The One Year Bible KJV (258 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1
 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2
 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3
 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4
 Their poison
is
like the poison of a serpent:
they are
like the deaf adder
that
stoppeth her ear;
5
 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6
 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O L
ORD
.
7
 Let them melt away as waters
which
run continually:
when
he bendeth
his bow to shoot
his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8
 As a snail
which
melteth, let
every one of them
pass away:
like
the untimely birth of a woman,
that
they may not see the sun.
9
 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in
his
wrath.
10
 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11
 So that a man shall say, Verily
there is
a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
12
 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
1
 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the L
ORD
rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2
 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city,
and
kingdom against kingdom.
3
 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4
 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the L
ORD
of hosts.
5
 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6
 And they shall turn the rivers far away;
and
the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7
 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no
more.
8
 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9
 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10
 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices
and
ponds for fish.
11
 Surely the princes of Zoan
are
fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I
am
the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12
 Where
are
they? where
are
thy wise
men?
and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the L
ORD
of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13
 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt,
even they that are
the stay of the tribes thereof.
14
 The L
ORD
hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken
man
staggereth in his vomit.
15
 Neither shall there be
any
work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16
 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the L
ORD
of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
17
 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the L
ORD
of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18
 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the L
ORD
of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19
 In that day shall there be an altar to the L
ORD
in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the L
ORD
.
20
 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the L
ORD
of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the L
ORD
because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21
 And the L
ORD
shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the L
ORD
in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the L
ORD
, and perform
it.
22
 And the L
ORD
shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal
it:
and they shall return
even
to the L
ORD
, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23
 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24
 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
even
a blessing in the midst of the land:
25
 whom the L
ORD
of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
be
Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20:
1
 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
2
 at the same time spake the L
ORD
by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3
 And the L
ORD
said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years
for
a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
4
 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with
their
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
5
 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
6
 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such
is
our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
21:
1
 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through;
so
it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2
 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3
 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing
of it;
I was dismayed at the seeing
of it.
4
 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5
 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes,
and
anoint the shield.
6
 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7
 And he saw a chariot
with
a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses,
and
a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8
 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9
 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men,
with
a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
10
 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
11
 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
12
 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
13
 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
14
 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
15
 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
16
 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
17
 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the L
ORD
God of Israel hath spoken
it.
1
 Then fourteen years after I [Paul] went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with
me
also.
2
 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
3
 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
4
 and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
5
 to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
6
 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed
to be somewhat
in conference added nothing to me:
7
 but contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as
the gospel
of the circumcision
was
unto Peter;
8
 (for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
9
 and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we
should go
unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
10
 Only
they would
that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
11
 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12
 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13
 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
14
 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before
them
all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15
 We
who are
Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16
 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.