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\c 34
\p
\v 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
\v 2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.
\v 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
\v 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
\v 5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
\v 6 He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.
\v 7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.
\p
\v 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair Yahweh his God’s house.
\v 9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
\v 10 They delivered it into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and the workmen who labored in Yahweh’s house gave it to mend and repair the house.
\v 11 They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders, to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
\v 12 The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.
\v 13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.
\p
\v 14 When they brought out the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house, Hilkiah the priest found the book of Yahweh’s law given by Moses.
\v 15 Hilkiah answered Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in Yahweh’s house.” So Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
\p
\v 16 Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, “All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
\v 17 They have emptied out the money that was found in Yahweh’s house, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.”
\v 18 Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, “Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a book.” Shaphan read from it to the king.
\p
\v 19 When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.
\v 20 The king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,
\v 21 “Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
\p
\v 22 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter), and they spoke to her to that effect.
\p
\v 23 She said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,
\v 24 “Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
\v 25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’”’
\v 26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, you shall tell him this, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says: “About the words which you have heard,
\v 27 because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.
\v 28 “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’”
\p They brought back word to the king.
\p
\v 29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
\v 30 The king went up to Yahweh’s house, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in Yahweh’s house.
\v 31 The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
\v 32 He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
\v 33 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.


file: ./bibles/Sample/14/35/100000001
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\c 35
\p
\v 1 Josiah kept a Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. They killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
\v 2 He set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them in the service of Yahweh’s house.
\v 3 He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.
\v 4 Prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
\v 5 Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers’ house of the Levites.
\v 6 Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”
\p
\v 7 Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and young goats, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bulls. These were of the king’s substance.
\v 8 His princes gave for a free will offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the rulers of God’s house, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred small livestock, and three hundred head of cattle.
\v 9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah, Jeiel, and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small livestock and five hundred head of cattle.
\p
\v 10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their divisions, according to the king’s commandment.
\v 11 They killed the Passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites skinned them.
\v 12 They removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is written in the book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle.
\v 13 They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.
\v 14 Afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. Therefore the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
\v 15 The singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at every gate. They didn’t need to depart from their service, because their brothers the Levites prepared for them.
\p
\v 16 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover, and to offer burnt offerings on Yahweh’s altar, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
\v 17 The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
\v 18 There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet, nor did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests, the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
\v 19 This Passover was kept in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah.
\p
\v 20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out against him.
\v 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you today, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”
\p
\v 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
\v 23 The archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am seriously wounded!”
\p
\v 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
\v 25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.
\v 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in Yahweh’s law,
\v 27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


file: ./bibles/Sample/14/36/100000001
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\c 36
\p
\v 1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.
\v 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
\v 3 The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent\f + \fr 36:3 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of gold.
\v 4 The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
\p
\v 5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight.
\v 6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
\v 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of Yahweh’s house to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
\v 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
\p
\v 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
\v 10 At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
\p
\v 11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
\v 12 He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.
\v 13 He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
\v 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;
\v 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
\p
\v 17 Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.
\v 18 All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
\v 19 They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
\v 20 He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
\v 21 to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
\p
\v 22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
\v 23 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”


file: ./bibles/Sample/14/4/100000001
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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits\f + \fr 4:1 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
\v 2 Also he made the molten sea\f + \fr 4:2 \ft or, pool, or, reservoir\f* of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
\v 3 Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
\v 4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
\v 5 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.\f + \fr 4:5 \ft A bath is about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21.1 liters, so 3,000 baths is about 16,800 gallons or 63.3 kiloliters.\f*
\v 6 He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
\p
\v 7 He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
\v 8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
\v 9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
\v 10 He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
\p
\v 11 Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins.
\p So Huram finished doing the work that he did for king Solomon in God’s house:
\v 12 the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,
\v 13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
\v 14 He also made the bases, and he made the basins on the bases;
\v 15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
\v 16 Huram his father also made the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for king Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of bright bronze.
\v 17 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
\v 18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
\p
\v 19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;
\v 20 and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;
\v 21 and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold that was perfect gold;
\v 22 and the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold.


file: ./bibles/Sample/14/5/100000001
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\c 5
\p
\v 1 Thus all the work that Solomon did for Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of God’s house.
\p
\v 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
\v 3 So all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.
\v 4 All the elders of Israel came. The Levites took up the ark;
\v 5 and they brought up the ark, the Tent of Meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these the Levitical priests brought up.
\v 6 King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
\v 7 The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
\v 8 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.
\v 9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day.
\v 10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
\p
\v 11 When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
\v 12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);
\v 13 when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying,
\q1 “For he is good;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever!”
\m then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,
\v 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.


file: ./bibles/Sample/14/6/100000001
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\c 6
\p
\v 1 Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
\v 2 But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
\p
\v 3 The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.
\p
\v 4 He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
\v 5 ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;
\v 6 but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
\v 7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 8 But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
\v 9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who will come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
\p
\v 10 “Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 11 There I have set the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with the children of Israel.”
\p
\v 12 He stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands
\v 13 (for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits\f + \fr 6:13 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven)
\v 14 and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;
\v 15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him. Yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today.
\p
\v 16 “Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’
\v 17 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
\p
\v 18 “But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
\v 19 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;
\v 20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.
\v 21 Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
\p
\v 22 “If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
\v 23 then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
\p
\v 24 “If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
\v 25 then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
\p
\v 26 “When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them;
\v 27 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
\p
\v 28 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;
\v 29 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house;
\v 30 then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)
\v 31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
\p
\v 32 “Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they come and pray toward this house;
\v 33 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
\p
\v 34 “If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
\v 35 then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
\p
\v 36 “If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;
\v 37 yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’
\v 38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
\v 39 then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
\p
\v 40 “Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.
\p
\v 41 “Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.
\p
\v 42 “Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”


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\c 7
\p
\v 1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
\v 2 The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.
\v 3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying,
\q1 “For he is good;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.”
\p
\v 4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh.
\v 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house.
\v 6 The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
\p
\v 7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahweh’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat.
\p
\v 8 So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
\p
\v 9 On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
\v 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
\p
\v 11 Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s house and in his own house.
\p
\v 12 Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
\p
\v 13 “If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
\v 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
\v 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
\v 16 For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.
\p
\v 17 “As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
\v 18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’
\p
\v 19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
\v 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
\v 21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
\v 22 They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’”


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\v 1 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built Yahweh’s house and his own house,
\v 2 Solomon built the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
\p
\v 3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.
\v 4 He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.
\v 5 Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
\v 6 and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
\p
\v 7 As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;
\v 8 of their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.
\v 9 But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
\v 10 These were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two-hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.
\p
\v 11 Solomon brought up Pharaoh’s daughter out of David’s city to the house that he had built for her; for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where Yahweh’s ark has come are holy.”
\p
\v 12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on Yahweh’s altar, which he had built before the porch,
\v 13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times per year, during the feast of unleavened bread, during the feast of weeks, and during the feast of booths.\f + \fr 8:13 \ft or, feast of tents (Sukkot)\f*
\p
\v 14 He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.
\v 15 They didn’t depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
\p
\v 16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared from the day of the foundation of Yahweh’s house until it was finished. So Yahweh’s house was completed.
\p
\v 17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
\v 18 Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents\f + \fr 8:18 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 450 talents is about 13.5 metric tons\f* of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.


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\v 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.
\v 2 Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.
\v 3 When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
\v 4 the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.\f + \fr 9:4 \ft or, she was breathless.\f*
\p
\v 5 She said to the king, “It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts and of your wisdom.
\v 6 However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard!
\v 7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.
\v 8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore he made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
\p
\v 9 She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents\f + \fr 9:9 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 120 talents is about 3.6 metric tons\f* of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
\v 10 The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees\f + \fr 9:10 \ft possibly Indian sandalwood, which has nice grain and a pleasant scent and is good for woodworking\f* and precious stones.
\v 11 The king used algum tree wood to make terraces for Yahweh’s house and for the king’s house, and harps and stringed instruments for the singers. There were none like these seen before in the land of Judah.
\v 12 King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she asked, in addition to that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.
\p
\v 13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents\f + \fr 9:13 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces, so 666 talents is about 20 metric tons\f* of gold,
\v 14 in addition to that which the traders and merchants brought. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
\v 15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels\f + \fr 9:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.\f* of beaten gold went to one buckler.
\v 16 He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels\f + \fr 9:16 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 300 shekels was about 3 kilograms or about 96 Troy ounces.\f* of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
\v 17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
\v 18 There were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and armrests on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
\v 19 Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. There was nothing like it made in any other kingdom.
\v 20 All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.
\v 21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
\p
\v 22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
\v 23 All the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.
\v 24 They each brought tribute, vessels of silver, vessels of gold, clothing, armor, spices, horses, and mules every year.
\v 25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he stationed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
\v 26 He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
\v 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
\v 28 They brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt and out of all lands.
\p
\v 29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren’t they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
\v 30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
\v 31 Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.


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\v 1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
\v 2 “Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God\f + \fr 1:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
\v 3 Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
\v 4 Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
\p
\v 5 Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
\v 6 All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.
\v 7 Also Cyrus the king brought out the vessels of Yahweh’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
\v 8 even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
\v 9 This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,
\v 10 thirty bowls of gold, four hundred ten silver bowls of a second sort, and one thousand other vessels.
\v 11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.


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\v 1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
\v 2 Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
\v 3 Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
\v 4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you. Be courageous, and do it.”
\p
\v 5 Then Ezra arose, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
\v 6 Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.
\v 7 They made a proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
\v 8 and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
\p
\v 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.
\p
\v 10 Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
\v 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”
\p
\v 12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “We must do as you have said concerning us.
\v 13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside. This is not a work of one day or two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
\v 14 Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”
\p
\v 15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
\p
\v 16 The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of fathers’ households, after their fathers’ houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
\v 17 They finished with all the men who had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.
\p
\v 18 Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women:
\li1 of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
\v 19 They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
\li1
\v 20 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
\li1
\v 21 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
\li1
\v 22 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.
\b
\li1
\v 23 Of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (also called Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
\b
\li1
\v 24 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
\b
\li1
\v 25 Of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
\li1
\v 26 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.
\li1
\v 27 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
\li1
\v 28 Of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.
\li1
\v 29 Of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.
\li1
\v 30 Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
\li1
\v 31 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
\v 32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
\li1
\v 33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
\li1
\v 34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,
\v 35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
\v 36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
\v 37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
\v 38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
\v 39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
\v 40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
\v 41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
\v 42 Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.
\li1
\v 43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
\p
\v 44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.


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\v 1 Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
\v 2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.
\p The number of the men of the people of Israel:
\v 3 The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
\v 4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
\v 5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
\v 6 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve.
\v 7 The children of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
\v 8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty-five.
\v 9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
\v 10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty-two.
\v 11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty-three.
\v 12 The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.
\v 13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-six.
\v 14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six.
\v 15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty-four.
\v 16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
\v 17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty-three.
\v 18 The children of Jorah, one hundred twelve.
\v 19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.
\v 20 The children of Gibbar, ninety-five.
\v 21 The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
\v 22 The men of Netophah, fifty-six.
\v 23 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.
\v 24 The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.
\v 25 The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
\v 26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.
\v 27 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.
\v 28 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
\v 29 The children of Nebo, fifty-two.
\v 30 The children of Magbish, one hundred fifty-six.
\v 31 The children of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
\v 32 The children of Harim, three hundred twenty.
\v 33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
\v 34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
\v 35 The children of Senaah, three thousand six hundred thirty.
\p
\v 36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
\v 37 The children of Immer, one thousand fifty-two.
\v 38 The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
\v 39 The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.
\p
\v 40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
\v 41 The singers: the children of Asaph, one hundred twenty-eight.
\v 42 The children of the gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all one hundred thirty-nine.
\p
\v 43 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
\v 44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
\v 45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
\v 46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,
\v 47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
\v 48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
\v 49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
\v 50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,
\v 51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
\v 52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
\v 53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
\v 54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
\p
\v 55 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
\v 56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
\v 57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
\v 58 All the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety-two.
\p
\v 59 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring,\f + \fr 2:59 \ft or, seed\f* whether they were of Israel:
\v 60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty-two.
\v 61 Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, and the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
\v 62 These sought their place among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
\v 63 The governor told them that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to serve with Urim and with Thummim.
\p
\v 64 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
\v 65 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
\v 66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
\v 67 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
\p
\v 68 Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they came to Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for God’s house to set it up in its place.
\v 69 They gave according to their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold,\f + \fr 2:69 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* and five thousand minas\f + \fr 2:69 \ft A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 5,000 minas is about 3 metric tons.\f* of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.
\p
\v 70 So the priests and the Levites, with some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.


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\v 1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
\v 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
\v 3 In spite of their fear because of the peoples of the surrounding lands, they set the altar on its base; and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings morning and evening.
\v 4 They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
\v 5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, the offerings of the new moons, of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of everyone who willingly offered a free will offering to Yahweh.
\v 6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh; but the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was not yet laid.
\v 7 They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
\p
\v 8 Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.
\v 9 Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
\v 10 When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
\v 11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
\p
\v 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
\v 13 so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard far away.


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\v 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
\v 2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”
\p
\v 3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
\p
\v 4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building.
\v 5 They hired counselors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
\v 6 In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
\p
\v 7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Syrian, and delivered in the Syrian language.
\v 8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows,
\v 9 then Rehum the chancellor, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
\v 10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth, wrote.
\p
\v 11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent:
\b
\mi To King Artaxerxes,
\mi From your servants the men beyond the River.
\b
\pi1
\v 12 Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.
\v 13 Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
\v 14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not appropriate for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,
\v 15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.
\v 16 We inform the king that, if this city is built and the walls finished, then you will have no possession beyond the River.
\b
\p
\v 17 Then the king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions who live in Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River:
\b
\mi Peace.
\b
\pi1
\v 18 The letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.
\v 19 I decreed, and search has been made, and it was found that this city has made insurrection against kings in the past, and that rebellion and revolts have been made in it.
\v 20 There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
\v 21 Make a decree now to cause these men to cease, and that this city not be built, until a decree is made by me.
\v 22 Be careful that you not be slack doing so. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
\b
\p
\v 23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.
\v 24 Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.


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\v 1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel.
\v 2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
\v 3 At the same time Tattenai, the governor beyond the River came to them, with Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and asked them, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
\v 4 They also asked for the names of the men were who were making this building.
\v 5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
\p
\v 6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king follows.
\v 7 They sent a letter to him, in which was written:
\b
\mi To Darius the king, all peace.
\pi1
\v 8 Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
\v 9 Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
\v 10 We asked them their names also, to inform you that we might write the names of the men who were at their head.
\v 11 Thus they returned us answer, saying, “We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
\v 12 But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
\v 13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build this house of God.
\v 14 The gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those Cyrus the king also took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.
\v 15 He said to him, ‘Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let God’s house be built in its place.’
\v 16 Then the same Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of God’s house which is in Jerusalem. Since that time even until now it has been being built, and yet it is not completed.
\pi1
\v 17 Now therefore, if it seems good to the king, let a search be made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it is so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.”


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\v 1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched.
\v 2 A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, and in it this was written for a record:
\b
\pi1
\v 3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning God’s house at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices, and let its foundations be strongly laid; with its height sixty cubits,\f + \fr 6:3 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* and its width sixty cubits;
\v 4 with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.
\v 5 Also let the gold and silver vessels of God’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everything to its place. You shall put them in God’s house.
\pi1
\v 6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, you must stay far from there.
\v 7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
\v 8 Moreover I make a decree what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River, expenses must be given with all diligence to these men, that they not be hindered.
\v 9 That which they have need of, including young bulls, rams, and lambs, for burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
\v 10 that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
\v 11 I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
\v 12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.
\b
\p
\v 13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions did accordingly with all diligence, because Darius the king had sent a decree.
\p
\v 14 The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
\v 15 This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
\p
\v 16 The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
\v 17 They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
\v 18 They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.
\p
\v 19 The children of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
\v 20 Because the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together, all of them were pure. They killed the Passover for all the children of the captivity, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.
\v 21 The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,
\v 22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.


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\v 1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
\v 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
\v 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
\v 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
\v 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest—
\v 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
\v 7 Some of the children of Israel, including some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
\v 8 He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
\v 9 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.
\v 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.
\p
\v 11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of Yahweh’s commandments, and of his statutes to Israel:
\b
\mi
\v 12 Artaxerxes, king of kings,
\mi To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the perfect God of heaven.
\pi1 Now
\v 13 I make a decree, that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and the Levites, in my realm, who intend of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with you.
\v 14 Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,
\v 15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
\v 16 and all the silver and gold that you will find in all the province of Babylon, with the free will offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem;
\v 17 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
\v 18 Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that according to the will of your God.
\v 19 The vessels that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
\v 20 Whatever more will be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to give, give it out of the king’s treasure house.
\pi1
\v 21 I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,
\v 22 up to one hundred talents\f + \fr 7:22 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of silver, and to one hundred cors\f + \fr 7:22 \ft 1 cor is the same as a homer, or about 55.9 U. S. gallons (liquid) or 211 liters or 6 bushels.\f* of wheat, and to one hundred baths\f + \fr 7:22 \ft 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 liters or 2.4 pecks. 100 baths would be about 2,100 liters.\f* of wine, and to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
\v 23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?
\pi1
\v 24 Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.
\pi1
\v 25 You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.
\v 26 Whoever will not do the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it is to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
\b
\p
\v 27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
\v 28 and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.


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\v 1 Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
\li1
\v 2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom.
\li1 Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel.
\li1 Of the sons of David, Hattush.
\li1
\v 3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed by genealogy of the males one hundred fifty.
\li1
\v 4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.
\li1
\v 5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
\li1
\v 6 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
\li1
\v 7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
\li1
\v 8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty males.
\li1
\v 9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred eighteen males.
\li1
\v 10 Of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him one hundred sixty males.
\li1
\v 11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.
\li1
\v 12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.
\li1
\v 13 Of the sons of Adonikam, who were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.
\li1
\v 14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
\p
\v 15 I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I looked around at the people and the priests, and found there were none of the sons of Levi.
\v 16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
\v 17 I sent them out to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, and his brothers the temple servants, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
\v 18 According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
\v 19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;
\v 20 and of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. All of them were mentioned by name.
\p
\v 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
\v 22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”
\v 23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.
\p
\v 24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
\v 25 and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.
\v 26 I weighed into their hand six hundred fifty talents of silver,\f + \fr 8:26 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* one hundred talents of silver vessels; one hundred talents of gold,
\v 27 twenty bowls of gold weighing one thousand darics;\f + \fr 8:27 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* and two vessels of fine bright bronze, precious as gold.
\v 28 I said to them, “You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy. The silver and the gold are a free will offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
\v 29 Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”
\p
\v 30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
\v 31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandit by the way.
\v 32 We came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.
\v 33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
\v 34 everything by number and by weight; and all the weight was written at that time.
\p
\v 35 The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
\v 36 They delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s local governors, and to the governors beyond the River. So they supported the people and God’s house.


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\v 1 Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
\v 2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”
\p
\v 3 When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
\v 4 Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
\p
\v 5 At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
\v 6 and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
\v 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
\v 8 Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.
\v 9 For we are bondservants; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended loving kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
\p
\v 10 “Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
\v 11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
\v 12 Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
\p
\v 13 “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
\v 14 shall we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
\v 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold,\f + \fr 9:15 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”


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\v 1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
\p Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace,
\v 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
\v 3 They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
\p
\v 4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God\f + \fr 1:4 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* of heaven,
\v 5 and said, “I beg you, Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:5 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
\v 6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
\v 7 We have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
\p
\v 8 “Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
\v 9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’
\p
\v 10 “Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
\v 11 Lord,\f + \fr 1:11 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.”
\p Now I was cup bearer to the king.


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\p
\v 1 Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
\v 2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
\v 3 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,
\v 4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
\v 5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
\v 6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
\v 7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
\v 8 Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests.
\v 9 The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;
\v 10 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
\v 11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
\v 12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
\v 13 Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.
\v 14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
\v 15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,
\v 16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,
\v 17 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,
\v 18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
\v 19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai,
\v 20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
\v 21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
\v 22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
\v 23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
\v 24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
\v 25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
\v 26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
\v 27 Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
\p
\v 28 The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding—
\v 29 joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
\v 30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
\v 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
\p
\v 32 Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel\f + \fr 10:32 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* for the service of the house of our God;
\v 33 for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
\v 34 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;
\v 35 and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
\v 36 also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;
\v 37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
\v 38 The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.
\v 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God.


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\p
\v 1 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.
\v 2 The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
\p
\v 3 Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah everyone lived in his possession in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the children of Solomon’s servants.
\v 4 Some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
\v 5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
\v 6 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
\p
\v 7 These are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.
\v 8 After him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty-eight.
\v 9 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.
\p
\v 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
\v 11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,
\v 12 and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty-two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
\v 13 and his brothers, chiefs of fathers’ households, two hundred forty-two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
\v 14 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, one hundred twenty-eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
\p
\v 15 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
\v 16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;
\v 17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
\v 18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
\p
\v 19 Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
\v 20 The residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, everyone in his inheritance.
\v 21 But the temple servants lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.
\p
\v 22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the business of God’s house.
\v 23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.
\v 24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s hand in all matters concerning the people.
\p
\v 25 As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
\v 26 in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,
\v 27 in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,
\v 28 in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
\v 29 in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
\v 30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.
\v 31 The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
\v 32 at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
\v 33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
\v 34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
\v 35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
\v 36 Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.


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\v 1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
\v 2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
\v 3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
\v 4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,
\v 5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
\v 6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.
\v 7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
\p
\v 8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.
\v 9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their offices.
\v 10 Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib became the father of Joiada,
\v 11 and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.
\p
\v 12 In the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ households: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
\v 13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
\v 14 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
\v 15 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
\v 16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
\v 17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
\v 18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
\v 19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
\v 20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
\v 21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
\p
\v 22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.
\v 23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’ households, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
\v 24 The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
\v 25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were gatekeepers keeping the watch at the storehouses of the gates.
\v 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest and scribe.
\p
\v 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
\v 28 The sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;
\v 29 also from Beth Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem.
\v 30 The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
\p
\v 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;
\v 32 and after them went Hoshaiah, with half of the princes of Judah,
\v 33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
\v 34 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah,
\v 35 and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;
\v 36 and his brothers, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.
\v 37 By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.
\p
\v 38 The other company of those who gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, on the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to the wide wall,
\v 39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
\v 40 So the two companies of those who gave thanks in God’s house stood, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;
\v 41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
\v 42 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. The singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.
\v 43 They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women and the children also rejoiced; so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even far away.
\p
\v 44 On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.
\v 45 They performed the duty of their God, and the duty of the purification, and so did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.
\v 46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
\v 47 All Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the gatekeepers, as every day required; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.


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\p
\v 1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and it was found written in it that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
\v 2 because they didn’t meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them; however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
\v 3 It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.
\p
\v 4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the rooms of the house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
\v 5 had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.
\v 6 But in all this, I was not at Jerusalem; for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king; and after some days I asked leave of the king,
\v 7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a room in the courts of God’s house.
\v 8 It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.
\v 9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the rooms. I brought into them the vessels of God’s house, with the meal offerings and the frankincense again.
\p
\v 10 I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had each fled to his field.
\v 11 Then I contended with the rulers, and said, “Why is God’s house forsaken?” I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
\v 12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, the new wine, and the oil to the treasuries.
\v 13 I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.
\p
\v 14 Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.
\p
\v 15 In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
\v 16 Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
\v 17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
\v 18 Didn’t your fathers do this, and didn’t our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
\p
\v 19 It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates, so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.
\v 20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares camped outside of Jerusalem once or twice.
\v 21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, “Why do you stay around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they didn’t come on the Sabbath.
\v 22 I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
\p
\v 23 In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
\v 24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.
\v 25 I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
\v 26 Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
\v 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
\p
\v 28 One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
\v 29 Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
\p
\v 30 Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
\v 31 and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.


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\p
\v 1 In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.
\v 2 The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.”
\p Then I was very much afraid.
\v 3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”
\p
\v 4 Then the king said to me, “What is your request?”
\p So I prayed to the God of heaven.
\v 5 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
\p
\v 6 The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), “How long will your journey be? When will you return?”
\p So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time for him.
\v 7 Moreover I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
\v 8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.”
\p The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.
\v 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
\v 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
\v 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
\v 12 I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
\v 13 I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.
\v 14 Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
\v 15 Then I went up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
\v 16 The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.
\p
\v 17 Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”
\v 18 I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me.
\p They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
\p
\v 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
\p
\v 20 Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”


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\p
\v 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.
\v 2 Next to him the men of Jericho built. Next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.
\p
\v 3 The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
\v 4 Next to them, Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz made repairs. Next to them, Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel made repairs. Next to them, Zadok the son of Baana made repairs.
\v 5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the Lord’s work.
\p
\v 6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.
\v 7 Next to them, Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, repaired the residence of the governor beyond the River.
\v 8 Next to him, Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, made repairs. Next to him, Hananiah, one of the perfumers, made repairs, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the wide wall.
\v 9 Next to them, Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, made repairs.
\v 10 Next to them, Jedaiah the son of Harumaph made repairs across from his house. Next to him, Hattush the son of Hashabneiah made repairs.
\v 11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired another portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
\v 12 Next to him, Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters, made repairs.
\p
\v 13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits\f + \fr 3:13 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* of the wall to the dung gate.
\p
\v 14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth Haccherem repaired the dung gate. He built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
\p
\v 15 Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.
\v 16 After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.
\v 17 After him, the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani made repairs. Next to him, Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, made repairs for his district.
\v 18 After him, their brothers, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah made repairs.
\v 19 Next to him, Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, repaired another portion, across from the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.
\v 20 After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
\v 21 After him, Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another portion, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
\v 22 After him, the priests, the men of the Plain made repairs.
\v 23 After them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs across from their house. After them, Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah made repairs beside his own house.
\v 24 After him, Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.
\v 25 Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
\v 26 (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place opposite the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
\v 27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, opposite the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
\p
\v 28 Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone across from his own house.
\v 29 After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.
\v 30 After him, Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another portion. After him, Meshullam the son of Berechiah made repairs across from his room.
\v 31 After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.
\v 32 Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.


