14:1And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 14:2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness! 14:3And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
14:4And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. 14:5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 14:6And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes: 14:7and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 14:8If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 14:9Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not. 14:10But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
14:11And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
14:13And Moses said unto Jehovah, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them; 14:14and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. 14:15Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 14:16Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. 14:17And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, 14:18Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. 14:19Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
14:20And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 14:21but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; 14:22because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 14:23surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: 14:24but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. 14:25Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
14:26And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 14:27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 14:28Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 14:29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, 14:30surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 14:31But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 14:32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 14:33And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 14:34After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation. 14:35I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
14:36And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, 14:37even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah. 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.
14:39And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. 14:40And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned. 14:41And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper? 14:42Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies. 14:43For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned back from following Jehovah, therefore Jehovah will not be with you. 14:44But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 14:45Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.
A Psalm of Asaph.
50:1The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken,
And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God hath shined forth.
50:3Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence:
A fire devoureth before him,
And it is very tempestuous round about him.
50:4He calleth to the heavens above,
And to the earth, that he may judge his people:
50:5Gather my saints together unto me,
Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness;
For God is judge himself.
Selah
50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, and I will testify unto thee:
I am God, even thy God.
50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;
And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house,
Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
50:10For every beast of the forest is mine,
And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
50:11I know all the birds of the mountains;
And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;
For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?
50:14Offer unto God the sacrifice of thanksgiving;
And pay thy vows unto the Most High:
50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
50:16But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction,
And castest my words behind thee?
50:18When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him,
And hast been partaker with adulterers.
50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil,
And thy tongue frameth deceit.
50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself:
But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
50:23Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me;
And to him that ordereth his way aright
Will I show the salvation of God.
3:1For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water; 3:2the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder; 3:3the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter. 3:4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 3:5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable. 3:6When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand; 3:7in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people. 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Jehovah, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 3:9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves. 3:10Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be done unto him. 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. 3:13Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples. 3:14Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses: 3:15what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 3:16Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet; 3:17therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts. 3:18In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the cauls, and the crescents; 3:19the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers; 3:20the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets; 3:21the rings, and the nose-jewels; 3:22the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels; 3:23the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils. 3:24And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty. 3:25Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach. 4:2In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 4:3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem; 4:4when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. 4:5And Jehovah will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory shall be spread a covering. 4:6And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.
11:1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. 11:2For therein the elders had witness borne to them. 11:3By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear. 11:4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh. 11:5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God: 11:6And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him. 11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 11:8By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 11:9By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 11:10for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11:11By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised: 11:12wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable. 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 11:14For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own. 11:15And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. 11:17By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; 11:18even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: 11:19accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back. 11:20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. 11:21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff. 11:22By faith Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. 11:23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. 11:24By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward. 11:27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. 11:28By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. 11:29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were swallowed up. 11:30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days. 11:31By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace. 11:32And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets: 11:33who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 11:34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armies of aliens. 11:35Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 11:36and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 11:37they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth. 11:39And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, 11:40God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.