Monday, March 22, 2055

24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:Log in to add notes

25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.Log in to add notes

26This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.Log in to add notes

27For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?Log in to add notes

28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.Log in to add notes

29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.Log in to add notes

30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.Log in to add notes

31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.Log in to add notes

32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.Log in to add notes

8:21And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.Log in to add notes

8:22While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.Log in to add notes

9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.Log in to add notes

9:2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.Log in to add notes

9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.Log in to add notes

9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.Log in to add notes

9:5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.Log in to add notes

9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.Log in to add notes

9:7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.Log in to add notes

11:19As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.Log in to add notes

11:20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.Log in to add notes

11:21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.Log in to add notes

11:22As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.Log in to add notes

11:23The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.Log in to add notes

11:24There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.Log in to add notes

11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.Log in to add notes

11:26He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.Log in to add notes

11:27He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.Log in to add notes

11:28He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.Log in to add notes

11:29He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.Log in to add notes

11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.Log in to add notes

11:31Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.Log in to add notes

12:1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.Log in to add notes

12:2A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.Log in to add notes

12:3A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.Log in to add notes

12:4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.Log in to add notes

12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.Log in to add notes

12:6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.Log in to add notes

9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.Log in to add notes

10Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.Log in to add notes

11I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.Log in to add notes

12I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.Log in to add notes

13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?Log in to add notes

14Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.Log in to add notes

1But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.Log in to add notes

2In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery,Log in to add notes

3And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.Log in to add notes

4For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.Log in to add notes

5And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.Log in to add notes

6As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.Log in to add notes

7And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble.Log in to add notes

8They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.Log in to add notes

9They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth: and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect.Log in to add notes

5:15But the righteous live for evermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the most High.Log in to add notes

5:16Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown from the Lord’s hand: for with his right hand shall he cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them.Log in to add notes

5:17He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies.Log in to add notes

5:18He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true judgment instead of an helmet.Log in to add notes

5:19He shall take holiness for an invincible shield.Log in to add notes

5:20His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise.Log in to add notes

5:21Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.Log in to add notes

5:22And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them.Log in to add notes

5:23Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.Log in to add notes

6:1Hear therefore, O ye kings, and understand; learn, ye that be judges of the ends of the earth.Log in to add notes

6:2Give ear, ye that rule the people, and glory in the multitude of nations.Log in to add notes

6:3For power is given you of the Lord, and sovereignty from the Highest, who shall try your works, and search out your counsels.Log in to add notes

12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.Log in to add notes

13And it shall turn to you for a testimony.Log in to add notes

14Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:Log in to add notes

15For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.Log in to add notes

16And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.Log in to add notes

17And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.Log in to add notes

18But there shall not an hair of your head perish.Log in to add notes

19In your patience possess ye your souls.Log in to add notes

1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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,Log in to add notes

2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.Log in to add notes

3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.Log in to add notes

4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.Log in to add notes

5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:Log in to add notes

6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Log in to add notes

7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?Log in to add notes

8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.Log in to add notes

9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?Log in to add notes

10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.Log in to add notes

1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.Log in to add notes

2And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.Log in to add notes

3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,Log in to add notes

4And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.Log in to add notes

5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.Log in to add notes

6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?Log in to add notes

7They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.Log in to add notes

8So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.Log in to add notes

9And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.Log in to add notes

10But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.Log in to add notes

11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,Log in to add notes

12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.Log in to add notes

13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?Log in to add notes

14Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.Log in to add notes

15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?Log in to add notes

16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.Log in to add notes