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\v 1 But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
\v 2 He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”
\p
\v 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”
\p
\v 4 “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
\v 5 Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
\p
\v 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.
\p
\v 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;
\v 8 and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
\v 9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.
\v 10 Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”
\v 11 Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
\p
\v 12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
\p
\v 13 Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
\v 14 I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”
\p
\v 15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work.
\v 16 From that time forth, half of my servants did the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
\v 17 Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.
\v 18 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
\v 19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.
\v 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
\p
\v 21 So we did the work. Half of the people held the spears from the rising of the morning until the stars appeared.
\v 22 Likewise at the same time I said to the people, “Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.”
\v 23 So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.


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\v 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
\v 2 For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
\v 3 There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
\v 4 There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
\v 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold,\f + \fr 5:5 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
\p
\v 6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
\v 7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
\v 8 I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
\v 9 Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
\v 10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
\v 11 Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”
\p
\v 12 Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.”
\p Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
\v 13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.”
\p All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
\p
\v 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
\v 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels\f + \fr 5:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.
\v 16 Yes, I also continued in the work of this wall. We didn’t buy any land. All my servants were gathered there to the work.
\v 17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.
\v 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
\v 19 Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.


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\v 1 Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left in it (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates)
\v 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
\p
\v 3 I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”
\v 4 They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.
\v 5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me the same way the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,
\v 6 in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king, according to these words.
\v 7 You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”
\p
\v 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”
\v 9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
\p
\v 10 I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”
\p
\v 11 I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”
\v 12 I discerned, and behold, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me. Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
\v 13 He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
\v 14 “Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.”
\p
\v 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.
\v 16 When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
\v 17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.
\v 18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as wife.
\v 19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.


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\v 1 Now when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
\v 2 I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
\v 3 I said to them, “Don’t let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot; and while they stand guard, let them shut the doors, and you bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, with everyone near his house.”
\p
\v 4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
\p
\v 5 My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:
\p
\v 6 These are the children of the province who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city,
\v 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah.
\p The number of the men of the people of Israel:
\li1
\v 8 The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
\li1
\v 9 The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.
\li1
\v 10 The children of Arah: six hundred fifty-two.
\li1
\v 11 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab: two thousand eight hundred eighteen.
\li1
\v 12 The children of Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
\li1
\v 13 The children of Zattu: eight hundred forty-five.
\li1
\v 14 The children of Zaccai: seven hundred sixty.
\li1
\v 15 The children of Binnui: six hundred forty-eight.
\li1
\v 16 The children of Bebai: six hundred twenty-eight.
\li1
\v 17 The children of Azgad: two thousand three hundred twenty-two.
\li1
\v 18 The children of Adonikam: six hundred sixty-seven.
\li1
\v 19 The children of Bigvai: two thousand sixty-seven.
\li1
\v 20 The children of Adin: six hundred fifty-five.
\li1
\v 21 The children of Ater: of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.
\li1
\v 22 The children of Hashum: three hundred twenty-eight.
\li1
\v 23 The children of Bezai: three hundred twenty-four.
\li1
\v 24 The children of Hariph: one hundred twelve.
\li1
\v 25 The children of Gibeon: ninety-five.
\li1
\v 26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah: one hundred eighty-eight.
\li1
\v 27 The men of Anathoth: one hundred twenty-eight.
\li1
\v 28 The men of Beth Azmaveth: forty-two.
\li1
\v 29 The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth: seven hundred forty-three.
\li1
\v 30 The men of Ramah and Geba: six hundred twenty-one.
\li1
\v 31 The men of Michmas: one hundred twenty-two.
\li1
\v 32 The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.
\li1
\v 33 The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.
\li1
\v 34 The children of the other Elam: one thousand two hundred fifty-four.
\li1
\v 35 The children of Harim: three hundred twenty.
\li1
\v 36 The children of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.
\li1
\v 37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: seven hundred twenty-one.
\li1
\v 38 The children of Senaah: three thousand nine hundred thirty.
\b
\li1
\v 39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.
\li1
\v 40 The children of Immer: one thousand fifty-two.
\li1
\v 41 The children of Pashhur: one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
\li1
\v 42 The children of Harim: one thousand seventeen.
\b
\li1
\v 43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.
\li1
\v 44 The singers: the children of Asaph: one hundred forty-eight.
\li1
\v 45 The gatekeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai: one hundred thirty-eight.
\p
\v 46 The temple servants: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
\v 47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
\v 48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
\v 49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
\v 50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
\v 51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.
\v 52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,
\v 53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
\v 54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
\v 55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
\v 56 the children of Neziah, and the children of Hatipha.
\p
\v 57 The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
\v 58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
\v 59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth Hazzebaim, and the children of Amon.
\v 60 All the temple servants and the children of Solomon’s servants were three hundred ninety-two.
\p
\v 61 These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their offspring,\f + \fr 7:61 \ft or, seed\f* whether they were of Israel:
\li1
\v 62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda: six hundred forty-two.
\li1
\v 63 Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
\p
\v 64 These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore they were deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.
\v 65 The governor told that they should not eat of the most holy things until a priest stood up to minister with Urim and Thummim.
\p
\v 66 The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred sixty,
\v 67 in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
\v 68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
\v 69 their camels, four hundred thirty-five; their donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
\p
\v 70 Some from among the heads of fathers’ households gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold,\f + \fr 7:70 \ft a daric was a gold coin issued by a Persian king, weighing about 8.4 grams or about 0.27 troy ounces each.\f* fifty basins, and five hundred thirty priests’ garments.
\v 71 Some of the heads of fathers’ households gave into the treasury of the work twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand two hundred minas\f + \fr 7:71 \ft A mina is about 600 grams or 1.3 U. S. pounds, so 2,200 minas is about 1.3 metric tons.\f* of silver.
\v 72 That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, plus two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests’ garments.
\p
\v 73 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their cities.
\p When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.


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\v 1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
\v 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
\v 3 He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
\v 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
\v 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people), and when he opened it, all the people stood up.
\v 6 Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God.
\p All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.
\v 7 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
\v 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
\p
\v 9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, “Today is holy to Yahweh your God. Don’t mourn, nor weep.” For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.
\v 10 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
\p
\v 11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Hold your peace, for the day is holy. Don’t be grieved.”
\p
\v 12 All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
\p
\v 13 On the second day, the heads of fathers’ households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gathered together to Ezra the scribe, to study the words of the law.
\v 14 They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
\v 15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, branches of wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make temporary shelters,\f + \fr 8:15 \ft or, booths\f* as it is written.”
\p
\v 16 So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters,\f + \fr 8:16 \ft or, booths\f* everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
\v 17 All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters,\f + \fr 8:17 \ft or, booths\f* and lived in the temporary shelters; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
\v 18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.


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\v 1 Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.
\v 2 The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
\v 3 They stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God a fourth part of the day; and a fourth part they confessed, and worshiped Yahweh their God.
\v 4 Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
\p
\v 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
\v 6 You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
\v 7 You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,
\v 8 found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
\p
\v 9 “You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
\v 10 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
\v 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
\v 12 Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
\p
\v 13 “You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
\v 14 and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
\v 15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
\p
\v 16 “But they and our fathers behaved proudly, hardened their neck, didn’t listen to your commandments,
\v 17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.
\v 18 Yes, when they had made themselves a molded calf, and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed awful blasphemies;
\v 19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
\v 20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
\p
\v 21 “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
\v 22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
\v 23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
\p
\v 24 “So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.
\v 25 They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
\p
\v 26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
\v 27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
\v 28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,
\v 29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
\v 30 Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
\p
\v 31 “Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
\p
\v 32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
\v 33 However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.
\v 34 Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.
\v 35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They didn’t turn from their wicked works.
\p
\v 36 “Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
\v 37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
\v 38 Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”


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\v 1 Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
\v 2 in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Susa the palace,
\v 3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.
\v 4 He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.
\v 5 When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Susa the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
\v 6 There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.
\v 7 They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.
\v 8 In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.
\p
\v 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.
\p
\v 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
\v 11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.
\v 12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.
\p
\v 13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;
\v 14 and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),
\v 15 “What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”
\p
\v 16 Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.
\v 17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’
\v 18 Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.
\p
\v 19 “If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
\v 20 When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”
\p
\v 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
\v 22 for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.


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\v 1 King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.
\v 2 All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
\v 3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.


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\v 1 After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
\v 2 Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
\v 3 Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
\v 4 and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.
\p
\v 5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
\v 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
\v 7 He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
\p
\v 8 So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
\v 9 The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.
\v 10 Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
\v 11 Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.
\p
\v 12 Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).
\v 13 The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.
\v 14 In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
\v 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
\p
\v 16 So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
\v 17 The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
\p
\v 18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.
\p
\v 19 When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
\v 20 Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.
\v 21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
\v 22 This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.
\v 23 When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.


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\v 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
\v 2 All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.
\v 3 Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
\v 4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
\v 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
\v 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
\p
\v 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
\v 8 Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
\v 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents\f + \fr 3:9 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
\p
\v 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
\v 11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
\p
\v 12 Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
\v 13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
\v 14 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
\v 15 The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.


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\v 1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
\v 2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
\v 3 In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
\p
\v 4 Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.
\v 5 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.
\v 6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.
\v 7 Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
\v 8 He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
\p
\v 9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
\v 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
\v 11 “All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
\p
\v 12 They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
\v 13 Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.
\v 14 For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
\p
\v 15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
\v 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
\v 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.


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\v 1 Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house.
\v 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.
\v 3 Then the king asked her, “What would you like, queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.”
\p
\v 4 Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”
\p
\v 5 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
\p
\v 6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
\p
\v 7 Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my request is this.
\v 8 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”
\p
\v 9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
\v 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
\v 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
\v 12 Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
\v 13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
\p
\v 14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits\f + \fr 5:14 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.


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\v 1 On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
\v 2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
\v 3 The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?”
\p Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
\p
\v 4 The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
\p
\v 5 The king’s servants said to him, “Behold,\f + \fr 6:5 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* Haman stands in the court.”
\p The king said, “Let him come in.”
\v 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?”
\p Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”
\v 7 Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
\v 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.
\v 9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”
\p
\v 10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”
\p
\v 11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
\p
\v 12 Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
\v 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
\v 14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


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\v 1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
\v 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
\p
\v 3 Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
\v 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
\p
\v 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
\p
\v 6 Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!”
\p Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
\v 7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
\v 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
\p
\v 9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits\f + \fr 7:9 \ft A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.\f* high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.”
\p The king said, “Hang him on it!”
\p
\v 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.


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\v 1 On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
\v 2 The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
\p
\v 3 Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.
\v 4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
\v 5 She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
\v 6 For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
\p
\v 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.
\v 8 Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”
\p
\v 9 Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.
\v 10 He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.
\v 11 In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
\v 12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
\v 13 A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
\v 14 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
\p
\v 15 Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
\v 16 The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
\v 17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.


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\v 1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
\v 2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.
\v 3 All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
\v 4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
\v 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
\v 6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
\v 7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
\v 8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
\v 9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
\v 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
\p
\v 11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
\v 12 The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
\p
\v 13 Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
\p
\v 14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
\v 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
\v 16 The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
\p
\v 17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
\v 18 But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
\v 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
\p
\v 20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
\v 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
\v 22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
\v 23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
\v 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
\v 25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
\p
\v 26 Therefore they called these days “Purim”,\f + \fr 9:26 \ft Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot.\f* from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
\v 27 the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;
\v 28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring,\f + \fr 9:28 \ft or, seed\f*
\p
\v 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
\v 30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
\v 31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
\v 32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.


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\v 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God,\f + \fr 1:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and turned away from evil.
\v 2 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
\v 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
\v 4 His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
\v 5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
\p
\v 6 Now on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh,\f + \fr 1:6 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* Satan also came among them.
\v 7 Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
\p Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
\p
\v 8 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
\p
\v 9 Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
\v 10 Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
\v 11 But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
\p
\v 12 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.”
\p So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
\v 13 It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
\v 14 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
\v 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
\p
\v 16 While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
\p
\v 17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
\p
\v 18 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
\v 19 and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
\p
\v 20 Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.
\v 21 He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
\v 22 In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.


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\q1
\v 1 “My soul is weary of my life.
\q2 I will give free course to my complaint.
\q2 I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
\q1
\v 2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.
\q2 Show me why you contend with me.
\q1
\v 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress,
\q2 that you should despise the work of your hands,
\q2 and smile on the counsel of the wicked?
\q1
\v 4 Do you have eyes of flesh?
\q2 Or do you see as man sees?
\q1
\v 5 Are your days as the days of mortals,
\q2 or your years as man’s years,
\q1
\v 6 that you inquire after my iniquity,
\q2 and search after my sin?
\q1
\v 7 Although you know that I am not wicked,
\q2 there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether,
\q2 yet you destroy me.
\q1
\v 9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay.
\q2 Will you bring me into dust again?
\q1
\v 10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk,
\q2 and curdled me like cheese?
\q1
\v 11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh,
\q2 and knit me together with bones and sinews.
\q1
\v 12 You have granted me life and loving kindness.
\q2 Your visitation has preserved my spirit.
\q1
\v 13 Yet you hid these things in your heart.
\q2 I know that this is with you:
\q1
\v 14 if I sin, then you mark me.
\q2 You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
\q1
\v 15 If I am wicked, woe to me.
\q2 If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head,
\q2 being filled with disgrace,
\q2 and conscious of my affliction.
\q1
\v 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.
\q2 Again you show yourself powerful to me.
\q1
\v 17 You renew your witnesses against me,
\q2 and increase your indignation on me.
\q2 Changes and warfare are with me.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb?
\q2 I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
\q1
\v 19 I should have been as though I had not been.
\q2 I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
\q1
\v 20 Aren’t my days few?
\q2 Stop!
\q1 Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
\q2
\v 21 before I go where I will not return from,
\q2 to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
\q1
\v 22 the land dark as midnight,
\q2 of the shadow of death,
\q2 without any order,
\q2 where the light is as midnight.’”


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\v 1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered?
\q2 Should a man full of talk be justified?
\q1
\v 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace?
\q2 When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
\q1
\v 4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure.
\q2 I am clean in your eyes.’
\q1
\v 5 But oh that God would speak,
\q2 and open his lips against you,
\q1
\v 6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom!
\q2 For true wisdom has two sides.
\q2 Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Can you fathom the mystery of God?
\q2 Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
\q1
\v 8 They are high as heaven. What can you do?
\q2 They are deeper than Sheol.\f + \fr 11:8 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* What can you know?
\q1
\v 9 Its measure is longer than the earth,
\q2 and broader than the sea.
\q1
\v 10 If he passes by, or confines,
\q2 or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
\q1
\v 11 For he knows false men.
\q2 He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
\q1
\v 12 An empty-headed man becomes wise
\q2 when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “If you set your heart aright,
\q2 stretch out your hands toward him.
\q1
\v 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away.
\q2 Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
\q1
\v 15 Surely then you will lift up your face without spot;
\q2 Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear:
\q1
\v 16 for you will forget your misery.
\q2 You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
\q1
\v 17 Life will be clearer than the noonday.
\q2 Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
\q1
\v 18 You will be secure, because there is hope.
\q2 Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.
\q1
\v 19 Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid.
\q2 Yes, many will court your favor.
\q1
\v 20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail.
\q2 They will have no way to flee.
\q2 Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”


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\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “No doubt, but you are the people,
\q2 and wisdom will die with you.
\q1
\v 3 But I have understanding as well as you;
\q2 I am not inferior to you.
\q2 Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
\q1
\v 4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor,
\q2 I, who called on God, and he answered.
\q2 The just, the blameless man is a joke.
\q1
\v 5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune.
\q2 It is ready for them whose foot slips.
\q1
\v 6 The tents of robbers prosper.
\q2 Those who provoke God are secure,
\q2 who carry their god in their hands.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you;
\q2 the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
\q1
\v 8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you.
\q2 The fish of the sea will declare to you.
\q1
\v 9 Who doesn’t know that in all these,
\q2 Yahweh’s hand has done this,
\q1
\v 10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing,
\q2 and the breath of all mankind?
\q1
\v 11 Doesn’t the ear try words,
\q2 even as the palate tastes its food?
\q1
\v 12 With aged men is wisdom,
\q2 in length of days understanding.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “With God is wisdom and might.
\q2 He has counsel and understanding.
\q1
\v 14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again.
\q2 He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
\q1
\v 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up.
\q2 Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
\q1
\v 16 With him is strength and wisdom.
\q2 The deceived and the deceiver are his.
\q1
\v 17 He leads counselors away stripped.
\q2 He makes judges fools.
\q1
\v 18 He loosens the bond of kings.
\q2 He binds their waist with a belt.
\q1
\v 19 He leads priests away stripped,
\q2 and overthrows the mighty.
\q1
\v 20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted,
\q2 and takes away the understanding of the elders.
\q1
\v 21 He pours contempt on princes,
\q2 and loosens the belt of the strong.
\q1
\v 22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness,
\q2 and brings out to light the shadow of death.
\q1
\v 23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them.
\q2 He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.
\q1
\v 24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth,
\q2 and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
\q1
\v 25 They grope in the dark without light.
\q2 He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this.
\q2 My ear has heard and understood it.
\q1
\v 2 What you know, I know also.
\q2 I am not inferior to you.
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
\q2 I desire to reason with God.
\q1
\v 4 But you are forgers of lies.
\q2 You are all physicians of no value.
\q1
\v 5 Oh that you would be completely silent!
\q2 Then you would be wise.
\q1
\v 6 Hear now my reasoning.
\q2 Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
\q1
\v 7 Will you speak unrighteously for God,
\q2 and talk deceitfully for him?
\q1
\v 8 Will you show partiality to him?
\q2 Will you contend for God?
\q1
\v 9 Is it good that he should search you out?
\q2 Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
\q1
\v 10 He will surely reprove you
\q2 if you secretly show partiality.
\q1
\v 11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid,
\q2 and his dread fall on you?
\q1
\v 12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.
\q2 Your defenses are defenses of clay.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “Be silent!
\q2 Leave me alone, that I may speak.
\q2 Let come on me what will.
\q1
\v 14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
\q2 and put my life in my hand?
\q1
\v 15 Behold, he will kill me.
\q2 I have no hope.
\q2 Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
\q1
\v 16 This also will be my salvation,
\q2 that a godless man will not come before him.
\q1
\v 17 Listen carefully to my speech.
\q2 Let my declaration be in your ears.
\q1
\v 18 See now, I have set my cause in order.
\q2 I know that I am righteous.
\q1
\v 19 Who is he who will contend with me?
\q2 For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Only don’t do two things to me,
\q2 then I will not hide myself from your face:
\q1
\v 21 withdraw your hand far from me,
\q2 and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
\q1
\v 22 Then call, and I will answer,
\q2 or let me speak, and you answer me.
\q1
\v 23 How many are my iniquities and sins?
\q2 Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
\q1
\v 24 Why do you hide your face,
\q2 and consider me your enemy?
\q1
\v 25 Will you harass a driven leaf?
\q2 Will you pursue the dry stubble?
\q1
\v 26 For you write bitter things against me,
\q2 and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
\q1
\v 27 You also put my feet in the stocks,
\q2 and mark all my paths.
\q2 You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
\q1
\v 28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing,
\q2 like a garment that is moth-eaten.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 “Man, who is born of a woman,
\q2 is of few days, and full of trouble.
\q1
\v 2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.
\q2 He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
\q1
\v 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one,
\q2 and bring me into judgment with you?
\q1
\v 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
\q2 Not one.
\q2
\v 5 Seeing his days are determined,
\q2 the number of his months is with you,
\q2 and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
\q1
\v 6 Look away from him, that he may rest,
\q2 until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
\q2 that it will sprout again,
\q2 that the tender branch of it will not cease.
\q1
\v 8 Though its root grows old in the earth,
\q2 and its stock dies in the ground,
\q1
\v 9 yet through the scent of water it will bud,
\q2 and sprout boughs like a plant.
\q1
\v 10 But man dies, and is laid low.
\q2 Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
\q1
\v 11 As the waters fail from the sea,
\q2 and the river wastes and dries up,
\q1
\v 12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise.
\q2 Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,
\q2 nor be roused out of their sleep.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,\f + \fr 14:13 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,
\q2 that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
\q1
\v 14 If a man dies, will he live again?
\q2 I would wait all the days of my warfare,
\q2 until my release should come.
\q1
\v 15 You would call, and I would answer you.
\q2 You would have a desire for the work of your hands.
\q1
\v 16 But now you count my steps.
\q2 Don’t you watch over my sin?
\q1
\v 17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.
\q2 You fasten up my iniquity.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
\q2 The rock is removed out of its place;
\q1
\v 19 The waters wear the stones.
\q2 The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
\q2 So you destroy the hope of man.
\q1
\v 20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
\q2 You change his face, and send him away.
\q1
\v 21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
\q2 They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
\q1
\v 22 But his flesh on him has pain,
\q2 and his soul within him mourns.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge,
\q2 and fill himself with the east wind?
\q1
\v 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
\q2 or with speeches with which he can do no good?
\q1
\v 4 Yes, you do away with fear,
\q2 and hinder devotion before God.
\q1
\v 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
\q2 and you choose the language of the crafty.
\q1
\v 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.
\q2 Yes, your own lips testify against you.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Are you the first man who was born?
\q2 Or were you brought out before the hills?
\q1
\v 8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God?
\q2 Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
\q1
\v 9 What do you know that we don’t know?
\q2 What do you understand which is not in us?
\q1
\v 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
\q2 much elder than your father.
\q1
\v 11 Are the consolations of God too small for you,
\q2 even the word that is gentle toward you?
\q1
\v 12 Why does your heart carry you away?
\q2 Why do your eyes flash,
\q1
\v 13 That you turn your spirit against God,
\q2 and let such words go out of your mouth?
\q1
\v 14 What is man, that he should be clean?
\q2 What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
\q1
\v 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.
\q2 Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
\q1
\v 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
\q2 a man who drinks iniquity like water!
\b
\q1
\v 17 “I will show you, listen to me;
\q2 that which I have seen I will declare
\q1
\v 18 (which wise men have told by their fathers,
\q2 and have not hidden it;
\q1
\v 19 to whom alone the land was given,
\q2 and no stranger passed among them):
\q1
\v 20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
\q2 even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
\q1
\v 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears.
\q2 In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
\q1
\v 22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness.
\q2 He is waited for by the sword.
\q1
\v 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
\q2 He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
\q1
\v 24 Distress and anguish make him afraid.
\q2 They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
\q1
\v 25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God,
\q2 and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
\q1
\v 26 he runs at him with a stiff neck,
\q2 with the thick shields of his bucklers,
\q1
\v 27 because he has covered his face with his fatness,
\q2 and gathered fat on his thighs.
\q1
\v 28 He has lived in desolate cities,
\q2 in houses which no one inhabited,
\q2 which were ready to become heaps.
\q1
\v 29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue,
\q2 neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
\q1
\v 30 He will not depart out of darkness.
\q2 The flame will dry up his branches.
\q2 He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
\q1
\v 31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
\q2 for emptiness will be his reward.
\q1
\v 32 It will be accomplished before his time.
\q2 His branch will not be green.
\q1
\v 33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
\q2 and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
\q1
\v 34 For the company of the godless will be barren,
\q2 and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
\q1
\v 35 They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity.
\q2 Their heart prepares deceit.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “I have heard many such things.
\q2 You are all miserable comforters!
\q1
\v 3 Shall vain words have an end?
\q2 Or what provokes you that you answer?
\q1
\v 4 I also could speak as you do.
\q2 If your soul were in my soul’s place,
\q2 I could join words together against you,
\q2 and shake my head at you,
\q1
\v 5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
\q2 The solace of my lips would relieve you.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
\q2 Though I forbear, what am I eased?
\q1
\v 7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out.
\q2 You have made all my company desolate.
\q1
\v 8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
\q2 My leanness rises up against me.
\q2 It testifies to my face.
\q1
\v 9 He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me.
\q2 He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
\q2 My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
\q1
\v 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth.
\q2 They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
\q2 They gather themselves together against me.
\q1
\v 11 God delivers me to the ungodly,
\q2 and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
\q1
\v 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
\q2 Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
\q2 He has also set me up for his target.
\q1
\v 13 His archers surround me.
\q2 He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
\q2 He pours out my bile on the ground.
\q1
\v 14 He breaks me with breach on breach.
\q2 He runs at me like a giant.
\q1
\v 15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
\q2 and have thrust my horn in the dust.
\q1
\v 16 My face is red with weeping.
\q2 Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
\q1
\v 17 Although there is no violence in my hands,
\q2 and my prayer is pure.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “Earth, don’t cover my blood.
\q2 Let my cry have no place to rest.
\q1
\v 19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
\q2 He who vouches for me is on high.
\q1
\v 20 My friends scoff at me.
\q2 My eyes pour out tears to God,
\q1
\v 21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God,
\q2 of a son of man with his neighbor!
\q1
\v 22 For when a few years have come,
\q2 I will go the way of no return.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 “My spirit is consumed.
\q2 My days are extinct,
\q2 and the grave is ready for me.
\q1
\v 2 Surely there are mockers with me.
\q2 My eye dwells on their provocation.
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
\q2 Who is there who will strike hands with me?
\q1
\v 4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
\q2 Therefore you will not exalt them.
\q1
\v 5 He who denounces his friends for plunder,
\q2 Even the eyes of his children will fail.
\b
\q1
\v 6 “But he has made me a byword of the people.
\q2 They spit in my face.
\q1
\v 7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
\q2 All my members are as a shadow.
\q1
\v 8 Upright men will be astonished at this.
\q2 The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
\q1
\v 9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
\q2 He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
\q1
\v 10 But as for you all, come back.
\q2 I will not find a wise man among you.
\q1
\v 11 My days are past.
\q2 My plans are broken off,
\q2 as are the thoughts of my heart.
\q1
\v 12 They change the night into day,
\q2 saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
\q1
\v 13 If I look for Sheol\f + \fr 17:13 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* as my house,
\q2 if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
\q1
\v 14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’
\q2 to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
\q1
\v 15 where then is my hope?
\q2 as for my hope, who will see it?
\q1
\v 16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,\f + \fr 17:16 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 or descend together into the dust?”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “How long will you hunt for words?
\q2 Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
\q1
\v 3 Why are we counted as animals,
\q2 which have become unclean in your sight?
\q1
\v 4 You who tear yourself in your anger,
\q2 will the earth be forsaken for you?
\q2 Or will the rock be removed out of its place?
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out.
\q2 The spark of his fire won’t shine.
\q1
\v 6 The light will be dark in his tent.
\q2 His lamp above him will be put out.
\q1
\v 7 The steps of his strength will be shortened.
\q2 His own counsel will cast him down.
\q1
\v 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
\q2 and he wanders into its mesh.
\q1
\v 9 A snare will take him by the heel.
\q2 A trap will catch him.
\q1
\v 10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground,
\q2 a trap for him on the path.
\q1
\v 11 Terrors will make him afraid on every side,
\q2 and will chase him at his heels.
\q1
\v 12 His strength will be famished.
\q2 Calamity will be ready at his side.
\q1
\v 13 The members of his body will be devoured.
\q2 The firstborn of death will devour his members.
\q1
\v 14 He will be rooted out of the security of his tent.
\q2 He will be brought to the king of terrors.
\q1
\v 15 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his.
\q2 Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.
\q1
\v 16 His roots will be dried up beneath.
\q2 His branch will be cut off above.
\q1
\v 17 His memory will perish from the earth.
\q2 He will have no name in the street.
\q1
\v 18 He will be driven from light into darkness,
\q2 and chased out of the world.
\q1
\v 19 He will have neither son nor grandson among his people,
\q2 nor any remaining where he lived.
\q1
\v 20 Those who come after will be astonished at his day,
\q2 as those who went before were frightened.
\q1
\v 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous.
\q2 This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”


