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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is my shepherd:
\q2 I shall lack nothing.
\q1
\v 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.
\q2 He leads me beside still waters.
\q1
\v 3 He restores my soul.
\q2 He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
\q1
\v 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
\q2 I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
\q1 Your rod and your staff,
\q2 they comfort me.
\q1
\v 5 You prepare a table before me
\q2 in the presence of my enemies.
\q1 You anoint my head with oil.
\q2 My cup runs over.
\q1
\v 6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,
\q2 and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.


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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness;
\q2 the world, and those who dwell in it.
\q1
\v 2 For he has founded it on the seas,
\q2 and established it on the floods.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill?
\q2 Who may stand in his holy place?
\q1
\v 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
\q2 who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,
\q2 and has not sworn deceitfully.
\q1
\v 5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh,
\q2 righteousness from the God of his salvation.
\q1
\v 6 This is the generation of those who seek Him,
\q2 who seek your face—even Jacob. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 7 Lift up your heads, you gates!
\q2 Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
\q2 and the King of glory will come in.
\q1
\v 8 Who is the King of glory?
\q2 Yahweh strong and mighty,
\q2 Yahweh mighty in battle.
\q1
\v 9 Lift up your heads, you gates;
\q2 yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
\q2 and the King of glory will come in.
\q1
\v 10 Who is this King of glory?
\q2 Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory! \qs Selah.\qs*


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.
\q1
\v 2 My God, I have trusted in you.
\q2 Don’t let me be shamed.
\q2 Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
\q1
\v 3 Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed.
\q2 They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Show me your ways, Yahweh.
\q2 Teach me your paths.
\q1
\v 5 Guide me in your truth, and teach me,
\q2 For you are the God of my salvation,
\q2 I wait for you all day long.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,
\q2 for they are from old times.
\q1
\v 7 Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.
\q2 Remember me according to your loving kindness,
\q2 for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 8 Good and upright is Yahweh,
\q2 therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
\q1
\v 9 He will guide the humble in justice.
\q2 He will teach the humble his way.
\q1
\v 10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth
\q2 to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
\q1
\v 11 For your name’s sake, Yahweh,
\q2 pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
\q1
\v 12 What man is he who fears Yahweh?
\q2 He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
\q1
\v 13 His soul will dwell at ease.
\q2 His offspring will inherit the land.
\q1
\v 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him.
\q2 He will show them his covenant.
\b
\q1
\v 15 My eyes are ever on Yahweh,
\q2 for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
\q1
\v 16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me,
\q2 for I am desolate and afflicted.
\q1
\v 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged.
\q2 Oh bring me out of my distresses.
\q1
\v 18 Consider my affliction and my travail.
\q2 Forgive all my sins.
\q1
\v 19 Consider my enemies, for they are many.
\q2 They hate me with cruel hatred.
\q1
\v 20 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.
\q2 Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.
\q1
\v 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
\q2 for I wait for you.
\q1
\v 22 Redeem Israel, God,
\q2 out of all his troubles.


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity.
\q2 I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
\q1
\v 2 Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me.
\q2 Try my heart and my mind.
\q1
\v 3 For your loving kindness is before my eyes.
\q2 I have walked in your truth.
\q1
\v 4 I have not sat with deceitful men,
\q2 neither will I go in with hypocrites.
\q1
\v 5 I hate the assembly of evildoers,
\q2 and will not sit with the wicked.
\q1
\v 6 I will wash my hands in innocence,
\q2 so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,
\q2
\v 7 that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard
\q2 and tell of all your wondrous deeds.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house,
\q2 the place where your glory dwells.
\q1
\v 9 Don’t gather my soul with sinners,
\q2 nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
\q2
\v 10 in whose hands is wickedness,
\q2 their right hand is full of bribes.
\b
\q1
\v 11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity.
\q2 Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
\q1
\v 12 My foot stands in an even place.
\q2 In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
\q2 Whom shall I fear?
\q1 Yahweh is the strength of my life.
\q2 Of whom shall I be afraid?
\q1
\v 2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh,
\q2 even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
\q1
\v 3 Though an army should encamp against me,
\q2 my heart shall not fear.
\q1 Though war should rise against me,
\q2 even then I will be confident.
\q1
\v 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after:
\q2 that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life,
\q2 to see Yahweh’s beauty,
\q2 and to inquire in his temple.
\q1
\v 5 For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.
\q2 In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me.
\q2 He will lift me up on a rock.
\q1
\v 6 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me.
\q1 I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent.
\q2 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice.
\q2 Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
\q1
\v 8 When you said, “Seek my face,”
\q2 my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
\q1
\v 9 Don’t hide your face from me.
\q2 Don’t put your servant away in anger.
\q1 You have been my help.
\q2 Don’t abandon me,
\q2 neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
\q1
\v 10 When my father and my mother forsake me,
\q2 then Yahweh will take me up.
\q1
\v 11 Teach me your way, Yahweh.
\q2 Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
\q1
\v 12 Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
\q2 for false witnesses have risen up against me,
\q2 such as breathe out cruelty.
\q1
\v 13 I am still confident of this:
\q2 I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
\q1
\v 14 Wait for Yahweh.
\q2 Be strong, and let your heart take courage.
\q1 Yes, wait for Yahweh.


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 To you, Yahweh, I call.
\q2 My rock, don’t be deaf to me,
\q2 lest, if you are silent to me,
\q2 I would become like those who go down into the pit.
\q1
\v 2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,
\q2 when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
\q1
\v 3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked,
\q2 with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,
\q2 but mischief is in their hearts.
\q1
\v 4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings.
\q2 Give them according to the operation of their hands.
\q2 Bring back on them what they deserve.
\q1
\v 5 Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh,
\q2 nor the operation of his hands,
\q2 he will break them down and not build them up.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Blessed be Yahweh,
\q2 because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield.
\q2 My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.
\q1 Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.
\q2 With my song I will thank him.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh is their strength.
\q2 He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
\q1
\v 9 Save your people,
\q2 and bless your inheritance.
\q1 Be their shepherd also,
\q2 and bear them up forever.


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\d A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty,
\q2 ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
\q1
\v 2 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
\q2 Worship Yahweh in holy array.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh’s voice is on the waters.
\q2 The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh’s voice is powerful.
\q2 Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars.
\q2 Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
\q1
\v 6 He makes them also to skip like a calf;
\q2 Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
\q2
\v 8 Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness.
\q2 Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve,
\q2 and strips the forests bare.
\q2 In his temple everything says, “Glory!”
\b
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood.
\q2 Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh will give strength to his people.
\q2 Yahweh will bless his people with peace.


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\d A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased!
\q2 Many are those who rise up against me.
\q1
\v 2 Many there are who say of my soul,
\q2 “There is no help for him in God.”\f + \fr 3:2 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me,
\q2 my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
\q1
\v 4 I cry to Yahweh with my voice,
\q2 and he answers me out of his holy hill. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 I laid myself down and slept.
\q2 I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
\q1
\v 6 I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people
\q2 who have set themselves against me on every side.
\q1
\v 7 Arise, Yahweh!
\q2 Save me, my God!
\q1 For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone.
\q2 You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
\q1
\v 8 Salvation belongs to Yahweh.
\q2 May your blessing be on your people. \qs Selah.\qs*


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\d A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.
\q1
\v 1 I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up,
\q2 and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh my God, I cried to you,
\q2 and you have healed me.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.\f + \fr 30:3 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
\q1
\v 4 Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his.
\q2 Give thanks to his holy name.
\q1
\v 5 For his anger is but for a moment.
\q2 His favor is for a lifetime.
\q1 Weeping may stay for the night,
\q2 but joy comes in the morning.
\q1
\v 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
\q2 “I shall never be moved.”
\q1
\v 7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong;
\q2 but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
\q1
\v 8 I cried to you, Yahweh.
\q2 I made supplication to the Lord:
\q1
\v 9 “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?
\q2 Shall the dust praise you?
\q2 Shall it declare your truth?
\q1
\v 10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me.
\q2 Yahweh, be my helper.”
\q1
\v 11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me.
\q2 You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
\q2
\v 12 to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.
\q1 Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
\q2 Let me never be disappointed.
\q2 Deliver me in your righteousness.
\q1
\v 2 Bow down your ear to me.
\q2 Deliver me speedily.
\q1 Be to me a strong rock,
\q2 a house of defense to save me.
\q1
\v 3 For you are my rock and my fortress,
\q2 therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
\q1
\v 4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
\q2 for you are my stronghold.
\q1
\v 5 Into your hand I commend my spirit.
\q2 You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
\q1
\v 6 I hate those who regard lying vanities,
\q2 but I trust in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness,
\q2 for you have seen my affliction.
\q2 You have known my soul in adversities.
\q1
\v 8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.
\q2 You have set my feet in a large place.
\q1
\v 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress.
\q2 My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
\q1
\v 10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
\q2 my years with sighing.
\q1 My strength fails because of my iniquity.
\q2 My bones are wasted away.
\q1
\v 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,
\q2 a horror to my acquaintances.
\q2 Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
\q1
\v 12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
\q2 I am like broken pottery.
\q1
\v 13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
\q2 while they conspire together against me,
\q2 they plot to take away my life.
\q1
\v 14 But I trust in you, Yahweh.
\q2 I said, “You are my God.”
\q1
\v 15 My times are in your hand.
\q2 Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
\q1
\v 16 Make your face to shine on your servant.
\q2 Save me in your loving kindness.
\q1
\v 17 Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you.
\q2 Let the wicked be disappointed.
\q2 Let them be silent in Sheol.\f + \fr 31:17 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\v 18 Let the lying lips be mute,
\q2 which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
\q1
\v 19 Oh how great is your goodness,
\q2 which you have laid up for those who fear you,
\q2 which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,
\q2 before the sons of men!
\q1
\v 20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man.
\q2 You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
\q1
\v 21 Praise be to Yahweh,
\q2 for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
\q1
\v 22 As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.”
\q2 Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
\q1
\v 23 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints!
\q2 Yahweh preserves the faithful,
\q1 and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
\q1
\v 24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
\q2 all you who hope in Yahweh.


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\d By David. A contemplative psalm.
\q1
\v 1 Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
\q2 whose sin is covered.
\q1
\v 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity,
\q2 in whose spirit there is no deceit.
\q1
\v 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
\q1
\v 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me.
\q2 My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 I acknowledged my sin to you.
\q2 I didn’t hide my iniquity.
\q1 I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh,
\q2 and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 6 For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found.
\q2 Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
\q1
\v 7 You are my hiding place.
\q2 You will preserve me from trouble.
\q2 You will surround me with songs of deliverance. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
\q2 I will counsel you with my eye on you.
\q1
\v 9 Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding,
\q2 who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
\q1
\v 10 Many sorrows come to the wicked,
\q2 but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 11 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous!
\q2 Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!


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\q1
\v 1 Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous!
\q2 Praise is fitting for the upright.
\q1
\v 2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre.
\q2 Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
\q1
\v 3 Sing to him a new song.
\q2 Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
\q1
\v 4 For Yahweh’s word is right.
\q2 All his work is done in faithfulness.
\q1
\v 5 He loves righteousness and justice.
\q2 The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 6 By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made:
\q2 all their army by the breath of his mouth.
\q1
\v 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.
\q2 He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
\q1
\v 8 Let all the earth fear Yahweh.
\q2 Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
\q1
\v 9 For he spoke, and it was done.
\q2 He commanded, and it stood firm.
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
\q2 He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
\q1
\v 11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever,
\q2 the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
\q1
\v 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
\q2 the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh looks from heaven.
\q2 He sees all the sons of men.
\q1
\v 14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
\q2
\v 15 he who fashions all of their hearts;
\q2 and he considers all of their works.
\q1
\v 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
\q2 A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
\q1
\v 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety,
\q2 neither does he deliver any by his great power.
\q1
\v 18 Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
\q2 on those who hope in his loving kindness,
\q2
\v 19 to deliver their soul from death,
\q2 to keep them alive in famine.
\q1
\v 20 Our soul has waited for Yahweh.
\q2 He is our help and our shield.
\q1
\v 21 For our heart rejoices in him,
\q2 because we have trusted in his holy name.
\q1
\v 22 Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh,
\q2 since we have hoped in you.


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\d By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.
\q1
\v 1 \f + \fr 34:1 \ft Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).\f* I will bless Yahweh at all times.
\q2 His praise will always be in my mouth.
\q1
\v 2 My soul shall boast in Yahweh.
\q2 The humble shall hear of it and be glad.
\q1
\v 3 Oh magnify Yahweh with me.
\q2 Let’s exalt his name together.
\q1
\v 4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me,
\q2 and delivered me from all my fears.
\q1
\v 5 They looked to him, and were radiant.
\q2 Their faces shall never be covered with shame.
\q1
\v 6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him,
\q2 and saved him out of all his troubles.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him,
\q2 and delivers them.
\q1
\v 8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good.
\q2 Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
\q1
\v 9 Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints,
\q2 for there is no lack with those who fear him.
\q1
\v 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,
\q2 but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Come, you children, listen to me.
\q2 I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 Who is someone who desires life,
\q2 and loves many days, that he may see good?
\q1
\v 13 Keep your tongue from evil,
\q2 and your lips from speaking lies.
\q1
\v 14 Depart from evil, and do good.
\q2 Seek peace, and pursue it.
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous.
\q2 His ears listen to their cry.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil,
\q2 to cut off their memory from the earth.
\q1
\v 17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears,
\q2 and delivers them out of all their troubles.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart,
\q2 and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
\q1
\v 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
\q2 but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
\q1
\v 20 He protects all of his bones.
\q2 Not one of them is broken.
\q1
\v 21 Evil shall kill the wicked.
\q2 Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants.
\q2 None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me.
\q2 Fight against those who fight against me.
\q1
\v 2 Take hold of shield and buckler,
\q2 and stand up for my help.
\q1
\v 3 Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me.
\q2 Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”
\q1
\v 4 Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor.
\q2 Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.
\q1
\v 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind,
\q2 Yahweh’s angel driving them on.
\q1
\v 6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
\q2 Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.
\q1
\v 7 For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me.
\q2 Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
\q1
\v 8 Let destruction come on him unawares.
\q2 Let his net that he has hidden catch himself.
\q2 Let him fall into that destruction.
\b
\q1
\v 9 My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh.
\q2 It shall rejoice in his salvation.
\q1
\v 10 All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you,
\q2 who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him;
\q2 yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”
\q1
\v 11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up.
\q2 They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
\q1
\v 12 They reward me evil for good,
\q2 to the bereaving of my soul.
\b
\q1
\v 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
\q2 I afflicted my soul with fasting.
\q2 My prayer returned into my own bosom.
\q1
\v 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother.
\q2 I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
\q1
\v 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.
\q2 The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it.
\q2 They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
\q1
\v 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts,
\q2 they gnashed their teeth at me.
\q1
\v 17 Lord, how long will you look on?
\q2 Rescue my soul from their destruction,
\q2 my precious life from the lions.
\q1
\v 18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly.
\q2 I will praise you among many people.
\q1
\v 19 Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
\q2 neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
\q1
\v 20 For they don’t speak peace,
\q2 but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
\q1
\v 21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.
\q2 They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
\q1
\v 22 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent.
\q2 Lord, don’t be far from me.
\q1
\v 23 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God!
\q2 My Lord, contend for me!
\q1
\v 24 Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness.
\q2 Don’t let them gloat over me.
\q1
\v 25 Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!”
\q2 Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
\q1
\v 26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity.
\q2 Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
\b
\q1
\v 27 Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad.
\q2 Yes, let them say continually, “May Yahweh be magnified,
\q2 who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
\q1
\v 28 My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.


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\d For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 1 A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:
\q2 “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
\q1
\v 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
\q2 too much to detect and hate his sin.
\q1
\v 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
\q2 He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
\q1
\v 4 He plots iniquity on his bed.
\q2 He sets himself in a way that is not good.
\q2 He doesn’t abhor evil.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.
\q2 Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
\q1
\v 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
\q2 Your judgments are like a great deep.
\q2 Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
\q1
\v 7 How precious is your loving kindness, God!
\q2 The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
\q1
\v 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.
\q2 You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
\q1
\v 9 For with you is the spring of life.
\q2 In your light we will see light.
\q1
\v 10 Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,
\q2 your righteousness to the upright in heart.
\q1
\v 11 Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.
\q2 Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
\q1
\v 12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen.
\q2 They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.


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\d By David.
\q1
\v 1 Don’t fret because of evildoers,
\q2 neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
\q1
\v 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
\q2 and wither like the green herb.
\q1
\v 3 Trust in Yahweh, and do good.
\q2 Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
\q1
\v 4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh,
\q2 and he will give you the desires of your heart.
\q1
\v 5 Commit your way to Yahweh.
\q2 Trust also in him, and he will do this:
\q1
\v 6 he will make your righteousness shine out like light,
\q2 and your justice as the noon day sun.
\q1
\v 7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him.
\q2 Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way,
\q2 because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
\q1
\v 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.
\q2 Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
\q1
\v 9 For evildoers shall be cut off,
\q2 but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
\q1
\v 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more.
\q2 Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
\q1
\v 11 But the humble shall inherit the land,
\q2 and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
\q1
\v 12 The wicked plots against the just,
\q2 and gnashes at him with his teeth.
\q1
\v 13 The Lord will laugh at him,
\q2 for he sees that his day is coming.
\q1
\v 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
\q2 to cast down the poor and needy,
\q2 to kill those who are upright on the path.
\q1
\v 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart.
\q2 Their bows shall be broken.
\q1
\v 16 Better is a little that the righteous has,
\q2 than the abundance of many wicked.
\q1
\v 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
\q2 but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect.
\q2 Their inheritance shall be forever.
\q1
\v 19 They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.
\q2 In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
\b
\q1
\v 20 But the wicked shall perish.
\q2 The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields.
\q2 They will vanish—
\q2 vanish like smoke.
\q1
\v 21 The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
\q2 but the righteous give generously.
\q1
\v 22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land.
\q2 Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
\q1
\v 23 A man’s steps are established by Yahweh.
\q2 He delights in his way.
\q1
\v 24 Though he stumble, he shall not fall,
\q2 for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
\q1
\v 25 I have been young, and now am old,
\q2 yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
\q2 nor his children begging for bread.
\q1
\v 26 All day long he deals graciously, and lends.
\q2 His offspring is blessed.
\q1
\v 27 Depart from evil, and do good.
\q2 Live securely forever.
\q1
\v 28 For Yahweh loves justice,
\q2 and doesn’t forsake his saints.
\q2 They are preserved forever,
\q2 but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
\q1
\v 29 The righteous shall inherit the land,
\q2 and live in it forever.
\b
\q1
\v 30 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.
\q2 His tongue speaks justice.
\q1
\v 31 The law of his God is in his heart.
\q2 None of his steps shall slide.
\q1
\v 32 The wicked watch the righteous,
\q2 and seek to kill him.
\q1
\v 33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand,
\q2 nor condemn him when he is judged.
\q1
\v 34 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way,
\q2 and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
\q2 When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
\b
\q1
\v 35 I have seen the wicked in great power,
\q2 spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
\q1
\v 36 But he passed away, and behold, he was not.
\q2 Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
\q1
\v 37 Mark the perfect man, and see the upright,
\q2 for there is a future for the man of peace.
\q1
\v 38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together.
\q2 The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
\q1
\v 39 But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
\q2 He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
\q1
\v 40 Yahweh helps them and rescues them.
\q2 He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,
\q2 because they have taken refuge in him.


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\d A Psalm by David, for a memorial.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
\q2 neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
\q1
\v 2 For your arrows have pierced me,
\q2 your hand presses hard on me.
\q1
\v 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
\q2 neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
\q1
\v 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head.
\q2 As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
\q1
\v 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt
\q2 because of my foolishness.
\q1
\v 6 I am in pain and bowed down greatly.
\q2 I go mourning all day long.
\q1
\v 7 For my waist is filled with burning.
\q2 There is no soundness in my flesh.
\q1
\v 8 I am faint and severely bruised.
\q2 I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
\q1
\v 9 Lord, all my desire is before you.
\q2 My groaning is not hidden from you.
\q1
\v 10 My heart throbs.
\q2 My strength fails me.
\q2 As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
\q1
\v 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
\q2 My kinsmen stand far away.
\q1
\v 12 They also who seek after my life lay snares.
\q2 Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,
\q2 and meditate deceits all day long.
\q1
\v 13 But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.
\q2 I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
\q1
\v 14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,
\q2 in whose mouth are no reproofs.
\q1
\v 15 For I hope in you, Yahweh.
\q2 You will answer, Lord my God.
\q1
\v 16 For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,
\q2 or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
\q1
\v 17 For I am ready to fall.
\q2 My pain is continually before me.
\q1
\v 18 For I will declare my iniquity.
\q2 I will be sorry for my sin.
\q1
\v 19 But my enemies are vigorous and many.
\q2 Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
\q1
\v 20 They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me,
\q2 because I follow what is good.
\q1
\v 21 Don’t forsake me, Yahweh.
\q2 My God, don’t be far from me.
\q1
\v 22 Hurry to help me,
\q2 Lord, my salvation.


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\d For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.
\q2 I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
\q1
\v 2 I was mute with silence.
\q2 I held my peace, even from good.
\q2 My sorrow was stirred.
\q1
\v 3 My heart was hot within me.
\q2 While I meditated, the fire burned.
\q1 I spoke with my tongue:
\q2
\v 4 “Yahweh, show me my end,
\q2 what is the measure of my days.
\q2 Let me know how frail I am.
\q1
\v 5 Behold, you have made my days hand widths.
\q2 My lifetime is as nothing before you.
\q1 Surely every man stands as a breath.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 6 “Surely every man walks like a shadow.
\q2 Surely they busy themselves in vain.
\q2 He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
\q1
\v 7 Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
\q2 My hope is in you.
\q1
\v 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions.
\q2 Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
\q1
\v 9 I was mute.
\q2 I didn’t open my mouth,
\q2 because you did it.
\q1
\v 10 Remove your scourge away from me.
\q2 I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
\q1
\v 11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,
\q2 you consume his wealth like a moth.
\q1 Surely every man is but a breath.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 12 “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
\q2 Don’t be silent at my tears.
\q1 For I am a stranger with you,
\q2 a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
\q1
\v 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,
\q2 before I go away and exist no more.”


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\d For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness.
\q2 Give me relief from my distress.
\q2 Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
\q1
\v 2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor?
\q2 Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly:
\q2 Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
\q1
\v 4 Stand in awe, and don’t sin.
\q2 Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.
\q2 Put your trust in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 6 Many say, “Who will show us any good?”
\q2 Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
\q1
\v 7 You have put gladness in my heart,
\q2 more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.
\q1
\v 8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep,
\q2 for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 I waited patiently for Yahweh.
\q2 He turned to me, and heard my cry.
\q1
\v 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
\q2 out of the miry clay.
\q1 He set my feet on a rock,
\q2 and gave me a firm place to stand.
\q1
\v 3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
\q2 Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
\q2 and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
\q1
\v 5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
\q2 and your thoughts which are toward us.
\q1 They can’t be declared back to you.
\q2 If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
\q1
\v 6 Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.
\q2 You have opened my ears.
\q2 You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
\q1
\v 7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
\q2 It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
\q1
\v 8 I delight to do your will, my God.
\q2 Yes, your law is within my heart.”
\q1
\v 9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
\q2 Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
\q1
\v 10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.
\q2 I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
\q2 I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
\q1
\v 11 Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh.
\q2 Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
\q1
\v 12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me.
\q2 My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.
\q1 They are more than the hairs of my head.
\q2 My heart has failed me.
\q1
\v 13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me.
\q2 Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.
\q2 Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
\q1
\v 15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
\q1
\v 16 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
\q2 Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
\q1
\v 17 But I am poor and needy.
\q2 May the Lord think about me.
\q1 You are my help and my deliverer.
\q2 Don’t delay, my God.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor.
\q2 Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive.
\q2 He shall be blessed on the earth,
\q2 and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed,
\q2 and restore him from his bed of illness.
\q1
\v 4 I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me!
\q2 Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
\q1
\v 5 My enemies speak evil against me:
\q2 “When will he die, and his name perish?”
\q1
\v 6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
\q2 His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
\q2 When he goes abroad, he tells it.
\q1
\v 7 All who hate me whisper together against me.
\q2 They imagine the worst for me.
\q1
\v 8 “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him.
\q2 Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
\q1
\v 9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
\q2 who ate bread with me,
\q2 has lifted up his heel against me.
\b
\q1
\v 10 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up,
\q2 that I may repay them.
\q1
\v 11 By this I know that you delight in me,
\q2 because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
\q1
\v 12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
\q2 and set me in your presence forever.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
\q2 from everlasting and to everlasting!
\q1 Amen and amen.


