The One Year Bible KJV (287 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2
 grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3
 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4
 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
5
Â
which is
a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6
 seeing
it is
a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7
 and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8
 in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9
 who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10
 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
11
 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of
this
calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of
his
goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12
 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
A Song
or
Psalm of Asaph.
1
 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2
 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3
 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4
 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from
being
a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5
 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6
 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7
 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8
 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9
 Do unto them as
unto
the Midianites; as
to
Sisera, as
to
Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10
Â
Which
perished at En-dor: they became
as
dung for the earth.
11
 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12
 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13
 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14
 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15
 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16
 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O L
ORD
.
17
 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18
 That
men
may know that thou, whose name alone
is
JEHOVAH,
art
the most high over all the earth.
11
 A word fitly spoken
is like
apples of gold in pictures of silver.
12
Â
As
an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold,
so is
a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
13
 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest,
so is
a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
14
 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift
is like
clouds and wind without rain.
21
 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22
 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23
Â
Am
I a God at hand, saith the L
ORD
, and not a God afar off?
24
 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the L
ORD
. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the L
ORD
.
25
 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26
 How long shall
this
be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea,
they are
prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
27
 which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
28
 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What
is
the chaff to the wheat? saith the L
ORD
.
29
Â
Is
not my word like as a fire? saith the L
ORD
; and like a hammer
that
breaketh the rock in pieces?
30
 Therefore, behold, I
am
against the prophets, saith the L
ORD
, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
31
 Behold, I
am
against the prophets, saith the L
ORD
, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
32
 Behold, I
am
against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the L
ORD
, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the L
ORD
.
33
 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What
is
the burden of the L
ORD
? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the L
ORD
.
34
 And
as for
the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the L
ORD
, I will even punish that man and his house.
35
 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the L
ORD
answered? and, What hath the L
ORD
spoken?
36
 And the burden of the L
ORD
shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the L
ORD
of hosts our God.
37
 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the L
ORD
answered thee? and, What hath the L
ORD
spoken?
38
 But since ye say, The burden of the L
ORD
; therefore thus saith the L
ORD
; Because ye say this word, The burden of the L
ORD
, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the L
ORD
;
39
 therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers,
and cast you
out of my presence:
40
 and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
24:
1
 The L
ORD
shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs
were
set before the temple of the L
ORD
, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2
 One basket
had
very good figs,
even
like the figs
that are
first ripe: and the other basket
had
very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3
 Then said the L
ORD
unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah?
And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
4
 Again the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
5
 Thus saith the L
ORD
, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for
their
good.
6
 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull
them
down; and I will plant them, and not pluck
them
up.
7
 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I
am
the L
ORD
: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
8
 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the L
ORD
, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
9
 and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for
their
hurt,
to be
a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
10
 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
25:
1
 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that
was
the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
2
 the which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3
 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that
is
the three and twentieth year, the word of the L
ORD
hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
4
 And the L
ORD
hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending
them;
but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5
 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the L
ORD
hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6
 and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
7
 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the L
ORD
; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
8
 Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
9
 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the L
ORD
, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
10
 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11
 And this whole land shall be a desolation,
and
an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12
 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished,
that
I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the L
ORD
, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
13
 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,
even
all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
14
 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
15
 For thus saith the L
ORD
God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
16
 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
17
 Then took I the cup at the L
ORD
's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the L
ORD
had sent me:
18
Â
to wit,
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as
it is
this day;
19
 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
20
 and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21
 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
22
 and all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which
are
beyond the sea,
23
 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all
that are
in the utmost corners,
24
 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
25
 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
26
 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which
are
upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27
 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
28
 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
29
 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the L
ORD
of hosts.
30
 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The L
ORD
shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread
the grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth.
31
 A noise shall come
even
to the ends of the earth; for the L
ORD
hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them
that are
wicked to the sword, saith the L
ORD
.
32
 Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33
 And the slain of the L
ORD
shall be at that day from
one
end of the earth even unto the
other
end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
34
 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves
in the ashes,
ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
35
 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
36
 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock,
shall be heard:
for the L
ORD
hath spoiled their pasture.
37
 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the L
ORD
.
38
 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.