The One Year Bible KJV (312 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
1
 Now of the things which we have spoken
this is
the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2
 a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3
 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore
it is
of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4
 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5
 who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he,
that
thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6
 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7
 For if that first
covenant
had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8
 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9
 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10
 For this
is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11
 and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12
 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13
 In that he saith, A new
covenant,
he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old
is
ready to vanish away.
13
 They [Israel] soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
14
 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
15
 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
16
 They envied Moses also in the camp,
and
Aaron the saint of the L
ORD
.
17
 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
18
 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
19
 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
20
 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21
 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
22
 Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and
terrible things by the Red sea.
23
 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy
them.
24
 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
25
 But murmured in their tents,
and
hearkened not unto the voice of the L
ORD
.
26
 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
27
 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
28
 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
29
 Thus they provoked
him
to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
30
 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and
so
the plague was stayed.
31
 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
7
 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
8
 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so
is
a man that wandereth from his place.
9
 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so
doth
the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
1
 The word of the L
ORD
came unto me [the L
ORD
] again, saying,
2
 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
3
Â
As
I live, saith the Lord G
OD
, ye shall not have
occasion
any more to use this proverb in Israel.
4
 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
5
 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
6
Â
and
hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
7
 and hath not oppressed any,
but
hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
8
 he
that
hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase,
that
hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
9
 hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he
is
just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord G
OD
.
10
 If he beget a son
that is
a robber, a shedder of blood, and
that
doeth the like to
any
one of these
things,
11
 and that doeth not any of those
duties,
but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
12
 hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
13
 hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
14
 Now, lo,
if
he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,
15
Â
that
hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
16
 neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence,
but
hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
17
Â
that
hath taken off his hand from the poor,
that
hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18
Â
As for
his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did
that
which
is
not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.
19
 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right,
and
hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
20
 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
21
 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
22
 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
23
 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord G
OD
:
and
not that he should return from his ways, and live?
24
 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
and
doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked
man
doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
25
 Yet ye say, The way of the L
ORD
is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
26
 When a righteous
man
turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
27
 Again, when the wicked
man
turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
28
 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
29
 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the L
ORD
is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
30
 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord G
OD
. Repent, and turn
yourselves
from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
31
 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
32
 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord G
OD
: wherefore turn
yourselves,
and live ye.
19:
1
 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2
 And say, What
is
thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3
 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4
 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5
 Now when she saw that she had waited,
and
her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps,
and
made him a young lion.
6
 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey,
and
devoured men.
7
 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
8
 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
9
 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10
 Thy mother
is
like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11
 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
12
 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
13
 And now she
is
planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14
 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which
hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod
to be
a sceptre to rule.
This
is
a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.