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\ms1 BOOK 2
\d For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.
\q1
\v 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
\q2 so my soul pants after you, God.\f + \fr 42:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q1
\v 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
\q2 When shall I come and appear before God?
\q1
\v 3 My tears have been my food day and night,
\q2 while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
\q1
\v 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
\q2 how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,
\q2 with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
\q1
\v 5 Why are you in despair, my soul?
\q2 Why are you disturbed within me?
\q1 Hope in God!
\q2 For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
\q1
\v 6 My God, my soul is in despair within me.
\q2 Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,
\q2 the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
\q1
\v 7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
\q2 All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh\f + \fr 42:8 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
\q2 In the night his song shall be with me:
\q2 a prayer to the God of my life.
\q1
\v 9 I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
\q2 Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
\q1
\v 10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
\q2 while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
\q1
\v 11 Why are you in despair, my soul?
\q2 Why are you disturbed within me?
\q1 Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,
\q2 the saving help of my countenance, and my God.


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\q1
\v 1 Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
\q2 Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
\q1
\v 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
\q2 Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
\q1
\v 3 Oh, send out your light and your truth.
\q2 Let them lead me.
\q2 Let them bring me to your holy hill,
\q2 to your tents.
\q1
\v 4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
\q2 to God, my exceeding joy.
\q1 I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
\q1
\v 5 Why are you in despair, my soul?
\q2 Why are you disturbed within me?
\q1 Hope in God!
\q2 For I shall still praise him:
\q2 my Savior, my helper, and my God.


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\d For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.
\q1
\v 1 We have heard with our ears, God;
\q2 our fathers have told us what work you did in their days,
\q2 in the days of old.
\q1
\v 2 You drove out the nations with your hand,
\q2 but you planted them.
\q1 You afflicted the peoples,
\q2 but you spread them abroad.
\q1
\v 3 For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword,
\q2 neither did their own arm save them;
\q1 but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face,
\q2 because you were favorable to them.
\q1
\v 4 You are my King, God.
\q2 Command victories for Jacob!
\q1
\v 5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries.
\q2 Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.
\q1
\v 6 For I will not trust in my bow,
\q2 neither shall my sword save me.
\q1
\v 7 But you have saved us from our adversaries,
\q2 and have shamed those who hate us.
\q1
\v 8 In God we have made our boast all day long,
\q2 we will give thanks to your name forever. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor,
\q2 and don’t go out with our armies.
\q1
\v 10 You make us turn back from the adversary.
\q2 Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
\q1
\v 11 You have made us like sheep for food,
\q2 and have scattered us among the nations.
\q1
\v 12 You sell your people for nothing,
\q2 and have gained nothing from their sale.
\q1
\v 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
\q2 a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
\q1
\v 14 You make us a byword among the nations,
\q2 a shaking of the head among the peoples.
\q1
\v 15 All day long my dishonor is before me,
\q2 and shame covers my face,
\q2
\v 16 at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,
\q2 because of the enemy and the avenger.
\q1
\v 17 All this has come on us,
\q2 yet we haven’t forgotten you.
\q2 We haven’t been false to your covenant.
\q1
\v 18 Our heart has not turned back,
\q2 neither have our steps strayed from your path,
\q2
\v 19 though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals,
\q2 and covered us with the shadow of death.
\q1
\v 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God,
\q2 or spread out our hands to a strange god,
\q2
\v 21 won’t God search this out?
\q2 For he knows the secrets of the heart.
\q1
\v 22 Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long.
\q2 We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
\q1
\v 23 Wake up!
\q2 Why do you sleep, Lord?\f + \fr 44:23 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” \f*
\q1 Arise!
\q2 Don’t reject us forever.
\q1
\v 24 Why do you hide your face,
\q2 and forget our affliction and our oppression?
\q1
\v 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
\q2 Our body clings to the earth.
\q1
\v 26 Rise up to help us.
\q2 Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.


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\d For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.
\q1
\v 1 My heart overflows with a noble theme.
\q2 I recite my verses for the king.
\q2 My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
\q1
\v 2 You are the most excellent of the sons of men.
\q2 Grace has anointed your lips,
\q2 therefore God has blessed you forever.
\q1
\v 3 Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one:
\q2 your splendor and your majesty.
\q1
\v 4 In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.
\q2 Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
\q1
\v 5 Your arrows are sharp.
\q2 The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.
\q1
\v 6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever.
\q2 A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
\q1
\v 7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
\q2 Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
\q1
\v 8 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
\q2 Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
\q1
\v 9 Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women.
\q2 At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
\q1
\v 10 Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.
\q2 Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
\q2
\v 11 So the king will desire your beauty,
\q2 honor him, for he is your lord.
\q1
\v 12 The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift.
\q2 The rich among the people entreat your favor.
\q1
\v 13 The princess inside is all glorious.
\q2 Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
\q1
\v 14 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.
\q2 The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
\q1
\v 15 With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.
\q2 They shall enter into the king’s palace.
\q1
\v 16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers.
\q2 You shall make them princes in all the earth.
\q1
\v 17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
\q2 Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.


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\d For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. \f + \fr 46:0 \ft Alamoth is a musical term.\f*
\q1
\v 1 God is our refuge and strength,
\q2 a very present help in trouble.
\q1
\v 2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
\q2 though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
\q2
\v 3 though its waters roar and are troubled,
\q2 though the mountains tremble with their swelling. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 4 There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,
\q2 the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
\q1
\v 5 God is within her. She shall not be moved.
\q2 God will help her at dawn.
\q1
\v 6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved.
\q2 He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh of Armies is with us.
\q2 The God of Jacob is our refuge. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 8 Come, see Yahweh’s works,
\q2 what desolations he has made in the earth.
\q1
\v 9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.
\q2 He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.
\q2 He burns the chariots in the fire.
\q1
\v 10 “Be still, and know that I am God.
\q2 I will be exalted among the nations.
\q2 I will be exalted in the earth.”
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh of Armies is with us.
\q2 The God of Jacob is our refuge. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
\q1
\v 1 Oh clap your hands, all you nations.
\q2 Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
\q1
\v 2 For Yahweh Most High is awesome.
\q2 He is a great King over all the earth.
\q1
\v 3 He subdues nations under us,
\q2 and peoples under our feet.
\q1
\v 4 He chooses our inheritance for us,
\q2 the glory of Jacob whom he loved. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 God has gone up with a shout,
\q2 Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
\q1
\v 6 Sing praises to God! Sing praises!
\q2 Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!
\q1
\v 7 For God is the King of all the earth.
\q2 Sing praises with understanding.
\q1
\v 8 God reigns over the nations.
\q2 God sits on his holy throne.
\q1
\v 9 The princes of the peoples are gathered together,
\q1 the people of the God of Abraham.
\q2 For the shields of the earth belong to God.
\q2 He is greatly exalted!


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\d A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
\q1
\v 1 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised,
\q2 in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
\q1
\v 2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
\q2 is Mount Zion, on the north sides,
\q2 the city of the great King.
\q1
\v 3 God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
\q1
\v 4 For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,
\q2 they passed by together.
\q1
\v 5 They saw it, then they were amazed.
\q2 They were dismayed.
\q2 They hurried away.
\q1
\v 6 Trembling took hold of them there,
\q2 pain, as of a woman in travail.
\q1
\v 7 With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.
\q1
\v 8 As we have heard, so we have seen,
\q2 in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God.
\q1 God will establish it forever. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 9 We have thought about your loving kindness, God,
\q2 in the middle of your temple.
\q1
\v 10 As is your name, God,
\q2 so is your praise to the ends of the earth.
\q2 Your right hand is full of righteousness.
\q1
\v 11 Let Mount Zion be glad!
\q2 Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.
\q1
\v 12 Walk about Zion, and go around her.
\q2 Number its towers.
\q1
\v 13 Notice her bulwarks.
\q2 Consider her palaces,
\q2 that you may tell it to the next generation.
\q1
\v 14 For this God is our God forever and ever.
\q2 He will be our guide even to death.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
\q1
\v 1 Hear this, all you peoples.
\q2 Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
\q2
\v 2 both low and high,
\q2 rich and poor together.
\q1
\v 3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
\q2 My heart will utter understanding.
\q1
\v 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb.
\q2 I will solve my riddle on the harp.
\q1
\v 5 Why should I fear in the days of evil,
\q2 when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
\q1
\v 6 Those who trust in their wealth,
\q2 and boast in the multitude of their riches—
\q2
\v 7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother,
\q2 nor give God a ransom for him.
\q1
\v 8 For the redemption of their life is costly,
\q2 no payment is ever enough,
\q2
\v 9 that he should live on forever,
\q2 that he should not see corruption.
\q1
\v 10 For he sees that wise men die;
\q2 likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
\q2 and leave their wealth to others.
\q1
\v 11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,
\q2 and their dwelling places to all generations.
\q2 They name their lands after themselves.
\q1
\v 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.
\q2 He is like the animals that perish.
\b
\q1
\v 13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish,
\q2 and of those who approve their sayings. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.\f + \fr 49:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 Death shall be their shepherd.
\q1 The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
\q2 Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,\f + \fr 49:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q2 far from their mansion.
\q1
\v 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,\f + \fr 49:15 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 for he will receive me. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 16 Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,
\q2 when the glory of his house is increased;
\q1
\v 17 for when he dies he will carry nothing away.
\q2 His glory won’t descend after him.
\q1
\v 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul—
\q2 and men praise you when you do well for yourself—
\q2
\v 19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers.
\q2 They shall never see the light.
\q1
\v 20 A man who has riches without understanding,
\q2 is like the animals that perish.


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\d For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Give ear to my words, Yahweh.
\q2 Consider my meditation.
\q1
\v 2 Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God;
\q2 for I pray to you.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice.
\q2 In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
\q1
\v 4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.
\q2 Evil can’t live with you.
\q1
\v 5 The arrogant will not stand in your sight.
\q2 You hate all workers of iniquity.
\q1
\v 6 You will destroy those who speak lies.
\q2 Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
\q1
\v 7 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house.
\q2 I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
\q1
\v 8 Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies.
\q2 Make your way straight before my face.
\q1
\v 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth.
\q2 Their heart is destruction.
\q2 Their throat is an open tomb.
\q2 They flatter with their tongue.
\q1
\v 10 Hold them guilty, God.
\q2 Let them fall by their own counsels.
\q1 Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
\q2 for they have rebelled against you.
\q1
\v 11 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice.
\q2 Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them.
\q1 Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
\q2
\v 12 For you will bless the righteous.
\q1 Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.


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\d A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks,
\q2 and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
\q1
\v 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
\q2 God shines out.
\q1
\v 3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
\q2 A fire devours before him.
\q2 It is very stormy around him.
\q1
\v 4 He calls to the heavens above,
\q2 to the earth, that he may judge his people:
\q1
\v 5 “Gather my saints together to me,
\q2 those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
\q1
\v 6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness,
\q2 for God himself is judge. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak.
\q2 Israel, I will testify against you.
\q1 I am God, your God.
\q1
\v 8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.
\q2 Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
\q1
\v 9 I have no need for a bull from your stall,
\q2 nor male goats from your pens.
\q1
\v 10 For every animal of the forest is mine,
\q2 and the livestock on a thousand hills.
\q1
\v 11 I know all the birds of the mountains.
\q2 The wild animals of the field are mine.
\q1
\v 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
\q2 for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
\q1
\v 13 Will I eat the meat of bulls,
\q2 or drink the blood of goats?
\q1
\v 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
\q2 Pay your vows to the Most High.
\q1
\v 15 Call on me in the day of trouble.
\q2 I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
\b
\q1
\v 16 But to the wicked God says,
\q2 “What right do you have to declare my statutes,
\q2 that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
\q2
\v 17 since you hate instruction,
\q2 and throw my words behind you?
\q1
\v 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him,
\q2 and have participated with adulterers.
\b
\q1
\v 19 “You give your mouth to evil.
\q2 Your tongue frames deceit.
\q1
\v 20 You sit and speak against your brother.
\q2 You slander your own mother’s son.
\q1
\v 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent.
\q2 You thought that I was just like you.
\q2 I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
\b
\q1
\v 22 “Now consider this, you who forget God,
\q2 lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
\q1
\v 23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
\q2 and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
\q1
\v 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.
\q2 According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
\q1
\v 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.
\q2 Cleanse me from my sin.
\q1
\v 3 For I know my transgressions.
\q2 My sin is constantly before me.
\q1
\v 4 Against you, and you only, I have sinned,
\q2 and done that which is evil in your sight,
\q1 so you may be proved right when you speak,
\q2 and justified when you judge.
\q1
\v 5 Behold, I was born in iniquity.
\q2 My mother conceived me in sin.
\q1
\v 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.
\q2 You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
\q1
\v 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
\q2 Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
\q1
\v 8 Let me hear joy and gladness,
\q2 that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
\q1
\v 9 Hide your face from my sins,
\q2 and blot out all of my iniquities.
\q1
\v 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God.
\q2 Renew a right spirit within me.
\q1
\v 11 Don’t throw me from your presence,
\q2 and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
\q1
\v 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation.
\q2 Uphold me with a willing spirit.
\q1
\v 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways.
\q2 Sinners will be converted to you.
\q1
\v 14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.
\q2 My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
\q1
\v 15 Lord, open my lips.
\q2 My mouth will declare your praise.
\q1
\v 16 For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.
\q2 You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
\q1
\v 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.
\q2 O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.
\q2 Build the walls of Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
\q2 in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.
\q1 Then they will offer bulls on your altar.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”
\q1
\v 1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?
\q2 God’s loving kindness endures continually.
\q1
\v 2 Your tongue plots destruction,
\q2 like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
\q1
\v 3 You love evil more than good,
\q2 lying rather than speaking the truth. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 You love all devouring words,
\q2 you deceitful tongue.
\q1
\v 5 God will likewise destroy you forever.
\q2 He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent,
\q2 and root you out of the land of the living. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 6 The righteous also will see it, and fear,
\q2 and laugh at him, saying,
\q1
\v 7 “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength,
\q2 but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
\q2 and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
\q1
\v 8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house.
\q2 I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
\q1
\v 9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it.
\q2 I will hope in your name, for it is good,
\q2 in the presence of your saints.


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David.
\q1
\v 1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
\q2 They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
\q2 There is no one who does good.
\q1
\v 2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men,
\q2 to see if there are any who understood,
\q2 who seek after God.
\q1
\v 3 Every one of them has gone back.
\q2 They have become filthy together.
\q2 There is no one who does good, no, not one.
\q1
\v 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
\q2 who eat up my people as they eat bread,
\q2 and don’t call on God?
\q1
\v 5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was,
\q2 for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
\q1 You have put them to shame,
\q2 because God has rejected them.
\q1
\v 6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
\q2 When God brings back his people from captivity,
\q2 then Jacob shall rejoice,
\q2 and Israel shall be glad.


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\d For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?”
\q1
\v 1 Save me, God, by your name.
\q2 Vindicate me in your might.
\q1
\v 2 Hear my prayer, God.
\q2 Listen to the words of my mouth.
\q1
\v 3 For strangers have risen up against me.
\q2 Violent men have sought after my soul.
\q2 They haven’t set God before them. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 Behold, God is my helper.
\q2 The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
\q1
\v 5 He will repay the evil to my enemies.
\q2 Destroy them in your truth.
\q1
\v 6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.
\q2 I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
\q1
\v 7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble.
\q2 My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.


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\d For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David.
\q1
\v 1 Listen to my prayer, God.
\q2 Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
\q1
\v 2 Attend to me, and answer me.
\q2 I am restless in my complaint,
\q2 and moan
\v 3 because of the voice of the enemy,
\q2 because of the oppression of the wicked.
\q1 For they bring suffering on me.
\q2 In anger they hold a grudge against me.
\q1
\v 4 My heart is severely pained within me.
\q2 The terrors of death have fallen on me.
\q1
\v 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me.
\q2 Horror has overwhelmed me.
\q1
\v 6 I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove!
\q2 Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
\q1
\v 7 Behold, then I would wander far off.
\q2 I would lodge in the wilderness.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 8 “I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
\q1
\v 9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language,
\q2 for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
\q1
\v 10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls.
\q2 Malice and abuse are also within her.
\q1
\v 11 Destructive forces are within her.
\q2 Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
\q1
\v 12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me,
\q2 then I could have endured it.
\q1 Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me,
\q2 then I would have hidden myself from him.
\q1
\v 13 But it was you, a man like me,
\q2 my companion, and my familiar friend.
\q1
\v 14 We took sweet fellowship together.
\q2 We walked in God’s house with company.
\q1
\v 15 Let death come suddenly on them.
\q2 Let them go down alive into Sheol.\f + \fr 55:15 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead. \f*
\q2 For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
\q1
\v 16 As for me, I will call on God.
\q2 Yahweh will save me.
\q1
\v 17 Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress.
\q2 He will hear my voice.
\q1
\v 18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me,
\q2 although there are many who oppose me.
\q1
\v 19 God, who is enthroned forever,
\q2 will hear and answer them. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1 They never change,
\q2 who don’t fear God.
\q1
\v 20 He raises his hands against his friends.
\q2 He has violated his covenant.
\q1
\v 21 His mouth was smooth as butter,
\q2 but his heart was war.
\q1 His words were softer than oil,
\q2 yet they were drawn swords.
\b
\q1
\v 22 Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you.
\q2 He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
\q1
\v 23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction.
\q2 Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,
\q2 but I will trust in you.


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
\q1
\v 1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.
\q2 All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
\q1
\v 2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long,
\q2 for they are many who fight proudly against me.
\q1
\v 3 When I am afraid,
\q2 I will put my trust in you.
\q1
\v 4 In God, I praise his word.
\q2 In God, I put my trust.
\q1 I will not be afraid.
\q2 What can flesh do to me?
\q1
\v 5 All day long they twist my words.
\q2 All their thoughts are against me for evil.
\q1
\v 6 They conspire and lurk,
\q2 watching my steps.
\q2 They are eager to take my life.
\q1
\v 7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
\q2 In anger cast down the peoples, God.
\q1
\v 8 You count my wanderings.
\q2 You put my tears into your container.
\q2 Aren’t they in your book?
\q1
\v 9 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
\q2 I know this: that God is for me.
\q1
\v 10 In God, I will praise his word.
\q2 In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
\q1
\v 11 I have put my trust in God.
\q2 I will not be afraid.
\q2 What can man do to me?
\q1
\v 12 Your vows are on me, God.
\q2 I will give thank offerings to you.
\q1
\v 13 For you have delivered my soul from death,
\q2 and prevented my feet from falling,
\q2 that I may walk before God in the light of the living.


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
\q1
\v 1 Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me,
\q2 for my soul takes refuge in you.
\q1 Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
\q2 until disaster has passed.
\q1
\v 2 I cry out to God Most High,
\q1 to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
\q1
\v 3 He will send from heaven, and save me,
\q2 he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1 God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
\q1
\v 4 My soul is among lions.
\q2 I lie among those who are set on fire,
\q2 even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
\q2 and their tongue a sharp sword.
\q1
\v 5 Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
\q2 Let your glory be above all the earth!
\b
\q1
\v 6 They have prepared a net for my steps.
\q2 My soul is bowed down.
\q1 They dig a pit before me.
\q2 They fall into the middle of it themselves. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 7 My heart is steadfast, God.
\q2 My heart is steadfast.
\q2 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
\q1
\v 8 Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp!
\q2 I will wake up the dawn.
\q1
\v 9 I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.
\q2 I will sing praises to you among the nations.
\q1
\v 10 For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,
\q2 and your truth to the skies.
\q1
\v 11 Be exalted, God, above the heavens.
\q2 Let your glory be over all the earth.


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David.
\q1
\v 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?
\q2 Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
\q1
\v 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice.
\q2 You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
\q1
\v 3 The wicked go astray from the womb.
\q2 They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
\q1
\v 4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake,
\q2 like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
\q2
\v 5 which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,
\q2 no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
\q1
\v 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.
\q2 Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 Let them vanish like water that flows away.
\q2 When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
\q1
\v 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,
\q2 like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
\q1
\v 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,
\q2 he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
\q1
\v 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.
\q2 He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
\q1
\v 11 so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.
\q2 Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
\q1
\v 1 Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
\q2 Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
\q1
\v 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
\q2 Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
\q1
\v 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
\q2 The mighty gather themselves together against me,
\q2 not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.
\q2 Rise up, behold, and help me!
\q1
\v 5 You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel,
\q2 rouse yourself to punish the nations.
\q2 Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 6 They return at evening, howling like dogs,
\q2 and prowl around the city.
\q1
\v 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth.
\q2 Swords are in their lips,
\q2 “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
\q1
\v 8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them.
\q2 You scoff at all the nations.
\q1
\v 9 Oh, my Strength, I watch for you,
\q2 for God is my high tower.
\q1
\v 10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
\q2 God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
\q1
\v 11 Don’t kill them, or my people may forget.
\q2 Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
\q1
\v 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
\q2 let them be caught in their pride,
\q2 for the curses and lies which they utter.
\q1
\v 13 Consume them in wrath.
\q2 Consume them, and they will be no more.
\q1 Let them know that God rules in Jacob,
\q2 to the ends of the earth. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 14 At evening let them return.
\q2 Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
\q1
\v 15 They shall wander up and down for food,
\q2 and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
\b
\q1
\v 16 But I will sing of your strength.
\q2 Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning.
\q1 For you have been my high tower,
\q2 a refuge in the day of my distress.
\q1
\v 17 To you, my strength, I will sing praises.
\q2 For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.


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\d For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger,
\q2 neither discipline me in your wrath.
\q1
\v 2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint.
\q2 Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
\q1
\v 3 My soul is also in great anguish.
\q2 But you, Yahweh—how long?
\q1
\v 4 Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul,
\q2 and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
\q1
\v 5 For in death there is no memory of you.
\q2 In Sheol,\f + \fr 6:5 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* who shall give you thanks?
\q1
\v 6 I am weary with my groaning.
\q2 Every night I flood my bed.
\q2 I drench my couch with my tears.
\q1
\v 7 My eye wastes away because of grief.
\q2 It grows old because of all my adversaries.
\q1
\v 8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,
\q2 for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh has heard my supplication.
\q2 Yahweh accepts my prayer.
\q1
\v 10 May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed.
\q2 They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
\q1
\v 1 God, you have rejected us.
\q2 You have broken us down.
\q1 You have been angry.
\q2 Restore us, again.
\q1
\v 2 You have made the land tremble.
\q2 You have torn it.
\q1 Mend its fractures,
\q2 for it quakes.
\q1
\v 3 You have shown your people hard things.
\q2 You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
\q1
\v 4 You have given a banner to those who fear you,
\q2 that it may be displayed because of the truth. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 5 So that your beloved may be delivered,
\q2 save with your right hand, and answer us.
\q1
\v 6 God has spoken from his sanctuary:
\q2 “I will triumph.
\q2 I will divide Shechem,
\q2 and measure out the valley of Succoth.
\q1
\v 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.
\q2 Ephraim also is the defense of my head.
\q2 Judah is my scepter.
\q1
\v 8 Moab is my wash basin.
\q2 I will throw my sandal on Edom.
\q2 I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 Who will bring me into the strong city?
\q2 Who has led me to Edom?
\q1
\v 10 Haven’t you, God, rejected us?
\q2 You don’t go out with our armies, God.
\q1
\v 11 Give us help against the adversary,
\q2 for the help of man is vain.
\q1
\v 12 Through God we will do valiantly,
\q2 for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.


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\d For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.
\q1
\v 1 Hear my cry, God.
\q2 Listen to my prayer.
\q1
\v 2 From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed.
\q2 Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
\q1
\v 3 For you have been a refuge for me,
\q2 a strong tower from the enemy.
\q1
\v 4 I will dwell in your tent forever.
\q2 I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 For you, God, have heard my vows.
\q2 You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
\q1
\v 6 You will prolong the king’s life.
\q2 His years will be for generations.
\q1
\v 7 He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever.
\q2 Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
\q1
\v 8 So I will sing praise to your name forever,
\q2 that I may fulfill my vows daily.


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\d For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 My soul rests in God alone.
\q2 My salvation is from him.
\q1
\v 2 He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress.
\q2 I will never be greatly shaken.
\q1
\v 3 How long will you assault a man?
\q2 Would all of you throw him down,
\q2 like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
\q1
\v 4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.
\q2 They delight in lies.
\q2 They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone,
\q2 for my expectation is from him.
\q1
\v 6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.
\q2 I will not be shaken.
\q1
\v 7 My salvation and my honor is with God.
\q2 The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
\q1
\v 8 Trust in him at all times, you people.
\q2 Pour out your heart before him.
\q2 God is a refuge for us. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath,
\q2 and men of high degree are a lie.
\q1 In the balances they will go up.
\q2 They are together lighter than a breath.
\q1
\v 10 Don’t trust in oppression.
\q2 Don’t become vain in robbery.
\q1 If riches increase,
\q2 don’t set your heart on them.
\q1
\v 11 God has spoken once;
\q2 twice I have heard this,
\q2 that power belongs to God.
\q1
\v 12 Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,
\q2 for you reward every man according to his work.


