4 Moat - Perat

x16.35 The Lord Did Sustain Israel for forty years in the wilderness
On This Bread, And His Word That they Would Receive It.
x16.36 The Lord Had Set Apart This Tithe Unto All Israel; they Will
Receive It of all nations in perpetuity, Just As The Omerful That
they Did Lay Up Before The Lord, to be kept throughout their
generations. An omar is The Tenth Part of an ephah. So also shall
all nations Lay Up Before The Lord, Bread unto Israel. An omer a
head, according to the number of their persons; And There Shall
Be No More Curse upon the land. Then it shall be, that when ye
eat the bread of the land, ye shall Set Apart A Portion For A Gift
Unto The Lord. Of the first of your dough, ye shall Set Apart a cake
for A Gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall
ye set it apart. Of the first of your dough, ye Shall Give Unto The
Lord A Portion For A Gift throughout your generations. A Tithe Of
The Tithe, For The Service of the Priest In The Temple. This is The
Offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall Offer Unto The
Lord in the day when he Is Anointed: The Tenth Part of an ephah
of fine flour For A Meal-Offering perpetually, half of It in the morning,
and half Thereof, in the evening. On a griddle It shall be made with
oil; when It is soaked, thou shalt bring It in; in broken pieces shalt
thou Offer The Meal-Offering For A Sweet Savour Unto The Lord.
And The Anointed Priest That Shall Be In his Stead, from among
his sons, Shall Offer It, It Is Due For Ever; It Shall Be Wholly Made
To Smoke Unto The Lord. And Every Meal-Offering Of The Priest,
Shall Be Wholly Made To Smoke; It shall not be eaten.
x17.1 Just as Israel had shepherded them slowly home, the
Children journeyed by their stages According To The
Commandment Of The Lord, and encamped in Rephidim.

x17.1 There was no water for the people to drink.
x17.2 The people strove with Moses over the lack of water.

x17.2 Moses Questioned their Striving With G-d Directly, and
indirectly through him.

x17.3 The Lord Allowed them To Thirst Awhile because of their
murmuring.

#20.6 Moses And Aaron Sought The Lord's Help.
x17.5-6 The Lord Told Moses that he must speak unto the rock
before their eyes, that it Bring Forth its water.

#20.10-1 Moses questioned The Lord's Capacity To Provide water
from the rock, and did so before all the people, striking the rock
twice in anger At The Lord Directly, and indirectly through them.

#20.11 Water Came Forth Abundantly from the rock at Horeb.

#20.12 The Lord Will Not Allow Moses To Come Into The
Inheritance of the children of Israel, because he also Strove Against
The Lord, as did all that generation that came out of Egypt.

#20.12 Those That Know Only The Way Of The Lord, Shall Enter
Into His Kingdom. They shall not turn aside to the right hand, nor to
the left.

x17.7 The children of Israel Strove With The Lord at the waters of
Massah Trying, and Meribah Strife, saying, 'Is The Lord With us Or
Not?'

#20.13 The Lord Was Sanctified in them.

#21.5 The people spoke Against G-d and against Moses, about the
lack of bread and water, and how much they loathe The Manna,
The Lord Provides.
#21.6 The Lord Punished Israel By Sending fiery serpents among
them, and they bit the people, and many died.

