15:1And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 15:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 15:3and will make an offering by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor unto Jehovah, of the herd, or of the flock; 15:4then shall he that offereth his oblation offer unto Jehovah a meal-offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil: 15:5and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 15:6Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil: 15:7and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. 15:8And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace-offerings unto Jehovah; 15:9then shall he offer with the bullock a meal-offering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil: 15:10and thou shalt offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
15:11Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids. 15:12According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number. 15:13All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah. 15:14And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; as ye do, so he shall do. 15:15For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah. 15:16One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
15:17And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 15:18Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 15:19then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto Jehovah. 15:20Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 15:21Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto Jehovah a heave-offering throughout your generations.
15:22And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses, 15:23even all that Jehovah hath commanded you by Moses, from the day that Jehovah gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 15:24then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah, with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin-offering. 15:25And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their oblation, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, and their sin-offering before Jehovah, for their error: 15:26and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.
15:27And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering. 15:28And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth unwittingly, before Jehovah, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven. 15:29Ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught unwittingly, for him that is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. 15:30But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15:31Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
15:32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day. 15:33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 15:34And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. 15:35And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. 15:36And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.
15:37And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 15:38Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border a cord of blue: 15:39and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot; 15:40that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. 15:41I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Jehovah your God.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
51:2Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity,
And cleanse me from my sin.
51:3For I know my transgressions;
And my sin is ever before me.
51:4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
And done that which is evil in thy sight;
That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,
And be clear when thou judgest.
51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity;
And in sin did my mother conceive me. 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts;
And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.
51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness,
That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
51:9Hide thy face from my sins,
And blot out all mine iniquities.
51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God;
And renew a right spirit within me.
51:11Cast me not away from thy presence;
And take not thy holy Spirit from me.
51:12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
And uphold me with a willing spirit.
51:13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
And sinners shall be converted unto thee.
51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation;
And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
51:15O Lord, open thou my lips;
And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
51:16For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it:
Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:
Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
51:19Then will thou delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
In burnt-offering and in whole burnt-offering:
Then will they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
5:1Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 5:2and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 5:3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5:5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 5:6and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 5:7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry. 5:8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 5:9In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them! 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. 5:13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. 5:14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it. 5:15And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 5:16but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. 5:17Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 5:19that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 5:20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 5:21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 5:22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 5:23that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 5:25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 5:26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: 5:29their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 5:30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
12:1Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 12:2looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 12:3For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls. 12:4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: 12:5and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons,
My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
12:6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
12:7It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? 12:8But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 12:9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 12:10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 12:11All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness. 12:12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees; 12:13and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed. 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: 12:15looking carefully lest there be any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled; 12:16lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. 12:17For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place for a change of mind in his father, though he sought is diligently with tears. 12:18For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 12:19and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; 12:20for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; 12:21and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: 12:22but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, 12:23to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 12:24and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel. 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven: 12:26whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. 12:27And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 12:28Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.