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\d A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.
\q1
\v 1 God, you are my God.
\q2 I will earnestly seek you.
\q1 My soul thirsts for you.
\q2 My flesh longs for you,
\q2 in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
\q1
\v 2 So I have seen you in the sanctuary,
\q2 watching your power and your glory.
\q1
\v 3 Because your loving kindness is better than life,
\q2 my lips shall praise you.
\q1
\v 4 So I will bless you while I live.
\q2 I will lift up my hands in your name.
\q1
\v 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.
\q2 My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
\q2
\v 6 when I remember you on my bed,
\q2 and think about you in the night watches.
\q1
\v 7 For you have been my help.
\q2 I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
\q1
\v 8 My soul stays close to you.
\q2 Your right hand holds me up.
\q1
\v 9 But those who seek my soul to destroy it
\q2 shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
\q1
\v 10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword.
\q2 They shall be jackal food.
\q1
\v 11 But the king shall rejoice in God.
\q2 Everyone who swears by him will praise him,
\q2 for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Hear my voice, God, in my complaint.
\q2 Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
\q1
\v 2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,
\q2 from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
\q1
\v 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword,
\q2 and aim their arrows, deadly words,
\q2
\v 4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes.
\q2 They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
\q1
\v 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans.
\q2 They talk about laying snares secretly.
\q2 They say, “Who will see them?”
\q1
\v 6 They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!”
\q2 Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
\q1
\v 7 But God will shoot at them.
\q2 They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
\q1
\v 8 Their own tongues shall ruin them.
\q2 All who see them will shake their heads.
\q1
\v 9 All mankind shall be afraid.
\q2 They shall declare the work of God,
\q2 and shall wisely ponder what he has done.
\q1
\v 10 The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh,
\q2 and shall take refuge in him.
\q2 All the upright in heart shall praise him!


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
\q1
\v 1 Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.
\q2 Vows shall be performed to you.
\q1
\v 2 You who hear prayer,
\q2 all men will come to you.
\q1
\v 3 Sins overwhelmed me,
\q2 but you atoned for our transgressions.
\q1
\v 4 Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near,
\q2 that he may live in your courts.
\q2 We will be filled with the goodness of your house,
\q2 your holy temple.
\q1
\v 5 By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us,
\q2 God of our salvation.
\q1 You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
\q2 of those who are far away on the sea.
\q1
\v 6 By your power, you form the mountains,
\q2 having armed yourself with strength.
\q1
\v 7 You still the roaring of the seas,
\q2 the roaring of their waves,
\q2 and the turmoil of the nations.
\q1
\v 8 They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders.
\q2 You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
\q1
\v 9 You visit the earth, and water it.
\q2 You greatly enrich it.
\q1 The river of God is full of water.
\q2 You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
\q1
\v 10 You drench its furrows.
\q2 You level its ridges.
\q2 You soften it with showers.
\q2 You bless it with a crop.
\q1
\v 11 You crown the year with your bounty.
\q2 Your carts overflow with abundance.
\q1
\v 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow.
\q2 The hills are clothed with gladness.
\q1
\v 13 The pastures are covered with flocks.
\q2 The valleys also are clothed with grain.
\q1 They shout for joy!
\q2 They also sing.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.
\q1
\v 1 Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!
\q2
\v 2 Sing to the glory of his name!
\q2 Offer glory and praise!
\q1
\v 3 Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!
\q2 Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.
\q1
\v 4 All the earth will worship you,
\q2 and will sing to you;
\q2 they will sing to your name.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 Come, and see God’s deeds—
\q2 awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
\q1
\v 6 He turned the sea into dry land.
\q2 They went through the river on foot.
\q2 There, we rejoiced in him.
\q1
\v 7 He rules by his might forever.
\q2 His eyes watch the nations.
\q2 Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 8 Praise our God, you peoples!
\q2 Make the sound of his praise heard,
\q1
\v 9 who preserves our life among the living,
\q2 and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
\q1
\v 10 For you, God, have tested us.
\q2 You have refined us, as silver is refined.
\q1
\v 11 You brought us into prison.
\q2 You laid a burden on our backs.
\q1
\v 12 You allowed men to ride over our heads.
\q2 We went through fire and through water,
\q2 but you brought us to the place of abundance.
\q1
\v 13 I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.
\q2 I will pay my vows to you,
\v 14 which my lips promised,
\q2 and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
\q1
\v 15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals,
\q2 with the offering of rams,
\q2 I will offer bulls with goats. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 16 Come and hear, all you who fear God.
\q2 I will declare what he has done for my soul.
\q1
\v 17 I cried to him with my mouth.
\q2 He was extolled with my tongue.
\q1
\v 18 If I cherished sin in my heart,
\q2 the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
\q1
\v 19 But most certainly, God has listened.
\q2 He has heard the voice of my prayer.
\q1
\v 20 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer,
\q2 nor his loving kindness from me.


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\d For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.
\q1
\v 1 May God be merciful to us, bless us,
\q2 and cause his face to shine on us. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 2 That your way may be known on earth,
\q2 and your salvation among all nations,
\q1
\v 3 let the peoples praise you, God.
\q2 Let all the peoples praise you.
\q1
\v 4 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
\q2 for you will judge the peoples with equity,
\q2 and govern the nations on earth. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 Let the peoples praise you, God.
\q2 Let all the peoples praise you.
\q1
\v 6 The earth has yielded its increase.
\q2 God, even our own God, will bless us.
\q1
\v 7 God will bless us.
\q2 All the ends of the earth shall fear him.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.
\q1
\v 1 Let God arise!
\q2 Let his enemies be scattered!
\q2 Let them who hate him also flee before him.
\q1
\v 2 As smoke is driven away,
\q2 so drive them away.
\q1 As wax melts before the fire,
\q2 so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
\q1
\v 3 But let the righteous be glad.
\q2 Let them rejoice before God.
\q2 Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
\q1
\v 4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!
\q2 Extol him who rides on the clouds:
\q1 to Yah, his name!
\q2 Rejoice before him!
\q1
\v 5 A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,
\q2 is God in his holy habitation.
\q1
\v 6 God sets the lonely in families.
\q1 He brings out the prisoners with singing,
\q2 but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
\b
\q1
\v 7 God, when you went out before your people,
\q2 when you marched through the wilderness... \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 8 The earth trembled.
\q2 The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai—
\q2 at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
\q1
\v 9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain.
\q2 You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.
\q1
\v 10 Your congregation lived therein.
\q2 You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
\q1
\v 11 The Lord announced the word.
\q2 The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
\q1
\v 12 “Kings of armies flee! They flee!”
\q2 She who waits at home divides the plunder,
\q2
\v 13 while you sleep among the camp fires,
\q2 the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,
\q2 her feathers with shining gold.
\q1
\v 14 When the Almighty scattered kings in her,
\q2 it snowed on Zalmon.
\q1
\v 15 The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.
\q2 The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
\q1
\v 16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,
\q2 at the mountain where God chooses to reign?
\q2 Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
\q1
\v 17 The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.
\q2 The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
\q1
\v 18 You have ascended on high.
\q2 You have led away captives.
\q1 You have received gifts among people,
\q2 yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,
\q2 even the God who is our salvation. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 20 God is to us a God of deliverance.
\q2 To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
\q1
\v 21 But God will strike through the head of his enemies,
\q2 the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
\q1
\v 22 The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,
\q2 I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,
\q1
\v 23 that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,
\q2 that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”
\q1
\v 24 They have seen your processions, God,
\q2 even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
\q1
\v 25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
\q2 among the ladies playing with tambourines,
\q1
\v 26 “Bless God in the congregations,
\q2 even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”
\q1
\v 27 There is little Benjamin, their ruler,
\q2 the princes of Judah, their council,
\q2 the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
\b
\q1
\v 28 Your God has commanded your strength.
\q2 Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.
\q1
\v 29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem,
\q2 kings shall bring presents to you.
\q1
\v 30 Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,
\q2 the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples.
\q1 Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver.
\q2 Scatter the nations that delight in war.
\q1
\v 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt.
\q2 Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
\q1
\v 32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!
\q2 Sing praises to the Lord! \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 33 To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
\q2 behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
\q1
\v 34 Ascribe strength to God!
\q2 His excellency is over Israel,
\q2 his strength is in the skies.
\q1
\v 35 You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.
\q2 The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.
\q2 Praise be to God!


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David.
\q1
\v 1 Save me, God,
\q2 for the waters have come up to my neck!
\q1
\v 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.
\q2 I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
\q1
\v 3 I am weary with my crying.
\q2 My throat is dry.
\q2 My eyes fail looking for my God.
\q1
\v 4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head.
\q2 Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty.
\q2 I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
\q1
\v 5 God, you know my foolishness.
\q2 My sins aren’t hidden from you.
\q1
\v 6 Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies.
\q2 Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
\q1
\v 7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.
\q2 Shame has covered my face.
\q1
\v 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
\q2 an alien to my mother’s children.
\q1
\v 9 For the zeal of your house consumes me.
\q2 The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
\q1
\v 10 When I wept and I fasted,
\q2 that was to my reproach.
\q1
\v 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
\q2 I became a byword to them.
\q1
\v 12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me.
\q2 I am the song of the drunkards.
\q1
\v 13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time.
\q2 God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
\q1
\v 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink.
\q2 Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
\q1
\v 15 Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me,
\q2 neither let the deep swallow me up.
\q2 Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
\q1
\v 16 Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good.
\q2 According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
\q1
\v 17 Don’t hide your face from your servant,
\q2 for I am in distress.
\q2 Answer me speedily!
\q1
\v 18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it.
\q2 Ransom me because of my enemies.
\q1
\v 19 You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor.
\q2 My adversaries are all before you.
\q1
\v 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
\q2 I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
\q2 for comforters, but I found none.
\q1
\v 21 They also gave me poison for my food.
\q2 In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
\q1
\v 22 Let their table before them become a snare.
\q2 May it become a retribution and a trap.
\q1
\v 23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see.
\q2 Let their backs be continually bent.
\q1
\v 24 Pour out your indignation on them.
\q2 Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.
\q1
\v 25 Let their habitation be desolate.
\q2 Let no one dwell in their tents.
\q1
\v 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded.
\q2 They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
\q1
\v 27 Charge them with crime upon crime.
\q2 Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
\q1
\v 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
\q2 and not be written with the righteous.
\q1
\v 29 But I am in pain and distress.
\q2 Let your salvation, God, protect me.
\q1
\v 30 I will praise the name of God with a song,
\q2 and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
\q1
\v 31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox,
\q2 or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
\q1
\v 32 The humble have seen it, and are glad.
\q2 You who seek after God, let your heart live.
\q1
\v 33 For Yahweh hears the needy,
\q2 and doesn’t despise his captive people.
\q1
\v 34 Let heaven and earth praise him;
\q2 the seas, and everything that moves therein!
\q1
\v 35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah.
\q2 They shall settle there, and own it.
\q1
\v 36 The children also of his servants shall inherit it.
\q2 Those who love his name shall dwell therein.


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\d A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
\q2 Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
\q1
\v 2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
\q2 ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
\q2 if there is iniquity in my hands,
\q1
\v 4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me
\q2 (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
\q2
\v 5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
\q1 yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
\q2 and lay my glory in the dust. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
\q2 Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
\q1 Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
\q2
\v 7 Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
\q2 Rule over them on high.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
\q2 Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
\q2 and to my integrity that is in me.
\q1
\v 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
\q2 but establish the righteous;
\q2 their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
\q1
\v 10 My shield is with God,
\q2 who saves the upright in heart.
\q1
\v 11 God is a righteous judge,
\q2 yes, a God who has indignation every day.
\q1
\v 12 If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;
\q2 he has bent and strung his bow.
\q1
\v 13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
\q2 He makes ready his flaming arrows.
\q1
\v 14 Behold,\f + \fr 7:14 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* he travails with iniquity.
\q2 Yes, he has conceived mischief,
\q2 and brought out falsehood.
\q1
\v 15 He has dug a hole,
\q2 and has fallen into the pit which he made.
\q1
\v 16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
\q2 His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
\q1
\v 17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
\q2 and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.


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\d For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.
\q1
\v 1 Hurry, God, to deliver me.
\q2 Come quickly to help me, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.
\q2 Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
\q1
\v 3 Let them be turned because of their shame
\q2 who say, “Aha! Aha!”
\q1
\v 4 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
\q2 Let those who love your salvation continually say,
\q2 “Let God be exalted!”
\q1
\v 5 But I am poor and needy.
\q2 Come to me quickly, God.
\q1 You are my help and my deliverer.
\q2 Yahweh, don’t delay.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
\q2 Never let me be disappointed.
\q1
\v 2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
\q2 Turn your ear to me, and save me.
\q1
\v 3 Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.
\q2 Give the command to save me,
\q2 for you are my rock and my fortress.
\q1
\v 4 Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
\q2 from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
\q1
\v 5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh,
\q2 my confidence from my youth.
\q1
\v 6 I have relied on you from the womb.
\q2 You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb.
\q2 I will always praise you.
\q1
\v 7 I am a marvel to many,
\q2 but you are my strong refuge.
\q1
\v 8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise,
\q2 with your honor all day long.
\q1
\v 9 Don’t reject me in my old age.
\q2 Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
\q1
\v 10 For my enemies talk about me.
\q2 Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
\q2
\v 11 saying, “God has forsaken him.
\q2 Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
\q1
\v 12 God, don’t be far from me.
\q2 My God, hurry to help me.
\q1
\v 13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed.
\q2 Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
\q1
\v 14 But I will always hope,
\q2 and will add to all of your praise.
\q1
\v 15 My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
\q2 and of your salvation all day,
\q2 though I don’t know its full measure.
\q1
\v 16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh.
\q2 I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
\q1
\v 17 God, you have taught me from my youth.
\q2 Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
\q1
\v 18 Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me,
\q2 until I have declared your strength to the next generation,
\q2 your might to everyone who is to come.
\q1
\v 19 Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens;
\q2 you have done great things.
\q2 God, who is like you?
\q1
\v 20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,
\q2 you will let me live.
\q2 You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
\q1
\v 21 Increase my honor
\q2 and comfort me again.
\q1
\v 22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God.
\q2 I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
\q1
\v 23 My lips shall shout for joy!
\q2 My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
\q1
\v 24 My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,
\q2 for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,
\q2 who want to harm me.


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\d By Solomon.
\q1
\v 1 God, give the king your justice;
\q2 your righteousness to the royal son.
\q1
\v 2 He will judge your people with righteousness,
\q2 and your poor with justice.
\q1
\v 3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
\q2 The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
\q1
\v 4 He will judge the poor of the people.
\q2 He will save the children of the needy,
\q2 and will break the oppressor in pieces.
\q1
\v 5 They shall fear you while the sun endures;
\q2 and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
\q1
\v 6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass,
\q2 as showers that water the earth.
\q1
\v 7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish,
\q2 and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
\q1
\v 8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
\q2 from the River to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\v 9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him.
\q2 His enemies shall lick the dust.
\q1
\v 10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
\q2 The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
\q1
\v 11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him.
\q2 All nations shall serve him.
\q1
\v 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries;
\q2 the poor, who has no helper.
\q1
\v 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy.
\q2 He will save the souls of the needy.
\q1
\v 14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence.
\q2 Their blood will be precious in his sight.
\q1
\v 15 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba.
\q2 Men shall pray for him continually.
\q2 They shall bless him all day long.
\q1
\v 16 Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land.
\q2 Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
\q2 Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
\q1
\v 17 His name endures forever.
\q2 His name continues as long as the sun.
\q1 Men shall be blessed by him.
\q2 All nations will call him blessed.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel,
\q2 who alone does marvelous deeds.
\q1
\v 19 Blessed be his glorious name forever!
\q2 Let the whole earth be filled with his glory!
\q1 Amen and amen.
\b
\p
\v 20 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.


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\ms1 BOOK 3
\d A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 Surely God\f + \fr 73:1 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* is good to Israel,
\q2 to those who are pure in heart.
\q1
\v 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone.
\q2 My steps had nearly slipped.
\q1
\v 3 For I was envious of the arrogant,
\q2 when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
\q1
\v 4 For there are no struggles in their death,
\q2 but their strength is firm.
\q1
\v 5 They are free from burdens of men,
\q2 neither are they plagued like other men.
\q1
\v 6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck.
\q2 Violence covers them like a garment.
\q1
\v 7 Their eyes bulge with fat.
\q2 Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
\q1
\v 8 They scoff and speak with malice.
\q2 In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
\q1
\v 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens.
\q2 Their tongue walks through the earth.
\q1
\v 10 Therefore their people return to them,
\q2 and they drink up waters of abundance.
\q1
\v 11 They say, “How does God know?
\q2 Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
\q1
\v 12 Behold, these are the wicked.
\q2 Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
\q1
\v 13 Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
\q2 and washed my hands in innocence,
\q1
\v 14 For all day long I have been plagued,
\q2 and punished every morning.
\q1
\v 15 If I had said, “I will speak thus”;
\q2 behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
\q1
\v 16 When I tried to understand this,
\q2 it was too painful for me,
\q1
\v 17 until I entered God’s sanctuary,
\q2 and considered their latter end.
\q1
\v 18 Surely you set them in slippery places.
\q2 You throw them down to destruction.
\q1
\v 19 How they are suddenly destroyed!
\q2 They are completely swept away with terrors.
\q1
\v 20 As a dream when one wakes up,
\q2 so, Lord,\f + \fr 73:20 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
\q1
\v 21 For my soul was grieved.
\q2 I was embittered in my heart.
\q1
\v 22 I was so senseless and ignorant.
\q2 I was a brute beast before you.
\q1
\v 23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you.
\q2 You have held my right hand.
\q1
\v 24 You will guide me with your counsel,
\q2 and afterward receive me to glory.
\q1
\v 25 Whom do I have in heaven?
\q2 There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
\q1
\v 26 My flesh and my heart fails,
\q2 but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
\q1
\v 27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish.
\q2 You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
\q1
\v 28 But it is good for me to come close to God.
\q2 I have made the Lord Yahweh\f + \fr 73:28 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* my refuge,
\q2 that I may tell of all your works.
\b


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\d A contemplation by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 God, why have you rejected us forever?
\q2 Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
\q1
\v 2 Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,
\q2 which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance:
\q2 Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
\q1
\v 3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,
\q2 all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
\q1
\v 4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.
\q2 They have set up their standards as signs.
\q1
\v 5 They behaved like men wielding axes,
\q2 cutting through a thicket of trees.
\q1
\v 6 Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
\q2
\v 7 They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.
\q2 They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
\q1
\v 8 They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”
\q2 They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
\q1
\v 9 We see no miraculous signs.
\q2 There is no longer any prophet,
\q2 neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
\q1
\v 10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?
\q2 Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
\q1
\v 11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
\q2 Take it from your chest and consume them!
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yet God is my King of old,
\q2 working salvation throughout the earth.
\q1
\v 13 You divided the sea by your strength.
\q2 You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
\q1
\v 14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.
\q2 You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
\q1
\v 15 You opened up spring and stream.
\q2 You dried up mighty rivers.
\q1
\v 16 The day is yours, the night is also yours.
\q2 You have prepared the light and the sun.
\q1
\v 17 You have set all the boundaries of the earth.
\q2 You have made summer and winter.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh.
\q2 Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
\q1
\v 19 Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.
\q2 Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
\q1
\v 20 Honor your covenant,
\q2 for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
\q1
\v 21 Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed.
\q2 Let the poor and needy praise your name.
\q1
\v 22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause.
\q2 Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
\q1
\v 23 Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries.
\q2 The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
\b


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
\q1
\v 1 We give thanks to you, God.
\q2 We give thanks, for your Name is near.
\q2 Men tell about your wondrous works.
\b
\q1
\v 2 When I choose the appointed time,
\q2 I will judge blamelessly.
\q1
\v 3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake.
\q2 I firmly hold its pillars. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”
\q2 I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
\q1
\v 5 Don’t lift up your horn on high.
\q2 Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
\q1
\v 6 For neither from the east, nor from the west,
\q2 nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
\q1
\v 7 But God is the judge.
\q2 He puts down one, and lifts up another.
\q1
\v 8 For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup,
\q2 full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
\q1 He pours it out.
\q2 Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
\b
\q1
\v 9 But I will declare this forever:
\q2 I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
\q1
\v 10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,
\q2 but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
\b


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\d For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.
\q1
\v 1 In Judah, God is known.
\q2 His name is great in Israel.
\q1
\v 2 His tabernacle is also in Salem;
\q2 His dwelling place in Zion.
\q1
\v 3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,
\q2 the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 Glorious are you, and excellent,
\q2 more than mountains of game.
\q1
\v 5 Valiant men lie plundered,
\q2 they have slept their last sleep.
\q2 None of the men of war can lift their hands.
\q1
\v 6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob,
\q2 both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
\q1
\v 7 You, even you, are to be feared.
\q2 Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
\q1
\v 8 You pronounced judgment from heaven.
\q2 The earth feared, and was silent,
\q2
\v 9 when God arose to judgment,
\q2 to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 10 Surely the wrath of man praises you.
\q2 The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
\q1
\v 11 Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them!
\q2 Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
\q1
\v 12 He will cut off the spirit of princes.
\q2 He is feared by the kings of the earth.
\b


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\d For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 My cry goes to God!
\q2 Indeed, I cry to God for help,
\q2 and for him to listen to me.
\q1
\v 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
\q2 My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired.
\q2 My soul refused to be comforted.
\q1
\v 3 I remember God, and I groan.
\q2 I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 4 You hold my eyelids open.
\q2 I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
\q1
\v 5 I have considered the days of old,
\q2 the years of ancient times.
\q1
\v 6 I remember my song in the night.
\q2 I consider in my own heart;
\q2 my spirit diligently inquires:
\q1
\v 7 “Will the Lord reject us forever?
\q2 Will he be favorable no more?
\q1
\v 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever?
\q2 Does his promise fail for generations?
\q1
\v 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious?
\q2 Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 10 Then I thought, “I will appeal to this:
\q2 the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
\q1
\v 11 I will remember Yah’s deeds;
\q2 for I will remember your wonders of old.
\q1
\v 12 I will also meditate on all your work,
\q2 and consider your doings.
\q1
\v 13 Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.
\q2 What god is great like God?
\q1
\v 14 You are the God who does wonders.
\q2 You have made your strength known among the peoples.
\q1
\v 15 You have redeemed your people with your arm,
\q2 the sons of Jacob and Joseph. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 16 The waters saw you, God.
\q2 The waters saw you, and they writhed.
\q2 The depths also convulsed.
\q1
\v 17 The clouds poured out water.
\q2 The skies resounded with thunder.
\q2 Your arrows also flashed around.
\q1
\v 18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.
\q2 The lightnings lit up the world.
\q2 The earth trembled and shook.
\q1
\v 19 Your way was through the sea;
\q2 your paths through the great waters.
\q2 Your footsteps were not known.
\q1
\v 20 You led your people like a flock,
\q2 by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
\b


