Amos Page 530 the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, off, and fall to the ground. {3:15} And I will smite the and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, earth: The LORD [is] his name: {5:9} That strengtheneth saith the LORD. the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. {5:10} They hate him that rebuketh in {4:1} Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. {5:11} mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built drink. {4:2} The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. {4:3} of them. {5:12} For I know your manifold transgressions And ye shall go out at the breaches, every [cow at that and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, which is] before her; and ye shall cast [them] into the and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right. palace, saith the LORD. ]{5:13} Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time. {5:14} Seek good, and not evil, {4:4} Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, be with you, as ye have spoken. {5:15} Hate the evil, and [and] your tithes after three years: {4:5} And offer a love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children remnant of Joseph. {5:16} Therefore the LORD, the God of of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they {4:6} And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye skilful of lamentation to wailing. {5:17} And in all not returned unto me, saith the LORD. {4:7} And also I vineyards [shall be] wailing: for I will pass through thee, have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet saith the LORD. {5:18} Woe unto you that desire the day of three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece [is] darkness, and not light. {5:19} As if a man did flee was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and withered. {4:8} So two [or] three cities wandered unto one leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. {5:20} city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not not returned unto me, saith the LORD. {4:9} I have smitten light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, {5:21} I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not the palmerworm devoured [them:] yet have ye not returned smell in your solemn assemblies. {5:22} Though ye offer unto me, saith the LORD. {4:10} I have sent among you the me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have accept [them:] neither will I regard the peace offerings of I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; your fat beasts. {5:23} Take thou away from me the noise and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the {5:24} But let judgment run down as waters, and LORD. {4:11} I have overthrown [some] of you, as God righteousness as a mighty stream. {5:25} Have ye offered overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto years, O house of Israel? {5:26} But ye have borne the me, saith the LORD. {4:12} Therefore thus will I do unto tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare of your god, which ye made to yourselves. {5:27} Therefore to meet thy God, O Israel. {4:13} For, lo, he that formeth will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto the LORD, whose name [is] The God of hosts. man what [is] his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, {6:1} Woe to them [that are] at ease in Zion, and trust in The LORD, The God of hosts, [is] his name. the mountain of Samaria, [which are] named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! {6:2} Pass ye {5:1} Hear ye this word which I take up against you, unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel. {5:2} The virgin of great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: [be they] Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than her land; [there is] none to raise her up. {5:3} For thus saith your border? {6:3} Ye that put far away the evil day, and the Lord GOD; The city that went out [by] a thousand shall cause the seat of violence to come near; {6:4} That lie upon leave an hundred, and that which went forth [by] an beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; {6:5} That chant to the sound of the viol, {5:4} For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like Seek ye me, and ye shall live: {5:5} But seek not Bethel, David; {6:6} That drink wine in bowls, and anoint nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to grieved for the affliction of Joseph. nought. {5:6} Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour [it,] {6:7} Therefore now shall they go captive with the first and [there be] none to quench [it] in Bethel. {5:7} Ye who that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in themselves shall be removed. {6:8} The Lord GOD hath the earth, {5:8} [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor www.holybooks.com
Page 531 Amos the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted I deliver up the city with all that is therein. {6:9} And it land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, land. that they shall die. {6:10} And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of {8:1} Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the sides of the behold a basket of summer fruit. {8:2} And he said, Amos, house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people mention of the name of the LORD. {6:11} For, behold, the of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. {8:3} And LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith breaches, and the little house with clefts. the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence. {6:12} Shall horses run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, {8:4} Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: {6:13} Ye make the poor of the land to fail, {8:5} Saying, When will which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the taken to us horns by our own strength? {6:14} But, behold, sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from deceit? {8:6} That we may buy the poor for silver, and the the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness. needy for a pair of shoes; [yea,] and sell the refuse of the wheat? {8:7} The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of {7:1} Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. {8:8} behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and growth after the king’s mowings. {7:2} And it came to pass, it shall be cast out and drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass of the {8:9} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small. {7:3} The LORD will darken the earth in the clear day: {8:10} And I will turn repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, {7:4} Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it mourning of an only [son,] and the end thereof as a bitter devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. {7:5} Then day. said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small. {7:6} The LORD repented for {8:11} Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: {7:7} Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood {8:12} And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the hand. {7:8} And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest word of the LORD, and shall not find [it. ]{8:13} In that thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will {8:14} They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy not again pass by them any more: {7:9} And the high places god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall even they shall fall, and never rise up again. be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. {9:1} I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: {7:10} Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. not able to bear all his words. {7:11} For thus Amos saith, {9:2} Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I led away captive out of their own land. {7:12} Also bring them down: {9:3} And though they hide themselves Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the there: {7:13} But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite for it [is] the king’s chapel, and it [is] the king’s court. them: {9:4} And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay {7:14} Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not [was] no prophet, neither [was] I a prophet’s son; but I for good. {9:5} And the Lord GOD of hosts [is] he that [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: {7:15} toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. and shall be drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. {9:6} [It is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath {7:16} Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not [thy of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: word] against the house of Isaac. {7:17} Therefore thus The LORD [is] his name. {9:7} [Are] ye not as children of saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy LORD. 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Amos Page 532 Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? {9:8} Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD. {9:9} For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. {9:10} All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. {9:11} In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: {9:12} That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. {9:13} Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. {9:14} And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit [them;] and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. {9:15} And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. www.holybooks.com
Page 533 Obadiah Obadiah [even] unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. {1:1} The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD {1:21} And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’S. LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. {1:2} Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. {1:3} The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? {1:4} Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. {1:5} If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes? {1:6} How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up! {1:7} All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee [even] to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, [and] prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a wound under thee: [there is] none understanding in him. {1:8} Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise [men] out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? {1:9} And thy mighty [men,] O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. {1:10} For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. {1:11} In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou [wast] as one of them. {1:12} But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. {1:13} Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity; {1:14} Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. {1:15} For the day of the LORD [is] near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. {1:16} For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. {1:17} But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. {1:18} And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be [any] remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken [it. ]{1:19} And [they of] the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and [they of] the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin [shall possess] Gilead. {1:20} And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel [shall possess] that of the Canaanites, www.holybooks.com
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Page 535 Jonah Jonah yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. {2:7} When my soul fainted within me I {1:1} Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, son of Amittai, saying, {1:2} Arise, go to Nineveh, that into thine holy temple. {2:8} They that observe lying great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come vanities forsake their own mercy. {2:9} But I will sacrifice up before me. {1:3} But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that] from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD. and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto {2:10} And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. out Jonah upon the dry [land. {1:4} But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, ]{3:1} And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship second time, saying, {3:2} Arise, go unto Nineveh, that was like to be broken. {1:5} Then the mariners were afraid, great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares {3:3} So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he great city of three days’ journey. {3:4} And Jonah began to lay, and was fast asleep. {1:6} So the shipmaster came to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. {1:7} And they said every one to his {3:5} So the people of Nineveh believed God, and fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of whose cause this evil [is] upon us. So they cast lots, and the them even to the least of them. {3:6} For word came unto lot fell upon Jonah. {1:8} Then said they unto him, Tell us, the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he we pray thee, for whose cause this evil [is] upon us; What laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, [is] thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what [is] and sat in ashes. {3:7} And he caused [it] to be proclaimed thy country? and of what people [art] thou? {1:9} And he and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king said unto them, I [am] an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry [land. flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: ]{1:10} Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said {3:8} But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands. them. {3:9} Who can tell [if] God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? {1:11} Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, {3:10} And God saw their works, that they turned from and was tempestuous. {1:12} And he said unto them, Take their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be that he would do unto them; and he did [it] not. calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest [is] upon you. {1:13} Nevertheless the men rowed {4:1} But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was hard to bring [it] to the land; but they could not: for the sea very angry. {4:2} And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, wrought, and was tempestuous against them. {1:14} I pray thee, O LORD, [was] not this my saying, when I was Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this for I knew that thou [art] a gracious God, and merciful, slow man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. {1:15} So they took up evil. {4:3} Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live. from her raging. {1:16} Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and {4:4} Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? made vows. {4:5} So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in {1:17} Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to the shadow, till he might see what would become of the swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish city. {4:6} And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made three days and three nights. [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was {2:1} Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of exceeding glad of the gourd. {4:7} But God prepared a the fish’s belly, {2:2} And said, I cried by reason of mine worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly gourd that it withered. {4:8} And it came to pass, when the of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice. {2:3} For thou sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die passed over me. {2:4} Then I said, I am cast out of thy than to live. {4:9} And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. {2:5} to be angry for the gourd? 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Page 537 Micah Micah {2:7} O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not {1:1} The word of the LORD that came to Micah the my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? {2:8} Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely Jerusalem. {1:2} Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and as men averse from war. {2:9} The women of my people all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their you, the Lord from his holy temple. {1:3} For, behold, the children have ye taken away my glory for ever. {2:10} LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it and tread upon the high places of the earth. {1:4} And the is polluted, it shall destroy [you,] even with a sore mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall destruction. {2:11} If a man walking in the spirit and be cleft, as wax before the fire, [and] as the waters [that are] falsehood do lie, [saying,] I will prophesy unto thee of wine poured down a steep place. {1:5} For the transgression of and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this Jacob [is] all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. people. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? [is it] not Samaria? and what [are] the high places of Judah? [are they] not {2:12} I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will Jerusalem? {1:6} Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together of the field, [and] as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover fold: they shall make great noise by reason of [the multitude the foundations thereof. {1:7} And all the graven images of] men. {2:13} The breaker is come up before them: they thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, LORD on the head of them. and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. {1:8} Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: {3:1} And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the ye princes of the house of Israel; [Is it] not for you to know owls. {1:9} For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto judgment? {3:2} Who hate the good, and love the evil; who Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off Jerusalem. their bones; {3:3} Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, {1:10} Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. {1:11} Pass ye the caldron. {3:4} Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing. {1:12} For doings. the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem. {3:5} Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that {1:13} O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, swift beast: she [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. prepare war against him. {3:6} Therefore night [shall be] {1:14} Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth- unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark gath: the houses of Achzib [shall be] a lie to the kings of unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down Israel. {1:15} Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the {3:7} Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners glory of Israel. {1:16} Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they no answer of God. are gone into captivity from thee. {3:8} But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the {2:1} Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. {3:9} Hear because it is in the power of their hand. {2:2} And they this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, equity. {3:10} They build up Zion with blood, and even a man and his heritage. {2:3} Therefore thus saith the Jerusalem with iniquity. {3:11} The heads thereof judge for LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon haughtily: for this time [is] evil. the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. {3:12} Therefore shall Zion for your {2:4} In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: the forest. how hath he removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. {2:5} Therefore thou shalt have none {4:1} But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in LORD. {2:6} Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, [that] they shall hills; and people shall flow unto it. {4:2} And many nations not take shame. shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for www.holybooks.com