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\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “How long will you torment me,
\q2 and crush me with words?
\q1
\v 3 You have reproached me ten times.
\q2 You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
\q1
\v 4 If it is true that I have erred,
\q2 my error remains with myself.
\q1
\v 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
\q2 and plead against me my reproach,
\q1
\v 6 know now that God has subverted me,
\q2 and has surrounded me with his net.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
\q2 I cry for help, but there is no justice.
\q1
\v 8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
\q2 and has set darkness in my paths.
\q1
\v 9 He has stripped me of my glory,
\q2 and taken the crown from my head.
\q1
\v 10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
\q2 He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
\q1
\v 11 He has also kindled his wrath against me.
\q2 He counts me among his adversaries.
\q1
\v 12 His troops come on together,
\q2 build a siege ramp against me,
\q2 and encamp around my tent.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “He has put my brothers far from me.
\q2 My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
\q1
\v 14 My relatives have gone away.
\q2 My familiar friends have forgotten me.
\q1
\v 15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
\q2 I am an alien in their sight.
\q1
\v 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
\q2 I beg him with my mouth.
\q1
\v 17 My breath is offensive to my wife.
\q2 I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
\q1
\v 18 Even young children despise me.
\q2 If I arise, they speak against me.
\q1
\v 19 All my familiar friends abhor me.
\q2 They whom I loved have turned against me.
\q1
\v 20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
\q2 I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends;
\q2 for the hand of God has touched me.
\q1
\v 22 Why do you persecute me as God,
\q2 and are not satisfied with my flesh?
\b
\q1
\v 23 “Oh that my words were now written!
\q2 Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
\q1
\v 24 That with an iron pen and lead
\q2 they were engraved in the rock forever!
\q1
\v 25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
\q2 In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
\q1
\v 26 After my skin is destroyed,
\q2 then I will see God in my flesh,
\q1
\v 27 whom I, even I, will see on my side.
\q2 My eyes will see, and not as a stranger.
\b
\q1 “My heart is consumed within me.
\q1
\v 28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
\q2 because the root of the matter is found in me,
\q1
\v 29 be afraid of the sword,
\q2 for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
\q2 that you may know there is a judgment.”


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\v 1 Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
\v 2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
\p Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
\p
\v 3 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
\p
\v 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
\v 5 But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
\p
\v 6 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
\p
\v 7 So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
\v 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
\v 9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
\p
\v 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”
\p In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
\v 11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
\v 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
\v 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.


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\p
\v 1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Therefore my thoughts answer me,
\q2 even by reason of my haste that is in me.
\q1
\v 3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
\q2 The spirit of my understanding answers me.
\q1
\v 4 Don’t you know this from old time,
\q2 since man was placed on earth,
\q1
\v 5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
\q2 the joy of the godless but for a moment?
\q1
\v 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens,
\q2 and his head reach to the clouds,
\q1
\v 7 yet he will perish forever like his own dung.
\q2 Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
\q1
\v 8 He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found.
\q2 Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
\q1
\v 9 The eye which saw him will see him no more,
\q2 neither will his place see him any more.
\q1
\v 10 His children will seek the favor of the poor.
\q2 His hands will give back his wealth.
\q1
\v 11 His bones are full of his youth,
\q2 but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
\q2 though he hide it under his tongue,
\q1
\v 13 though he spare it, and will not let it go,
\q2 but keep it still within his mouth;
\q1
\v 14 yet his food in his bowels is turned.
\q2 It is cobra venom within him.
\q1
\v 15 He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again.
\q2 God will cast them out of his belly.
\q1
\v 16 He will suck cobra venom.
\q2 The viper’s tongue will kill him.
\q1
\v 17 He will not look at the rivers,
\q2 the flowing streams of honey and butter.
\q1
\v 18 He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down.
\q2 He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
\q1
\v 19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
\q2 He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Because he knew no quietness within him,
\q2 he will not save anything of that in which he delights.
\q1
\v 21 There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,
\q2 therefore his prosperity will not endure.
\q1
\v 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him.
\q2 The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
\q1
\v 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.
\q2 It will rain on him while he is eating.
\q1
\v 24 He will flee from the iron weapon.
\q2 The bronze arrow will strike him through.
\q1
\v 25 He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.
\q2 Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver.
\q2 Terrors are on him.
\q1
\v 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
\q2 An unfanned fire will devour him.
\q2 It will consume that which is left in his tent.
\q1
\v 27 The heavens will reveal his iniquity.
\q2 The earth will rise up against him.
\q1
\v 28 The increase of his house will depart.
\q2 They will rush away in the day of his wrath.
\q1
\v 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
\q2 the heritage appointed to him by God.”


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\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Listen diligently to my speech.
\q2 Let this be your consolation.
\q1
\v 3 Allow me, and I also will speak;
\q2 After I have spoken, mock on.
\q1
\v 4 As for me, is my complaint to man?
\q2 Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
\q1
\v 5 Look at me, and be astonished.
\q2 Lay your hand on your mouth.
\q1
\v 6 When I remember, I am troubled.
\q2 Horror takes hold of my flesh.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Why do the wicked live,
\q2 become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
\q1
\v 8 Their child is established with them in their sight,
\q2 their offspring before their eyes.
\q1
\v 9 Their houses are safe from fear,
\q2 neither is the rod of God upon them.
\q1
\v 10 Their bulls breed without fail.
\q2 Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
\q1
\v 11 They send out their little ones like a flock.
\q2 Their children dance.
\q1
\v 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp,
\q2 and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
\q1
\v 13 They spend their days in prosperity.
\q2 In an instant they go down to Sheol.\f + \fr 21:13 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q1
\v 14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us,
\q2 for we don’t want to know about your ways.
\q1
\v 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
\q2 What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
\q1
\v 16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.
\q2 The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
\q2 that their calamity comes on them,
\q2 that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
\q1
\v 18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,
\q2 as chaff that the storm carries away?
\q1
\v 19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’
\q2 Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
\q1
\v 20 Let his own eyes see his destruction.
\q2 Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
\q1
\v 21 For what does he care for his house after him,
\q2 when the number of his months is cut off?
\b
\q1
\v 22 “Shall any teach God knowledge,
\q2 since he judges those who are high?
\q1
\v 23 One dies in his full strength,
\q2 being wholly at ease and quiet.
\q1
\v 24 His pails are full of milk.
\q2 The marrow of his bones is moistened.
\q1
\v 25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,
\q2 and never tastes of good.
\q1
\v 26 They lie down alike in the dust.
\q2 The worm covers them.
\b
\q1
\v 27 “Behold, I know your thoughts,
\q2 the plans with which you would wrong me.
\q1
\v 28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
\q2 Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
\q1
\v 29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?
\q2 Don’t you know their evidences,
\q1
\v 30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,
\q2 That they are led out to the day of wrath?
\q1
\v 31 Who will declare his way to his face?
\q2 Who will repay him what he has done?
\q1
\v 32 Yet he will be borne to the grave.
\q2 Men will keep watch over the tomb.
\q1
\v 33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him.
\q2 All men will draw after him,
\q2 as there were innumerable before him.
\q1
\v 34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense,
\q2 because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”


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\p
\v 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Can a man be profitable to God?
\q2 Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
\q1
\v 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
\q2 Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
\q1
\v 4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
\q2 that he enters with you into judgment?
\q1
\v 5 Isn’t your wickedness great?
\q2 Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
\q1
\v 6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,
\q2 and stripped the naked of their clothing.
\q1
\v 7 You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,
\q2 and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
\q1
\v 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.
\q2 The honorable man, he lived in it.
\q1
\v 9 You have sent widows away empty,
\q2 and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
\q1
\v 10 Therefore snares are around you.
\q2 Sudden fear troubles you,
\q1
\v 11 or darkness, so that you can not see,
\q2 and floods of waters cover you.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
\q2 See the height of the stars, how high they are!
\q1
\v 13 You say, ‘What does God know?
\q2 Can he judge through the thick darkness?
\q1
\v 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.
\q2 He walks on the vault of the sky.’
\q1
\v 15 Will you keep the old way,
\q2 which wicked men have trodden,
\q1
\v 16 who were snatched away before their time,
\q2 whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
\q1
\v 17 who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’
\q2 and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
\q1
\v 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things,
\q2 but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
\q1
\v 19 The righteous see it, and are glad.
\q2 The innocent ridicule them,
\q1
\v 20 saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.
\q2 The fire has consumed their remnant.’
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace.
\q2 By it, good will come to you.
\q1
\v 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth,
\q2 and lay up his words in your heart.
\q1
\v 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up,
\q2 if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
\q1
\v 24 Lay your treasure in the dust,
\q2 the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
\q1
\v 25 The Almighty will be your treasure,
\q2 and precious silver to you.
\q1
\v 26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,
\q2 and will lift up your face to God.
\q1
\v 27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.
\q2 You will pay your vows.
\q1
\v 28 You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you.
\q2 Light will shine on your ways.
\q1
\v 29 When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’
\q2 He will save the humble person.
\q1
\v 30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent.
\q2 Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”


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\p
\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Even today my complaint is rebellious.
\q2 His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
\q1
\v 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him!
\q2 That I might come even to his seat!
\q1
\v 4 I would set my cause in order before him,
\q2 and fill my mouth with arguments.
\q1
\v 5 I would know the words which he would answer me,
\q2 and understand what he would tell me.
\q1
\v 6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?
\q2 No, but he would listen to me.
\q1
\v 7 There the upright might reason with him,
\q2 so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “If I go east, he is not there;
\q2 if west, I can’t find him;
\q1
\v 9 He works to the north, but I can’t see him.
\q2 He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
\b
\q1
\v 10 But he knows the way that I take.
\q2 When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
\q1
\v 11 My foot has held fast to his steps.
\q2 I have kept his way, and not turned away.
\q1
\v 12 I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips.
\q2 I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
\q1
\v 13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?
\q2 What his soul desires, even that he does.
\q1
\v 14 For he performs that which is appointed for me.
\q2 Many such things are with him.
\q1
\v 15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence.
\q2 When I consider, I am afraid of him.
\q1
\v 16 For God has made my heart faint.
\q2 The Almighty has terrified me.
\q1
\v 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness,
\q2 neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
\b


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\b
\q1
\v 1 “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty?
\q2 Why don’t those who know him see his days?
\q1
\v 2 There are people who remove the landmarks.
\q2 They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
\q1
\v 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless,
\q2 and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
\q1
\v 4 They turn the needy out of the way.
\q2 The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
\q1
\v 5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,
\q2 they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food.
\q1 The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
\q2
\v 6 They cut their food in the field.
\q1 They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
\q2
\v 7 They lie all night naked without clothing,
\q1 and have no covering in the cold.
\q2
\v 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
\q1 and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
\q2
\v 9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast,
\q1 and take a pledge of the poor,
\q2
\v 10 So that they go around naked without clothing.
\q2 Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
\q1
\v 11 They make oil within the walls of these men.
\q2 They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
\q1
\v 12 From out of the populous city, men groan.
\q2 The soul of the wounded cries out,
\q2 yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “These are of those who rebel against the light.
\q2 They don’t know its ways,
\q2 nor stay in its paths.
\q1
\v 14 The murderer rises with the light.
\q2 He kills the poor and needy.
\q2 In the night he is like a thief.
\q1
\v 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
\q2 saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
\q2 He disguises his face.
\q1
\v 16 In the dark they dig through houses.
\q2 They shut themselves up in the daytime.
\q2 They don’t know the light.
\q1
\v 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness,
\q2 for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “They are foam on the surface of the waters.
\q2 Their portion is cursed in the earth.
\q2 They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.
\q1
\v 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
\q2 so does Sheol\f + \fr 24:19 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* those who have sinned.
\q1
\v 20 The womb will forget him.
\q2 The worm will feed sweetly on him.
\q2 He will be no more remembered.
\q2 Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.
\q1
\v 21 He devours the barren who don’t bear.
\q2 He shows no kindness to the widow.
\q1
\v 22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power.
\q2 He rises up who has no assurance of life.
\q1
\v 23 God gives them security, and they rest in it.
\q2 His eyes are on their ways.
\q1
\v 24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone.
\q2 Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
\q2 and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
\q1
\v 25 If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar,
\q2 and make my speech worth nothing?”
\b


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\c 25
\p
\v 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Dominion and fear are with him.
\q2 He makes peace in his high places.
\q1
\v 3 Can his armies be counted?
\q2 On whom does his light not arise?
\q1
\v 4 How then can man be just with God?
\q2 Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
\q1
\v 5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness,
\q2 and the stars are not pure in his sight;
\q1
\v 6 How much less man, who is a worm,
\q2 the son of man, who is a worm!”


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\c 26
\p
\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “How have you helped him who is without power!
\q2 How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
\q1
\v 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom,
\q2 and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
\q1
\v 4 To whom have you uttered words?
\q2 Whose spirit came out of you?
\b
\q1
\v 5 “The departed spirits tremble,
\q2 those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
\q1
\v 6 Sheol\f + \fr 26:6 \ft Sheol is the lower world or the grave.\f* is naked before God,
\q2 and Abaddon\f + \fr 26:6 \ft Abaddon means Destroyer.\f* has no covering.
\q1
\v 7 He stretches out the north over empty space,
\q2 and hangs the earth on nothing.
\q1
\v 8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
\q2 and the cloud is not burst under them.
\q1
\v 9 He encloses the face of his throne,
\q2 and spreads his cloud on it.
\q1
\v 10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,
\q2 and to the confines of light and darkness.
\q1
\v 11 The pillars of heaven tremble
\q2 and are astonished at his rebuke.
\q1
\v 12 He stirs up the sea with his power,
\q2 and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
\q1
\v 13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished.
\q2 His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
\q1
\v 14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways.
\q2 How small a whisper do we hear of him!
\q2 But the thunder of his power who can understand?”


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\c 27
\p
\v 1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
\q1
\v 2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right,
\q2 the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
\q1
\v 3 (for the length of my life is still in me,
\q2 and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
\q1
\v 4 surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness,
\q2 neither will my tongue utter deceit.
\q1
\v 5 Far be it from me that I should justify you.
\q2 Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
\q1
\v 6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go.
\q2 My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Let my enemy be as the wicked.
\q2 Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
\b
\q1
\v 8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
\q2
\v 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
\q1
\v 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty,
\q2 and call on God at all times?
\q1
\v 11 I will teach you about the hand of God.
\q2 I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.
\q1
\v 12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves;
\q2 why then have you become altogether vain?
\b
\q1
\v 13 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
\q2 the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
\q1
\v 14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword.
\q2 His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
\q1
\v 15 Those who remain of him will be buried in death.
\q2 His widows will make no lamentation.
\q1
\v 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust,
\q2 and prepare clothing as the clay;
\q1
\v 17 he may prepare it, but the just will put it on,
\q2 and the innocent will divide the silver.
\q1
\v 18 He builds his house as the moth,
\q2 as a booth which the watchman makes.
\q1
\v 19 He lies down rich, but he will not do so again.
\q2 He opens his eyes, and he is not.
\q1
\v 20 Terrors overtake him like waters.
\q2 A storm steals him away in the night.
\q1
\v 21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs.
\q2 It sweeps him out of his place.
\q1
\v 22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare,
\q2 as he flees away from his hand.
\q1
\v 23 Men will clap their hands at him,
\q2 and will hiss him out of his place.
\b


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\c 28
\b
\q1
\v 1 “Surely there is a mine for silver,
\q2 and a place for gold which they refine.
\q1
\v 2 Iron is taken out of the earth,
\q2 and copper is smelted out of the ore.
\q1
\v 3 Man sets an end to darkness,
\q2 and searches out, to the furthest bound,
\q2 the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
\q1
\v 4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live.
\q2 They are forgotten by the foot.
\q2 They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
\q1
\v 5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread;
\q2 Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.
\q1
\v 6 Sapphires come from its rocks.
\q2 It has dust of gold.
\q1
\v 7 That path no bird of prey knows,
\q2 neither has the falcon’s eye seen it.
\q1
\v 8 The proud animals have not trodden it,
\q2 nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
\q1
\v 9 He puts his hand on the flinty rock,
\q2 and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
\q1
\v 10 He cuts out channels among the rocks.
\q2 His eye sees every precious thing.
\q1
\v 11 He binds the streams that they don’t trickle.
\q2 The thing that is hidden he brings out to light.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “But where will wisdom be found?
\q2 Where is the place of understanding?
\q1
\v 13 Man doesn’t know its price;
\q2 Neither is it found in the land of the living.
\q1
\v 14 The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’
\q2 The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
\q1
\v 15 It can’t be gotten for gold,
\q2 neither will silver be weighed for its price.
\q1
\v 16 It can’t be valued with the gold of Ophir,
\q2 with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.\f + \fr 28:16 \ft or, lapis lazuli\f*
\q1
\v 17 Gold and glass can’t equal it,
\q2 neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.
\q1
\v 18 No mention will be made of coral or of crystal.
\q2 Yes, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
\q1
\v 19 The topaz of Ethiopia will not equal it,
\q2 nor will it be valued with pure gold.
\q1
\v 20 Where then does wisdom come from?
\q2 Where is the place of understanding?
\q1
\v 21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living,
\q2 and kept close from the birds of the sky.
\q1
\v 22 Destruction and Death say,
\q2 ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’
\b
\q1
\v 23 “God understands its way,
\q2 and he knows its place.
\q1
\v 24 For he looks to the ends of the earth,
\q2 and sees under the whole sky.
\q1
\v 25 He establishes the force of the wind.
\q2 Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
\q1
\v 26 When he made a decree for the rain,
\q2 and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
\q1
\v 27 then he saw it, and declared it.
\q2 He established it, yes, and searched it out.
\q1
\v 28 To man he said,
\q2 ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord,\f + \fr 28:28 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” \f* that is wisdom.
\q2 To depart from evil is understanding.’”
\b


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\c 29
\p
\v 1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
\q1
\v 2 “Oh that I were as in the months of old,
\q2 as in the days when God watched over me;
\q1
\v 3 when his lamp shone on my head,
\q2 and by his light I walked through darkness,
\q1
\v 4 as I was in my prime,
\q2 when the friendship of God was in my tent,
\q1
\v 5 when the Almighty was yet with me,
\q2 and my children were around me,
\q1
\v 6 when my steps were washed with butter,
\q2 and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,
\q1
\v 7 when I went out to the city gate,
\q2 when I prepared my seat in the street.
\q1
\v 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves.
\q2 The aged rose up and stood.
\q1
\v 9 The princes refrained from talking,
\q2 and laid their hand on their mouth.
\q1
\v 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed,
\q2 and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
\q1
\v 11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me;
\q2 and when the eye saw me, it commended me:
\q1
\v 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried,
\q2 and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
\q1
\v 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me,
\q2 and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
\q1
\v 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me.
\q2 My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
\q1
\v 15 I was eyes to the blind,
\q2 and feet to the lame.
\q1
\v 16 I was a father to the needy.
\q2 I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.
\q1
\v 17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous
\q2 and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
\q1
\v 18 Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house,
\q2 I will count my days as the sand.
\q1
\v 19 My root is spread out to the waters.
\q2 The dew lies all night on my branch.
\q1
\v 20 My glory is fresh in me.
\q2 My bow is renewed in my hand.’
\b
\q1
\v 21 “Men listened to me, waited,
\q2 and kept silence for my counsel.
\q1
\v 22 After my words they didn’t speak again.
\q2 My speech fell on them.
\q1
\v 23 They waited for me as for the rain.
\q2 Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
\q1
\v 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence.
\q2 They didn’t reject the light of my face.
\q1
\v 25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief.
\q2 I lived as a king in the army,
\q2 as one who comforts the mourners.
\b


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\c 3
\p
\v 1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
\v 2 Job answered:
\q1
\v 3 “Let the day perish in which I was born,
\q2 the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
\q1
\v 4 Let that day be darkness.
\q2 Don’t let God from above seek for it,
\q2 neither let the light shine on it.
\q1
\v 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
\q2 Let a cloud dwell on it.
\q2 Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
\q1
\v 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.
\q2 Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
\q2 Let it not come into the number of the months.
\q1
\v 7 Behold, let that night be barren.
\q2 Let no joyful voice come therein.
\q1
\v 8 Let them curse it who curse the day,
\q2 who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
\q1
\v 9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
\q2 Let it look for light, but have none,
\q2 neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
\q1
\v 10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
\q2 nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb?
\q2 Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
\q1
\v 12 Why did the knees receive me?
\q2 Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
\q1
\v 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet.
\q2 I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
\q1
\v 14 with kings and counselors of the earth,
\q2 who built up waste places for themselves;
\q1
\v 15 or with princes who had gold,
\q2 who filled their houses with silver:
\q1
\v 16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
\q2 as infants who never saw light.
\q1
\v 17 There the wicked cease from troubling.
\q2 There the weary are at rest.
\q1
\v 18 There the prisoners are at ease together.
\q2 They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
\q1
\v 19 The small and the great are there.
\q2 The servant is free from his master.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
\q2 life to the bitter in soul,
\q1
\v 21 Who long for death, but it doesn’t come;
\q2 and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
\q1
\v 22 who rejoice exceedingly,
\q2 and are glad, when they can find the grave?
\q1
\v 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
\q2 whom God has hedged in?
\q1
\v 24 For my sighing comes before I eat.
\q2 My groanings are poured out like water.
\q1
\v 25 For the thing which I fear comes on me,
\q2 That which I am afraid of comes to me.
\q1
\v 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
\q2 but trouble comes.”