#21.7 The people Repented And Asked Moses To Pray for them.
And Moses Prayed for them.
#21.8 The Lord Had Moses Create an idol of brass, of a fiery
serpent, that all who are bitten will be cured by seeing it. Fear ye
not what ye see, But Fear ye The Lord ye do not see.
#21.9 It Came To Pass that anyone that was bitten when he looked
upon the brass serpent, he Lived. Because an idol is no 'g-d',
neither is a fiery serpent, a 'g-d'; There Is But One G-d, And He
Only Decides Who Lives And Who Dies.
#21.10-5 Israel Did Follow The Lord. Hallelujah Praise The Lord.
#21.16 The Lord Brought them Unto Beer A Well, Whereof The
Lord Said Unto Moses, 'Gather the people together And I Will Give
them water.'
#21.17-8 Then sang Israel this song:
'Bless The Lord O my soul;
spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
The well which the princes digged,
which the nobles of the people delved,
with the septre, and with their staves.
O Give Thanks Unto The Lord,
Call Upon His Name;
Make Known His Doings among the peoples.
Sing Unto Him,
Sing Praises Unto Him;
Speak ye Of All His Marvelous Works.
Glory ye In His Holy Name;
Let the heart of them Rejoice That Seek The Lord.
Seek ye The Lord And His Strength;
Seek His Face Continually.
Remember His Marvelous Works That He Hath Done,
His Wonders, And The Judgments Of His Mouth.
O ye seed of Abraham, His Servant;
Ye children of Jacob, His Chosen Ones.
He Is The Lord, our G-d;
His Judgments Are In All the Earth.
He Hath Remembered His Covenant For Ever,
The Word Which He Commanded to a thousand generations;
Which He Made With Abraham,
And His Oath Unto Isaac;
And He Established It Unto Jacob For A Statute,
To Israel, For An Everlasting Covenant;
Saying, 'Unto thee Will I Give the land of Canaan,
The Lot Of your Inheritance.'
When they were but a few men in number;
Yea, very few, and sojourners in it,
And when they went about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people,
He Suffered No man To Do them Wrong,
Yea, for their sake He Reproved kings, Saying:
'Touch Not Mine Appointed Ones,
And Do My Prophets No Harm.'
And He Called A Famine upon the land,
He Broke The Whole Staff of bread.
He Sent a man Before them;
Joseph was sold for a servant,
His feet they hurt with fetters,
His person was laid in iron,
Until The Time That His Word Came To Pass,
The Word Of The Lord Had Tested him.
The king sent and loosed him;
Even the ruler of peoples, and set him free;
He made him lord of his house,
And ruler of all his possessions;
To bind his princes at his pleasure,
And teach his elders wisdom.
Israel also came into Egypt;
And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
And He Increased His people Greatly,
And Made them Too Mighty for their adversaries.
He Turned their heart To Hate His people,
To deal craftily with His Servants.
He Sent Moses, His Servant,
And Aaron, Whom He Had Chosen;
They Wrought among them His Manifold Signs,
And Wonders in the land of Ham.
He Sent Darkness, And It Was Dark;
And they Rebelled Not Against His Word.
He Turned their waters into blood,
And Slew their fish.
Their land Swarmed with frogs,
In The Chambers of their kings.
He Spoke, And There Came Swarms of flies,
And gnats In All their Borders.
He Gave them Hail for rain,
And Flaming Fire in their land.
He Smote their vines also, and their fig-trees,
And Broke the trees of their borders.
He Spoke, And The Swarming locust Came,
And The Hopping locust Without Number,
And did eat up every fruit in their land,
And did eat up the herb of their ground.
He Smote All the first-born in their land,
The first-fruits of all their strength.
And He Brought them Forth with silver and gold,
And there was none that stumbled among their tribes.
Egypt was glad when they departed,
For The Fear of them Had Fallen upon them.
He Spread a cloud for A Covering;
And fire to Give Light in the night.
They Asked, And He Brought quails,
And Gave them In Plenty, The Bread Of Heaven.
He Opened the rock, And Waters Gushed Out;
They Ran, A River in the dry places;
For He Remembered His Holy Word,
Unto Abraham, His Servant;
And He Brought Forth His people With Joy,
His Chosen ones With Singing.
And He Gave them the lands of the nations,
And they took the labour of the peoples in possession;
That they might Observe His Statutes, And Keep His Laws.
Hallelujah.
X19.1-2 In the third month, on the fifteenth day, they had reached
the Sinai wilderness and encamped before the mount.

X19.1-2 Their three day journey in the wilderness had taken three
months, by their stubbornness.
#14.34 Their forty day journey to Canaan would be also forty years,
for their iniquities.

x19.3-6 Moses went up the mountain, and G-d Called to him Out of
the mountain. G-d Instructed Moses To Tell Israel: After Having
Witnessed What He Has Done to the Egyptians, And Protected,
And Brought them Unto Himself, they need only Hearken Unto His
Voice, And Keep His Covenant; Then Shall they Be His Treasure
from among all peoples, For All The Earth Is His; And they Shall
Be A Kingdom Of Priests, And A Holy Nation.
x19.7 Moses Delivered These Words to the people.
x19.8 All the people agreed To Do All That Was Spoken.
x19.9 The Lord Shall Come Before the people, in a thick cloud,
that the people may Hear Also When He Speaks, That they Will
Believe Moses For Ever.

x19.9 The Lord Had Heard All the murmurings of the children of
Israel, And He Knew their Faith Was Weak.

x19.10-1 The Lord Has Moses Sanctify All Israel that day, and the
next, and let them wash all their garments; for On The Third Day,
The Lord Will Come Down in the sight of all the people upon mount
Sinai.
And The Lord Spoke Unto Moses, Saying, 'Speak unto Aaron and
unto his sons, saying: On this wise ye Shall Bless the children of
Israel; ye Shall Say unto them:
"The Lord Bless thee, And Keep thee;
The Lord Make His Face To Shine upon thee,
And Be Gracious unto thee;
The Lord Lift Up His Countenance upon thee,
And Give thee Peace."
So Shall they Put My Name upon the children of Israel,
And I Will Bless them.'
x19.12-3 They shall set bounds unto the people, that they not go
up the mount or touch the border of it, man or beast shall be
stoned or shot through if they violate This Holy Ground. This Is The
Boundary Between Life And Death. When the ram's horn sounds
long, shall they Come Up To The Mount.
x19.14-5 And Moses Sanctified the people, and he separated the
genders, and they washed their garments.
x19.16 On the third day, in the morning, before the sound of a horn
exceeding loud, The Glory Of The Lord Came Down upon the mount.