Micah Page 538 the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of from Jerusalem. sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. {5:9} Thine hand {4:3} And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into enemies shall be cut off. {5:10} And it shall come to pass in plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: {5:11} war any more. {4:4} But they shall sit every man under his And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make [them] thy strong holds: {5:12} And I will cut off witchcrafts out afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it. of thine hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers: ]{4:5} For all people will walk every one in the name of his {5:13} Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no for ever and ever. {4:6} In that day, saith the LORD, will I more worship the work of thine hands. {5:14} And I will assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I out, and her that I have afflicted; {4:7} And I will make her destroy thy cities. {5:15} And I will execute vengeance in that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion heard. from henceforth, even for ever. {6:1} Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend {4:8} And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first {6:2} Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’S controversy, and dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a Jerusalem. {4:9} Now why dost thou cry out aloud? [is controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs {6:3} O my people, what have I done unto thee? and have taken thee as a woman in travail. {4:10} Be in pain, wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. {6:4} For I and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go [even] to Aaron, and Miriam. {6:5} O my people, remember now Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. {4:11} Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. {6:6} Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, [and] {4:12} But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? {6:7} Will as the sheaves into the floor. {4:13} Arise and thresh, O the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and {6:8} He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? {6:9} The {5:1} Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: LORD’S voice crieth unto the city, and [the man of] he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath Israel with a rod upon the cheek. {5:2} But thou, Bethlehem appointed it. Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] {6:10} Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] old, from everlasting. {5:3} Therefore will he give them up, abominable? {6:11} Shall I count [them] pure with the until the time [that] she which travaileth hath brought forth: wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the {6:12} For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the children of Israel. inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth. {6:13} Therefore also will I make {5:4} And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; because of thy sins. {6:14} Thou shalt eat, but not be and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of of the earth. {5:5} And this [man] shall be the peace, when thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven {6:15} Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt shepherds, and eight principal men. {5:6} And they shall tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when {6:16} For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works he treadeth within our borders. {5:7} And the remnant of of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. {7:1} Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the {5:8} And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. {7:2} www.holybooks.com
Page 539 Micah The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. {7:3} That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man,] he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. {7:4} The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. {7:5} Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. {7:6} For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies [are] the men of his own house. {7:7} Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. {7:8} Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me. {7:9} I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. {7:10} Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it,] and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. {7:11} [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall the decree be far removed. {7:12} [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain. {7:13} Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. {7:14} Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. {7:15} According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous [things. ]{7:16} The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf. {7:17} They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. {7:18} Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. {7:19} He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. {7:20} Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. www.holybooks.com
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Page 541 Nahum Nahum [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, {1:1} The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of [and] the lion’s whelp, and none made [them] afraid? Nahum the Elkoshite. {1:2} God [is] jealous, and the LORD {2:12} The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and [is] furious; the LORD and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth prey, and his dens with ravin. {2:13} Behold, I [am] against [wrath] for his enemies. {1:3} The LORD [is] slow to thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit [the in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: wicked:] the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of the storm, and the clouds [are] the dust of his feet. {1:4} He thy messengers shall no more be heard. rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of {3:1} Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies [and] Lebanon languisheth. {1:5} The mountains quake at him, robbery; the prey departeth not; {3:2} The noise of a whip, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. {1:6} Who can pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. {3:3} The stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number the rocks are thrown down by him. {1:7} The LORD [is] of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth stumble upon their corpses: {3:4} Because of the multitude them that trust in him. {1:8} But with an overrunning flood of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and shall pursue his enemies. {1:9} What do ye imagine against families through her witchcrafts. {3:5} Behold, I [am] the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover rise up the second time. {1:10} For while [they be] folden thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. {3:6} And I will drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and {1:11} There is [one] come out of thee, that imagineth evil will set thee as a gazingstock. {3:7} And it shall come to against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. {1:12} Thus saith pass, [that] all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, the LORD: Though [they be] quiet, and likewise many, yet and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. whence shall I seek comforters for thee? {3:8} Art thou Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, {1:13} For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] burst thy bonds in sunder. {1:14} And the LORD hath given the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea? {3:9} Ethiopia a commandment concerning thee, [that] no more of thy and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the Lubim were thy helpers. {3:10} Yet [was] she carried away, graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; she went into captivity: her young children also were for thou art vile. {1:15} Behold upon the mountains the feet dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the bound in chains. {3:11} Thou also shalt be drunken: thou wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. {3:12} All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees {2:1} He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall face: keep the munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins into the mouth of the eater. {3:13} Behold, thy people in the strong, fortify [thy] power mightily. {2:2} For the LORD midst of thee [are] women: the gates of thy land shall be set hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and {3:14} Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong marred their vine branches. {2:3} The shield of his mighty holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the men is made red, the valiant men [are] in scarlet: the brickkiln. {3:15} There shall the fire devour thee; the sword chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. {2:4} make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one as the locusts. {3:16} Thou hast multiplied thy merchants against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and torches, they shall run like the lightnings. {2:5} He shall fleeth away. {3:17} Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee be prepared. {2:6} The gates of the rivers shall be opened, away, and their place is not known where they [are. ]{3:18} and the palace shall be dissolved. {2:7} And Huzzab shall Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids dwell [in the dust:] thy people is scattered upon the shall lead [her] as with the voice of doves, tabering upon mountains, and no man gathereth [them. ]{3:19} [There is] their breasts. {2:8} But Nineveh is of old like a pool of no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon cry;] but none shall look back. {2:9} Take ye the spoil of whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? silver, take the spoil of gold: for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture. {2:10} She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. {2:11} Where www.holybooks.com
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Page 543 Habakkuk Habakkuk him that ladeth himself with thick clay! {2:7} Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall {1:1} The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? {2:8} {1:2} O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and not save! {1:3} Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] dwell therein. before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention. {1:4} Therefore the law is slacked, and {2:9} Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. delivered from the power of evil! {2:10} Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, {1:5} Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and and hast sinned [against] thy soul. {2:11} For the stone shall wonder marvellously: for [I[ will work a work in your days, cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you. ]{1:6} answer it. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to {2:12} Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs. {1:7} They stablisheth a city by iniquity! {2:13} Behold, [is it] not of [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very shall proceed of themselves. {1:8} Their horses also are fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the {2:14} For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat. {1:9} They shall {2:15} Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east puttest thy bottle to [him,] and makest [him] drunken also, wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. {1:10} that thou mayest look on their nakedness! {2:16} Thou art And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand they shall heap dust, and take it. {1:11} Then shall [his] shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing [shall be] mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, [imputing] on thy glory. {2:17} For the violence of Lebanon shall this his power unto his god. cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. {1:12} [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, {2:18} What profiteth the graven image that the maker mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make established them for correction. {1:13} [Thou art] of purer dumb idols? {2:19} Woe unto him that saith to the wood, eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the all in the midst of it. {2:20} But the LORD [is] in his holy man that is] more righteous than he? {1:14} And makest temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them? {1:15} They take up all of them {3:1} A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them {3:2} O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. {1:16} O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and {3:3} God came from Teman, and the Holy One from their meat plenteous. {1:17} Shall they therefore empty mount Paran. 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His glory covered the heavens, and the their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? earth was full of his praise. {3:4} And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and {2:1} I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the there [was] the hiding of his power. {3:5} Before him went tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. what I shall answer when I am reproved. {2:2} And the {3:6} He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. {2:3} were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are] For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it everlasting. {3:7} I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because [and] the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. {3:8} it will surely come, it will not tarry. {2:4} Behold, his soul Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was] thine [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, live by his faith. that thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of salvation? {3:9} Thy bow was made quite naked, {2:5} Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a [according] to the oaths of the tribes, [even thy] word. proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. {3:10} The desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] people: {2:6} Shall not all these take up a parable against lifted up his hands on high. {3:11} The sun [and] moon him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear. www.holybooks.com
Habakkuk Page 544 {3:12} Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. {3:13} Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, [even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. {3:14} Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly. {3:15} Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, [through] the heap of great waters. {3:16} When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. {3:17} Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls: {3:18} Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. {3:19} The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ [feet,] and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. www.holybooks.com
Page 545 Zephaniah Zephaniah the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD [is] against you; O Canaan, the land of the {1:1} The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, inhabitant. {2:6} And the sea coast shall be dwellings [and] the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. {2:7} And the king of Judah. {1:2} I will utterly consume all [things] from coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they off the land, saith the LORD. {1:3} I will consume man and shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I them, and turn away their captivity. will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. {1:4} I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the {2:8} I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have Baal from this place, [and] the name of the Chemarims with reproached my people, and magnified [themselves] against the priests; {1:5} And them that worship the host of heaven their border. {2:9} Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of upon the housetops; and them that worship [and] that swear hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham; {1:6} And them and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him. {1:7} Hold thy the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the of my people shall possess them. {2:10} This shall they LORD [is] at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, have for their pride, because they have reproached and he hath bid his guests. {1:8} And it shall come to pass in the magnified [themselves] against the people of the LORD of day of the LORD’S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, hosts. {2:11} The LORD [will be] terrible unto them: for he and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with will famish all the gods of the earth; and [men] shall strange apparel. {1:9} In the same day also will I punish all worship him, every one from his place, [even] all the isles those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ of the heathen. houses with violence and deceit. {1:10} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, [that there shall be] the {2:12} Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the sword. {2:13} And he will stretch out his hand against the second, and a great crashing from the hills. {1:11} Howl, ye north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness. {2:14} And flocks down; all they that bear silver are cut off. {1:12} And it shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the shall come to pass at that time, [that] I will search Jerusalem nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their upper lintels of it; [their] voice shall sing in the windows; lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, desolation [shall be] in the thresholds: for he shall uncover neither will he do evil. {1:13} Therefore their goods shall the cedar work. {2:15} This [is] the rejoicing city that dwelt become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall carelessly, that said in her heart, I [am,] and [there is] none also build houses, but not inhabit [them;] and they shall beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof. {1:14} The beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall great day of the LORD [is] near, [it is] near, and hasteth hiss, [and] wag his hand. greatly, [even] the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. {1:15} That day [is] a {3:1} Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of oppressing city! {3:2} She obeyed not the voice; she wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, {1:16} A drew not near to her God. {3:3} Her princes within her [are] day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw against the high towers. {1:17} And I will bring distress not the bones till the morrow. {3:4} Her prophets [are] light upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. {3:5} The poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. {1:18} just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. {3:6} I have shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are land. destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. {3:7} I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt {2:1} Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, nation not desired; {2:2} Before the decree bring forth, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, [and] [before] the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of corrupted all their doings. the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD’S anger come upon you. {2:3} Seek ye the LORD, all ye {3:8} Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination [is] righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to the day of the LORD’S anger. pour upon them mine indignation, [even] all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my {2:4} For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a jealousy. {3:9} For then will I turn to the people a pure desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noonday, and language, that they may all call upon the name of the Ekron shall be rooted up. {2:5} Woe unto the inhabitants of LORD, to serve him with one consent. {3:10} From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, [even] the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. {3:11} In that day www.holybooks.com
Zephaniah Page 546 shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. {3:12} I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD. {3:13} The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid. {3:14} Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. {3:15} The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, [even] the LORD, [is] in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. {3:16} In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: [and to] Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. {3:17} The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. {3:18} I will gather [them that are] sorrowful for the solemn assembly, [who] are of thee, [to whom] the reproach of it [was] a burden. {3:19} Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. {3:20} At that time will I bring you [again,] even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD. www.holybooks.com
Page 547 Haggai Haggai [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts. {2:9} The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of {1:1} In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the give peace, saith the LORD of hosts. LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of {2:10} In the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth Josedech, the high priest, saying, {1:2} Thus speaketh the [month,] in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, {2:11} Thus saith the come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built. LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests [concerning] the law, {1:3} Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the saying, {2:12} If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his prophet, saying, {1:4} [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? {1:5} Now wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your answered and said, No. {2:13} Then said Haggai, If [one ways. {1:6} Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, that is] unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that unclean. {2:14} Then answered Haggai, and said, So [is] earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with this people, and so [is] this nation before me, saith the holes. LORD; and so [is] every work of their hands; and that which they offer there [is] unclean. {2:15} And now, I pray {1:7} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone {1:8} Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: {2:16} house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of saith the LORD. {1:9} Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it twenty [measures,] there were [but] ten: when [one] came to came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine there were [but] twenty. {2:17} I smote you with blasting house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your house. {1:10} Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD. {2:18} dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit. {1:11} And I Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid, consider [it. and upon [that] which the ground bringeth forth, and upon ]{2:19} Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you. {1:12} Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of ]{2:20} And again the word of the LORD came unto the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and Haggai in the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying, the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God {2:21} Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. will shake the heavens and the earth; {2:22} And I will {1:13} Then spake Haggai the LORD’S messenger in the overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the LORD’S message unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will saith the LORD. {1:14} And the LORD stirred up the spirit overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and sword of his brother. {2:23} In that day, saith the LORD of the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: {1:15} In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts. the second year of Darius the king. {2:1} In the seventh [month,] in the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying, {2:2} Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, {2:3} Who [is] left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? [is it] not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? {2:4} Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for [I am] with you, saith the LORD of hosts: {2:5} [According to] the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. {2:6} For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it [is] a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land; ]{2:7} And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. {2:8} The silver www.holybooks.com