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\b
\q1
\v 1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,
\q2 whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
\q1
\v 2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,
\q2 men in whom ripe age has perished?
\q1
\v 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine.
\q2 They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
\q1
\v 4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
\q2 The roots of the broom tree are their food.
\q1
\v 5 They are driven out from among men.
\q2 They cry after them as after a thief;
\q1
\v 6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys,
\q2 and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
\q1
\v 7 They bray among the bushes.
\q2 They are gathered together under the nettles .
\q1
\v 8 They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men.
\q2 They were flogged out of the land.
\b
\q1
\v 9 “Now I have become their song.
\q2 Yes, I am a byword to them.
\q1
\v 10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,
\q2 and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
\q1
\v 11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me;
\q2 and they have thrown off restraint before me.
\q1
\v 12 On my right hand rise the rabble.
\q2 They thrust aside my feet,
\q2 They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
\q1
\v 13 They mar my path.
\q2 They promote my destruction
\q2 without anyone’s help.
\q1
\v 14 As through a wide breach they come.
\q2 They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
\q1
\v 15 Terrors have turned on me.
\q2 They chase my honor as the wind.
\q2 My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
\b
\q1
\v 16 “Now my soul is poured out within me.
\q2 Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
\q1
\v 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me,
\q2 and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
\q1
\v 18 My garment is disfigured by great force.
\q2 It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
\q1
\v 19 He has cast me into the mire.
\q2 I have become like dust and ashes.
\q1
\v 20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me.
\q2 I stand up, and you gaze at me.
\q1
\v 21 You have turned to be cruel to me.
\q2 With the might of your hand you persecute me.
\q1
\v 22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.
\q2 You dissolve me in the storm.
\q1
\v 23 For I know that you will bring me to death,
\q2 To the house appointed for all living.
\b
\q1
\v 24 “However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall?
\q2 Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
\q1
\v 25 Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?
\q2 Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
\q1
\v 26 When I looked for good, then evil came.
\q2 When I waited for light, darkness came.
\q1
\v 27 My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest.
\q2 Days of affliction have come on me.
\q1
\v 28 I go mourning without the sun.
\q2 I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
\q1
\v 29 I am a brother to jackals,
\q2 and a companion to ostriches.
\q1
\v 30 My skin grows black and peels from me.
\q2 My bones are burned with heat.
\q1
\v 31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning,
\q2 and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
\b


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\c 31
\b
\q1
\v 1 “I made a covenant with my eyes,
\q2 how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
\q1
\v 2 For what is the portion from God above,
\q2 and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
\q1
\v 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,
\q2 and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
\q1
\v 4 Doesn’t he see my ways,
\q2 and count all my steps?
\b
\q1
\v 5 “If I have walked with falsehood,
\q2 and my foot has hurried to deceit
\q1
\v 6 (let me be weighed in an even balance,
\q2 that God may know my integrity);
\q1
\v 7 if my step has turned out of the way,
\q2 if my heart walked after my eyes,
\q2 if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
\q1
\v 8 then let me sow, and let another eat.
\q2 Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
\b
\q1
\v 9 “If my heart has been enticed to a woman,
\q2 and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
\q1
\v 10 then let my wife grind for another,
\q2 and let others sleep with her.
\q1
\v 11 For that would be a heinous crime.
\q2 Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
\q1
\v 12 for it is a fire that consumes to destruction,
\q2 and would root out all my increase.
\q1
\v 13 “If I have despised the cause of my male servant
\q2 or of my female servant,
\q2 when they contended with me,
\q1
\v 14 what then will I do when God rises up?
\q2 When he visits, what will I answer him?
\q1
\v 15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him?
\q2 Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
\q1
\v 16 “If I have withheld the poor from their desire,
\q2 or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
\q1
\v 17 or have eaten my morsel alone,
\q2 and the fatherless has not eaten of it
\q1
\v 18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,
\q2 I have guided her from my mother’s womb);
\q1
\v 19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
\q2 or that the needy had no covering;
\q1
\v 20 if his heart hasn’t blessed me,
\q2 if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;
\q1
\v 21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,
\q2 because I saw my help in the gate,
\q1
\v 22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,
\q2 and my arm be broken from the bone.
\q1
\v 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me.
\q2 Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.
\q1
\v 24 “If I have made gold my hope,
\q2 and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
\q1
\v 25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,
\q2 and because my hand had gotten much;
\q1
\v 26 if I have seen the sun when it shined,
\q2 or the moon moving in splendor,
\q1
\v 27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,
\q2 and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
\q1
\v 28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
\q2 for I should have denied the God who is above.
\q1
\v 29 “If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,
\q2 or lifted up myself when evil found him
\q1
\v 30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin
\q2 by asking his life with a curse);
\q1
\v 31 if the men of my tent have not said,
\q2 ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
\q1
\v 32 (the foreigner has not camped in the street,
\q2 but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
\q1
\v 33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,
\q2 by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
\q1
\v 34 because I feared the great multitude,
\q2 and the contempt of families terrified me,
\q2 so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
\q1
\v 35 oh that I had one to hear me!
\q2 Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!
\q2 Let the accuser write my indictment!
\q1
\v 36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;
\q2 and I would bind it to me as a crown.
\q1
\v 37 I would declare to him the number of my steps.
\q2 as a prince would I go near to him.
\q1
\v 38 If my land cries out against me,
\q2 and its furrows weep together;
\q1
\v 39 if I have eaten its fruits without money,
\q2 or have caused its owners to lose their life,
\q1
\v 40 let briers grow instead of wheat,
\q2 and stinkweed instead of barley.”
\b
\p The words of Job are ended.


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\c 32
\p
\v 1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
\v 2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.
\v 3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
\v 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
\v 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.
\b
\p
\v 6 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered,
\q1 “I am young, and you are very old;
\q2 Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.
\q1
\v 7 I said, ‘Days should speak,
\q2 and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
\q1
\v 8 But there is a spirit in man,
\q2 and the Spirit\f + \fr 32:8 \ft or, breath\f* of the Almighty gives them understanding.
\q1
\v 9 It is not the great who are wise,
\q2 nor the aged who understand justice.
\q1
\v 10 Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me;
\q2 I also will show my opinion.’
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Behold, I waited for your words,
\q2 and I listened for your reasoning,
\q2 while you searched out what to say.
\q1
\v 12 Yes, I gave you my full attention,
\q2 but there was no one who convinced Job,
\q2 or who answered his words, among you.
\q1
\v 13 Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom.
\q2 God may refute him, not man;’
\q1
\v 14 for he has not directed his words against me;
\q2 neither will I answer him with your speeches.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “They are amazed. They answer no more.
\q2 They don’t have a word to say.
\q1
\v 16 Shall I wait, because they don’t speak,
\q2 because they stand still, and answer no more?
\q1
\v 17 I also will answer my part,
\q2 and I also will show my opinion.
\q1
\v 18 For I am full of words.
\q2 The spirit within me constrains me.
\q1
\v 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent;
\q2 like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
\q1
\v 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed.
\q2 I will open my lips and answer.
\q1
\v 21 Please don’t let me respect any man’s person,
\q2 neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
\q1
\v 22 For I don’t know how to give flattering titles,
\q2 or else my Maker would soon take me away.
\b


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\b
\q1
\v 1 “However, Job, please hear my speech,
\q2 and listen to all my words.
\q1
\v 2 See now, I have opened my mouth.
\q2 My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
\q1
\v 3 My words will utter the uprightness of my heart.
\q2 That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.
\q1
\v 4 The Spirit of God has made me,
\q2 and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
\q1
\v 5 If you can, answer me.
\q2 Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
\q1
\v 6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are.
\q2 I am also formed out of the clay.
\q1
\v 7 Behold, my terror will not make you afraid,
\q2 neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
\q2 I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
\q1
\v 9 ‘I am clean, without disobedience.
\q2 I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
\q1
\v 10 Behold, he finds occasions against me.
\q2 He counts me for his enemy.
\q1
\v 11 He puts my feet in the stocks.
\q2 He marks all my paths.’
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just,
\q2 for God is greater than man.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Why do you strive against him,
\q2 because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?
\q1
\v 14 For God speaks once,
\q2 yes twice, though man pays no attention.
\q1
\v 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
\q2 when deep sleep falls on men,
\q2 in slumbering on the bed;
\q1
\v 16 Then he opens the ears of men,
\q2 and seals their instruction,
\q1
\v 17 that he may withdraw man from his purpose,
\q2 and hide pride from man.
\q1
\v 18 He keeps back his soul from the pit,
\q2 and his life from perishing by the sword.
\b
\q1
\v 19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed,
\q2 with continual strife in his bones,
\q1
\v 20 so that his life abhors bread,
\q2 and his soul dainty food.
\q1
\v 21 His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen.
\q2 His bones that were not seen stick out.
\q1
\v 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit,
\q2 and his life to the destroyers.
\b
\q1
\v 23 “If there is beside him an angel,
\q2 an interpreter, one among a thousand,
\q2 to show to man what is right for him;
\q1
\v 24 then God is gracious to him, and says,
\q2 ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
\q2 I have found a ransom.’
\q1
\v 25 His flesh will be fresher than a child’s.
\q2 He returns to the days of his youth.
\q1
\v 26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him,
\q2 so that he sees his face with joy.
\q2 He restores to man his righteousness.
\q1
\v 27 He sings before men, and says,
\q2 ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right,
\q2 and it didn’t profit me.
\q1
\v 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit.
\q2 My life will see the light.’
\b
\q1
\v 29 “Behold, God does all these things,
\q2 twice, yes three times, with a man,
\q1
\v 30 to bring back his soul from the pit,
\q2 that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
\q1
\v 31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me.
\q2 Hold your peace, and I will speak.
\q1
\v 32 If you have anything to say, answer me.
\q2 Speak, for I desire to justify you.
\q1
\v 33 If not, listen to me.
\q2 Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Moreover Elihu answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Hear my words, you wise men.
\q2 Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
\q1
\v 3 For the ear tries words,
\q2 as the palate tastes food.
\q1
\v 4 Let us choose for us that which is right.
\q2 Let us know among ourselves what is good.
\q1
\v 5 For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
\q2 God has taken away my right:
\q1
\v 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar.
\q2 My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’
\q1
\v 7 What man is like Job,
\q2 who drinks scorn like water,
\q1
\v 8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,
\q2 and walks with wicked men?
\q1
\v 9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
\q2 that he should delight himself with God.’
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding:
\q2 far be it from God, that he should do wickedness,
\q2 from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
\q1
\v 11 For the work of a man he will render to him,
\q2 and cause every man to find according to his ways.
\q1
\v 12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly,
\q2 neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
\q1
\v 13 Who put him in charge of the earth?
\q2 Or who has appointed him over the whole world?
\q1
\v 14 If he set his heart on himself,
\q2 if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
\q1
\v 15 all flesh would perish together,
\q2 and man would turn again to dust.
\b
\q1
\v 16 “If now you have understanding, hear this.
\q2 Listen to the voice of my words.
\q1
\v 17 Should even one who hates justice govern?
\q2 Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—
\q1
\v 18 Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’
\q2 or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?
\q1
\v 19 He doesn’t respect the persons of princes,
\q2 nor respect the rich more than the poor;
\q2 for they all are the work of his hands.
\q1
\v 20 In a moment they die, even at midnight.
\q2 The people are shaken and pass away.
\q2 The mighty are taken away without a hand.
\b
\q1
\v 21 “For his eyes are on the ways of a man.
\q2 He sees all his goings.
\q1
\v 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,
\q2 where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
\q1
\v 23 For he doesn’t need to consider a man further,
\q2 that he should go before God in judgment.
\q1
\v 24 He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out,
\q2 and sets others in their place.
\q1
\v 25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works.
\q2 He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
\q1
\v 26 He strikes them as wicked men
\q2 in the open sight of others;
\q1
\v 27 because they turned away from following him,
\q2 and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,
\q1
\v 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him.
\q2 He heard the cry of the afflicted.
\q1
\v 29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn?
\q2 When he hides his face, who then can see him?
\q2 He is over a nation or a man alike,
\q1
\v 30 that the godless man may not reign,
\q2 that there be no one to ensnare the people.
\b
\q1
\v 31 “For has any said to God,
\q2 ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
\q1
\v 32 Teach me that which I don’t see.
\q2 If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
\q1
\v 33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it?
\q2 For you must choose, and not I.
\q2 Therefore speak what you know.
\q1
\v 34 Men of understanding will tell me,
\q2 yes, every wise man who hears me:
\q1
\v 35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge.
\q2 His words are without wisdom.’
\q1
\v 36 I wish that Job were tried to the end,
\q2 because of his answering like wicked men.
\q1
\v 37 For he adds rebellion to his sin.
\q2 He claps his hands among us,
\q2 and multiplies his words against God.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Moreover Elihu answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Do you think this to be your right,
\q2 or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
\q1
\v 3 that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you?
\q2 What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
\q1
\v 4 I will answer you,
\q2 and your companions with you.
\q1
\v 5 Look to the skies, and see.
\q2 See the skies, which are higher than you.
\q1
\v 6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him?
\q2 If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
\q1
\v 7 If you are righteous, what do you give him?
\q2 Or what does he receive from your hand?
\q1
\v 8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are,
\q2 and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
\b
\q1
\v 9 “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out.
\q2 They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
\q1
\v 10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
\q2 who gives songs in the night,
\q1
\v 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth,
\q2 and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
\q1
\v 12 There they cry, but no one answers,
\q2 because of the pride of evil men.
\q1
\v 13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry,
\q2 neither will the Almighty regard it.
\q1
\v 14 How much less when you say you don’t see him.
\q2 The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
\q1
\v 15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger,
\q2 neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
\q1
\v 16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk,
\q2 and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Elihu also continued, and said,
\q1
\v 2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
\q2 for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.
\q1
\v 3 I will get my knowledge from afar,
\q2 and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
\q1
\v 4 For truly my words are not false.
\q2 One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.
\q2 He is mighty in strength of understanding.
\q1
\v 6 He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,
\q2 but gives justice to the afflicted.
\q1
\v 7 He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
\q2 but with kings on the throne,
\q2 he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
\q1
\v 8 If they are bound in fetters,
\q2 and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
\q1
\v 9 then he shows them their work,
\q2 and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
\q1
\v 10 He also opens their ears to instruction,
\q2 and commands that they return from iniquity.
\q1
\v 11 If they listen and serve him,
\q2 they will spend their days in prosperity,
\q2 and their years in pleasures.
\q1
\v 12 But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;
\q2 they will die without knowledge.
\b
\q1
\v 13 “But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.
\q2 They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
\q1
\v 14 They die in youth.
\q2 Their life perishes among the unclean.
\q1
\v 15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,
\q2 and opens their ear in oppression.
\q1
\v 16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,
\q2 into a wide place, where there is no restriction.
\q2 That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.
\q2 Judgment and justice take hold of you.
\q1
\v 18 Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,
\q2 neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
\q1
\v 19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress,
\q2 or all the might of your strength?
\q1
\v 20 Don’t desire the night,
\q2 when people are cut off in their place.
\q1
\v 21 Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;
\q2 for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
\q1
\v 22 Behold, God is exalted in his power.
\q2 Who is a teacher like him?
\q1
\v 23 Who has prescribed his way for him?
\q2 Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’
\b
\q1
\v 24 “Remember that you magnify his work,
\q2 about which men have sung.
\q1
\v 25 All men have looked on it.
\q2 Man sees it afar off.
\q1
\v 26 Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him.
\q2 The number of his years is unsearchable.
\q1
\v 27 For he draws up the drops of water,
\q2 which distill in rain from his vapor,
\q1
\v 28 which the skies pour down
\q2 and which drop on man abundantly.
\q1
\v 29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds,
\q2 and the thunderings of his pavilion?
\q1
\v 30 Behold, he spreads his light around him.
\q2 He covers the bottom of the sea.
\q1
\v 31 For by these he judges the people.
\q2 He gives food in abundance.
\q1
\v 32 He covers his hands with the lightning,
\q2 and commands it to strike the mark.
\q1
\v 33 Its noise tells about him,
\q2 and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 “Yes, at this my heart trembles,
\q2 and is moved out of its place.
\q1
\v 2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice,
\q2 the sound that goes out of his mouth.
\q1
\v 3 He sends it out under the whole sky,
\q2 and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\v 4 After it a voice roars.
\q2 He thunders with the voice of his majesty.
\q2 He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard.
\q1
\v 5 God thunders marvelously with his voice.
\q2 He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
\q1
\v 6 For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’
\q2 likewise to the shower of rain,
\q2 and to the showers of his mighty rain.
\q1
\v 7 He seals up the hand of every man,
\q2 that all men whom he has made may know it.
\q1
\v 8 Then the animals take cover,
\q2 and remain in their dens.
\q1
\v 9 Out of its room comes the storm,
\q2 and cold out of the north.
\q1
\v 10 By the breath of God, ice is given,
\q2 and the width of the waters is frozen.
\q1
\v 11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture.
\q2 He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
\q1
\v 12 It is turned around by his guidance,
\q2 that they may do whatever he commands them
\q2 on the surface of the habitable world,
\q1
\v 13 Whether it is for correction, or for his land,
\q2 or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
\b
\q1
\v 14 “Listen to this, Job.
\q2 Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
\q1
\v 15 Do you know how God controls them,
\q2 and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
\q1
\v 16 Do you know the workings of the clouds,
\q2 the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
\q1
\v 17 You whose clothing is warm,
\q2 when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
\q1
\v 18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky,
\q2 which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
\q1
\v 19 Teach us what we will tell him,
\q2 for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
\q1
\v 20 Will it be told him that I would speak?
\q2 Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
\b
\q1
\v 21 Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies,
\q2 but the wind passes, and clears them.
\q1
\v 22 Out of the north comes golden splendor.
\q2 With God is awesome majesty.
\q1
\v 23 We can’t reach the Almighty.
\q2 He is exalted in power.
\q2 In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
\q1
\v 24 Therefore men revere him.
\q2 He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
\q1
\v 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel
\q2 by words without knowledge?
\q1
\v 3 Brace yourself like a man,
\q2 for I will question you, then you answer me!
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
\q2 Declare, if you have understanding.
\q1
\v 5 Who determined its measures, if you know?
\q2 Or who stretched the line on it?
\q1
\v 6 What were its foundations fastened on?
\q2 Or who laid its cornerstone,
\q1
\v 7 when the morning stars sang together,
\q2 and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Or who shut up the sea with doors,
\q2 when it broke out of the womb,
\q1
\v 9 when I made clouds its garment,
\q2 and wrapped it in thick darkness,
\q1
\v 10 marked out for it my bound,
\q2 set bars and doors,
\q1
\v 11 and said, ‘You may come here, but no further.
\q2 Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Have you commanded the morning in your days,
\q2 and caused the dawn to know its place,
\q1
\v 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
\q2 and shake the wicked out of it?
\q1
\v 14 It is changed as clay under the seal,
\q2 and presented as a garment.
\q1
\v 15 From the wicked, their light is withheld.
\q2 The high arm is broken.
\b
\q1
\v 16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
\q2 Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
\q1
\v 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
\q2 Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
\q1
\v 18 Have you comprehended the earth in its width?
\q2 Declare, if you know it all.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “What is the way to the dwelling of light?
\q2 As for darkness, where is its place,
\q1
\v 20 that you should take it to its bound,
\q2 that you should discern the paths to its house?
\q1
\v 21 Surely you know, for you were born then,
\q2 and the number of your days is great!
\q1
\v 22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow,
\q2 or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
\q1
\v 23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble,
\q2 against the day of battle and war?
\q1
\v 24 By what way is the lightning distributed,
\q2 or the east wind scattered on the earth?
\b
\q1
\v 25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water,
\q2 or the path for the thunder storm,
\q1
\v 26 to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man,
\q2 on the wilderness, in which there is no man,
\q1
\v 27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground,
\q2 to cause the tender grass to grow?
\q1
\v 28 Does the rain have a father?
\q2 Or who fathers the drops of dew?
\q1
\v 29 Whose womb did the ice come out of?
\q2 Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?
\q1
\v 30 The waters become hard like stone,
\q2 when the surface of the deep is frozen.
\b
\q1
\v 31 “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
\q2 or loosen the cords of Orion?
\q1
\v 32 Can you lead the constellations out in their season?
\q2 Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
\q1
\v 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
\q2 Can you establish its dominion over the earth?
\b
\q1
\v 34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
\q2 That abundance of waters may cover you?
\q1
\v 35 Can you send out lightnings, that they may go?
\q2 Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’
\q1
\v 36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts?
\q2 Or who has given understanding to the mind?
\q1
\v 37 Who can count the clouds by wisdom?
\q2 Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
\q1
\v 38 when the dust runs into a mass,
\q2 and the clods of earth stick together?
\b
\q1
\v 39 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness,
\q2 or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
\q1
\v 40 when they crouch in their dens,
\q2 and lie in wait in the thicket?
\q1
\v 41 Who provides for the raven his prey,
\q2 when his young ones cry to God,
\q2 and wander for lack of food?
\b


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\q1
\v 1 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
\q2 Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
\q1
\v 2 Can you count the months that they fulfill?
\q2 Or do you know the time when they give birth?
\q1
\v 3 They bow themselves. They bear their young.
\q2 They end their labor pains.
\q1
\v 4 Their young ones become strong.
\q2 They grow up in the open field.
\q2 They go out, and don’t return again.
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Who has set the wild donkey free?
\q2 Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
\q1
\v 6 whose home I have made the wilderness,
\q2 and the salt land his dwelling place?
\q1
\v 7 He scorns the tumult of the city,
\q2 neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
\q1
\v 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture,
\q2 He searches after every green thing.
\b
\q1
\v 9 “Will the wild ox be content to serve you?
\q2 Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
\q1
\v 10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness?
\q2 Or will he till the valleys after you?
\q1
\v 11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great?
\q2 Or will you leave to him your labor?
\q1
\v 12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,
\q2 and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
\b
\q1
\v 13 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly;
\q2 but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
\q1
\v 14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth,
\q2 warms them in the dust,
\q1
\v 15 and forgets that the foot may crush them,
\q2 or that the wild animal may trample them.
\q1
\v 16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.
\q2 Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
\q1
\v 17 because God has deprived her of wisdom,
\q2 neither has he imparted to her understanding.
\q1
\v 18 When she lifts up herself on high,
\q2 she scorns the horse and his rider.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “Have you given the horse might?
\q2 Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
\q1
\v 20 Have you made him to leap as a locust?
\q2 The glory of his snorting is awesome.
\q1
\v 21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.
\q2 He goes out to meet the armed men.
\q1
\v 22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,
\q2 neither does he turn back from the sword.
\q1
\v 23 The quiver rattles against him,
\q2 the flashing spear and the javelin.
\q1
\v 24 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,
\q2 neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
\q1
\v 25 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’
\q2 He smells the battle afar off,
\q2 the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
\b
\q1
\v 26 “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
\q2 and stretches her wings toward the south?
\q1
\v 27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,
\q2 and makes his nest on high?
\q1
\v 28 On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home,
\q2 on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.
\q1
\v 29 From there he spies out the prey.
\q2 His eyes see it afar off.
\q1
\v 30 His young ones also suck up blood.
\q2 Where the slain are, there he is.”
\b


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\c 4
\p
\v 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved?
\q2 But who can withhold himself from speaking?
\q1
\v 3 Behold, you have instructed many,
\q2 you have strengthened the weak hands.
\q1
\v 4 Your words have supported him who was falling,
\q2 You have made firm the feeble knees.
\q1
\v 5 But now it has come to you, and you faint.
\q2 It touches you, and you are troubled.
\q1
\v 6 Isn’t your piety your confidence?
\q2 Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent?
\q2 Or where were the upright cut off?
\q1
\v 8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity,
\q2 and sow trouble,
\q2 reap the same.
\q1
\v 9 By the breath of God they perish.
\q2 By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
\q1
\v 10 The roaring of the lion,
\q2 and the voice of the fierce lion,
\q2 the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
\q1
\v 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey.
\q2 The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me.
\q2 My ear received a whisper of it.
\q1
\v 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night,
\q2 when deep sleep falls on men,
\q1
\v 14 fear came on me, and trembling,
\q2 which made all my bones shake.
\q1
\v 15 Then a spirit passed before my face.
\q2 The hair of my flesh stood up.
\q1
\v 16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance.
\q2 A form was before my eyes.
\q2 Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
\q1
\v 17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God?
\q2 Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
\q1
\v 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants.
\q2 He charges his angels with error.
\q1
\v 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay,
\q2 whose foundation is in the dust,
\q2 who are crushed before the moth!
\q1
\v 20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed.
\q2 They perish forever without any regarding it.
\q1
\v 21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them?
\q2 They die, and that without wisdom.’


