The One Year Bible KJV (278 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus
our
brother,
2
 to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace
be
unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3
 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
4
 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
which ye have
to all the saints,
5
 for the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6
 which is come unto you, as
it is
in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as
it doth
also in you, since the day ye heard
of it,
and knew the grace of God in truth:
7
 as ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8
 who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9
 For this cause we also, since the day we heard
it,
do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10
 that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
11
 strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12
 giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13
 who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
us
into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14
 in whom we have redemption through his blood,
even
the forgiveness of sins:
15
 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
16
 for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17
 and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm
or
Song of Asaph.
1
 In Judah
is
God known: his name
is
great in Israel.
2
 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
3
 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
4
 Thou
art
more glorious
and
excellent than the mountains of prey.
5
 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
6
 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
7
 Thou,
even
thou,
art
to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
8
 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,
9
 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
10
 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
11
 Vow, and pay unto the L
ORD
your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
12
 He shall cut off the spirit of princes:
he is
terrible to the kings of the earth.
21
 My son, fear thou the L
ORD
and the king:
and
meddle not with them that are given to change:
22
 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
19
 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20
 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled,
and
my curtains in a moment.
21
 How long shall I see the standard,
and
hear the sound of the trumpet?
22
 For my people
is
foolish, they have not known me; they
are
sottish children, and they have none understanding: they
are
wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23
 I beheld the earth, and, lo,
it was
without form, and void; and the heavens, and they
had
no light.
24
 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25
 I beheld, and, lo,
there was
no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26
 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place
was
a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the L
ORD
,
and
by his fierce anger.
27
 For thus hath the L
ORD
said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28
 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken
it,
I have purposed
it,
and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29
 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city
shall be
forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30
 And
when
thou
art
spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair;
thy
lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31
 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail,
and
the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion,
that
bewaileth herself,
that
spreadeth her hands,
saying,
Woe
is
me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
5:
1
 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be
any
that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
2
 And though they say, The L
ORD
liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3
 O L
ORD
,
are
not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them,
but
they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
4
 Therefore I said, Surely these
are
poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the L
ORD
,
nor
the judgment of their God.
5
 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the L
ORD
,
and
the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke,
and
burst the bonds.
6
 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them,
and
a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many,
and
their backslidings are increased.
7
 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by
them that are
no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
8
 They were
as
fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
9
 Shall I not visit for these
things?
saith the L
ORD
: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10
 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they
are
not the L
ORD
's.
11
 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the L
ORD
.
12
 They have belied the L
ORD
, and said,
It is
not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
13
 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word
is
not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
14
 Wherefore thus saith the L
ORD
God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
15
 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the L
ORD
: it
is
a mighty nation, it
is
an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
16
 Their quiver
is
as an open sepulchre, they
are
all mighty men.
17
 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread,
which
thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
18
 Nevertheless in those days, saith the L
ORD
, I will not make a full end with you.
19
 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the L
ORD
our God all these
things
unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land
that is
not yours.
20
 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
21
 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
22
 fear ye not me? saith the L
ORD
: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand
for
the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
23
 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24
 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the L
ORD
our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25
 Your iniquities have turned away these
things,
and your sins have withholden good
things
from you.
26
 For among my people are found wicked
men:
they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27
 As a cage is full of birds, so
are
their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28
 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29
 Shall I not visit for these
things?
saith the L
ORD
: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
30
 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31
 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
to have it
so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
6:
1
 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
2
 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate
woman.
3
 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch
their
tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
4
 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5
 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6
 For thus hath the L
ORD
of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this
is
the city to be visited; she
is
wholly oppression in the midst of her.
7
 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually
is
grief and wounds.
8
 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
9
 Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
10
 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear
is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the L
ORD
is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
11
 Therefore I am full of the fury of the L
ORD
; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with
him that is
full of days.
12
 And their houses shall be turned unto others,
with their
fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the L
ORD
.
13
 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one
is
given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14
 They have healed also the hurt
of the daughter
of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is
no peace.
15
 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time
that
I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the L
ORD
.