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\d A contemplation by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 Hear my teaching, my people.
\q2 Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
\q1
\v 2 I will open my mouth in a parable.
\q2 I will utter dark sayings of old,
\q1
\v 3 Which we have heard and known,
\q2 and our fathers have told us.
\q1
\v 4 We will not hide them from their children,
\q2 telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,
\q2 his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
\q1
\v 5 For he established a covenant in Jacob,
\q2 and appointed a teaching in Israel,
\q2 which he commanded our fathers,
\q2 that they should make them known to their children;
\q1
\v 6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;
\q2 who should arise and tell their children,
\q1
\v 7 that they might set their hope in God,
\q2 and not forget God’s deeds,
\q2 but keep his commandments,
\q1
\v 8 and might not be as their fathers,
\q2 a stubborn and rebellious generation,
\q2 a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal,
\q2 whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
\q1
\v 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,
\q2 turned back in the day of battle.
\q1
\v 10 They didn’t keep God’s covenant,
\q2 and refused to walk in his law.
\q1
\v 11 They forgot his doings,
\q2 his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
\q1
\v 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,
\q2 in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
\q1
\v 13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.
\q2 He made the waters stand as a heap.
\q1
\v 14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,
\q2 and all night with a light of fire.
\q1
\v 15 He split rocks in the wilderness,
\q2 and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
\q1
\v 16 He brought streams also out of the rock,
\q2 and caused waters to run down like rivers.
\q1
\v 17 Yet they still went on to sin against him,
\q2 to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
\q1
\v 18 They tempted God in their heart
\q2 by asking food according to their desire.
\q1
\v 19 Yes, they spoke against God.
\q2 They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
\q1
\v 20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,
\q2 and streams overflowed.
\q1 Can he give bread also?
\q2 Will he provide meat for his people?”
\q1
\v 21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry.
\q2 A fire was kindled against Jacob,
\q2 anger also went up against Israel,
\q1
\v 22 because they didn’t believe in God,
\q2 and didn’t trust in his salvation.
\q1
\v 23 Yet he commanded the skies above,
\q2 and opened the doors of heaven.
\q1
\v 24 He rained down manna on them to eat,
\q2 and gave them food from the sky.
\q1
\v 25 Man ate the bread of angels.
\q2 He sent them food to the full.
\q1
\v 26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.
\q2 By his power he guided the south wind.
\q1
\v 27 He also rained meat on them as the dust,
\q2 winged birds as the sand of the seas.
\q1
\v 28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp,
\q2 around their habitations.
\q1
\v 29 So they ate, and were well filled.
\q2 He gave them their own desire.
\q1
\v 30 They didn’t turn from their cravings.
\q2 Their food was yet in their mouths,
\q2
\v 31 when the anger of God went up against them,
\q2 killed some of their fattest,
\q2 and struck down the young men of Israel.
\q1
\v 32 For all this they still sinned,
\q2 and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
\q1
\v 33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,
\q2 and their years in terror.
\q1
\v 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
\q2 They returned and sought God earnestly.
\q1
\v 35 They remembered that God was their rock,
\q2 the Most High God, their redeemer.
\q1
\v 36 But they flattered him with their mouth,
\q2 and lied to him with their tongue.
\q1
\v 37 For their heart was not right with him,
\q2 neither were they faithful in his covenant.
\q1
\v 38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.
\q2 Yes, many times he turned his anger away,
\q2 and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
\q1
\v 39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
\q2 a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
\q1
\v 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
\q2 and grieved him in the desert!
\q1
\v 41 They turned again and tempted God,
\q2 and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
\q1
\v 42 They didn’t remember his hand,
\q2 nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
\q1
\v 43 how he set his signs in Egypt,
\q2 his wonders in the field of Zoan,
\q1
\v 44 he turned their rivers into blood,
\q2 and their streams, so that they could not drink.
\q1
\v 45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;
\q2 and frogs, which destroyed them.
\q1
\v 46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar,
\q2 and their labor to the locust.
\q1
\v 47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
\q2 their sycamore fig trees with frost.
\q1
\v 48 He gave over their livestock also to the hail,
\q2 and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
\q1
\v 49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,
\q2 wrath, indignation, and trouble,
\q2 and a band of angels of evil.
\q1
\v 50 He made a path for his anger.
\q2 He didn’t spare their soul from death,
\q2 but gave their life over to the pestilence,
\q1
\v 51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
\q2 the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
\q1
\v 52 But he led out his own people like sheep,
\q2 and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
\q1
\v 53 He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,
\q2 but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
\q1
\v 54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
\q2 to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
\q1
\v 55 He also drove out the nations before them,
\q2 allotted them for an inheritance by line,
\q2 and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
\q1
\v 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
\q2 and didn’t keep his testimonies,
\q1
\v 57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.
\q2 They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
\q1
\v 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
\q2 and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
\q1
\v 59 When God heard this, he was angry,
\q2 and greatly abhorred Israel,
\q1
\v 60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
\q2 the tent which he placed among men,
\q1
\v 61 and delivered his strength into captivity,
\q2 his glory into the adversary’s hand.
\q1
\v 62 He also gave his people over to the sword,
\q2 and was angry with his inheritance.
\q1
\v 63 Fire devoured their young men.
\q2 Their virgins had no wedding song.
\q1
\v 64 Their priests fell by the sword,
\q2 and their widows couldn’t weep.
\q1
\v 65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,
\q2 like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
\q1
\v 66 He struck his adversaries backward.
\q2 He put them to a perpetual reproach.
\q1
\v 67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,
\q2 and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
\q1
\v 68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
\q2 Mount Zion which he loved.
\q1
\v 69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
\q2 like the earth which he has established forever.
\q1
\v 70 He also chose David his servant,
\q2 and took him from the sheepfolds;
\q1
\v 71 from following the ewes that have their young,
\q2 he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,
\q2 and Israel, his inheritance.
\q1
\v 72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,
\q2 and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
\b


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\d A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
\q2 They have defiled your holy temple.
\q2 They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
\q1
\v 2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
\q2 the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
\q1
\v 3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
\q2 There was no one to bury them.
\q1
\v 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
\q2 a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
\q1
\v 5 How long, Yahweh?
\q2 Will you be angry forever?
\q2 Will your jealousy burn like fire?
\q1
\v 6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,
\q2 on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
\q1
\v 7 for they have devoured Jacob,
\q2 and destroyed his homeland.
\q1
\v 8 Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
\q2 Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
\q2 for we are in desperate need.
\q1
\v 9 Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
\q2 Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
\q1
\v 10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
\q2 Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
\q2 that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
\q1
\v 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
\q2 According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
\q1
\v 12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
\q2 their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
\q1
\v 13 So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
\q2 will give you thanks forever.
\q2 We will praise you forever, to all generations.
\b


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\d For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
\q2 You have set your glory above the heavens!
\q1
\v 2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength,
\q2 because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
\q1
\v 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
\q2 the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
\q1
\v 4 what is man, that you think of him?
\q2 What is the son of man, that you care for him?
\q1
\v 5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels,\f + \fr 8:5 \ft Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in Hebrews 2:7.\f*
\q2 and crowned him with glory and honor.
\q1
\v 6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands.
\q2 You have put all things under his feet:
\q1
\v 7 All sheep and cattle,
\q2 yes, and the animals of the field,
\q2
\v 8 the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea,
\q2 and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, our Lord,
\q2 how majestic is your name in all the earth!


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\d For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
\q2 you who lead Joseph like a flock,
\q2 you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
\q1
\v 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might!
\q2 Come to save us!
\q1
\v 3 Turn us again, God.
\q2 Cause your face to shine,
\q2 and we will be saved.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh God of Armies,
\q2 how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
\q1
\v 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears,
\q2 and given them tears to drink in large measure.
\q1
\v 6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors.
\q2 Our enemies laugh among themselves.
\q1
\v 7 Turn us again, God of Armies.
\q2 Cause your face to shine,
\q2 and we will be saved.
\b
\q1
\v 8 You brought a vine out of Egypt.
\q2 You drove out the nations, and planted it.
\q1
\v 9 You cleared the ground for it.
\q2 It took deep root, and filled the land.
\q1
\v 10 The mountains were covered with its shadow.
\q2 Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
\q1
\v 11 It sent out its branches to the sea,
\q2 its shoots to the River.
\q1
\v 12 Why have you broken down its walls,
\q2 so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
\q1
\v 13 The boar out of the wood ravages it.
\q2 The wild animals of the field feed on it.
\q1
\v 14 Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies.
\q2 Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
\q1
\v 15 the stock which your right hand planted,
\q2 the branch that you made strong for yourself.
\q1
\v 16 It’s burned with fire.
\q2 It’s cut down.
\q2 They perish at your rebuke.
\q1
\v 17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
\q2 on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
\q1
\v 18 So we will not turn away from you.
\q2 Revive us, and we will call on your name.
\q1
\v 19 Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies.
\q2 Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.


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\d For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 Sing aloud to God, our strength!
\q2 Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!
\q1
\v 2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,
\q2 the pleasant lyre with the harp.
\q1
\v 3 Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,
\q2 at the full moon, on our feast day.
\q1
\v 4 For it is a statute for Israel,
\q2 an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
\q1
\v 5 He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,
\q2 when he went out over the land of Egypt,
\q2 I heard a language that I didn’t know.
\q1
\v 6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden.
\q2 His hands were freed from the basket.
\q1
\v 7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you.
\q2 I answered you in the secret place of thunder.
\q2 I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 8 “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,
\q2 Israel, if you would listen to me!
\q1
\v 9 There shall be no strange god in you,
\q2 neither shall you worship any foreign god.
\q1
\v 10 I am Yahweh, your God,
\q2 who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
\q2 Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
\q1
\v 11 But my people didn’t listen to my voice.
\q2 Israel desired none of me.
\q1
\v 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,
\q2 that they might walk in their own counsels.
\q1
\v 13 Oh that my people would listen to me,
\q2 that Israel would walk in my ways!
\q1
\v 14 I would soon subdue their enemies,
\q2 and turn my hand against their adversaries.
\q1
\v 15 The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him,
\q2 and their punishment would last forever.
\q1
\v 16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.
\q2 I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”


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\d A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 God presides in the great assembly.
\q2 He judges among the gods.
\q1
\v 2 “How long will you judge unjustly,
\q2 and show partiality to the wicked?” \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 3 “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
\q2 Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
\q1
\v 4 Rescue the weak and needy.
\q2 Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
\q1
\v 5 They don’t know, neither do they understand.
\q2 They walk back and forth in darkness.
\q2 All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
\q1
\v 6 I said, “You are gods,
\q2 all of you are sons of the Most High.
\q1
\v 7 Nevertheless you shall die like men,
\q2 and fall like one of the rulers.”
\q1
\v 8 Arise, God, judge the earth,
\q2 for you inherit all of the nations.


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\d A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
\q1
\v 1 God, don’t keep silent.
\q2 Don’t keep silent,
\q2 and don’t be still, God.
\q1
\v 2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
\q2 Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
\q1
\v 3 They conspire with cunning against your people.
\q2 They plot against your cherished ones.
\q1
\v 4 “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation,
\q2 that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
\q1
\v 5 For they have conspired together with one mind.
\q2 They form an alliance against you.
\q1
\v 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
\q2 Moab, and the Hagrites;
\q1
\v 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
\q2 Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
\q1
\v 8 Assyria also is joined with them.
\q2 They have helped the children of Lot. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
\q2 as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
\q1
\v 10 who perished at Endor,
\q2 who became as dung for the earth.
\q1
\v 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
\q2 yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
\q2
\v 12 who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
\q1
\v 13 My God, make them like tumbleweed,
\q2 like chaff before the wind.
\q1
\v 14 As the fire that burns the forest,
\q2 as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
\q2
\v 15 so pursue them with your tempest,
\q2 and terrify them with your storm.
\q1
\v 16 Fill their faces with confusion,
\q2 that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.
\q2 Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
\q1
\v 18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,
\q2 are the Most High over all the earth.


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\d For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
\q1
\v 1 How lovely are your dwellings,
\q2 Yahweh of Armies!
\q1
\v 2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh.
\q2 My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
\q1
\v 3 Yes, the sparrow has found a home,
\q2 and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,
\q2 near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
\q1
\v 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
\q2 They are always praising you. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
\q2 who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.
\q1
\v 6 Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.
\q2 Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
\q1
\v 7 They go from strength to strength.
\q2 Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer.
\q2 Listen, God of Jacob. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 9 Behold, God our shield,
\q2 look at the face of your anointed.
\q1
\v 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.
\q2 I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,
\q2 than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
\q1
\v 11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield.
\q2 Yahweh will give grace and glory.
\q2 He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh of Armies,
\q2 blessed is the man who trusts in you.


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\d For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land.
\q2 You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
\q1
\v 2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
\q2 You have covered all their sin. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 3 You have taken away all your wrath.
\q2 You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
\q1
\v 4 Turn us, God of our salvation,
\q2 and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
\q1
\v 5 Will you be angry with us forever?
\q2 Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
\q1
\v 6 Won’t you revive us again,
\q2 that your people may rejoice in you?
\q1
\v 7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
\q2 Grant us your salvation.
\q1
\v 8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
\q2 for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;
\q2 but let them not turn again to folly.
\q1
\v 9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
\q2 that glory may dwell in our land.
\q1
\v 10 Mercy and truth meet together.
\q2 Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
\q1
\v 11 Truth springs out of the earth.
\q2 Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
\q1
\v 12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good.
\q2 Our land will yield its increase.
\q1
\v 13 Righteousness goes before him,
\q2 And prepares the way for his steps.


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\d A Prayer by David.
\q1
\v 1 Hear, Yahweh, and answer me,
\q2 for I am poor and needy.
\q1
\v 2 Preserve my soul, for I am godly.
\q2 You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.
\q1
\v 3 Be merciful to me, Lord,
\q2 for I call to you all day long.
\q1
\v 4 Bring joy to the soul of your servant,
\q2 for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.
\q1
\v 5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
\q2 abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
\q1
\v 6 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer.
\q2 Listen to the voice of my petitions.
\q1
\v 7 In the day of my trouble I will call on you,
\q2 for you will answer me.
\q1
\v 8 There is no one like you among the gods, Lord,
\q2 nor any deeds like your deeds.
\q1
\v 9 All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.
\q2 They shall glorify your name.
\q1
\v 10 For you are great, and do wondrous things.
\q2 You are God alone.
\q1
\v 11 Teach me your way, Yahweh.
\q2 I will walk in your truth.
\q2 Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
\q1
\v 12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart.
\q2 I will glorify your name forever more.
\q1
\v 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me.
\q2 You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.\f + \fr 86:13 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\v 14 God, the proud have risen up against me.
\q2 A company of violent men have sought after my soul,
\q2 and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
\q1
\v 15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God,
\q2 slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
\q1
\v 16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me!
\q2 Give your strength to your servant.
\q2 Save the son of your servant.
\q1
\v 17 Show me a sign of your goodness,
\q2 that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed,
\q2 because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.


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\d A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.
\q1
\v 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
\q2
\v 2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
\q1
\v 3 Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 4 I will record Rahab\f + \fr 87:4 \ft Rahab is a reference to Egypt.\f* and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.
\q2 Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:
\q2 “This one was born there.”
\q1
\v 5 Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;”
\q2 the Most High himself will establish her.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples,
\q2 “This one was born there.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 7 Those who sing as well as those who dance say,
\q2 “All my springs are in you.”


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\d A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, the God of my salvation,
\q2 I have cried day and night before you.
\q1
\v 2 Let my prayer enter into your presence.
\q2 Turn your ear to my cry.
\q1
\v 3 For my soul is full of troubles.
\q2 My life draws near to Sheol.\f + \fr 88:3 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\v 4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit.
\q2 I am like a man who has no help,
\q2
\v 5 set apart among the dead,
\q2 like the slain who lie in the grave,
\q2 whom you remember no more.
\q2 They are cut off from your hand.
\q1
\v 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit,
\q2 in the darkest depths.
\q1
\v 7 Your wrath lies heavily on me.
\q2 You have afflicted me with all your waves. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 8 You have taken my friends from me.
\q2 You have made me an abomination to them.
\q2 I am confined, and I can’t escape.
\q1
\v 9 My eyes are dim from grief.
\q2 I have called on you daily, Yahweh.
\q2 I have spread out my hands to you.
\q1
\v 10 Do you show wonders to the dead?
\q2 Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?
\q2 Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
\q1
\v 12 Are your wonders made known in the dark?
\q2 Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
\q1
\v 13 But to you, Yahweh, I have cried.
\q2 In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, why do you reject my soul?
\q2 Why do you hide your face from me?
\q1
\v 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.
\q2 While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
\q1
\v 16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me.
\q2 Your terrors have cut me off.
\q1
\v 17 They came around me like water all day long.
\q2 They completely engulfed me.
\q1
\v 18 You have put lover and friend far from me,
\q2 and my friends into darkness.


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\d A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.
\q1
\v 1 I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever.
\q2 With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
\q1
\v 2 I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.
\q2 You established the heavens.
\q2 Your faithfulness is in them.”
\b
\q1
\v 3 “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
\q2 I have sworn to David, my servant,
\q1
\v 4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever,
\q2 and build up your throne to all generations.’” \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 5 The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh,
\q2 your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
\q1
\v 6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh?
\q2 Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,
\q1
\v 7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,
\q2 to be feared above all those who are around him?
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?
\q2 Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
\q1
\v 9 You rule the pride of the sea.
\q2 When its waves rise up, you calm them.
\q1
\v 10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.
\q2 You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
\q1
\v 11 The heavens are yours.
\q2 The earth also is yours,
\q2 the world and its fullness.
\q2 You have founded them.
\q1
\v 12 You have created the north and the south.
\q2 Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
\q1
\v 13 You have a mighty arm.
\q2 Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
\q1
\v 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.
\q2 Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
\q1
\v 15 Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.
\q2 They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 16 In your name they rejoice all day.
\q2 In your righteousness, they are exalted.
\q1
\v 17 For you are the glory of their strength.
\q2 In your favor, our horn will be exalted.
\q1
\v 18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh,
\q2 our king to the Holy One of Israel.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints,
\q2 and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.
\q2 I have exalted a young man from the people.
\q1
\v 20 I have found David, my servant.
\q2 I have anointed him with my holy oil,
\q1
\v 21 with whom my hand shall be established.
\q2 My arm will also strengthen him.
\q1
\v 22 No enemy will tax him.
\q2 No wicked man will oppress him.
\q1
\v 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him,
\q2 and strike those who hate him.
\q1
\v 24 But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
\q2 In my name, his horn will be exalted.
\q1
\v 25 I will set his hand also on the sea,
\q2 and his right hand on the rivers.
\q1
\v 26 He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
\q2 my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
\q1
\v 27 I will also appoint him my firstborn,
\q2 the highest of the kings of the earth.
\q1
\v 28 I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.
\q2 My covenant will stand firm with him.
\q1
\v 29 I will also make his offspring endure forever,
\q2 and his throne as the days of heaven.
\q1
\v 30 If his children forsake my law,
\q2 and don’t walk in my ordinances;
\q1
\v 31 if they break my statutes,
\q2 and don’t keep my commandments;
\q1
\v 32 then I will punish their sin with the rod,
\q2 and their iniquity with stripes.
\q1
\v 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,
\q2 nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
\q1
\v 34 I will not break my covenant,
\q2 nor alter what my lips have uttered.
\q1
\v 35 Once I have sworn by my holiness,
\q2 I will not lie to David.
\q1
\v 36 His offspring will endure forever,
\q2 his throne like the sun before me.
\q1
\v 37 It will be established forever like the moon,
\q2 the faithful witness in the sky.” \qs Selah.\qs*
\b
\q1
\v 38 But you have rejected and spurned.
\q2 You have been angry with your anointed.
\q1
\v 39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant.
\q2 You have defiled his crown in the dust.
\q1
\v 40 You have broken down all his hedges.
\q2 You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
\q1
\v 41 All who pass by the way rob him.
\q1 He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
\q1
\v 42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.
\q2 You have made all of his enemies rejoice.
\q1
\v 43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,
\q2 and haven’t supported him in battle.
\q1
\v 44 You have ended his splendor,
\q2 and thrown his throne down to the ground.
\q1
\v 45 You have shortened the days of his youth.
\q2 You have covered him with shame. \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 46 How long, Yahweh?
\q2 Will you hide yourself forever?
\q2 Will your wrath burn like fire?
\q1
\v 47 Remember how short my time is,
\q2 for what vanity you have created all the children of men!
\q1
\v 48 What man is he who shall live and not see death,
\q2 who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?\f + \fr 89:48 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* \qs Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 49 Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,
\q2 which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
\q1
\v 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,
\q2 how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
\q1
\v 51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh,
\q2 with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
\b
\q1
\v 52 Blessed be Yahweh forever more.
\q1 Amen, and Amen.


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\d For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David.
\q1
\v 1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart.
\q2 I will tell of all your marvelous works.
\q1
\v 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you.
\q2 I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
\q1
\v 3 When my enemies turn back,
\q2 they stumble and perish in your presence.
\q1
\v 4 For you have maintained my just cause.
\q2 You sit on the throne judging righteously.
\q1
\v 5 You have rebuked the nations.
\q2 You have destroyed the wicked.
\q2 You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
\q1
\v 6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.
\q2 The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
\q1
\v 7 But Yahweh reigns forever.
\q2 He has prepared his throne for judgment.
\q1
\v 8 He will judge the world in righteousness.
\q2 He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed;
\q2 a high tower in times of trouble.
\q1
\v 10 Those who know your name will put their trust in you,
\q2 for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
\q1
\v 11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion,
\q2 and declare among the people what he has done.
\q1
\v 12 For he who avenges blood remembers them.
\q2 He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
\q1
\v 13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh.
\q2 See my affliction by those who hate me,
\q1 and lift me up from the gates of death,
\q2
\v 14 that I may show all of your praise.
\q2 I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
\q1
\v 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.
\q2 In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh has made himself known.
\q2 He has executed judgment.
\q2 The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. \qs Meditation. Selah.\qs*
\q1
\v 17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol,\f + \fr 9:17 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 even all the nations that forget God.
\q1
\v 18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
\q2 nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
\q1
\v 19 Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail.
\q2 Let the nations be judged in your sight.
\q1
\v 20 Put them in fear, Yahweh.
\q2 Let the nations know that they are only men. \qs Selah.\qs*


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\ms1 BOOK 4
\d A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.\f + \fr 90:0 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q1
\v 1 Lord,\f + \fr 90:1 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”\f* you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
\q2
\v 2 Before the mountains were born,
\q2 before you had formed the earth and the world,
\q2 even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
\q1
\v 3 You turn man to destruction, saying,
\q2 “Return, you children of men.”
\q1
\v 4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
\q2 like a watch in the night.
\q1
\v 5 You sweep them away as they sleep.
\q2 In the morning they sprout like new grass.
\q1
\v 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
\q2 By evening, it is withered and dry.
\q1
\v 7 For we are consumed in your anger.
\q2 We are troubled in your wrath.
\q1
\v 8 You have set our iniquities before you,
\q2 our secret sins in the light of your presence.
\q1
\v 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
\q2 We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
\q1
\v 10 The days of our years are seventy,
\q2 or even by reason of strength eighty years;
\q2 yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
\q2 for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
\q1
\v 11 Who knows the power of your anger,
\q2 your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
\q1
\v 12 So teach us to count our days,
\q2 that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
\q1
\v 13 Relent, Yahweh!\f + \fr 90:13 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f*
\q2 How long?
\q2 Have compassion on your servants!
\q1
\v 14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
\q2 that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
\q1
\v 15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
\q2 for as many years as we have seen evil.
\q1
\v 16 Let your work appear to your servants,
\q2 your glory to their children.
\q1
\v 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.
\q2 Establish the work of our hands for us.
\q2 Yes, establish the work of our hands.


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\q1
\v 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
\q2 will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
\q1
\v 2 I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
\q2 my God, in whom I trust.”
\q1
\v 3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
\q2 and from the deadly pestilence.
\q1
\v 4 He will cover you with his feathers.
\q2 Under his wings you will take refuge.
\q2 His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
\q1
\v 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
\q2 nor of the arrow that flies by day,
\q2
\v 6 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
\q2 nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
\q1
\v 7 A thousand may fall at your side,
\q2 and ten thousand at your right hand;
\q2 but it will not come near you.
\q1
\v 8 You will only look with your eyes,
\q2 and see the recompense of the wicked.
\q1
\v 9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge,
\q2 and the Most High your dwelling place,
\q1
\v 10 no evil shall happen to you,
\q2 neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
\q1
\v 11 For he will put his angels in charge of you,
\q2 to guard you in all your ways.
\q1
\v 12 They will bear you up in their hands,
\q2 so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
\q1
\v 13 You will tread on the lion and cobra.
\q2 You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
\q1
\v 14 “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.
\q2 I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
\q1
\v 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him.
\q2 I will be with him in trouble.
\q2 I will deliver him, and honor him.
\q1
\v 16 I will satisfy him with long life,
\q2 and show him my salvation.”


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\d A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
\q1
\v 1 It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh,
\q2 to sing praises to your name, Most High,
\q1
\v 2 to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,
\q2 and your faithfulness every night,
\q1
\v 3 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,
\q2 and with the melody of the lyre.
\q1
\v 4 For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work.
\q2 I will triumph in the works of your hands.
\q1
\v 5 How great are your works, Yahweh!
\q2 Your thoughts are very deep.
\q1
\v 6 A senseless man doesn’t know,
\q2 neither does a fool understand this:
\q1
\v 7 though the wicked spring up as the grass,
\q2 and all the evildoers flourish,
\q2 they will be destroyed forever.
\q1
\v 8 But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
\q1
\v 9 For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh,
\q2 for, behold, your enemies shall perish.
\q2 All the evildoers will be scattered.
\q1
\v 10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
\q2 I am anointed with fresh oil.
\q1
\v 11 My eye has also seen my enemies.
\q2 My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
\q1
\v 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
\q2 He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
\q1
\v 13 They are planted in Yahweh’s house.
\q2 They will flourish in our God’s courts.
\q1
\v 14 They will still produce fruit in old age.
\q2 They will be full of sap and green,
\q2
\v 15 to show that Yahweh is upright.
\q1 He is my rock,
\q2 and there is no unrighteousness in him.