x19.16 The people were terrified by reason of the knowledge of
their sins, which they could not hide.

x19.17 Moses Brought Forth the people To Meet G-d.

x19.17 And The Terror Of The Lord Was Upon All the people.

x19.19 Moses spoke, and G-d Answered By A Voice.
x19.20 The Lord Called Moses to the top, and he went up.
x19.21 The Lord Became Concerned For The Safety of the people,
for their awe was drawing them closer to the mount.

x19.21 They were as moths to the flame. The Lord Had To Send
Moses back down again Before The Lord's Work Was Completed.

x19.22 G-d's Concern was for the Priests as well.

x19.22 The Priests had not been sufficiently Sanctified To Come
Before The Lord.
x19.23 Moses responded To The Lord, that the people did know
their bounds.

x19.24 The Lord Knew what Moses did not, And He Instructed that
he go down and make sure the people and Priests break not
through upon the mount, for their safety. Aaron to accompany
Moses on his return.
x19.25 Moses Complied.
X20.1 The Lord Spoke His Words Before All the people:
I Am The Lord thy G-d, Who Brought thee Out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.
Thou Shalt Have No Other 'g-ds' Before Me;
Thou Shalt Not Make unto thee a graven image: nor any manner of
likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth;
Thou Shalt Not Bow Down unto them, Nor Serve them, For I, The
Lord thy G-d, Am A Jealous G-d, Visiting The Iniquity of the fathers
Upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them That
Hate Me; And Showing Mercy unto the thousandth generation of
them That Love Me And Keep My Commandments.
Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of The Lord thy G-d in vain; For
The Lord Will Not Hold him Guiltless That Taketh His Name in vain.
Remember The Sabbath Day, To Keep It Holy. Six days shalt thou
labour, and do all thy work; but The Seventh Day Is A Sabbath
Unto The Lord thy G-d, In It thou Shalt Not Do any manner of work,
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy
maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
for in six days, The Lord Made Heaven And Earth, the sea, And All
That in them Is, And Rested On The Seventh Day; Wherefore The
Lord Blessed The Sabbath Day, And Hallowed It.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon
the land Which The Lord thy G-d Giveth thee.
Thou Shalt Not Murder.
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.
Thou Shalt Not Steal.
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness against thy neighbour.
Thou Shalt Not Covet thy neighbour's house;
Thou Shalt Not Covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor
his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy
neighbour's.
Morover, Thou Shalt Provide out of all the people, able men, Such
As Fear G-d, men Of Truth, hating unjust gain; And Place such
Over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens. And Let them Judge the people at all
seasons; and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring
unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so
shall they make it easier for thee, and bear the burden with thee.
All of Israel Was Baptised With The Fire Of The Law Of The
Lord.

x20.15-6 The people withdrew In Terror Before The Lord with the
knowledge of their own sins. They ask Moses that he alone
speak unto them.

x20.17 Moses informs them, It Is The Lord's Intent To Manifest
Fear within them, That they Remember It, To Keep far from sin.

x20.18 The people remained at a distance.

x20.18 Moses Drew Near Unto the thick darkness Where G-d Was.
x20.19 All Israel Witnessed The Lord Speak unto them From
Heaven.
x20.20 None Shall Make a graven image Before The Lord.
x20.21-2 Neither Shall the altar that they Make For Sacrifice Unto
The Lord be graven, it shall be of earth or unhewn stone, but no tool
shall come upon it, that it be not profaned.
x20.23 There shall be no steps unto the altar, that the nakedness
of men Shall Not Come Before The Lord; for man had let his
passion for his wife, overwhelm The Honour Due To his Father.
x20.5-6 For I, The Lord thy G-d, Am A Jealous G-d, Visiting The
Iniquity of the fathers Upon the children, unto the third and fourth
generation of them That Hate Me; And Showing Mercy unto the
thousandth generation of them That Love Me And Keep My
Commandments.
x18.1 Jethro, the Priest of Midian, and father-In-Law to Moses, of
the lineage of Abraham by Keturah the Ethiopian, heard of All G-d
Had Done for Moses and for Israel His people, And How The Lord
Had Brought Israel Out of Egypt.
x18.2-6 Jethro announced his coming, and brought Zipporah and
her two sons unto Moses. The first-born, 'Gershom,' the name
signifying Moses' time spent in Egypt, a stranger in a strange land.
The younger named, 'Eliezer,' showing the Faith In The Lord that
Moses had, that the G-d of his father Was his Help, And Delivered
him from the sword of Pharaoh, even before it had happened.
Moses had left them for his G-d, and for Israel his people.
x18.7-8 Moses paid his respects to his father-In-Law, and
recounted to him What The Lord Had Wrought in Egypt; And How
The Lord Had Saved them in spite of themselves, Because Of His
Covenant.

x18.8 Moses also recounted the hardship they faced, because of
those among them who would not Follow The Lord Willingly.

