21:1If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him; 21:2then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 21:3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 21:4and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 21:5And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 21:6And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 21:7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 21:8Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 21:9So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
21:10When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, 21:11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; 21:12then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 21:13and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 21:14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.
21:15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; 21:16then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born: 21:17but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 21:19then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 21:20and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21:21And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
21:22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; 21:23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
A Song, A Psalm of David.
108:1My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, yea,
I will sing praises, even with my glory.
108:2Awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will *awake right early.
108:3I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the peoples;
And I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
108:4For thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens;
And thy truth reacheth unto the skies.
108:5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And thy glory above all the earth.
108:6That thy beloved may be delivered,
Save with thy right hand, and answer *us.
108:7God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult;
I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
108:8Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the defence of my head;
Judah is my *sceptre.
108:9Moab is my washpot;
*Upon Edom will I cast my shoe;
Over Philistia will I shout.
108:10Who will bring me into the fortified city?
Who *hath led me unto Edom?
108:11 *Hast not thou cast us off, O God?
And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.
108:12Give us help against the adversary;
For vain is the help of man.
108:13Through God we shall do valiantly:
For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.
For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.
109:1Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:
They have spoken *unto me with a lying tongue.
109:3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,
And fought against me without a cause.
109:4For my love they are my adversaries:
But I give myself unto prayer.
109:5And they have *rewarded me evil for good,
And hatred for my love.
109:6Set thou a wicked man over him;
And let *an adversary stand at his right hand.
109:7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty;
And let his prayer *be turned into sin.
109:8Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.
109:9Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
109:10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread *out of their desolate places.
109:11Let the extortioner *catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
109:12Let there be none to *extend kindness unto him;
Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
109:13Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah;
And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:15Let them be before Jehovah continually,
That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
109:16Because he remembered not to show kindness,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
And the broken in heart, to slay them.
109:17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him;
And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
109:18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment,
And it came into his inward parts like water,
And like oil into his bones.
109:19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself,
And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
109:20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah,
And of them that speak evil against my soul.
109:21But deal thou with me, O Jehovah the Lord, for thy name's sake:
Because thy lovingkindness is good, deliver thou me;
109:22For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
109:23I am gone like the shadow when it *declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
109:24My knees *are weak through fasting;
And my flesh faileth of fatness.
109:25I am become also a reproach unto them:
When they see me, they shake their head.
109:26Help me, O Jehovah my God;
Oh save me according to thy lovingkindness:
109:27That they may know that this is thy hand;
That thou, Jehovah, hast done it.
109:28Let them curse, but bless thou:
When they arise, they shall be put to shame,
But thy servant shall rejoice.
109:29 *Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
109:30I will give great thanks unto Jehovah with my mouth;
Yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from them that judge his soul.
48:1Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Jehovah, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness 48:2(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name): 48:3I have declared the former things from of old; yea, they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 48:5therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 48:6Thou hast heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, which thou hast not known. 48:7They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 48:8Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. 48:9For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 48:10Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 48:11For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another. 48:12Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 48:13Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. 48:14Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among them hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah loveth shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 48:15I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 48:16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit. 48:17Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 48:18Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 48:19thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me. 48:20Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say ye, Jehovah hath redeemed his servant Jacob. 48:21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. 48:22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.
18:1After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 18:2And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird. 18:3For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness. 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues: 18:5for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 18:6Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double. 18:7How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning. 18:8Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her. 18:9And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning, 18:10standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 18:11And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more; 18:12merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; 18:13and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men. 18:14And the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone from thee, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished from thee, and men shall find them no more at all. 18:15The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; 18:16saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl! 18:17for in an hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any wither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off, 18:18and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like the great city? 18:19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. 18:20Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her. 18:21And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all. 18:22And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee; 18:23and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived. 18:24And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.