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Page 549 Zechariah Zechariah {2:1} I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. {2:2} Then said I, {1:1} In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Jerusalem, to see what [is] the breadth thereof, and what [is] Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, {1:2} The the length thereof. {2:3} And, behold, the angel that talked LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. {1:3} with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of him, {2:4} And said unto him, Run, speak to this young hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. {1:4} Be ye not as without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, {2:5} For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. your evil ways, and [from] your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD. {1:5} Your {2:6} Ho, ho, [come forth,] and flee from the land of the fathers, where [are] they? and the prophets, do they live for north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the ever? {1:6} But my words and my statutes, which I four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. {2:7} Deliver commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Babylon. {2:8} For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. {2:9} For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they {1:7} Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the month, which [is] the month Sebat, in the second year of LORD of hosts hath sent me. Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, {1:8} I {2:10} Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. he stood among the myrtle trees that [were] in the bottom; {2:11} And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in and behind him [were there] red horses, speckled, and that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the white. {1:9} Then said I, O my lord, what [are] these? And midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee hath sent me unto thee. {2:12} And the LORD shall inherit what these [be. ]{1:10} And the man that stood among the Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose myrtle trees answered and said, These [are they] whom the Jerusalem again. {2:13} Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. {1:11} And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to {3:1} And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his still, and is at rest. right hand to resist him. {3:2} And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD {1:12} Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: [is] not this a brand LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on plucked out of the fire? {3:3} Now Joshua was clothed with Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou filthy garments, and stood before the angel. {3:4} And he hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? {1:13} answered and spake unto those that stood before him, And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto [with] good words [and] comfortable words. {1:14} So the him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for {3:5} And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. {1:15} And I they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with am very sore displeased with the heathen [that are] at ease: garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by. {3:6} And for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying, {3:7} affliction. {1:16} Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will forth upon Jerusalem. {1:17} Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the give thee places to walk among these that stand by. {3:8} LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and that sit before thee: for they [are] men wondered at: for, shall yet choose Jerusalem. behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. {3:9} For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon {1:18} Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold one stone [shall be] seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the four horns. {1:19} And I said unto the angel that talked with graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove me, What [be] these? And he answered me, These [are] the the iniquity of that land in one day. {3:10} In that day, saith horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour {1:20} And the LORD shewed me four carpenters. {1:21} under the vine and under the fig tree. Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These [are] the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no {4:1} And the angel that talked with me came again, and man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, {4:2} cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up [their] And said unto me, What seest thou? 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Zechariah Page 550 the bowl, and the other upon the left [side] thereof. {4:4} So talked with me, What [are] these, my lord? {6:5} And the I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, angel answered and said unto me, These [are] the four saying, What [are] these, my lord? {4:5} Then the angel spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest the Lord of all the earth. {6:6} The black horses which [are] thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. {4:6} therein go forth into the north country; and the white go Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This [is] the forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, country. {6:7} And the bay went forth, and sought to go that nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, {4:7} Who [art] thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they [thou shalt become] a plain: and he shall bring forth the walked to and fro through the earth. {6:8} Then cried he headstone [thereof with] shoutings, [crying,] Grace, grace upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go unto it. {4:8} Moreover the word of the LORD came unto toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north me, saying, {4:9} The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the country. foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto {6:9} And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, you. {4:10} For who hath despised the day of small things? {6:10} Take of [them of] the captivity, [even] of Heldai, of for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and of Zerubbabel [with] those seven; they [are] the eyes of the come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. son of Zephaniah; {6:11} Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the {4:11} Then answered I, and said unto him, What [are] son of Josedech, the high priest; {6:12} And speak unto these two olive trees upon the right [side] of the candlestick him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, and upon the left [side] thereof? {4:12} And I answered Behold the man whose name [is] The BRANCH; and he again, and said unto him, What [be these] two olive shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple branches which through the two golden pipes empty the of the LORD: {6:13} Even he shall build the temple of the golden [oil] out of themselves? {4:13} And he answered me LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule and said, Knowest thou not what these [be?] And I said, No, upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: my lord. {4:14} Then said he, These [are] the two anointed and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth. {6:14} And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a {5:1} Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, memorial in the temple of the LORD. {6:15} And they [that and behold a flying roll. {5:2} And he said unto me, What are] far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thereof [is] twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey {5:3} Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth the voice of the LORD your God. forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and {7:1} And it came to pass in the fourth year of king every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side Darius, [that] the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah according to it. {5:4} I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of in the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chisleu; hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into {7:2} When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it LORD, {7:3} [And] to speak unto the priests which [were] with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, {5:5} Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and as I have done these so many years? said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what [is] this that goeth forth. {5:6} And I said, What [is] it? And he said, {7:4} Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, This [is] an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This saying, {7:5} Speak unto all the people of the land, and to [is] their resemblance through all the earth. {5:7} And, the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this [is] a and seventh [month,] even those seventy years, did ye at all woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. {5:8} And he fast unto me, [even] to me? {7:6} And when ye did eat, and said, This [is] wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of when ye did drink, did not ye eat [for yourselves,] and drink the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth [for yourselves? ]{7:7} [Should ye] not [hear] the words thereof. {5:9} Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when behold, there came out two women, and the wind [was] in Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: thereof round about her, when [men] inhabited the south and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the and the plain? heaven. {5:10} Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? {5:11} And he said unto {7:8} And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall saying, {7:9} Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, be established, and set there upon her own base. Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: {7:10} And oppress not the {6:1} And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. mountains; and the mountains [were] mountains of brass. {7:11} But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the {6:2} In the first chariot [were] red horses; and in the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. second chariot black horses; {6:3} And in the third chariot {7:12} Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay lest they should hear the law, and the words which the horses. {6:4} Then I answered and said unto the angel that LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former www.holybooks.com
Page 551 Zechariah prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the hosts. {7:13} Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried, LORD of hosts: I will go also. {8:22} Yea, many people and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in hear, saith the LORD of hosts: {7:14} But I scattered them Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. {8:23} Thus saith with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew the LORD of hosts; In those days [it shall come to pass,] not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a desolate. Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard [that] God [is] with you. {8:1} Again the word of the LORD of hosts came [to me,] saying, {8:2} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous {9:1} The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the rest thereof: when the great fury. {8:3} Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and the LORD. {9:2} And Hamath also shall border thereby; Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. {9:3} And Tyrus the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. {8:4} Thus saith the did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. {9:4} Behold, dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the staff in his hand for very age. {8:5} And the streets of the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. {9:5} Ashkelon city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets shall see [it,] and fear; Gaza also [shall see it,] and be very thereof. {8:6} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the be inhabited. {9:6} And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, LORD of hosts. {8:7} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. {9:7} And I Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his from the west country; {8:8} And I will bring them, and abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. {9:8} And I will righteousness. encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and {8:9} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth have I seen with mine eyes. of the prophets, which [were] in the day [that] the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that {9:9} Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O the temple might be built. {8:10} For before these days daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither he [is] just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an [was there any] peace to him that went out or came in ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. {9:10} And I will cut because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, his neighbour. {8:11} But now I [will] not [be] unto the and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD unto the heathen: and his dominion [shall be] from sea of hosts. {8:12} For the seed [shall be] prosperous; the vine [even] to sea, and from river [even] to the ends of the earth. shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, {9:11} As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water. remnant of this people to possess all these [things. ]{8:13} And it shall come to pass, [that] as ye were a curse among {9:12} Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I even to day do I declare [that] I will render double unto save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, [but] let your thee; {9:13} When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow hands be strong. {8:14} For thus saith the LORD of hosts; with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: man. {9:14} And the LORD shall be seen over them, and {8:15} So again have I thought in these days to do well unto his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not. GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. {9:15} The LORD of hosts shall defend them; {8:16} These [are] the things that ye shall do; Speak ye and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment they shall drink, [and] make a noise as through wine; and of truth and peace in your gates: {8:17} And let none of you they shall be filled like bowls, [and] as the corners of the imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love altar. {9:16} And the LORD their God shall save them in no false oath: for all these [are things] that I hate, saith the that day as the flock of his people: for they [shall be as] the LORD. stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. {9:17} For how great [is] his goodness, and how great [is] {8:18} And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and me, saying, {8:19} Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast new wine the maids. of the fourth [month,] and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house {10:1} Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore rain; [so] the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give love the truth and peace. {8:20} Thus saith the LORD of them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. {10:2} hosts; [It shall] yet [come to pass,] that there shall come For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen people, and the inhabitants of many cities: {8:21} And the a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, www.holybooks.com
Zechariah Page 552 because [there was] no shepherd. {10:3} Mine anger was took the thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast them to the potter kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for in the house of the LORD. {11:14} Then I cut asunder mine the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, other staff, [even] Bands, that I might break the brotherhood and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. between Judah and Israel. {10:4} Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor {11:15} And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet together. the instruments of a foolish shepherd. {11:16} For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, [which] shall not visit those {10:5} And they shall be as mighty [men,] which tread that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle: that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he and they shall fight, because the LORD [is] with them, and shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. the riders on horses shall be confounded. {10:6} And I will {11:17} Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of sword [shall be] upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast darkened. them off: for I [am] the LORD their God, and will hear them. {10:7} And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty {12:1} The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, [man,] and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and their children shall see [it,] and be glad; their heart shall layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of rejoice in the LORD. {10:8} I will hiss for them, and gather man within him. {12:2} Behold, I will make Jerusalem a them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they they have increased. {10:9} And I will sow them among the shall be in the siege both against Judah [and] against people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and Jerusalem. they shall live with their children, and turn again. {10:10} I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and {12:3} And in that day will I make Jerusalem a gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the for them. {10:11} And he shall pass through the sea with earth be gathered together against it. {12:4} In that day, affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people away. {10:12} And I will strengthen them in the LORD; with blindness. {12:5} And the governors of Judah shall say and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem [shall be] my LORD. strength in the LORD of hosts their God. {11:1} Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may {12:6} In that day will I make the governors of Judah like devour thy cedars. {11:2} Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, [even] in Jerusalem. {11:3} [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; {12:7} The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. {11:4} Thus saith inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify [themselves] the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; {11:5} against Judah. {12:8} In that day shall the LORD defend the Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed [be] the LORD; at that day shall be as David; and the house of David [shall for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. {11:6} be] as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his {12:9} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver {12:10} And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon [them. ]{11:7} And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for the flock. {11:8} Three shepherds also I cut off in one [his] only [son,] and shall be in bitterness for him, as one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn. {12:11} In that day abhorred me. {11:9} Then said I, I will not feed you: that shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. {12:12} And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; {11:10} And I took my staff, [even] Beauty, and cut it the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made apart; {12:13} The family of the house of Levi apart, and with all the people. {11:11} And it was broken in that day: their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that wives apart; {12:14} All the families that remain, every it [was] the word of the LORD. {11:12} And I said unto family apart, and their wives apart. them, If ye think good, give [me] my price; and if not, forbear. 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Page 553 Zechariah {13:2} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against LORD of hosts, [that] I will cut off the names of the idols Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. out of the land. {13:3} And it shall come to pass, [that] {14:13} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a great when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when {14:14} And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the he prophesieth. {13:4} And it shall come to pass in that day, wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough {14:15} And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the garment to deceive: {13:5} But he shall say, I [am] no mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that prophet, I [am] an husbandman; for man taught me to keep shall be in these tents, as this plague. cattle from my youth. {13:6} And [one] shall say unto him, What [are] these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall {14:16} And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is answer, [Those] with which I was wounded [in] the house left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall of my friends. even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. {13:7} Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and {14:17} And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up of against the man [that is] my fellow, saith the LORD of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. {13:8} And it {14:18} And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come shall come to pass, [that] in all the land, saith the LORD, not, that [have] no [rain;] there shall be the plague, two parts therein shall be cut off [and] die; but the third wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not shall be left therein. {13:9} And I will bring the third part up to keep the feast of tabernacles. {14:19} This shall be the through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. name, and I will hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my God. {14:20} In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the {14:1} Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. {14:2} For I will {14:21} Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the LORD of hosts. city. {14:3} Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. {14:4} And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. {14:5} And ye shall flee [to] the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee. {14:6} And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark: {14:7} But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, [that] at evening time it shall be light. {14:8} And it shall be in that day, [that] living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. {14:9} And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. {14:10} All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses. {14:11} And [men] shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. {14:12} And this shall be the plague wherewith the www.holybooks.com
