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.'),(27002019,27,2,19,'Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.'),(27002020,27,2,20,'Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.'),(27002021,27,2,21,'He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;'),(27002022,27,2,22,'he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.'),(27002023,27,2,23,'I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king\'s matter.'),(27002024,27,2,24,'Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Don\'t destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.'),(27002025,27,2,25,'Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.'),(27002026,27,2,26,'The king answered Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation of it?'),(27002027,27,2,27,'Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, show to the king;'),(27002028,27,2,28,'but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:'),(27002029,27,2,29,'as for you, O king, your thoughts came [into your mind] on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.'),(27002030,27,2,30,'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 you may know the thoughts of your heart.'),(27002031,27,2,31,'You, O king, saw, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the aspect of it was awesome.'),(27002032,27,2,32,'As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,'),(27002033,27,2,33,'its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.'),(27002034,27,2,34,'You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.'),(27002035,27,2,35,'Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.'),(27002036,27,2,36,'This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation of it before the king.'),(27002037,27,2,37,'You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;'),(27002038,27,2,38,'and wherever the children of men dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of the sky has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are the head of gold.'),(27002039,27,2,39,'After you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.'),(27002040,27,2,40,'The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.'),(27002041,27,2,41,'Whereas you saw 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, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.'),(27002042,27,2,42,'As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.'),(27002043,27,2,43,'Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cling to one another, even as iron does not mingle with clay.'),(27002044,27,2,44,'In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.'),(27002045,27,2,45,'Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.'),(27002046,27,2,46,'Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.'),(27002047,27,2,47,'The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this secret.'),(27002048,27,2,48,'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.'),(27002049,27,2,49,'Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the king.'),(27003001,27,3,1,'Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.'),(27003002,27,3,2,'Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.'),(27003003,27,3,3,'Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.'),(27003004,27,3,4,'Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, peoples, nations, and languages,'),(27003005,27,3,5,'that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;'),(27003006,27,3,6,'and whoever doesn\'t fall down and worships shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'),(27003007,27,3,7,'Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.'),(27003008,27,3,8,'Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.'),(27003009,27,3,9,'They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.'),(27003010,27,3,10,'You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image;'),(27003011,27,3,11,'and whoever doesn\'t fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.'),(27003012,27,3,12,'There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded you: they don\'t serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.'),(27003013,27,3,13,'Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.'),(27003014,27,3,14,'Nebuchadnezzar answered them, Is it on purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don\'t serve my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?'),(27003015,27,3,15,'Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don\'t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?'),(27003016,27,3,16,'Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.'),(27003017,27,3,17,'If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.'),(27003018,27,3,18,'But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.'),(27003019,27,3,19,'Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.'),(27003020,27,3,20,'He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.'),(27003021,27,3,21,'Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.'),(27003022,27,3,22,'Therefore because the king\'s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.'),(27003023,27,3,23,'These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.'),(27003024,27,3,24,'Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn\'t we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.'),(27003025,27,3,25,'He answered, Look, 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.'),(27003026,27,3,26,'Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire.'),(27003027,27,3,27,'The satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king\'s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies, nor was the hair of their head singed, neither were their pants changed, nor had the smell of fire passed on them.'),(27003028,27,3,28,'Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who 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.'),(27003029,27,3,29,'Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.'),(27003030,27,3,30,'Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.'),(27004001,27,4,1,'Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.'),(27004002,27,4,2,'It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.'),(27004003,27,4,3,'How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.'),(27004004,27,4,4,'I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.'),(27004005,27,4,5,'I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.'),(27004006,27,4,6,'Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.'),(27004007,27,4,7,'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 to me the interpretation of it.'),(27004008,27,4,8,'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 holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying],'),(27004009,27,4,9,'Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation of it.'),(27004010,27,4,10,'Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.'),(27004011,27,4,11,'The tree grew, and was strong, and the height of it reached to the sky, and the sight of it to the end of all the earth.'),(27004012,27,4,12,'The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.'),(27004013,27,4,13,'I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.'),(27004014,27,4,14,'He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.'),(27004015,27,4,15,'Nevertheless leave the stump of its 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 the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:'),(27004016,27,4,16,'let his heart be changed from man\'s, and let a animal\'s heart be given to him; and let seven times pass over him.'),(27004017,27,4,17,'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 that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.'),(27004018,27,4,18,'This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.'),(27004019,27,4,19,'Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don\'t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.'),(27004020,27,4,20,'The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and the sight of it to all the earth;'),(27004021,27,4,21,'whose leaves were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:'),(27004022,27,4,22,'it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.'),(27004023,27,4,23,'Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it 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 the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;'),(27004024,27,4,24,'this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is come on my lord the king:'),(27004025,27,4,25,'that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will.'),(27004026,27,4,26,'Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.'),(27004027,27,4,27,'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquillity.'),(27004028,27,4,28,'All this came on the king Nebuchadnezzar.'),(27004029,27,4,29,'At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.'),(27004030,27,4,30,'The king spoke 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?'),(27004031,27,4,31,'While the word was in the king\'s mouth, there fell a voice from the sky, [saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you:'),(27004032,27,4,32,'and you shall be driven from men; and they dwelling shall be with the animals of the field; you shall be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will.'),(27004033,27,4,33,'The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles\' [feathers], and his nails like birds\' [claws].'),(27004034,27,4,34,'At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.'),(27004035,27,4,35,'All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?'),(27004036,27,4,36,'At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.'),(27004037,27,4,37,'Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.'),(27005001,27,5,1,'Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.'),(27005002,27,5,2,'Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from it.'),(27005003,27,5,3,'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 from them.'),(27005004,27,5,4,'They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.'),(27005005,27,5,5,'In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man\'s hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king\'s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.'),(27005006,27,5,6,'Then the king\'s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.'),(27005007,27,5,7,'The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation of it, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.'),(27005008,27,5,8,'Then came in all the king\'s wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.'),(27005009,27,5,9,'Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.'),(27005010,27,5,10,'[Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don\'t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.'),(27005011,27,5,11,'There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;'),(27005012,27,5,12,'because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing 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 show the interpretation.'),(27005013,27,5,13,'Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?'),(27005014,27,5,14,'I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.'),(27005015,27,5,15,'Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.'),(27005016,27,5,16,'But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation of it, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.'),(27005017,27,5,17,'Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.'),(27005018,27,5,18,'You king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:'),(27005019,27,5,19,'and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.'),(27005020,27,5,20,'But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:'),(27005021,27,5,21,'and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals\', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whoever he will.'),(27005022,27,5,22,'You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,'),(27005023,27,5,23,'but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don\'t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.'),(27005024,27,5,24,'Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.'),(27005025,27,5,25,'This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.'),(27005026,27,5,26,'This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;'),(27005027,27,5,27,'TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.'),(27005028,27,5,28,'PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.'),(27005029,27,5,29,'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.'),(27005030,27,5,30,'In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.'),(27005031,27,5,31,'Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.'),(27006001,27,6,1,'It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom;'),(27006002,27,6,2,'and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.'),(27006003,27,6,3,'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.'),(27006004,27,6,4,'Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.'),(27006005,27,6,5,'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.'),(27006006,27,6,6,'Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.'),(27006007,27,6,7,'All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.'),(27006008,27,6,8,'Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn\'t alter.'),(27006009,27,6,9,'Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.'),(27006010,27,6,10,'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 on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.'),(27006011,27,6,11,'Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.'),(27006012,27,6,12,'Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king\'s interdict: Haven\'t you signed an interdict, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn\'t alter.'),(27006013,27,6,13,'Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn\'t regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.'),(27006014,27,6,14,'Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.'),(27006015,27,6,15,'Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.'),(27006016,27,6,16,'Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.'),(27006017,27,6,17,'A stone was brought, and laid on 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.'),(27006018,27,6,18,'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.'),(27006019,27,6,19,'Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.'),(27006020,27,6,20,'When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?'),(27006021,27,6,21,'Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.'),(27006022,27,6,22,'My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions\' mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.'),(27006023,27,6,23,'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 on him, because he had trusted in his God.'),(27006024,27,6,24,'The king commanded, and they brought those men who 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 broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.'),(27006025,27,6,25,'Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.'),(27006026,27,6,26,'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 steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.'),(27006027,27,6,27,'He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.'),(27006028,27,6,28,'So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.'),(27007001,27,7,1,'In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.'),(27007002,27,7,2,'Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.'),(27007003,27,7,3,'Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.'),(27007004,27,7,4,'The first was like a lion, and had eagle\'s wings: I saw until the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man\'s heart was given to it.'),(27007005,27,7,5,'Behold, another animal, a second, like a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, Arise, devour much flesh.'),(27007006,27,7,6,'After this I saw, and, behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird; the animal had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.'),(27007007,27,7,7,'After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the animals that were before it; and it had ten horns.'),(27007008,27,7,8,'I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.'),(27007009,27,7,9,'I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.'),(27007010,27,7,10,'A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.'),(27007011,27,7,11,'I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.'),(27007012,27,7,12,'As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.'),(27007013,27,7,13,'I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.'),(27007014,27,7,14,'There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.'),(27007015,27,7,15,'As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.'),(27007016,27,7,16,'I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.'),(27007017,27,7,17,'These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who shall arise out of the earth.'),(27007018,27,7,18,'But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.'),(27007019,27,7,19,'Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;'),(27007020,27,7,20,'and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.'),(27007021,27,7,21,'I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;'),(27007022,27,7,22,'until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.'),(27007023,27,7,23,'Thus he said, The fourth animal shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.'),(27007024,27,7,24,'As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings.'),(27007025,27,7,25,'He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.'),(27007026,27,7,26,'But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it to the end.'),(27007027,27,7,27,'The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole the sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.'),(27007028,27,7,28,'Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.'),(27008001,27,8,1,'In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.'),(27008002,27,8,2,'I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.'),(27008003,27,8,3,'Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.'),(27008004,27,8,4,'I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; and no animals could stand before him, neither was there any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.'),(27008005,27,8,5,'As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn\'t touch the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.'),(27008006,27,8,6,'He came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran on him in the fury of his power.'),(27008007,27,8,7,'I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled on him; and there was none who could deliver the ram out of his hand.'),(27008008,27,8,8,'The male goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable [horns] toward the four winds of the sky.'),(27008009,27,8,9,'Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious [land].'),(27008010,27,8,10,'It grew great, even to the host of the sky; and some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled on them.'),(27008011,27,8,11,'Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the continual [burnt offering], and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.'),(27008012,27,8,12,'The host was given over [to it] together with the continual [burnt offering] through disobedience; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did [its pleasure] and prospered.'),(27008013,27,8,13,'Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?'),(27008014,27,8,14,'He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings [and] mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.'),(27008015,27,8,15,'It happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.'),(27008016,27,8,16,'I heard a man\'s voice between [the banks of] the Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.'),(27008017,27,8,17,'So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.'),(27008018,27,8,18,'Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.'),(27008019,27,8,19,'He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.'),(27008020,27,8,20,'The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.'),(27008021,27,8,21,'The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.'),(27008022,27,8,22,'As for that which was broken, in the place where four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.'),(27008023,27,8,23,'In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.'),(27008024,27,8,24,'His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.'),(27008025,27,8,25,'Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.'),(27008026,27,8,26,'The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but seal up the vision; for it belongs to many days [to come].'),(27008027,27,8,27,'I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king\'s business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.'),(27009001,27,9,1,'In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,'),(27009002,27,9,2,'in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.'),(27009003,27,9,3,'I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.'),(27009004,27,9,4,'I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,'),(27009005,27,9,5,'we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;'),(27009006,27,9,6,'neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.'),(27009007,27,9,7,'Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.'),(27009008,27,9,8,'Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.'),(27009009,27,9,9,'To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him;'),(27009010,27,9,10,'neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.'),(27009011,27,9,11,'Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.'),(27009012,27,9,12,'He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.'),(27009013,27,9,13,'As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come on us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.'),(27009014,27,9,14,'Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.'),(27009015,27,9,15,'Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.'),(27009016,27,9,16,'Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all who are round about us.'),(27009017,27,9,17,'Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord\'s sake.'),(27009018,27,9,18,'My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies\' sake.'),(27009019,27,9,19,'Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don\'t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.'),(27009020,27,9,20,'While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;'),(27009021,27,9,21,'yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.'),(27009022,27,9,22,'He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, I am now come forth to give you wisdom and understanding.'),(27009023,27,9,23,'At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I am come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.'),(27009024,27,9,24,'Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.'),(27009025,27,9,25,'Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One,{\"Anointed One\" can also be translated \"Messiah\" (same as \"Christ\").} the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.'),(27009026,27,9,26,'After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One{\"Anointed One\" can also be translated \"Messiah\" (same as \"Christ\").} shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end of it shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.'),(27009027,27,9,27,'He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out on the desolate.'),(27010001,27,10,1,'In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.'),(27010002,27,10,2,'In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.'),(27010003,27,10,3,'I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.'),(27010004,27,10,4,'In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,'),(27010005,27,10,5,'I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:'),(27010006,27,10,6,'his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.'),(27010007,27,10,7,'I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn\'t see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.'),(27010008,27,10,8,'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.'),(27010009,27,10,9,'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.'),(27010010,27,10,10,'Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.'),(27010011,27,10,11,'He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for to you am I now sent. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.'),(27010012,27,10,12,'Then said he to me, Don\'t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you did set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I am come for your words\' sake.'),(27010013,27,10,13,'But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.'),(27010014,27,10,14,'Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for [many] days:'),(27010015,27,10,15,'and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.'),(27010016,27,10,16,'Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I retain no strength.'),(27010017,27,10,17,'For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.'),(27010018,27,10,18,'Then there touched me again one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me.'),(27010019,27,10,19,'He said, \"Greatly beloved man, don\'t be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong.\" When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, \"Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.\"'),(27010020,27,10,20,'Then he said, \"Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.'),(27010021,27,10,21,'But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.\"'),(27011001,27,11,1,'\"As for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.'),(27011002,27,11,2,'Now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he has grown strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.'),(27011003,27,11,3,'A mighty king shall stand up, who shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.'),(27011004,27,11,4,'When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.'),(27011005,27,11,5,'The king of the south shall be strong, and [one] of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.'),(27011006,27,11,6,'At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.'),(27011007,27,11,7,'But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail.'),(27011008,27,11,8,'Also their gods, with their molten images, [and] with their goodly vessels of silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from the king of the north.'),(27011009,27,11,9,'He shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he shall return into his own land.'),(27011010,27,11,10,'His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.'),(27011011,27,11,11,'The king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north; and he shall set forth a great multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand.'),(27011012,27,11,12,'The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.'),(27011013,27,11,13,'The king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the end of the times, [even of] years, with a great army and with much substance.'),(27011014,27,11,14,'In those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.'),(27011015,27,11,15,'So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.'),(27011016,27,11,16,'But he who comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be destruction.'),(27011017,27,11,17,'He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.'),(27011018,27,11,18,'After this shall he turn his face to the isles, and shall take many: but a prince shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to turn on him.'),(27011019,27,11,19,'Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.'),(27011020,27,11,20,'Then shall stand up in his place one who shall cause a tax collector to pass through the kingdom to maintain its glory; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.'),(27011021,27,11,21,'In his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.'),(27011022,27,11,22,'The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.'),(27011023,27,11,23,'After the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come up, and shall become strong, with a small people.'),(27011024,27,11,24,'In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers\' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.'),(27011025,27,11,25,'He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.'),(27011026,27,11,26,'Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.'),(27011027,27,11,27,'As for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.'),(27011028,27,11,28,'Then shall he return into his land with great substance; and his heart [shall be] against the holy covenant; and he shall do [his pleasure], and return to his own land.'),(27011029,27,11,29,'At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in the latter time as it was in the former.'),(27011030,27,11,30,'For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and shall return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and shall do [his pleasure]: he shall even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.'),(27011031,27,11,31,'Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual [burnt offering], and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.'),(27011032,27,11,32,'Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].'),(27011033,27,11,33,'Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, [many] days.'),(27011034,27,11,34,'Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves to them with flatteries.'),(27011035,27,11,35,'Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.'),(27011036,27,11,36,'The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.'),(27011037,27,11,37,'Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.'),(27011038,27,11,38,'But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers didn\'t know shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.'),(27011039,27,11,39,'He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god: whoever acknowledges [him] he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for a price.'),(27011040,27,11,40,'At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.'),(27011041,27,11,41,'He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many [countries] shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.'),(27011042,27,11,42,'He shall stretch forth his hand also on the countries; and the land of Egypt shall not escape.'),(27011043,27,11,43,'But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.'),(27011044,27,11,44,'But news out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.'),(27011045,27,11,45,'He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.'),(27012001,27,12,1,'\"At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and 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 your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.'),(27012002,27,12,2,'Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.'),(27012003,27,12,3,'Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.'),(27012004,27,12,4,'But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.\"'),(27012005,27,12,5,'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.'),(27012006,27,12,6,'One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?'),(27012007,27,12,7,'I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.'),(27012008,27,12,8,'I heard, but I didn\'t understand: then said I, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?'),(27012009,27,12,9,'He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.'),(27012010,27,12,10,'Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.'),(27012011,27,12,11,'From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.'),(27012012,27,12,12,'Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.'),(27012013,27,12,13,'But go you your way until the end be; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.'),(28001001,28,1,1,'The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.'),(28001002,28,1,2,'When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, \"Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery against from Yahweh.\"'),(28001003,28,1,3,'So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.'),(28001004,28,1,4,'Yahweh said to him, \"Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.'),(28001005,28,1,5,'It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.\"'),(28001006,28,1,6,'She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, \"Call her name Lo-Ruhamah{Lo-Ruhamah means \"not loved.\"}; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.'),(28001007,28,1,7,'But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.\"'),(28001008,28,1,8,'Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.'),(28001009,28,1,9,'He said, \"Call his name Lo-Ammi{Lo-Ammi means \"not my people\"}; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.'),(28001010,28,1,10,'Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can\'t be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, \'You are not my people,\' they will be called \'sons of the living God.\''),(28001011,28,1,11,'The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.'),(28002001,28,2,1,'\"Say to your brothers, \'My people!\'{\'Ammi\' in Hebrew} And to your sisters, \'My loved one!\'{\'Ruhamah\' in Hebrew}'),(28002002,28,2,2,'Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, Neither am I her husband; And let her put away her prostitution from her face, And her adulteries from between her breasts;'),(28002003,28,2,3,'Lest I strip her naked, And make her bare as in the day that she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And kill her with thirst.'),(28002004,28,2,4,'Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; For they are children of unfaithfulness;'),(28002005,28,2,5,'For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; For she said, \'I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my flax, My oil and my drink.\''),(28002006,28,2,6,'Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can\'t find her way.'),(28002007,28,2,7,'She will follow after her lovers, But she won\'t overtake them; And she will seek them, But won\'t find them. Then she will say, \'I will go and return to my first husband; For then was it better with me than now.\''),(28002008,28,2,8,'For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, And multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.'),(28002009,28,2,9,'Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, And my new wine in its season, And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.'),(28002010,28,2,10,'Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of my hand.'),(28002011,28,2,11,'I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.'),(28002012,28,2,12,'I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, About which she has said, \'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; And I will make them a forest,\' And the animals of the field shall eat them.'),(28002013,28,2,13,'I will visit on her the days of the Baals, To which she burned incense, When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me,\" says Yahweh.'),(28002014,28,2,14,'\"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, And bring her into the wilderness, And speak tenderly to her.'),(28002015,28,2,15,'I will give her vineyards from there, And the valley of Achor for a door of hope; And she will respond there, As in the days of her youth, And as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.'),(28002016,28,2,16,'It will be in that day,\" says Yahweh, \"That you will call me \'my husband,\' And no longer call me \'my master.\''),(28002017,28,2,17,'For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, And they will no more be mentioned by their name.'),(28002018,28,2,18,'In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, And with the birds of the sky, And with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, And will make them lie down safely.'),(28002019,28,2,19,'I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.'),(28002020,28,2,20,'I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; And you shall know Yahweh.'),(28002021,28,2,21,'It will happen in that day, I will respond,\" says Yahweh, I will respond to the heavens, And they will respond to the earth;'),(28002022,28,2,22,'And the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; And they will respond to Jezreel.'),(28002023,28,2,23,'I will sow her to me in the earth; And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; And I will tell those who were not my people, \'You are my people;\' And they will say, \'My God!\'\"'),(28003001,28,3,1,'Yahweh said to me, \"Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.\"'),(28003002,28,3,2,'So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.'),(28003003,28,3,3,'I said to her, \"You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.\"'),(28003004,28,3,4,'For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.'),(28003005,28,3,5,'Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.'),(28004001,28,4,1,'Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: \"Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land.'),(28004002,28,4,2,'There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.'),(28004003,28,4,3,'Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.'),(28004004,28,4,4,'\"Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.'),(28004005,28,4,5,'You will stumble in the day, And the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; And I will destroy your mother.'),(28004006,28,4,6,'My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God\'s law, I will also forget your children.'),(28004007,28,4,7,'As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.'),(28004008,28,4,8,'They feed on the sin of my people, And set their heart on their iniquity.'),(28004009,28,4,9,'It will be, like people, like priest; And I will punish them for their ways, And will repay them for their deeds.'),(28004010,28,4,10,'They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; Because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.'),(28004011,28,4,11,'Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.'),(28004012,28,4,12,'My people consult with their wooded idol, And answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, And they have been unfaithful to their God.'),(28004013,28,4,13,'They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.'),(28004014,28,4,14,'I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; Because the men consort with prostitutes, And they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; And the people that does not understand will come to ruin.'),(28004015,28,4,15,'\"Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, Yet don\'t let Judah offend; And don\'t come to Gilgal, Neither go up to Beth Aven, Nor swear, \'As Yahweh lives.\''),(28004016,28,4,16,'For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.'),(28004017,28,4,17,'Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!'),(28004018,28,4,18,'Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.'),(28004019,28,4,19,'The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; And they shall be disappointed because of their sacrifices.'),(28005001,28,5,1,'\"Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, And give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; For you have been a snare at Mizpah, And a net spread on Tabor.'),(28005002,28,5,2,'The rebels are deep in slaughter; But I discipline all of them.'),(28005003,28,5,3,'I know Ephraim, And Israel is not hidden from me; For now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.'),(28005004,28,5,4,'Their deeds won\'t allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don\'t know Yahweh.'),(28005005,28,5,5,'The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.'),(28005006,28,5,6,'They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; But they won\'t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.'),(28005007,28,5,7,'They are unfaithful to Yahweh; For they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.'),(28005008,28,5,8,'\"Blow the cornet in Gibeah, And the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!'),(28005009,28,5,9,'Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.'),(28005010,28,5,10,'The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.'),(28005011,28,5,11,'Ephraim is oppressed, He is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.'),(28005012,28,5,12,'Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, And to the house of Judah like rottenness.'),(28005013,28,5,13,'When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, And sent to king Jareb: But he is not able to heal you, Neither will he cure you of your wound.'),(28005014,28,5,14,'For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, And like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.'),(28005015,28,5,15,'I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, And seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.\"'),(28006001,28,6,1,'\"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; For he has torn us to pieces, And he will heal us; He has injured us, And he will bind up our wounds.'),(28006002,28,6,2,'After two days will he revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, And we will live before him.'),(28006003,28,6,3,'Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth.\"'),(28006004,28,6,4,'\"Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, And like the dew that disappears early.'),(28006005,28,6,5,'Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.'),(28006006,28,6,6,'For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.'),(28006007,28,6,7,'But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.'),(28006008,28,6,8,'Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; It is stained with blood.'),(28006009,28,6,9,'As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, So the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, Committing shameful crimes.'),(28006010,28,6,10,'In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.'),(28006011,28,6,11,'\"Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of my people.'),(28007001,28,7,1,'When I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, Also the wickedness of Samaria; For they commit falsehood, And the thief enters in, And the gang of robbers ravages outside.'),(28007002,28,7,2,'They don\'t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.'),(28007003,28,7,3,'They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.'),(28007004,28,7,4,'They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, From the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.'),(28007005,28,7,5,'On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.'),(28007006,28,7,6,'For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.'),(28007007,28,7,7,'They are all hot as an oven, And devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.'),(28007008,28,7,8,'Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.'),(28007009,28,7,9,'Strangers have devoured his strength, And he doesn\'t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, And he doesn\'t realize it.'),(28007010,28,7,10,'The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Yet they haven\'t returned to Yahweh their God, Nor sought him, for all this.'),(28007011,28,7,11,'\"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.'),(28007012,28,7,12,'When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.'),(28007013,28,7,13,'Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, Yet they have spoken lies against me.'),(28007014,28,7,14,'They haven\'t cried to me with their heart, But they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.'),(28007015,28,7,15,'Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, Yet they plot evil against me.'),(28007016,28,7,16,'They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.'),(28008001,28,8,1,'\"Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh\'s house, Because they have broken my covenant, And rebelled against my law.'),(28008002,28,8,2,'They cry to me, \'My God, we Israel acknowledge you!\''),(28008003,28,8,3,'Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.'),(28008004,28,8,4,'They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn\'t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, That they may be cut off.'),(28008005,28,8,5,'Let Samaria throw out his calf-idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be before the are capable of purity?'),(28008006,28,8,6,'For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; Indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.'),(28008007,28,8,7,'For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.'),(28008008,28,8,8,'Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.'),(28008009,28,8,9,'For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.'),(28008010,28,8,10,'But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.'),(28008011,28,8,11,'Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.'),(28008012,28,8,12,'I wrote for him the many things of my law; But they were regarded as a strange thing.'),(28008013,28,8,13,'As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But Yahweh doesn\'t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, And punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.'),(28008014,28,8,14,'For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send a fire on his cities, And it will devour its fortresses.\"'),(28009001,28,9,1,'Don\'t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.'),(28009002,28,9,2,'The threshing floor and the winepress won\'t feed them, And the new wine will fail her.'),(28009003,28,9,3,'They won\'t dwell in Yahweh\'s land; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.'),(28009004,28,9,4,'They won\'t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, Neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; All who eat of it will be polluted; For their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.'),(28009005,28,9,5,'What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, And in the day of the feast of Yahweh?'),(28009006,28,9,6,'For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.'),(28009007,28,9,7,'The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, And the man who is inspired to be insane, Because of the abundance of your sins, And because your hostility is great.'),(28009008,28,9,8,'A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler\'s snare is on all of his paths, And hostility in the house of his God.'),(28009009,28,9,9,'They have deeply corrupted themselves, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.'),(28009010,28,9,10,'I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; But they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.'),(28009011,28,9,11,'As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.'),(28009012,28,9,12,'Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!'),(28009013,28,9,13,'Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.'),(28009014,28,9,14,'Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.'),(28009015,28,9,15,'\"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; For there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.'),(28009016,28,9,16,'Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.