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Deuteronomy
31
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¶And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this
day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto
me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy
these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and
Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may
do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded
you.
6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:
for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee.
7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of
all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with
this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers
to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither
be dismayed.
9 ¶And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests
the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD,
and unto all the elders of Israel.
10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years,
in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in
the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before
all Israel in their hearing.
12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and
thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that
they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all
the words of this law:
13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may
hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in
the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
14 ¶And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach
that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle
of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and
Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud:
and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the
gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them,
and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with
them.
17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and
I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they
shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them;
so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon
us, because our God is not among us?
18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils
which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other
gods.
19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children
of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness
for me against the children of Israel.
20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall
have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they
turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break
my covenant.
21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen
them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for
it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I
know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have
brought them into the land which I sware.
22 ¶Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught
it the children of Israel.
23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong
and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel
into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant
of the LORD, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark
of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a
witness against thee.
27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I
am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against
the LORD; and how much more after my death?
28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and
earth to record against them.
29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil
will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your
hands.
30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel
the words of this song, until they were ended.
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Isaiah
3
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¶For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away
from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole
stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet,
and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor,
and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall
rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his
father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let
this ruin be under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer;
for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler
of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their
tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes
of his glory.
9 ¶The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;
and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto
their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward
of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women
rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to
err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his
people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
16 ¶Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion
are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,
walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their
feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the
head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their
secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling
ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires
like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands,
and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples,
and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there
shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of
well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of
sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
shall sit upon the ground.
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Isaiah
4
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1 ¶And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only
let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
2 ¶In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely
for them that are escaped of Israel.
3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he
that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one
that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters
of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
5 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,
and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining
of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from
the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm
and from rain.
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Colossians
1
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1 ¶Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Timotheus our brother,
2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse:
Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
3 ¶We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
praying always for you,
4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love
which ye have to all the saints,
5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard
before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth
forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it,
and knew the grace of God in truth:
7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is
for you a faithful minister of Christ;
8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
9 ¶For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not
cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with
the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being
fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of
God;
11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power,
unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 ¶Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet
to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated
us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness
of sins:
15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature:
16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that
are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created
by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence.
19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they
be things in earth, or things in heaven.
21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and
unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not
moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and
which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof
I Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which
is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's
sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of
God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,
but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory
of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the
hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in
all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which
worketh in me mightily.
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