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\q1
\v 1 Yahweh reigns!
\q2 He is clothed with majesty!
\q2 Yahweh is armed with strength.
\q1 The world also is established.
\q2 It can’t be moved.
\q1
\v 2 Your throne is established from long ago.
\q2 You are from everlasting.
\q1
\v 3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
\q2 the floods have lifted up their voice.
\q2 The floods lift up their waves.
\q1
\v 4 Above the voices of many waters,
\q2 the mighty breakers of the sea,
\q2 Yahweh on high is mighty.
\q1
\v 5 Your statutes stand firm.
\q2 Holiness adorns your house,
\q2 Yahweh, forever more.


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\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
\q2 you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
\q1
\v 2 Rise up, you judge of the earth.
\q2 Pay back the proud what they deserve.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
\q2 how long will the wicked triumph?
\q1
\v 4 They pour out arrogant words.
\q2 All the evildoers boast.
\q1
\v 5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
\q2 and afflict your heritage.
\q1
\v 6 They kill the widow and the alien,
\q2 and murder the fatherless.
\q1
\v 7 They say, “Yah will not see,
\q2 neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
\q1
\v 8 Consider, you senseless among the people;
\q2 you fools, when will you be wise?
\q1
\v 9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
\q2 He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
\q1
\v 10 He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
\q2 He who teaches man knows.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
\q2 that they are futile.
\q1
\v 12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
\q2 and teach out of your law,
\q1
\v 13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
\q2 until the pit is dug for the wicked.
\q1
\v 14 For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
\q2 neither will he forsake his inheritance.
\q1
\v 15 For judgment will return to righteousness.
\q2 All the upright in heart shall follow it.
\q1
\v 16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
\q2 Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
\q1
\v 17 Unless Yahweh had been my help,
\q2 my soul would have soon lived in silence.
\q1
\v 18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
\q2 Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
\q1
\v 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
\q2 your comforts delight my soul.
\q1
\v 20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
\q2 which brings about mischief by statute?
\q1
\v 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
\q2 and condemn the innocent blood.
\q1
\v 22 But Yahweh has been my high tower,
\q2 my God, the rock of my refuge.
\q1
\v 23 He has brought on them their own iniquity,
\q2 and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
\q2 Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.


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\q1
\v 1 Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh.
\q2 Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
\q1
\v 2 Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.
\q2 Let’s extol him with songs!
\q1
\v 3 For Yahweh is a great God,
\q2 a great King above all gods.
\q1
\v 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth.
\q2 The heights of the mountains are also his.
\q1
\v 5 The sea is his, and he made it.
\q2 His hands formed the dry land.
\q1
\v 6 Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.
\q2 Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
\q2
\v 7 for he is our God.
\q1 We are the people of his pasture,
\q2 and the sheep in his care.
\q1 Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
\q2
\v 8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
\q2 as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
\q1
\v 9 when your fathers tempted me,
\q2 tested me, and saw my work.
\q1
\v 10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,
\q2 and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart.
\q2 They have not known my ways.”
\q1
\v 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,
\q2 “They won’t enter into my rest.”


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\q1
\v 1 Sing to Yahweh a new song!
\q2 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
\q1
\v 2 Sing to Yahweh!
\q2 Bless his name!
\q2 Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
\q1
\v 3 Declare his glory among the nations,
\q2 his marvelous works among all the peoples.
\q1
\v 4 For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised!
\q2 He is to be feared above all gods.
\q1
\v 5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
\q2 but Yahweh made the heavens.
\q1
\v 6 Honor and majesty are before him.
\q2 Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
\q1
\v 7 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations,
\q2 ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
\q1
\v 8 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name.
\q2 Bring an offering, and come into his courts.
\q1
\v 9 Worship Yahweh in holy array.
\q2 Tremble before him, all the earth.
\q1
\v 10 Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.”
\q2 The world is also established.
\q2 It can’t be moved.
\q2 He will judge the peoples with equity.
\q1
\v 11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.
\q2 Let the sea roar, and its fullness!
\q2
\v 12 Let the field and all that is in it exult!
\q2 Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
\q2
\v 13 before Yahweh; for he comes,
\q2 for he comes to judge the earth.
\q1 He will judge the world with righteousness,
\q2 the peoples with his truth.


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\q1
\v 1 Yahweh reigns!
\q2 Let the earth rejoice!
\q2 Let the multitude of islands be glad!
\q1
\v 2 Clouds and darkness are around him.
\q2 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
\q1
\v 3 A fire goes before him,
\q2 and burns up his adversaries on every side.
\q1
\v 4 His lightning lights up the world.
\q2 The earth sees, and trembles.
\q1
\v 5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh,
\q2 at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
\q1
\v 6 The heavens declare his righteousness.
\q2 All the peoples have seen his glory.
\q1
\v 7 Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,
\q2 who boast in their idols.
\q2 Worship him, all you gods!\f + \fr 97:7 \ft LXX reads “angels” instead of “gods”.\f*
\q1
\v 8 Zion heard and was glad.
\q2 The daughters of Judah rejoiced
\q2 because of your judgments, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 9 For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth.
\q2 You are exalted far above all gods.
\q1
\v 10 You who love Yahweh, hate evil!
\q2 He preserves the souls of his saints.
\q2 He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
\q1
\v 11 Light is sown for the righteous,
\q2 and gladness for the upright in heart.
\q1
\v 12 Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people!
\q2 Give thanks to his holy Name.


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\d A Psalm.
\q1
\v 1 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
\q2 for he has done marvelous things!
\q2 His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh has made known his salvation.
\q2 He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
\q1
\v 3 He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.
\q2 All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
\q1
\v 4 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth!
\q2 Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
\q1
\v 5 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp,
\q2 with the harp and the voice of melody.
\q1
\v 6 With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,
\q2 make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 7 Let the sea roar with its fullness;
\q2 the world, and those who dwell therein.
\q1
\v 8 Let the rivers clap their hands.
\q2 Let the mountains sing for joy together.
\q1
\v 9 Let them sing before Yahweh,
\q2 for he comes to judge the earth.
\q1 He will judge the world with righteousness,
\q2 and the peoples with equity.


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\q1
\v 1 Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
\q2 He sits enthroned among the cherubim.
\q2 Let the earth be moved.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh is great in Zion.
\q2 He is high above all the peoples.
\q1
\v 3 Let them praise your great and awesome name.
\q2 He is Holy!
\b
\q1
\v 4 The King’s strength also loves justice.
\q2 You establish equity.
\q2 You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
\q1
\v 5 Exalt Yahweh our God.
\q2 Worship at his footstool.
\q2 He is Holy!
\b
\q1
\v 6 Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
\q2 Samuel was among those who call on his name.
\q2 They called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
\q1
\v 7 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.
\q2 They kept his testimonies,
\q2 the statute that he gave them.
\q1
\v 8 You answered them, Yahweh our God.
\q2 You are a God who forgave them,
\q2 although you took vengeance for their doings.
\q1
\v 9 Exalt Yahweh, our God.
\q2 Worship at his holy hill,
\q2 for Yahweh, our God, is holy!


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\toc1 The Second Book of Moses, Commonly Called Exodus
\toc2 Exodus
\toc3 Exo
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\mt3 Commonly Called
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\v 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
\v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
\v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
\v 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
\v 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
\v 6 Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.
\v 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
\p
\v 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.
\v 9 He said to his people, “Behold,\f + \fr 1:9 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
\v 10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
\v 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
\v 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.
\v 13 The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
\v 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
\p
\v 15 The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
\v 16 and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
\v 17 But the midwives feared God,\f + \fr 1:17 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f* and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
\v 18 The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and saved the boys alive?”
\p
\v 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
\p
\v 20 God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
\v 21 Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
\v 22 Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;
\v 2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”
\p
\v 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\v 4 Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
\v 5 and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won’t be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
\v 6 Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh.
\p
\v 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
\p
\v 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”
\p
\v 9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”
\p
\v 10 He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.
\v 11 Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
\p
\v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
\v 13 Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
\v 14 The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.
\v 15 For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
\v 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.
\v 17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”
\p
\v 18 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
\v 19 Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.\f + \fr 10:19 \ft “Red Sea” is the translation for the Hebrew “Yam Suf”, which could be more literally translated “Sea of Reeds” or “Sea of Cattails”. It refers to the body of water currently known as the Red Sea, or possibly to one of the bodies of water connected to it or near it.\f* There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
\v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
\p
\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
\v 22 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
\v 23 They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
\p
\v 24 Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
\p
\v 25 Moses said, “You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
\v 26 Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”
\p
\v 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
\v 28 Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”
\p
\v 29 Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will bring yet one more plague on Pharaoh, and on Egypt; afterwards he will let you go. When he lets you go, he will surely thrust you out altogether.
\v 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”
\v 3 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
\p
\v 4 Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go out into the middle of Egypt,
\v 5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.
\v 6 There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.
\v 7 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
\v 8 All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh won’t listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”
\v 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go out of his land.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
\v 2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
\v 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
\v 4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.
\v 5 Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.
\v 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
\v 7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
\v 8 They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
\v 9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
\v 10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
\v 11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
\v 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
\v 13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
\v 14 This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
\p
\v 15 “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
\v 16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.
\v 17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
\v 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
\v 19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
\v 20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
\p
\v 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
\v 22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
\v 23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
\v 24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
\v 25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
\v 26 It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
\v 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”
\p The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
\v 28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
\p
\v 29 At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
\v 30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
\v 31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!
\v 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
\p
\v 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
\v 34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
\v 35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
\v 36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
\p
\v 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
\v 38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
\v 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
\v 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
\v 41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
\v 42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
\p
\v 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
\v 44 but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
\v 45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
\v 46 It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
\v 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
\v 48 When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
\v 49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
\v 50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
\v 51 That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”
\p
\v 3 Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
\v 4 Today you go out in the month Abib.
\v 5 It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
\v 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
\v 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.
\v 8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
\v 9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
\v 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
\p
\v 11 “It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and will give it you,
\v 12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s.
\v 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.
\v 14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
\v 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’
\v 16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
\p
\v 17 When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;
\v 18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
\v 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”
\v 20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
\v 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
\v 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn’t depart from before the people.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.
\v 3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
\v 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
\p
\v 5 The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”
\v 6 He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;
\v 7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
\v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.\f + \fr 14:8 \ft or, defiantly.\f*
\v 9 The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
\p
\v 10 When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
\v 11 They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
\v 12 Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
\p
\v 13 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.
\v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
\p
\v 15 Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
\v 16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. Then the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.
\v 17 Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in after them. I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.
\v 18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
\v 19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
\v 20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.
\p
\v 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
\v 22 The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\v 23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
\v 24 In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
\v 25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
\p
\v 26 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”
\v 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
\v 28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
\v 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
\v 30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
\v 31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.


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\v 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said,
\q1 “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
\q2 He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.
\q1
\v 2 Yah is my strength and song.
\q2 He has become my salvation.
\q1 This is my God, and I will praise him;
\q2 my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh is a man of war.
\q2 Yahweh is his name.
\q1
\v 4 He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea.
\q2 His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
\q1
\v 5 The deeps cover them.
\q2 They went down into the depths like a stone.
\q1
\v 6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power.
\q2 Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
\q1
\v 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you.
\q2 You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
\q1
\v 8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up.
\q2 The floods stood upright as a heap.
\q2 The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
\q1
\v 9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder.
\q2 My desire will be satisfied on them.
\q2 I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’
\q1
\v 10 You blew with your wind.
\q2 The sea covered them.
\q2 They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
\q1
\v 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
\q2 Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
\q2 fearful in praises, doing wonders?
\q1
\v 12 You stretched out your right hand.
\q2 The earth swallowed them.
\q1
\v 13 “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed.
\q2 You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
\q1
\v 14 The peoples have heard.
\q2 They tremble.
\q2 Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
\q1
\v 15 Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed.
\q2 Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab.
\q2 All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
\q1
\v 16 Terror and dread falls on them.
\q2 By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone,
\q2 until your people pass over, Yahweh,
\q2 until the people you have purchased pass over.
\q2
\v 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance,
\q2 the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in;
\q2 the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever.”
\p
\v 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
\v 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
\v 21 Miriam answered them,
\q1 “Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
\q1 The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”
\p
\v 22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
\v 23 When they came to Marah, they couldn’t drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.\f + \fr 15:23 \ft Marah means bitter.\f*
\v 24 The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
\v 25 Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
\v 26 He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
\p
\v 27 They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.


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\p
\v 1 They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
\v 2 The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;
\v 3 and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
\p
\v 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
\v 5 It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.”
\p
\v 6 Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.
\v 7 In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”
\v 8 Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”
\v 9 Moses said to Aaron, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come close to Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.’”
\v 10 As Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, Yahweh’s glory appeared in the cloud.
\v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’”
\p
\v 13 In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
\v 14 When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
\v 15 When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.
\v 16 “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: ‘Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer\f + \fr 16:16 \ft An omer is about 2.2 liters or about 2.3 quarts\f* a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent.’”
\v 17 The children of Israel did so, and some gathered more, some less.
\v 18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They each gathered according to his eating.
\v 19 Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”
\v 20 Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
\v 21 They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
\v 22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
\v 23 He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”
\v 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
\v 25 Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.
\v 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none.”
\v 27 On the seventh day, some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
\v 28 Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
\v 29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
\v 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
\p
\v 31 The house of Israel called its name “Manna”,\f + \fr 16:31 \ft “Manna” means “What is it?”\f* and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.
\v 32 Moses said, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, ‘Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
\v 33 Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.”
\v 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
\v 35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
\v 36 Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.\f + \fr 16:36 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f*


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\v 1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, starting according to Yahweh’s commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
\v 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.”
\p Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
\p
\v 3 The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”
\p
\v 4 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
\p
\v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
\v 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
\v 7 He called the name of the place Massah,\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Massah means testing. \f* and Meribah,\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Meribah means quarreling.\f* because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
\p
\v 8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
\v 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”
\v 10 So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
\v 11 When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
\v 12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
\v 13 Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
\v 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”.\f + \fr 17:15 \ft Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi\f*
\v 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”


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\v 1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
\v 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,
\v 3 and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom,\f + \fr 18:3 \ft “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.\f* for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
\v 4 The name of the other was Eliezer,\f + \fr 18:4 \ft Eliezer means “God is my helper”. \f* for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”
\v 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
\v 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”
\p
\v 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.
\v 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.
\v 9 Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
\v 10 Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
\v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
\v 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.
\p
\v 13 On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
\v 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”
\p
\v 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
\v 16 When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”
\v 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.
\v 18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
\v 19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
\v 20 You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
\v 21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
\v 22 Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
\v 23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
\p
\v 24 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.
\v 25 Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
\v 26 They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard cases to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
\v 27 Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.


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\v 1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
\v 2 When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
\v 3 Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
\v 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.
\v 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
\v 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
\p
\v 7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
\v 8 All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.”
\p Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
\v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
\v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
\v 11 and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
\v 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
\v 13 No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain.”
\p
\v 14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
\v 15 He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”
\p
\v 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
\v 17 Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
\v 18 All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
\v 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
\v 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
\p
\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
\v 22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”
\p
\v 23 Moses said to Yahweh, “The people can’t come up to Mount Sinai, for you warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.’”
\p
\v 24 Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”
\p
\v 25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.


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\v 1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
\v 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
\v 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
\v 4 His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
\v 5 Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
\v 6 She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
\p
\v 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
\p
\v 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.”
\p The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
\v 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.”
\p The woman took the child, and nursed it.
\v 10 The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,\f + \fr 2:10 \ft “Moses” sounds like the Hebrew for “draw out”.\f* and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
\p
\v 11 In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
\v 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
\p
\v 13 He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
\p
\v 14 He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?”
\p Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
\v 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
\p
\v 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
\v 17 The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
\v 18 When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
\p
\v 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”
\p
\v 20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
\p
\v 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
\v 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,\f + \fr 2:22 \ft “Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.\f* for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
\p
\v 23 In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
\v 24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
\v 25 God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.


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\v 1 God\f + \fr 20:1 \ft After “God”, the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.\f* spoke all these words, saying,
\v 2 “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
\p
\v 3 “You shall have no other gods before me.
\p
\v 4 “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
\v 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
\v 6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
\p
\v 7 “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God,\f + \fr 20:7 \ft or, You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain\f* for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
\p
\v 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
\v 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
\v 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
\v 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
\p
\v 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
\p
\v 13 “You shall not murder.
\p
\v 14 “You shall not commit adultery.
\p
\v 15 “You shall not steal.
\p
\v 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
\p
\v 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
\p
\v 18 All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
\v 19 They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”
\p
\v 20 Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
\v 21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
\p
\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
\v 23 You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
\v 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
\v 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
\v 26 You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’


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\v 1 “Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
\p
\v 2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
\v 3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
\v 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
\v 5 But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
\v 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
\p
\v 7 “If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
\v 8 If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
\v 9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
\v 10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
\v 11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
\p
\v 12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
\v 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
\v 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
\p
\v 15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
\p
\v 16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
\p
\v 17 “Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
\p
\v 18 “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
\v 19 if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
\p
\v 20 “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
\v 21 Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
\p
\v 22 “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
\v 23 But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
\v 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
\v 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
\p
\v 26 “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
\v 27 If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
\p
\v 28 “If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
\v 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
\v 30 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
\v 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
\v 32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels\f + \fr 21:32 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 30 shekels is about 300 grams or about 10.6 ounces.\f* of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
\p
\v 33 “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
\v 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
\p
\v 35 “If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
\v 36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.


file: ./bibles/Sample/2/22/100000001
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\c 22
\p
\v 1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
\v 2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
\v 3 If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
\v 4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
\p
\v 5 “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten by letting his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
\p
\v 6 “If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
\p
\v 7 “If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
\v 8 If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.
\v 9 For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
\p
\v 10 “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;
\v 11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
\v 12 But if it is stolen from him, the one who stole shall make restitution to its owner.
\v 13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
\p
\v 14 “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor’s, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
\v 15 If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
\p
\v 16 “If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
\v 17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
\p
\v 18 “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
\p
\v 19 “Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
\p
\v 20 “He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
\p
\v 21 “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 22 “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
\v 23 If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
\v 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
\p
\v 25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
\v 26 If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
\v 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
\p
\v 28 “You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
\p
\v 29 “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses.
\p “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
\v 30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
\p
\v 31 “You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any meat that is torn by animals in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.


file: ./bibles/Sample/2/23/100000001
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\c 23
\p
\v 1 “You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
\p
\v 2 “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
\v 3 You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
\p
\v 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
\v 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
\p
\v 6 “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
\p
\v 7 “Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
\p
\v 8 “You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
\p
\v 9 “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 10 “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
\v 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
\p
\v 12 “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
\p
\v 13 “Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.
\p
\v 14 “You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
\v 15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.
\v 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
\v 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\v 18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.
\p
\v 19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.
\p “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
\p
\v 20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
\v 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
\v 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
\v 23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
\v 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.
\v 25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
\v 26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
\v 27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
\v 28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
\v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
\v 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
\v 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
\v 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
\v 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”


file: ./bibles/Sample/2/24/100000001
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\c 24
\p
\v 1 He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
\v 2 Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near. The people shall not go up with him.”
\p
\v 3 Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”
\p
\v 4 Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
\v 5 He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.
\v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
\v 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient.”
\p
\v 8 Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
\p
\v 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
\v 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire \f + \fr 24:10 \ft or, lapis lazuli\f* stone, like the skies for clearness.
\v 11 He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.
\p
\v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”
\p
\v 13 Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.
\v 14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them.”
\p
\v 15 Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
\v 16 Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
\v 17 The appearance of Yahweh’s glory was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
\v 18 Moses entered into the middle of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.


file: ./bibles/Sample/2/25/100000001
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\c 25
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
\v 3 This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, bronze,
\v 4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
\v 5 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides,\f + \fr 25:5 \ft or, fine leather\f* acacia wood,
\v 6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
\v 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
\v 8 Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
\v 9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all of its furniture, even so you shall make it.
\p
\v 10 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits,\f + \fr 25:10 \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* its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
\v 11 You shall overlay it with pure gold. You shall overlay it inside and outside, and you shall make a gold molding around it.
\v 12 You shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four feet. Two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
\v 13 You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
\v 14 You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.
\v 15 The poles shall be in the rings of the ark. They shall not be taken from it.
\v 16 You shall put the covenant which I shall give you into the ark.
\v 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
\v 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
\v 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat.
\v 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
\v 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
\v 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
\p
\v 23 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.
\v 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.
\v 25 You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
\v 26 You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.
\v 27 the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.
\v 28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
\v 29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.
\v 30 You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
\p
\v 31 “You shall make a lamp stand of pure gold. The lamp stand shall be made of hammered work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
\v 32 There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side;
\v 33 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand;
\v 34 and in the lamp stand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
\v 35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
\v 36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
\v 37 You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
\v 38 Its snuffers and its snuff dishes shall be of pure gold.
\v 39 It shall be made of a talent\f + \fr 25:39 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of pure gold, with all these accessories.
\v 40 See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.


file: ./bibles/Sample/2/26/100000001
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\c 26
\p
\v 1 “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. You shall make them with the work of a skillful workman.
\v 2 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 26:2 \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 the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
\v 3 Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.
\v 4 You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling, and you shall do likewise on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second coupling.
\v 5 You shall make fifty loops in the one curtain, and you shall make fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling. The loops shall be opposite one another.
\v 6 You shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains to one another with the clasps. The tabernacle shall be a unit.
\p
\v 7 “You shall make curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains.
\v 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
\v 9 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
\v 10 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is outermost in the second coupling.
\v 11 You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.
\v 12 The overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent—the half curtain that remains—shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
\v 13 The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
\v 14 You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
\p
\v 15 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.
\v 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.
\v 17 There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus you shall make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
\v 18 You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward.
\v 19 You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
\v 21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\v 22 For the far side of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
\v 23 You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.
\v 24 They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
\v 25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\p
\v 26 “You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\v 27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the far side westward.
\v 28 The middle bar in the middle of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
\v 29 You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars. You shall overlay the bars with gold.
\v 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the way that it was shown to you on the mountain.
\p
\v 31 “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.
\v 32 You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
\v 33 You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
\v 34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
\v 35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. You shall put the table on the north side.
\p
\v 36 “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
\v 37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold. You shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.


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\c 27
\p
\v 1 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits\f + \fr 27:1 \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, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.\f + \fr 27:1 \ft The altar was to be about 2.3×2.3×1.4 meters or about 7½×7½×4½ feet.\f*
\v 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.
\v 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes; and its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans. You shall make all its vessels of bronze.
\v 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of bronze. On the net you shall make four bronze rings in its four corners.
\v 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.
\v 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.
\v 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it.
\v 8 You shall make it hollow with planks. They shall make it as it has been shown you on the mountain.
\p
\v 9 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.
\v 10 Its pillars shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
\v 11 Likewise for the length of the north side, there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\v 12 For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
\v 13 The width of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
\v 14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\v 15 For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\v 16 For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
\v 17 All the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.
\v 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of bronze.
\v 19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all its service, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of bronze.
\p
\v 20 “You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
\v 21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.


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\c 28
\p
\v 1 “Bring Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, near to you from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office: Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
\v 2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
\v 3 You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\v 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\v 5 They shall use the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.
\p
\v 6 “They shall make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.
\v 7 It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.
\v 8 The skillfully woven band, which is on it, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\v 9 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel.
\v 10 Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
\v 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
\v 12 You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel. Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
\v 13 You shall make settings of gold,
\v 14 and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work. You shall put the braided chains on the settings.
\p
\v 15 “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.
\v 16 It shall be square and folded double; a span\f + \fr 28:16 \ft A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)\f* shall be its length, and a span its width.
\v 17 You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;
\v 18 and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire,\f + \fr 28:18 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* and an emerald;
\v 19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
\v 20 and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
\v 21 The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
\v 22 You shall make on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
\v 23 You shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
\v 24 You shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
\v 25 The other two ends of the two braided chains you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in its forepart.
\v 26 You shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
\v 27 You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its forepart, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\v 28 They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.
\v 29 Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
\v 30 You shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before Yahweh. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel on his heart before Yahweh continually.
\p
\v 31 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
\v 32 It shall have a hole for the head in the middle of it. It shall have a binding of woven work around its hole, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it not be torn.
\v 33 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, all around its hem; with bells of gold between and around them:
\v 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.
\v 35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
\p
\v 36 “You shall make a plate of pure gold, and engrave on it, like the engravings of a signet, ‘HOLY TO YAHWEH.’
\v 37 You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash. It shall be on the front of the sash.
\v 38 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
\v 39 You shall weave the tunic with fine linen. You shall make a turban of fine linen. You shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
\p
\v 40 “You shall make tunics for Aaron’s sons. You shall make sashes for them. You shall make headbands for them, for glory and for beauty.
\v 41 You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\v 42 You shall make them linen pants to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the waist even to the thighs.
\v 43 They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.