\"'),(28009017,28,9,17,'My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.'),(28010001,28,10,1,'Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.'),(28010002,28,10,2,'Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.'),(28010003,28,10,3,'Surely now they will say, \"We have no king; for we don\'t fear Yahweh; And the king, what can he do for us?\"'),(28010004,28,10,4,'They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.'),(28010005,28,10,5,'The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.'),(28010006,28,10,6,'It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.'),(28010007,28,10,7,'Samaria and her king float away, Like a twig on the water.'),(28010008,28,10,8,'The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, \"Cover us!\" and the hills, \"Fall on us!\"'),(28010009,28,10,9,'\"Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn\'t overtake them in Gibeah.'),(28010010,28,10,10,'When it is my desire, I will chastise them; And the nations will be gathered against them, When they are bound to their two transgressions.'),(28010011,28,10,11,'Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; So I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.'),(28010012,28,10,12,'Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.'),(28010013,28,10,13,'You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, For you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.'),(28010014,28,10,14,'Therefore a battle roar will arise among your people, And all your fortresses will be destroyed, As Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces with her children.'),(28010015,28,10,15,'So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.'),(28011001,28,11,1,'\"When Israel was a child, then I loved him, And called my son out of Egypt.'),(28011002,28,11,2,'They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to engraved images.'),(28011003,28,11,3,'Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; But they didn\'t know that I healed them.'),(28011004,28,11,4,'I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; And I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; And I bent down to him and I fed him.'),(28011005,28,11,5,'\"They won\'t return into the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian will be their king, Because they refused to repent.'),(28011006,28,11,6,'The sword will fall on their cities, And will consume their gate bars, And will put an end to their plans.'),(28011007,28,11,7,'My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, He certainly won\'t exalt them.'),(28011008,28,11,8,'\"How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, My compassion is aroused.'),(28011009,28,11,9,'I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: For I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; And I will not come in wrath.'),(28011010,28,11,10,'They will walk after Yahweh, Who will roar like a lion; For he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.'),(28011011,28,11,11,'They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt, And like a dove out of the land of Assyria; And I will settle them in their houses,\" says Yahweh.'),(28011012,28,11,12,'Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, And the house of Israel with deceit; And Judah still us unruly with God, And is unfaithful to the Holy One.'),(28012001,28,12,1,'Ephraim feeds on wind, And chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.'),(28012002,28,12,2,'Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, And will punish Jacob according to his ways; According to his deeds he will repay him.'),(28012003,28,12,3,'In the womb he took his brother by the heel; And in his manhood he had power with God.'),(28012004,28,12,4,'Indeed, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,'),(28012005,28,12,5,'Even Yahweh, the God of hosts; Yahweh is his name of renown!'),(28012006,28,12,6,'Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.'),(28012007,28,12,7,'A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.'),(28012008,28,12,8,'Ephraim said, \"Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won\'t find in me any iniquity that is sin.\"'),(28012009,28,12,9,'\"But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you to dwell in tents, As in the days of the solemn feast.'),(28012010,28,12,10,'I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have multiplied visions; And by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.'),(28012011,28,12,11,'If Gilead is wicked, Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.'),(28012012,28,12,12,'Jacob fled into the country of Aram, And Israel served to get a wife, And for a wife he tended flocks and herds.'),(28012013,28,12,13,'By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.'),(28012014,28,12,14,'Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly. Therefore his blood will be left on him, And his his Lord will repay his contempt.'),(28013001,28,13,1,'When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But when he became guilty in Baal, he died.'),(28013002,28,13,2,'Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, \"They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.\"'),(28013003,28,13,3,'Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.'),(28013004,28,13,4,'\"Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; And you will know no god but me, And besides me there is no savior.'),(28013005,28,13,5,'I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.'),(28013006,28,13,6,'According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.'),(28013007,28,13,7,'Therefore am I to them like a lion; Like a leopard I will lurk by the path.'),(28013008,28,13,8,'I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, And will tear the covering of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.'),(28013009,28,13,9,'You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, Against your help.'),(28013010,28,13,10,'Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, \'Give me a king and princes?\''),(28013011,28,13,11,'I have given you a king in my anger, And have taken him away in my wrath.'),(28013012,28,13,12,'The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.'),(28013013,28,13,13,'The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; For when it is time, he doesn\'t come to the opening of the womb.'),(28013014,28,13,14,'I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction?  Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.'),(28013015,28,13,15,'Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, The breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; And his spring will become dry, And his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.'),(28013016,28,13,16,'Samaria will bear her guilt; For she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, And their pregnant women will be ripped open.\"'),(28014001,28,14,1,'Israel, return to Yahweh your God; For you have fallen because of your sin.'),(28014002,28,14,2,'Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, \"Forgive all our sins, And accept that which is good: So we offer like bulls our lips.'),(28014003,28,14,3,'Assyria can\'t save us. We won\'t ride on horses; Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, \'Our gods!\' For in you the fatherless finds mercy.\"'),(28014004,28,14,4,'\"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; For my anger is turned away from him.'),(28014005,28,14,5,'I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, And send down his roots like Lebanon.'),(28014006,28,14,6,'His branches will spread, And his beauty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.'),(28014007,28,14,7,'Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, And blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.'),(28014008,28,14,8,'Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; From me your fruit is found.\"'),(28014009,28,14,9,'Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, And the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.'),(29001001,29,1,1,'The Word of Yahweh that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.'),(29001002,29,1,2,'Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, Or in the days of your fathers?'),(29001003,29,1,3,'Tell your children about it, And have your children tell their children, And their children, another generation.'),(29001004,29,1,4,'What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.'),(29001005,29,1,5,'Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; For it is cut off from your mouth.'),(29001006,29,1,6,'For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, And he has the fangs of a lioness.'),(29001007,29,1,7,'He has laid my vine waste, And stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.'),(29001008,29,1,8,'Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!'),(29001009,29,1,9,'The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh\'s house. The priests, Yahweh\'s ministers, mourn.'),(29001010,29,1,10,'The field is laid waste. The land mourns, for the grain is destroyed, The new wine has dried up, And the oil languishes.'),(29001011,29,1,11,'Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished.'),(29001012,29,1,12,'The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, Even all of the trees of the field are withered; For joy has withered away from the sons of men.'),(29001013,29,1,13,'Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God\'s house.'),(29001014,29,1,14,'Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, And all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, And cry to Yahweh.'),(29001015,29,1,15,'Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, And it will come as destruction from the Almighty.'),(29001016,29,1,16,'Isn\'t the food cut off before our eyes; Joy and gladness from the house of our God?'),(29001017,29,1,17,'The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.'),(29001018,29,1,18,'How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.'),(29001019,29,1,19,'Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has burned all the trees of the field.'),(29001020,29,1,20,'Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, For the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.'),(29002001,29,2,1,'Blow you the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of Yahweh comes, For it is close at hand:'),(29002002,29,2,2,'A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, A great and strong people; There has never been the like, Neither will there be any more after them, Even to the years of many generations.'),(29002003,29,2,3,'A fire devours before them, And behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.'),(29002004,29,2,4,'The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, And as horsemen, so do they run.'),(29002005,29,2,5,'Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, Like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, As a strong people set in battle array.'),(29002006,29,2,6,'At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.'),(29002007,29,2,7,'They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don\'t swerve off course.'),(29002008,29,2,8,'Neither does one jostle another; They march everyone in his path, And they burst through the defenses, And don\'t break ranks.'),(29002009,29,2,9,'They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.'),(29002010,29,2,10,'The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.'),(29002011,29,2,11,'Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; For his forces are very great; For he is strong who obeys his command; For the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, And who can endure it?'),(29002012,29,2,12,'\"Yet even now,\" says Yahweh, \"turn to me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.\"'),(29002013,29,2,13,'Tear your heart, and not your garments, And turn to Yahweh, your God; For he is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, And relents from sending calamity.'),(29002014,29,2,14,'Who knows? He may turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.'),(29002015,29,2,15,'Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.'),(29002016,29,2,16,'Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, And the bride out of her chamber.'),(29002017,29,2,17,'Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, \"Spare your people, Yahweh, And don\'t give your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, \'Where is their God?\'\"'),(29002018,29,2,18,'Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.'),(29002019,29,2,19,'Yahweh answered his people, \"Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, And you will be satisfied with them; And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.'),(29002020,29,2,20,'But I will remove the northern army far away from you, And will drive it into a barren and desolate land, Its front into the eastern sea, And its back into the western sea; And its stench will come up, And its bad smell will rise.\" Surely he has done great things.'),(29002021,29,2,21,'Land, don\'t be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.'),(29002022,29,2,22,'Don\'t be afraid, you animals of the field; For the pastures of the wilderness spring up, For the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.'),(29002023,29,2,23,'\"Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in Yahweh, your God; For he gives you the former rain in just measure, And he causes the rain to come down for you, The former rain and the latter rain, As before.'),(29002024,29,2,24,'The threshing floors will be full of wheat, And the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.'),(29002025,29,2,25,'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, My great army, which I sent among you.'),(29002026,29,2,26,'You will have plenty to eat, and be satisfied, And will praise the name of Yahweh, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And my people will never again be disappointed.'),(29002027,29,2,27,'You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; And my people will never again be disappointed.'),(29002028,29,2,28,'\"It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.'),(29002029,29,2,29,'And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.'),(29002030,29,2,30,'I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.'),(29002031,29,2,31,'The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.'),(29002032,29,2,32,'It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, As Yahweh has said, And among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.'),(29003001,29,3,1,'\"For, behold, in those days, And in that time, When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,'),(29003002,29,3,2,'I will gather all nations, And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will execute judgment on them there for my people, And for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,'),(29003003,29,3,3,'And have cast lots for my people, And have given a boy for a prostitute, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.'),(29003004,29,3,4,'\"Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.'),(29003005,29,3,5,'Because you have taken my silver and my gold, And have carried my finest treasures into your temples,'),(29003006,29,3,6,'And have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, That you may remove them far from their border.'),(29003007,29,3,7,'Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them, And will return your repayment on your own head;'),(29003008,29,3,8,'And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah, And they will sell them to the men of Sheba, To a faraway nation, For Yahweh has spoken it.\"'),(29003009,29,3,9,'Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war. Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.'),(29003010,29,3,10,'Beat your plowshares into swords, And your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, \"I am strong.\"'),(29003011,29,3,11,'Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, And gather yourselves together.\" Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.'),(29003012,29,3,12,'\"Let the nations arouse themselves, And come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; For there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.'),(29003013,29,3,13,'Put in the sickle; For the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.\"'),(29003014,29,3,14,'Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.'),(29003015,29,3,15,'The sun and the moon are darkened, And the stars withdraw their shining.\"'),(29003016,29,3,16,'Yahweh will roar from Zion, And thunder from Jerusalem; And the heavens and the earth will shake; But Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to the children of Israel.'),(29003017,29,3,17,'\"So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, Dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, And no strangers will pass through her any more.'),(29003018,29,3,18,'It will happen in that day, That the mountains will drop down sweet wine, The hills will flow with milk, All the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; And a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, And will water the valley of Shittim.'),(29003019,29,3,19,'Egypt will be a desolation, And Edom will be a desolate wilderness, For the violence done to the children of Judah, Because they have shed innocent blood in their land.'),(29003020,29,3,20,'But Judah will be inhabited forever, And Jerusalem from generation to generation.'),(29003021,29,3,21,'I will cleanse their blood, That I have not cleansed: For Yahweh dwells in Zion.\"'),(30001001,30,1,1,'The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.'),(30001002,30,1,2,'He said: \"Yahweh will roar from Zion, And utter his voice from Jerusalem; And the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, And the top of Carmel will wither.\"'),(30001003,30,1,3,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;'),(30001004,30,1,4,'But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, And it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.'),(30001005,30,1,5,'I will break the bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, And him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; And the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir,\" says Yahweh.'),(30001006,30,1,6,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they carried away captive the whole community, To deliver them up to Edom;'),(30001007,30,1,7,'But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, And it will devour its palaces.'),(30001008,30,1,8,'I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron; And the remnant of the Philistines will perish,\" says the Lord Yahweh.'),(30001009,30,1,9,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, And didn\'t remember the brotherly covenant;'),(30001010,30,1,10,'But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, And it will devour its palaces.\"'),(30001011,30,1,11,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he pursued his brother with the sword, And cast off all pity, And his anger raged continually, And he kept his wrath forever;'),(30001012,30,1,12,'But I will send a fire on Teman, And it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.\"'),(30001013,30,1,13,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, That they may enlarge their border.'),(30001014,30,1,14,'But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it will devour its palaces, With shouting in the day of battle, With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;'),(30001015,30,1,15,'And their king will go into captivity, He and his princes together,\" says Yahweh.'),(30002001,30,2,1,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;'),(30002002,30,2,2,'But I will send a fire on Moab, And it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; And Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;'),(30002003,30,2,3,'And I will cut off the judge from their midst, And will kill all its princes with him,\" says Yahweh.'),(30002004,30,2,4,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have rejected Yahweh\'s law, And have not kept his statutes, And their lies have led them astray, After which their fathers walked;'),(30002005,30,2,5,'But I will send a fire on Judah, And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.\"'),(30002006,30,2,6,'Thus says Yahweh: \"For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because they have sold the righteous for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes;'),(30002007,30,2,7,'They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And deny justice to the oppressed; And a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;'),(30002008,30,2,8,'And they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.'),(30002009,30,2,9,'Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.'),(30002010,30,2,10,'Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And led you forty years in the wilderness, To possess the land of the Amorite.'),(30002011,30,2,11,'I raised up some of your sons for prophets, And some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn\'t this true, You children of Israel?\" says Yahweh.'),(30002012,30,2,12,'\"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets, saying, \'Don\'t prophesy!\''),(30002013,30,2,13,'Behold, I will crush you in your place, As a cart crushes that is full of grain.'),(30002014,30,2,14,'Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won\'t strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;'),(30002015,30,2,15,'Neither shall he stand who handles the bow; And he who is swift of foot won\'t escape; Neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;'),(30002016,30,2,16,'And he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked in that day,\" says Yahweh.'),(30003001,30,3,1,'Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:'),(30003002,30,3,2,'\"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.\"'),(30003003,30,3,3,'Do two walk together, Unless they have agreed?'),(30003004,30,3,4,'Will a lion roar in the thicket, When he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, If he has caught nothing?'),(30003005,30,3,5,'Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, Where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, When there is nothing to catch?'),(30003006,30,3,6,'Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, Without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, And Yahweh hasn\'t done it?'),(30003007,30,3,7,'Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, Unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.'),(30003008,30,3,8,'The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?'),(30003009,30,3,9,'Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, And say, \"Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, And see what unrest is in her, And what oppression is among them.\"'),(30003010,30,3,10,'\"Indeed they don\'t know to do right,\" says Yahweh, \"Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.\"'),(30003011,30,3,11,'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: \"An adversary will overrun the land; And he will pull down your strongholds, And your fortresses will be plundered.\"'),(30003012,30,3,12,'Thus says Yahweh: \"As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, Or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, And on the silken cushions of a bed.\"'),(30003013,30,3,13,'\"Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,\" says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.'),(30003014,30,3,14,'\"For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; And the horns of the altar will be cut off, And fall to the ground.'),(30003015,30,3,15,'I will strike the winter house with the summer house; And the houses of ivory will perish, And the great houses will have an end,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004001,30,4,1,'Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, \"Bring, and let us drink.