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Authors: Tyndale
A Psalm
and
Song
at
the dedication of the house of David.
1
 I will extol thee, O L
ORD
; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2
 O L
ORD
my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
3
 O L
ORD
, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
4
 Sing unto the L
ORD
, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
5
 For his anger
endureth but
a moment; in his favour
is
life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh
in the morning.
6
 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
7
 L
ORD
, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face,
and
I was troubled.
8
 I cried to thee, O L
ORD
; and unto the L
ORD
I made supplication.
9
 What profit
is there
in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
10
 Hear, O L
ORD
, and have mercy upon me: L
ORD
, be thou my helper.
11
 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
12
 To the end that
my
glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O L
ORD
my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
28
 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
29
 The glory of young men
is
their strength: and the beauty of old men
is
the grey head.
30
 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so
do
stripes the inward parts of the belly.
21
 Then I [Ezra] proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
22
 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God
is
upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath
is
against all them that forsake him.
23
 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
24
 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
25
 and weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels,
even
the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel
there
present, had offered:
26
 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents,
and
of gold an hundred talents;
27
 also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
28
 And I said unto them, Ye
are
holy unto the L
ORD
; the vessels
are
holy also; and the silver and the gold
are
a freewill offering unto the L
ORD
God of your fathers.
29
 Watch ye, and keep
them,
until ye weigh
them
before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the L
ORD
.
30
 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring
them
to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.
31
 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth
day
of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
32
 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
33
 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him
was
Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them
was
Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;
34
 by number
and
by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
35
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Also
the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats
for
a sin offering: all
this was
a burnt offering unto the L
ORD
.
36
 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.
9:
1
 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands,
doing
according to their abominations,
even
of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
2
 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of
those
lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
3
 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
4
 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
5
 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the L
ORD
my God,
6
 and said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over
our
head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
7
 Since the days of our fathers
have
we
been
in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings,
and
our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as
it is
this day.
8
 And now for a little space grace hath been
shewed
from the L
ORD
our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9
 For we
were
bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10
 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
11
 which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
12
 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave
it
for an inheritance to your children for ever.
13
 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities
deserve,
and hast given us
such
deliverance as this;
14
 should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed
us,
so that
there should be
no remnant nor escaping?
15
 O L
ORD
God of Israel, thou
art
righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as
it is
this day: behold, we
are
before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
1
 It is reported commonly
that there is
fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2
 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3
 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning
him that hath so done this deed,
4
 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5
 to deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6
 Your glorying
is
not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7
 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8
 therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened
bread
of sincerity and truth.
9
 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10
 yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
11
 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12
 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
13
 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1
 In thee, O L
ORD
, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
2
 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
3
 For thou
art
my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
4
 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou
art
my strength.
5
 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O L
ORD
God of truth.
6
 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the L
ORD
.
7
 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
8
 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
1
 The king's heart
is
in the hand of the L
ORD
,
as
the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
2
 Every way of a man
is
right in his own eyes: but the L
ORD
pondereth the hearts.