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\c 40
\p
\v 1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
\q1
\v 2 “Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty?
\q2 He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
\b
\p
\v 3 Then Job answered Yahweh,
\q1
\v 4 “Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you?
\q2 I lay my hand on my mouth.
\q1
\v 5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer;
\q2 Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
\b
\p
\v 6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
\q1
\v 7 “Now brace yourself like a man.
\q2 I will question you, and you will answer me.
\q1
\v 8 Will you even annul my judgment?
\q2 Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
\q1
\v 9 Or do you have an arm like God?
\q2 Can you thunder with a voice like him?
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity.
\q2 Array yourself with honor and majesty.
\q1
\v 11 Pour out the fury of your anger.
\q2 Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
\q1
\v 12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him.
\q2 Crush the wicked in their place.
\q1
\v 13 Hide them in the dust together.
\q2 Bind their faces in the hidden place.
\q1
\v 14 Then I will also admit to you
\q2 that your own right hand can save you.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you.
\q2 He eats grass as an ox.
\q1
\v 16 Look now, his strength is in his thighs.
\q2 His force is in the muscles of his belly.
\q1
\v 17 He moves his tail like a cedar.
\q2 The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
\q1
\v 18 His bones are like tubes of bronze.
\q2 His limbs are like bars of iron.
\b
\q1
\v 19 He is the chief of the ways of God.
\q2 He who made him gives him his sword.
\q1
\v 20 Surely the mountains produce food for him,
\q2 where all the animals of the field play.
\q1
\v 21 He lies under the lotus trees,
\q2 in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
\q1
\v 22 The lotuses cover him with their shade.
\q2 The willows of the brook surround him.
\q1
\v 23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble.
\q2 He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
\q1
\v 24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch,
\q2 or pierce through his nose with a snare?
\b


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\c 41
\b
\q1
\v 1 “Can you draw out Leviathan\f + \fr 41:1 \ft Leviathan is a name for a crocodile or similar creature.\f* with a fish hook,
\q2 or press down his tongue with a cord?
\q1
\v 2 Can you put a rope into his nose,
\q2 or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
\q1
\v 3 Will he make many petitions to you,
\q2 or will he speak soft words to you?
\q1
\v 4 Will he make a covenant with you,
\q2 that you should take him for a servant forever?
\q1
\v 5 Will you play with him as with a bird?
\q2 Or will you bind him for your girls?
\q1
\v 6 Will traders barter for him?
\q2 Will they part him among the merchants?
\q1
\v 7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons,
\q2 or his head with fish spears?
\q1
\v 8 Lay your hand on him.
\q2 Remember the battle, and do so no more.
\q1
\v 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain.
\q2 Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?
\b
\q1
\v 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up.
\q2 Who then is he who can stand before me?
\q1
\v 11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
\q2 Everything under the heavens is mine.
\b
\q1
\v 12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
\q2 nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
\q1
\v 13 Who can strip off his outer garment?
\q2 Who will come within his jaws?
\q1
\v 14 Who can open the doors of his face?
\q2 Around his teeth is terror.
\q1
\v 15 Strong scales are his pride,
\q2 shut up together with a close seal.
\b
\q1
\v 16 One is so near to another,
\q2 that no air can come between them.
\q1
\v 17 They are joined to one another.
\q2 They stick together, so that they can’t be pulled apart.
\q1
\v 18 His sneezing flashes out light.
\q2 His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
\q1
\v 19 Out of his mouth go burning torches.
\q2 Sparks of fire leap out.
\q1
\v 20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes,
\q2 as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
\q1
\v 21 His breath kindles coals.
\q2 A flame goes out of his mouth.
\q1
\v 22 There is strength in his neck.
\q2 Terror dances before him.
\q1
\v 23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together.
\q2 They are firm on him.
\q2 They can’t be moved.
\q1
\v 24 His heart is as firm as a stone,
\q2 yes, firm as the lower millstone.
\q1
\v 25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid.
\q2 They retreat before his thrashing.
\q1
\v 26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can’t prevail;
\q2 nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
\q1
\v 27 He counts iron as straw;
\q2 and bronze as rotten wood.
\q1
\v 28 The arrow can’t make him flee.
\q2 Sling stones are like chaff to him.
\q1
\v 29 Clubs are counted as stubble.
\q2 He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
\q1
\v 30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds,
\q2 leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
\q1
\v 31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot.
\q2 He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
\q1
\v 32 He makes a path shine after him.
\q2 One would think the deep had white hair.
\q1
\v 33 On earth there is not his equal,
\q2 that is made without fear.
\q1
\v 34 He sees everything that is high.
\q2 He is king over all the sons of pride.”
\b


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\p
\v 1 Then Job answered Yahweh,
\q1
\v 2 “I know that you can do all things,
\q2 and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
\q1
\v 3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
\q2 therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand,
\q2 things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
\q1
\v 4 You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;
\q2 I will question you, and you will answer me.’
\q1
\v 5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
\q2 but now my eye sees you.
\q1
\v 6 Therefore I abhor myself,
\q2 and repent in dust and ashes.”
\b
\p
\v 7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
\v 8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
\p
\v 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.
\p
\v 10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
\v 11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money,\f + \fr 42:11 \ft literally, kesitah, a unit of money, probably silver\f* and everyone a ring of gold.
\p
\v 12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
\v 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
\v 14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
\v 15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.
\v 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
\v 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.


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\c 5
\b
\q1
\v 1 “Call now; is there any who will answer you?
\q2 To which of the holy ones will you turn?
\q1
\v 2 For resentment kills the foolish man,
\q2 and jealousy kills the simple.
\q1
\v 3 I have seen the foolish taking root,
\q2 but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
\q1
\v 4 His children are far from safety.
\q2 They are crushed in the gate.
\q2 Neither is there any to deliver them,
\q1
\v 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up,
\q2 and take it even out of the thorns.
\q2 The snare gapes for their substance.
\q1
\v 6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
\q2 neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
\q1
\v 7 but man is born to trouble,
\q2 as the sparks fly upward.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “But as for me, I would seek God.
\q2 I would commit my cause to God,
\q1
\v 9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
\q2 marvelous things without number;
\q1
\v 10 who gives rain on the earth,
\q2 and sends waters on the fields;
\q1
\v 11 so that he sets up on high those who are low,
\q2 those who mourn are exalted to safety.
\q1
\v 12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
\q2 So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
\q1
\v 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
\q2 the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
\q1
\v 14 They meet with darkness in the day time,
\q2 and grope at noonday as in the night.
\q1
\v 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
\q2 even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
\q1
\v 16 So the poor has hope,
\q2 and injustice shuts her mouth.
\b
\q1
\v 17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
\q2 Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
\q1
\v 18 For he wounds and binds up.
\q2 He injures and his hands make whole.
\q1
\v 19 He will deliver you in six troubles;
\q2 yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
\q1
\v 20 In famine he will redeem you from death;
\q2 in war, from the power of the sword.
\q1
\v 21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
\q2 neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
\q1
\v 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine,
\q2 neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
\q1
\v 23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
\q2 The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
\q1
\v 24 You will know that your tent is in peace.
\q2 You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
\q1
\v 25 You will know also that your offspring\f + \fr 5:25 \ft or, seed\f* will be great,
\q2 Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
\q1
\v 26 You will come to your grave in a full age,
\q2 like a shock of grain comes in its season.
\q1
\v 27 Look at this. We have searched it. It is so.
\q2 Hear it, and know it for your good.”
\b


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\c 6
\p
\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Oh that my anguish were weighed,
\q2 and all my calamity laid in the balances!
\q1
\v 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas,
\q2 therefore have my words been rash.
\q1
\v 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me.
\q2 My spirit drinks up their poison.
\q1 The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
\q2
\v 5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass?
\q1 Or does the ox low over his fodder?
\q2
\v 6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt?
\q1 Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
\q2
\v 7 My soul refuses to touch them.
\q1 They are as loathsome food to me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Oh that I might have my request,
\q2 that God would grant the thing that I long for,
\q1
\v 9 even that it would please God to crush me;
\q2 that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
\q1
\v 10 Let still be my consolation,
\q2 yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare,
\q2 that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
\q1
\v 11 What is my strength, that I should wait?
\q2 What is my end, that I should be patient?
\q1
\v 12 Is my strength the strength of stones?
\q2 Or is my flesh of bronze?
\q1
\v 13 Isn’t it that I have no help in me,
\q2 That wisdom is driven quite from me?
\b
\q1
\v 14 “To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend;
\q2 even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
\q1
\v 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
\q2 as the channel of brooks that pass away;
\q1
\v 16 Which are black by reason of the ice,
\q2 in which the snow hides itself.
\q1
\v 17 In the dry season, they vanish.
\q2 When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
\q1
\v 18 The caravans that travel beside them turn away.
\q2 They go up into the waste, and perish.
\q1
\v 19 The caravans of Tema looked.
\q2 The companies of Sheba waited for them.
\q1
\v 20 They were distressed because they were confident.
\q2 They came there, and were confounded.
\q1
\v 21 For now you are nothing.
\q2 You see a terror, and are afraid.
\q1
\v 22 Did I say, ‘Give to me?’
\q2 or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’
\q1
\v 23 or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’
\q2 or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’
\b
\q1
\v 24 “Teach me, and I will hold my peace.
\q2 Cause me to understand my error.
\q1
\v 25 How forcible are words of uprightness!
\q2 But your reproof, what does it reprove?
\q1
\v 26 Do you intend to reprove words,
\q2 since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
\q1
\v 27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless,
\q2 and make merchandise of your friend.
\q1
\v 28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me,
\q2 for surely I will not lie to your face.
\q1
\v 29 Please return.
\q2 Let there be no injustice.
\q2 Yes, return again.
\q2 My cause is righteous.
\q1
\v 30 Is there injustice on my tongue?
\q2 Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?


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\b
\q1
\v 1 “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth?
\q2 Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
\q1
\v 2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow,
\q2 as a hireling who looks for his wages,
\q1
\v 3 so am I made to possess months of misery,
\q2 wearisome nights are appointed to me.
\q1
\v 4 When I lie down, I say,
\q2 ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’
\q2 I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
\q1
\v 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust.
\q2 My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
\q1
\v 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
\q2 and are spent without hope.
\q1
\v 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath.
\q2 My eye will no more see good.
\q1
\v 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more.
\q2 Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
\q1
\v 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
\q2 so he who goes down to Sheol\f + \fr 7:9 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* will come up no more.
\q1
\v 10 He will return no more to his house,
\q2 neither will his place know him any more.
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Therefore I will not keep silent.
\q2 I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.
\q2 I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
\q1
\v 12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster,
\q2 that you put a guard over me?
\q1
\v 13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.
\q2 My couch will ease my complaint;’
\q1
\v 14 then you scare me with dreams,
\q2 and terrify me through visions:
\q1
\v 15 so that my soul chooses strangling,
\q2 death rather than my bones.
\q1
\v 16 I loathe my life.
\q2 I don’t want to live forever.
\q2 Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
\q1
\v 17 What is man, that you should magnify him,
\q2 that you should set your mind on him,
\q1
\v 18 that you should visit him every morning,
\q2 and test him every moment?
\q1
\v 19 How long will you not look away from me,
\q2 nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
\q1
\v 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men?
\q2 Why have you set me as a mark for you,
\q2 so that I am a burden to myself?
\q1
\v 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity?
\q2 For now will I lie down in the dust.
\q2 You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”


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\c 8
\p
\v 1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
\q1
\v 2 “How long will you speak these things?
\q2 Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
\q1
\v 3 Does God pervert justice?
\q2 Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
\q1
\v 4 If your children have sinned against him,
\q2 he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
\q1
\v 5 If you want to seek God diligently,
\q2 make your supplication to the Almighty.
\q1
\v 6 If you were pure and upright,
\q2 surely now he would awaken for you,
\q1 and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
\q2
\v 7 Though your beginning was small,
\q1 yet your latter end would greatly increase.
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Please inquire of past generations.
\q2 Find out about the learning of their fathers.
\q1
\v 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
\q2 because our days on earth are a shadow.)
\q1
\v 10 Shall they not teach you, tell you,
\q2 and utter words out of their heart?
\b
\q1
\v 11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire?
\q2 Can the rushes grow without water?
\q1
\v 12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down,
\q2 it withers before any other reed.
\q1
\v 13 So are the paths of all who forget God.
\q2 The hope of the godless man will perish,
\q1
\v 14 Whose confidence will break apart,
\q2 Whose trust is a spider’s web.
\q1
\v 15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand.
\q2 He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
\q1
\v 16 He is green before the sun.
\q2 His shoots go out along his garden.
\q1
\v 17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile.
\q2 He sees the place of stones.
\q1
\v 18 If he is destroyed from his place,
\q2 then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
\q1
\v 19 Behold, this is the joy of his way:
\q2 out of the earth, others will spring.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man,
\q2 neither will he uphold the evildoers.
\q1
\v 21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter,
\q2 your lips with shouting.
\q1
\v 22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame.
\q2 The tent of the wicked will be no more.”


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\c 9
\p
\v 1 Then Job answered,
\q1
\v 2 “Truly I know that it is so,
\q2 but how can man be just with God?
\q1
\v 3 If he is pleased to contend with him,
\q2 he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
\q1
\v 4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength:
\q2 who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
\q1
\v 5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
\q2 when he overturns them in his anger.
\q1
\v 6 He shakes the earth out of its place.
\q2 Its pillars tremble.
\q1
\v 7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,
\q2 and seals up the stars.
\q1
\v 8 He alone stretches out the heavens,
\q2 and treads on the waves of the sea.
\q1
\v 9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
\q2 and the rooms of the south.
\q1
\v 10 He does great things past finding out;
\q2 yes, marvelous things without number.
\q1
\v 11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
\q2 He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
\q1
\v 12 Behold, he snatches away.
\q2 Who can hinder him?
\q2 Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
\b
\q1
\v 13 “God will not withdraw his anger.
\q2 The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
\q1
\v 14 How much less will I answer him,
\q2 And choose my words to argue with him?
\q1
\v 15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.
\q2 I would make supplication to my judge.
\q1
\v 16 If I had called, and he had answered me,
\q2 yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
\q1
\v 17 For he breaks me with a storm,
\q2 and multiplies my wounds without cause.
\q1
\v 18 He will not allow me to catch my breath,
\q2 but fills me with bitterness.
\q1
\v 19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!
\q2 If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
\q1
\v 20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.
\q2 Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
\q1
\v 21 I am blameless.
\q2 I don’t respect myself.
\q2 I despise my life.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “It is all the same.
\q2 Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
\q1
\v 23 If the scourge kills suddenly,
\q2 he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
\q1
\v 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.
\q2 He covers the faces of its judges.
\q2 If not he, then who is it?
\b
\q1
\v 25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner.
\q2 They flee away. They see no good.
\q1
\v 26 They have passed away as the swift ships,
\q2 as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
\q1
\v 27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
\q2 I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
\q1
\v 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows,
\q2 I know that you will not hold me innocent.
\q1
\v 29 I will be condemned.
\q2 Why then do I labor in vain?
\q1
\v 30 If I wash myself with snow,
\q2 and cleanse my hands with lye,
\q1
\v 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch.
\q2 My own clothes will abhor me.
\q1
\v 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
\q2 that we should come together in judgment.
\q1
\v 33 There is no umpire between us,
\q2 that might lay his hand on us both.
\q1
\v 34 Let him take his rod away from me.
\q2 Let his terror not make me afraid;
\q1
\v 35 then I would speak, and not fear him,
\q2 for I am not so in myself.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
\q2 nor stand on the path of sinners,
\q2 nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
\q1
\v 2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* law.
\q2 On his law he meditates day and night.
\q1
\v 3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,
\q2 that produces its fruit in its season,
\q2 whose leaf also does not wither.
\q2 Whatever he does shall prosper.
\q1
\v 4 The wicked are not so,
\q2 but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
\q1
\v 5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
\q2 nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
\q1
\v 6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
\q2 but the way of the wicked shall perish.


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\q1
\v 1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh?
\q2 Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
\q1
\v 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak.
\q2 They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
\q1
\v 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings.
\q2 He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 The wicked, in the pride of his face,
\q2 has no room in his thoughts for God.
\q1
\v 5 His ways are prosperous at all times.
\q2 He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight.
\q1 As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
\q2
\v 6 He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken.
\q2 For generations I shall have no trouble.”
\q1
\v 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.
\q2 Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
\q1
\v 8 He lies in wait near the villages.
\q2 From ambushes, he murders the innocent.
\q1 His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
\q1
\v 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush.
\q2 He lies in wait to catch the helpless.
\q2 He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
\q1
\v 10 The helpless are crushed.
\q2 They collapse.
\q2 They fall under his strength.
\q1
\v 11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.
\q2 He hides his face.
\q2 He will never see it.”
\b
\q1
\v 12 Arise, Yahweh!
\q2 God, lift up your hand!
\q2 Don’t forget the helpless.
\q1
\v 13 Why does the wicked person condemn God,
\q2 and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
\q1
\v 14 But you do see trouble and grief.
\q2 You consider it to take it into your hand.
\q2 You help the victim and the fatherless.
\q1
\v 15 Break the arm of the wicked.
\q2 As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh is King forever and ever!
\q2 The nations will perish out of his land.
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble.
\q2 You will prepare their heart.
\q2 You will cause your ear to hear,
\q2
\v 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
\q2 that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.


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\d A Psalm of thanksgiving.
\q1
\v 1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
\q2
\v 2 Serve Yahweh with gladness.
\q2 Come before his presence with singing.
\q1
\v 3 Know that Yahweh, he is God.
\q2 It is he who has made us, and we are his.
\q2 We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
\q1
\v 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
\q2 and into his courts with praise.
\q2 Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
\q1
\v 5 For Yahweh is good.
\q2 His loving kindness endures forever,
\q2 his faithfulness to all generations.


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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 I will sing of loving kindness and justice.
\q2 To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises.
\q1
\v 2 I will be careful to live a blameless life.
\q2 When will you come to me?
\q2 I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
\q1
\v 3 I will set no vile thing before my eyes.
\q2 I hate the deeds of faithless men.
\q2 They will not cling to me.
\q1
\v 4 A perverse heart will be far from me.
\q2 I will have nothing to do with evil.
\q1
\v 5 I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.
\q2 I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
\q1
\v 6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,
\q2 that they may dwell with me.
\q1 He who walks in a perfect way,
\q2 he will serve me.
\q1
\v 7 He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house.
\q2 He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
\q1
\v 8 Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
\q2 to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.


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\d A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.
\q1
\v 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh!
\q2 Let my cry come to you.
\q1
\v 2 Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress.
\q2 Turn your ear to me.
\q2 Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
\q1
\v 3 For my days consume away like smoke.
\q2 My bones are burned as a torch.
\q1
\v 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered,
\q2 for I forget to eat my bread.
\q1
\v 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning,
\q2 my bones stick to my skin.
\q1
\v 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness.
\q2 I have become as an owl of the waste places.
\q2
\v 7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
\q1
\v 8 My enemies reproach me all day.
\q2 Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
\q1
\v 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread,
\q2 and mixed my drink with tears,
\q2
\v 10 because of your indignation and your wrath;
\q2 for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
\q1
\v 11 My days are like a long shadow.
\q2 I have withered like grass.
\b
\q1
\v 12 But you, Yahweh, will remain forever;
\q2 your renown endures to all generations.
\q1
\v 13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
\q2 for it is time to have pity on her.
\q2 Yes, the set time has come.
\q1
\v 14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones,
\q2 and have pity on her dust.
\q1
\v 15 So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name,
\q2 all the kings of the earth your glory.
\q1
\v 16 For Yahweh has built up Zion.
\q2 He has appeared in his glory.
\q1
\v 17 He has responded to the prayer of the destitute,
\q2 and has not despised their prayer.
\q1
\v 18 This will be written for the generation to come.
\q2 A people which will be created will praise Yah.
\q1
\v 19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.
\q2 From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
\q1
\v 20 to hear the groans of the prisoner;
\q2 to free those who are condemned to death;
\q1
\v 21 that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion,
\q2 and his praise in Jerusalem;
\q1
\v 22 when the peoples are gathered together,
\q2 the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 23 He weakened my strength along the course.
\q2 He shortened my days.
\q1
\v 24 I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days.
\q2 Your years are throughout all generations.
\q1
\v 25 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth.
\q2 The heavens are the work of your hands.
\q1
\v 26 They will perish, but you will endure.
\q2 Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.
\q2 You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
\q1
\v 27 But you are the same.
\q2 Your years will have no end.
\q1
\v 28 The children of your servants will continue.
\q2 Their offspring will be established before you.”


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh, my soul!
\q2 All that is within me, praise his holy name!
\q1
\v 2 Praise Yahweh, my soul,
\q2 and don’t forget all his benefits,
\q1
\v 3 who forgives all your sins,
\q2 who heals all your diseases,
\q1
\v 4 who redeems your life from destruction,
\q2 who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
\q1
\v 5 who satisfies your desire with good things,
\q2 so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh executes righteous acts,
\q2 and justice for all who are oppressed.
\q1
\v 7 He made known his ways to Moses,
\q2 his deeds to the children of Israel.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh is merciful and gracious,
\q2 slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
\q1
\v 9 He will not always accuse;
\q2 neither will he stay angry forever.
\q1
\v 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
\q2 nor repaid us for our iniquities.
\q1
\v 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
\q2 so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
\q1
\v 12 As far as the east is from the west,
\q2 so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
\q1
\v 13 Like a father has compassion on his children,
\q2 so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
\q1
\v 14 For he knows how we are made.
\q2 He remembers that we are dust.
\q1
\v 15 As for man, his days are like grass.
\q2 As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
\q1
\v 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone.
\q2 Its place remembers it no more.
\q1
\v 17 But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,
\q2 his righteousness to children’s children,
\q1
\v 18 to those who keep his covenant,
\q2 to those who remember to obey his precepts.
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens.
\q2 His kingdom rules over all.
\q1
\v 20 Praise Yahweh, you angels of his,
\q2 who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word,
\q2 obeying the voice of his word.
\q1
\v 21 Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his,
\q2 you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
\q1
\v 22 Praise Yahweh, all you works of his,
\q2 in all places of his dominion.
\q2 Praise Yahweh, my soul!


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\q1
\v 1 Bless Yahweh, my soul.
\q2 Yahweh, my God, you are very great.
\q2 You are clothed with honor and majesty.
\q1
\v 2 He covers himself with light as with a garment.
\q2 He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
\q1
\v 3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.
\q2 He makes the clouds his chariot.
\q2 He walks on the wings of the wind.
\q1
\v 4 He makes his messengers\f + \fr 104:4 \ft or, angels\f* winds,
\q2 and his servants flames of fire.
\q1
\v 5 He laid the foundations of the earth,
\q2 that it should not be moved forever.
\q1
\v 6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.
\q2 The waters stood above the mountains.
\q1
\v 7 At your rebuke they fled.
\q2 At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
\q1
\v 8 The mountains rose,
\q2 the valleys sank down,
\q2 to the place which you had assigned to them.
\q1
\v 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,
\q2 that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
\q1
\v 10 He sends springs into the valleys.
\q2 They run among the mountains.
\q1
\v 11 They give drink to every animal of the field.
\q2 The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
\q1
\v 12 The birds of the sky nest by them.
\q2 They sing among the branches.
\q1
\v 13 He waters the mountains from his rooms.
\q2 The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
\q1
\v 14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock,
\q2 and plants for man to cultivate,
\q2 that he may produce food out of the earth:
\q1
\v 15 wine that makes the heart of man glad,
\q2 oil to make his face to shine,
\q2 and bread that strengthens man’s heart.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh’s trees are well watered,
\q2 the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
\q1
\v 17 where the birds make their nests.
\q2 The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.
\q1
\v 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats.
\q2 The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
\q1
\v 19 He appointed the moon for seasons.
\q2 The sun knows when to set.
\q1
\v 20 You make darkness, and it is night,
\q2 in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
\q1
\v 21 The young lions roar after their prey,
\q2 and seek their food from God.
\q1
\v 22 The sun rises, and they steal away,
\q2 and lie down in their dens.
\q1
\v 23 Man goes out to his work,
\q2 to his labor until the evening.
\q1
\v 24 Yahweh, how many are your works!
\q2 In wisdom, you have made them all.
\q2 The earth is full of your riches.
\q1
\v 25 There is the sea, great and wide,
\q2 in which are innumerable living things,
\q2 both small and large animals.
\q1
\v 26 There the ships go,
\q2 and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.
\q1
\v 27 These all wait for you,
\q2 that you may give them their food in due season.
\q1
\v 28 You give to them; they gather.
\q2 You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
\q1
\v 29 You hide your face; they are troubled.
\q2 You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
\q1
\v 30 You send out your Spirit and they are created.
\q2 You renew the face of the ground.
\q1
\v 31 Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever.
\q2 Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.
\q1
\v 32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles.
\q2 He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
\q1
\v 33 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live.
\q2 I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
\q1
\v 34 Let my meditation be sweet to him.
\q2 I will rejoice in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.
\q2 Let the wicked be no more.
\q2 Bless Yahweh, my soul.
\q2 Praise Yah!