x18.9-10 Jethro Rejoiced And Gave Blessing Unto The Lord For All
His Mercy.
x18.11 Jethro's Faith In G-d Was Reinforced by this news, and he
was also aware that some of the Nephilim were in league with the
Egyptians, and both did perish in the sea.

x18.11 These Nephilim, And Egypt, Had Acted Against G-d And
His Angels.

x18.12 Jethro Offered A Burnt-Offering And Sacrifices For G-d, and
did eat bread with all the elders of Israel, Before G-d.
x18.13-6 On the morrow, Moses sat down To Judge the people. The
Law Was Written Upon the heart of Moses.

x18.13-6 The people stood about Moses from morning unto
evening. The Law Was Not Yet Written upon their hearts, As It
Had Been With Moses.

x18.17-8 Jethro rightly believes that Moses should not take on so
much responsibility for the people, by himself alone.
x18.19-20 Jethro asserts, G-d Willing: 'Be thou for the people
Before G-d, and bring thou The Causes Unto G-d. And thou Shalt
Teach them The Statutes And The Laws, And Shalt Show them
The Way wherein they must walk, And The Work that they must
do.' This Shall Be The Work Of All the children of Israel,
Perpetually, for all the nations.
x18.21-2 Jethro further asserts: 'Thou Shalt Provide out of the
people, able men, Such As Fear G-d, men of truth, hating unjust
gain; And Place Such over them, To Be Rulers of thousands, rulers
of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And Let them Judge
the people At All Seasons; and it shall be, That Every Great Matter
they Shall Bring unto thee, But Every Small Matter they Shall
Judge themselves; so shall they make it easier for thee, and bear
the burden with thee.' This Shall Be The Work Of All the
children of Canaan, Perpetually, For All the nations.
x18.23 'If thou shalt do this thing, And G-d Command thee So, then
thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also Shall Go to
their place In Peace.' And all men, and all nations, shall dwell
in safety and in Peace.
x18.24-5 Moses hearkened unto the voice of his father-In-Law, and
did all that he had said. He chose able men out of all Israel, and
made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of
hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And The Lord Spoke
Unto Moses, Saying, 'When either man or woman shall clearly utter
A Vow, The Vow Of A Nazirite, To Consecrate himself Unto The
Lord: he Shall Abstain from wine and strong drink; he Shall Drink No
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, Neither Shall he Drink
Any liquor of grapes, Nor Eat fresh grapes or dried. All The Days
Of his Naziriteship Shall he Eat Nothing that is made of the grape-
vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grape-stone. All The
Days Of his Vow Of Naziriteship There Shall No Razor Come Upon
his Head; Until The Days Be Fulfilled, In Which he Consecrated
himself Unto The Lord, he Shall Be Holy, he Shall Let The Locks
Of The Hair Of his Head Grow Long. All The Days That he
Consecrateth himself Unto The Lord, he Shall Not Come Near a
dead body. He Shall Not Make himself Unclean for his father, or for
his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because
his Consecration Unto G-d Is Upon his Head. All The Days Of his
Naziriteship, he Is Holy Unto The Lord. And if any man die very
suddenly beside him, and he defile his Consecrated Head, Then he
Shall Shave his head In The Day Of his Cleansing, On The Seventh
Day Shall he Shave it. And on the eighth day, he Shall Bring two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons To The Priest, to the door of the
tent of meeting. And the Priest Shall Prepare one for A Sin-Offering,
And the other for A Burnt-Offering, And Make Atonement for him,
for that he sinned by reason of the dead; And he Shall Hallow his
head That Same Day. And he Shall Consecrate Unto The Lord The
Days Of his Naziriteship, And Shall Bring a he-lamb of the first
year For A Guilt-Offering; But The Former Days Shall Be Void,
because his Consecration was defiled. And This Is The Law Of The
Nazirite, When The Days Of his Consecration Are Fulfilled: He
Shall Come With his Consecrated Head Unshaven, unto the door of
the tent of meeting; And he Shall Present his Offering Unto The
Lord, one he-lamb of the first year without blemish for A Burnt-
Offering, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish for A
Sin-Offering, and one ram without blemish for Peace-Offerings, and
a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil,
and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their Meal-Offering, and
their Drink-Offerings. And The Priest Shall Bring Them Before The
Lord, And Shall Offer his Sin-Offering, And his Burnt-Offering. And
he Shall Offer the ram For A Sacrifice Of Peace-Offerings Unto The
Lord, With The basket of Unleavened Bread, The Priest Shall Offer
The Meal-Offering Thereof, And The Drink-Offering Thereof. And The
Nazirite Shall Shave his Consecrated Head at the door of the tent
of meeting, And Shall Take The Hair Of his Consecrated Head, And
Put It On The Fire Which Is Under The Sacrifice Of Peace-Offerings.
And The Priest Shall Take The Shoulder of the ram when it is
sodden, And One Unleavened Cake out of the basket, And One
Unleavened Wafer, And Shall Put Them upon the hands of The
Nazirite, After he Hath Shaven his Consecrated Head. And The
Priest Shall Wave Them For A Wave-Offering Before The Lord; This
Is Holy For The Priest, Together With The Breast Of Waving, And
The Thigh Of Heaving; And After That, The Nazirite may drink wine.
This Is The Law Of The Nazirite who Voweth, And Of his Offering
Unto The Lord For his Naziriteship, beside that for which his means
suffice; According To his Vow Which he Voweth, So Must he Do
After The Law Of his Naziriteship, for they only may Judge man.'
Judges And Officers Shalt thou Make thee in all thy gates, which
The Lord thy G-d Giveth thee, tribe by tribe; And they Shall Judge
the people With Righteous Judgment. Thou Shalt Not Wrest
Judgment; thou Shalt Not Respect persons; Neither Shalt thou
Take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the
words of the righteous. Justice, Justice Shalt thou Follow, that thou
mayest live, and inherit the land Which The Lord thy G-d Giveth thee.
When men let grow their hair in Israel,
When the people Offer Themselves Willingly,
Bless ye The Lord.
'Hear, O ye kings; Give Ear O ye princes;
My Heart is Toward the governors of Israel,
That Offered Themselves Willingly among the people'.
Bless ye The Lord.
I, Unto The Lord Will I Sing;
I Will Sing Praise To The Lord, The G-d of Israel.
Bless ye The Lord.
x18.26 And they Judged the people At All Seasons: The Hard
Causes they Brought Unto Moses, but every small matter they
Judged themselves.
Come, and let us Return Unto The Lord;
For He Hath Torn, And He Will Heal us;
He Hath Smitten, And He Will Bind us Up;
After two days Will He Revive us,
on the third day He Will Raise us Up,
That we May Live In His Presence.
And Let us Know,
Eagerly Strive To Know The Lord,
His Going Forth Is Sure as the morning;
And He Shall Come unto us as the rain,
as the latter rain that watereth the Earth.
'And It Shall Come To Pass Afterward, That I Will Pour Out My