\"'),(30004002,30,4,2,'The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, \"The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, And the last of you with fish hooks.'),(30004003,30,4,3,'You will go out at the breaks in the wall, Everyone straight before her; And you will cast yourselves into Harmon,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004004,30,4,4,'\"Go to Bethel, and sin; To Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days,'),(30004005,30,4,5,'Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: For this pleases you, you children of Israel,\" says the Lord Yahweh.'),(30004006,30,4,6,'\"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, And lack of bread in every town; Yet you haven\'t returned to me,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004007,30,4,7,'\"I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn\'t rain withered.'),(30004008,30,4,8,'So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, And were not satisfied: Yet you haven\'t returned to me,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004009,30,4,9,'I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; And your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: Yet you haven\'t returned to me,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004010,30,4,10,'I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, And have carried away your horses; And I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp Yet you haven\'t returned to me,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004011,30,4,11,'\"I have overthrown some of you, As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; Yet you haven\'t returned to me,\" says Yahweh.'),(30004012,30,4,12,'\"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, Israel.'),(30004013,30,4,13,'For, behold, he who forms the mountains, And creates the wind, And declares to man what is his thought; Who makes the morning darkness, And treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name.\"'),(30005001,30,5,1,'Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.'),(30005002,30,5,2,'\"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; There is no one to raise her up.\"'),(30005003,30,5,3,'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: \"The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, And that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.\"'),(30005004,30,5,4,'For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel: \"Seek me, and you will live;'),(30005005,30,5,5,'But don\'t seek Bethel, Nor enter into Gilgal, And don\'t pass to Beersheba: For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.'),(30005006,30,5,6,'Seek Yahweh, and you will live; Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.'),(30005007,30,5,7,'You who turn justice to wormwood, And cast down righteousness to the earth:'),(30005008,30,5,8,'Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,'),(30005009,30,5,9,'Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.'),(30005010,30,5,10,'They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.'),(30005011,30,5,11,'Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.'),(30005012,30,5,12,'For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.'),(30005013,30,5,13,'Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.'),(30005014,30,5,14,'Seek good, and not evil, That you may live; And so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, As you say.'),(30005015,30,5,15,'Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.\"'),(30005016,30,5,16,'Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: \"Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, \'Alas! Alas!\' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.'),(30005017,30,5,17,'In all vineyards there will be wailing; For I will pass through the midst of you,\" says Yahweh.'),(30005018,30,5,18,'\"Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, And not light.'),(30005019,30,5,19,'As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.'),(30005020,30,5,20,'Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?'),(30005021,30,5,21,'I hate, I despise your feasts, And I can\'t stand your solemn assemblies.'),(30005022,30,5,22,'Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.'),(30005023,30,5,23,'Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.'),(30005024,30,5,24,'But let justice roll on like rivers, And righteousness like a mighty stream.'),(30005025,30,5,25,'\"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?'),(30005026,30,5,26,'Yes, you have borne the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.'),(30005027,30,5,27,'Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,\" says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.'),(30006001,30,6,1,'Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, And to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, The notable men of the chief of the nations, To whom the house of Israel come!'),(30006002,30,6,2,'Go to Calneh, and see; And from there go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border?'),(30006003,30,6,3,'Those who put far away the evil day, And cause the seat of violence to come near;'),(30006004,30,6,4,'Who lie on beds of ivory, And stretch themselves on their couches, And eat the lambs out of the flock, And the calves out of the midst of the stall;'),(30006005,30,6,5,'Who strum on the strings of a harp; Who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;'),(30006006,30,6,6,'Who drink wine in bowls, And anoint themselves with the best oils; But they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.'),(30006007,30,6,7,'Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; And the feasting and lounging will end.'),(30006008,30,6,8,'\"The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,\" says Yahweh, the God of hosts: \"I abhor the pride of Jacob, And detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.'),(30006009,30,6,9,'It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, That they shall die.'),(30006010,30,6,10,'\"When a man\'s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, \'Is there yet any with you?\' And he says, \'No;\' then he will say, \'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.\''),(30006011,30,6,11,'\"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, And the little house into bits.'),(30006012,30,6,12,'Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, And the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;'),(30006013,30,6,13,'You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, \'Haven\'t we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?\''),(30006014,30,6,14,'For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel,\" Says Yahweh, the God of hosts; \"And they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah.\"'),(30007001,30,7,1,'Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, behold, it was the latter growth after the king\'s harvest.'),(30007002,30,7,2,'It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, \"Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.\"'),(30007003,30,7,3,'Yahweh relented concerning this. \"It shall not be,\" says Yahweh.'),(30007004,30,7,4,'Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.'),(30007005,30,7,5,'Then I said, \"Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.\"'),(30007006,30,7,6,'Yahweh relented concerning this. \"This also shall not be,\" says the Lord Yahweh.'),(30007007,30,7,7,'Thus he showed me and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.'),(30007008,30,7,8,'Yahweh said to me, \"Amos, what do you see?\" I said, \"A plumb line.\" Then the Lord said, \"Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.'),(30007009,30,7,9,'The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.\"'),(30007010,30,7,10,'Then Amaziah the priest of Beth El sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, \"Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.'),(30007011,30,7,11,'For Amos says, \'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.\'\"'),(30007012,30,7,12,'Amaziah also said to Amos, \"You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:'),(30007013,30,7,13,'but don\'t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king\'s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!\"'),(30007014,30,7,14,'Then Amos answered Amaziah, \"I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet\'s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore trees;'),(30007015,30,7,15,'and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, \'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.\''),(30007016,30,7,16,'Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: \'You say, Don\'t prophesy against Israel, and don\'t preach against the house of Isaac.\''),(30007017,30,7,17,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: \'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.\'\"'),(30008001,30,8,1,'Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.'),(30008002,30,8,2,'He said, \"Amos, what do you see?\" I said, \"A basket of summer fruit.\" Then Yahweh said to me, \"The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.'),(30008003,30,8,3,'The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,\" says the Lord Yahweh. \"The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.'),(30008004,30,8,4,'Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,'),(30008005,30,8,5,'Saying, \'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel large, And dealing falsely with balances of deceit;'),(30008006,30,8,6,'That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?\'\"'),(30008007,30,8,7,'Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, \"Surely I will never forget any of their works.'),(30008008,30,8,8,'Won\'t the land tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; And it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.'),(30008009,30,8,9,'\"It will happen in that day,\" says the Lord Yahweh, \"That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the clear day.'),(30008010,30,8,10,'I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.'),(30008011,30,8,11,'Behold, the days come,\" says the Lord Yahweh, \"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 Yahweh.'),(30008012,30,8,12,'They will wander from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will run back and forth to seek the word of Yahweh, And will not find it.'),(30008013,30,8,13,'In that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint for thirst.'),(30008014,30,8,14,'Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, And say, \'As your god, Dan, lives;\' And, \'As the way of Beersheba lives;\' They will fall, and never rise up again.\"'),(30009001,30,9,1,'I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, \"Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.'),(30009002,30,9,2,'Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.'),(30009003,30,9,3,'Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.'),(30009004,30,9,4,'Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.'),(30009005,30,9,5,'For the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.'),(30009006,30,9,6,'It is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.'),(30009007,30,9,7,'Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?\" says Yahweh. \"Haven\'t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?'),(30009008,30,9,8,'Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,\" says Yahweh.'),(30009009,30,9,9,'\"For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.'),(30009010,30,9,10,'All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, \'Evil won\'t overtake nor meet us.\''),(30009011,30,9,11,'In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;'),(30009012,30,9,12,'that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,\" says Yahweh who does this.'),(30009013,30,9,13,'\"Behold, the days come,\" says Yahweh, \"That the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the one treading grapes him who sows seed; And sweet wine will drip from the mountains, And flow from the hills.'),(30009014,30,9,14,'I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, And eat the fruit of them.'),(30009015,30,9,15,'I will plant them on their land, And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,\" says Yahweh your God.'),(31001001,31,1,1,'The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, \"Arise, and let\'s rise up against her in battle.'),(31001002,31,1,2,'Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.'),(31001003,31,1,3,'The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, \'Who will bring me down to the ground?\''),(31001004,31,1,4,'Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.'),(31001005,31,1,5,'If thieves came to you, if robbers by night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn\'t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn\'t they leave some gleaning grapes?'),(31001006,31,1,6,'How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!'),(31001007,31,1,7,'All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.'),(31001008,31,1,8,'\"Won\'t I in that day,\" says Yahweh, \"destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?'),(31001009,31,1,9,'Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.'),(31001010,31,1,10,'For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.'),(31001011,31,1,11,'In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.'),(31001012,31,1,12,'But don\'t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don\'t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don\'t speak proudly in the day of distress.'),(31001013,31,1,13,'Don\'t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don\'t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.'),(31001014,31,1,14,'Don\'t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don\'t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.'),(31001015,31,1,15,'For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.'),(31001016,31,1,16,'For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.'),(31001017,31,1,17,'But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.'),(31001018,31,1,18,'The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.\" Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.'),(31001019,31,1,19,'Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.'),(31001020,31,1,20,'The captives of this host of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.'),(31001021,31,1,21,'Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh\'s.'),(32001001,32,1,1,'Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,'),(32001002,32,1,2,'\"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.\"'),(32001003,32,1,3,'But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.'),(32001004,32,1,4,'But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.'),(32001005,32,1,5,'Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.'),(32001006,32,1,6,'So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, \"What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won\'t perish.\"'),(32001007,32,1,7,'They all said to each other, \"Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us.\" So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.'),(32001008,32,1,8,'Then they asked him, \"Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?\"'),(32001009,32,1,9,'He said to them, \"I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.\"'),(32001010,32,1,10,'Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, \"What is this that you have done?\" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.'),(32001011,32,1,11,'Then said they to him, \"What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?\" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.'),(32001012,32,1,12,'He said to them, \"Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great tempest is on you.\"'),(32001013,32,1,13,'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.'),(32001014,32,1,14,'Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, \"We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, let us not perish for this man\'s life, and don\'t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.\"'),(32001015,32,1,15,'So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.'),(32001016,32,1,16,'Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.'),(32001017,32,1,17,'Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.'),(32002001,32,2,1,'Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish\'s belly.'),(32002002,32,2,2,'He said, \"I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.'),(32002003,32,2,3,'For you threw me into the depths, In the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.'),(32002004,32,2,4,'I said, \'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.\''),(32002005,32,2,5,'The waters surrounded me, Even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.'),(32002006,32,2,6,'I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.'),(32002007,32,2,7,'\"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.'),(32002008,32,2,8,'Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.'),(32002009,32,2,9,'But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.\"'),(32002010,32,2,10,'Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.'),(32003001,32,3,1,'The word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, saying,'),(32003002,32,3,2,'\"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.\"'),(32003003,32,3,3,'So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days\' journey across.'),(32003004,32,3,4,'Jonah began to enter into the city a day\'s journey, and he cried out, and said, \"Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!\"'),(32003005,32,3,5,'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.'),(32003006,32,3,6,'The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.'),(32003007,32,3,7,'He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, \"Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;'),(32003008,32,3,8,'but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.'),(32003009,32,3,9,'Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?\"'),(32003010,32,3,10,'God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn\'t do it.'),(32004001,32,4,1,'But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.'),(32004002,32,4,2,'He prayed to Yahweh, and said, \"Please, Yahweh, wasn\'t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of the evil.'),(32004003,32,4,3,'Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.\"'),(32004004,32,4,4,'Yahweh said, \"Is it right for you to be angry?\"'),(32004005,32,4,5,'Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.'),(32004006,32,4,6,'Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.'),(32004007,32,4,7,'But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.'),(32004008,32,4,8,'It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah\'s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, \"It is better for me to die than to live.\"'),(32004009,32,4,9,'God said to Jonah, \"Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?\" He said, \"I am right to be angry, even to death.\"'),(32004010,32,4,10,'Yahweh said, \"You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.'),(32004011,32,4,11,'Shouldn\'t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can\'t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?\"'),(33001001,33,1,1,'The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.'),(33001002,33,1,2,'Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: And let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, The Lord from his holy temple.'),(33001003,33,1,3,'For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, And will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.'),(33001004,33,1,4,'The mountains melt under him, And the valleys split apart, Like wax before the fire, Like waters that are poured down a steep place.'),(33001005,33,1,5,'\"All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn\'t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren\'t they Jerusalem?'),(33001006,33,1,6,'Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, Like places for planting vineyards; And I will pour down its stones into the valley, And I will uncover its foundations.'),(33001007,33,1,7,'All her idols will be beaten to pieces, And all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, And all her images I will destroy; For of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, And to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.\"'),(33001008,33,1,8,'For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.'),(33001009,33,1,9,'For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.'),(33001010,33,1,10,'Don\'t tell it in Gath, Don\'t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah{Beth Ophrah means literally \"House of Dust.\"} I have rolled myself in the dust.'),(33001011,33,1,11,'Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won\'t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.'),(33001012,33,1,12,'For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, Because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.'),(33001013,33,1,13,'Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.'),(33001014,33,1,14,'Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.'),(33001015,33,1,15,'I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah, He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.'),(33001016,33,1,16,'Shave your heads, And cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; For they have gone into captivity from you!'),(33002001,33,2,1,'Woe to those who devise iniquity And work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, Because it is in the power of their hand.'),(33002002,33,2,2,'They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.'),(33002003,33,2,3,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: \"Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, From which you will not remove your necks, Neither will you walk haughtily; For it is an evil time.'),(33002004,33,2,4,'In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, \'We are utterly ruined! My people\'s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!\'\"'),(33002005,33,2,5,'Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.'),(33002006,33,2,6,'\"Don\'t you prophesy!\" They prophesy. \"Don\'t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won\'t overtake us.\"'),(33002007,33,2,7,'Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: \"Is the Spirit of Yahweh angry? Are these his doings? Don\'t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?\"'),(33002008,33,2,8,'But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.'),(33002009,33,2,9,'You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; From their young children you take away my blessing forever.'),(33002010,33,2,10,'Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, Because of uncleanness that destroys, Even with a grievous destruction.'),(33002011,33,2,11,'If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: \'I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;\' He would be the prophet of this people.'),(33002012,33,2,12,'I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, As a flock in the midst of their pasture; They will swarm with people.'),(33002013,33,2,13,'He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, With Yahweh at their head.\"'),(33003001,33,3,1,'I said, \"Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn\'t it for you to know justice?'),(33003002,33,3,2,'You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones;'),(33003003,33,3,3,'Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.'),(33003004,33,3,4,'Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil.\"'),(33003005,33,3,5,'Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, \"Peace!\" and whoever doesn\'t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:'),(33003006,33,3,6,'\"Therefore night is over you, with no vision, And it is dark to you, that you may not divine; And the sun will go down on the prophets, And the day will be black over them.'),(33003007,33,3,7,'The seers shall be disappointed, And the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God.\"'),(33003008,33,3,8,'But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his disobedience, And to Israel his sin.'),(33003009,33,3,9,'Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity.'),(33003010,33,3,10,'They build up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.'),(33003011,33,3,11,'Her leaders judge for bribes, And her priests teach for a price, And her prophets of it tell forturnes for money: Yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, Isn\'t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.'),(33003012,33,3,12,'Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, And Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, And the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.'),(33004001,33,4,1,'But in the latter days, It will happen that the mountain of Yahweh\'s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, And it will be exalted above the hills; And peoples will stream to it.'),(33004002,33,4,2,'Many nations will go and say, \"Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 will go forth the law, And the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem;'),(33004003,33,4,3,'And he will judge between many peoples, And will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, Neither will they learn war any more.'),(33004004,33,4,4,'But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; And no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Hosts has spoken.'),(33004005,33,4,5,'Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; But we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.'),(33004006,33,4,6,'\"In that day,\" says Yahweh, \"I will assemble that which is lame, And I will gather that which is driven away, And that which I have afflicted;'),(33004007,33,4,7,'And I will make that which was lame a remnant, And that which was cast far off a strong nation: And Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.'),(33004008,33,4,8,'You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, To you it will come, Yes, the former dominion will come, The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.'),(33004009,33,4,9,'Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, That pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?'),(33004010,33,4,10,'Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, daughter of Zion, Like a woman in travail; For now you will go forth out of the city, And will dwell in the field, And will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.'),(33004011,33,4,11,'Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, \'Let her be defiled, And let our eye gloat over Zion.\''),(33004012,33,4,12,'But they don\'t know the thoughts of Yahweh, Neither do they understand his counsel; For he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.'),(33004013,33,4,13,'Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hoofs brass; And you will beat in pieces many peoples: And I will devote their gain to Yahweh, And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.'),(33005001,33,5,1,'Now you shall gather yourself in troops, Daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.'),(33005002,33,5,2,'But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Being small among the clans of Judah, Out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.'),(33005003,33,5,3,'Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.'),(33005004,33,5,4,'He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, In the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: And they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.'),(33005005,33,5,5,'He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, And when he marches through our fortresses, Then we will raise against him seven shepherds, And eight leaders of men.'),(33005006,33,5,6,'They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, And the land of Nimrod in its gates. He will deliver us from the Assyrian, When he invades our land, And when he marches within our border.'),(33005007,33,5,7,'The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from Yahweh, Like showers on the grass, That don\'t wait for man, Nor wait for the sons of men.'),(33005008,33,5,8,'The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, In the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among the animals of the forest, Like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; Who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, And there is no one to deliver.'),(33005009,33,5,9,'Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, And let all of your enemies be cut off.'),(33005010,33,5,10,'\"It will happen in that day,\" says Yahweh, \"That I will cut off your horses out of the midst of you, And will destroy your chariots.'),(33005011,33,5,11,'I will cut off the cities of your land, And will tear down all your strongholds.'),(33005012,33,5,12,'I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; And you shall have no soothsayers.'),(33005013,33,5,13,'I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; And you shall no more worship the work of your hands.'),(33005014,33,5,14,'I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; And I will destroy your cities.'),(33005015,33,5,15,'I will execute vengeance in anger, And wrath on the nations that didn\'t listen.\"'),(33006001,33,6,1,'Listen now to what Yahweh says: \"Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear what you have to say.'),(33006002,33,6,2,'Hear, you mountains, Yahweh\'s controversy, And you enduring foundations of the earth; For Yahweh has a controversy with his people, And he will contend with Israel.'),(33006003,33,6,3,'My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!'),(33006004,33,6,4,'For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.'),(33006005,33,6,5,'My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, That you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.\"'),(33006006,33,6,6,'How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?'),(33006007,33,6,7,'Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?'),(33006008,33,6,8,'He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?'),(33006009,33,6,9,'Yahweh\'s voice calls to the city, And wisdom sees your name: \"Listen to the rod, And he who appointed it.'),(33006010,33,6,10,'Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, And a short ephah{An ephah is a measure of volume, and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.} that is accursed?'),(33006011,33,6,11,'Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?'),(33006012,33,6,12,'Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.'),(33006013,33,6,13,'Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.'),(33006014,33,6,14,'You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; And that which you save I will give up to the sword.'),(33006015,33,6,15,'You will sow, but won\'t reap. You will tread the olives, but won\'t anoint yourself with oil; And crush grapes, but won\'t drink the wine.'),(33006016,33,6,16,'For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.\"'),(33007001,33,7,1,'Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vinyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.'),(33007002,33,7,2,'The godly man has perished out of the earth, And there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.'),(33007003,33,7,3,'Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; And the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.'),(33007004,33,7,4,'The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, Even your visitation, has come; Now is the time of their confusion.'),(33007005,33,7,5,'Don\'t trust in a neighbor. Don\'t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, Be careful of the words of your mouth!'),(33007006,33,7,6,'For the son dishonors the father, The daughter rises up against her mother, The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man\'s enemies are the men of his own house.'),(33007007,33,7,7,'But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.'),(33007008,33,7,8,'Don\'t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.'),(33007009,33,7,9,'I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.'),(33007010,33,7,10,'Then my enemy will see it, And shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.'),(33007011,33,7,11,'A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.'),(33007012,33,7,12,'In that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, And from Egypt even to the River, And from sea to sea, And mountain to mountain.'),(33007013,33,7,13,'Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, For the fruit of their doings.'),(33007014,33,7,14,'Shepherd your people with your staff, The flock of your heritage, Who dwell by themselves in a forest, In the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; In Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.'),(33007015,33,7,15,'\"As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.\"'),(33007016,33,7,16,'The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.'),(33007017,33,7,17,'They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, And will be afraid because of you.'),(33007018,33,7,18,'Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, And passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn\'t retain his anger forever, Because he delights in loving kindness.'),(33007019,33,7,19,'He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.'),(33007020,33,7,20,'You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, As you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.'),(34001001,34,1,1,'An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.'),(34001002,34,1,2,'Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.'),(34001003,34,1,3,'Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.'),(34001004,34,1,4,'He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.'),(34001005,34,1,5,'The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.'),(34001006,34,1,6,'Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.'),(34001007,34,1,7,'Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.'),(34001008,34,1,8,'But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.'),(34001009,34,1,9,'What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won\'t rise up the second time.'),(34001010,34,1,10,'For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.'),(34001011,34,1,11,'There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.'),(34001012,34,1,12,'Thus says Yahweh: \"Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.'),(34001013,34,1,13,'Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.\"'),(34001014,34,1,14,'Yahweh has commanded concerning you: \"No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.\"'),(34001015,34,1,15,'Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.'),(34002001,34,2,1,'He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily!'),(34002002,34,2,2,'For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.'),(34002003,34,2,3,'The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.'),(34002004,34,2,4,'The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.'),(34002005,34,2,5,'He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.'),(34002006,34,2,6,'The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.'),(34002007,34,2,7,'It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.'),(34002008,34,2,8,'But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. \"Stop! Stop!\" they cry, but no one looks back.'),(34002009,34,2,9,'Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.'),(34002010,34,2,10,'She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.'),(34002011,34,2,11,'Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion\'s cubs, and no one made them afraid?'),(34002012,34,2,12,'The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.'),(34002013,34,2,13,'\"Behold, I am against you,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.\"'),(34003001,34,3,1,'Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn\'t depart.'),(34003002,34,3,2,'The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,'),(34003003,34,3,3,'the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,'),(34003004,34,3,4,'because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.'),(34003005,34,3,5,'\"Behold, I am against you,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.'),(34003006,34,3,6,'I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.'),(34003007,34,3,7,'It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, \'Nineveh is laid waste Who will mourn for her?\' Where will I seek comforters for you?\"'),(34003008,34,3,8,'Are you better than No-Amon,{or, Thebes} who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?'),(34003009,34,3,9,'Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.'),(34003010,34,3,10,'Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.'),(34003011,34,3,11,'You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.'),(34003012,34,3,12,'All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.'),(34003013,34,3,13,'Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.'),(34003014,34,3,14,'Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.'),(34003015,34,3,15,'There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.'),(34003016,34,3,16,'You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.'),(34003017,34,3,17,'Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.'),(34003018,34,3,18,'Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.'),(34003019,34,3,19,'There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn\'t felt your endless cruelty?'),(35001001,35,1,1,'The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.'),(35001002,35,1,2,'Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you \"Violence!\" and will you not save?'),(35001003,35,1,3,'Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.'),(35001004,35,1,4,'Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.'),(35001005,35,1,5,'\"Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though it is told you.'),(35001006,35,1,6,'For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.'),(35001007,35,1,7,'They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.'),(35001008,35,1,8,'Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.'),(35001009,35,1,9,'All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.'),(35001010,35,1,10,'Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.'),(35001011,35,1,11,'Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.\"'),(35001012,35,1,12,'Aren\'t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.'),(35001013,35,1,13,'You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,'),(35001014,35,1,14,'and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?'),(35001015,35,1,15,'He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.'),(35001016,35,1,16,'Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.'),(35001017,35,1,17,'Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?'),(35002001,35,2,1,'I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.'),(35002002,35,2,2,'Yahweh answered me, \"Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.'),(35002003,35,2,3,'For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won\'t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won\'t delay.'),(35002004,35,2,4,'Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.'),(35002005,35,2,5,'Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn\'t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can\'t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.'),(35002006,35,2,6,'Won\'t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, \'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?\''),(35002007,35,2,7,'Won\'t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?'),(35002008,35,2,8,'Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men\'s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.'),(35002009,35,2,9,'Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!'),(35002010,35,2,10,'You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.'),(35002011,35,2,11,'For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.'),(35002012,35,2,12,'Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!'),(35002013,35,2,13,'Behold, isn\'t it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?'),(35002014,35,2,14,'For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.'),(35002015,35,2,15,'\"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!'),(35002016,35,2,16,'You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh\'s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.'),(35002017,35,2,17,'For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men\'s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.'),(35002018,35,2,18,'\"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?'),(35002019,35,2,19,'Woe to him who says to the wood, \'Awake!\' or to the mute stone, \'Arise!\' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.'),(35002020,35,2,20,'But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!\"'),(35003001,35,3,1,'A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.'),(35003002,35,3,2,'Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.'),(35003003,35,3,3,'God came from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.  His glory covered the heavens, And his praise filled the earth.'),(35003004,35,3,4,'His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.'),(35003005,35,3,5,'Plague went before him, And pestilence followed his feet.'),(35003006,35,3,6,'He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.'),(35003007,35,3,7,'I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.'),(35003008,35,3,8,'Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, Or your wrath against the sea, That you rode on your horses, On your chariots of salvation?'),(35003009,35,3,9,'You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah. You split the earth with rivers.'),(35003010,35,3,10,'The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.'),(35003011,35,3,11,'The sun and moon stood still in the sky, At the light of your arrows as they went, At the shining of your glittering spear.'),(35003012,35,3,12,'You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.'),(35003013,35,3,13,'You went forth for the salvation of your people, For the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.'),(35003014,35,3,14,'You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, Gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.'),(35003015,35,3,15,'You trampled the sea with your horses, Churning mighty waters.'),(35003016,35,3,16,'I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people who invade us.'),(35003017,35,3,17,'For though the fig tree doesn\'t flourish, Nor fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive fails, The fields yield no food; The flocks are cut off from the fold, And there is no herd in the stalls:'),(35003018,35,3,18,'Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!'),(35003019,35,3,19,'Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer\'s feet, And enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.'),(36001001,36,1,1,'The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.'),(36001002,36,1,2,'I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.'),(36001003,36,1,3,'I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.'),(36001004,36,1,4,'I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,'),(36001005,36,1,5,'those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,'),(36001006,36,1,6,'those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven\'t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.'),(36001007,36,1,7,'Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.'),(36001008,36,1,8,'It will happen in the day of Yahweh\'s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king\'s sons, and all those who as are clothed with foreign clothing.'),(36001009,36,1,9,'In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master\'s house with violence and deceit.'),(36001010,36,1,10,'In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.'),(36001011,36,1,11,'Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.'),(36001012,36,1,12,'It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, \"Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.\"'),(36001013,36,1,13,'Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won\'t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won\'t drink their wine.'),(36001014,36,1,14,'The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.'),(36001015,36,1,15,'That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,'),(36001016,36,1,16,'a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.'),(36001017,36,1,17,'I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.'),(36001018,36,1,18,'Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh\'s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.'),(36002001,36,2,1,'Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,'),(36002002,36,2,2,'before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh\'s anger comes on you.'),(36002003,36,2,3,'Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh\'s anger.'),(36002004,36,2,4,'For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.'),(36002005,36,2,5,'Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.'),(36002006,36,2,6,'The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.'),(36002007,36,2,7,'The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.'),(36002008,36,2,8,'I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.'),(36002009,36,2,9,'Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.'),(36002010,36,2,10,'This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Hosts.'),(36002011,36,2,11,'Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.'),(36002012,36,2,12,'You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.'),(36002013,36,2,13,'He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.'),(36002014,36,2,14,'Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.'),(36002015,36,2,15,'This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, \"I am, and there is none besides me.\" How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.'),(36003001,36,3,1,'Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!'),(36003002,36,3,2,'She didn\'t obey the voice. She didn\'t receive correction. She didn\'t trust in Yahweh. She didn\'t draw near to her God.'),(36003003,36,3,3,'Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.'),(36003004,36,3,4,'Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.'),(36003005,36,3,5,'Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn\'t fail, but the unjust know no shame.'),(36003006,36,3,6,'I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.'),(36003007,36,3,7,'I said, \"Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won\'t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.\" But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.'),(36003008,36,3,8,'\"Therefore wait for me,\" says Yahweh, \"until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.'),(36003009,36,3,9,'For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.'),(36003010,36,3,10,'From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.'),(36003011,36,3,11,'In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.'),(36003012,36,3,12,'But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.'),(36003013,36,3,13,'The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.