The One Year Bible KJV (252 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence
am
base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2
 but I beseech
you,
that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3
 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4
 (for the weapons of our warfare
are
not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5
 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6
 and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7
 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he
is
Christ's, even so
are
we Christ's.
8
 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9
 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10
 For
his
letters, say they,
are
weighty and powerful; but
his
bodily presence
is
weak, and
his
speech contemptible.
11
 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such
will we be
also in deed when we are present.
12
 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13
 But we will not boast of things without
our
measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.
14
 For we stretch not ourselves beyond
our measure,
as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in
preaching
the gospel of Christ:
15
 not boasting of things without
our
measure,
that is,
of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16
 to preach the gospel in the
regions
beyond you,
and
not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
17
 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
18
 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
To the chief Musician, Maschil,
A Psalm
of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.
1
 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God
endureth
continually.
2
 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3
 Thou lovest evil more than good;
and
lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4
 Thou lovest all devouring words, O
thou
deceitful tongue.
5
 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of
thy
dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
6
 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
7
 Lo,
this is
the man
that
made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and
strengthened himself in his wickedness.
8
 But I
am
like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9
 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done
it:
and I will wait on thy name; for
it is
good before thy saints.
26
 Be not thou
one
of them that strike hands,
or
of them that are sureties for debts.
27
 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
1
 For, behold, the Lord, the L
ORD
of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
2
 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3
 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4
 And I will give children
to be
their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5
 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6
 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,
saying,
Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and
let
this ruin
be
under thy hand:
7
 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house
is
neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8
 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings
are
against the L
ORD
, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9
 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide
it
not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10
 Say ye to the righteous, that
it shall be
well
with him:
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11
 Woe unto the wicked!
it shall be
ill
with him:
for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12
Â
As for
my people, children
are
their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause
thee
to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13
 The L
ORD
standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14
 The L
ORD
will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor
is
in your houses.
15
 What mean ye
that
ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord G
OD
of hosts.
16
 Moreover the L
ORD
saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing
as
they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17
 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the L
ORD
will discover their secret parts.
18
 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of
their
tinkling ornaments
about their feet,
and
their
cauls, and
their
round tires like the moon,
19
 the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20
 the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21
 the rings, and nose jewels,
22
 the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23
 the glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the veils.
24
 And it shall come to pass,
that
instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;
and
burning instead of beauty.
25
 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26
 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she
being
desolate shall sit upon the ground.
4:
1
 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2
 In that day shall the branch of the L
ORD
be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth
shall be
excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3
 And it shall come to pass,
that he that is
left in Zion, and
he that
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even
every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4
 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5
 And the L
ORD
will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory
shall be
a defence.
6
 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5:
1
 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2
 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3
 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4
 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5
 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;
and
break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6
 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7
 For the vineyard of the L
ORD
of hosts
is
the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8
 Woe unto them that join house to house,
that
lay field to field, till
there be
no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9
 In mine ears
said
the L
ORD
of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
even
great and fair, without inhabitant.
10
 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11
 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that
they may follow strong drink; that continue until night,
till
wine inflame them!
12
 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the L
ORD
, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13
 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because
they have
no knowledge: and their honourable men
are
famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14
 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15
 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16
 But the L
ORD
of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17
 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18
 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19
 That say, Let him make speed,
and
hasten his work, that we may see
it:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know
it!
20
 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21
 Woe unto
them that are
wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22
 Woe unto
them that are
mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23
 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24
 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff,
so
their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the L
ORD
of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25
 Therefore is the anger of the L
ORD
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases
were
torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
is
stretched out still.
26
 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27
 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28
 Whose arrows
are
sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29
 Their roaring
shall be
like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry
it
away safe, and none shall deliver
it.
30
 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if
one
look unto the land, behold darkness
and
sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.