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\q1
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name!
\q2 Make his doings known among the peoples.
\q1
\v 2 Sing to him, sing praises to him!
\q2 Tell of all his marvelous works.
\q1
\v 3 Glory in his holy name.
\q2 Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
\q1
\v 4 Seek Yahweh and his strength.
\q2 Seek his face forever more.
\q1
\v 5 Remember his marvelous works that he has done:
\q2 his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
\q1
\v 6 you offspring of Abraham, his servant,
\q2 you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
\q1
\v 7 He is Yahweh, our God.
\q2 His judgments are in all the earth.
\q1
\v 8 He has remembered his covenant forever,
\q2 the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
\q1
\v 9 the covenant which he made with Abraham,
\q2 his oath to Isaac,
\q1
\v 10 and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute;
\q2 to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
\q1
\v 11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,
\q2 the lot of your inheritance,”
\q1
\v 12 when they were but a few men in number,
\q2 yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
\q1
\v 13 They went about from nation to nation,
\q2 from one kingdom to another people.
\q1
\v 14 He allowed no one to do them wrong.
\q2 Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
\q1
\v 15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones!
\q2 Do my prophets no harm!”
\q1
\v 16 He called for a famine on the land.
\q2 He destroyed the food supplies.
\q1
\v 17 He sent a man before them.
\q2 Joseph was sold for a slave.
\q1
\v 18 They bruised his feet with shackles.
\q2 His neck was locked in irons,
\q1
\v 19 until the time that his word happened,
\q2 and Yahweh’s word proved him true.
\q1
\v 20 The king sent and freed him,
\q2 even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
\q1
\v 21 He made him lord of his house,
\q2 and ruler of all of his possessions,
\q1
\v 22 to discipline his princes at his pleasure,
\q2 and to teach his elders wisdom.
\q1
\v 23 Israel also came into Egypt.
\q2 Jacob lived in the land of Ham.
\q1
\v 24 He increased his people greatly,
\q2 and made them stronger than their adversaries.
\q1
\v 25 He turned their heart to hate his people,
\q2 to conspire against his servants.
\q1
\v 26 He sent Moses, his servant,
\q2 and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
\q1
\v 27 They performed miracles among them,
\q2 and wonders in the land of Ham.
\q1
\v 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark.
\q2 They didn’t rebel against his words.
\q1
\v 29 He turned their waters into blood,
\q2 and killed their fish.
\q1
\v 30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
\q2 even in the rooms of their kings.
\q1
\v 31 He spoke, and swarms of flies came,
\q2 and lice in all their borders.
\q1
\v 32 He gave them hail for rain,
\q2 with lightning in their land.
\q1
\v 33 He struck their vines and also their fig trees,
\q2 and shattered the trees of their country.
\q1
\v 34 He spoke, and the locusts came
\q2 with the grasshoppers, without number,
\q1
\v 35 ate up every plant in their land,
\q2 and ate up the fruit of their ground.
\q1
\v 36 He struck also all the firstborn in their land,
\q2 the first fruits of all their manhood.
\q1
\v 37 He brought them out with silver and gold.
\q2 There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
\q1
\v 38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
\q2 for the fear of them had fallen on them.
\q1
\v 39 He spread a cloud for a covering,
\q2 fire to give light in the night.
\q1
\v 40 They asked, and he brought quails,
\q2 and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.
\q1
\v 41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.
\q2 They ran as a river in the dry places.
\q1
\v 42 For he remembered his holy word,
\q2 and Abraham, his servant.
\q1
\v 43 He brought his people out with joy,
\q2 his chosen with singing.
\q1
\v 44 He gave them the lands of the nations.
\q2 They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
\q1
\v 45 that they might keep his statutes,
\q2 and observe his laws.
\q2 Praise Yah!


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\q2 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh,
\q2 or fully declare all his praise?
\q1
\v 3 Blessed are those who keep justice.
\q2 Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
\q1
\v 4 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people.
\q2 Visit me with your salvation,
\q1
\v 5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,
\q2 that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
\q2 that I may glory with your inheritance.
\b
\q1
\v 6 We have sinned with our fathers.
\q2 We have committed iniquity.
\q2 We have done wickedly.
\q1
\v 7 Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt.
\q2 They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,
\q2 but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
\q1
\v 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,
\q2 that he might make his mighty power known.
\q1
\v 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up;
\q2 so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
\q1
\v 10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
\q2 and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
\q1
\v 11 The waters covered their adversaries.
\q2 There was not one of them left.
\q1
\v 12 Then they believed his words.
\q2 They sang his praise.
\b
\q1
\v 13 They soon forgot his works.
\q2 They didn’t wait for his counsel,
\q2
\v 14 but gave in to craving in the desert,
\q2 and tested God in the wasteland.
\q1
\v 15 He gave them their request,
\q2 but sent leanness into their soul.
\q1
\v 16 They envied Moses also in the camp,
\q2 and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
\q1
\v 17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
\q2 and covered the company of Abiram.
\q1
\v 18 A fire was kindled in their company.
\q2 The flame burned up the wicked.
\q1
\v 19 They made a calf in Horeb,
\q2 and worshiped a molten image.
\q1
\v 20 Thus they exchanged their glory
\q2 for an image of a bull that eats grass.
\q1
\v 21 They forgot God, their Savior,
\q2 who had done great things in Egypt,
\q2
\v 22 wondrous works in the land of Ham,
\q2 and awesome things by the Red Sea.
\q1
\v 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them,
\q2 had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,
\q2 to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
\q1
\v 24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land.
\q2 They didn’t believe his word,
\q2
\v 25 but murmured in their tents,
\q2 and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.
\q1
\v 26 Therefore he swore to them
\q2 that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
\q2
\v 27 that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations,
\q2 and scatter them in the lands.
\q1
\v 28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,
\q2 and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
\q1
\v 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.
\q2 The plague broke in on them.
\q1
\v 30 Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment,
\q2 so the plague was stopped.
\q1
\v 31 That was credited to him for righteousness,
\q2 for all generations to come.
\q1
\v 32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,
\q2 so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;
\q1
\v 33 because they were rebellious against his spirit,
\q2 he spoke rashly with his lips.
\q1
\v 34 They didn’t destroy the peoples,
\q2 as Yahweh commanded them,
\q2
\v 35 but mixed themselves with the nations,
\q2 and learned their works.
\q1
\v 36 They served their idols,
\q2 which became a snare to them.
\q1
\v 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
\q2
\v 38 They shed innocent blood,
\q2 even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
\q2 whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
\q2 The land was polluted with blood.
\q1
\v 39 Thus they were defiled with their works,
\q2 and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
\q1
\v 40 Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people.
\q2 He abhorred his inheritance.
\q1
\v 41 He gave them into the hand of the nations.
\q2 Those who hated them ruled over them.
\q1
\v 42 Their enemies also oppressed them.
\q2 They were brought into subjection under their hand.
\q1
\v 43 He rescued them many times,
\q2 but they were rebellious in their counsel,
\q2 and were brought low in their iniquity.
\q1
\v 44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress,
\q2 when he heard their cry.
\q1
\v 45 He remembered for them his covenant,
\q2 and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
\q1
\v 46 He made them also to be pitied
\q2 by all those who carried them captive.
\b
\q1
\v 47 Save us, Yahweh, our God,
\q2 gather us from among the nations,
\q2 to give thanks to your holy name,
\q2 to triumph in your praise!
\b
\q1
\v 48 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
\q2 from everlasting even to everlasting!
\q1 Let all the people say, “Amen.”
\q1 Praise Yah!


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\ms1 BOOK 5
\q1
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh,\f + \fr 107:1 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* for he is good,
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 2 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so,
\q2 whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
\q2
\v 3 And gathered out of the lands,
\q2 from the east and from the west,
\q2 from the north and from the south.
\b
\q1
\v 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.
\q2 They found no city to live in.
\q1
\v 5 Hungry and thirsty,
\q2 their soul fainted in them.
\q1
\v 6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
\q2 and he delivered them out of their distresses,
\q1
\v 7 he led them also by a straight way,
\q2 that they might go to a city to live in.
\q1
\v 8 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
\q2 for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
\b
\q1
\v 9 For he satisfies the longing soul.
\q2 He fills the hungry soul with good.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
\q2 being bound in affliction and iron,
\q2
\v 11 because they rebelled against the words of God,\f + \fr 107:11 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q2 and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
\q1
\v 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor.
\q2 They fell down, and there was no one to help.
\q1
\v 13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
\q2 and he saved them out of their distresses.
\q1
\v 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
\q2 and broke away their chains.
\q1
\v 15 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
\q2 for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
\b
\q1
\v 16 For he has broken the gates of bronze,
\q2 and cut through bars of iron.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,
\q2 and because of their iniquities.
\q1
\v 18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food.
\q2 They draw near to the gates of death.
\q1
\v 19 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble,
\q2 he saves them out of their distresses.
\q1
\v 20 He sends his word, and heals them,
\q2 and delivers them from their graves.
\q1
\v 21 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
\q2 for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
\b
\q1
\v 22 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
\q2 and declare his deeds with singing.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Those who go down to the sea in ships,
\q2 who do business in great waters;
\q2
\v 24 These see Yahweh’s deeds,
\q2 and his wonders in the deep.
\q1
\v 25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind,
\q2 which lifts up its waves.
\q1
\v 26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths.
\q2 Their soul melts away because of trouble.
\q1
\v 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,
\q2 and are at their wits’ end.
\q1
\v 28 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble,
\q2 and he brings them out of their distress.
\q1
\v 29 He makes the storm a calm,
\q2 so that its waves are still.
\q1
\v 30 Then they are glad because it is calm,
\q2 so he brings them to their desired haven.
\q1
\v 31 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness,
\q2 for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!
\b
\q1
\v 32 Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,
\q2 and praise him in the seat of the elders.
\b
\q1
\v 33 He turns rivers into a desert,
\q2 water springs into a thirsty ground,
\q2
\v 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste,
\q2 for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
\q1
\v 35 He turns a desert into a pool of water,
\q2 and a dry land into water springs.
\q1
\v 36 There he makes the hungry live,
\q2 that they may prepare a city to live in,
\q2
\v 37 sow fields, plant vineyards,
\q2 and reap the fruits of increase.
\q1
\v 38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.
\q2 He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
\q1
\v 39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down
\q2 through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
\q1
\v 40 He pours contempt on princes,
\q2 and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
\q1
\v 41 Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction,
\q2 and increases their families like a flock.
\q1
\v 42 The upright will see it, and be glad.
\q2 All the wicked will shut their mouths.
\q1
\v 43 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.
\q2 They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.


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\d A Song. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 My heart is steadfast, God.
\q2 I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
\q1
\v 2 Wake up, harp and lyre!
\q2 I will wake up the dawn.
\q1
\v 3 I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations.
\q2 I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
\q1
\v 4 For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.
\q2 Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
\q1
\v 5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
\q2 Let your glory be over all the earth.
\q1
\v 6 That your beloved may be delivered,
\q2 save with your right hand, and answer us.
\q1
\v 7 God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph,
\q2 I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
\q1
\v 8 Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.
\q2 Ephraim also is my helmet.
\q2 Judah is my scepter.
\q1
\v 9 Moab is my wash pot.
\q2 I will toss my sandal on Edom.
\q2 I will shout over Philistia.”
\q1
\v 10 Who will bring me into the fortified city?
\q2 Who has led me to Edom?
\q1
\v 11 Haven’t you rejected us, God?
\q2 You don’t go out, God, with our armies.
\q1
\v 12 Give us help against the enemy,
\q2 for the help of man is vain.
\q1
\v 13 Through God, we will do valiantly.
\q2 For it is he who will tread down our enemies.


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\c 109
\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
\q2
\v 2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.
\q2 They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
\q1
\v 3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
\q2 and fought against me without a cause.
\q1
\v 4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries;
\q2 but I am in prayer.
\q1
\v 5 They have rewarded me evil for good,
\q2 and hatred for my love.
\q1
\v 6 Set a wicked man over him.
\q2 Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
\q1
\v 7 When he is judged, let him come out guilty.
\q2 Let his prayer be turned into sin.
\q1
\v 8 Let his days be few.
\q2 Let another take his office.
\q1
\v 9 Let his children be fatherless,
\q2 and his wife a widow.
\q1
\v 10 Let his children be wandering beggars.
\q2 Let them be sought from their ruins.
\q1
\v 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has.
\q2 Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
\q1
\v 12 Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
\q2 neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
\q1
\v 13 Let his posterity be cut off.
\q2 In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
\q1
\v 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh.
\q2 Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
\q1
\v 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually,
\q2 that he may cut off their memory from the earth;
\q1
\v 16 because he didn’t remember to show kindness,
\q2 but persecuted the poor and needy man,
\q2 the broken in heart, to kill them.
\q1
\v 17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.
\q2 He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
\q1
\v 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.
\q2 It came into his inward parts like water,
\q2 like oil into his bones.
\q1
\v 19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,
\q2 for the belt that is always around him.
\q1
\v 20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh,
\q2 of those who speak evil against my soul.
\b
\q1
\v 21 But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord,\f + \fr 109:21 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* for your name’s sake,
\q2 because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
\q2
\v 22 for I am poor and needy.
\q2 My heart is wounded within me.
\q1
\v 23 I fade away like an evening shadow.
\q2 I am shaken off like a locust.
\q1
\v 24 My knees are weak through fasting.
\q2 My body is thin and lacks fat.
\q1
\v 25 I have also become a reproach to them.
\q2 When they see me, they shake their head.
\q1
\v 26 Help me, Yahweh, my God.
\q2 Save me according to your loving kindness;
\q1
\v 27 that they may know that this is your hand;
\q2 that you, Yahweh, have done it.
\q1
\v 28 They may curse, but you bless.
\q2 When they arise, they will be shamed,
\q2 but your servant shall rejoice.
\q1
\v 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.
\q2 Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
\q1
\v 30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth.
\q2 Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.
\q1
\v 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
\q2 to save him from those who judge his soul.


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\c 11
\d For the Chief Musician. By David.
\q1
\v 1 In Yahweh, I take refuge.
\q2 How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
\q1
\v 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.
\q2 They set their arrows on the strings,
\q2 that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
\q1
\v 3 If the foundations are destroyed,
\q2 what can the righteous do?
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh is in his holy temple.
\q2 Yahweh is on his throne in heaven.
\q1 His eyes observe.
\q2 His eyes examine the children of men.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh examines the righteous,
\q2 but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.
\q1
\v 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;
\q2 fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
\q1
\v 7 For Yahweh is righteous.
\q2 He loves righteousness.
\q2 The upright shall see his face.


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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
\q2 until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion.
\q2 Rule among your enemies.
\q1
\v 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.
\q2 Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind:
\q2 “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
\q1
\v 5 The Lord is at your right hand.
\q2 He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
\q1
\v 6 He will judge among the nations.
\q2 He will heap up dead bodies.
\q2 He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
\q1
\v 7 He will drink of the brook on the way;
\q2 therefore he will lift up his head.


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 111:1 \ft Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).\f*
\q2 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart,
\q2 in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh’s works are great,
\q2 pondered by all those who delight in them.
\q1
\v 3 His work is honor and majesty.
\q2 His righteousness endures forever.
\q1
\v 4 He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.
\q2 Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
\q1
\v 5 He has given food to those who fear him.
\q2 He always remembers his covenant.
\q1
\v 6 He has shown his people the power of his works,
\q2 in giving them the heritage of the nations.
\q1
\v 7 The works of his hands are truth and justice.
\q2 All his precepts are sure.
\q1
\v 8 They are established forever and ever.
\q2 They are done in truth and uprightness.
\q1
\v 9 He has sent redemption to his people.
\q2 He has ordained his covenant forever.
\q2 His name is holy and awesome!
\q1
\v 10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.
\q2 All those who do his work have a good understanding.
\q1 His praise endures forever!


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\c 112
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 112:1 \ft Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise Yah!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).\f*
\q2 Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh,
\q2 who delights greatly in his commandments.
\q1
\v 2 His offspring will be mighty in the land.
\q2 The generation of the upright will be blessed.
\q1
\v 3 Wealth and riches are in his house.
\q2 His righteousness endures forever.
\q1
\v 4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,
\q2 gracious, merciful, and righteous.
\q1
\v 5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.
\q2 He will maintain his cause in judgment.
\q1
\v 6 For he will never be shaken.
\q2 The righteous will be remembered forever.
\q1
\v 7 He will not be afraid of evil news.
\q2 His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 8 His heart is established.
\q2 He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.
\q1
\v 9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.
\q2 His righteousness endures forever.
\q2 His horn will be exalted with honor.
\q1
\v 10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved.
\q2 He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.
\q2 The desire of the wicked will perish.


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!
\q2 Praise, you servants of Yahweh,
\q2 praise Yahweh’s name.
\q1
\v 2 Blessed be Yahweh’s name,
\q2 from this time forward and forever more.
\q1
\v 3 From the rising of the sun to its going down,
\q2 Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh is high above all nations,
\q2 his glory above the heavens.
\q1
\v 5 Who is like Yahweh, our God,
\q2 who has his seat on high,
\q2
\v 6 Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
\q1
\v 7 He raises up the poor out of the dust.
\q2 Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
\q1
\v 8 that he may set him with princes,
\q2 even with the princes of his people.
\q1
\v 9 He settles the barren woman in her home
\q2 as a joyful mother of children.
\q1 Praise Yah!


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\q1
\v 1 When Israel went out of Egypt,
\q2 the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,
\q1
\v 2 Judah became his sanctuary,
\q2 Israel his dominion.
\q1
\v 3 The sea saw it, and fled.
\q2 The Jordan was driven back.
\q1
\v 4 The mountains skipped like rams,
\q2 the little hills like lambs.
\q1
\v 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled?
\q2 You Jordan, that you turned back?
\q1
\v 6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams;
\q2 you little hills, like lambs?
\q1
\v 7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,
\q2 at the presence of the God of Jacob,
\q1
\v 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water,
\q2 the flint into a spring of waters.


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\q1
\v 1 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
\q2 but to your name give glory,
\q2 for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
\q1
\v 2 Why should the nations say,
\q2 “Where is their God, now?”
\q1
\v 3 But our God is in the heavens.
\q2 He does whatever he pleases.
\q1
\v 4 Their idols are silver and gold,
\q2 the work of men’s hands.
\q1
\v 5 They have mouths, but they don’t speak.
\q2 They have eyes, but they don’t see.
\q1
\v 6 They have ears, but they don’t hear.
\q2 They have noses, but they don’t smell.
\q1
\v 7 They have hands, but they don’t feel.
\q2 They have feet, but they don’t walk,
\q2 neither do they speak through their throat.
\q1
\v 8 Those who make them will be like them;
\q2 yes, everyone who trusts in them.
\q1
\v 9 Israel, trust in Yahweh!
\q2 He is their help and their shield.
\q1
\v 10 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh!
\q2 He is their help and their shield.
\q1
\v 11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!
\q2 He is their help and their shield.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us.
\q2 He will bless the house of Israel.
\q2 He will bless the house of Aaron.
\q1
\v 13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh,
\q2 both small and great.
\q1
\v 14 May Yahweh increase you more and more,
\q2 you and your children.
\q1
\v 15 Blessed are you by Yahweh,
\q2 who made heaven and earth.
\q1
\v 16 The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,
\q2 but he has given the earth to the children of men.
\q1
\v 17 The dead don’t praise Yah,
\q2 neither any who go down into silence;
\q1
\v 18 but we will bless Yah,
\q2 from this time forward and forever more.
\q1 Praise Yah!


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\q1
\v 1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice,
\q2 and my cries for mercy.
\q1
\v 2 Because he has turned his ear to me,
\q2 therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
\q1
\v 3 The cords of death surrounded me,
\q2 the pains of Sheol\f + \fr 116:3 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* got a hold of me.
\q2 I found trouble and sorrow.
\q1
\v 4 Then I called on Yahweh’s name:
\q2 “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh is Gracious and righteous.
\q2 Yes, our God is merciful.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh preserves the simple.
\q2 I was brought low, and he saved me.
\q1
\v 7 Return to your rest, my soul,
\q2 for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
\q1
\v 8 For you have delivered my soul from death,
\q2 my eyes from tears,
\q2 and my feet from falling.
\q1
\v 9 I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
\q1
\v 10 I believed, therefore I said,
\q2 “I was greatly afflicted.”
\q1
\v 11 I said in my haste,
\q2 “All people are liars.”
\q1
\v 12 What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
\q2
\v 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
\q1
\v 14 I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
\q2 yes, in the presence of all his people.
\q1
\v 15 Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh, truly I am your servant.
\q2 I am your servant, the son of your servant girl.
\q2 You have freed me from my chains.
\q1
\v 17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
\q2 and will call on Yahweh’s name.
\q1
\v 18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh,
\q2 yes, in the presence of all his people,
\q1
\v 19 in the courts of Yahweh’s house,
\q2 in the middle of you, Jerusalem.
\q1 Praise Yah!


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh, all you nations!
\q2 Extol him, all you peoples!
\q1
\v 2 For his loving kindness is great toward us.
\q2 Yahweh’s faithfulness endures forever.
\q1 Praise Yah!


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\c 118
\q1
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 2 Let Israel now say
\q2 that his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 3 Let the house of Aaron now say
\q2 that his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 4 Now let those who fear Yahweh say
\q2 that his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 5 Out of my distress, I called on Yah.
\q2 Yah answered me with freedom.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid.
\q2 What can man do to me?
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me.
\q2 Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.
\q1
\v 8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
\q2 than to put confidence in man.
\q1
\v 9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh,
\q2 than to put confidence in princes.
\q1
\v 10 All the nations surrounded me,
\q2 but in Yahweh’s name, I cut them off.
\q1
\v 11 They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.
\q2 In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.
\q1
\v 12 They surrounded me like bees.
\q2 They are quenched like the burning thorns.
\q2 In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.
\q1
\v 13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall,
\q2 but Yahweh helped me.
\q1
\v 14 Yah is my strength and song.
\q2 He has become my salvation.
\q1
\v 15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.
\q2 “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
\q1
\v 16 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted!
\q2 The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!”
\q1
\v 17 I will not die, but live,
\q2 and declare Yah’s works.
\q1
\v 18 Yah has punished me severely,
\q2 but he has not given me over to death.
\q1
\v 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness.
\q2 I will enter into them.
\q2 I will give thanks to Yah.
\q1
\v 20 This is the gate of Yahweh;
\q2 the righteous will enter into it.
\q1
\v 21 I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me,
\q2 and have become my salvation.
\q1
\v 22 The stone which the builders rejected
\q2 has become the cornerstone.\f + \fr 118:22 \ft Literally, \fqa head of the corner\f*
\q1
\v 23 This is Yahweh’s doing.
\q2 It is marvelous in our eyes.
\q1
\v 24 This is the day that Yahweh has made.
\q2 We will rejoice and be glad in it!
\q1
\v 25 Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh!
\q2 Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now.
\q1
\v 26 Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name!
\q2 We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
\q1
\v 27 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.
\q2 Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.
\q1
\v 28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.
\q2 You are my God, I will exalt you.
\q1
\v 29 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.


