The One Year Bible KJV (302 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
2
 to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers,
but
gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
3
 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful,
and
hating one another.
4
 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5
 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6
 which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7
 that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
8
Â
This is
a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
9
 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
10
 A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject;
11
 knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
12
 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
13
 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
14
 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
15
 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace
be
with you all. Amen.
A Psalm of praise.
1
 Make a joyful noise unto the L
ORD
, all ye lands.
2
 Serve the L
ORD
with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
3
 Know ye that the L
ORD
he
is
God:
it is
he
that
hath made us, and not we ourselves;
we are
his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4
 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
and
into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him,
and
bless his name.
5
 For the L
ORD
is
good; his mercy
is
everlasting; and his truth
endureth
to all generations.
18
 As a mad
man
who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,
19
 So
is
the man
that
deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?
1
 How doth the city sit solitary,
that was
full of people!
how
is she become as a widow! she
that was
great among the nations,
and
princess among the provinces,
how
is she become tributary!
2
 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears
are
on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort
her:
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3
 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4
 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she
is
in bitterness.
5
 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the L
ORD
hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6
 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts
that
find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7
 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her,
and
did mock at her sabbaths.
8
 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
9
 Her filthiness
is
in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O L
ORD
, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified
himself.
10
 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen
that
the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command
that
they should not enter into thy congregation.
11
 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O L
ORD
, and consider; for I am become vile.
12
Â
Is it
nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the L
ORD
hath afflicted
me
in the day of his fierce anger.
13
 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate
and
faint all the day.
14
 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed,
and
come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into
their
hands,
from whom
I am not able to rise up.
15
 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty
men
in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah,
as
in a winepress.
16
 For these
things
I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
17
 Zion spreadeth forth her hands,
and there is
none to comfort her: the L
ORD
hath commanded concerning Jacob,
that
his adversaries
should be
round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
18
 The L
ORD
is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
19
 I called for my lovers,
but
they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
20
 Behold, O L
ORD
; for I
am
in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home
there is
as death.
21
 They have heard that I sigh:
there is
none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done
it:
thou wilt bring the day
that
thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
22
 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs
are
many, and my heart
is
faint.
2:
1
 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
and
cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2
 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought
them
down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3
 He hath cut off in
his
fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire,
which
devoureth round about.
4
 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all
that were
pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5
 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6
 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as
if it were of
a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the L
ORD
hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7
 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the L
ORD
, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8
 The L
ORD
hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9
 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes
are
among the Gentiles: the law
is
no
more;
her prophets also find no vision from the L
ORD
.
10
 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and
keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11
 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12
 They say to their mothers, Where
is
corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
13
 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach
is
great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14
 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15
 All that pass by clap
their
hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
saying, Is
this the city that
men
call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16
 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed
her
up: certainly this
is
the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen
it.
17
 The L
ORD
hath done
that
which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
thine
enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
18
 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
19
 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
20
 Behold, O L
ORD
, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit,
and
children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21
 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain
them
in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,
and
not pitied.
22
 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the L
ORD
's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.