\"'),(36003014,36,3,14,'Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.'),(36003015,36,3,15,'Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.'),(36003016,36,3,16,'In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, \"Don\'t be afraid, Zion. Don\'t let your hands be slack.\"'),(36003017,36,3,17,'Yahweh, your God, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.'),(36003018,36,3,18,'Those who are sad for the appointed feasts, I will remove from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.'),(36003019,36,3,19,'Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.'),(36003020,36,3,20,'At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, says Yahweh.'),(37001001,37,1,1,'In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,'),(37001002,37,1,2,'\"This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: These people say, \'The time hasn\'t yet come, the time for Yahweh\'s house to be built.\'\"'),(37001003,37,1,3,'Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,'),(37001004,37,1,4,'\"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?'),(37001005,37,1,5,'Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.'),(37001006,37,1,6,'You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don\'t have enough. You drink, but you aren\'t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.\"'),(37001007,37,1,7,'This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: \"Consider your ways.'),(37001008,37,1,8,'Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,\" says Yahweh.'),(37001009,37,1,9,'\"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.'),(37001010,37,1,10,'Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.'),(37001011,37,1,11,'I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of the hands.\"'),(37001012,37,1,12,'Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.'),(37001013,37,1,13,'Then Haggai, Yahweh\'s messenger, spoke in Yahweh\'s message to the people, saying, \"I am with you,\" says Yahweh.'),(37001014,37,1,14,'Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Hosts, their God,'),(37001015,37,1,15,'in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.'),(37002001,37,2,1,'In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,'),(37002002,37,2,2,'\"Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,'),(37002003,37,2,3,'\'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn\'t it in your eyes as nothing?'),(37002004,37,2,4,'Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,\' says Yahweh. \'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,\' says Yahweh, \'and work, for I am with you,\' says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(37002005,37,2,5,'This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. Don\'t be afraid.\''),(37002006,37,2,6,'For this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: \'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;'),(37002007,37,2,7,'and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(37002008,37,2,8,'The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,\' says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(37002009,37,2,9,'\'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,\' says Yahweh of Hosts; \'and in this place will I give peace,\' says Yahweh of Hosts.\"'),(37002010,37,2,10,'In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,'),(37002011,37,2,11,'\"Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,'),(37002012,37,2,12,'\'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?\'\" The priests answered, \"No.\"'),(37002013,37,2,13,'Then Haggai said, \"If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?\" The priests answered, \"It will be unclean.\"'),(37002014,37,2,14,'Then Haggai answered, \"\'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,\' says Yahweh; \'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.'),(37002015,37,2,15,'Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.'),(37002016,37,2,16,'Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.'),(37002017,37,2,17,'I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn\'t turn to me,\' says Yahweh.'),(37002018,37,2,18,'\'Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh\'s temple was laid, consider it.'),(37002019,37,2,19,'Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven\'t brought forth. From this day will I bless you.\'\"'),(37002020,37,2,20,'The Word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,'),(37002021,37,2,21,'\"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, \'I will shake the heavens and the earth.'),(37002022,37,2,22,'I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.'),(37002023,37,2,23,'In that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,\' says Yahweh, \'and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,\' says Yahweh of Hosts.\"'),(38001001,38,1,1,'In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,'),(38001002,38,1,2,'\"Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.'),(38001003,38,1,3,'Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \'Return to me,\' says Yahweh of Hosts, \'and I will return to you,\' says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(38001004,38,1,4,'Don\'t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of hosts, \'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;\' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.'),(38001005,38,1,5,'Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?'),(38001006,38,1,6,'But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn\'t they overtake your fathers? \"Then they repented and said, \'Just as Yahweh of Hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.\'\"'),(38001007,38,1,7,'On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,'),(38001008,38,1,8,'\"I had a vision in the night, and, behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.'),(38001009,38,1,9,'Then I asked, \'My lord, what are these?\'\" The angel who talked with me said to me, \"I will show you what these are.\"'),(38001010,38,1,10,'The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, \"They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.\"'),(38001011,38,1,11,'They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, \"We have walked back and forth through the earth, and, behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace.\"'),(38001012,38,1,12,'Then the angel of Yahweh replied, \"O Yahweh of Hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?\"'),(38001013,38,1,13,'Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.'),(38001014,38,1,14,'So the angel who talked with me said to me, \"Proclaim, saying, \'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.'),(38001015,38,1,15,'I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.\"'),(38001016,38,1,16,'Therefore thus says Yahweh: \"I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.\"\''),(38001017,38,1,17,'\"Proclaim further, saying, \'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.\"\'\"'),(38001018,38,1,18,'I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns.'),(38001019,38,1,19,'I asked the angel who talked with me, \"What are these?\" He answered me, \"These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.\"'),(38001020,38,1,20,'Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.'),(38001021,38,1,21,'Then I asked, \"What are these coming to do?\" He said, \"These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.\"'),(38002001,38,2,1,'I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.'),(38002002,38,2,2,'Then I asked, \"Where are you going?\" He said to me, \"To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.\"'),(38002003,38,2,3,'Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,'),(38002004,38,2,4,'and said to him, \"Run, speak to this young man, saying, \'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle in it.'),(38002005,38,2,5,'For I,\' says Yahweh, \'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.'),(38002006,38,2,6,'Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,\' says Yahweh; \'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,\' says Yahweh.'),(38002007,38,2,7,'\'Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.\''),(38002008,38,2,8,'For thus says Yahweh of hosts: \'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.'),(38002009,38,2,9,'For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me.'),(38002010,38,2,10,'Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,\' says Yahweh.'),(38002011,38,2,11,'Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.'),(38002012,38,2,12,'Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.'),(38002013,38,2,13,'Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!\"'),(38003001,38,3,1,'He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.'),(38003002,38,3,2,'Yahweh said to Satan, \"Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn\'t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?\"'),(38003003,38,3,3,'Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.'),(38003004,38,3,4,'He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, \"Take the filthy garments off of him.\" To him he said, \"Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with rich clothing.\"'),(38003005,38,3,5,'I said, \"Let them set a clean turban on his head.\" So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the angel of Yahweh was standing by.'),(38003006,38,3,6,'The angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying,'),(38003007,38,3,7,'\"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: \'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my charge, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.'),(38003008,38,3,8,'Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.'),(38003009,38,3,9,'For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the engraving of it,\' says Yahweh of Hosts, \'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.'),(38003010,38,3,10,'In that day,\' says Yahweh of hosts, \'you will invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.\'\"'),(38004001,38,4,1,'The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.'),(38004002,38,4,2,'He said to me, \"What do you see?\" I said, \"I have seen, and, behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;'),(38004003,38,4,3,'and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.\"'),(38004004,38,4,4,'I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, \"What are these, my lord?\"'),(38004005,38,4,5,'Then the angel who talked with me answered me, \"Don\'t you know what these are?\" I said, \"No, my lord.\"'),(38004006,38,4,6,'Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, \"This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, \'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,\' says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(38004007,38,4,7,'Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of \'Grace, grace, to it!\'\"'),(38004008,38,4,8,'Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(38004009,38,4,9,'\"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.'),(38004010,38,4,10,'Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth.\"'),(38004011,38,4,11,'Then I asked him, \"What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?\"'),(38004012,38,4,12,'I asked him the second time, \"What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?\"'),(38004013,38,4,13,'He answered me, \"Don\'t you know what these are?\" I said, \"No, my lord.\"'),(38004014,38,4,14,'Then he said, \"These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.\"'),(38005001,38,5,1,'Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.'),(38005002,38,5,2,'He said to me, \"What do you see?\" I answered, \"I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.\"'),(38005003,38,5,3,'Then he said to me, \"This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.'),(38005004,38,5,4,'I will cause it to go out,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.\"'),(38005005,38,5,5,'Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, \"Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing.\"'),(38005006,38,5,6,'I said, \"What is it?\" He said, \"This is the ephah{ An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, 4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel. } basket that is appearing.\" He said moreover, \"This is their appearance in all the land'),(38005007,38,5,7,'(and, behold, a talent{A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds.} of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket.\"'),(38005008,38,5,8,'He said, \"This is Wickedness;\" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.'),(38005009,38,5,9,'Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.'),(38005010,38,5,10,'Then said I to the angel who talked with me, \"Where are these carrying the ephah basket?\"'),(38005011,38,5,11,'He said to me, \"To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.\"'),(38006001,38,6,1,'Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.'),(38006002,38,6,2,'In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;'),(38006003,38,6,3,'in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful.'),(38006004,38,6,4,'Then I asked the angel who talked with me, \"What are these, my lord?\"'),(38006005,38,6,5,'The angel answered me, \"These are the four winds of the sky, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.'),(38006006,38,6,6,'The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the south country.\"'),(38006007,38,6,7,'The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, \"Go around and through the earth!\" So they walked back and forth through the earth.'),(38006008,38,6,8,'Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, \"Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.\"'),(38006009,38,6,9,'The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,'),(38006010,38,6,10,'\"Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.'),(38006011,38,6,11,'Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;'),(38006012,38,6,12,'and speak to him, saying, \'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, \"Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh;'),(38006013,38,6,13,'even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.'),(38006014,38,6,14,'The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh.'),(38006015,38,6,15,'Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God.\"\'\"'),(38007001,38,7,1,'It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev.'),(38007002,38,7,2,'The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh\'s favor,'),(38007003,38,7,3,'and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, \"Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?\"'),(38007004,38,7,4,'Then the word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me, saying,'),(38007005,38,7,5,'\"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, \'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?'),(38007006,38,7,6,'When you eat, and when you drink, don\'t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?'),(38007007,38,7,7,'Aren\'t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?\'\"'),(38007008,38,7,8,'The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,'),(38007009,38,7,9,'\"Thus has Yahweh of Hosts spoken, saying, \'Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.'),(38007010,38,7,10,'Don\'t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.\''),(38007011,38,7,11,'But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.'),(38007012,38,7,12,'Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.'),(38007013,38,7,13,'It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,\" said Yahweh of Hosts;'),(38007014,38,7,14,'\"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.\"'),(38008001,38,8,1,'The word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me.'),(38008002,38,8,2,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.\"'),(38008003,38,8,3,'Thus says Yahweh: \"I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called \'The City of Truth;\' and the mountain of Yahweh of Hosts, \'The Holy Mountain.\'\"'),(38008004,38,8,4,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.'),(38008005,38,8,5,'The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.\"'),(38008006,38,8,6,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(38008007,38,8,7,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;'),(38008008,38,8,8,'and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.\"'),(38008009,38,8,9,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.'),(38008010,38,8,10,'For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.'),(38008011,38,8,11,'But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(38008012,38,8,12,'\"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.'),(38008013,38,8,13,'It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don\'t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.\"'),(38008014,38,8,14,'For thus says Yahweh of hosts: \"As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"and I didn\'t repent;'),(38008015,38,8,15,'so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don\'t be afraid.'),(38008016,38,8,16,'These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,'),(38008017,38,8,17,'and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,\" says Yahweh.'),(38008018,38,8,18,'The word of Yahweh of Hosts came to me.'),(38008019,38,8,19,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.\"'),(38008020,38,8,20,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;'),(38008021,38,8,21,'and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, \'Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Hosts. I will go also.\''),(38008022,38,8,22,'Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.\"'),(38008023,38,8,23,'Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: \"In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, \'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.\'\"'),(38009001,38,9,1,'An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, And will rest upon Damascus; For the eye of man And of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;'),(38009002,38,9,2,'And Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.'),(38009003,38,9,3,'Tyre built herself a stronghold, And heaped up silver like the dust, And fine gold like the mire of the streets.'),(38009004,38,9,4,'Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, And he will strike her power in the sea; And she will be devoured with fire.'),(38009005,38,9,5,'Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony; As will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; And the king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.'),(38009006,38,9,6,'Foriegners will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.'),(38009007,38,9,7,'I will take away his blood out of his mouth, And his abominations from between his teeth; And he also will be a remnant for our God; And he will be as a chieftain in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.'),(38009008,38,9,8,'I will encamp around my house against the army, That none pass through or return; And no oppressor will pass through them any more: For now I have seen with my eyes.'),(38009009,38,9,9,'Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'),(38009010,38,9,10,'I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem; And the battle bow will be cut off; And he will speak peace to the nations: And his dominion will be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.'),(38009011,38,9,11,'As for you also, Because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.'),(38009012,38,9,12,'Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.'),(38009013,38,9,13,'For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; And I will stir up your sons, Zion, Against your sons, Greece, And will make you like the sword of a mighty man.'),(38009014,38,9,14,'Yahweh will be seen over them; And his arrow will go flash like lightning; And the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, And will go with whirlwinds of the south.'),(38009015,38,9,15,'Yahweh of Hosts will defend them; And they will destroy and overcome with sling-stones; And they will drink, and roar as through wine; And they will be filled like bowls, Like the corners of the altar.'),(38009016,38,9,16,'Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; For they are like the jewels of a crown, Lifted on high over his land.'),(38009017,38,9,17,'For how great is his goodness, And how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine the virgins.'),(38010001,38,10,1,'Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.'),(38010002,38,10,2,'For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.'),(38010003,38,10,3,'My anger is kindled against the shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, And will make them as his horse in the battle that he is proud of.'),(38010004,38,10,4,'From him will come forth the corner-stone, From him the nail, From him the battle bow, From him every ruler together.'),(38010005,38,10,5,'They shall be as mighty men, Treading down muddy streets in the battle; And they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; And the riders on horses will be confounded.'),(38010006,38,10,6,'\"I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them back; For I have mercy on them; And they will be as though I had not cast them off: For I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.'),(38010007,38,10,7,'Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will rejoice as through wine; Yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.'),(38010008,38,10,8,'I will signal for them, and gather them; For I have redeemed them; And they will increase as they have increased.'),(38010009,38,10,9,'I will sow them among the peoples; And they will remember me in far countries; And they will live with their children, and will return.'),(38010010,38,10,10,'I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, And gather them out of Assyria; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; And there won\'t be room enough for them.'),(38010011,38,10,11,'He will pass through the sea of affliction, And will strike the waves in the sea, And all the depths of the Nile will dry up; And the pride of Assyria will be brought down, And the scepter of Egypt will depart.'),(38010012,38,10,12,'I will strengthen them in Yahweh; And they will walk up and down in his name,\" says Yahweh.'),(38011001,38,11,1,'Open your doors, Lebanon, That the fire may devour your cedars.'),(38011002,38,11,2,'Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, Because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, For the strong forest has come down.'),(38011003,38,11,3,'A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.'),(38011004,38,11,4,'Thus says Yahweh my God: \"Feed the flock of slaughter.'),(38011005,38,11,5,'Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, \'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;\' and their own shepherds don\'t pity them.'),(38011006,38,11,6,'For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,\" says Yahweh; \"but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor\'s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.\"'),(38011007,38,11,7,'So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called \"Favor,\" and the other I called \"Union,\" and I fed the flock.'),(38011008,38,11,8,'I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.'),(38011009,38,11,9,'Then I said, \"I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other\'s flesh.\"'),(38011010,38,11,10,'I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.'),(38011011,38,11,11,'It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.'),(38011012,38,11,12,'I said to them, \"If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.