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\c 119
\d ALEPH
\q1
\v 1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
\q2 who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
\q1
\v 2 Blessed are those who keep his statutes,
\q2 who seek him with their whole heart.
\q1
\v 3 Yes, they do nothing wrong.
\q2 They walk in his ways.
\q1
\v 4 You have commanded your precepts,
\q2 that we should fully obey them.
\q1
\v 5 Oh that my ways were steadfast
\q2 to obey your statutes!
\q1
\v 6 Then I wouldn’t be disappointed,
\q2 when I consider all of your commandments.
\q1
\v 7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart,
\q2 when I learn your righteous judgments.
\q1
\v 8 I will observe your statutes.
\q2 Don’t utterly forsake me.
\d BET
\q1
\v 9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
\q2 By living according to your word.
\q1
\v 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you.
\q2 Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
\q1
\v 11 I have hidden your word in my heart,
\q2 that I might not sin against you.
\q1
\v 12 Blessed are you, Yahweh.
\q2 Teach me your statutes.
\q1
\v 13 With my lips,
\q2 I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
\q1
\v 14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies,
\q2 as much as in all riches.
\q1
\v 15 I will meditate on your precepts,
\q2 and consider your ways.
\q1
\v 16 I will delight myself in your statutes.
\q2 I will not forget your word.
\d GIMEL
\q1
\v 17 Do good to your servant.
\q2 I will live and I will obey your word.
\q1
\v 18 Open my eyes,
\q2 that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
\q1
\v 19 I am a stranger on the earth.
\q2 Don’t hide your commandments from me.
\q1
\v 20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
\q1
\v 21 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed,
\q2 who wander from your commandments.
\q1
\v 22 Take reproach and contempt away from me,
\q2 for I have kept your statutes.
\q1
\v 23 Though princes sit and slander me,
\q2 your servant will meditate on your statutes.
\q1
\v 24 Indeed your statutes are my delight,
\q2 and my counselors.
\d DALED
\q1
\v 25 My soul is laid low in the dust.
\q2 Revive me according to your word!
\q1
\v 26 I declared my ways, and you answered me.
\q2 Teach me your statutes.
\q1
\v 27 Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
\q2 Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
\q1
\v 28 My soul is weary with sorrow:
\q2 strengthen me according to your word.
\q1
\v 29 Keep me from the way of deceit.
\q2 Grant me your law graciously!
\q1
\v 30 I have chosen the way of truth.
\q2 I have set your ordinances before me.
\q1
\v 31 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh.
\q2 Don’t let me be disappointed.
\q1
\v 32 I run in the path of your commandments,
\q2 for you have set my heart free.
\d HEY
\q1
\v 33 Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes.
\q2 I will keep them to the end.
\q1
\v 34 Give me understanding, and I will keep your law.
\q2 Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
\q1
\v 35 Direct me in the path of your commandments,
\q2 for I delight in them.
\q1
\v 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes,
\q2 not toward selfish gain.
\q1
\v 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things.
\q2 Revive me in your ways.
\q1
\v 38 Fulfill your promise to your servant,
\q2 that you may be feared.
\q1
\v 39 Take away my disgrace that I dread,
\q2 for your ordinances are good.
\q1
\v 40 Behold, I long for your precepts!
\q2 Revive me in your righteousness.
\d WAW
\q1
\v 41 Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh,
\q2 your salvation, according to your word.
\q1
\v 42 So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,
\q2 for I trust in your word.
\q1
\v 43 Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,
\q2 for I put my hope in your ordinances.
\q1
\v 44 So I will obey your law continually,
\q2 forever and ever.
\q1
\v 45 I will walk in liberty,
\q2 for I have sought your precepts.
\q1
\v 46 I will also speak of your statutes before kings,
\q2 and will not be disappointed.
\q1
\v 47 I will delight myself in your commandments,
\q2 because I love them.
\q1
\v 48 I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.
\q2 I will meditate on your statutes.
\d ZAYIN
\q1
\v 49 Remember your word to your servant,
\q2 because you gave me hope.
\q1
\v 50 This is my comfort in my affliction,
\q2 for your word has revived me.
\q1
\v 51 The arrogant mock me excessively,
\q2 but I don’t swerve from your law.
\q1
\v 52 I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh,
\q2 and have comforted myself.
\q1
\v 53 Indignation has taken hold on me,
\q2 because of the wicked who forsake your law.
\q1
\v 54 Your statutes have been my songs
\q2 in the house where I live.
\q1
\v 55 I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night,
\q2 and I obey your law.
\q1
\v 56 This is my way,
\q2 that I keep your precepts.
\d CHET
\q1
\v 57 Yahweh is my portion.
\q2 I promised to obey your words.
\q1
\v 58 I sought your favor with my whole heart.
\q2 Be merciful to me according to your word.
\q1
\v 59 I considered my ways,
\q2 and turned my steps to your statutes.
\q1
\v 60 I will hurry, and not delay,
\q2 to obey your commandments.
\q1
\v 61 The ropes of the wicked bind me,
\q2 but I won’t forget your law.
\q1
\v 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you,
\q2 because of your righteous ordinances.
\q1
\v 63 I am a friend of all those who fear you,
\q2 of those who observe your precepts.
\q1
\v 64 The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh.
\q2 Teach me your statutes.
\d TET
\q1
\v 65 Do good to your servant,
\q2 according to your word, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
\q2 for I believe in your commandments.
\q1
\v 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray;
\q2 but now I observe your word.
\q1
\v 68 You are good, and do good.
\q2 Teach me your statutes.
\q1
\v 69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me.
\q2 With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
\q1
\v 70 Their heart is as callous as the fat,
\q2 but I delight in your law.
\q1
\v 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted,
\q2 that I may learn your statutes.
\q1
\v 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
\d YUD
\q1
\v 73 Your hands have made me and formed me.
\q2 Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
\q1
\v 74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
\q2 because I have put my hope in your word.
\q1
\v 75 Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous,
\q2 that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
\q1
\v 76 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,
\q2 according to your word to your servant.
\q1
\v 77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
\q2 for your law is my delight.
\q1
\v 78 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully.
\q2 I will meditate on your precepts.
\q1
\v 79 Let those who fear you turn to me.
\q2 They will know your statutes.
\q1
\v 80 Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees,
\q2 that I may not be disappointed.
\d KAF
\q1
\v 81 My soul faints for your salvation.
\q2 I hope in your word.
\q1
\v 82 My eyes fail for your word.
\q2 I say, “When will you comfort me?”
\q1
\v 83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke.
\q2 I don’t forget your statutes.
\q1
\v 84 How many are the days of your servant?
\q2 When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
\q1
\v 85 The proud have dug pits for me,
\q2 contrary to your law.
\q1
\v 86 All of your commandments are faithful.
\q2 They persecute me wrongfully.
\q2 Help me!
\q1
\v 87 They had almost wiped me from the earth,
\q2 but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
\q1
\v 88 Preserve my life according to your loving kindness,
\q2 so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
\d LAMED
\q1
\v 89 Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.
\q1
\v 90 Your faithfulness is to all generations.
\q2 You have established the earth, and it remains.
\q1
\v 91 Your laws remain to this day,
\q2 for all things serve you.
\q1
\v 92 Unless your law had been my delight,
\q2 I would have perished in my affliction.
\q1
\v 93 I will never forget your precepts,
\q2 for with them, you have revived me.
\q1
\v 94 I am yours.
\q2 Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
\q1
\v 95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.
\q2 I will consider your statutes.
\q1
\v 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection,
\q2 but your commands are boundless.
\d MEM
\q1
\v 97 How I love your law!
\q2 It is my meditation all day.
\q1
\v 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
\q2 for your commandments are always with me.
\q1
\v 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
\q2 for your testimonies are my meditation.
\q1
\v 100 I understand more than the aged,
\q2 because I have kept your precepts.
\q1
\v 101 I have kept my feet from every evil way,
\q2 that I might observe your word.
\q1
\v 102 I have not turned away from your ordinances,
\q2 for you have taught me.
\q1
\v 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste,
\q2 more than honey to my mouth!
\q1
\v 104 Through your precepts, I get understanding;
\q2 therefore I hate every false way.
\d NUN
\q1
\v 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet,
\q2 and a light for my path.
\q1
\v 106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it,
\q2 that I will obey your righteous ordinances.
\q1
\v 107 I am afflicted very much.
\q2 Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.
\q1
\v 108 Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth.
\q2 Yahweh, teach me your ordinances.
\q1
\v 109 My soul is continually in my hand,
\q2 yet I won’t forget your law.
\q1
\v 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,
\q2 yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
\q1
\v 111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever,
\q2 for they are the joy of my heart.
\q1
\v 112 I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever,
\q2 even to the end.
\d SAMEKH
\q1
\v 113 I hate double-minded men,
\q2 but I love your law.
\q1
\v 114 You are my hiding place and my shield.
\q2 I hope in your word.
\q1
\v 115 Depart from me, you evildoers,
\q2 that I may keep the commandments of my God.
\q1
\v 116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live.
\q2 Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
\q1
\v 117 Hold me up, and I will be safe,
\q2 and will have respect for your statutes continually.
\q1
\v 118 You reject all those who stray from your statutes,
\q2 for their deceit is in vain.
\q1
\v 119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross.
\q2 Therefore I love your testimonies.
\q1
\v 120 My flesh trembles for fear of you.
\q2 I am afraid of your judgments.
\d AYIN
\q1
\v 121 I have done what is just and righteous.
\q2 Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
\q1
\v 122 Ensure your servant’s well-being.
\q2 Don’t let the proud oppress me.
\q1
\v 123 My eyes fail looking for your salvation,
\q2 for your righteous word.
\q1
\v 124 Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness.
\q2 Teach me your statutes.
\q1
\v 125 I am your servant. Give me understanding,
\q2 that I may know your testimonies.
\q1
\v 126 It is time to act, Yahweh,
\q2 for they break your law.
\q1
\v 127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold,
\q2 yes, more than pure gold.
\q1
\v 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right.
\q2 I hate every false way.
\d PEY
\q1
\v 129 Your testimonies are wonderful,
\q2 therefore my soul keeps them.
\q1
\v 130 The entrance of your words gives light.
\q2 It gives understanding to the simple.
\q1
\v 131 I opened my mouth wide and panted,
\q2 for I longed for your commandments.
\q1
\v 132 Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
\q2 as you always do to those who love your name.
\q1
\v 133 Establish my footsteps in your word.
\q2 Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
\q1
\v 134 Redeem me from the oppression of man,
\q2 so I will observe your precepts.
\q1
\v 135 Make your face shine on your servant.
\q2 Teach me your statutes.
\q1
\v 136 Streams of tears run down my eyes,
\q2 because they don’t observe your law.
\d TZADI
\q1
\v 137 You are righteous, Yahweh.
\q2 Your judgments are upright.
\q1
\v 138 You have commanded your statutes in righteousness.
\q2 They are fully trustworthy.
\q1
\v 139 My zeal wears me out,
\q2 because my enemies ignore your words.
\q1
\v 140 Your promises have been thoroughly tested,
\q2 and your servant loves them.
\q1
\v 141 I am small and despised.
\q2 I don’t forget your precepts.
\q1
\v 142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.
\q2 Your law is truth.
\q1
\v 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me.
\q2 Your commandments are my delight.
\q1
\v 144 Your testimonies are righteous forever.
\q2 Give me understanding, that I may live.
\d KUF
\q1
\v 145 I have called with my whole heart.
\q2 Answer me, Yahweh!
\q2 I will keep your statutes.
\q1
\v 146 I have called to you. Save me!
\q2 I will obey your statutes.
\q1
\v 147 I rise before dawn and cry for help.
\q2 I put my hope in your words.
\q1
\v 148 My eyes stay open through the night watches,
\q2 that I might meditate on your word.
\q1
\v 149 Hear my voice according to your loving kindness.
\q2 Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.
\q1
\v 150 They draw near who follow after wickedness.
\q2 They are far from your law.
\q1
\v 151 You are near, Yahweh.
\q2 All your commandments are truth.
\q1
\v 152 Of old I have known from your testimonies,
\q2 that you have founded them forever.
\d RESH
\q1
\v 153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me,
\q2 for I don’t forget your law.
\q1
\v 154 Plead my cause, and redeem me!
\q2 Revive me according to your promise.
\q1
\v 155 Salvation is far from the wicked,
\q2 for they don’t seek your statutes.
\q1
\v 156 Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh.
\q2 Revive me according to your ordinances.
\q1
\v 157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries.
\q2 I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
\q1
\v 158 I look at the faithless with loathing,
\q2 because they don’t observe your word.
\q1
\v 159 Consider how I love your precepts.
\q2 Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
\q1
\v 160 All of your words are truth.
\q2 Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
\d SIN AND SHIN
\q1
\v 161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause,
\q2 but my heart stands in awe of your words.
\q1
\v 162 I rejoice at your word,
\q2 as one who finds great plunder.
\q1
\v 163 I hate and abhor falsehood.
\q2 I love your law.
\q1
\v 164 Seven times a day, I praise you,
\q2 because of your righteous ordinances.
\q1
\v 165 Those who love your law have great peace.
\q2 Nothing causes them to stumble.
\q1
\v 166 I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh.
\q2 I have done your commandments.
\q1
\v 167 My soul has observed your testimonies.
\q2 I love them exceedingly.
\q1
\v 168 I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies,
\q2 for all my ways are before you.
\d TAV
\q1
\v 169 Let my cry come before you, Yahweh.
\q2 Give me understanding according to your word.
\q1
\v 170 Let my supplication come before you.
\q2 Deliver me according to your word.
\q1
\v 171 Let my lips utter praise,
\q2 for you teach me your statutes.
\q1
\v 172 Let my tongue sing of your word,
\q2 for all your commandments are righteousness.
\q1
\v 173 Let your hand be ready to help me,
\q2 for I have chosen your precepts.
\q1
\v 174 I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh.
\q2 Your law is my delight.
\q1
\v 175 Let my soul live, that I may praise you.
\q2 Let your ordinances help me.
\q1
\v 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep.
\q2 Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.


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\d For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
\q1
\v 1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
\q2 For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
\q1
\v 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor.
\q2 They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
\q1
\v 3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
\q2 and the tongue that boasts,
\q1
\v 4 who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
\q2 Our lips are our own.
\q2 Who is lord over us?”
\q1
\v 5 “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
\q2 I will now arise,” says Yahweh;
\q1 “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh’s words are flawless words,
\q2 as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
\q1
\v 7 You will keep them, Yahweh.
\q2 You will preserve them from this generation forever.
\q1
\v 8 The wicked walk on every side,
\q2 when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
\q2 He answered me.
\q1
\v 2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
\q2 from a deceitful tongue.
\q1
\v 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
\q2 you deceitful tongue?
\q1
\v 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty,
\q2 with coals of juniper.
\q1
\v 5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
\q2 that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
\q1
\v 6 My soul has had her dwelling too long
\q2 with him who hates peace.
\q1
\v 7 I am for peace,
\q2 but when I speak, they are for war.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
\q2 Where does my help come from?
\q1
\v 2 My help comes from Yahweh,
\q2 who made heaven and earth.
\b
\q1
\v 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved.
\q2 He who keeps you will not slumber.
\q1
\v 4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
\q2 will neither slumber nor sleep.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh is your keeper.
\q2 Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
\q1
\v 6 The sun will not harm you by day,
\q2 nor the moon by night.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh will keep you from all evil.
\q2 He will keep your soul.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,
\q2 from this time forward, and forever more.


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\d A Song of Ascents. By David.
\q1
\v 1 I was glad when they said to me,
\q2 “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
\q1
\v 2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem,
\q2
\v 3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together,
\q1
\v 4 where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes,
\q2 according to an ordinance for Israel,
\q2 to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.
\q1
\v 5 For there are set thrones for judgment,
\q2 the thrones of David’s house.
\q1
\v 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
\q2 Those who love you will prosper.
\q1
\v 7 Peace be within your walls,
\q2 and prosperity within your palaces.
\q1
\v 8 For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,
\q2 I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
\q1
\v 9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
\q2 I will seek your good.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 I lift up my eyes to you,
\q2 you who sit in the heavens.
\q1
\v 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
\q2 as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress;
\q2 so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God,
\q2 until he has mercy on us.
\q1
\v 3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us,
\q2 for we have endured much contempt.
\q1
\v 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
\q2 with the contempt of the proud.


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\d A Song of Ascents. By David.
\q1
\v 1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
\q2 let Israel now say,
\q1
\v 2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
\q2 when men rose up against us;
\q1
\v 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,
\q2 when their wrath was kindled against us;
\q1
\v 4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
\q2 the stream would have gone over our soul;
\q1
\v 5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
\q1
\v 6 Blessed be Yahweh,
\q2 who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
\q1
\v 7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare.
\q2 The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
\q1
\v 8 Our help is in Yahweh’s name,
\q2 who made heaven and earth.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion,
\q2 which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
\q1
\v 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
\q2 so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
\q1
\v 3 For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous;
\q2 so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
\q1
\v 4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good,
\q2 to those who are upright in their hearts.
\q1
\v 5 But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways,
\q2 Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.
\q1 Peace be on Israel.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion,
\q2 we were like those who dream.
\q1
\v 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
\q2 and our tongue with singing.
\q1 Then they said among the nations,
\q2 “Yahweh has done great things for them.”
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh has done great things for us,
\q2 and we are glad.
\q1
\v 4 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh,
\q2 like the streams in the Negev.
\q1
\v 5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
\q2
\v 6 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing,
\q2 will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.


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\d A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.
\q1
\v 1 Unless Yahweh builds the house,
\q2 they who build it labor in vain.
\q1 Unless Yahweh watches over the city,
\q2 the watchman guards it in vain.
\q1
\v 2 It is vain for you to rise up early,
\q2 to stay up late,
\q2 eating the bread of toil,
\q2 for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
\q1
\v 3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh.
\q2 The fruit of the womb is his reward.
\q1
\v 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,
\q2 so are the children of youth.
\q1
\v 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.
\q2 They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,
\q2 who walks in his ways.
\q1
\v 2 For you will eat the labor of your hands.
\q2 You will be happy, and it will be well with you.
\q1
\v 3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,
\q2 your children like olive plants around your table.
\q1
\v 4 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.
\q2
\v 5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion,
\q2 and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
\q1
\v 6 Yes, may you see your children’s children.
\q2 Peace be upon Israel.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
\q2 Let Israel now say,
\q1
\v 2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,
\q2 yet they have not prevailed against me.
\q1
\v 3 The plowers plowed on my back.
\q2 They made their furrows long.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh is righteous.
\q2 He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
\q1
\v 5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
\q2 all those who hate Zion.
\q1
\v 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
\q2 which withers before it grows up,
\q1
\v 7 with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
\q2 nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
\q1
\v 8 Neither do those who go by say,
\q2 “The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
\q2 We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 How long, Yahweh?
\q2 Will you forget me forever?
\q2 How long will you hide your face from me?
\q1
\v 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
\q2 having sorrow in my heart every day?
\q2 How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
\q1
\v 3 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God.
\q2 Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
\q2
\v 4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;”
\q2 lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
\b
\q1
\v 5 But I trust in your loving kindness.
\q2 My heart rejoices in your salvation.
\q1
\v 6 I will sing to Yahweh,
\q2 because he has been good to me.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 2 Lord, hear my voice.
\q2 Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
\q1
\v 3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins,
\q2 Lord, who could stand?
\q1
\v 4 But there is forgiveness with you,
\q2 therefore you are feared.
\q1
\v 5 I wait for Yahweh.
\q2 My soul waits.
\q2 I hope in his word.
\q1
\v 6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning,
\q2 more than watchmen for the morning.
\q1
\v 7 Israel, hope in Yahweh,
\q2 for there is loving kindness with Yahweh.
\q2 Abundant redemption is with him.
\q1
\v 8 He will redeem Israel from all their sins.


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\d A Song of Ascents. By David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty;
\q2 nor do I concern myself with great matters,
\q2 or things too wonderful for me.
\q1
\v 2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,
\q2 like a weaned child with his mother,
\q2 like a weaned child is my soul within me.
\q1
\v 3 Israel, hope in Yahweh,
\q2 from this time forward and forever more.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,
\q1
\v 2 how he swore to Yahweh,
\q2 and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
\q1
\v 3 “Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,
\q2 nor go up into my bed;
\q1
\v 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes,
\q2 or slumber to my eyelids;
\q1
\v 5 until I find out a place for Yahweh,
\q2 a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
\q1
\v 6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.
\q2 We found it in the field of Jaar:
\q1
\v 7 “We will go into his dwelling place.
\q2 We will worship at his footstool.
\q1
\v 8 Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place,
\q2 you, and the ark of your strength.
\q1
\v 9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness.
\q2 Let your saints shout for joy!”
\q1
\v 10 For your servant David’s sake,
\q2 don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth.
\q2 He will not turn from it:
\q2 “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
\q1
\v 12 If your children will keep my covenant,
\q2 my testimony that I will teach them,
\q2 their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
\q1
\v 13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion.
\q2 He has desired it for his habitation.
\q1
\v 14 “This is my resting place forever.
\q2 I will live here, for I have desired it.
\q1
\v 15 I will abundantly bless her provision.
\q2 I will satisfy her poor with bread.
\q1
\v 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation.
\q2 Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
\q1
\v 17 I will make the horn of David to bud there.
\q2 I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
\q1
\v 18 I will clothe his enemies with shame,
\q2 but on himself, his crown will shine.”


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\d A Song of Ascents. By David.
\q1
\v 1 See how good and how pleasant it is
\q2 for brothers to live together in unity!
\q1
\v 2 It is like the precious oil on the head,
\q2 that ran down on the beard,
\q2 even Aaron’s beard,
\q2 that came down on the edge of his robes,
\q1
\v 3 like the dew of Hermon,
\q2 that comes down on the hills of Zion;
\q2 for there Yahweh gives the blessing,
\q2 even life forever more.


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\d A Song of Ascents.
\q1
\v 1 Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh,
\q2 who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!
\q1
\v 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.
\q2 Praise Yahweh!
\q1
\v 3 May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
\q2 even he who made heaven and earth.


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\c 135
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!
\q2 Praise Yahweh’s name!
\q2 Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
\q1
\v 2 you who stand in Yahweh’s house,
\q2 in the courts of our God’s house.
\q1
\v 3 Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good.
\q2 Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
\q1
\v 4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself,
\q2 Israel for his own possession.
\q1
\v 5 For I know that Yahweh is great,
\q2 that our Lord is above all gods.
\q1
\v 6 Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done,
\q2 in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
\q1
\v 7 He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.
\q2 He makes lightnings with the rain.
\q2 He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
\q1
\v 8 He struck the firstborn of Egypt,
\q2 both of man and animal.
\q1
\v 9 He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt,
\q2 on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
\q1
\v 10 He struck many nations,
\q2 and killed mighty kings,
\q1
\v 11 Sihon king of the Amorites,
\q2 Og king of Bashan,
\q2 and all the kingdoms of Canaan,
\q1
\v 12 and gave their land for a heritage,
\q2 a heritage to Israel, his people.
\q1
\v 13 Your name, Yahweh, endures forever;
\q2 your renown, Yahweh, throughout all generations.
\q1
\v 14 For Yahweh will judge his people
\q2 and have compassion on his servants.
\b
\q1
\v 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
\q2 the work of men’s hands.
\q1
\v 16 They have mouths, but they can’t speak.
\q2 They have eyes, but they can’t see.
\q1
\v 17 They have ears, but they can’t hear,
\q2 neither is there any breath in their mouths.
\q1
\v 18 Those who make them will be like them,
\q2 yes, everyone who trusts in them.
\q1
\v 19 House of Israel, praise Yahweh!
\q2 House of Aaron, praise Yahweh!
\q1
\v 20 House of Levi, praise Yahweh!
\q2 You who fear Yahweh, praise Yahweh!
\q1
\v 21 Blessed be Yahweh from Zion,
\q2 who dwells at Jerusalem.
\q1 Praise Yah!


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\q1
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 2 Give thanks to the God of gods;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 4 to him who alone does great wonders;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 5 to him who by understanding made the heavens;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 6 to him who spread out the earth above the waters;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 7 to him who made the great lights;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 8 the sun to rule by day;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 9 the moon and stars to rule by night;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 10 to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 11 and brought out Israel from among them;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 12 with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 13 to him who divided the Red Sea apart;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 14 and made Israel to pass through the middle of it;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 16 to him who led his people through the wilderness;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 17 to him who struck great kings;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 18 and killed mighty kings;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 19 Sihon king of the Amorites;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 20 Og king of Bashan;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 21 and gave their land as an inheritance;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 22 even a heritage to Israel his servant;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 23 who remembered us in our low estate;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever;
\q1
\v 24 and has delivered us from our adversaries;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever:
\q1
\v 25 who gives food to every creature;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.
\q1
\v 26 Oh give thanks to the God of heaven;
\q2 for his loving kindness endures forever.


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\q1
\v 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.
\q2 Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
\q1
\v 2 On the willows in that land,
\q2 we hung up our harps.
\q1
\v 3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs.
\q2 Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy:
\q2 “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
\q1
\v 4 How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?
\q1
\v 5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
\q2 let my right hand forget its skill.
\q1
\v 6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you,
\q2 if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
\q1
\v 7 Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,
\q2 who said, “Raze it!
\q2 Raze it even to its foundation!”
\q1
\v 8 Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
\q2 he will be happy who repays you,
\q2 as you have done to us.
\q1
\v 9 Happy shall he be,
\q2 who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.


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\c 138
\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 I will give you thanks with my whole heart.
\q2 Before the gods,\f + \fr 138:1 \ft The word elohim, used here, usually means “God” but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”.\f* I will sing praises to you.
\q1
\v 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple,
\q2 and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth;
\q2 for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
\q1
\v 3 In the day that I called, you answered me.
\q2 You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
\q1
\v 4 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh,
\q2 for they have heard the words of your mouth.
\q1
\v 5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh,
\q2 for Yahweh’s glory is great!
\q1
\v 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly;
\q2 but he knows the proud from afar.
\q1
\v 7 Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me.
\q2 You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies.
\q2 Your right hand will save me.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me.
\q2 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever.
\q2 Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.


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\c 139
\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you have searched me,
\q2 and you know me.
\q1
\v 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
\q2 You perceive my thoughts from afar.
\q1
\v 3 You search out my path and my lying down,
\q2 and are acquainted with all my ways.
\q1
\v 4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
\q2 but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
\q1
\v 5 You hem me in behind and before.
\q2 You laid your hand on me.
\q1
\v 6 This knowledge is beyond me.
\q2 It’s lofty.
\q2 I can’t attain it.
\q1
\v 7 Where could I go from your Spirit?
\q2 Or where could I flee from your presence?
\q1
\v 8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.
\q2 If I make my bed in Sheol,\f + \fr 139:8 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* behold, you are there!
\q1
\v 9 If I take the wings of the dawn,
\q2 and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
\q1
\v 10 even there your hand will lead me,
\q2 and your right hand will hold me.
\q1
\v 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.
\q2 The light around me will be night,”
\q1
\v 12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,
\q2 but the night shines as the day.
\q2 The darkness is like light to you.
\q1
\v 13 For you formed my inmost being.
\q2 You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
\q1
\v 14 I will give thanks to you,
\q2 for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
\q1 Your works are wonderful.
\q2 My soul knows that very well.
\q1
\v 15 My frame wasn’t hidden from you,
\q2 when I was made in secret,
\q2 woven together in the depths of the earth.
\q1
\v 16 Your eyes saw my body.
\q2 In your book they were all written,
\q2 the days that were ordained for me,
\q2 when as yet there were none of them.
\q1
\v 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
\q2 How vast is their sum!
\q1
\v 18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.
\q2 When I wake up, I am still with you.
\q1
\v 19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked.
\q2 Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
\q1
\v 20 For they speak against you wickedly.
\q2 Your enemies take your name in vain.
\q1
\v 21 Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you?
\q2 Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
\q1
\v 22 I hate them with perfect hatred.
\q2 They have become my enemies.
\q1
\v 23 Search me, God, and know my heart.
\q2 Try me, and know my thoughts.
\q1
\v 24 See if there is any wicked way in me,
\q2 and lead me in the everlasting way.