Spirit Upon All flesh; And your sons and your daughters Shall
Prophesy, your old men Shall dream Dreams, your young men
Shall See Visions; And Also Upon the servants and upon the hand-
maids. In Those days Will I Pour Out My Spirit, And I Will Show
Wonders in the Heavens and in the Earth: blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke.' The sun Shall Be Turned into darkness, and the
moon into blood, Before The Great And Terrible Day Of The Lord
Come. And It Shall Come To Pass, That whosoever Shall Call On
The Name Of The Lord Shall Be Delivered; For in mount Zion and in
Jerusalem There Shall Be Those That Escape, As The Lord Hath
Said, and among the remnant, Those Whom The Lord Shall Call.
And There It Exists:
A Pure River Of His Holy Spirit, Clear As Crystal, Proceeding Out
Of The Throne Of G-d and the son of man; Man Made One With
G-d By The Nature And Spirit Of G-d, As All Israel My First-Born
Shall Be. 'I Will Put My Spirit In You, And You Shall Be Holy, Even
As I Am Holy.' In The Midst Of The Street Of It, And On Either Side
Of The River, The Tree Of Israel, Which Did Bear Twelve Branches
To Yield His Word Every Month: And The Leaves Of Which Are The
Blessings Of His People For The Healing of the nations. And There
Shall Be No More Curse: But The Throne Of G-d and the son of
man Shall Be In The Holy Spirit, And His Servants Shall Serve Him:
And They Shall See His Face, And Have His Name Written
Foremost In Their Thoughts, And In The Work Of Their Hands.
And They that are wise Shall Shine as the brightness of the Heaven;
And they That Turn the many To Righteousness, as the stars For
Ever And Ever. Therein Shall they Abide For Ever By The
Permission Of their Lord; Their greeting therein shall be 'Peace'.
Seest thou not to What G-d Likeneth a good word? To a good tree;
its root firmly fixed, and its branches in the Heaven; yielding its
fruit in all seasons By The Will Of its Lord. G-d Setteth Forth These
Similtudes to men, that haply they may reflect. On that day shall
faces Beam With Light, Outlooking Towards Their Lord; from the
evil therefore of that day Hath G-d Delivered them, And Cast On
them Brightness of face And Joy. There Shall Be faces on that day,
Radiant, laughing, and joyous; Thou Shalt Mark in their faces The
Brightness Of Delight. Happy Is the man That Hath Not Walked in
the counsel of the wicked, Nor Stood In The Way of sinners, Nor
Sat In The Seat of the scornful. But his Delight Is In The Law Of
The Lord; And In His Law Doth he Meditate day and night. And he
Shall Be like a tree planted by streams of water, that bringeth
forth its fruit in its season, And whose leaf Doth Not Wither; And in
whatsoever he doeth he Shall Prosper. Not so the wicked; but they
are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the wicked
Shall Not Stand In The Judgment, Nor sinners In The Congregation
Of The Righteous. For The Lord Regardeth The Way Of The
Righteous; But the way of the Wicked Shall Perish.
And The Lord Commanded, 'Go through the
midst of the Earth, through the midst of the children of Israel And
Set A Mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry
for all the abominations that are done in the Earth!' Saying To His
Angels, 'Hurt Not the Earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, Till We
Have Sealed The Servants Of G-d in their foreheads.'
Six Years he Shall Serve The Lord;
and in the Seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself;
if he be Married, then his wife shall go out with him.
If his priest Give him a wife, and she Bear him sons
or daughters;
the wife and her children Shall Be The Lord's,
and he shall go out by himself.
But if the servant Shall Plainly Say:
'I Love my Master, my wife, and my children;
I will not go out free';
then his Priest shall bring him unto G-d, the Judges,
and shall bring him to the Door,
or unto the Door-Post of the Temple;
and the priest Shall Bore his right ear Through With An Awl;
And he Shall Serve The Lord For Ever.
Sealed, an hundred, forty four thousand of all the tribes of the
children of Israel.
Of the tribe of Judah Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Reuben Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Gad Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Asher Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Naphtali Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Manasses Joseph Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Simeon Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Levi Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Issachar Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Zebulun Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Ephraim Joseph Sealed, twelve thousand.
Of the tribe of Benjamin Sealed, twelve thousand.
Dan judged not for his brother but only against, therefore, Upon Thy
Salvation O Lord, he Shall Not Judge the nations, but Judgment
Shall Be Taken From him And Given unto his brother Joseph; for
when Joseph judged his brethren, he judged With Mercy. Judge not,
that ye be not judged: for with what judgment ye judge, ye Shall
Be Judged; and with what measure ye mete, It Shall Be Measured
to you again.
Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the Morning,
he came again into The Temple, and all he people came unto him;
and he sat down, and taught them. And the Scribes and Pharisees
brought unto him a woman taken in Adultery; and when they had
set her in the midst, they say unto him, 'Master, this woman was
taken in Adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, In The Law,
Commanded us that such should be stoned, but what sayest thou?'
This they said, questioning him, that they might have to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger, Wrote "Graciousness",
even Mercy in the Earth. As though he heard them not. So when
they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
'He that is Without Sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.'
And again, he stooped down and wrote in the Earth, "Binders",
even Justice between men. And they which Heard, Being Convicted
by conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, unto
the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the
midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the
woman, he said unto her, 'Woman, where are those, thine
accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?' She said, 'No man,
Lord.' And Jesus said unto her, 'Neither do I condemn thee: go,
and Sin no more.'
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The Pharisees came and asked Him, "Is it lawful for a man to
divorce his wife?" testing Him. And He answered and said to them,
"What did Moses command you?" They said, "Moses permitted a
man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her." And Jesus
answered and said to them, "Because of the hardness of your heart
he wrote you this Precept. But from the beginning of the creation,
G-d 'Made them male and female.' 'For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother And Be Joined to his wife, And the two
Shall Become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one
flesh. Therefore what G-d Has Joined together, let not man Separate."