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Page 555 Malachi Malachi away from iniquity. {2:7} For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for {1:1} The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts. {2:8} But ye Malachi. {1:2} I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, {1:3} And I saith the LORD of hosts. {2:9} Therefore have I also made hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste you contemptible and base before all the people, according for the dragons of the wilderness. {1:4} Whereas Edom as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the law. {2:10} Have we not all one father? hath not one God desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. {1:5} And your eyes shall {2:11} Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for border of Israel. Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. {1:6} A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his {2:12} The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye {2:13} And this have ye done again, covering the altar of say, Wherein have we despised thy name? {1:7} Ye offer the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] receiveth [it] with good will at your hand. contemptible. {1:8} And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not {2:14} Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. {1:9} against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious companion, and the wife of thy covenant. {2:15} And did unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And persons? saith the LORD of hosts. {1:10} Who [is there] wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore even among you that would shut the doors [for nought?] take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously neither do ye kindle [fire] on mine altar for nought. I have against the wife of his youth. {2:16} For the LORD, the no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for [one] accept an offering at your hand. {1:11} For from the rising covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not [shall be] great among the Gentiles; and in every place treacherously. incense [shall be] offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the heathen, {2:17} Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet saith the LORD of hosts. ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him?] When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the {1:12} But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his judgment? meat, [is] contemptible. {1:13} Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness [is it!] and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD {3:1} Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall of hosts; and ye brought [that which was] torn, and the prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. {1:14} But the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, cursed [be] the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and saith the LORD of hosts. {3:2} But who may abide the day voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for [am] a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name he [is] like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ sope: {3:3} And [is] dreadful among the heathen. he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, {2:1} And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in you. {2:2} If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to righteousness. {3:4} Then shall the offering of Judah and heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your and as in former years. {3:5} And I will come near to you to blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, not lay [it] to heart. {2:3} Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it. {2:4} widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto [from his right,] and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD {3:6} For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of hosts. {2:5} My covenant was with him of life and peace; of Jacob are not consumed. and I gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. {2:6} The law of truth {3:7} Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he away from mine ordinances, and have not kept [them.] walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. 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Malachi Page 556 {3:8} Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. {3:9} Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation. {3:10} Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it. ]{3:11} And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. {3:12} And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. {3:13} Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee? {3:14} Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? {3:15} And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, [they that] tempt God are even delivered. {3:16} Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard [it,] and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. {3:17} And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. {3:18} Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. {4:1} For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. {4:2} But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. {4:3} And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do [this,] saith the LORD of hosts. {4:4} Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments. {4:5} Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: {4:6} And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. www.holybooks.com
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Page 559 Matthew The Gospel According to St. Matthew come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. {2:7} Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, {1:1} The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. of David, the son of Abraham. {1:2} Abraham begat Isaac; {2:8} And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his search diligently for the young child; and when ye have brethren; {1:3} And Judas begat Phares and Zara of found [him,] bring me word again, that I may come and Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; worship him also. {2:9} When they had heard the king, they {1:4} And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; {1:5} And Salmon before them, till it came and stood over where the young begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and child was. {2:10} When they saw the star, they rejoiced Obed begat Jesse; {1:6} And Jesse begat David the king; with exceeding great joy. and David the king begat Solomon of her [that had been the wife] of Urias; {1:7} And Solomon begat Roboam; and {2:11} And when they were come into the house, they Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; {1:8} And Asa saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat and worshipped him: and when they had opened their Ozias; {1:9} And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; {1:10} And Ezekias begat frankincense, and myrrh. {2:12} And being warned of God Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they Josias; {1:11} And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, departed into their own country another way. {2:13} And about the time they were carried away to Babylon: {1:12} when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; {1:13} And young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the Eliakim begat Azor; {1:14} And Azor begat Sadoc; and young child to destroy him. {2:14} When he arose, he took Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; {1:15} And the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Egypt: {2:15} And was there until the death of Herod: that Matthan begat Jacob; {1:16} And Jacob begat Joseph the it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Christ. {1:17} So all the generations from Abraham to David [are] fourteen generations; and from David until the {2:16} Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of carrying away into Babylon [are] fourteen generations; and the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ [are] slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the fourteen generations. coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. {1:18} Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: {2:17} Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before the prophet, saying, {2:18} In Rama was there a voice they came together, she was found with child of the Holy heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Ghost. {1:19} Then Joseph her husband, being a just [man,] Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded comforted, because they are not. to put her away privily. {1:20} But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto {2:19} But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, {2:20} to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and in her is of the Holy Ghost. {1:21} And she shall bring forth go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save young child’s life. {2:21} And he arose, and took the young his people from their sins. {1:22} Now all this was done, child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by {2:22} But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in the prophet, saying, {1:23} Behold, a virgin shall be with Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: {2:23} And he {1:24} Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be {1:25} And knew her not till she had brought forth her called a Nazarene. firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. {3:1} In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in {2:1} Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea the wilderness of Judaea, {3:2} And saying, Repent ye: for in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men the kingdom of heaven is at hand. {3:3} For this is he that from the east to Jerusalem, {2:2} Saying, Where is he that is was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the and are come to worship him. {2:3} When Herod the king Lord, make his paths straight. {3:4} And the same John had had heard [these things,] he was troubled, and all Jerusalem his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his with him. {2:4} And when he had gathered all the chief loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. {3:5} Then priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region them where Christ should be born. {2:5} And they said unto round about Jordan, {3:6} And were baptized of him in him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the Jordan, confessing their sins. prophet, {2:6} And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall {3:7} But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 560 wrath to come? {3:8} Bring forth therefore fruits meet for other two brethren, James [the son] of Zebedee, and John repentance: {3:9} And think not to say within yourselves, his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say unto you, that their nets; and he called them. {4:22} And they immediately God is able of these stones to raise up children unto left the ship and their father, and followed him. Abraham. {3:10} And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth {4:23} And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. {3:11} I synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not among the people. {4:24} And his fame went throughout all worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were and [with] fire: {3:12} Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. {4:25} And there followed him great multitudes of people from {3:13} Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto Galilee, and [from] Decapolis, and [from] Jerusalem, and John, to be baptized of him. {3:14} But John forbad him, [from] Judaea, and [from] beyond Jordan. saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? {3:15} And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it {5:1} And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto righteousness. Then he suffered him. {3:16} And Jesus, him: {5:2} And he opened his mouth, and taught them, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the saying, {5:3} Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for theirs is water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he the kingdom of heaven. {5:4} Blessed [are] they that saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting mourn: for they shall be comforted. {5:5} Blessed [are] the upon him: {3:17} And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This meek: for they shall inherit the earth. {5:6} Blessed [are] is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. {5:7} Blessed [are] the merciful: for they {4:1} Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the shall obtain mercy. {5:8} Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for wilderness to be tempted of the devil. {4:2} And when he they shall see God. {5:9} Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an they shall be called the children of God. {5:10} Blessed hungred. {4:3} And when the tempter came to him, he said, [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be theirs is the kingdom of heaven. {5:11} Blessed are ye, made bread. {4:4} But he answered and said, It is written, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you,] and shall Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. proceedeth out of the mouth of God. {4:5} Then the devil {5:12} Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which pinnacle of the temple, {4:6} And saith unto him, If thou be were before you. the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands {5:13} Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth against a stone. {4:7} Jesus said unto him, It is written good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. {4:8} Again, foot of men. {5:14} Ye are the light of the world. A city that the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, is set on an hill cannot be hid. {5:15} Neither do men light a and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it glory of them; {4:9} And saith unto him, All these things giveth light unto all that are in the house. {5:16} Let your will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. light so shine before men, that they may see your good {4:10} Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. {4:11} Then the devil leaveth {5:17} Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. {5:18} For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or {4:12} Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be prison, he departed into Galilee; {4:13} And leaving fulfilled. {5:19} Whosoever therefore shall break one of Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever {4:14} That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by shall do and teach [them,] the same shall be called great in Esaias the prophet, saying, {4:15} The land of Zabulon, and the kingdom of heaven. {5:20} For I say unto you, That the land of Nephthalim, [by] the way of the sea, beyond except your righteousness shall exceed [the righteousness] Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; {4:16} The people which of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the the kingdom of heaven. region and shadow of death light is sprung up. {4:17} From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the {5:21} Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, kingdom of heaven is at hand. Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: {5:22} But I say unto you, That {4:18} And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. {4:19} And brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell of men. {4:20} And they straightway left [their] nets, and fire. {5:23} Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and followed him. {4:21} And going on from thence, he saw there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; www.holybooks.com
Page 561 Matthew {5:24} Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer himself shall reward thee openly. thy gift. {5:25} Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary {6:5} And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the hypocrites [are:] for they love to pray standing in the officer, and thou be cast into prison. {5:26} Verily I say synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their hast paid the uttermost farthing. reward. {6:6} But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father {5:27} Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall Thou shalt not commit adultery: {5:28} But I say unto you, reward thee openly. {6:7} But when ye pray, use not vain That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath repetitions, as the heathen [do:] for they think that they shall committed adultery with her already in his heart. {5:29} be heard for their much speaking. {6:8} Be not ye therefore And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy have need of, before ye ask him. {6:9} After this manner members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed should be cast into hell. {5:30} And if thy right hand offend be thy name. {6:10} Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for in earth, as [it is] in heaven. {6:11} Give us this day our thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] daily bread. {6:12} And forgive us our debts, as we forgive thy whole body should be cast into hell. {5:31} It hath been our debtors. {6:13} And lead us not into temptation, but said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the writing of divorcement: {5:32} But I say unto you, That power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. {6:14} For if ye whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever forgive you: {6:15} But if ye forgive not men their shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. {5:33} Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by {6:16} Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they perform unto the Lord thine oaths: {5:34} But I say unto may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God’s have their reward. {6:17} But thou, when thou fastest, throne: {5:35} Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: anoint thine head, and wash thy face; {6:18} That thou neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in {5:36} Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward canst not make one hair white or black. {5:37} But let your thee openly. communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. {6:19} Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break {5:38} Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an through and steal: {6:20} But lay up for yourselves eye, and a tooth for a tooth: {5:39} But I say unto you, That treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: right cheek, turn to him the other also. {5:40} And if any {6:21} For where your treasure is, there will your heart be man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him also. {6:22} The light of the body is the eye: if therefore have [thy] cloke also. {5:41} And whosoever shall compel thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. thee to go a mile, go with him twain. {5:42} Give to him {6:23} But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, turn not thou away. how great [is] that darkness! {5:43} Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt {6:24} No man can serve two masters: for either he will love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. {5:44} But I say hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and good to them that hate you, and pray for them which mammon. {6:25} Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought despitefully use you, and persecute you; {5:45} That ye for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and than meat, and the body than raiment? {6:26} Behold the sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. {5:46} For if ye fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. even the publicans the same? {5:47} And if ye salute your Are ye not much better than they? {6:27} Which of you by brethren only, what do ye more [than others?] do not even taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? {6:28} the publicans so? {5:48} Be ye therefore perfect, even as And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of your Father which is in heaven is perfect. the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: {6:29} And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his {6:1} Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to glory was not arrayed like one of these. {6:30} Wherefore, be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and Father which is in heaven. {6:2} Therefore when thou doest to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the [clothe] you, O ye of little faith? {6:31} Therefore take no hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we may have glory of men. 