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\d For the Chief Musician. By David.
\q1
\v 1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
\q2 They are corrupt.
\q2 They have done abominable deeds.
\q2 There is no one who does good.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men,
\q2 to see if there were any who understood,
\q2 who sought after God.
\q1
\v 3 They have all gone aside.
\q2 They have together become corrupt.
\q2 There is no one who does good, no, not one.
\q1
\v 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
\q2 who eat up my people as they eat bread,
\q2 and don’t call on Yahweh?
\q1
\v 5 There they were in great fear,
\q2 for God is in the generation of the righteous.
\q1
\v 6 You frustrate the plan of the poor,
\q2 because Yahweh is his refuge.
\q1
\v 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
\q2 When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people,
\q2 then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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\c 140
\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man.
\q2 Preserve me from the violent man:
\q1
\v 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts.
\q2 They continually gather themselves together for war.
\q1
\v 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.
\q2 Viper’s poison is under their lips. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked.
\q2 Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.
\q1
\v 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me,
\q2 they have spread the cords of a net by the path.
\q2 They have set traps for me. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 6 I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.”
\q2 Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
\q2 you have covered my head in the day of battle.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked.
\q2 Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 9 As for the head of those who surround me,
\q2 let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
\q1
\v 10 Let burning coals fall on them.
\q2 Let them be thrown into the fire,
\q2 into miry pits, from where they never rise.
\q1
\v 11 An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth.
\q2 Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
\q1
\v 12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
\q2 and justice for the needy.
\q1
\v 13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.
\q2 The upright will dwell in your presence.


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\c 141
\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I have called on you.
\q2 Come to me quickly!
\q2 Listen to my voice when I call to you.
\q1
\v 2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense;
\q2 the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
\q1
\v 3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth.
\q2 Keep the door of my lips.
\q1
\v 4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,
\q2 to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.
\q2 Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
\q1
\v 5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;
\q2 let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;
\q2 don’t let my head refuse it;
\q2 Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
\q1
\v 6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock.
\q2 They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
\q1
\v 7 “As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
\q2 our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”\f + \fr 141:7 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\v 8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord.
\q2 In you, I take refuge.
\q2 Don’t leave my soul destitute.
\q1
\v 9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
\q2 from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
\q1
\v 10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets
\q2 while I pass by.


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\d A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.
\q1
\v 1 I cry with my voice to Yahweh.
\q2 With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
\q1
\v 2 I pour out my complaint before him.
\q2 I tell him my troubles.
\q1
\v 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
\q2 you knew my route.
\q1 On the path in which I walk,
\q2 they have hidden a snare for me.
\q1
\v 4 Look on my right, and see;
\q2 for there is no one who is concerned for me.
\q2 Refuge has fled from me.
\q2 No one cares for my soul.
\q1
\v 5 I cried to you, Yahweh.
\q2 I said, “You are my refuge,
\q2 my portion in the land of the living.”
\q1
\v 6 Listen to my cry,
\q2 for I am in desperate need.
\q1 Deliver me from my persecutors,
\q2 for they are too strong for me.
\q1
\v 7 Bring my soul out of prison,
\q2 that I may give thanks to your name.
\q1 The righteous will surround me,
\q2 for you will be good to me.


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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
\q2 Listen to my petitions.
\q2 In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
\q1
\v 2 Don’t enter into judgment with your servant,
\q2 for in your sight no man living is righteous.
\q1
\v 3 For the enemy pursues my soul.
\q2 He has struck my life down to the ground.
\q2 He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
\q1
\v 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me.
\q2 My heart within me is desolate.
\q1
\v 5 I remember the days of old.
\q2 I meditate on all your doings.
\q2 I contemplate the work of your hands.
\q1
\v 6 I spread out my hands to you.
\q2 My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh.
\q2 My spirit fails.
\q1 Don’t hide your face from me,
\q2 so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
\q1
\v 8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning,
\q2 for I trust in you.
\q1 Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,
\q2 for I lift up my soul to you.
\q1
\v 9 Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies.
\q2 I flee to you to hide me.
\q1
\v 10 Teach me to do your will,
\q2 for you are my God.
\q1 Your Spirit is good.
\q2 Lead me in the land of uprightness.
\q1
\v 11 Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake.
\q2 In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
\q1
\v 12 In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies,
\q2 and destroy all those who afflict my soul,
\q2 For I am your servant.


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
\q2 who teaches my hands to war,
\q2 and my fingers to battle:
\q1
\v 2 my loving kindness, my fortress,
\q2 my high tower, my deliverer,
\q2 my shield, and he in whom I take refuge,
\q2 who subdues my people under me.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him?
\q2 Or the son of man, that you think of him?
\q1
\v 4 Man is like a breath.
\q2 His days are like a shadow that passes away.
\q1
\v 5 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down.
\q2 Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
\q1
\v 6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them.
\q2 Send out your arrows, and rout them.
\q1
\v 7 Stretch out your hand from above,
\q2 rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
\q2 out of the hands of foreigners,
\q2
\v 8 whose mouths speak deceit,
\q2 whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
\q1
\v 9 I will sing a new song to you, God.
\q2 On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
\q1
\v 10 You are he who gives salvation to kings,
\q2 who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
\q1
\v 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners,
\q2 whose mouths speak deceit,
\q2 whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants,
\q2 our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
\q1
\v 13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.
\q2 Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
\q1
\v 14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads.
\q2 There is no breaking in, and no going away,
\q2 and no outcry in our streets.
\q1
\v 15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation.
\q2 Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.


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\d A praise psalm by David.\f + \fr 145:0 \ft This is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.\f*
\q1
\v 1 I will exalt you, my God, the King.
\q2 I will praise your name forever and ever.
\q1
\v 2 Every day I will praise you.
\q2 I will extol your name forever and ever.
\q1
\v 3 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised!
\q2 His greatness is unsearchable.
\q1
\v 4 One generation will commend your works to another,
\q2 and will declare your mighty acts.
\q1
\v 5 I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor,
\q2 on your wondrous works.
\q1
\v 6 Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.
\q2 I will declare your greatness.
\q1
\v 7 They will utter the memory of your great goodness,
\q2 and will sing of your righteousness.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh is gracious, merciful,
\q2 slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh is good to all.
\q2 His tender mercies are over all his works.
\q1
\v 10 All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh.
\q2 Your saints will extol you.
\q1
\v 11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
\q2 and talk about your power,
\q1
\v 12 to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
\q2 the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
\q1
\v 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
\q2 Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
\q1 Yahweh is faithful in all his words,
\q2 and loving in all his deeds.\f + \fr 145:13 \ft Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.\f*
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh upholds all who fall,
\q2 and raises up all those who are bowed down.
\q1
\v 15 The eyes of all wait for you.
\q2 You give them their food in due season.
\q1
\v 16 You open your hand,
\q2 and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways,
\q2 and gracious in all his works.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him,
\q2 to all who call on him in truth.
\q1
\v 19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him.
\q2 He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh preserves all those who love him,
\q2 but he will destroy all the wicked.
\q1
\v 21 My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh.
\q2 Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!
\q2 Praise Yahweh, my soul.
\q1
\v 2 While I live, I will praise Yahweh.
\q2 I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
\q1
\v 3 Don’t put your trust in princes,
\q2 in a son of man in whom there is no help.
\q1
\v 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.
\q2 In that very day, his thoughts perish.
\q1
\v 5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
\q2 whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
\q1
\v 6 who made heaven and earth,
\q2 the sea, and all that is in them;
\q2 who keeps truth forever;
\q1
\v 7 who executes justice for the oppressed;
\q2 who gives food to the hungry.
\q1 Yahweh frees the prisoners.
\q2
\v 8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind.
\q2 Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down.
\q2 Yahweh loves the righteous.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners.
\q2 He upholds the fatherless and widow,
\q2 but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh will reign forever;
\q2 your God, O Zion, to all generations.
\q1 Praise Yah!
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah,
\q2 for it is good to sing praises to our God;
\q2 for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem.
\q2 He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
\q1
\v 3 He heals the broken in heart,
\q2 and binds up their wounds.
\q1
\v 4 He counts the number of the stars.
\q2 He calls them all by their names.
\q1
\v 5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power.
\q2 His understanding is infinite.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh upholds the humble.
\q2 He brings the wicked down to the ground.
\q1
\v 7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving.
\q2 Sing praises on the harp to our God,
\q1
\v 8 who covers the sky with clouds,
\q2 who prepares rain for the earth,
\q2 who makes grass grow on the mountains.
\q1
\v 9 He provides food for the livestock,
\q2 and for the young ravens when they call.
\q1
\v 10 He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse.
\q2 He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him,
\q2 in those who hope in his loving kindness.
\q1
\v 12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem!
\q2 Praise your God, Zion!
\q1
\v 13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.
\q2 He has blessed your children within you.
\q1
\v 14 He makes peace in your borders.
\q2 He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
\q1
\v 15 He sends out his commandment to the earth.
\q2 His word runs very swiftly.
\q1
\v 16 He gives snow like wool,
\q2 and scatters frost like ashes.
\q1
\v 17 He hurls down his hail like pebbles.
\q2 Who can stand before his cold?
\q1
\v 18 He sends out his word, and melts them.
\q2 He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
\q1
\v 19 He shows his word to Jacob,
\q2 his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
\q1
\v 20 He has not done this for just any nation.
\q2 They don’t know his ordinances.
\q1 Praise Yah!
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!
\q2 Praise Yahweh from the heavens!
\q2 Praise him in the heights!
\q1
\v 2 Praise him, all his angels!
\q2 Praise him, all his army!
\q1
\v 3 Praise him, sun and moon!
\q2 Praise him, all you shining stars!
\q1
\v 4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens,
\q2 you waters that are above the heavens.
\q1
\v 5 Let them praise Yahweh’s name,
\q2 for he commanded, and they were created.
\q1
\v 6 He has also established them forever and ever.
\q2 He has made a decree which will not pass away.
\q1
\v 7 Praise Yahweh from the earth,
\q2 you great sea creatures, and all depths;
\q1
\v 8 lightning and hail, snow and clouds;
\q2 stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
\q1
\v 9 mountains and all hills;
\q2 fruit trees and all cedars;
\q1
\v 10 wild animals and all livestock;
\q2 small creatures and flying birds;
\q1
\v 11 kings of the earth and all peoples;
\q2 princes and all judges of the earth;
\q1
\v 12 both young men and maidens;
\q2 old men and children:
\q1
\v 13 let them praise Yahweh’s name,
\q2 for his name alone is exalted.
\q2 His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
\q1
\v 14 He has lifted up the horn of his people,
\q2 the praise of all his saints,
\q2 even of the children of Israel, a people near to him.
\q1 Praise Yah!
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\q2 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
\q2 his praise in the assembly of the saints.
\q1
\v 2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.
\q2 Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
\q1
\v 3 Let them praise his name in the dance!
\q2 Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
\q1
\v 4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people.
\q2 He crowns the humble with salvation.
\q1
\v 5 Let the saints rejoice in honor.
\q2 Let them sing for joy on their beds.
\q1
\v 6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths,
\q2 and a two-edged sword in their hand,
\q1
\v 7 to execute vengeance on the nations,
\q2 and punishments on the peoples;
\q1
\v 8 to bind their kings with chains,
\q2 and their nobles with fetters of iron;
\q1
\v 9 to execute on them the written judgment.
\q2 All his saints have this honor.
\q1 Praise Yah!
\b


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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?
\q2 Who shall live on your holy hill?
\q1
\v 2 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,
\q2 and speaks truth in his heart;
\q1
\v 3 he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,
\q2 nor does evil to his friend,
\q2 nor casts slurs against his fellow man;
\q1
\v 4 in whose eyes a vile man is despised,
\q2 but who honors those who fear Yahweh;
\q2 he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
\q1
\v 5 he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,
\q2 nor take a bribe against the innocent.
\b
\q1 He who does these things shall never be shaken.


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\q1
\v 1 Praise Yah!
\q2 Praise God in his sanctuary!
\q2 Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
\q1
\v 2 Praise him for his mighty acts!
\q2 Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
\q1
\v 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet!
\q2 Praise him with harp and lyre!
\q1
\v 4 Praise him with tambourine and dancing!
\q2 Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
\q1
\v 5 Praise him with loud cymbals!
\q2 Praise him with resounding cymbals!
\q1
\v 6 Let everything that has breath praise Yah!
\q2 Praise Yah!


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\d A Poem by David.
\q1
\v 1 Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.
\q1
\v 2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord.
\q2 Apart from you I have no good thing.”
\q1
\v 3 As for the saints who are in the earth,
\q2 they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god.
\q2 Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,
\q2 nor take their names on my lips.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup.
\q2 You made my lot secure.
\b
\q1
\v 6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.
\q2 Yes, I have a good inheritance.
\q1
\v 7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel.
\q2 Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
\q1
\v 8 I have set Yahweh always before me.
\q2 Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
\q1
\v 9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices.
\q2 My body shall also dwell in safety.
\q1
\v 10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol,\f + \fr 16:10 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
\q1
\v 11 You will show me the path of life.
\q2 In your presence is fullness of joy.
\q1 In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.


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\d A Prayer by David.
\q1
\v 1 Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea;
\q2 Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
\q1
\v 2 Let my sentence come out of your presence.
\q2 Let your eyes look on equity.
\q1
\v 3 You have proved my heart.
\q2 You have visited me in the night.
\q2 You have tried me, and found nothing.
\q2 I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
\q1
\v 4 As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips,
\q2 I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
\q1
\v 5 My steps have held fast to your paths.
\q2 My feet have not slipped.
\q1
\v 6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God.
\q2 Turn your ear to me.
\q2 Hear my speech.
\q1
\v 7 Show your marvelous loving kindness,
\q2 you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
\q1
\v 8 Keep me as the apple of your eye.
\q2 Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
\q1
\v 9 from the wicked who oppress me,
\q2 my deadly enemies, who surround me.
\q1
\v 10 They close up their callous hearts.
\q2 With their mouth they speak proudly.
\q1
\v 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps.
\q2 They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
\q1
\v 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
\q2 as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
\q1
\v 13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him.
\q2 Cast him down.
\q1 Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
\q2
\v 14 from men by your hand, Yahweh,
\q2 from men of the world, whose portion is in this life.
\q1 You fill the belly of your cherished ones.
\q2 Your sons have plenty,
\q2 and they store up wealth for their children.
\q1
\v 15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness.
\q2 I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.


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\d For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,
\q1
\v 1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
\q2 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
\q2 my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
\q1
\v 3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
\q2 and I am saved from my enemies.
\q1
\v 4 The cords of death surrounded me.
\q2 The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
\q1
\v 5 The cords of Sheol\f + \fr 18:5 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* were around me.
\q2 The snares of death came on me.
\q1
\v 6 In my distress I called on Yahweh,
\q2 and cried to my God.
\q1 He heard my voice out of his temple.
\q2 My cry before him came into his ears.
\q1
\v 7 Then the earth shook and trembled.
\q2 The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,
\q2 because he was angry.
\q1
\v 8 Smoke went out of his nostrils.
\q2 Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
\q2 Coals were kindled by it.
\q1
\v 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
\q2 Thick darkness was under his feet.
\q1
\v 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew.
\q2 Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
\q1
\v 11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
\q2 darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
\q1
\v 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
\q2 hailstones and coals of fire.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky.
\q2 The Most High uttered his voice:
\q2 hailstones and coals of fire.
\q1
\v 14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
\q2 Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
\q1
\v 15 Then the channels of waters appeared.
\q2 The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh,
\q2 at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
\q1
\v 16 He sent from on high.
\q2 He took me.
\q2 He drew me out of many waters.
\q1
\v 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
\q2 from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
\q1
\v 18 They came on me in the day of my calamity,
\q2 but Yahweh was my support.
\q1
\v 19 He brought me out also into a large place.
\q2 He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
\q2 According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
\q1
\v 21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
\q2 and have not wickedly departed from my God.
\q1
\v 22 For all his ordinances were before me.
\q2 I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
\q1
\v 23 I was also blameless with him.
\q2 I kept myself from my iniquity.
\q1
\v 24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
\q2 according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
\q1
\v 25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
\q2 With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
\q1
\v 26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure.
\q2 With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
\q1
\v 27 For you will save the afflicted people,
\q2 but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
\q1
\v 28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.
\q2 My God will light up my darkness.
\q1
\v 29 For by you, I advance through a troop.
\q2 By my God, I leap over a wall.
\q1
\v 30 As for God, his way is perfect.
\q2 Yahweh’s word is tried.
\q2 He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
\q1
\v 31 For who is God, except Yahweh?
\q2 Who is a rock, besides our God,
\q2
\v 32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
\q1
\v 33 He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
\q2 and sets me on my high places.
\q1
\v 34 He teaches my hands to war,
\q2 so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
\q1
\v 35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
\q2 Your right hand sustains me.
\q2 Your gentleness has made me great.
\q1
\v 36 You have enlarged my steps under me,
\q2 My feet have not slipped.
\q1
\v 37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.
\q2 I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
\q1
\v 38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.
\q2 They shall fall under my feet.
\q1
\v 39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle.
\q2 You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
\q1
\v 40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
\q2 that I might cut off those who hate me.
\q1
\v 41 They cried, but there was no one to save;
\q2 even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
\q1
\v 42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.
\q2 I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
\q1
\v 43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.
\q2 You have made me the head of the nations.
\q1 A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
\q2
\v 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.
\q2 The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
\q1
\v 45 The foreigners shall fade away,
\q2 and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
\q1
\v 46 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock.
\q2 Exalted be the God of my salvation,
\q1
\v 47 even the God who executes vengeance for me,
\q2 and subdues peoples under me.
\q1
\v 48 He rescues me from my enemies.
\q2 Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
\q2 You deliver me from the violent man.
\q1
\v 49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
\q2 and will sing praises to your name.
\q1
\v 50 He gives great deliverance to his king,
\q2 and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
\q2 to David and to his offspring,\f + \fr 18:50 \ft or, seed\f* forever more.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 The heavens declare the glory of God.
\q2 The expanse shows his handiwork.
\q1
\v 2 Day after day they pour out speech,
\q2 and night after night they display knowledge.
\q1
\v 3 There is no speech nor language,
\q2 where their voice is not heard.
\q1
\v 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth,
\q2 their words to the end of the world.
\q1 In them he has set a tent for the sun,
\q2
\v 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room,
\q2 like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.
\q1
\v 6 His going out is from the end of the heavens,
\q2 his circuit to its ends.
\q2 There is nothing hidden from its heat.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul.
\q2 Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.
\q2 Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
\q1
\v 9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever.
\q2 Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
\q1
\v 10 They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold,
\q2 sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
\q1
\v 11 Moreover your servant is warned by them.
\q2 In keeping them there is great reward.
\q1
\v 12 Who can discern his errors?
\q2 Forgive me from hidden errors.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.
\q2 Let them not have dominion over me.
\q1 Then I will be upright.
\q2 I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
\q1
\v 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
\q2 be acceptable in your sight,
\q2 Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.


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\v 1 Why do the nations rage,
\q2 and the peoples plot a vain thing?
\q1
\v 2 The kings of the earth take a stand,
\q2 and the rulers take counsel together,
\q2 against Yahweh, and against his Anointed,\f + \fr 2:2 \ft The word “Anointed” is the same as the word for “Messiah” or “Christ”\f* saying,
\q1
\v 3 “Let’s break their bonds apart,
\q2 and cast their cords from us.”
\q1
\v 4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh.
\q2 The Lord\f + \fr 2:4 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* will have them in derision.
\q1
\v 5 Then he will speak to them in his anger,
\q2 and terrify them in his wrath:
\q1
\v 6 “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
\q2
\v 7 I will tell of the decree:
\q1 Yahweh said to me, “You are my son.
\q2 Today I have become your father.
\q1
\v 8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,
\q2 the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
\q1
\v 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron.
\q2 You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
\q1
\v 10 Now therefore be wise, you kings.
\q2 Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
\q1
\v 11 Serve Yahweh with fear,
\q2 and rejoice with trembling.
\q1
\v 12 Give sincere homage to the Son,\f + \fr 2:12 \ft or, Kiss the son\f* lest he be angry, and you perish on the way,
\q2 for his wrath will soon be kindled.
\q2 Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble.
\q2 May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
\q2
\v 2 send you help from the sanctuary,
\q2 grant you support from Zion,
\q2
\v 3 remember all your offerings,
\q2 and accept your burned sacrifice. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 May he grant you your heart’s desire,
\q2 and fulfill all your counsel.
\q1
\v 5 We will triumph in your salvation.
\q2 In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.
\q2 May Yahweh grant all your requests.
\q1
\v 6 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed.
\q2 He will answer him from his holy heaven,
\q2 with the saving strength of his right hand.
\q1
\v 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses,
\q2 but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.
\q1
\v 8 They are bowed down and fallen,
\q2 but we rise up, and stand upright.
\q1
\v 9 Save, Yahweh!
\q2 Let the King answer us when we call!


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh!
\q2 How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
\q1
\v 2 You have given him his heart’s desire,
\q2 and have not withheld the request of his lips. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 3 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.
\q2 You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
\q1
\v 4 He asked life of you and you gave it to him,
\q2 even length of days forever and ever.
\q1
\v 5 His glory is great in your salvation.
\q2 You lay honor and majesty on him.
\q1
\v 6 For you make him most blessed forever.
\q2 You make him glad with joy in your presence.
\q1
\v 7 For the king trusts in Yahweh.
\q2 Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
\q1
\v 8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies.
\q2 Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
\q1
\v 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.
\q2 Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath.
\q2 The fire shall devour them.
\q1
\v 10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
\q2 their posterity from among the children of men.
\q1
\v 11 For they intended evil against you.
\q2 They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
\q1
\v 12 For you will make them turn their back,
\q2 when you aim drawn bows at their face.
\q1
\v 13 Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength,
\q2 so we will sing and praise your power.


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\d For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
\q2 Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
\q1
\v 2 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer;
\q2 in the night season, and am not silent.
\q1
\v 3 But you are holy,
\q2 you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
\q1
\v 4 Our fathers trusted in you.
\q2 They trusted, and you delivered them.
\q1
\v 5 They cried to you, and were delivered.
\q2 They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
\q1
\v 6 But I am a worm, and no man;
\q2 a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
\q1
\v 7 All those who see me mock me.
\q2 They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
\q2
\v 8 “He trusts in Yahweh.
\q2 Let him deliver him.
\q2 Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
\q1
\v 9 But you brought me out of the womb.
\q2 You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
\q1
\v 10 I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb.
\q2 You are my God since my mother bore me.
\q1
\v 11 Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.
\q2 For there is no one to help.
\q1
\v 12 Many bulls have surrounded me.
\q2 Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
\q1
\v 13 They open their mouths wide against me,
\q2 lions tearing prey and roaring.
\q1
\v 14 I am poured out like water.
\q2 All my bones are out of joint.
\q1 My heart is like wax.
\q2 It is melted within me.
\q1
\v 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd.
\q2 My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
\q1 You have brought me into the dust of death.
\q1
\v 16 For dogs have surrounded me.
\q2 A company of evildoers have enclosed me.
\q2 They have pierced my hands and feet.\f + \fr 22:16 \ft So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”\f*
\q1
\v 17 I can count all of my bones.
\q1 They look and stare at me.
\q1
\v 18 They divide my garments among them.
\q2 They cast lots for my clothing.
\b
\q1
\v 19 But don’t be far off, Yahweh.
\q2 You are my help. Hurry to help me!
\q1
\v 20 Deliver my soul from the sword,
\q2 my precious life from the power of the dog.
\q1
\v 21 Save me from the lion’s mouth!
\q2 Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.
\b
\q1
\v 22 I will declare your name to my brothers.
\q2 Among the assembly, I will praise you.
\q1
\v 23 You who fear Yahweh, praise him!
\q2 All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
\q2 Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
\q1
\v 24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,
\q2 Neither has he hidden his face from him;
\q2 but when he cried to him, he heard.
\b
\q1
\v 25 My praise of you comes in the great assembly.
\q2 I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
\q1
\v 26 The humble shall eat and be satisfied.
\q2 They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him.
\q2 Let your hearts live forever.
\q1
\v 27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh.
\q2 All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
\q1
\v 28 For the kingdom is Yahweh’s.
\q2 He is the ruler over the nations.
\q1
\v 29 All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.
\q2 All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,
\q2 even he who can’t keep his soul alive.
\q1
\v 30 Posterity shall serve him.
\q2 Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
\q1
\v 31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born,
\q2 for he has done it.