There was in a city a judge, which Feared Not G-d, neither regarded
man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him,
saying, 'Avenge me of mine adversary'. And he would not for a while;
but afterward he said within himself: Though I Fear Not G-d, nor
regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her,
lest by her continual coming, she weary me.

And The Lord Said, 'Hear what the unjust judge sayeth. And Shall
Not G-d Avenge His Own Elect, which cry day and night Unto Him,
Though He Bear Long with them? In the house, His disciples also
asked Him again about the same matter. So He said to them,
"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another Commits Adultery
against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries
another, she Commits Adultery."

Deuteronomy 1.1 These are the words which Moses spoke unto
all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over
against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and
Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

(Deuteronomy, Which is Moses' discussion Of The Law, after
dwelling with Israel forty years in the wilderness, it is the
instruction by Moses Of The Word Of G-d, but not The Actual
Spoken Word Of G-d. Example: "Do no Iniquity, That The Lord
May Bless thee."; not: "I Am The Lord Who Bless thee.")

Deuteronomy 24.1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her,
then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because
he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a
bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out
of his house, 2 and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and
becometh another man's wife.

Genesis 2.24 Man Shall Leave his father and his mother, Cleave
unto his wife, And they Shall Be One Flesh.
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So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and
began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and
overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of
those who sold doves. And He would not allow anyone to carry
wares through the temple. Then He Taught, Saying to them, "Is it
not written,
'My House Shall Be Called A House Of Prayer For All nations',
But you Have Made It a 'den of thieves.'
Deuteronomy 23.20 Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother:
interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is
lent upon interest.

Deuteronomy 23.21 Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon
interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest;
That The Lord thy G-d May Bless thee In All that thou puttest
thy hand unto, in the land whither thou Goest In To Possess It.