\" So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.'),(38011013,38,11,13,'Yahweh said to me, \"Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!\" I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.'),(38011014,38,11,14,'Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.'),(38011015,38,11,15,'Yahweh said to me, \"Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.'),(38011016,38,11,16,'For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.'),(38011017,38,11,17,'Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!\"'),(38012001,38,12,1,'An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:'),(38012002,38,12,2,'\"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.'),(38012003,38,12,3,'It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.'),(38012004,38,12,4,'In that day,\" says Yahweh, \"I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.'),(38012005,38,12,5,'The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, \'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Hosts their God.\''),(38012006,38,12,6,'In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.'),(38012007,38,12,7,'Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.'),(38012008,38,12,8,'In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.'),(38012009,38,12,9,'It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.'),(38012010,38,12,10,'I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me{After \"me,\" the Hebrew has the two letters \"Aleph Tav\" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.} whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.'),(38012011,38,12,11,'In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.'),(38012012,38,12,12,'The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;'),(38012013,38,12,13,'the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;'),(38012014,38,12,14,'all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.'),(38013001,38,13,1,'\"In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.'),(38013002,38,13,2,'It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.'),(38013003,38,13,3,'It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, \'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;\' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.'),(38013004,38,13,4,'It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:'),(38013005,38,13,5,'but he will say, \'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.\''),(38013006,38,13,6,'One will say to him, \'What are these wounds between your arms?\' Then he will answer, \'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.\''),(38013007,38,13,7,'\"Awake, sword, against my shepherd, And against the man who is close to me,\" says Yahweh of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn my hand against the little ones.'),(38013008,38,13,8,'It shall happen that in all the land,\" says Yahweh, Two parts in it will be cut off and die; But the third will be left in it.'),(38013009,38,13,9,'I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, \'It is my people;\' And they will say, \'Yahweh is my God.\'\"'),(38014001,38,14,1,'Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.'),(38014002,38,14,2,'For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.'),(38014003,38,14,3,'Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.'),(38014004,38,14,4,'His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.'),(38014005,38,14,5,'You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.'),(38014006,38,14,6,'It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.'),(38014007,38,14,7,'It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.'),(38014008,38,14,8,'It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.'),(38014009,38,14,9,'Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.'),(38014010,38,14,10,'All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin\'s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king\'s wine-presses.'),(38014011,38,14,11,'Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.'),(38014012,38,14,12,'This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.'),(38014013,38,14,13,'It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.'),(38014014,38,14,14,'Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.'),(38014015,38,14,15,'So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.'),(38014016,38,14,16,'It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents.'),(38014017,38,14,17,'It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn\'t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, on them there will be no rain.'),(38014018,38,14,18,'If the family of Egypt doesn\'t go up, and doesn\'t come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don\'t go up to keep the feast of tents.'),(38014019,38,14,19,'This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don\'t go up to keep the feast of tents.'),(38014020,38,14,20,'In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, \"HOLY TO YAHWEH;\" and the pots in Yahweh\'s house will be like the bowls before the altar.'),(38014021,38,14,21,'Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Hosts; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39001001,39,1,1,'An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.'),(39001002,39,1,2,'\"I have loved you,\" says Yahweh. Yet you say, \"How have you loved us?\" \"Wasn\'t Esau Jacob\'s brother?\" says Yahweh, \"Yet I loved Jacob;'),(39001003,39,1,3,'but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.\"'),(39001004,39,1,4,'Whereas Edom says, \"We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;\" thus says Yahweh of Hosts, \"They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them \'The Wicked Land,\' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.\"'),(39001005,39,1,5,'Your eyes will see, and you will say, \"Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!\"'),(39001006,39,1,6,'\"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, \'How have we despised your name?\''),(39001007,39,1,7,'You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, \'How have we polluted you?\' In that you say, \'Yahweh\'s table contemptible.\''),(39001008,39,1,8,'When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn\'t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn\'t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39001009,39,1,9,'\"Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39001010,39,1,10,'\"Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,\" says Yahweh of hosts, \"neither will I accept an offering at your hand.'),(39001011,39,1,11,'For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39001012,39,1,12,'\"But you profane it, in that you say, \'Yahweh\'s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.\''),(39001013,39,1,13,'You say also, \'Behold, what a weariness it is!\' and you have sniffed at it,\" says Yahweh of Hosts; \"and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?\" says Yahweh.'),(39001014,39,1,14,'\"But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King,\" says Yahweh of hosts, \"and my name is awesome among the nations.\"'),(39002001,39,2,1,'\"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.'),(39002002,39,2,2,'If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.'),(39002003,39,2,3,'Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.'),(39002004,39,2,4,'You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39002005,39,2,5,'\"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him who he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.'),(39002006,39,2,6,'The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.'),(39002007,39,2,7,'For the priest\'s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39002008,39,2,8,'But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39002009,39,2,9,'\"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.'),(39002010,39,2,10,'Don\'t we all have one father? Hasn\'t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?'),(39002011,39,2,11,'Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.'),(39002012,39,2,12,'Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39002013,39,2,13,'This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn\'t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.'),(39002014,39,2,14,'Yet you say, \'Why?\' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.'),(39002015,39,2,15,'Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.'),(39002016,39,2,16,'For I hate divorce,\" says Yahweh, the God of Israel, \"and him who covers his garment with violence!\' says Yahweh of Hosts. \"Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don\'t deal treacherously.'),(39002017,39,2,17,'You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, \'How have we wearied him?\' In that you say, \'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;\' or \'Where is the God of justice?\''),(39003001,39,3,1,'\"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!\" says Yahweh of hosts.'),(39003002,39,3,2,'\"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner\'s fire, and like launderer\'s soap;'),(39003003,39,3,3,'and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.'),(39003004,39,3,4,'Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days of old, and as in ancient years.'),(39003005,39,3,5,'I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don\'t fear me,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39003006,39,3,6,'\"For I, Yahweh, don\'t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.'),(39003007,39,3,7,'From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,\" says Yahweh of Hosts. \"But you say, \'How shall we return?\''),(39003008,39,3,8,'Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, \'How have we robbed you?\' In tithes and offerings.'),(39003009,39,3,9,'You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.'),(39003010,39,3,10,'Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,\" says Yahweh 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 for.'),(39003011,39,3,11,'I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39003012,39,3,12,'\"All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39003013,39,3,13,'\"Your words have been stout against me,\" says Yahweh. \"Yet you say, \'What have we spoken against you?\''),(39003014,39,3,14,'You have said, \'It is vain to serve God;\' and \'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?'),(39003015,39,3,15,'Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.\''),(39003016,39,3,16,'Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.'),(39003017,39,3,17,'They shall be mine,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.'),(39003018,39,3,18,'Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn\'t serve him.'),(39004001,39,4,1,'\"For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,\" says Yahweh of Hosts, \"that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.'),(39004002,39,4,2,'But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.'),(39004003,39,4,3,'You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,\" says Yahweh of Hosts.'),(39004004,39,4,4,'\"Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.'),(39004005,39,4,5,'Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.'),(39004006,39,4,6,'He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.\"'),(40001001,40,1,1,'The book of the generation of Jesus Christ{Christ (Greek) and Messiah (Hebrew) both mean \"Anointed One\"}, the son of David, the son of Abraham.'),(40001002,40,1,2,'Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.'),(40001003,40,1,3,'Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. Perez became the father of Hezron. Hezron became the father of Ram.'),(40001004,40,1,4,'Ram became the father of Amminadab. Amminadab became the father of Nahshon. Nahshon became the father of Salmon.'),(40001005,40,1,5,'Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.'),(40001006,40,1,6,'Jesse became the father of David the king. David became the father of Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah.'),(40001007,40,1,7,'Solomon became the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam became the father of Abijah. Abijah became the father of Asa.'),(40001008,40,1,8,'Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.'),(40001009,40,1,9,'Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.'),(40001010,40,1,10,'Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh. Manasseh became the father of Amon. Amon became the father of Josiah.'),(40001011,40,1,11,'Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the exile to Babylon.'),(40001012,40,1,12,'After the exile to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel.'),(40001013,40,1,13,'Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim. Eliakim became the father of Azor.'),(40001014,40,1,14,'Azor became the father of Sadoc. Sadoc became the father of Achim. Achim became the father of Eliud.'),(40001015,40,1,15,'Eliud became the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of Matthan. Matthan became the father of Jacob.'),(40001016,40,1,16,'Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus{\"Jesus\" is a Greek variant of the Jewish name \"Yehoshua,\" which means \"Yah saves.\" \"Jesus\" is also the masculine form of \"Yeshu\'ah,\" which means \"Salvation.\"}, who is called Christ.'),(40001017,40,1,17,'So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.'),(40001018,40,1,18,'Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.'),(40001019,40,1,19,'Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.'),(40001020,40,1,20,'But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, \"Joseph, son of David, don\'t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.'),(40001021,40,1,21,'She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.\"'),(40001022,40,1,22,'Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,'),(40001023,40,1,23,'\"Behold, the virgin shall be with child, And shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;\" Which is, being interpreted, \"God with us.\"'),(40001024,40,1,24,'Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;'),(40001025,40,1,25,'and didn\'t know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.'),(40002001,40,2,1,'Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men{The word for \"wise men\" (magoi) can also mean teachers, priests, physicians, astrologers, seers, interpreters of dreams, or sorcerers.} from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,'),(40002002,40,2,2,'\"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.\"'),(40002003,40,2,3,'When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.'),(40002004,40,2,4,'Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.'),(40002005,40,2,5,'They said to him, \"In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written through the prophet,'),(40002006,40,2,6,'\'You Bethlehem, land of Judah, Are in no way least among the princes of Judah: For out of you shall come forth a governor, Who shall shepherd my people, Israel.\'\"'),(40002007,40,2,7,'Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared.'),(40002008,40,2,8,'He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, \"Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.\"'),(40002009,40,2,9,'They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.'),(40002010,40,2,10,'When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.'),(40002011,40,2,11,'They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.'),(40002012,40,2,12,'Being warned in a dream that they shouldn\'t return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.'),(40002013,40,2,13,'Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, \"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.\"'),(40002014,40,2,14,'He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,'),(40002015,40,2,15,'and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, \"Out of Egypt I called my son.\"'),(40002016,40,2,16,'Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.'),(40002017,40,2,17,'Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,'),(40002018,40,2,18,'\"A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; She wouldn\'t be comforted, Because they are no more.\"'),(40002019,40,2,19,'But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,'),(40002020,40,2,20,'\"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child\'s life are dead.\"'),(40002021,40,2,21,'He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.'),(40002022,40,2,22,'But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,'),(40002023,40,2,23,'and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: \"He will be called a Nazarene.\"'),(40003001,40,3,1,'In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,'),(40003002,40,3,2,'\"Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!\"'),(40003003,40,3,3,'For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, \"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.\"'),(40003004,40,3,4,'Now John himself wore clothing made of camel\'s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.'),(40003005,40,3,5,'Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.'),(40003006,40,3,6,'They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.'),(40003007,40,3,7,'But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, \"You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?'),(40003008,40,3,8,'Therefore bring forth fruit worthy of repentance!'),(40003009,40,3,9,'Don\'t think to yourselves, \'We have Abraham for our father,\' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.'),(40003010,40,3,10,'\"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn\'t bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.'),(40003011,40,3,11,'I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.{TR and NU add \"and with fire\"}'),(40003012,40,3,12,'His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.\"'),(40003013,40,3,13,'Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.'),(40003014,40,3,14,'But John would have hindered him, saying, \"I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?\"'),(40003015,40,3,15,'But Jesus, answering, said to him, \"Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.\" Then he allowed him.'),(40003016,40,3,16,'Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.'),(40003017,40,3,17,'Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, \"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.\"'),(40004001,40,4,1,'Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.'),(40004002,40,4,2,'When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.'),(40004003,40,4,3,'The tempter came and said to him, \"If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.\"'),(40004004,40,4,4,'But he answered, \"It is written, \'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\'\"'),(40004005,40,4,5,'Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,'),(40004006,40,4,6,'and said to him, \"If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, \'He will give his angels charge concerning you.\' and, \'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don\'t dash your foot against a stone.\'\"'),(40004007,40,4,7,'Jesus said to him, \"Again, it is written, \'You shall not test the Lord, your God.\'\"'),(40004008,40,4,8,'Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.'),(40004009,40,4,9,'He said to him, \"I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.\"'),(40004010,40,4,10,'Then Jesus said to him, \"Get behind me,{TR and NU read \"Go away\" instead of \"Get behind me\"} Satan! For it is written, \'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.\'\"'),(40004011,40,4,11,'Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.'),(40004012,40,4,12,'Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.'),(40004013,40,4,13,'Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,'),(40004014,40,4,14,'that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,'),(40004015,40,4,15,'\"The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,'),(40004016,40,4,16,'The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, To those who sat in the region and shadow of death, To them light has dawned.\"'),(40004017,40,4,17,'From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, \"Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.\"'),(40004018,40,4,18,'Walking by the sea of Galilee, he{TR reads \"Jesus\" instead of \"he\"} saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.'),(40004019,40,4,19,'He said to them, \"Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.\"'),(40004020,40,4,20,'They immediately left their nets and followed him.'),(40004021,40,4,21,'Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.'),(40004022,40,4,22,'They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.'),(40004023,40,4,23,'Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.'),(40004024,40,4,24,'The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.'),(40004025,40,4,25,'Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.'),(40005001,40,5,1,'Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.'),(40005002,40,5,2,'He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,'),(40005003,40,5,3,'\"Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.'),(40005004,40,5,4,'Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.'),(40005005,40,5,5,'Blessed are the gentle, For they shall inherit the earth.'),(40005006,40,5,6,'Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, For they shall be filled.'),(40005007,40,5,7,'Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.'),(40005008,40,5,8,'Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.'),(40005009,40,5,9,'Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called children of God.'),(40005010,40,5,10,'Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness\' sake, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.'),(40005011,40,5,11,'\"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.'),(40005012,40,5,12,'Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.'),(40005013,40,5,13,'\"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.'),(40005014,40,5,14,'You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can\'t be hidden.'),(40005015,40,5,15,'Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.'),(40005016,40,5,16,'Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.'),(40005017,40,5,17,'\"Don\'t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn\'t come to destroy, but to fulfill.'),(40005018,40,5,18,'For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter{literally, iota} or one tiny pen stroke{or, serif} shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.'),(40005019,40,5,19,'Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.'),(40005020,40,5,20,'For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.'),(40005021,40,5,21,'\"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, \'You shall not murder;\' and \'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.\''),(40005022,40,5,22,'But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, \'Raca{\"Raca\" is an Aramaic insult, related to the word for \"empty\" and conveying the idea of empty-headedness.}!\' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, \'You fool!\' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna{Gehenna is another name for Hell that brings to mind an image of a burning garbage dump with dead bodies in it.}.'),(40005023,40,5,23,'\"If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,'),(40005024,40,5,24,'leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.'),(40005025,40,5,25,'Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.'),(40005026,40,5,26,'Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{Literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow\'s mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.