The One Year Bible KJV (264 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
13
 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only
use
not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14
 For all the law is fulfilled in one word,
even
in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15
 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
16
Â
This
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17
 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18
 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19
 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20
 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21
 envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told
you
in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22
 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23
 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24
 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25
 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26
 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1
 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
2
 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
3
 Who whet their tongue like a sword,
and
bend
their bows to shoot
their arrows,
even
bitter words:
4
 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
5
 They encourage themselves
in
an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
6
 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward
thought
of every one
of them,
and the heart,
is
deep.
7
 But God shall shoot at them
with
an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
8
 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
9
 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
10
 The righteous shall be glad in the L
ORD
, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
23
 Buy the truth, and sell
it
not;
also
wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
1
 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard
it [the words of Rabshakeh],
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the L
ORD
.
2
 And he sent Eliakim, who
was
over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3
 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day
is
a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and
there is
not strength to bring forth.
4
 It may be the L
ORD
thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the L
ORD
thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up
thy
prayer for the remnant that is left.
5
 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6
 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the L
ORD
, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7
 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8
 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9
 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard
it,
he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10
 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11
 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
12
 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed,
as
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which
were
in Telassar?
13
 Where
is
the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14
 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the L
ORD
, and spread it before the L
ORD
.
15
 And Hezekiah prayed unto the L
ORD
, saying,
16
 O L
ORD
of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
between
the cherubims, thou
art
the God,
even
thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
17
 Incline thine ear, O L
ORD
, and hear; open thine eyes, O L
ORD
, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
18
 Of a truth, L
ORD
, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries.
19
 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
were
no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
20
 Now therefore, O L
ORD
our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou
art
the L
ORD
,
even
thou only.
21
 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
22
 This
is
the word which the L
ORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee,
and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
23
 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted
thy
voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?
even
against the Holy One of Israel.
24
 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof,
and
the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border,
and
the forest of his Carmel.
25
 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26
 Hast thou not heard long ago,
how
I have done it;
and
of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities
into
ruinous heaps.
27
 Therefore their inhabitants
were
of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were
as
the grass of the field, and
as
the green herb,
as
the grass on the housetops, and
as corn
blasted before it be grown up.
28
 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29
 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30
 And this
shall be
a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this
year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31
 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
32
 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the L
ORD
of hosts shall do this.
33
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
34
 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the L
ORD
.
35
 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
36
 Then the angel of the L
ORD
went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they
were
all dead corpses.
37
 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
38
 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
38:
1
 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the L
ORD
, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
2
 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the L
ORD
,
3
 and said, Remember now, O L
ORD
, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done
that which is
good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
4
 Then came the word of the L
ORD
to Isaiah, saying,
5
 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the L
ORD
, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
6
 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.
7
 And this
shall be
a sign unto thee from the L
ORD
, that the L
ORD
will do this thing that he hath spoken;
8
 behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
9
 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
10
 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
11
 I said, I shall not see the L
ORD
,
even
the L
ORD
, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
12
 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day
even
to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13
 I reckoned till morning,
that,
as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day
even
to night wilt thou make an end of me.
14
 Like a crane
or
a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail
with looking
upward: O L
ORD
, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
15
 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
it:
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
16
 O Lord, by these
things men
live, and in all these
things is
the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17
 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul
delivered it
from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18
 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can
not
celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19
 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I
do
this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20
 The L
ORD
was ready
to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the L
ORD
.
21
 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay
it
for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover.
22
 Hezekiah also had said, What
is
the sign that I shall go up to the house of the L
ORD
?