(Leviticus, Of The Written Word Of G-d.)
Leviticus 19.33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land,
ye Shall not do him wrong. 34 The stranger that sojourneth with
you Shall be unto you as the home-born among you, and thou
Shalt Love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt: I Am The Lord your G-d. 35 Ye Shall do no
unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in
measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just
hin, shall ye have: I Am The Lord your G-d, Who Brought you Out
of the land of Egypt. 37 And ye Shall Observe All My Statutes,
And All Mine Ordinances, And Do Them: I Am The Lord.
Leviticus 24.22 'Ye Shall Have One Manner Of Law, as well for
the stranger, as for the home-born; For I Am The Lord your G-d.'

Justice is of men, As Mercy Is Of G-d, and by
these Are Heaven and Earth Measured in the Balance.
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Exodus 21.22 And if men strive together,
and hurt a woman with child,
so that her fruit depart from her,
and yet no harm follow her,
he shall be surely fined,
according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him;
and he shall pay as the Judges Determine.
23 But if any harm follow her,
then thou shalt give life for life,
24 eye for eye,
tooth for tooth,
hand for hand,
foot for foot,
25 burning for burning,
wound for wound,
stripe for stripe.
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And they That Are Sealed Shall Teach Canaan All
The Laws, Statutes, And Ordinances, For By These Shall they
Serve G-d and men. Judges And Officers Shalt thou Make thee in
all thy gates, which The Lord thy G-d Giveth thee, tribe by tribe;
And they Shall Judge the people With Righteous Judgment. Thou
Shalt Not Wrest Judgment; thou Shalt Not Respect persons;
Neither Shalt thou Take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the
wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. Justice, Justice Shalt
thou Follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land Which The
Lord thy G-d Giveth thee. At the mouth of two witnesses, or three
witnesses, shall he that is to die, be put to death; at the mouth of
one witness, he shall not be put to death. The hand of the
witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward,
the hand of all the people. So thou Shalt Put Away the evil From
The Midst of thee. If there arise a matter too hard for thee In
Judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and
between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy
gates; Then Shalt thou Arise, And Get thee Up Unto the place
Which The Lord thy G-d Shall Choose. And thou Shalt Come Unto
The Priests, The Levites, And Unto The Judge That Shall Be in
those days; And thou Shalt Inquire; And They Shall Declare unto
thee The Sentence Of Judgment. And thou Shalt Do According To
The Tenor Of The Sentence, Which They Shall Declare unto thee
From that place Which The Lord Shall Choose; And thou Shalt
Observe To Do According To All That They Shall Teach thee.
According To The Law Which they Shall Teach thee, And
According To The Judgment Which They Shall Tell thee, thou
Shalt Do; thou Shalt Not Turn Aside From The Sentence Which
They Shall Declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. And
the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto The
Priest That Standeth To Minister there Before The Lord thy G-d, Or
Unto The Judge: Even That man Shall Die; And thou Shalt
Exterminate the evil from Israel. And All the people Shall Hear, And
Fear, And Do No More Presumptuously.
Three Times in a year Shall All thy males Appear Before The Lord
thy G-d in the place Which He Shall Choose:
On The Feast Of Unleavened Bread,
On The Feast Of Weeks,
And On The Feast Of Tabernacles;
And they Shall Not Appear Before The Lord Empty;
every man Shall Give As he is Able, According To The Blessing Of
The Lord thy G-d, Which He Hath Given thee. Now it fell upon a
day, that the Nephilim Came to present themselves Before The
Lord, and Satan Came Also among them. And The Lord Said unto
Satan, 'Whence Comest thou?' Then Satan Answered The Lord,
and said, 'From going to and fro in the Earth, and from walking up
and down in it.' And The Lord Said unto Satan, 'Hast thou
considered My Servant Israel, that there is none like him in the
Earth, a whole-hearted and upright man, one That Feareth G-d, and
shunneth evil?' Then Satan Answered The Lord, and said, 'Doth
Israel Fear The Lord for nought? Hast Not Thou Made A Hedge
about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on
every side? Thou Hast Blessed the work of his hands, And his
possessions are Increased in the land. But Put Forth Thy Hand
now, And Touch All that he hath, surely he will blaspheme Thee To
Thy Face.' And The Lord Said unto Satan, 'Behold, all that he hath
is in thy power; only upon himself, put not forth thy hand.' So Satan
went forth From The Presence Of The Lord.

In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, began Hoshea the son
of Elah to reign over Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years.
And he Did That Which Was Evil In The Sight Of The Lord, yet not
as the kings of Israel that were before him. Against him came up
Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant,
and brought him presents. And the king of Assyria found
conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So, king of
Egypt, and offered no present to the king of Assyria, as he had
done year by year. Therefore, the king of Assyria shut him up, and
bound him in prison. Then the king of Assyria came up throughout
all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria, took Samaria, and
carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in
Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. And
the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah,
and from Avva, and from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed
them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and
they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

Now The Word Of The Lord Came unto Jonah, the son of Amittai,
Saying, 'Arise, Go to Ninevah, that great city, And Proclaim
Against It; For their Wickedness Is Come Up Before Me.'