}'),(40005027,40,5,27,'\"You have heard that it was said, {TR adds \"to the ancients,\"} \'You shall not commit adultery;\''),(40005028,40,5,28,'but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.'),(40005029,40,5,29,'If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.'),(40005030,40,5,30,'If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.'),(40005031,40,5,31,'\"It was also said, \'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,\''),(40005032,40,5,32,'but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.'),(40005033,40,5,33,'\"Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, \'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,\''),(40005034,40,5,34,'but I tell you, don\'t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;'),(40005035,40,5,35,'nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.'),(40005036,40,5,36,'Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can\'t make one hair white or black.'),(40005037,40,5,37,'But let your \'Yes\' be \'Yes\' and your \'No\' be \'no.\' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.'),(40005038,40,5,38,'\"You have heard that it was said, \'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.\''),(40005039,40,5,39,'But I tell you, don\'t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.'),(40005040,40,5,40,'If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.'),(40005041,40,5,41,'Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.'),(40005042,40,5,42,'Give to him who asks you, and don\'t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.'),(40005043,40,5,43,'\"You have heard that it was said, \'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.\''),(40005044,40,5,44,'But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,'),(40005045,40,5,45,'that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.'),(40005046,40,5,46,'For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don\'t even the tax collectors do the same?'),(40005047,40,5,47,'If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don\'t even the tax collectors do the same?'),(40005048,40,5,48,'Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.'),(40006001,40,6,1,'\"Be careful that you don\'t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.'),(40006002,40,6,2,'Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don\'t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.'),(40006003,40,6,3,'But when you do merciful deeds, don\'t let your left hand know what your right hand does,'),(40006004,40,6,4,'so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.'),(40006005,40,6,5,'\"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most assuredly, I tell you, they have received their reward.'),(40006006,40,6,6,'But you, when you pray, enter into your inner chamber, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.'),(40006007,40,6,7,'In praying, don\'t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.'),(40006008,40,6,8,'Therefore don\'t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.'),(40006009,40,6,9,'Pray like this: \'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.'),(40006010,40,6,10,'Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.'),(40006011,40,6,11,'Give us today our daily bread.'),(40006012,40,6,12,'Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.'),(40006013,40,6,13,'Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.\''),(40006014,40,6,14,'\"For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.'),(40006015,40,6,15,'But if you don\'t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.'),(40006016,40,6,16,'\"Moreover when you fast, don\'t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most assuredly I tell you, they have received their reward.'),(40006017,40,6,17,'But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;'),(40006018,40,6,18,'so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.'),(40006019,40,6,19,'\"Don\'t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;'),(40006020,40,6,20,'but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don\'t break through and steal;'),(40006021,40,6,21,'for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'),(40006022,40,6,22,'\"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.'),(40006023,40,6,23,'But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!'),(40006024,40,6,24,'\"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can\'t serve both God and Mammon.'),(40006025,40,6,25,'Therefore, I tell you, don\'t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn\'t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?'),(40006026,40,6,26,'See the birds of the sky, that they don\'t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren\'t you of much more value than they?'),(40006027,40,6,27,'\"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to the measure of his life?'),(40006028,40,6,28,'Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don\'t toil, neither do they spin,'),(40006029,40,6,29,'yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.'),(40006030,40,6,30,'But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won\'t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?'),(40006031,40,6,31,'\"Therefore don\'t be anxious, saying, \'What will we eat?\', \'What will we drink?\' or, \'With what will we be clothed?\''),(40006032,40,6,32,'For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.'),(40006033,40,6,33,'But seek first God\'s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.'),(40006034,40,6,34,'Therefore don\'t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day\'s own evil is sufficient.'),(40007001,40,7,1,'\"Don\'t judge, so that you won\'t be judged.'),(40007002,40,7,2,'For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.'),(40007003,40,7,3,'Why do you see the speck that is in your brother\'s eye, but don\'t consider the beam that is in your own eye?'),(40007004,40,7,4,'Or how will you tell your brother, \'Let me remove the speck from your eye;\' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?'),(40007005,40,7,5,'You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother\'s eye.'),(40007006,40,7,6,'\"Don\'t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.'),(40007007,40,7,7,'\"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.'),(40007008,40,7,8,'For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.'),(40007009,40,7,9,'Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?'),(40007010,40,7,10,'Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?'),(40007011,40,7,11,'If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!'),(40007012,40,7,12,'Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.'),(40007013,40,7,13,'\"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.'),(40007014,40,7,14,'How{TR reads \"Because\" instead of \"How\"} narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.'),(40007015,40,7,15,'\"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep\'s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.'),(40007016,40,7,16,'By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?'),(40007017,40,7,17,'Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.'),(40007018,40,7,18,'A good tree can\'t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.'),(40007019,40,7,19,'Every tree that doesn\'t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.'),(40007020,40,7,20,'Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.'),(40007021,40,7,21,'Not everyone who says to me, \'Lord, Lord,\' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.'),(40007022,40,7,22,'Many will tell me in that day, \'Lord, Lord, didn\'t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?\''),(40007023,40,7,23,'Then I will tell them, \'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.\''),(40007024,40,7,24,'\"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.'),(40007025,40,7,25,'The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn\'t fall, for it was founded on the rock.'),(40007026,40,7,26,'Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn\'t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.'),(40007027,40,7,27,'The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall.\"'),(40007028,40,7,28,'It happened, when Jesus had finished saying these things, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,'),(40007029,40,7,29,'for he taught them with authority, and not like the scribes.'),(40008001,40,8,1,'When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.'),(40008002,40,8,2,'Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, \"Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.\"'),(40008003,40,8,3,'Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, \"I want to. Be made clean.\" Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.'),(40008004,40,8,4,'Jesus said to him, \"See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.\"'),(40008005,40,8,5,'When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,'),(40008006,40,8,6,'and saying, \"Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.\"'),(40008007,40,8,7,'Jesus said to him, \"I will come and heal him.\"'),(40008008,40,8,8,'The centurion answered, \"Lord, I\'m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.'),(40008009,40,8,9,'For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, \'Go,\' and he goes; and tell another, \'Come,\' and he comes; and tell my servant, \'Do this,\' and he does it.\"'),(40008010,40,8,10,'When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, \"Most assuredly I tell you, I haven\'t found so great a faith, not even in Israel.'),(40008011,40,8,11,'I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,'),(40008012,40,8,12,'but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.\"'),(40008013,40,8,13,'Jesus said to the centurion, \"Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.\" His servant was healed in that hour.'),(40008014,40,8,14,'When Jesus came into Peter\'s house, he saw his wife\'s mother lying sick with a fever.'),(40008015,40,8,15,'He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.{TR reads \"them\" instead of \"him\"}'),(40008016,40,8,16,'When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;'),(40008017,40,8,17,'that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: \"He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.\"'),(40008018,40,8,18,'Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.'),(40008019,40,8,19,'A scribe came, and said to him, \"Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.\"'),(40008020,40,8,20,'Jesus said to him, \"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.\"'),(40008021,40,8,21,'Another of his disciples said to him, \"Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.\"'),(40008022,40,8,22,'But Jesus said to him, \"Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.\"'),(40008023,40,8,23,'When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.'),(40008024,40,8,24,'Behold, a great tempest arose in the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.'),(40008025,40,8,25,'They came to him, and woke him up, saying, \"Save us, Lord! We are dying!\"'),(40008026,40,8,26,'He said to them, \"Why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?\" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.'),(40008027,40,8,27,'The men marveled, saying, \"What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?\"'),(40008028,40,8,28,'When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass by that way.'),(40008029,40,8,29,'Behold, they cried out, saying, \"What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?\"'),(40008030,40,8,30,'Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.'),(40008031,40,8,31,'The demons begged him, saying, \"If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.\"'),(40008032,40,8,32,'He said to them, \"Go!\" They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.'),(40008033,40,8,33,'Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.'),(40008034,40,8,34,'Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.'),(40009001,40,9,1,'He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.'),(40009002,40,9,2,'Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, \"Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.\"'),(40009003,40,9,3,'Behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, \"This man blasphemes.\"'),(40009004,40,9,4,'Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, \"Why do you think evil in your hearts?'),(40009005,40,9,5,'For which is easier, to say, \'Your sins are forgiven;\' or to say, \'Get up, and walk?\''),(40009006,40,9,6,'But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...\" (then he said to the paralytic), \"Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house.\"'),(40009007,40,9,7,'He arose and departed to his house.'),(40009008,40,9,8,'But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.'),(40009009,40,9,9,'As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, \"Follow me.\" He got up and followed him.'),(40009010,40,9,10,'It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.'),(40009011,40,9,11,'When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, \"Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\"'),(40009012,40,9,12,'When Jesus heard it, he said to them, \"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.'),(40009013,40,9,13,'But you go and learn what this means: \'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.\"'),(40009014,40,9,14,'Then John\'s disciples came to him, saying, \"Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don\'t fast?\"'),(40009015,40,9,15,'Jesus said to them, \"Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.'),(40009016,40,9,16,'No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.'),(40009017,40,9,17,'Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.\"'),(40009018,40,9,18,'While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, \"My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.\"'),(40009019,40,9,19,'Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.'),(40009020,40,9,20,'Behold, a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the tassels of his garment;'),(40009021,40,9,21,'for she said within herself, \"If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.\"'),(40009022,40,9,22,'But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, \"Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.\" And the woman was made well from that hour.'),(40009023,40,9,23,'When Jesus came into the ruler\'s house, and saw the flute players, and the crowd in noisy disorder,'),(40009024,40,9,24,'he said to them, \"Make room, because the girl isn\'t dead, but sleeping.\" They were ridiculing him.'),(40009025,40,9,25,'But when the crowd was put out, he entered in, took her by the hand, and the girl arose.'),(40009026,40,9,26,'The report of this went out into all that land.'),(40009027,40,9,27,'As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, \"Have mercy on us, son of David!\"'),(40009028,40,9,28,'When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, \"Do you believe that I am able to do this?\" They told him, \"Yes, Lord.\"'),(40009029,40,9,29,'Then he touched their eyes, saying, \"According to your faith be it done to you.\"'),(40009030,40,9,30,'Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly charged them, saying, \"See that no one knows about this.\"'),(40009031,40,9,31,'But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.'),(40009032,40,9,32,'As they went out, behold, a mute man who was demon possessed was brought to him.'),(40009033,40,9,33,'When the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. The multitudes marveled, saying, \"Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!\"'),(40009034,40,9,34,'But the Pharisees said, \"By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.\"'),(40009035,40,9,35,'Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.'),(40009036,40,9,36,'But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed{TR reads \"weary\" instead of \"harassed\"} and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.'),(40009037,40,9,37,'Then he said to his disciples, \"The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.'),(40009038,40,9,38,'Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.\"'),(40010001,40,10,1,'He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.'),(40010002,40,10,2,'Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;'),(40010003,40,10,3,'Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;'),(40010004,40,10,4,'Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.'),(40010005,40,10,5,'Jesus sent these twelve out, and charged them, saying, \"Don\'t go among the Gentiles, and don\'t enter into any city of the Samaritans.'),(40010006,40,10,6,'Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'),(40010007,40,10,7,'As you go, preach, saying, \'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!\''),(40010008,40,10,8,'Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers{TR adds \", raise the dead\"}, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.'),(40010009,40,10,9,'Don\'t take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.'),(40010010,40,10,10,'Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.'),(40010011,40,10,11,'Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.'),(40010012,40,10,12,'As you enter into the household, greet it.'),(40010013,40,10,13,'If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn\'t worthy, let your peace return to you.'),(40010014,40,10,14,'Whoever doesn\'t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.'),(40010015,40,10,15,'Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.'),(40010016,40,10,16,'\"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.'),(40010017,40,10,17,'But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.'),(40010018,40,10,18,'Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.'),(40010019,40,10,19,'But when they deliver you up, don\'t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.'),(40010020,40,10,20,'For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.'),(40010021,40,10,21,'\"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.'),(40010022,40,10,22,'You will be hated by all men for my name\'s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.'),(40010023,40,10,23,'But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most assuredly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.'),(40010024,40,10,24,'\"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.'),(40010025,40,10,25,'It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!'),(40010026,40,10,26,'Therefore don\'t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.'),(40010027,40,10,27,'What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.'),(40010028,40,10,28,'Don\'t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.'),(40010029,40,10,29,'\"Aren\'t two sparrows sold for an assarion{An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius (approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor).}? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father\'s will,'),(40010030,40,10,30,'but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.'),(40010031,40,10,31,'Therefore don\'t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.'),(40010032,40,10,32,'Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.'),(40010033,40,10,33,'But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.'),(40010034,40,10,34,'\"Don\'t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn\'t come to send peace, but a sword.'),(40010035,40,10,35,'For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'),(40010036,40,10,36,'A man\'s foes will be those of his own household.'),(40010037,40,10,37,'He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn\'t worthy of me.'),(40010038,40,10,38,'He who doesn\'t take his cross and follow after me, isn\'t worthy of me.'),(40010039,40,10,39,'He who finds his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.'),(40010040,40,10,40,'He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.'),(40010041,40,10,41,'He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet\'s reward: and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man\'s reward.'),(40010042,40,10,42,'Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.\"'),(40011001,40,11,1,'It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.'),(40011002,40,11,2,'Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples'),(40011003,40,11,3,'and said to him, \"Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?\"'),(40011004,40,11,4,'Jesus answered them, \"Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:'),(40011005,40,11,5,'the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.'),(40011006,40,11,6,'Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.\"'),(40011007,40,11,7,'As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, \"What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?'),(40011008,40,11,8,'But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king\'s houses.'),(40011009,40,11,9,'But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.'),(40011010,40,11,10,'For this is he, of whom it is written, \'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.\''),(40011011,40,11,11,'Most assuredly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.'),(40011012,40,11,12,'From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.'),(40011013,40,11,13,'For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.'),(40011014,40,11,14,'If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.'),(40011015,40,11,15,'He who has ears to hear, let him hear.'),(40011016,40,11,16,'\"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions'),(40011017,40,11,17,'and say, \'We played the flute for you, and you didn\'t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn\'t lament.\''),(40011018,40,11,18,'For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, \'He has a demon.\''),(40011019,40,11,19,'The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, \'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\' But wisdom is justified by her children.\"'),(40011020,40,11,20,'Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn\'t repent.'),(40011021,40,11,21,'\"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.'),(40011022,40,11,22,'But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.'),(40011023,40,11,23,'You, Capernaum, who are exalted to Heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.'),(40011024,40,11,24,'But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.\"'),(40011025,40,11,25,'At that time, Jesus answered, \"I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.'),(40011026,40,11,26,'Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.'),(40011027,40,11,27,'All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.'),(40011028,40,11,28,'\"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.'),(40011029,40,11,29,'Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.'),(40011030,40,11,30,'For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\"'),(40012001,40,12,1,'At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.'),(40012002,40,12,2,'But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, \"Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.\"'),(40012003,40,12,3,'But he said to them, \"Haven\'t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;'),(40012004,40,12,4,'how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?'),(40012005,40,12,5,'Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?'),(40012006,40,12,6,'But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.'),(40012007,40,12,7,'But if you had known what this means, \'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\' you would not have condemned the guiltless.'),