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\p
\v 1 “This is the thing that you shall do to them to make them holy, to minister to me in the priest’s office: take one young bull and two rams without defect,
\v 2 unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
\v 3 You shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
\v 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
\v 5 You shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate, and clothe him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\v 6 You shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown on the turban.
\v 7 Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
\v 8 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.
\v 9 You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
\p
\v 10 “You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.
\v 11 You shall kill the bull before Yahweh at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 12 You shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
\v 13 You shall take all the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.
\v 14 But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.
\p
\v 15 “You shall also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
\v 16 You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
\v 17 You shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its innards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.
\v 18 You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\v 19 “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
\v 20 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.
\v 21 You shall take of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron, and on his garments, and on his sons, and on the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be made holy, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.
\v 22 Also you shall take some of the ram’s fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the innards, the cover of the liver, the two kidneys, the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
\v 23 and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
\v 24 You shall put all of this in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh.
\v 25 You shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar on the burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\p
\v 26 “You shall take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be your portion.
\v 27 You shall sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the wave offering, which is waved, and which is raised up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons.
\v 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion forever from the children of Israel; for it is a wave offering. It shall be a wave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their wave offering to Yahweh.
\p
\v 29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.
\v 30 Seven days shall the son who is priest in his place put them on, when he comes into the Tent of Meeting to minister in the holy place.
\p
\v 31 “You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place.
\v 32 Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
\v 34 If anything of the meat of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
\p
\v 35 “You shall do so to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. You shall consecrate them seven days.
\v 36 Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.
\v 37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall be holy.
\p
\v 38 “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
\v 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;
\v 40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah\f + \fr 29:40 \ft 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel\f* of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin\f + \fr 29:40 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons, so a fourth of a hin is about 1.6 liters.\f* of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
\v 41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
\v 43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.
\v 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office.
\v 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
\v 46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.


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\p
\v 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb.
\v 2 Yahweh’s\f + \fr 3:2 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
\v 3 Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”
\p
\v 4 When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”
\p He said, “Here I am.”
\p
\v 5 He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.”
\v 6 Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
\p Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
\p
\v 7 Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
\v 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\v 9 Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
\v 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
\p
\v 11 Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
\p
\v 12 He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
\p
\v 13 Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”
\p
\v 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
\v 15 God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
\v 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.
\v 17 I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
\v 18 They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.’
\v 19 I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
\v 20 I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.
\v 21 I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
\v 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who visits her house, jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and clothing. You shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters. You shall plunder the Egyptians.”


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\c 30
\p
\v 1 “You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
\v 2 Its length shall be a cubit,\f + \fr 30:2 \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 a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
\v 3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
\v 4 You shall make two golden rings for it under its molding; on its two ribs, on its two sides you shall make them; and they shall be for places for poles with which to bear it.
\v 5 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
\v 6 You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
\v 7 Aaron shall burn incense of sweet spices on it every morning. When he tends the lamps, he shall burn it.
\v 8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
\v 9 You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and you shall pour no drink offering on it.
\v 10 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 12 “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when you count them; that there be no plague among them when you count them.
\v 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel\f + \fr 30:13 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs\f + \fr 30:13 \ft a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains\f*); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh.
\v 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
\v 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,\f + \fr 30:15 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
\v 16 You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the Tent of Meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 18 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.
\v 19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
\v 20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
\v 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
\p
\v 22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 23 “Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels;\f + \fr 30:23 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 500 shekels is about 5 kilograms or about 11 pounds.\f* and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
\v 24 and of cassia five hundred, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; and a hin\f + \fr 30:24 \ft A hin is about 6.5 liters or 1.7 gallons.\f* of olive oil.
\v 25 You shall make it into a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
\v 26 You shall use it to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant,
\v 27 the table and all its articles, the lamp stand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
\v 28 the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its base.
\v 29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
\v 30 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\v 31 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to me throughout your generations.
\v 32 It shall not be poured on man’s flesh, and do not make any like it, according to its composition. It is holy. It shall be holy to you.
\v 33 Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
\p
\v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, “Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense. There shall be an equal weight of each.
\v 35 You shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
\v 36 You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
\v 37 The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
\v 38 Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, he shall be cut off from his people.”


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\c 31
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
\v 3 I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
\v 4 to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,
\v 5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.
\v 6 Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
\v 7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat that is on it, all the furniture of the Tent,
\v 8 the table and its vessels, the pure lamp stand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
\v 9 the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, the basin and its base,
\v 10 the finely worked garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s office—
\v 11 the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded you they shall do.”
\p
\v 12 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 13 “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
\v 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
\v 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
\v 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
\v 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’”
\p
\v 18 When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the covenant, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.


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\c 32
\p
\v 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”
\p
\v 2 Aaron said to them, “Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.”
\p
\v 3 All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
\v 4 He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
\p
\v 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.”
\p
\v 6 They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
\p
\v 7 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
\v 8 They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
\p
\v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
\v 10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”
\p
\v 11 Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
\v 12 Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
\v 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring\f + \fr 32:13 \ft or, seed\f* as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
\p
\v 14 So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
\p
\v 15 Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.
\v 16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
\p
\v 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is the noise of war in the camp.”
\p
\v 18 He said, “It isn’t the voice of those who shout for victory. It is not the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.”
\v 19 As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
\v 20 He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
\p
\v 21 Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
\p
\v 22 Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
\v 23 For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
\v 24 I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off.’ So they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”
\p
\v 25 When Moses saw that the people were out of control, (for Aaron had let them lose control, causing derision among their enemies),
\v 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is on Yahweh’s side, come to me!”
\p All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
\v 27 He said to them, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”
\v 28 The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. About three thousand men fell of the people that day.
\v 29 Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, for every man was against his son and against his brother, that he may give you a blessing today.”
\p
\v 30 On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”
\p
\v 31 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
\v 32 Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”
\p
\v 33 Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.
\v 34 Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
\v 35 Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.


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\c 33
\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’
\v 2 I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\v 3 Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”
\p
\v 4 When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.
\p
\v 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
\p
\v 6 The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
\p
\v 7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
\v 8 When Moses went out to the Tent, all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
\v 9 When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.
\v 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
\v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
\p
\v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’
\v 13 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”
\p
\v 14 He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
\p
\v 15 Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.
\v 16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”
\p
\v 17 Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
\p
\v 18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”
\p
\v 19 He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
\v 20 He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”
\v 21 Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.
\v 22 It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;
\v 23 then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”


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\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
\v 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.
\v 3 No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”
\p
\v 4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; then Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
\v 5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh’s name.
\v 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
\v 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
\p
\v 8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
\v 9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
\p
\v 10 He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
\v 11 Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
\v 12 Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;
\v 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
\v 14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
\p
\v 15 “Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
\v 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
\p
\v 17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
\p
\v 18 “You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
\p
\v 19 “All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
\v 20 You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.
\p
\v 21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
\p
\v 22 “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
\v 23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
\v 24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
\p
\v 25 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The sacrifice of the feast of the Passover shall not be left to the morning.
\p
\v 26 “You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God.
\p “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
\p
\v 27 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
\p
\v 28 He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
\p
\v 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
\v 30 When Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
\v 31 Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him; and Moses spoke to them.
\v 32 Afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he gave them all the commandments that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.
\v 33 When Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
\v 34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
\v 35 The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.


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\v 1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, “These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.
\v 2 ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
\v 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”
\p
\v 4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
\v 5 ‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, bronze,
\v 6 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,
\v 7 rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
\v 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
\v 9 onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate.
\p
\v 10 “‘Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has commanded:
\v 11 the tabernacle, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
\v 12 the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
\v 13 the table with its poles and all its vessels, and the show bread;
\v 14 the lamp stand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
\v 15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
\v 16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its vessels, the basin and its base;
\v 17 the hangings of the court, its pillars, their sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court;
\v 18 the pins of the tabernacle, the pins of the court, and their cords;
\v 19 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons—to minister in the priest’s office.’”
\p
\v 20 All the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
\v 21 They came, everyone whose heart stirred him up, and everyone whom his spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting, and for all of its service, and for the holy garments.
\v 22 They came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, earrings, signet rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man who offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
\v 23 Everyone with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.
\v 24 Everyone who offered an offering of silver and bronze brought Yahweh’s offering; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
\v 25 All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun: the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
\v 26 All the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.
\v 27 The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones to be set for the ephod and for the breastplate;
\v 28 with the spice and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
\v 29 The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
\p
\v 30 Moses said to the children of Israel, “Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
\v 31 He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;
\v 32 and to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in bronze,
\v 33 in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
\v 34 He has put in his heart that he may teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
\v 35 He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.


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\v 1 “Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”
\p
\v 2 Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it.
\v 3 They received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. They kept bringing free will offerings to him every morning.
\v 4 All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.
\v 5 They spoke to Moses, saying, “The people have brought much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.”
\p
\v 6 Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, “Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing.
\v 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and too much.
\p
\v 8 All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet. They made them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
\v 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits,\f + \fr 36:9 \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* and the width of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains had one measure.
\v 10 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.
\v 11 He made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain from the edge in the coupling. Likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the second coupling.
\v 12 He made fifty loops in the one curtain, and he made fifty loops in the edge of the curtain that was in the second coupling. The loops were opposite to one another.
\v 13 He made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains to one another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was a unit.
\p
\v 14 He made curtains of goats’ hair for a covering over the tabernacle. He made them eleven curtains.
\v 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the width of each curtain. The eleven curtains had one measure.
\v 16 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
\v 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outermost in the coupling, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was outermost in the second coupling.
\v 18 He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
\v 19 He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
\p
\v 20 He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
\v 21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
\v 22 Each board had two tenons, joined to one another. He made all the boards of the tabernacle this way.
\v 23 He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
\v 24 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
\v 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
\v 26 and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
\v 27 For the far part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
\v 28 He made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far part.
\v 29 They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.
\v 30 There were eight boards and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets—under every board two sockets.
\p
\v 31 He made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
\v 32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
\v 33 He made the middle bar to pass through in the middle of the boards from the one end to the other.
\v 34 He overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold as places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
\p
\v 35 He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.
\v 36 He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold. He cast four sockets of silver for them.
\v 37 He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;
\v 38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold, and their five sockets were of bronze.


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\v 1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits,\f + \fr 37:1 \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* and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
\v 2 He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it around it.
\v 3 He cast four rings of gold for it, in its four feet—two rings on its one side, and two rings on its other side.
\v 4 He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
\v 5 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
\v 6 He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
\v 7 He made two cherubim of gold. He made them of beaten work, at the two ends of the mercy seat:
\v 8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
\v 9 The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
\p
\v 10 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
\v 11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
\v 12 He made a border of a hand’s width around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
\v 13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.
\v 14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
\v 15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
\v 16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
\p
\v 17 He made the lamp stand of pure gold. He made the lamp stand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
\v 18 There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lamp stand out of its one side, and three branches of the lamp stand out of its other side:
\v 19 three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower; so for the six branches going out of the lamp stand.
\v 20 In the lamp stand were four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
\v 21 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.
\v 22 Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
\v 23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
\v 24 He made it of a talent\f + \fr 37:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces\f* of pure gold, with all its vessels.
\p
\v 25 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. It was square: its length was a cubit, and its width a cubit. Its height was two cubits. Its horns were of one piece with it.
\v 26 He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
\v 27 He made two golden rings for it under its molding crown, on its two ribs, on its two sides, for places for poles with which to carry it.
\v 28 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
\v 29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.


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\v 1 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits,\f + \fr 38:1 \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* its width was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.
\v 2 He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.
\v 3 He made all the vessels of the altar: the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of bronze.
\v 4 He made for the altar a grating of a network of bronze, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.
\v 5 He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles.
\v 6 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with bronze.
\v 7 He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made it hollow with planks.
\p
\v 8 He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
\p
\v 9 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
\v 10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
\v 11 For the north side one hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of bronze; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\v 12 For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
\v 13 For the east side eastward fifty cubits,
\v 14 the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
\v 15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
\v 16 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.
\v 17 The sockets for the pillars were of bronze. The hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. Their capitals were overlaid with silver. All the pillars of the court had silver bands.
\v 18 The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
\v 19 Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
\v 20 All the pins of the tabernacle, and around the court, were of bronze.
\p
\v 21 These are the amounts of materials used for the tabernacle, even the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
\v 22 Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 23 With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.
\p
\v 24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty-nine talents\f + \fr 38:24 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces.\f* and seven hundred thirty shekels, according to the shekel\f + \fr 38:24 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces.\f* of the sanctuary.
\v 25 The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents\f + \fr 38:25 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels,\f + \fr 38:25 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
\v 26 a beka\f + \fr 38:26 \ft a beka is about 5 grams or about 0.175 ounces\f* a head, that is, half a shekel, according to the shekel\f + \fr 38:26 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.\f* of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.
\v 27 The one hundred talents\f + \fr 38:27 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.\f* of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil: one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, one talent per socket.
\v 28 From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels\f + \fr 38:28 \ft A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1775 shekels is about 17.75 kilograms or about 39 pounds.\f* he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
\v 29 The bronze of the offering was seventy talents\f + \fr 38:29 \ft A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds\f* and two thousand four hundred shekels.\f + \fr 38:29 \ft 70 talents + 2400 shekels is about 2124 kilograms, or 2.124 metric tons.\f*
\v 30 With this he made the sockets to the door of the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar, the bronze grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,
\v 31 the sockets around the court, the sockets of the gate of the court, all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins around the court.


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\v 1 Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 2 He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\v 3 They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in with the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.
\v 4 They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. It was joined together at the two ends.
\v 5 The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 6 They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
\v 7 He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 8 He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.
\v 9 It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span,\f + \fr 39:9 \ft A span is the length from the tip of a man’s thumb to the tip of his little finger when his hand is stretched out (about half a cubit, or 9 inches, or 22.8 cm.)\f* and its width a span, being double.
\v 10 They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;
\v 11 and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire,\f + \fr 39:11 \ft or, lapis lazuli \f* and an emerald;
\v 12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
\v 13 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
\v 14 The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
\v 15 They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
\v 16 They made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
\v 17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.
\v 18 The other two ends of the two braided chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, in its front.
\v 19 They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its edge, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
\v 20 They made two more rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its front, close by its coupling, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
\v 21 They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 22 He made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
\v 23 The opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around its opening, that it should not be torn.
\v 24 They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.
\v 25 They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the skirts of the robe, between the pomegranates;
\v 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, around the skirts of the robe, to minister in, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 27 They made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons,
\v 28 the turban of fine linen, the linen headbands of fine linen, the linen trousers of fine twined linen,
\v 29 the sash of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH”.
\v 31 They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\p
\v 32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.
\v 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses: the tent, with all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
\v 34 the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow hides, the veil of the screen,
\v 35 the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat,
\v 36 the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
\v 37 the pure lamp stand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
\v 38 the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,
\v 39 the bronze altar, its grating of bronze, its poles, all of its vessels, the basin and its base,
\v 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the Tent of Meeting,
\v 41 the finely worked garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.
\v 42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.
\v 43 Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.


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\p
\v 1 Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”
\p
\v 2 Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
\p He said, “A rod.”
\p
\v 3 He said, “Throw it on the ground.”
\p He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
\p
\v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.”
\p He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
\p
\v 5 “This is so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
\v 6 Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.”
\p He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
\p
\v 7 He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.”
\p He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
\p
\v 8 “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
\v 9 It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”
\p
\v 10 Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord,\f + \fr 4:10 \ft The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai”.\f* I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”
\p
\v 11 Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
\v 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
\p
\v 13 Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
\p
\v 14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
\v 15 You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
\v 16 He will be your spokesman to the people. It will happen that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
\v 17 You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
\p
\v 18 Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”
\p Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
\p
\v 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
\p
\v 20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
\v 22 You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
\v 23 and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”
\p
\v 24 On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
\v 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
\p
\v 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
\p
\v 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.”
\p He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.
\v 28 Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
\v 29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
\v 30 Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
\v 31 The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 2 “On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 3 You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.
\v 4 You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.
\v 5 You shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the covenant, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
\p
\v 6 “You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting.
\v 7 You shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
\v 8 You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
\p
\v 9 “You shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and shall make it holy, and all its furniture, and it will be holy.
\v 10 You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, with all its vessels, and sanctify the altar, and the altar will be most holy.
\v 11 You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
\p
\v 12 “You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
\v 13 You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.
\v 14 You shall bring his sons, and put tunics on them.
\v 15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”
\v 16 Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.
\p
\v 17 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was raised up.
\v 18 Moses raised up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
\v 19 He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 20 He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
\v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the covenant, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside of the veil.
\v 23 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 24 He put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
\v 25 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 26 He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting before the veil;
\v 27 and he burned incense of sweet spices on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 28 He put up the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
\v 29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 30 He set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein, with which to wash.
\v 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.
\v 32 When they went into the Tent of Meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they washed, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
\v 33 He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
\p
\v 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
\v 35 Moses wasn’t able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
\v 36 When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys;
\v 37 but if the cloud wasn’t taken up, then they didn’t travel until the day that it was taken up.
\v 38 For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.


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\p
\v 1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”
\p
\v 2 Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
\p
\v 3 They said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword.”
\p
\v 4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
\v 5 Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
\v 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying,
\v 7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
\v 8 You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
\v 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”
\p
\v 10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I will not give you straw.
\v 11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.’”
\v 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
\v 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, “Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!”
\v 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why haven’t you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?”
\p
\v 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?
\v 16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
\p
\v 17 But Pharaoh said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
\v 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
\p
\v 19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!”
\p
\v 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who stood along the way, as they came out from Pharaoh.
\v 21 They said to them, “May Yahweh look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
\p
\v 22 Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
\v 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people. You have not rescued your people at all!”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land.”
\p
\v 2 God spoke to Moses, and said to him, “I am Yahweh.
\v 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
\v 4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
\v 5 Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
\v 6 Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.
\v 7 I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
\v 8 I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.’”
\p
\v 9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
\p
\v 10 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
\v 11 “Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.”
\p
\v 12 Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”
\v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
\v 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon.
\v 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
\v 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
\v 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.
\v 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
\v 20 Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.
\v 21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
\v 22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
\v 23 Aaron took Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, as his wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
\v 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
\v 25 Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.
\v 26 These are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”
\v 27 These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.
\p
\v 28 On the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
\v 29 Yahweh said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you.”
\p
\v 30 Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”


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\p
\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
\v 2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
\v 3 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
\v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
\v 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”
\p
\v 6 Moses and Aaron did so. As Yahweh commanded them, so they did.
\v 7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
\p
\v 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
\v 9 “When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’”
\p
\v 10 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
\v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.
\v 12 For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
\v 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
\v 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him. You shall take the rod which was turned to a serpent in your hand.
\v 16 You shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened.”
\v 17 Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
\v 18 The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”
\v 19 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
\p
\v 20 Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
\v 21 The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
\v 22 The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\v 23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.
\v 24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink the river water.
\v 25 Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.


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\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\v 2 If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
\v 3 The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.
\v 4 The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.”’”
\v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”
\v 6 Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
\v 7 The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
\p
\v 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”
\p
\v 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “I give you the honor of setting the time that I should pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, and remain in the river only.”
\p
\v 10 Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.”
\p Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.
\v 11 The frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They shall remain in the river only.”
\p
\v 12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
\v 13 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
\v 14 They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
\v 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’”
\v 17 They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
\v 18 The magicians tried with their enchantments to produce lice, but they couldn’t. There were lice on man, and on animal.
\v 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
\p
\v 20 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\v 21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.
\v 22 I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, to the end you may know that I am Yahweh on the earth.
\v 23 I will put a division between my people and your people. This sign shall happen by tomorrow.”’”
\v 24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.
\p
\v 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!”
\p
\v 26 Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us?
\v 27 We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us.”
\p
\v 28 Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”
\p
\v 29 Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you. I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don’t let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”
\v 30 Moses went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.
\v 31 Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. There remained not one.
\v 32 Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.


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\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\v 2 For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
\v 3 behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
\v 4 Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.”’”
\v 5 Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
\v 6 Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the livestock of Egypt died, but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.
\v 7 Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.
\p
\v 8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.
\v 9 It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
\p
\v 10 They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became boils and blisters breaking on man and on animal.
\v 11 The magicians couldn’t stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
\v 12 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
\p
\v 13 Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
\v 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
\v 15 For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
\v 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
\v 17 because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
\v 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
\v 19 Now therefore command that all of your livestock and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. The hail will come down on every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn’t brought home, and they will die.”’”
\p
\v 20 Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.
\v 21 Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
\p
\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”
\p
\v 23 Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
\v 24 So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
\v 25 The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
\v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
\p
\v 27 Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
\v 28 Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
\p
\v 29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
\v 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you don’t yet fear Yahweh God.”
\p
\v 31 The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
\v 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they had not grown up.
\v 33 Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
\v 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
\v 35 The heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go, just as Yahweh had spoken through Moses.


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\v 1 The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
\q1
\v 2 to know wisdom and instruction;
\q2 to discern the words of understanding;
\q1
\v 3 to receive instruction in wise dealing,
\q2 in righteousness, justice, and equity;
\q1
\v 4 to give prudence to the simple,
\q2 knowledge and discretion to the young man:
\q1
\v 5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
\q2 that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:
\q1
\v 6 to understand a proverb, and parables,
\q2 the words and riddles of the wise.
\b
\q1
\v 7 The fear of Yahweh\f + \fr 1:7 \ft “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.\f* is the beginning of knowledge;
\q2 but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
\q1
\v 8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
\q2 and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
\q1
\v 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head,
\q2 and chains around your neck.
\q1
\v 10 My son, if sinners entice you,
\q2 don’t consent.
\q1
\v 11 If they say, “Come with us.
\q2 Let’s lay in wait for blood.
\q2 Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
\q1
\v 12 Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol,\f + \fr 1:12 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
\q1
\v 13 We’ll find all valuable wealth.
\q2 We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
\q1
\v 14 You shall cast your lot among us.
\q2 We’ll all have one purse.”
\q1
\v 15 My son, don’t walk on the path with them.
\q2 Keep your foot from their path,
\q1
\v 16 for their feet run to evil.
\q2 They hurry to shed blood.
\q1
\v 17 For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
\q1
\v 18 but these lay in wait for their own blood.
\q2 They lurk secretly for their own lives.
\q1
\v 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain.
\q2 It takes away the life of its owners.
\b
\q1
\v 20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street.
\q2 She utters her voice in the public squares.
\q1
\v 21 She calls at the head of noisy places.
\q2 At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
\q1
\v 22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
\q2 How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery,
\q2 and fools hate knowledge?
\q1
\v 23 Turn at my reproof.
\q2 Behold,\f + \fr 1:23 \ft “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I will pour out my spirit on you.
\q2 I will make known my words to you.
\q1
\v 24 Because I have called, and you have refused;
\q2 I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
\q1
\v 25 but you have ignored all my counsel,
\q2 and wanted none of my reproof;
\q1
\v 26 I also will laugh at your disaster.
\q2 I will mock when calamity overtakes you,
\q1
\v 27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
\q2 when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind,
\q2 when distress and anguish come on you.
\q1
\v 28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer.
\q2 They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
\q1
\v 29 because they hated knowledge,
\q2 and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 30 They wanted none of my counsel.
\q2 They despised all my reproof.
\q1
\v 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way,
\q2 and be filled with their own schemes.
\q1
\v 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them.
\q2 The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
\q1
\v 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell securely,
\q2 and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”


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\v 1 The proverbs of Solomon.
\q1 A wise son makes a glad father;
\q2 but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
\q1
\v 2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
\q2 but righteousness delivers from death.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry,
\q2 but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
\q1
\v 4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand,
\q2 but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
\q1
\v 5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
\q2 but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.
\q1
\v 6 Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
\q2 but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
\q1
\v 7 The memory of the righteous is blessed,
\q2 but the name of the wicked will rot.
\q1
\v 8 The wise in heart accept commandments,
\q2 but a chattering fool will fall.
\q1
\v 9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely,
\q2 but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
\q1
\v 10 One winking with the eye causes sorrow,
\q2 but a chattering fool will fall.
\q1
\v 11 The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life,
\q2 but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
\q1
\v 12 Hatred stirs up strife,
\q2 but love covers all wrongs.
\q1
\v 13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment,
\q2 but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
\q1
\v 14 Wise men lay up knowledge,
\q2 but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
\q1
\v 15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city.
\q2 The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
\q1
\v 16 The labor of the righteous leads to life.
\q2 The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
\q1
\v 17 He is in the way of life who heeds correction,
\q2 but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
\q1
\v 18 He who hides hatred has lying lips.
\q2 He who utters a slander is a fool.
\q1
\v 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience,
\q2 but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
\q1
\v 20 The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver.
\q2 The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
\q1
\v 21 The lips of the righteous feed many,
\q2 but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth,
\q2 and he adds no trouble to it.
\q1
\v 23 It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness,
\q2 but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
\q1
\v 24 What the wicked fear, will overtake them,
\q2 but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
\q1
\v 25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more;
\q2 but the righteous stand firm forever.
\q1
\v 26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes,
\q2 so is the sluggard to those who send him.
\q1
\v 27 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days,
\q2 but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
\q1
\v 28 The prospect of the righteous is joy,
\q2 but the hope of the wicked will perish.
\q1
\v 29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright,
\q2 but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
\q1
\v 30 The righteous will never be removed,
\q2 but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
\q1
\v 31 The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
\q2 but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
\q1
\v 32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
\q2 but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.


