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  • Nahum 3
    Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
    The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
    The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
    Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
    Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
    And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
    And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
    Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
    Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
    Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
    Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
    All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
    Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
    Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
    There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
    Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
    Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
    Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
    There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
    4 min
  • Nahum 1,2
    The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
    God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
    The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
    He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
    The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
    Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
    The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
    But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
    What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
    For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
    There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
    Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
    For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
    And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
    Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
    He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
    For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
    The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
    The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
    He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
    The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
    And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
    But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
    Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
    Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
    The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
    Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young li
    6 min
  • Job 12
    And Job answered and said,
    No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
    But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
    I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
    He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
    The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
    But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
    Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
    Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
    In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
    Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
    With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
    With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
    Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
    Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
    With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
    He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
    He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
    He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
    He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
    He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
    He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
    He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
    He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
    They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
    3 min
  • James 5
    Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
    Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
    Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
    Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
    Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
    Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
    Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
    Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
    Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
    Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
    Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
    But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
    Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
    Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
    And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
    Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
    Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
    And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
    Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
    Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
    4 min
  • James 3,4
    My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
    For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
    Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
    Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
    Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
    And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
    For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
    But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
    Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
    Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
    Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
    Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
    Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
    But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
    This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
    For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
    But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
    And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
    From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
    Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
    Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
    Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
    Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
    But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
    Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
    Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
    Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
    Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
    Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
    There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
    Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
    Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
    For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
    But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
    Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
    6 min
  • Micah 7
    Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
    The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
    That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
    The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
    Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
    For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
    Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
    Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
    I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
    Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
    In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
    In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
    Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
    Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
    According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
    The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
    Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
    He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
    Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
    5 min
  • Job 11
    Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
    Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
    Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
    For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
    But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
    And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
    Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
    It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
    The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
    If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
    For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
    For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
    If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
    If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
    For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
    Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
    And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
    And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
    Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
    But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
    3 min
  • James 2
    My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
    For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
    And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
    Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
    Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
    But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
    Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
    If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
    But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
    For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
    For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
    So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
    For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
    What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
    If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
    And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
    Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
    Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
    Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
    But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
    Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
    Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
    And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
    Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
    Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
    For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
    4 min
  • Micah 6
    Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
    Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
    O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
    For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
    O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
    Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
    Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
    He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
    The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
    Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
    Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
    For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
    Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
    Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
    Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.
    For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
    4 min
  • Job 10
    My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
    I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
    Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
    Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
    Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
    That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
    Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
    Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
    Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
    Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
    Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
    Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
    And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
    If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
    If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
    For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
    Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
    Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
    I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
    Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
    Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
    A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
    3 min

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