The One Year Bible KJV (280 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
8
 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
9
 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10
 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11
 in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12
 buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with
him
through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13
 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14
 blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15
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and
having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16
 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days:
17
 which are a shadow of things to come; but the body
is
of Christ.
18
 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19
 and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20
 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21
 (touch not; taste not; handle not;
22
 which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
23
 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Maschil of Asaph.
1
 Give ear, O my people,
to
my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2
 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3
 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4
 We will not hide
them
from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the L
ORD
, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5
 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6
 That the generation to come might know
them, even
the children
which
should be born;
who
should arise and declare
them
to their children:
7
 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8
 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation
that
set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9
 The children of Ephraim,
being
armed,
and
carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
10
 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11
 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12
 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt,
in
the field of Zoan.
13
 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
14
 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15
 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave
them
drink as
out of
the great depths.
16
 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
17
 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18
 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
19
 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20
 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
21
 Therefore the L
ORD
heard
this,
and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22
 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23
 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24
 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
25
 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
26
 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
27
 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28
 And he let
it
fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
29
 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
30
 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
was
yet in their mouths,
31
 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen
men
of Israel.
26
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Every man
shall kiss
his
lips that giveth a right answer.
8
 How do ye say, We
are
wise, and the law of the L
ORD
is
with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he
it;
the pen of the scribes
is
in vain.
9
 The wise
men
are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the L
ORD
; and what wisdom
is
in them?
10
 Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
and
their fields to them that shall inherit
them:
for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11
 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is
no peace.
12
 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the L
ORD
.
13
 I will surely consume them, saith the L
ORD
:
there shall be
no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and
the things that
I have given them shall pass away from them.
14
 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the L
ORD
our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the L
ORD
.
15
 We looked for peace, but no good
came; and
for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16
 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17
 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which
will
not
be
charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the L
ORD
.
18
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When
I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart
is
faint in me.
19
 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country:
Is
not the L
ORD
in Zion?
is
not her king in her?
Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images,
and
with strange vanities?
20
 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21
 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22
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Is there
no balm in Gilead;
is there
no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
9:
1
 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2
 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they
be
all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3
 And they bend their tongues
like
their bow
for
lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the L
ORD
.
4
 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5
 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
and
weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6
 Thine habitation
is
in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the L
ORD
.
7
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8
 Their tongue
is as
an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:
one
speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9
 Shall I not visit them for these
things?
saith the L
ORD
: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10
 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through
them;
neither can
men
hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11
 And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
and
a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12
 Who
is
the wise man, that may understand this? and
who is he
to whom the mouth of the L
ORD
hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth
and
is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13
 And the L
ORD
saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14
 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them,
even
this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16
 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17
 Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning
women,
that they may come:
18
 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19
 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast
us
out.
20
 Yet hear the word of the L
ORD
, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21
 For death is come up into our windows,
and
is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without,
and
the young men from the streets.
22
 Speak, Thus saith the L
ORD
, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather
them.
23
 Thus saith the L
ORD
, Let not the wise
man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man
glory in his might, let not the rich
man
glory in his riches:
24
 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I
am
the L
ORD
which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things
I delight, saith the L
ORD
.
25
 Behold, the days come, saith the L
ORD
, that I will punish all
them which are
circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26
 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all
that are
in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all
these
nations
are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel
are
uncircumcised in the heart.