23:1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 23:2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. 23:3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height. 23:4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. 23:5And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. 23:6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. 23:7And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel. 23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied? 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations. 23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his! 23:11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. 23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?
23:13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. 23:14And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. 23:15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder. 23:16And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. 23:17And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken? 23:18And he took up his parable, and said,
Rise up, Balak, and hear;
Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
23:19God is not a man, that he should lie,
Neither the son of man, that he should repent:
Hath he said, and will he not do it?
Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
23:20Behold, I have received commandment to bless:
And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
23:21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob;
Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel:
Jehovah his God is with him,
And the shout of a king is among them.
23:22God bringeth them forth out of Egypt;
He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
23:23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
Neither is there any divination with Israel:
Now shalt it be said of Jacob and of Israel,
What hath God wrought!
23:24Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness,
And as a lion doth he lift himself up:
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
And drink the blood of the slain.
23:25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 23:26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do? 23:27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. 23:28And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. 23:29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 23:30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
64:1Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint:
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers,
From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;
64:3Who have whet their tongue like a sword,
And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
64:4That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect:
Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
64:5They encourage themselves in an evil purpose;
They commune of laying snares privily;
They say, Who will see them?
64:6They search out iniquities;
We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search:
And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
64:7But God will shoot at them;
With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
64:8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them:
All that see them shall wag the head.
64:9And all men shall fear;
And they shall declare the work of God,
And shall wisely consider of his doing.
64:10The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him;
And all the upright in heart shall glory.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of David.
65:1Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion;
And unto thee shall the vow be performed.
65:2O thou that hearest prayer,
Unto thee shall all flesh come.
65:3Iniquities prevail against me:
As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.
65:4Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee,
That he may dwell in thy courts:
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,
Thy holy temple.
65:5By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness,
Oh God of our salvation,
Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And of them that are afar off upon the sea:
65:6Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains,
Being girded about with might;
65:7Who stilleth the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
65:8They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens:
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it,
Thou greatly enrichest it;
The river of God is full of water:
Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
65:10Thou waterest its furrows abundantly;
Thou settlest the ridges thereof:
Thou makest it soft with showers;
Thou blessest the springing thereof.
65:11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness;
And thy paths drop fatness.
65:12They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness;
And the hills are girded with joy.
65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are covered over with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.
13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 13:2Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle. 13:5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 13:6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: 13:8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame. 13:9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. 13:11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 13:12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 13:14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. 13:15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. 13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 13:18And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. 13:22And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
1:1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1:4unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1:6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, 1:7that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ: 1:8whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 1:9receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 1:10Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 1:11searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. 1:12To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angel desire to look into. 1:13Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 1:14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: 1:15but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; 1:16because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. 1:17And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear: 1:18knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; 1:19but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ: 1:20who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, 1:21who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: 1:23having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth. 1:24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: 1:25But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.