25:1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab: 25:2for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 25:3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel. 25:4And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel. 25:5And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.
25:6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. 25:7And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand; 25:8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 25:9And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
25:10And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. 25:12Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: 25:13and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
25:14Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites. 25:15And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
25:16And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 25:17Vex the Midianites, and smite them; 25:18for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a song.
68:1Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered;
Let them also that hate him flee before him.
68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away:
As wax melteth before the fire,
So let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
68:3But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God:
Yea, let them rejoice with gladness.
68:4Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts;
His name is Jehovah; and exult ye before him.
68:5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows,
Is God in his holy habitation.
68:6God setteth the solitary in families:
He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
68:7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people,
When thou didst march through the wilderness;
Selah
68:8The earth trembled,
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God:
Yon Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
68:9Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,
Thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
68:10Thy congregation dwelt therein:
Thou, O God, didst prepare of thy goodness for the poor.
68:11The Lord giveth the word:
The women that publish the tidings are a great host.
68:12Kings of armies flee, they flee;
And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.
68:13When ye lie among the sheepfolds,
It is as the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And her pinions with yellow gold.
68:14When the Almighty scattered kings therein,
It was as when it snoweth in Zalmon.
68:15A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A high mountain is the mountain of Bashan.
68:16Why look ye askance, ye high mountains,
At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode?
Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it for ever.
68:17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.
68:18Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led away captives;
Thou hast received gifts among men,
Yea, among the rebellious also, that Jehovah God might dwell with them.
68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden,
Even the God who is our salvation.
Selah
68:20God is unto us a God of deliverances;
And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
68:21But God will smite through the head of his enemies,
The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.
68:22The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan,
I will bring them again from the depths of the sea;
68:23That thou mayest crush them, dipping thy foot in blood,
That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.
68:24They have seen thy goings, O God,
Even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
68:25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,
In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
68:26Bless ye God in the congregations,
Even the Lord, ye that are of the fountain of Israel.
68:27There is little Benjamin their ruler,
The princes of Judah and their council,
The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
68:28Thy God hath commanded thy strength:
Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
68:29Because of thy temple at Jerusalem
Kings shall bring presents unto thee.
68:30Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds,
The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver:
He hath scattered the peoples that delight in war.
68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands unto God.
68:32Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth;
Oh sing praises unto the Lord;
Selah
68:33To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old;
Lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.
68:34Ascribe ye strength unto God:
His excellency is over Israel,
And his strength is in the skies.
68:35O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places:
The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto his people.
Blessed be God.
15:1The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought. 15:2They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. 15:3In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly. 15:4And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him. 15:5My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles flee unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. 15:6For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing. 15:7Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows. 15:8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim. 15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
3:1In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; 3:2beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear. 3:3Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; 3:4but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 3:5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 3:6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror. 3:7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered. 3:8Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded: 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but contrariwise blessing; for hereunto were ye called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 3:10For,
He that would love life,
And see good days,
Let him refrain his tongue from evil,
And his lips that they speak no guile:
3:11And let him turn away from evil, and do good;
Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
3:12For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous,
And his ears unto their supplication:
But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
3:13And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? 3:14But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled; 3:15but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: being ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear: 3:16having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ. 3:17For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 3:19in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, 3:20that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: 3:21which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ; 3:22who is one the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.