6:1Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it; 6:2that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 6:3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 6:4Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah: 6:5and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6:6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 6:7and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 6:8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. 6:9And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
6:10And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, 6:11and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat and be full; 6:12then beware lest thou forget Jehovah, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 6:13Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; and him shalt thou serve, and shalt swear by his name. 6:14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you; 6:15for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
6:16Ye shall not tempt Jehovah your God, as ye tempted him in Massah. 6:17Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 6:18And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of Jehovah; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, 6:19to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
6:20When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you? 6:21then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; 6:22and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes; 6:23and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. 6:24And Jehovah commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Jehovah our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day. 6:25And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before Jehovah our God, as he hath commanded us.
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
89:1I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever:
With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever;
Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens.
89:3I have made a covenant with my chosen,
I have sworn unto David my servant:
89:4Thy seed will I establish for ever,
And build up thy throne to all generations.
Selah
89:5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah;
Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
89:6For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah?
Who among the *sons of the *mighty is like unto Jehovah,
89:7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones,
And to be feared above all them that are round about him?
89:8O Jehovah God of hosts,
Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O *Jehovah?
And thy faithfulness is round about thee.
89:9Thou rulest the pride of the sea:
When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain;
Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength.
89:11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine:
The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
89:12The north and the south, thou hast created them:
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.
Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne:
Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face.
89:15Blessed is the people that know the *joyful sound:
They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.
89:16In thy name do they rejoice all the day;
And in thy righteousness are they exalted.
89:17For thou art the glory of their strength;
And in thy favor *our horn shall be exalted.
89:18For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah;
*And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
89:19Then thou spakest in vision to thy *saints,
And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
89:20I have found David my servant;
With my holy oil have I anointed him:
89:21With whom my hand shall be established;
Mine arm also shall strengthen him.
89:22The enemy shall not *exact from him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
89:23And I will beat down his adversaries before him,
And smite them that hate him.
89:24But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him;
And in my name shall his horn be exalted.
89:25I will set his hand also on the sea,
And his right hand on the rivers.
89:26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.
89:27I also will make him my first-born,
The highest of the kings of the earth.
89:28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;
And my covenant shall *stand fast with him.
89:29His seed also will I make to endure for ever,
And his throne as the days of heaven.
89:30If his children forsake my law,
And walk not in mine ordinances;
89:31If they *break my statutes,
And keep not my commandments;
89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity with stripes.
89:33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him,
Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
89:34My covenant will I not break,
Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
89:35 *Once have I sworn by my holiness:
I will not lie unto David:
89:36His seed shall endure for ever,
And his throne as the sun before me.
89:37 *It shall be established for ever as the moon,
*And as the faithful witness in the sky.
Selah
89:38But thou hast cast off and rejected,
Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
89:39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant:
Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges;
Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.
89:41All that pass by the way rob him:
He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
89:42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
89:43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword,
And hast not made him to stand in the battle.
89:44Thou hast made his brightness to cease,
And cast his throne down to the ground.
89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened:
Thou hast covered him with shame.
Selah
89:46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
How long shall thy wrath burn like fire?
89:47Oh remember how short my time is:
For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
89:48What man is he that shall live and not see death,
That shall deliver his soul from the *power of Sheol?
Selah
89:49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses,
Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness?
89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants;
How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the *mighty peoples,
89:51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,
Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
89:52Blessed be Jehovah for evermore.
Amen, and Amen.
34:1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it. 34:2For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 34:3Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 34:4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree. 34:5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 34:6The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 34:7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 34:8For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 34:9And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 34:10It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 34:11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. 34:12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. 34:13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 34:14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. 34:15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate. 34:16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them. 34:17And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
4:1After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter. 4:2Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne; 4:3and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon. 4:4And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold. 4:5And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there was seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God; 4:6and before the throne, as it were a sea of glass like a crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind. 4:7And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. 4:8and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.
4:9And when the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth for ever and ever, 4:10the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
4:11Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.