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Deuteronomy

10:1At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. 10:2And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. 10:3So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand. 10:4And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which Jehovah spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Jehovah gave them unto me. 10:5And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Jehovah commanded me. 10:6(And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 10:7From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 10:8At that time Jehovah set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. 10:9Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah is his inheritance, according as Jehovah thy God spake unto him.) 10:10And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee. 10:11And Jehovah said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people; and they shall go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

10:12And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 10:13to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 10:14Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein. 10:15Only Jehovah had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day. 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 10:17For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 10:18He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment. 10:19Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt. 10:20Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear. 10:21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. 10:22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Psalms

94:1O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,

 Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

 94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:

 Render to the proud their desert.

 94:3Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,

 How long shall the wicked triumph?

 94:4They prate, they speak arrogantly:

 All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

 94:5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,

 And afflict thy heritage.

 94:6They slay the widow and the sojourner,

 And murder the fatherless.

 94:7And they say, *Jehovah will not see,

 Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

 94:8Consider, ye brutish among the people;

 And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

 94:9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?

 He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

 94:10He that *chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,

 Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

 94:11Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,

 *That they are *vanity.

 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah,

 And teachest out of thy law;

 94:13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,

 Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

 94:14For Jehovah will not cast off his people,

 Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

 94:15For judgment shall return unto righteousness;

 And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

 94:16Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?

 Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

 94:17Unless Jehovah had been my help,

 My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth;

 Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

 94:19In the multitude of my *thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.

 94:20Shall the *throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,

 Which frameth mischief by statute?

 94:21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,

 And condemn the innocent blood.

 94:22But Jehovah hath been my high tower,

 And my God the rock of my refuge.

 94:23And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,

 And will cut them off in their own wickedness;

 Jehovah our God will cut them off.

 

 

Isaiah

 

38:1In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 38:2Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah, 38:3and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. 38:4Then came the word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying, 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 38:6And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. 38:7And this shall be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah will do this thing that he hath spoken: 38:8behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the dial whereon it was gone down.

38:9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness.

 38:10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol:

 I am deprived of the residue of my years.

 38:11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living:

 I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

 38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent:

 I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom:

 From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

 38:13I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones:

 From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

 38:14Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter;

 I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward:

 O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

 38:15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it:

 I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

 38:16O Lord, by these things men live;

 And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:

 Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

 38:17Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness:

 But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;

 For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

 38:18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:

 They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:

 The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

 38:20Jehovah is ready to save me:

 Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments

 All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.

38:21Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. 38:22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?

 

 

Revelation

 

8:1And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 8:2And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given unto them seven trumpets. 8:3And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 8:4And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand. 8:5And the angel taketh the censer; and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it upon the earth: and there followed thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake. 8:6And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 8:7And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. 8:8And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; 8:9and there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed. 8:10And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters; 8:11and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 8:12And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner. 8:13And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.