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To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
1
 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
2
 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
3
 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not
for
my transgression, nor
for
my sin, O L
ORD
.
4
 They run and prepare themselves without
my
fault: awake to help me, and behold.
5
 Thou therefore, O L
ORD
God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
6
 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
7
 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords
are
in their lips: for who,
say they,
doth hear?
8
 But thou, O L
ORD
, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
9
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Because of
his strength will I wait upon thee: for God
is
my defence.
10
 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see
my desire
upon mine enemies.
11
 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
12
Â
For
the sin of their mouth
and
the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying
which
they speak.
13
 Consume
them
in wrath, consume
them,
that they
may
not
be:
and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
14
 And at evening let them return;
and
let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
15
 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
16
 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17
 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God
is
my defence,
and
the God of my mercy.
13
 Withhold not correction from the child: for
if
thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14
 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
1
 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2
 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain
men are
not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3
 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together,
which
have fled from far.
4
 Therefore said I, Look away from me: I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5
 For
it is
a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord G
OD
of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6
 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men
and
horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7
 And it shall come to pass,
that
thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8
 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9
 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10
 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11
 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12
 And in that day did the Lord G
OD
of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13
 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
14
 And it was revealed in mine ears by the L
ORD
of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord G
OD
of hosts.
15
 Thus saith the Lord G
OD
of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
even
unto Shebna, which
is
over the house,
and say,
16
 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here,
as
he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high,
and
that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
17
 Behold, the L
ORD
will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
18
 He will surely violently turn and toss thee
like
a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory
shall be
the shame of thy lord's house.
19
 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
20
 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21
 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22
 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23
 And I will fasten him
as
a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24
 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25
 In that day, saith the L
ORD
of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that
was
upon it shall be cut off: for the L
ORD
hath spoken
it.
23:
1
 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
2
 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
3
 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river,
is
her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
4
 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken,
even
the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men,
nor
bring up virgins.
5
 As at the report concerning Egypt,
so
shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
6
 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7
Â
Is
this your joyous
city,
whose antiquity
is
of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
8
 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning
city,
whose merchants
are
princes, whose traffickers
are
the honourable of the earth?
9
 The L
ORD
of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory,
and
to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
10
 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish:
there is
no more strength.
11
 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the L
ORD
hath given a commandment against the merchant
city,
to destroy the strong holds thereof.
12
 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
13
 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not,
till
the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof;
and
he brought it to ruin.
14
 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15
 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16
 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17
 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the L
ORD
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
18
 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the L
ORD
: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the L
ORD
, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24:
1
 Behold, the L
ORD
maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2
 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3
 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the L
ORD
hath spoken this word.
4
 The earth mourneth
and
fadeth away, the world languisheth
and
fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5
 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6
 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7
 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
8
 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
9
 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10
 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11
Â
There is
a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
12
 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13
 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people,
there shall be
as the shaking of an olive tree,
and
as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14
 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the L
ORD
, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15
 Wherefore glorify ye the L
ORD
in the fires,
even
the name of the L
ORD
God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16
 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs,
even
glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17
 Fear, and the pit, and the snare,
are
upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18
 And it shall come to pass,
that
he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19
 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20
 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21
 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that
the L
ORD
shall punish the host of the high ones
that are
on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22
 And they shall be gathered together,
as
prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23
 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the L
ORD
of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.