1:1These are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. 1:2It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea. 1:3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them; 1:4after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. 1:5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, 1:6Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 1:7turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 1:8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
1:9And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 1:10Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 1:11Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you! 1:12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 1:13Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. 1:14And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. 1:15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. 1:16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him. 1:17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it. 1:18And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 1:19And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 1:20And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth unto us. 1:21Behold, Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. 1:22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. 1:23And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe: 1:24and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 1:25And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
1:26Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God: 1:27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 1:28Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. 1:29Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 1:30Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 1:31and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. 1:32Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God, 1:33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
1:34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 1:35Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, 1:36save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed Jehovah. 1:37Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither: 1:38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 1:39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 1:40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
1:41Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country. 1:42And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. 1:43So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. 1:44And the Amorites, that dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 1:45And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. 1:46So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
81:1Sing aloud unto God our strength:
Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
81:2Raise a song, and *bring hither the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast-day.
81:4For it is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
81:5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony,
When he went out *over the land of Egypt,
Where I heard *a language that I knew not.
81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden:
His hands were freed from the basket.
81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;
I answered thee in the secret place of thunder;
I proved thee at the waters of Meribah.
Selah
81:8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee:
O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
81:9There shall no strange god be in thee;
Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
81:10I am Jehovah thy God,
Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt:
Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice;
And Israel would none of me.
81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart,
That they might walk in their own counsels.
81:13Oh that my people would hearken unto me,
That Israel would walk in my ways!
81:14I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn my hand against their adversaries.
81:15The haters of Jehovah should *submit themselves unto him:
But their time should endure for ever.
81:16He would feed them also with the *finest of the wheat;
And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee.
A Psalm of Asaph.
82:1God standeth in the congregation of God;
He judgeth among the gods.
82:2How long will ye judge unjustly,
And respect the persons of the wicked?
Selah
82:3Judge the *poor and fatherless:
Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
82:4Rescue the poor and needy:
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
82:5They know not, neither do they understand;
They walk to and fro in darkness:
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
82:6I said, Ye are gods,
And all of you sons of the Most High.
82:7Nevertheless ye shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.
82:8Arise, O God, judge the earth;
For thou shalt inherit all the nations.
29:1Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round: 29:2then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel. 29:3And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee. 29:4And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. 29:5But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly. 29:6She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire. 29:7And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. 29:8And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. 29:9Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 29:10For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered. 29:11And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed: 29:12and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned. 29:13And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them; 29:14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 29:15Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 29:16Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding? 29:17Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 29:18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. 29:19The meek also shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 29:20For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off; 29:21that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought. 29:22Therefore thus saith Jehovah, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. 29:23But when he seeth his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yea, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel. 29:24They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.
1:1The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. 1:2Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 1:3For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth. 1:4Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. 1:5Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal; 1:6who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God: 1:7because that for the sake of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 1:8We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth. 1:9I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. 1:10Therefore, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he doeth, prating against us with wicked words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and them that would he forbiddeth and casteth them out of the church. 1:11Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God. 1:12Demetrius hath the witness of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is true. 1:13I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling to write them to thee with ink and pen: 1:14but I hope shortly to see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be unto thee. The friends salute thee. Salute the friends by name.