The One Year Bible KJV (304 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the L
ORD
.
1
 Hear my prayer, O L
ORD
, and let my cry come unto thee.
2
 Hide not thy face from me in the day
when
I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day
when
I call answer me speedily.
3
 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
4
 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5
 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6
 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
7
 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8
 Mine enemies reproach me all the day;
and
they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9
 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10
 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
11
 My days
are
like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
12
 But thou, O L
ORD
, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
13
 Thou shalt arise,
and
have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
14
 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
15
 So the heathen shall fear the name of the L
ORD
, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16
 When the L
ORD
shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17
 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18
 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the L
ORD
.
19
 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the L
ORD
behold the earth;
20
 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21
 To declare the name of the L
ORD
in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22
 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the L
ORD
.
23
 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24
 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years
are
throughout all generations.
25
 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens
are
the work of thy hands.
26
 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
27
 But thou
art
the same, and thy years shall have no end.
28
 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.
21
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As
coals
are
to burning coals, and wood to fire; so
is
a contentious man to kindle strife.
22
 The words of a talebearer
are
as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
1
 How is the gold become dim!
how
is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2
 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3
 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people
is become
cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4
 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread,
and
no man breaketh
it
unto them.
5
 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6
 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7
 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing
was
of sapphire:
8
 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
9
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They that be
slain with the sword are better than
they that be
slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for
want of
the fruits of the field.
10
 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11
 The L
ORD
hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12
 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
13
 For the sins of her prophets,
and
the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
14
 They have wandered
as
blind
men
in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15
 They cried unto them, Depart ye;
it is
unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn
there.
16
 The anger of the L
ORD
hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
17
 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation
that
could not save
us.
18
 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19
 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20
 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the L
ORD
, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21
 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
22
 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
5:
1
 Remember, O L
ORD
, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2
 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3
 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers
are
as widows.
4
 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5
 Our necks
are
under persecution: we labour,
and
have no rest.
6
 We have given the hand
to
the Egyptians,
and to
the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
 Our fathers have sinned,
and are
not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8
 Servants have ruled over us:
there is
none that doth deliver
us
out of their hand.
9
 We gat our bread with
the peril of
our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11
 They ravished the women in Zion,
and
the maids in the cities of Judah.
12
 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13
 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14
 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15
 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16
 The crown is fallen
from
our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17
 For this our heart is faint; for these
things
our eyes are dim.
18
 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19
 Thou, O L
ORD
, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20
 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
and
forsake us so long time?
21
 Turn thou us unto thee, O L
ORD
, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22
 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
1
 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let
them
slip.
2
 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3
 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard
him;
4
 God also bearing
them
witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
5
 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6
 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
7
 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
8
 thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing
that is
not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9
 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10
 For it became him, for whom
are
all things, and by whom
are
all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11
 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified
are
all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12
 saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
13
 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
14
 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15
 and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16
 For verily he took not on
him the nature of
angels; but he took on
him
the seed of Abraham.
17
 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto
his
brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18
 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.