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Matthew Page 562 things. {6:33} But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. of it. {7:28} And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended {6:34} Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient {7:29} For he taught them as [one] having authority, and unto the day [is] the evil thereof. not as the scribes. {7:1} Judge not, that ye be not judged. {7:2} For with {8:1} When he was come down from the mountain, great what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what multitudes followed him. {8:2} And, behold, there came a measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. {7:3} leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s canst make me clean. {8:3} And Jesus put forth [his] hand, eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And {7:4} Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out immediately his leprosy was cleansed. {8:4} And Jesus the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew own eye? {7:5} Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out commanded, for a testimony unto them. the mote out of thy brother’s eye. {8:5} And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there {7:6} Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, {8:6} And cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, under their feet, and turn again and rend you. grievously tormented. {8:7} And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. {8:8} The centurion answered and said, {7:7} Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: {7:8} For roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; healed. {8:9} For I am a man under authority, having and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. {7:9} Or what soldiers under me: and I say to this [man,] Go, and he goeth; man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, him a stone? {7:10} Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a Do this, and he doeth [it. ]{8:10} When Jesus heard [it,] he serpent? {7:11} If ye then, being evil, know how to give marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. {8:11} Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and him? {7:12} Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. {8:12} But the children of law and the prophets. the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. {8:13} And Jesus said {7:13} Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the there be which go in thereat: {7:14} Because strait [is] the selfsame hour. gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {8:14} And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever. {8:15} And {7:15} Beware of false prophets, which come to you in he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. and ministered unto them. {7:16} Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? {7:17} Even so every {8:16} When the even was come, they brought unto him good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the bringeth forth evil fruit. {7:18} A good tree cannot bring spirits with [his] word, and healed all that were sick: {8:17} forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the fruit. {7:19} Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare [our] hewn down, and cast into the fire. {7:20} Wherefore by sicknesses. their fruits ye shall know them. {8:18} Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, {7:21} Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. {8:19} enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will of my Father which is in heaven. {7:22} Many will say to follow thee whithersoever thou goest. {8:20} And Jesus me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay [his] name done many wonderful works? {7:23} And then will I head. {8:21} And another of his disciples said unto him, profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. {8:22} But that work iniquity. Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. {7:24} Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, {8:23} And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples which built his house upon a rock: {7:25} And the rain followed him. {8:24} And, behold, there arose a great descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon the waves: but he was asleep. {8:25} And his disciples a rock. {7:26} And every one that heareth these sayings of came to [him,] and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish perish. {8:26} And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, man, which built his house upon the sand: {7:27} And the O ye of little faith? 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Page 563 Matthew marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon the winds and the sea obey him! her, and she shall live. {9:19} And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his disciples. {8:28} And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed {9:20} And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so an issue of blood twelve years, came behind [him,] and that no man might pass by that way. {8:29} And, behold, touched the hem of his garment: {9:21} For she said within they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before {9:22} But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he the time? {8:30} And there was a good way off from them said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee an herd of many swine feeding. {8:31} So the devils whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go {9:23} And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and away into the herd of swine. {8:32} And he said unto them, saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, {9:24} He Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. {9:25} But when down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the {8:33} And they that kept them fled, and went their ways hand, and the maid arose. {9:26} And the fame hereof went into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to abroad into all that land. the possessed of the devils. {8:34} And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they {9:27} And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men besought [him] that he would depart out of their coasts. followed him, crying, and saying, [Thou] Son of David, have mercy on us. {9:28} And when he was come into the {9:1} And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto came into his own city. {9:2} And, behold, they brought to them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus him, Yea, Lord. {9:29} Then touched he their eyes, saying, seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of According to your faith be it unto you. {9:30} And their good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. {9:3} And, behold, eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This [man] See [that] no man know [it. ]{9:31} But they, when they blasphemeth. {9:4} And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? {9:5} For whether is easier, to say, [Thy] sins be forgiven thee; or to say, {9:32} As they went out, behold, they brought to him a Arise, and walk? {9:6} But that ye may know that the Son dumb man possessed with a devil. {9:33} And when the of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. {9:34} But thine house. {9:7} And he arose, and departed to his house. the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince {9:8} But when the multitudes saw [it,] they marvelled, and of the devils. {9:35} And Jesus went about all the cities and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and {9:9} And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a every disease among the people. man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed {9:36} But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved him. with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. {9:37} Then {9:10} And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat but the labourers [are] few; {9:38} Pray ye therefore the down with him and his disciples. {9:11} And when the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto his disciples, Why eateth harvest. your Master with publicans and sinners? {9:12} But when Jesus heard [that,] he said unto them, They that be whole {10:1} And when he had called unto [him] his twelve need not a physician, but they that are sick. {9:13} But go disciples, he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners manner of disease. {10:2} Now the names of the twelve to repentance. apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James [the son] of Zebedee, and John {9:14} Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, his brother; {10:3} Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast Matthew the publican; James [the son] of Alphaeus, and not? {9:15} And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; {10:4} Simon the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be {10:5} These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded taken from them, and then shall they fast. {9:16} No man them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not: {10:6} But go which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. {10:7} And as rent is made worse. {9:17} Neither do men put new wine ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth {10:8} Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. {10:9} bottles, and both are preserved. 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Matthew Page 564 enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go {11:1} And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end thence. {10:12} And when ye come into an house, salute it. of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to {10:13} And if the house be worthy, let your peace come teach and to preach in their cities. {11:2} Now when John upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of {10:14} And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear his disciples, {11:3} And said unto him, Art thou he that your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake should come, or do we look for another? {11:4} Jesus off the dust of your feet. {10:15} Verily I say unto you, It answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha those things which ye do hear and see: {11:5} The blind in the day of judgment, than for that city. receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the {10:16} Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of poor have the gospel preached to them. {11:6} And blessed wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as is [he,] whosoever shall not be offended in me. doves. {10:17} But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their {11:7} And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the synagogues; {10:18} And ye shall be brought before multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? {11:8} But them and the Gentiles. {10:19} But when they deliver you what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall behold, they that wear soft [clothing] are in kings’ houses. be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. {10:20} {11:9} But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father say unto you, and more than a prophet. {11:10} For this is which speaketh in you. {10:21} And the brother shall [he,] of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause {11:11} Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of them to be put to death. {10:22} And ye shall be hated of all women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: [men] for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is shall be saved. {10:23} But when they persecute you in this greater than he. {11:12} And from the days of John the city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be and the violent take it by force. {11:13} For all the prophets come. {10:24} The disciple is not above [his] master, nor and the law prophesied until John. {11:14} And if ye will the servant above his lord. {10:25} It is enough for the receive [it,] this is Elias, which was for to come. {11:15} disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more [shall they call] them of his household? {10:26} {11:16} But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. their fellows, {11:17} And saying, We have piped unto you, {10:27} What I tell you in darkness, [that] speak ye in light: and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye and what ye hear in the ear, [that] preach ye upon the have not lamented. {11:18} For John came neither eating housetops. {10:28} And fear not them which kill the body, nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. {11:19} The but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold able to destroy both soul and body in hell. {10:29} Are not a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. fall on the ground without your Father. {10:30} But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. {10:31} Fear ye {11:20} Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: {10:32} Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, {11:21} Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, {10:33} But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. {10:34} long ago in sackcloth and ashes. {11:22} But I say unto Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day to send peace, but a sword. {10:35} For I am come to set a of judgment, than for you. {11:23} And thou, Capernaum, man at variance against his father, and the daughter against which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, law. {10:36} And a man’s foes [shall be] they of his own had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this household. {10:37} He that loveth father or mother more day. {11:24} But I say unto you, That it shall be more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than daughter more than me is not worthy of me. {10:38} And for thee. he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. {10:39} He that findeth his life shall lose it: {11:25} At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast {10:40} He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that revealed them unto babes. {11:26} Even so, Father: for so it receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. {10:41} He that seemed good in thy sight. {11:27} All things are delivered receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s and [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him. reward. {10:42} And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the ]{11:28} Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise laden, and I will give you rest. {11:29} Take my yoke upon lose his reward. you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and www.holybooks.com
Page 565 Matthew ye shall find rest unto your souls. {11:30} For my yoke [is] gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. easy, and my burden is light. {12:31} Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and {12:1} At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to [against] the [Holy] Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. {12:2} But when the {12:32} And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Pharisees saw [it,] they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither {12:3} But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David in this world, neither in the [world] to come. {12:33} Either did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree {12:4} How he entered into the house of God, and did eat corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither fruit. {12:34} O generation of vipers, how can ye, being for them which were with him, but only for the priests? evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the {12:5} Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the heart the mouth speaketh. {12:35} A good man out of the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an and are blameless? {12:6} But I say unto you, That in this evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. place is [one] greater than the temple. {12:7} But if ye had {12:36} But I say unto you, That every idle word that men known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. judgment. {12:37} For by thy words thou shalt be justified, {12:8} For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. {12:9} And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: {12:38} Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. {12:10} And, behold, there was a man which had [his] {12:39} But he answered and said unto them, An evil and hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: {12:11} And he said unto them, What man shall there be {12:40} For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift [it] three nights in the heart of the earth. {12:41} The men of out? {12:12} How much then is a man better than a sheep? Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of {12:13} Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas [is] here. {12:42} And he stretched [it] forth; and it was restored whole, like The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with as the other. this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; {12:14} Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council and, behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here. {12:43} against him, how they might destroy him. {12:15} But When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh when Jesus knew [it,] he withdrew himself from thence: and through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. {12:44} great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I {12:16} And charged them that they should not make him came out; and when he is come, he findeth [it] empty, known: {12:17} That it might be fulfilled which was spoken swept, and garnished. {12:45} Then goeth he, and taketh by Esaias the prophet, saying, {12:18} Behold my servant, with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well and they enter in and dwell there: and the last [state] of that pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this judgment to the Gentiles. {12:19} He shall not strive, nor wicked generation. cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. {12:20} A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax {12:46} While he yet talked to the people, behold, [his] shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak {12:21} And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. with him. {12:47} Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak {12:22} Then was brought unto him one possessed with a with thee. {12:48} But he answered and said unto him that devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? the blind and dumb both spake and saw. {12:23} And all {12:49} And he stretched forth his hand toward his the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! David? {12:24} But when the Pharisees heard [it,] they {12:50} For whosoever shall do the will of my Father said, This [fellow] doth not cast out devils, but by which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and Beelzebub the prince of the devils. {12:25} And Jesus knew mother. their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or {13:1} The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat house divided against itself shall not stand: {12:26} And if by the sea side. {13:2} And great multitudes were gathered Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and shall then his kingdom stand? {12:27} And if I by the whole multitude stood on the shore. {13:3} And he Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a [them] out? therefore they shall be your judges. {12:28} But sower went forth to sow; {13:4} And when he sowed, some if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of [seeds] fell by the way side, and the fowls came and God is come unto you. {12:29} Or else how can one enter devoured them up: {13:5} Some fell upon stony places, into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. up, because they had no deepness of earth: {13:6} And {12:30} He that is not with me is against me; and he that when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 566 had no root, they withered away. {13:7} And some fell {13:33} Another parable spake he unto them; The among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman {13:8} But other fell into good ground, and brought forth took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. leavened. {13:34} All these things spake Jesus unto the {13:9} Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. {13:10} And the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto unto them: {13:35} That it might be fulfilled which was them in parables? {13:11} He answered and said unto them, spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. {13:12} For from the foundation of the world. {13:36} Then Jesus sent whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have the multitude away, and went into the house: and his more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the taken