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\v 1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but accurate weights are his delight.
\q1
\v 2 When pride comes, then comes shame,
\q2 but with humility comes wisdom.
\q1
\v 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them,
\q2 but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
\q1
\v 4 Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath,
\q2 but righteousness delivers from death.
\q1
\v 5 The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way,
\q2 but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
\q1
\v 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,
\q2 but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
\q1
\v 7 When a wicked man dies, hope perishes,
\q2 and expectation of power comes to nothing.
\q1
\v 8 A righteous person is delivered out of trouble,
\q2 and the wicked takes his place.
\q1
\v 9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
\q2 but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
\q1
\v 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices.
\q2 When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
\q1
\v 11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted,
\q2 but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
\q1
\v 12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom,
\q2 but a man of understanding holds his peace.
\q1
\v 13 One who brings gossip betrays a confidence,
\q2 but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
\q1
\v 14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls,
\q2 but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
\q1
\v 15 He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it,
\q2 but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.
\q1
\v 16 A gracious woman obtains honor,
\q2 but violent men obtain riches.
\q1
\v 17 The merciful man does good to his own soul,
\q2 but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
\q1
\v 18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
\q2 but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
\q1
\v 19 He who is truly righteous gets life.
\q2 He who pursues evil gets death.
\q1
\v 20 Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.
\q1
\v 21 Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished,
\q2 but the offspring\f + \fr 11:21 \ft or, seed\f* of the righteous will be delivered.
\q1
\v 22 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout,
\q2 is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
\q1
\v 23 The desire of the righteous is only good.
\q2 The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
\q1
\v 24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more.
\q2 There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
\q1
\v 25 The liberal soul shall be made fat.
\q2 He who waters shall be watered also himself.
\q1
\v 26 People curse someone who withholds grain,
\q2 but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
\q1
\v 27 He who diligently seeks good seeks favor,
\q2 but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
\q1
\v 28 He who trusts in his riches will fall,
\q2 but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
\q1
\v 29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind.
\q2 The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.
\q1
\v 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
\q2 He who is wise wins souls.
\q1
\v 31 Behold, the righteous shall be repaid in the earth,
\q2 how much more the wicked and the sinner!


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\v 1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge,
\q2 but he who hates reproof is stupid.
\q1
\v 2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh,
\q2 but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
\q1
\v 3 A man shall not be established by wickedness,
\q2 but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
\q1
\v 4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband,
\q2 but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.
\q1
\v 5 The thoughts of the righteous are just,
\q2 but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
\q1
\v 6 The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood,
\q2 but the speech of the upright rescues them.
\q1
\v 7 The wicked are overthrown, and are no more,
\q2 but the house of the righteous shall stand.
\q1
\v 8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom,
\q2 but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.
\q1
\v 9 Better is he who is little known, and has a servant,
\q2 than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.
\q1
\v 10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal,
\q2 but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
\q1
\v 11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread,
\q2 but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
\q1
\v 12 The wicked desires the plunder of evil men,
\q2 but the root of the righteous flourishes.
\q1
\v 13 An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips,
\q2 but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
\q1
\v 14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth.
\q2 The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.
\q1
\v 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
\q2 but he who is wise listens to counsel.
\q1
\v 16 A fool shows his annoyance the same day,
\q2 but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
\q1
\v 17 He who is truthful testifies honestly,
\q2 but a false witness lies.
\q1
\v 18 There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword,
\q2 but the tongue of the wise heals.
\q1
\v 19 Truth’s lips will be established forever,
\q2 but a lying tongue is only momentary.
\q1
\v 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil,
\q2 but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
\q1
\v 21 No mischief shall happen to the righteous,
\q2 but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
\q1
\v 22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but those who do the truth are his delight.
\q1
\v 23 A prudent man keeps his knowledge,
\q2 but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
\q1
\v 24 The hands of the diligent ones shall rule,
\q2 but laziness ends in slave labor.
\q1
\v 25 Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down,
\q2 but a kind word makes it glad.
\q1
\v 26 A righteous person is cautious in friendship,
\q2 but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
\q1
\v 27 The slothful man doesn’t roast his game,
\q2 but the possessions of diligent men are prized.
\q1
\v 28 In the way of righteousness is life;
\q2 in its path there is no death.


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\v 1 A wise son listens to his father’s instruction,
\q2 but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
\q1
\v 2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things,
\q2 but the unfaithful crave violence.
\q1
\v 3 He who guards his mouth guards his soul.
\q2 One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
\q1
\v 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing,
\q2 but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
\q1
\v 5 A righteous man hates lies,
\q2 but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.
\q1
\v 6 Righteousness guards the way of integrity,
\q2 but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
\q1
\v 7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing.
\q2 There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
\q1
\v 8 The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
\q2 but the poor hear no threats.
\q1
\v 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly,
\q2 but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
\q1
\v 10 Pride only breeds quarrels,
\q2 but wisdom is with people who take advice.
\q1
\v 11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away,
\q2 but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
\q1
\v 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
\q2 but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
\q1
\v 13 Whoever despises instruction will pay for it,
\q2 but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
\q1
\v 14 The teaching of the wise is a spring of life,
\q2 to turn from the snares of death.
\q1
\v 15 Good understanding wins favor,
\q2 but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
\q1
\v 16 Every prudent man acts from knowledge,
\q2 but a fool exposes folly.
\q1
\v 17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
\q2 but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
\q1
\v 18 Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline,
\q2 but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
\q1
\v 19 Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
\q2 but fools detest turning from evil.
\q1
\v 20 One who walks with wise men grows wise,
\q2 but a companion of fools suffers harm.
\q1
\v 21 Misfortune pursues sinners,
\q2 but prosperity rewards the righteous.
\q1
\v 22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
\q2 but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
\q1
\v 23 An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields,
\q2 but injustice sweeps it away.
\q1
\v 24 One who spares the rod hates his son,
\q2 but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
\q1
\v 25 The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul,
\q2 but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.


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\v 1 Every wise woman builds her house,
\q2 but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
\q1
\v 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh,
\q2 but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
\q1
\v 3 The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back,
\q2 but the lips of the wise protect them.
\q1
\v 4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean,
\q2 but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
\q1
\v 5 A truthful witness will not lie,
\q2 but a false witness pours out lies.
\q1
\v 6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it,
\q2 but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
\q1
\v 7 Stay away from a foolish man,
\q2 for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.
\q1
\v 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way,
\q2 but the folly of fools is deceit.
\q1
\v 9 Fools mock at making atonement for sins,
\q2 but among the upright there is good will.
\q1
\v 10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy;
\q2 he will not share these with a stranger.
\q1
\v 11 The house of the wicked will be overthrown,
\q2 but the tent of the upright will flourish.
\q1
\v 12 There is a way which seems right to a man,
\q2 but in the end it leads to death.
\q1
\v 13 Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful,
\q2 and mirth may end in heaviness.
\q1
\v 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways;
\q2 likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
\q1
\v 15 A simple man believes everything,
\q2 but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
\q1
\v 16 A wise man fears and shuns evil,
\q2 but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
\q1
\v 17 He who is quick to become angry will commit folly,
\q2 and a crafty man is hated.
\q1
\v 18 The simple inherit folly,
\q2 but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
\q1
\v 19 The evil bow down before the good,
\q2 and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
\q1
\v 20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor,
\q2 but the rich person has many friends.
\q1
\v 21 He who despises his neighbor sins,
\q2 but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.
\q1
\v 22 Don’t they go astray who plot evil?
\q2 But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
\q1
\v 23 In all hard work there is profit,
\q2 but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
\q1
\v 24 The crown of the wise is their riches,
\q2 but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
\q1
\v 25 A truthful witness saves souls,
\q2 but a false witness is deceitful.
\q1
\v 26 In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress,
\q2 and he will be a refuge for his children.
\q1
\v 27 The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life,
\q2 turning people from the snares of death.
\q1
\v 28 In the multitude of people is the king’s glory,
\q2 but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
\q1
\v 29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
\q2 but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
\q1
\v 30 The life of the body is a heart at peace,
\q2 but envy rots the bones.
\q1
\v 31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker,
\q2 but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
\q1
\v 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity,
\q2 but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
\q1
\v 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,
\q2 and is even made known in the inward part of fools.
\q1
\v 34 Righteousness exalts a nation,
\q2 but sin is a disgrace to any people.
\q1
\v 35 The king’s favor is toward a servant who deals wisely,
\q2 but his wrath is toward one who causes shame.


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\q1
\v 1 A gentle answer turns away wrath,
\q2 but a harsh word stirs up anger.
\q1
\v 2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
\q2 but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere,
\q2 keeping watch on the evil and the good.
\q1
\v 4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life,
\q2 but deceit in it crushes the spirit.
\q1
\v 5 A fool despises his father’s correction,
\q2 but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
\q1
\v 6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure,
\q2 but the income of the wicked brings trouble.
\q1
\v 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
\q2 not so with the heart of fools.
\q1
\v 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
\q1
\v 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
\q1
\v 10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way:
\q2 whoever hates reproof shall die.
\q1
\v 11 Sheol\f + \fr 15:11 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* and Abaddon are before Yahweh—
\q2 how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
\q1
\v 12 A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved;
\q2 he will not go to the wise.
\q1
\v 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
\q2 but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
\q1
\v 14 The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge,
\q2 but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
\q1
\v 15 All the days of the afflicted are wretched,
\q2 but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.
\q1
\v 16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh,
\q2 than great treasure with trouble.
\q1
\v 17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is,
\q2 than a fattened calf with hatred.
\q1
\v 18 A wrathful man stirs up contention,
\q2 but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
\q1
\v 19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch,
\q2 but the path of the upright is a highway.
\q1
\v 20 A wise son makes a father glad,
\q2 but a foolish man despises his mother.
\q1
\v 21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom,
\q2 but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
\q1
\v 22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail;
\q2 but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
\q1
\v 23 Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth.
\q2 How good is a word at the right time!
\q1
\v 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise,
\q2 to keep him from going downward to Sheol.\f + \fr 15:24 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q1
\v 25 Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud,
\q2 but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.
\q1
\v 26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked,
\q2 but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
\q1
\v 27 He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house,
\q2 but he who hates bribes will live.
\q1
\v 28 The heart of the righteous weighs answers,
\q2 but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
\q1
\v 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked,
\q2 but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
\q1
\v 30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart.
\q2 Good news gives health to the bones.
\q1
\v 31 The ear that listens to reproof lives,
\q2 and will be at home among the wise.
\q1
\v 32 He who refuses correction despises his own soul,
\q2 but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
\q1
\v 33 The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom.
\q2 Before honor is humility.


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\v 1 The plans of the heart belong to man,
\q2 but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
\q1
\v 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;
\q2 but Yahweh weighs the motives.
\q1
\v 3 Commit your deeds to Yahweh,
\q2 and your plans shall succeed.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end—
\q2 yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
\q1
\v 5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh:
\q2 they shall certainly not be unpunished.
\q1
\v 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for.
\q2 By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
\q1
\v 7 When a man’s ways please Yahweh,
\q2 he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
\q1
\v 8 Better is a little with righteousness,
\q2 than great revenues with injustice.
\q1
\v 9 A man’s heart plans his course,
\q2 but Yahweh directs his steps.
\q1
\v 10 Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king.
\q2 He shall not betray his mouth.
\q1
\v 11 Honest balances and scales are Yahweh’s;
\q2 all the weights in the bag are his work.
\q1
\v 12 It is an abomination for kings to do wrong,
\q2 for the throne is established by righteousness.
\q1
\v 13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings.
\q2 They value one who speaks the truth.
\q1
\v 14 The king’s wrath is a messenger of death,
\q2 but a wise man will pacify it.
\q1
\v 15 In the light of the king’s face is life.
\q2 His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
\q1
\v 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!
\q2 Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
\q1
\v 17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
\q2 He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
\q1
\v 18 Pride goes before destruction,
\q2 and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
\q1
\v 19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,
\q2 than to divide the plunder with the proud.
\q1
\v 20 He who heeds the Word finds prosperity.
\q2 Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
\q1
\v 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent.
\q2 Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
\q1
\v 22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it,
\q2 but the punishment of fools is their folly.
\q1
\v 23 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth,
\q2 and adds learning to his lips.
\q1
\v 24 Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
\q2 sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
\q1
\v 25 There is a way which seems right to a man,
\q2 but in the end it leads to death.
\q1
\v 26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him;
\q2 for his mouth urges him on.
\q1
\v 27 A worthless man devises mischief.
\q2 His speech is like a scorching fire.
\q1
\v 28 A perverse man stirs up strife.
\q2 A whisperer separates close friends.
\q1
\v 29 A man of violence entices his neighbor,
\q2 and leads him in a way that is not good.
\q1
\v 30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities,
\q2 one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.
\q1
\v 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory.
\q2 It is attained by a life of righteousness.
\q1
\v 32 One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
\q2 one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
\q1
\v 33 The lot is cast into the lap,
\q2 but its every decision is from Yahweh.


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\q1
\v 1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness,
\q2 than a house full of feasting with strife.
\q1
\v 2 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame,
\q2 and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
\q1
\v 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold,
\q2 but Yahweh tests the hearts.
\q1
\v 4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips.
\q2 A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
\q1
\v 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker.
\q2 He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
\q1
\v 6 Children’s children are the crown of old men;
\q2 the glory of children are their parents.
\q1
\v 7 Arrogant speech isn’t fitting for a fool,
\q2 much less do lying lips fit a prince.
\q1
\v 8 A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it;
\q2 wherever he turns, he prospers.
\q1
\v 9 He who covers an offense promotes love;
\q2 but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
\q1
\v 10 A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding
\q2 than a hundred lashes into a fool.
\q1
\v 11 An evil man seeks only rebellion;
\q2 therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
\q1
\v 12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
\q2 rather than a fool in his folly.
\q1
\v 13 Whoever rewards evil for good,
\q2 evil shall not depart from his house.
\q1
\v 14 The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam,
\q2 therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
\q1
\v 15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous,
\q2 both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom,
\q2 since he has no understanding?
\q1
\v 17 A friend loves at all times;
\q2 and a brother is born for adversity.
\q1
\v 18 A man void of understanding strikes hands,
\q2 and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.
\q1
\v 19 He who loves disobedience loves strife.
\q2 One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
\q1
\v 20 One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity,
\q2 and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.
\q1
\v 21 He who becomes the father of a fool grieves.
\q2 The father of a fool has no joy.
\q1
\v 22 A cheerful heart makes good medicine,
\q2 but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
\q1
\v 23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret,
\q2 to pervert the ways of justice.
\q1
\v 24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding,
\q2 but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
\q1
\v 25 A foolish son brings grief to his father,
\q2 and bitterness to her who bore him.
\q1
\v 26 Also to punish the righteous is not good,
\q2 nor to flog officials for their integrity.
\q1
\v 27 He who spares his words has knowledge.
\q2 He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.
\q1
\v 28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise.
\q2 When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.


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\q1
\v 1 A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness,
\q2 and defies all sound judgment.
\q1
\v 2 A fool has no delight in understanding,
\q2 but only in revealing his own opinion.
\q1
\v 3 When wickedness comes, contempt also comes,
\q2 and with shame comes disgrace.
\q1
\v 4 The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters.
\q2 The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.
\q1
\v 5 To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good,
\q2 nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
\q1
\v 6 A fool’s lips come into strife,
\q2 and his mouth invites beatings.
\q1
\v 7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
\q2 and his lips are a snare to his soul.
\q1
\v 8 The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels:
\q2 they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
\q1
\v 9 One who is slack in his work
\q2 is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh’s name is a strong tower:
\q2 the righteous run to him, and are safe.
\q1
\v 11 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
\q2 like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
\q1
\v 12 Before destruction the heart of man is proud,
\q2 but before honor is humility.
\q1
\v 13 He who answers before he hears,
\q2 that is folly and shame to him.
\q1
\v 14 A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness,
\q2 but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
\q1
\v 15 The heart of the discerning gets knowledge.
\q2 The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
\q1
\v 16 A man’s gift makes room for him,
\q2 and brings him before great men.
\q1
\v 17 He who pleads his cause first seems right;
\q2 until another comes and questions him.
\q1
\v 18 The lot settles disputes,
\q2 and keeps strong ones apart.
\q1
\v 19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city.
\q2 Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.
\q1
\v 20 A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth.
\q2 With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
\q1
\v 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue;
\q2 those who love it will eat its fruit.
\q1
\v 22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing,
\q2 and obtains favor of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 23 The poor plead for mercy,
\q2 but the rich answer harshly.
\q1
\v 24 A man of many companions may be ruined,
\q2 but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.


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\q1
\v 1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
\q2 than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
\q1
\v 2 It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge,
\q2 nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
\q1
\v 3 The foolishness of man subverts his way;
\q2 his heart rages against Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 Wealth adds many friends,
\q2 but the poor is separated from his friend.
\q1
\v 5 A false witness shall not be unpunished.
\q2 He who pours out lies shall not go free.
\q1
\v 6 Many will entreat the favor of a ruler,
\q2 and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
\q1
\v 7 All the relatives of the poor shun him:
\q2 how much more do his friends avoid him!
\q2 He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
\q1
\v 8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul.
\q2 He who keeps understanding shall find good.
\q1
\v 9 A false witness shall not be unpunished.
\q2 He who utters lies shall perish.
\q1
\v 10 Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool,
\q2 much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
\q1
\v 11 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger.
\q2 It is his glory to overlook an offense.
\q1
\v 12 The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
\q2 but his favor is like dew on the grass.
\q1
\v 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father.
\q2 A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
\q1
\v 14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers,
\q2 but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
\q1
\v 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep.
\q2 The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
\q1
\v 16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,
\q2 but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
\q1
\v 17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh;
\q2 he will reward him.
\q1
\v 18 Discipline your son, for there is hope;
\q2 don’t be a willing party to his death.
\q1
\v 19 A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty,
\q2 for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
\q1
\v 20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction,
\q2 that you may be wise in your latter end.
\q1
\v 21 There are many plans in a man’s heart,
\q2 but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
\q1
\v 22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness.
\q2 A poor man is better than a liar.
\q1
\v 23 The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment;
\q2 he rests and will not be touched by trouble.
\q1
\v 24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
\q2 he will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.
\q1
\v 25 Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence;
\q2 rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
\q1
\v 26 He who robs his father and drives away his mother,
\q2 is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
\q1
\v 27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son,
\q2 you will stray from the words of knowledge.
\q1
\v 28 A corrupt witness mocks justice,
\q2 and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.
\q1
\v 29 Penalties are prepared for scoffers,
\q2 and beatings for the backs of fools.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 My son, if you will receive my words,
\q2 and store up my commandments within you,
\q1
\v 2 so as to turn your ear to wisdom,
\q2 and apply your heart to understanding;
\q1
\v 3 yes, if you call out for discernment,
\q2 and lift up your voice for understanding;
\q1
\v 4 if you seek her as silver,
\q2 and search for her as for hidden treasures:
\q1
\v 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh,
\q2 and find the knowledge of God.\f + \fr 2:5 \ft The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).\f*
\q1
\v 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom.
\q2 Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
\q1
\v 7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
\q2 He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
\q1
\v 8 that he may guard the paths of justice,
\q2 and preserve the way of his saints.
\q1
\v 9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
\q2 equity and every good path.
\q1
\v 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart.
\q2 Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
\q1
\v 11 Discretion will watch over you.
\q2 Understanding will keep you,
\q1
\v 12 to deliver you from the way of evil,
\q2 from the men who speak perverse things,
\q1
\v 13 who forsake the paths of uprightness,
\q2 to walk in the ways of darkness,
\q1
\v 14 who rejoice to do evil,
\q2 and delight in the perverseness of evil,
\q1
\v 15 who are crooked in their ways,
\q2 and wayward in their paths,
\q1
\v 16 to deliver you from the strange woman,
\q2 even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
\q1
\v 17 who forsakes the friend of her youth,
\q2 and forgets the covenant of her God;
\q1
\v 18 for her house leads down to death,
\q2 her paths to the departed spirits.
\q1
\v 19 None who go to her return again,
\q2 neither do they attain to the paths of life.
\q1
\v 20 So you may walk in the way of good men,
\q2 and keep the paths of the righteous.
\q1
\v 21 For the upright will dwell in the land.
\q2 The perfect will remain in it.
\q1
\v 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
\q2 The treacherous will be rooted out of it.


