27:1Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. 27:2And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying, 27:3Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Korah: but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons. 27:4Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father. 27:5And Moses brought their cause before Jehovah.
27:6And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 27:7The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. 27:8And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. 27:9And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. 27:10And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren. 27:11And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute and ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
27:12And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. 27:13And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered; 27:14because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.) 27:15And Moses spake unto Jehovah, saying, 27:16Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, 27:17who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Jehovah be not as sheep which have no shepherd. 27:18And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thy hand upon him; 27:19and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. 27:20And thou shalt put of thine honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. 27:21And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation. 27:22And Moses did as Jehovah commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: 27:23and he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as Jehovah spake by Moses.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; *to bring to remembrance.
70:1Make haste, O God, to deliver me;
Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
70:2Let them be put to shame and confounded
That seek after my soul:
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor
That delight in my hurt.
70:3Let them be turned back by reason of their shame
That say, Aha, aha.
70:4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee;
And let such as love thy salvation say continually,
Let God be magnified.
70:5But I am poor and needy;
Make haste unto me, O God:
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
O Jehovah, make no tarrying.
71:1In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge:
Let me never be put to shame.
71:2Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me:
Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.
71:3Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:
Thou hast given commandment to save me;
For thou art my rock and my fortress.
71:4Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah:
Thou art my trust from my youth.
71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb;
Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels:
My praise shall be continually of thee.
71:7I am as a wonder unto many;
But thou art my strong refuge.
71:8My mouth shall be filled with thy praise,
And with thy honor all the day.
71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age;
Forsake me not when my strength faileth.
71:10For mine enemies speak concerning me;
And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,
71:11Saying, God hath forsaken him:
Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.
71:12O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me.
71:13Let them be put to shame and consumed that are adversaries to my soul;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
71:14But I will hope continually,
And will praise thee yet more and more.
71:15My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness,
And of thy salvation all the day;
For I know not the numbers thereof.
71:16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah:
I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
71:17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth;
And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
71:18Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not,
Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation,
Thy might to every one that is to come.
71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high;
Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?
71:20Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles,
Wilt quicken us again,
And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
71:21Increase thou my greatness,
And turn again and comfort me.
71:22I will also praise thee with the psaltery,
Even thy truth, O my God:
Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp,
O thou Holy One of Israel.
71:23My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto thee;
And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
71:24My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long;
For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.
17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 17:3And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts. 17:4And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. 17:5And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 17:6Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel. 17:7In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. 17:8And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images. 17:9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation. 17:10For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips. 17:11In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. 17:12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. 17:14At eventide, behold, terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 18:2that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide! 18:3All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye. 18:4For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down. 18:6They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. 18:7In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.
5:1The elders among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 5:2Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 5:3neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock. 5:4And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away. 5:5Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 5:6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; 5:7casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you. 5:8Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, 5:9whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world. 5:10And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you. 5:11To him be the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 5:12By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account him, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand ye fast therein. 5:13She that is in Babylon, elect together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Mark my son. 5:14Salute one another with a kiss of love. Peace be unto you all that are in Christ.