away even that he hath. {13:13} Therefore speak I to parable of the tares of the field. {13:37} He answered and them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of they hear not, neither do they understand. {13:14} And in man; {13:38} The field is the world; the good seed are the them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing wicked [one; ]{13:39} The enemy that sowed them is the ye shall see, and shall not perceive: {13:15} For this devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are people’s heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of the angels. {13:40} As therefore the tares are gathered and hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, {13:41} The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and and should understand with [their] heart, and should be they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, converted, and I should heal them. {13:16} But blessed and them which do iniquity; {13:42} And shall cast them [are] your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of {13:17} For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and teeth. {13:43} Then shall the righteous shine forth as the righteous [men] have desired to see [those things] which ye sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, see, and have not seen [them;] and to hear [those things] let him hear. which ye hear, and have not heard [them. {13:44} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto ]{13:18} Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he {13:19} When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one,] and buyeth that field. and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. {13:20} But he that {13:45} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a received the seed into stony places, the same is he that merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: {13:46} Who, when heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; {13:21} he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for he had, and bought it. when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. {13:22} He also that received {13:47} Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the {13:48} Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and word, and he becometh unfruitful. {13:23} But he that sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the bad away. {13:49} So shall it be at the end of the world: the word, and understandeth [it;] which also beareth fruit, and angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some the just, {13:50} And shall cast them into the furnace of thirty. fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. {13:51} Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? {13:24} Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, They say unto him, Yea, Lord. {13:52} Then said he unto The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed them, Therefore every scribe [which is] instructed unto the good seed in his field: {13:25} But while men slept, his kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure his way. {13:26} But when the blade was sprung up, and [things] new and old. brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. {13:27} So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, {13:53} And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then finished these parables, he departed thence. {13:54} And hath it tares? {13:28} He said unto them, An enemy hath when he was come into his own country, he taught them in done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and we go and gather them up? {13:29} But he said, Nay; lest said, Whence hath this [man] this wisdom, and [these] while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with mighty works? {13:55} Is not this the carpenter’s son? is them. {13:30} Let both grow together until the harvest: and not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye Joses, and Simon, and Judas? {13:56} And his sisters, are together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn they not all with us? Whence then hath this [man] all these them: but gather the wheat into my barn. things? {13:57} And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his {13:31} Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, own country, and in his own house. {13:58} And he did not The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, many mighty works there because of their unbelief. which a man took, and sowed in his field: {13:32} Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the {14:1} At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of Jesus, {14:2} And said unto his servants, This is John the of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty www.holybooks.com
Page 567 Matthew works do shew forth themselves in him. {14:34} And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret. {14:35} And when the men of that {14:3} For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that and put [him] in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother country round about, and brought unto him all that were Philip’s wife. {14:4} For John said unto him, It is not lawful diseased; {14:36} And besought him that they might only for thee to have her. {14:5} And when he would have put touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted made perfectly whole. him as a prophet. {14:6} But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and {15:1} Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which pleased Herod. {14:7} Whereupon he promised with an were of Jerusalem, saying, {15:2} Why do thy disciples oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. {14:8} And she, transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here hands when they eat bread. {15:3} But he answered and John Baptist’s head in a charger. {14:9} And the king was said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat commandment of God by your tradition? {15:4} For God with him at meat, he commanded [it] to be given [her. commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He ]{14:10} And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. {15:5} {14:11} And his head was brought in a charger, and given But ye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] to the damsel: and she brought [it] to her mother. {14:12} mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, profited by me; {15:6} And honour not his father or his and went and told Jesus. mother, [he shall be free.] Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. {14:13} When Jesus heard [of it,] he departed thence by {15:7} [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had saying, {15:8} This people draweth nigh unto me with their heard [thereof,] they followed him on foot out of the cities. mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is {14:14} And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, far from me. {15:9} But in vain they do worship me, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men. healed their sick. {15:10} And he called the multitude, and said unto them, {14:15} And when it was evening, his disciples came to Hear, and understand: {15:11} Not that which goeth into him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, mouth, this defileth a man. {15:12} Then came his and buy themselves victuals. {14:16} But Jesus said unto disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. {14:17} Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and {15:13} But he answered and said, Every plant, which my two fishes. {14:18} He said, Bring them hither to me. heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. {14:19} And he commanded the multitude to sit down on {15:14} Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the {15:15} Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. unto us this parable. {15:16} And Jesus said, Are ye also {14:20} And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took yet without understanding? {15:17} Do not ye yet up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth {14:21} And they that had eaten were about five thousand into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? {15:18} But men, beside women and children. those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. {15:19} For out of {14:22} And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: {15:20} while he sent the multitudes away. {14:23} And when he These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain unwashen hands defileth not a man. apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. {14:24} But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, {15:21} Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. {14:25} And coasts of Tyre and Sidon. {15:22} And, behold, a woman of in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, walking on the sea. {14:26} And when the disciples saw saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. {15:23} But spirit; and they cried out for fear. {14:27} But straightway he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. not afraid. {14:28} And Peter answered him and said, Lord, {15:24} But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. {14:29} the lost sheep of the house of Israel. {15:25} Then came she And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. {15:26} But he the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. {14:30} answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and bread, and to cast [it] to dogs. {15:27} And she said, Truth, beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. {14:31} Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their And immediately Jesus stretched forth [his] hand, and masters’ table. {15:28} Then Jesus answered and said unto caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, her, O woman, great [is] thy faith: be it unto thee even as wherefore didst thou doubt? {14:32} And when they were thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very come into the ship, the wind ceased. {14:33} Then they that hour. {15:29} And Jesus departed from thence, and came were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, truth thou art the Son of God. and sat down there. {15:30} And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 568 dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Jesus’ feet; and he healed them: {15:31} Insomuch that the heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the loosed in heaven. {16:20} Then charged he his disciples maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. and they glorified the God of Israel. {16:21} From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his {15:32} Then Jesus called his disciples [unto him,] and disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: be killed, and be raised again the third day. {16:22} Then and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far way. {15:33} And his disciples say unto him, Whence from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. {16:23} But he should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou so great a multitude? {15:34} And Jesus saith unto them, art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few be of God, but those that be of men. little fishes. {15:35} And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. {15:36} And he took the seven {16:24} Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any [man] loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake [them,] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. cross, and follow me. {16:25} For whosoever will save his {15:37} And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my up of the broken [meat] that was left seven baskets full. sake shall find it. {16:26} For what is a man profited, if he {15:38} And they that did eat were four thousand men, shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what beside women and children. {15:39} And he sent away the shall a man give in exchange for his soul? {16:27} For the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Magdala, angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. {16:28} Verily I say unto you, There be some {16:1} The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from Son of man coming in his kingdom. heaven. {16:2} He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather: for the sky is red. {17:1} And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and {16:3} And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can mountain apart, {17:2} And was transfigured before them: discern the face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white of the times? {16:4} A wicked and adulterous generation as the light. {17:3} And, behold, there appeared unto them seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, Moses and Elias talking with him. {17:4} Then answered but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: departed. {16:5} And when his disciples were come to the if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, other side, they had forgotten to take bread. and one for Moses, and one for Elias. {17:5} While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and {16:6} Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. {16:7} beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, [It is] {17:6} And when the disciples heard [it,] they fell on their because we have taken no bread. {16:8} [Which] when face, and were sore afraid. {17:7} And Jesus came and Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. {17:8} reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, bread? {16:9} Do ye not yet understand, neither remember save Jesus only. {17:9} And as they came down from the the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no ye took up? {16:10} Neither the seven loaves of the four man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? {16:11} How {17:10} And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say is it that ye do not understand that I spake [it] not to you the scribes that Elias must first come? {17:11} And Jesus concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, Pharisees and of the Sadducees? {16:12} Then understood and restore all things. {17:12} But I say unto you, That they how that he bade [them] not beware of the leaven of Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also Sadducees. the Son of man suffer of them. {17:13} Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. {16:13} When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say {17:14} And when they were come to the multitude, there that I the Son of man am? {16:14} And they said, Some came to him a [certain] man, kneeling down to him, and [say that thou art] John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, saying, {17:15} Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is Jeremias, or one of the prophets. {16:15} He saith unto lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, them, But whom say ye that I am? {16:16} And Simon and oft into the water. {17:16} And I brought him to thy Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the disciples, and they could not cure him. {17:17} Then Jesus living God. {16:17} And Jesus answered and said unto him, answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring not revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which is in him hither to me. {17:18} And Jesus rebuked the devil; and heaven. {16:18} And I say also unto thee, That thou art he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the very hour. {17:19} Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, gates of hell shall not prevail against it. {16:19} And I will and said, Why could not we cast him out? {17:20} And give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I www.holybooks.com
Page 569 Matthew say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye publican. {18:18} Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in unto you. {17:21} Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by heaven. {18:19} Again I say unto you, That if two of you prayer and fasting. shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in {17:22} And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto heaven. {18:20} For where two or three are gathered them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. men: {17:23} And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry. {18:21} Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till {17:24} And when they were come to Capernaum, they seven times? {18:22} Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto that received tribute [money] came to Peter, and said, Doth thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. not your master pay tribute? {17:25} He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, {18:23} Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings a certain king, which would take account of his servants. of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or {18:24} And when he had begun to reckon, one was of strangers? {17:26} Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. {17:27} {18:25} But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh all that he had, and payment to be made. {18:26} The up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. thee. {18:27} Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. {18:1} At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, {18:28} But the same servant went out, and found one of saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and {18:2} And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him he laid hands on him, and took [him] by the throat, saying, in the midst of them, {18:3} And said, Verily I say unto Pay me that thou owest. {18:29} And his fellowservant fell you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. {18:4} with me, and I will pay thee all. {18:30} And he would not: Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. {18:5} debt. {18:31} So when his fellowservants saw what was And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their receiveth me. {18:6} But whoso shall offend one of these lord all that was done. {18:32} Then his lord, after that he little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: drowned in the depth of the sea. {18:33} Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? {18:34} And {18:7} Woe unto the world because of offences! for it his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by he should pay all that was due unto him. {18:35} So whom the offence cometh! {18:8} Wherefore if thy hand or likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast [them] from from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, trespasses. rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. {18:9} And if thine eye offend thee, pluck {19:1} And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had it out, and cast [it] from thee: it is better for thee to enter finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan; {19:2} And great into hell fire. {18:10} Take heed that ye despise not one of multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in {19:3} The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, heaven. {18:11} For the Son of man is come to save that and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his which was lost. {18:12} How think ye? if a man have an wife for every cause? {19:4} And he answered and said hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made [them] at leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and the beginning made them male and female, {19:5} And seeketh that which is gone astray? {18:13} And if so be that said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? [sheep,] than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. {19:6} Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. {18:14} Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. asunder. {19:7} They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her {18:15} Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against away? {19:8} He saith unto them, Moses because of the thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. {18:16} wives: but from the beginning it was not so. {19:9} And I But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every be] for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth word may be established. {18:17} And if he shall neglect to adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth hear them, tell [it] unto the church: but if he neglect to hear commit adultery. the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 570 {19:10} His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto be so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry. {19:11} But them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, he said unto them, All [men] cannot receive this saying, [that] shall ye receive. {20:8} So when even was come, the save [they] to whom it is given. {19:12} For there are some lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the eunuchs, which were so born from [their] mother’s womb: labourers, and give them [their] hire, beginning from the and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of last unto the first. {20:9} And when they came that [were men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves hired] about the eleventh hour, they received every man a eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to penny. {20:10} But when the first came, they supposed that receive [it,] let him receive [it. they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. {20:11} And when they had received it, ]{19:13} Then were there brought unto him little children, they murmured against the goodman of the house, {20:12} that he should put [his] hands on them, and pray: and the Saying, These last have wrought [but] one hour, and thou disciples rebuked them. {19:14} But Jesus said, Suffer little hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such and heat of the day. {20:13} But he answered one of them, is the kingdom of heaven. {19:15} And he laid [his] hands and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree on them, and departed thence. with me for a penny? {20:14} Take [that] thine [is,] and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. {19:16} And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good {20:15} Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? {20:16} So the life? {19:17} And he said