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\q1
\v 1 Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler.
\q2 Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
\q1
\v 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
\q2 He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
\q1
\v 3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
\q2 but every fool will be quarreling.
\q1
\v 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
\q2 therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
\q1
\v 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
\q2 but a man of understanding will draw it out.
\q1
\v 6 Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
\q2 but who can find a faithful man?
\q1
\v 7 A righteous man walks in integrity.
\q2 Blessed are his children after him.
\q1
\v 8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment
\q2 scatters away all evil with his eyes.
\q1
\v 9 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.
\q2 I am clean and without sin?”
\q1
\v 10 Differing weights and differing measures,
\q2 both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
\q2 whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
\q1
\v 12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
\q2 Yahweh has made even both of them.
\q1
\v 13 Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
\q2 Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
\q1
\v 14 “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
\q2 but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
\q1
\v 15 There is gold and abundance of rubies,
\q2 but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
\q1
\v 16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
\q2 and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
\q1
\v 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,
\q2 but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
\q1
\v 18 Plans are established by advice;
\q2 by wise guidance you wage war!
\q1
\v 19 He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
\q2 therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
\q1
\v 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother,
\q2 his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
\q1
\v 21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning,
\q2 won’t be blessed in the end.
\q1
\v 22 Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
\q2 Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
\q1
\v 23 Yahweh detests differing weights,
\q2 and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
\q1
\v 24 A man’s steps are from Yahweh;
\q2 how then can man understand his way?
\q1
\v 25 It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
\q2 then later to consider his vows.
\q1
\v 26 A wise king winnows out the wicked,
\q2 and drives the threshing wheel over them.
\q1
\v 27 The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp,
\q2 searching all his innermost parts.
\q1
\v 28 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
\q2 His throne is sustained by love.
\q1
\v 29 The glory of young men is their strength.
\q2 The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
\q1
\v 30 Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
\q2 and beatings purge the innermost parts.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses.
\q2 He turns it wherever he desires.
\q1
\v 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
\q2 but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
\q1
\v 3 To do righteousness and justice
\q2 is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
\q1
\v 4 A high look and a proud heart,
\q2 the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
\q1
\v 5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit;
\q2 and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
\q1
\v 6 Getting treasures by a lying tongue
\q2 is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
\q1
\v 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away,
\q2 because they refuse to do what is right.
\q1
\v 8 The way of the guilty is devious,
\q2 but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
\q1
\v 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
\q2 than to share a house with a contentious woman.
\q1
\v 10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
\q2 his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
\q1
\v 11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom.
\q2 When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
\q1
\v 12 The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked,
\q2 and brings the wicked to ruin.
\q1
\v 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor,
\q2 he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
\q1
\v 14 A gift in secret pacifies anger,
\q2 and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
\q1
\v 15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice;
\q2 but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
\q1
\v 16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding
\q2 shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.
\q1
\v 17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man.
\q2 He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.
\q1
\v 18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous,
\q2 the treacherous for the upright.
\q1
\v 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land,
\q2 than with a contentious and fretful woman.
\q1
\v 20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise;
\q2 but a foolish man swallows it up.
\q1
\v 21 He who follows after righteousness and kindness
\q2 finds life, righteousness, and honor.
\q1
\v 22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty,
\q2 and brings down the strength of its confidence.
\q1
\v 23 Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue
\q2 keeps his soul from troubles.
\q1
\v 24 The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name—
\q2 he works in the arrogance of pride.
\q1
\v 25 The desire of the sluggard kills him,
\q2 for his hands refuse to labor.
\q1
\v 26 There are those who covet greedily all day long;
\q2 but the righteous give and don’t withhold.
\q1
\v 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination—
\q2 how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
\q1
\v 28 A false witness will perish.
\q2 A man who listens speaks to eternity.
\q1
\v 29 A wicked man hardens his face;
\q2 but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
\q1
\v 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding
\q2 nor counsel against Yahweh.
\q1
\v 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle;
\q2 but victory is with Yahweh.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 A good name is more desirable than great riches,
\q2 and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
\q1
\v 2 The rich and the poor have this in common:
\q2 Yahweh is the maker of them all.
\q1
\v 3 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
\q2 but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
\q1
\v 4 The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh
\q2 is wealth, honor, and life.
\q1
\v 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked:
\q2 whoever guards his soul stays from them.
\q1
\v 6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
\q2 and when he is old he will not depart from it.
\q1
\v 7 The rich rule over the poor.
\q2 The borrower is servant to the lender.
\q1
\v 8 He who sows wickedness reaps trouble,
\q2 and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.
\q1
\v 9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed;
\q2 for he shares his food with the poor.
\q1
\v 10 Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out;
\q2 yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
\q1
\v 11 He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully
\q2 is the king’s friend.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh’s eyes watch over knowledge;
\q2 but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
\q1
\v 13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
\q2 I will be killed in the streets!”
\q1
\v 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit.
\q2 He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
\q1
\v 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child:
\q2 the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
\q1
\v 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich,
\q2 both come to poverty.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise.
\q2 Apply your heart to my teaching.
\q1
\v 18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you,
\q2 if all of them are ready on your lips.
\q1
\v 19 I teach you today, even you,
\q2 So that your trust may be in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 20 Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things
\q2 of counsel and knowledge,
\q1
\v 21 To teach you truth, reliable words,
\q2 to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
\b
\q1
\v 22 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor;
\q2 and don’t crush the needy in court;
\q1
\v 23 for Yahweh will plead their case,
\q2 and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
\b
\q1
\v 24 Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man,
\q2 and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
\q1
\v 25 lest you learn his ways,
\q2 and ensnare your soul.
\b
\q1
\v 26 Don’t you be one of those who strike hands,
\q2 of those who are collateral for debts.
\q1
\v 27 If you don’t have means to pay,
\q2 why should he take away your bed from under you?
\b
\q1
\v 28 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone
\q2 which your fathers have set up.
\b
\q1
\v 29 Do you see a man skilled in his work?
\q2 He will serve kings.
\q2 He won’t serve obscure men.
\b


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\q1
\v 1 When you sit to eat with a ruler,
\q2 consider diligently what is before you;
\q1
\v 2 put a knife to your throat,
\q2 if you are a man given to appetite.
\q1
\v 3 Don’t be desirous of his dainties,
\q2 since they are deceitful food.
\q1
\v 4 Don’t weary yourself to be rich.
\q2 In your wisdom, show restraint.
\q1
\v 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not?
\q2 For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
\q1
\v 6 Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
\q2 and don’t crave his delicacies:
\q2
\v 7 for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
\q2 “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
\q2 but his heart is not with you.
\q1
\v 8 The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
\q2 and lose your good words.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Don’t speak in the ears of a fool,
\q2 for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Don’t move the ancient boundary stone.
\q2 Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
\q1
\v 11 for their Defender is strong.
\q2 He will plead their case against you.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Apply your heart to instruction,
\q2 and your ears to the words of knowledge.
\q1
\v 13 Don’t withhold correction from a child.
\q2 If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
\q1
\v 14 Punish him with the rod,
\q2 and save his soul from Sheol.\f + \fr 23:14 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\b
\q1
\v 15 My son, if your heart is wise,
\q2 then my heart will be glad, even mine.
\q1
\v 16 Yes, my heart will rejoice
\q2 when your lips speak what is right.
\q1
\v 17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners,
\q2 but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
\q1
\v 18 Indeed surely there is a future hope,
\q2 and your hope will not be cut off.
\q1
\v 19 Listen, my son, and be wise,
\q2 and keep your heart on the right path!
\q1
\v 20 Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,
\q2 or those who gorge themselves on meat:
\q1
\v 21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
\q2 and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
\q1
\v 22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
\q2 and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
\q1
\v 23 Buy the truth, and don’t sell it.
\q2 Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
\q1
\v 24 The father of the righteous has great joy.
\q2 Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
\q1
\v 25 Let your father and your mother be glad!
\q2 Let her who bore you rejoice!
\q1
\v 26 My son, give me your heart;
\q2 and let your eyes keep in my ways.
\q1
\v 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit;
\q2 and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
\q1
\v 28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber,
\q2 and increases the unfaithful among men.
\b
\q1
\v 29 Who has woe?
\q2 Who has sorrow?
\q2 Who has strife?
\q2 Who has complaints?
\q2 Who has needless bruises?
\q2 Who has bloodshot eyes?
\q1
\v 30 Those who stay long at the wine;
\q2 those who go to seek out mixed wine.
\q1
\v 31 Don’t look at the wine when it is red,
\q2 when it sparkles in the cup,
\q2 when it goes down smoothly.
\q1
\v 32 In the end, it bites like a snake,
\q2 and poisons like a viper.
\q1
\v 33 Your eyes will see strange things,
\q2 and your mind will imagine confusing things.
\q1
\v 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the middle of the sea,
\q2 or as he who lies on top of the rigging:
\q1
\v 35 “They hit me, and I was not hurt!
\q2 They beat me, and I don’t feel it!
\q2 When will I wake up? I can do it again.
\q2 I can find another.”
\b


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\q1
\v 1 Don’t be envious of evil men,
\q2 neither desire to be with them;
\q1
\v 2 for their hearts plot violence
\q2 and their lips talk about mischief.
\q1
\v 3 Through wisdom a house is built;
\q2 by understanding it is established;
\q1
\v 4 by knowledge the rooms are filled
\q2 with all rare and beautiful treasure.
\q1
\v 5 A wise man has great power;
\q2 and a knowledgeable man increases strength;
\q1
\v 6 for by wise guidance you wage your war;
\q2 and victory is in many advisors.
\q1
\v 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool.
\q2 He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
\q1
\v 8 One who plots to do evil
\q2 will be called a schemer.
\q1
\v 9 The schemes of folly are sin.
\q2 The mocker is detested by men.
\q1
\v 10 If you falter in the time of trouble,
\q2 your strength is small.
\q1
\v 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death!
\q2 Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
\q1
\v 12 If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,”
\q2 doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it?
\q1 He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it?
\q2 Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
\q1
\v 13 My son, eat honey, for it is good,
\q2 the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
\q1
\v 14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul.
\q2 If you have found it, then there will be a reward:
\q2 Your hope will not be cut off.
\q1
\v 15 Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous.
\q2 Don’t destroy his resting place;
\q1
\v 16 for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again;
\q2 but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
\q1
\v 17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls.
\q2 Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
\q1
\v 18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him,
\q2 and he turn away his wrath from him.
\q1
\v 19 Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers,
\q2 neither be envious of the wicked;
\q1
\v 20 for there will be no reward to the evil man.
\q2 The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
\q1
\v 21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king.
\q2 Don’t join those who are rebellious;
\q1
\v 22 for their calamity will rise suddenly.
\q2 Who knows what destruction may come from them both?
\b
\p
\v 23 These also are sayings of the wise.
\b
\q1 To show partiality in judgment is not good.
\q1
\v 24 He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
\q2 peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
\q1
\v 25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty,
\q2 and a rich blessing will come on them.
\q1
\v 26 An honest answer
\q2 is like a kiss on the lips.
\q1
\v 27 Prepare your work outside,
\q2 and get your fields ready.
\q2 Afterwards, build your house.
\q1
\v 28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause.
\q2 Don’t deceive with your lips.
\q1
\v 29 Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
\q2 I will repay the man according to his work.”
\q1
\v 30 I went by the field of the sluggard,
\q2 by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:
\q1
\v 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.
\q2 Its surface was covered with nettles,
\q2 and its stone wall was broken down.
\q1
\v 32 Then I saw, and considered well.
\q2 I saw, and received instruction:
\q1
\v 33 a little sleep, a little slumber,
\q2 a little folding of the hands to sleep,
\q1
\v 34 so your poverty will come as a robber
\q2 and your want as an armed man.


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\c 25
\p
\v 1 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
\q1
\v 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing,
\q2 but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
\q1
\v 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth,
\q2 so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.
\q1
\v 4 Take away the dross from the silver,
\q2 and material comes out for the refiner;
\q1
\v 5 Take away the wicked from the king’s presence,
\q2 and his throne will be established in righteousness.
\q1
\v 6 Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king,
\q2 or claim a place among great men;
\q1
\v 7 for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
\q2 than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince,
\q2 whom your eyes have seen.
\q1
\v 8 Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court.
\q2 What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
\q1
\v 9 Debate your case with your neighbor,
\q2 and don’t betray the confidence of another,
\q2
\v 10 lest one who hears it put you to shame,
\q2 and your bad reputation never depart.
\b
\q1
\v 11 A word fitly spoken
\q2 is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
\q1
\v 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold,
\q2 so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
\q1
\v 13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
\q2 so is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
\q2 for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
\q1
\v 14 As clouds and wind without rain,
\q2 so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
\q1
\v 15 By patience a ruler is persuaded.
\q2 A soft tongue breaks the bone.
\q1
\v 16 Have you found honey?
\q2 Eat as much as is sufficient for you,
\q2 lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
\q1
\v 17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
\q2 lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
\q1
\v 18 A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor
\q2 is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
\q1
\v 19 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble
\q2 is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
\q1
\v 20 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather,
\q2 or vinegar on soda,
\q2 so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
\q1
\v 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat.
\q2 If he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
\q1
\v 22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head,
\q2 and Yahweh will reward you.
\q1
\v 23 The north wind produces rain;
\q2 so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
\q1
\v 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop
\q2 than to share a house with a contentious woman.
\q1
\v 25 Like cold water to a thirsty soul,
\q2 so is good news from a far country.
\q1
\v 26 Like a muddied spring and a polluted well,
\q2 so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
\q1
\v 27 It is not good to eat much honey,
\q2 nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
\q1
\v 28 Like a city that is broken down and without walls
\q2 is a man whose spirit is without restraint.


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\q1
\v 1 Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest,
\q2 so honor is not fitting for a fool.
\q1
\v 2 Like a fluttering sparrow,
\q2 like a darting swallow,
\q2 so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.
\q1
\v 3 A whip is for the horse,
\q2 a bridle for the donkey,
\q2 and a rod for the back of fools!
\q1
\v 4 Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,
\q2 lest you also be like him.
\q1
\v 5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
\q2 lest he be wise in his own eyes.
\q1
\v 6 One who sends a message by the hand of a fool
\q2 is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
\q1
\v 7 Like the legs of the lame that hang loose,
\q2 so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
\q1
\v 8 As one who binds a stone in a sling,
\q2 so is he who gives honor to a fool.
\q1
\v 9 Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard,
\q2 so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
\q1
\v 10 As an archer who wounds all,
\q2 so is he who hires a fool
\q2 or he who hires those who pass by.
\q1
\v 11 As a dog that returns to his vomit,
\q2 so is a fool who repeats his folly.
\q1
\v 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?
\q2 There is more hope for a fool than for him.
\q1
\v 13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
\q2 A fierce lion roams the streets!”
\q1
\v 14 As the door turns on its hinges,
\q2 so does the sluggard on his bed.
\q1
\v 15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish.
\q2 He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
\q1
\v 16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
\q2 than seven men who answer with discretion.
\q1
\v 17 Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
\q2 is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
\q1
\v 18 Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
\q2
\v 19 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
\q1
\v 20 For lack of wood a fire goes out.
\q2 Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
\q1
\v 21 As coals are to hot embers,
\q2 and wood to fire,
\q2 so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
\q1
\v 22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,
\q2 they go down into the innermost parts.
\q1
\v 23 Like silver dross on an earthen vessel
\q2 are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
\q1
\v 24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,
\q2 but he harbors evil in his heart.
\q1
\v 25 When his speech is charming, don’t believe him,
\q2 for there are seven abominations in his heart.
\q1
\v 26 His malice may be concealed by deception,
\q2 but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
\q1
\v 27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it.
\q2 Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
\q1
\v 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts;
\q2 and a flattering mouth works ruin.


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\q1
\v 1 Don’t boast about tomorrow;
\q2 for you don’t know what a day may bring.
\q1
\v 2 Let another man praise you,
\q2 and not your own mouth;
\q2 a stranger, and not your own lips.
\q1
\v 3 A stone is heavy,
\q2 and sand is a burden;
\q2 but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
\q1
\v 4 Wrath is cruel,
\q2 and anger is overwhelming;
\q2 but who is able to stand before jealousy?
\q1
\v 5 Better is open rebuke
\q2 than hidden love.
\q1
\v 6 The wounds of a friend are faithful,
\q2 although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
\q1
\v 7 A full soul loathes a honeycomb;
\q2 but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
\q1
\v 8 As a bird that wanders from her nest,
\q2 so is a man who wanders from his home.
\q1
\v 9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart;
\q2 so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
\q1
\v 10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
\q2 Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
\q2 A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
\q1
\v 11 Be wise, my son,
\q2 and bring joy to my heart,
\q2 then I can answer my tormentor.
\q1
\v 12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge;
\q2 but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
\q1
\v 13 Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger.
\q2 Hold it for a wayward woman!
\q1
\v 14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,
\q2 it will be taken as a curse by him.
\q1
\v 15 A continual dropping on a rainy day
\q2 and a contentious wife are alike:
\q1
\v 16 restraining her is like restraining the wind,
\q2 or like grasping oil in his right hand.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Iron sharpens iron;
\q2 so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
\q1
\v 18 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit.
\q2 He who looks after his master shall be honored.
\q1
\v 19 Like water reflects a face,
\q2 so a man’s heart reflects the man.
\q1
\v 20 Sheol\f + \fr 27:20 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f* and Abaddon are never satisfied;
\q2 and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
\q1
\v 21 The crucible is for silver,
\q2 and the furnace for gold;
\q2 but man is refined by his praise.
\q1
\v 22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
\q2 yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Know well the state of your flocks,
\q2 and pay attention to your herds:
\q1
\v 24 for riches are not forever,
\q2 nor does the crown endure to all generations.
\q1
\v 25 The hay is removed, and the new growth appears,
\q2 the grasses of the hills are gathered in.
\q1
\v 26 The lambs are for your clothing,
\q2 and the goats are the price of a field.
\q1
\v 27 There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food,
\q2 for your family’s food,
\q2 and for the nourishment of your servant girls.


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\q1
\v 1 The wicked flee when no one pursues;
\q2 but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
\q1
\v 2 In rebellion, a land has many rulers,
\q2 but order is maintained by a man of understanding and knowledge.
\q1
\v 3 A needy man who oppresses the poor
\q2 is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
\q1
\v 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked;
\q2 but those who keep the law contend with them.
\q1
\v 5 Evil men don’t understand justice;
\q2 but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
\q1
\v 6 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity,
\q2 than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
\q1
\v 7 Whoever keeps the law is a wise son;
\q2 but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
\q1
\v 8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest
\q2 gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
\q1
\v 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law,
\q2 even his prayer is an abomination.
\q1
\v 10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way,
\q2 he will fall into his own trap;
\q2 but the blameless will inherit good.
\q1
\v 11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes;
\q2 but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
\q1
\v 12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory;
\q2 but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
\q1
\v 13 He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper,
\q2 but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
\q1
\v 14 Blessed is the man who always fears;
\q2 but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
\q1
\v 15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear,
\q2 so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
\q1
\v 16 A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment.
\q2 One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.
\q1
\v 17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death;
\q2 no one will support him.
\q1
\v 18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe;
\q2 but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
\q1
\v 19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food;
\q2 but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
\q1
\v 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings;
\q2 but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
\q1
\v 21 To show partiality is not good;
\q2 yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
\q1
\v 22 A stingy man hurries after riches,
\q2 and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
\q1
\v 23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
\q2 than one who flatters with the tongue.
\q1
\v 24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,”
\q2 is a partner with a destroyer.
\q1
\v 25 One who is greedy stirs up strife;
\q2 but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
\q1
\v 26 One who trusts in himself is a fool;
\q2 but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.
\q1
\v 27 One who gives to the poor has no lack;
\q2 but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.
\q1
\v 28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;
\q2 but when they perish, the righteous thrive.


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\v 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck
\q2 will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
\q1
\v 2 When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
\q2 but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
\q1
\v 3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father;
\q2 but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
\q1
\v 4 The king by justice makes the land stable,
\q2 but he who takes bribes tears it down.
\q1
\v 5 A man who flatters his neighbor
\q2 spreads a net for his feet.
\q1
\v 6 An evil man is snared by his sin,
\q2 but the righteous can sing and be glad.
\q1
\v 7 The righteous care about justice for the poor.
\q2 The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.
\q1
\v 8 Mockers stir up a city,
\q2 but wise men turn away anger.
\q1
\v 9 If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man,
\q2 the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.
\q1
\v 10 The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity;
\q2 and they seek the life of the upright.
\q1
\v 11 A fool vents all of his anger,
\q2 but a wise man brings himself under control.
\q1
\v 12 If a ruler listens to lies,
\q2 all of his officials are wicked.
\q1
\v 13 The poor man and the oppressor have this in common:
\q2 Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.
\q1
\v 14 The king who fairly judges the poor,
\q2 his throne shall be established forever.
\q1
\v 15 The rod of correction gives wisdom,
\q2 but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
\q1
\v 16 When the wicked increase, sin increases;
\q2 but the righteous will see their downfall.
\q1
\v 17 Correct your son, and he will give you peace;
\q2 yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
\q1
\v 18 Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint;
\q2 but one who keeps the law is blessed.
\q1
\v 19 A servant can’t be corrected by words.
\q2 Though he understands, yet he will not respond.
\q1
\v 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
\q2 There is more hope for a fool than for him.
\q1
\v 21 He who pampers his servant from youth
\q2 will have him become a son in the end.
\q1
\v 22 An angry man stirs up strife,
\q2 and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
\q1
\v 23 A man’s pride brings him low,
\q2 but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
\q1
\v 24 Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul.
\q2 He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
\q1
\v 25 The fear of man proves to be a snare,
\q2 but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.
\q1
\v 26 Many seek the ruler’s favor,
\q2 but a man’s justice comes from Yahweh.
\q1
\v 27 A dishonest man detests the righteous,
\q2 and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.


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\v 1 My son, don’t forget my teaching;
\q2 but let your heart keep my commandments:
\q1
\v 2 for they will add to you length of days,
\q2 years of life, and peace.
\q1
\v 3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you.
\q2 Bind them around your neck.
\q2 Write them on the tablet of your heart.
\q1
\v 4 So you will find favor,
\q2 and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
\q1
\v 5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart,
\q2 and don’t lean on your own understanding.
\q1
\v 6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
\q2 and he will make your paths straight.
\q1
\v 7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes.
\q2 Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
\q1
\v 8 It will be health to your body,
\q2 and nourishment to your bones.
\q1
\v 9 Honor Yahweh with your substance,
\q2 with the first fruits of all your increase:
\q1
\v 10 so your barns will be filled with plenty,
\q2 and your vats will overflow with new wine.
\q1
\v 11 My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline,
\q2 neither be weary of his correction;
\q1
\v 12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects,
\q2 even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
\q2 the man who gets understanding.
\q1
\v 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver,
\q2 and her return is better than fine gold.
\q1
\v 15 She is more precious than rubies.
\q2 None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.
\q1
\v 16 Length of days is in her right hand.
\q2 In her left hand are riches and honor.
\q1
\v 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
\q2 All her paths are peace.
\q1
\v 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.
\q2 Happy is everyone who retains her.
\q1
\v 19 By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth.
\q2 By understanding, he established the heavens.
\q1
\v 20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up,
\q2 and the skies drop down the dew.
\q1
\v 21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes.
\q2 Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
\q1
\v 22 so they will be life to your soul,
\q2 and grace for your neck.
\q1
\v 23 Then you shall walk in your way securely.
\q2 Your foot won’t stumble.
\q1
\v 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid.
\q2 Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
\q1
\v 25 Don’t be afraid of sudden fear,
\q2 neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;
\q1
\v 26 for Yahweh will be your confidence,
\q2 and will keep your foot from being taken.
\b
\q1
\v 27 Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due,
\q2 when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
\q1
\v 28 Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again;
\q2 tomorrow I will give it to you,”
\q2 when you have it by you.
\q1
\v 29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,
\q2 since he dwells securely by you.
\q1
\v 30 Don’t strive with a man without cause,
\q2 if he has done you no harm.
\q1
\v 31 Don’t envy the man of violence.
\q2 Choose none of his ways.
\q1
\v 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
\q2 but his friendship is with the upright.
\q1
\v 33 Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked,
\q2 but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
\q1
\v 34 Surely he mocks the mockers,
\q2 but he gives grace to the humble.
\q1
\v 35 The wise will inherit glory,
\q2 but shame will be the promotion of fools.


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\v 1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the revelation:
\q1 the man says to Ithiel,
\q2 to Ithiel and Ucal:
\q1
\v 2 “Surely I am the most ignorant man,
\q2 and don’t have a man’s understanding.
\q1
\v 3 I have not learned wisdom,
\q2 neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
\q1
\v 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended?
\q2 Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
\q2 Who has bound the waters in his garment?
\q2 Who has established all the ends of the earth?
\q2 What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
\b
\q1
\v 5 “Every word of God is flawless.
\q2 He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
\q1
\v 6 Don’t you add to his words,
\q2 lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
\b
\q1
\v 7 “Two things I have asked of you.
\q2 Don’t deny me before I die.
\q1
\v 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies.
\q2 Give me neither poverty nor riches.
\q2 Feed me with the food that is needful for me,
\q1
\v 9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’
\q2 or lest I be poor, and steal,
\q2 and so dishonor the name of my God.
\b
\q1
\v 10 “Don’t slander a servant to his master,
\q2 lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
\b
\q1
\v 11 There is a generation that curses their father,
\q2 and doesn’t bless their mother.
\q1
\v 12 There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes,
\q2 yet are not washed from their filthiness.
\q1
\v 13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!
\q2 Their eyelids are lifted up.
\q1
\v 14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords,
\q2 and their jaws like knives,
\q2 to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
\b
\q1
\v 15 “The leech has two daughters:
\q2 ‘Give, give.’
\b
\q1 “There are three things that are never satisfied;
\q2 four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’
\q2
\v 16 Sheol,\f + \fr 30:16 \ft Sheol is the place of the dead.\f*
\q2 the barren womb;
\q2 the earth that is not satisfied with water;
\q2 and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’
\b
\q1
\v 17 “The eye that mocks at his father,
\q2 and scorns obedience to his mother:
\q2 the ravens of the valley shall pick it out,
\q2 the young eagles shall eat it.
\b
\q1
\v 18 “There are three things which are too amazing for me,
\q2 four which I don’t understand:
\q2
\v 19 The way of an eagle in the air,
\q2 the way of a serpent on a rock,
\q2 the way of a ship in the middle of the sea,
\q2 and the way of a man with a maiden.
\b
\q1
\v 20 “So is the way of an adulterous woman:
\q2 She eats and wipes her mouth,
\q2 and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
\b
\q1
\v 21 “For three things the earth trembles,
\q2 and under four, it can’t bear up:
\q2
\v 22 For a servant when he is king,
\q2 a fool when he is filled with food,
\q2
\v 23 for an unloved woman when she is married,
\q2 and a servant who is heir to her mistress.
\b
\q1
\v 24 “There are four things which are little on the earth,
\q2 but they are exceedingly wise:
\q2
\v 25 The ants are not a strong people,
\q2 yet they provide their food in the summer.
\q2
\v 26 The hyraxes are but a feeble folk,
\q2 yet make they their houses in the rocks.
\q2
\v 27 The locusts have no king,
\q2 yet they advance in ranks.
\q2
\v 28 You can catch a lizard with your hands,
\q2 yet it is in kings’ palaces.
\b
\q1
\v 29 “There are three things which are stately in their march,
\q2 four which are stately in going:
\q2
\v 30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals,
\q2 and doesn’t turn away for any;
\q2
\v 31 the greyhound;
\q2 the male goat;
\q2 and the king against whom there is no rising up.
\b
\q1
\v 32 “If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself,
\q2 or if you have thought evil,
\q1 put your hand over your mouth.
\q2
\v 33 For as the churning of milk produces butter,
\q2 and the wringing of the nose produces blood;
\q2 so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”