unto him, Why callest thou me last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but good? [there is] none good but one, [that is,] God: but if few chosen. thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. {19:18} He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no {20:17} And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, {20:18} steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, {19:19} Honour thy Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be father and [thy] mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they as thyself. {19:20} The young man saith unto him, All these shall condemn him to death, {20:19} And shall deliver him things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify {19:21} Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go [him:] and the third day he shall rise again. [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come [and] follow me. {20:20} Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s {19:22} But when the young man heard that saying, he children with her sons, worshipping [him,] and desiring a went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. certain thing of him. {20:21} And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons {19:23} Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the in thy kingdom. {20:22} But Jesus answered and said, Ye kingdom of heaven. {19:24} And again I say unto you, It is know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. {19:25} When baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. {20:23} his disciples heard [it,] they were exceedingly amazed, And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, saying, Who then can be saved? {19:26} But Jesus beheld and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: [them,] and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to with God all things are possible. give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared of my Father. {20:24} And when the ten heard [it,] they {19:27} Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, were moved with indignation against the two brethren. we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have {20:25} But Jesus called them [unto him,] and said, Ye therefore? {19:28} And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of them. {20:26} But it shall not be so among you: but his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the whosoever will be great among you, let him be your twelve tribes of Israel. {19:29} And every one that hath minister; {20:27} And whosoever will be chief among you, forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, let him be your servant: {20:28} Even as the Son of man or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. his life a ransom for many. {20:29} And as they departed {19:30} But many [that are] first shall be last; and the last from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. [shall be] first. {20:30} And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way {20:1} For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, [thou] Son of David. hire labourers into his vineyard. {20:2} And when he had {20:31} And the multitude rebuked them, because they agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, into his vineyard. {20:3} And he went out about the third Have mercy on us, O Lord, [thou] Son of David. {20:32} hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will {20:4} And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, ye that I shall do unto you? {20:33} They say unto him, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their Lord, that our eyes may be opened. {20:34} So Jesus had way. {20:5} Again he went out about the sixth and ninth compassion [on them,] and touched their eyes: and hour, and did likewise. {20:6} And about the eleventh hour immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto him. them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? {20:7} They say www.holybooks.com
Page 571 Matthew {21:1} And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and {21:28} But what think ye? A [certain] man had two sons; were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in sent Jesus two disciples, {21:2} Saying unto them, Go into my vineyard. {21:29} He answered and said, I will not: but the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find afterward he repented, and went. {21:30} And he came to an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose [them,] and bring the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I [them] unto me. {21:3} And if any [man] say ought unto [go,] sir: and went not. {21:31} Whether of them twain did you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus straightway he will send them. {21:4} All this was done, saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. saying, {21:5} Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy {21:32} For John came unto you in the way of King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans colt the foal of an ass. {21:6} And the disciples went, and and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen [it,] did as Jesus commanded them, {21:7} And brought the ass, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set [him] thereon. {21:8} And a very great multitude spread {21:33} Hear another parable: There was a certain their garments in the way; others cut down branches from householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round the trees, and strawed [them] in the way. {21:9} And the about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed [is] he that {21:34} And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the {21:10} And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city fruits of it. {21:35} And the husbandmen took his servants, was moved, saying, Who is this? {21:11} And the multitude and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. {21:36} Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. {21:37} But last of all he {21:12} And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and {21:38} But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, them that sold doves, {21:13} And said unto them, It is and let us seize on his inheritance. {21:39} And they caught written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye him, and cast [him] out of the vineyard, and slew [him. have made it a den of thieves. {21:14} And the blind and ]{21:40} When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. what will he do unto those husbandmen? {21:41} They say {21:15} And when the chief priests and scribes saw the unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were shall render him the fruits in their seasons. {21:42} Jesus sore displeased, {21:16} And said unto him, Hearest thou saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is hast perfected praise? marvellous in our eyes? {21:43} Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to {21:17} And he left them, and went out of the city into a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. {21:44} And Bethany; and he lodged there. {21:18} Now in the morning whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on as he returned into the city, he hungered. {21:19} And when whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found {21:45} And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. {21:46} fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the fig tree withered away. {21:20} And when the disciples saw multitude, because they took him for a prophet. [it,] they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! {21:21} Jesus answered and said unto them, {22:1} And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye parables, and said, {22:2} The kingdom of heaven is like shall not only do this [which is done] to the fig tree, but also unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be {22:3} And sent forth his servants to call them that were thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. {21:22} And all bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. {22:4} things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which receive. are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and [my] fatlings [are] killed, and all things [are] ready: {21:23} And when he was come into the temple, the chief come unto the marriage. {22:5} But they made light of [it,] priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these merchandise: {22:6} And the remnant took his servants, and things? and who gave thee this authority? {21:24} And entreated [them] spitefully, and slew [them. ]{22:7} But Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one when the king heard [thereof,] he was wroth: and he sent thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned what authority I do these things. {21:25} The baptism of up their city. {22:8} Then saith he to his servants, The John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From worthy. {22:9} Go ye therefore into the highways, and as heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. {22:10} So those him? {21:26} But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the servants went out into the highways, and gathered together people; for all hold John as a prophet. {21:27} And they all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto wedding was furnished with guests. them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 572 {22:11} And when the king came in to see the guests, he any more [questions. saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: {22:12} And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in ]{23:1} Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his hither not having a wedding garment? And he was disciples, {23:2} Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit speechless. {22:13} Then said the king to the servants, Bind in Moses’ seat: {23:3} All therefore whatsoever they bid him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into you observe, [that] observe and do; but do not ye after their outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of works: for they say, and do not. {23:4} For they bind heavy teeth. {22:14} For many are called, but few [are] chosen. burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay [them] on men’s shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with {22:15} Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how one of their fingers. {23:5} But all their works they do for they might entangle him in [his] talk. {22:16} And they sent to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, enlarge the borders of their garments, {23:6} And love the Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the God in truth, neither carest thou for any [man:] for thou synagogues, {23:7} And greetings in the markets, and to be regardest not the person of men. {22:17} Tell us therefore, called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. {23:8} But be not ye called What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, Rabbi: for one is your Master, [even] Christ; and all ye are or not? {22:18} But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and brethren. {23:9} And call no [man] your father upon the said, Why tempt ye me, [ye] hypocrites? {22:19} Shew me earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. {23:10} the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, [even] {22:20} And he saith unto them, Whose [is] this image and Christ. {23:11} But he that is greatest among you shall be superscription? {22:21} They say unto him, Caesar’s. Then your servant. {23:12} And whosoever shall exalt himself saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s. exalted. {22:22} When they had heard [these words,] they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. {23:13} But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against {22:23} The same day came to him the Sadducees, which men: for ye neither go in [yourselves,] neither suffer ye say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, {22:24} them that are entering to go in. {23:14} Woe unto you, Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye unto his brother. {22:25} Now there were with us seven shall receive the greater damnation. {23:15} Woe unto you, brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make brother: {22:26} Likewise the second also, and the third, him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. {23:16} unto the seventh. {22:27} And last of all the woman died Woe unto you, [ye] blind guides, which say, Whosoever also. {22:28} Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. {22:29} Jesus swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! {23:17} answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the [Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the scriptures, nor the power of God. {22:30} For in the temple that sanctifieth the gold? {23:18} And, Whosoever resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever but are as the angels of God in heaven. {22:31} But as sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. {23:19} touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that [Ye] fools and blind: for whether [is] greater, the gift, or the which was spoken unto you by God, saying, {22:32} I am altar that sanctifieth the gift? {23:20} Whoso therefore shall the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. {23:21} And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by {22:33} And when the multitude heard [this,] they were it, and by him that dwelleth therein. {23:22} And he that astonished at his doctrine. shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. {23:23} Woe unto you, scribes {22:34} But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of {22:35} Then one of them, [which was] a lawyer, asked the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have [him a question, ]tempting him, and saying, {22:36} done, and not to leave the other undone. {23:24} [Ye] blind Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law? guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. {22:37} Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy {23:25} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, mind. {22:38} This is the first and great commandment. but within they are full of extortion and excess. {23:26} {22:39} And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy [Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within neighbour as thyself. {22:40} On these two commandments the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean hang all the law and the prophets. also. {23:27} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which {22:41} While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead asked them, {22:42} Saying, What think ye of Christ? [men’s] bones, and of all uncleanness. {23:28} Even so ye whose son is he? They say unto him, [The Son] of David. also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are {22:43} He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit full of hypocrisy and iniquity. {23:29} Woe unto you, call him Lord, saying, {22:44} The LORD said unto my scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the thy footstool? {22:45} If David then call him Lord, how is righteous, {23:30} And say, If we had been in the days of he his son? {22:46} And no man was able to answer him a our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in word, neither durst any [man] from that day forth ask him the blood of the prophets. {23:31} Wherefore ye be www.holybooks.com
Page 573 Matthew witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew which killed the prophets. {23:32} Fill ye up then the great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] measure of your fathers. {23:33} [Ye] serpents, [ye] possible, they shall deceive the very elect. {24:25} Behold, generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of I have told you before. {24:26} Wherefore if they shall say hell? unto you, Behold, [he is] in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe [it] not. {24:27} For as {23:34} Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your {24:28} For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city: {23:35} eagles be gathered together. That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood {24:29} Immediately after the tribulation of those days of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her temple and the altar. {23:36} Verily I say unto you, All light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of these things shall come upon this generation. {23:37} O the heavens shall be shaken: {24:30} And then shall appear Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [thou] that killest the prophets, and the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. her chickens under [her] wings, and ye would not! {23:38} {24:31} And he shall send his angels with a great sound of Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. {23:39} For I a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. {24:32} say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is {24:1} And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: nigh: {24:33} So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these and his disciples came to [him] for to shew him the things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors. {24:34} buildings of the temple. {24:2} And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There these things be fulfilled. {24:35} Heaven and earth shall shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not pass away, but my words shall not pass away. be thrown down. {24:36} But of that day and hour knoweth no [man,] no, {24:3} And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. {24:37} But disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when as the days of Noe [were,] so shall also the coming of the shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy Son of man be. {24:38} For as in the days that were before coming, and of the end of the world? {24:4} And Jesus the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the deceive you. {24:5} For many shall come in my name, ark, {24:39} And knew not until the flood came, and took saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. {24:6} And ye them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not be. {24:40} Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the taken, and the other left. {24:41} Two [women shall be] end is not yet. {24:7} For nation shall rise against nation, grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. {24:8} {24:42} Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your All these [are] the beginning of sorrows. {24:9} Then shall Lord doth come. {24:43} But know this, that if the they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. {24:10} would come, he would have watched, and would not have And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one suffered his house to be broken up. {24:44} Therefore be ye another, and shall hate one another. {24:11} And many also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. {24:12} man cometh. {24:45} Who then is a faithful and wise And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, wax cold. {24:13} But he that shall endure unto the end, the to give them meat in due season? {24:46} Blessed [is] that same shall be saved. {24:14} And this gospel of the servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness {24:47} Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler unto all nations; and then shall the end come. {24:15} When over all his goods. {24:48} But and if that evil servant shall ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; {24:49} And of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso shall begin to smite [his] fellowservants, and to eat and readeth, let him understand:) {24:16} Then let them which drink with the drunken; {24:50} The lord of that servant be in Judaea flee into the mountains: {24:17} Let him shall come in a day when he looketh not for [him,] and in an which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing hour that he is not aware of, {24:51} And shall cut him out of his house: {24:18} Neither let him which is in the asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: field return back to take his clothes. {24:19} And woe unto there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! {24:20} But pray ye that your flight be not in the {25:1} Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto winter, neither on the sabbath day: {24:21} For then shall ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the bridegroom. {25:2} And five of them were wise, and the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. {24:22} And five [were] foolish. {25:3} They that [were] foolish took except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh their lamps, and took no oil with them: {25:4} But the wise be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be took oil in their vessels with their lamps. {25:5} While the shortened. {24:23} Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. {25:6} here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not. {24:24} For there And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 574 bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. {25:7} Then all {25:37} Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. {25:8} And when saw we thee an hungred, and fed [thee?] or thirsty, the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our and gave [thee] drink? {25:38} When saw we thee a lamps are gone out. {25:9} But the wise answered, saying, stranger, and took [thee] in? or naked, and clothed [thee? [Not so;] lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye ]{25:39} Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. {25:10} unto thee? {25:40} And the King shall answer and say unto And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done [it] that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done [it] door was shut. {25:11} Afterward came also the other unto me. {25:41} Then shall he say also unto them on the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. {25:12} But he left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. prepared for the devil and his angels: {25:42} For I was an {25:13} Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. me no drink: {25:43} I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye {25:14} For [the kingdom of heaven is] as a man visited me not. {25:44} Then shall they also answer him, travelling into a far country, [who] called his own servants, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a and delivered unto them his goods. {25:15} And unto one stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to unto thee? {25:45} Then shall he answer them, saying, every man according to his several ability; and straightway Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] not to one of took his journey. {25:16} Then he that had received the five the least of these, ye did [it] not to me. {25:46} And these talents went and traded with the same, and made [them] shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous other five talents. {25:17} And likewise he that [had into life eternal. received] two, he also gained other two. {25:18} But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his {26:1} And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all lord’s money. {25:19} After a long time the lord of those these sayings, he said unto his disciples, {26:2} Ye know servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. {25:20} And so that after two days is [the feast of] the passover, and the Son he that had received five talents came and brought other five of man is betrayed to be crucified. {26:3} Then assembled talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was {25:21} His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good and called Caiaphas, {26:4} And consulted that they might take faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him. ]{26:5} But they said, Not will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the on the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar among the people. joy of thy lord. {25:22} He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two {26:6} Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. Simon the leper, {26:7} There came unto him a woman {25:23} His lord said unto him, Well done, good and having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I poured it on his head, as he sat [at meat. ]{26:8} But when will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the his disciples saw [it,] they had indignation, saying, To what joy of thy lord. {25:24} Then he which had received the one purpose [is] this waste? {26:9} For this ointment might talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard have been sold for much, and given to the poor. {26:10} man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering When Jesus understood [it,] he said unto them, Why trouble where thou hast not strawed: {25:25} And I was afraid, and ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, [there] thou hast {26:11} For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye [that is] thine. {25:26} His lord answered and said unto have not always. {26:12} For in that she hath poured this him, [Thou] wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial. {26:13} I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be strawed: {25:27} Thou oughtest therefore to have put my preached in the whole world, [there] shall also this, that this money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. have received mine own with usury. {25:28} Take therefore the talent from him, and give [it] unto him which hath ten {26:14} Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, talents. {25:29} For unto every one that hath shall be given, went unto the chief priests, {26:15} And said [unto them,] and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And shall be taken away even that which he hath. {25:30} And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there {26:16} And from that time he sought opportunity to betray shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. him. {25:31} When the Son of man shall come in his glory, {26:17} Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where throne of his glory: {25:32} And before him shall be wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from {26:18} And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and another, as a shepherd divideth [his] sheep from the goats: say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will {25:33} And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the keep the passover at thy house with my disciples. {26:19} goats on the left. {25:34} Then shall the King say unto them And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit made ready the passover. {26:20} Now when the even was the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the come, he sat down with the twelve. {26:21} And as they did world: {25:35} For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye betray me. {26:22} And they were exceeding sorrowful, took me in: {25:36} Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. {26:23} And he answered and said, He that dippeth [his] www.holybooks.com
Page 575 Matthew hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. {26:24} shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto {26:54} But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been thus it must be? {26:55} In that same hour said Jesus to the good for that man if he had not been born. {26:25} Then multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in I? He said unto him, Thou hast said. the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. {26:56} But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be {26:26} And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. blessed [it,] and brake [it,] and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. {26:27} And he took the {26:57} And they that had laid hold on Jesus led [him] cup, and gave thanks, and gave [it] to them, saying, Drink away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the ye all of it; {26:28} For this is my blood of the new elders were assembled. {26:58} But Peter followed him afar testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with {26:29} But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of the servants, to see the end. {26:59} Now the chief priests, this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against you in my Father’s kingdom. {26:30} And when they had Jesus, to put him to death; {26:60} But found none: yea, sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. though many false witnesses came, [yet] found they none. {26:31} Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be At the last came two false witnesses, {26:61} And said, offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will This [fellow] said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be and to build it in three days. {26:62} And the high priest scattered abroad. {26:32} But after I am risen again, I will arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what [is go before you into Galilee. {26:33} Peter answered and said it which] these witness against thee? {26:63} But Jesus held unto him, Though all [men] shall be offended because of his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I thee, [yet] will I never be offended. {26:34} Jesus said unto adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock be the Christ, the Son of God. {26:64} Jesus saith unto him, crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. {26:35} Peter said unto Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, Likewise also said all the disciples. and coming in the clouds of heaven. {26:65} Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; {26:36} Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while have heard his blasphemy. {26:66} What think ye? They I go and pray yonder. {26:37} And he took with him Peter answered and said, He is guilty of death. {26:67} Then did and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote very heavy. {26:38} Then saith he unto them, My soul is [him] with the palms of their hands, {26:68} Saying, exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? watch with me. {26:39} And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be {26:69} Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of will, but as thou [wilt. ]{26:40} And he cometh unto the Galilee. {26:70} But he denied before [them] all, saying, I disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, know not what thou sayest. {26:71} And when he was gone What, could ye not watch with me one hour? {26:41} out into the porch, another [maid] saw him, and said unto Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit them that were there, This [fellow] was also with Jesus of indeed [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak. {26:42} He went Nazareth. {26:72} And again he denied with an oath, I do away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my not know the man. {26:73} And after a while came unto Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I [him] they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also drink it, thy will be done. {26:43} And he came and found art [one] of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. {26:74} them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. {26:44} And Then began he to curse and to swear, [saying,] I know not he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third the man. And immediately the cock crew. {26:75} And time, saying the same words. {26:45} Then cometh he to Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he [your] rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man went out, and wept bitterly. is betrayed into the hands of sinners. {26:46} Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. {27:1} When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put {26:47} And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the him to death: {27:2} And when they had bound him, they twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords led [him] away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. governor. {26:48} Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him {27:3} Then Judas, which had betrayeth him, when he fast. {26:49} And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought Hail, master; and kissed him. {26:50} And Jesus said unto again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and elders, {27:4} Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed laid hands on Jesus, and took him. {26:51} And, behold, the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? see one of them which were with Jesus stretched out [his] hand, thou [to that. ]{27:5} And he cast down the pieces of silver and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. priest’s, and smote off his ear. {26:52} Then said Jesus unto {27:6} And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is take the sword shall perish with the sword. {26:53} the price of blood. {27:7} And they took counsel, and Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. www.holybooks.com
Matthew Page 576 {27:8} Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING unto this day. {27:9} Then was fulfilled that which was OF THE JEWS. {27:38} Then were there two thieves spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, the left. whom they of the children of Israel did value; {27:10} And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me. {27:39} And they that passed by reviled him, wagging {27:11} And Jesus stood before the governor: and the their heads, {27:40} And saying, Thou that destroyest the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? temple, and buildest [it] in three days, save thyself. If thou And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. {27:12} And when be the Son of God, come down from the cross. {27:41} he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered Likewise also the chief priests mocking [him,] with the nothing. {27:13} Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou scribes and elders, said, {27:42} He saved others; himself not how many things they witness against thee? {27:14} he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the come down from the cross, and we will believe him. governor marvelled greatly. {27:15} Now at [that] feast the {27:43} He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. {27:44} whom they would. {27:16} And they had then a notable The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the prisoner, called Barabbas. {27:17} Therefore when they same in his teeth. {27:45} Now from the sixth hour there were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. {27:46} ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, called Christ? {27:18} For he knew that for envy they had saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, delivered him. my God, why hast thou forsaken me? {27:47} Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that,] said, This {27:19} When he was set down on the judgment seat, his [man] calleth for Elias. {27:48} And straightway one of wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with them ran, and took a spunge, and filled [it] with vinegar, that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a and put [it] on a reed, and gave him to drink. {27:49} The dream because of him. {27:20} But the chief priests and rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask him. Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. {27:21} The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye {27:50} Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. {27:22} Pilate yielded up the ghost. {27:51} And, behold, the veil of the saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the called Christ? [They] all say unto him, Let him be crucified. earth did quake, and the rocks rent; {27:52} And the graves {27:23} And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be arose, {27:53} And came out of the graves after his crucified. resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. {27:54} Now when the centurion, and they that were {27:24} When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am was the Son of God. {27:55} And many women were there innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it. beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ]{27:25} Then answered all the people, and said, His blood ministering unto him: {27:56} Among which was Mary [be] on us, and on our children. Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children. {27:57} When the even {27:26} Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified. Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple: {27:58} He {27:27} Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band [of commanded the body to be delivered. {27:59} And when soldiers. ]{27:28} And they stripped him, and put on him a Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen scarlet robe. cloth, {27:60} And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the {27:29} And when they had platted a crown of thorns, door of the sepulchre, and departed. {27:61} And there was they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, the sepulchre. Hail, King of the Jews! {27:30} And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. {27:31} And {27:62} Now the next day, that followed the day of the after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to unto Pilate, {27:63} Saying, Sir, we remember that that crucify [him. ]{27:32} And as they came out, they found a deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear rise again. {27:64} Command therefore that the sepulchre his cross. {27:33} And when they were come unto a place be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the {27:34} They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with first. {27:65} Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go gall: and when he had tasted [thereof,] he would not drink. your way, make [it] as sure as ye can. {27:66} So they {27:35} And they crucified him, and parted his garments, went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by setting a watch. the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. {27:36} And sitting {28:1} In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn down they watched him there; {27:37} And set up over his toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene www.holybooks.com
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Page 579 Mark The Gospel According to St. Mark And all the city was gathered together at the door. {1:34} And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and {1:1} The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, of God; {1:2} As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I because they knew him. {1:35} And in the morning, rising send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a way before thee. {1:3} The voice of one crying in the solitary place, and there prayed. {1:36} And Simon and wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths they that were with him followed after him. {1:37} And straight. {1:4} John did baptize in the wilderness, and when they had found him, they said unto him, All [men] preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. seek for thee. {1:38} And he said unto them, Let us go into {1:5} And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the came I forth. {1:39} And he preached in their synagogues river of Jordan, confessing their sins. {1:6} And John was throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils. {1:40} And there clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; {1:7} And him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after clean. {1:41} And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop [his] hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be down and unloose. {1:8} I indeed have baptized you with thou clean. {1:42} And as soon as he had spoken, water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. {1:9} immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from cleansed. {1:43} And he straitly charged him, and forthwith Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. sent him away; {1:44} And saith unto him, See thou say {1:10} And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses upon him: {1:11} And there came a voice from heaven, commanded, for a testimony unto them. {1:45} But he went [saying,] Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well out, and began to publish [it] much, and to blaze abroad the pleased. {1:12} And immediately the Spirit driveth him into matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the wilderness. {1:13} And he was there in the wilderness the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; him from every quarter. and the angels ministered unto him. {1:14} Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching {2:1} And again he entered into Capernaum, after [some] the gospel of the kingdom of God, {1:15} And saying, The days; and it was noised that he was in the house. {2:2} And time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that ye, and believe the gospel. {1:16} Now as he walked by the there was no room to receive [them,] no, not so much as sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother about the door: and he preached the word unto them. {2:3} casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. {1:17} And And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make which was borne of four. {2:4} And when they could not you to become fishers of men. {1:18} And straightway they come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof forsook their nets, and followed him. {1:19} And when he where he was: and when they had broken [it] up, they let had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the [son] of down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. {2:5} When Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, mending their nets. {1:20} And straightway he called them: thy sins be forgiven thee. {2:6} But there were certain of and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, {2:7} servants, and went after him. {1:21} And they went into Why doth this [man] thus speak blasphemies? who can Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered forgive sins but God only? {2:8} And immediately when into the synagogue, and taught. {1:22} And they were Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things had authority, and not as the scribes. {1:23} And there was in your hearts? {2:9} Whether is it easier to say to the sick in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he of the palsy, [Thy] sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, cried out, {1:24} Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do and take up thy bed, and walk? {2:10} But that ye may with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. {1:25} sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) {2:11} I say unto And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine out of him. {1:26} And when the unclean spirit had torn house. {2:12} And immediately he arose, took up the bed, him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all {1:27} And they were all amazed, insomuch that they amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? fashion. {2:13} And he went forth again by the sea side; what new doctrine [is] this? for with authority commandeth and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them. he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. {1:28} {2:14} And as he passed by, he saw Levi the [son] of And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, region round about Galilee. {1:29} And forthwith, when Follow me. And he arose and followed him. {2:15} And it they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. {1:30} publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his But Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever, and anon disciples: for there were many, and they followed him. they tell him of her. {1:31} And he came and took her by {2:16} And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, her, and she ministered unto them. {1:32} And at even, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were sinners? {2:17} When Jesus heard [it,] he saith unto them, diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. {1:33} They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. {2:18} And the disciples of John and of the www.holybooks.com
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