But Jonah Rose Up To Flee unto Tarshish From The Presence Of
The Lord. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to
Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go
with them unto Tarshish, From The Presence Of The Lord.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name
was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. And he Did That
Which Was Evil In The Sight Of The Lord, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done. For Through The Anger Of The Lord Did It
Come To Pass In Jerusalem And Judah, Until He Had Cast them
Out From His Presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king
of Babylon, And It Came To Pass in the ninth year of his reign, in
the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army
against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts
against it round about. So the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king Zedekiah. In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the
month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread
for the people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city, and
all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by
way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's
garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city round about; and
the king went by the way of the Arabah. But the army of the
Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. Then
they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon, to
Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes;
he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. And he put out the
eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters,
and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his
death.

And The Word Of The Lord Came unto Jonah The Second Time,
Saying, 'Arise, Go to Ninevah, that great city, And Make unto it
The Proclamation That I Bid thee.' So Jonah Arose, And Went unto
Ninevah, According To The Word Of The Lord. Now Ninevah was
an exceeding great city, of three days journey. And Jonah Began
To Enter into the city a days journey, And he Proclaimed, And Said,
'Yet forty days, and Ninevah Shall Be Overthrown.' And the people
of Ninevah Believed In G-d; And they Proclaimed A Fast, And Put
On sackcloth, from the greatest of them, even to the least of them.
And The Tidings Reached the king of Ninevah, and he arose from
his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he Caused It To Be Proclaimed
And Published through Ninevah by the decree of the king and his
nobles, Saying,
'Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything;
let them not feed, nor drink water;
but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast;
and let them Cry Mightily Unto G-d;
yea, Let them Turn every one From his Evil Way,
And From The Violence that is in their hands.
Who Knoweth Whether G-d Will Not Turn And Repent,
And Turn Away From His Fierce Anger,
That we Perish Not?'
And G-d Saw their Works,
That they Turned From their Evil Way;
And G-d Repented Of The Evil,
Which He Said He Would Do unto them,
And He Did It Not.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, That The Word Of The
Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might Be Accomplished, The Lord
Stirred Up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a
proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying,
'Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the Earth
Hath The Lord, The G-d Of Heaven, Given me; And He Hath
Charged me To Build Him A House In Jerusalem, which is in
Judah. Whosoever there is among you Of All His People: His
G-d Be With him: Let him Go Up To Jerusalem, which is in
Judah, And Build The House Of The Lord, The G-d of Israel,
He Is The G-d Who Is In Jerusalem. And whosoever is left, in
any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help
him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with
beasts, beside The Freewill-Offering For The House Of G-d
Which Is In Jerusalem.'
Then Rose Up the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and
Benjamin, and the Priests, and the Levites, Even All whose spirit
G-d Had Stirred To Go Up To Build The House Of The Lord Which
Is In Jerusalem. And All they That Were Round About them,
Strengthened their Hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with
goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, Beside All That
Was Willingly Offered. Also Cyrus the king Brought Forth The
Vessels Of The House Of The Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had
brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of
his "g-ds"; Even Those, Did Cyrus king of Persia Bring Forth, by
the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, And Numbered Them unto
Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. And This Is The Number Of Them:
Thirty Basins Of Gold,
A Thousand Basins Of Silver,
Nine And Twenty Knives,
Thirty Bowls Of Gold,
Four Hundred And Ten Silver Bowls Of A Second Sort,
And A Thousand Other Vessels.
All The Vessels Of Gold And Of Silver Were:
Five Thousand And Four Hundred.
All These Did Sheshbazzar Bring, When they of The Captivity
Were Brought Up From Babylon Unto Jerusalem.
Three Times in a year Shall All thy males Appear Before The Lord
thy G-d in the place Which He Shall Choose:
On The Feast Of Unleavened Bread,
On The Feast Of Weeks,
And On The Feast Of Tabernacles;
And they Shall Not Appear Before The Lord Empty;
every man Shall Give As he is Able, According To The Blessing Of
The Lord thy G-d, Which He Hath Given thee. Again it fell upon a
day, that the Nephilim Came to present themselves Before The Lord,
And Satan Came Also among them to present himself Before The
Lord. And The Lord Said unto Satan, 'From Whence Comest thou?'
And Satan Answered The Lord, and said, 'From going to and fro in
the Earth, and from walking up and down in it.' And The Lord Said
unto Satan, 'Hast thou considered My Servant Israel, that there is
none like him in the Earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man,
one That Feareth G-d, and shunneth evil? And he still holdeth fast
his integrity, Although thou Didst Move Me Against him, To
Destroy him Without Cause.' And Satan Answered The Lord, and
said, 'Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
But, Put Forth Thy Hand Now, And Touch his bone and his flesh,
Surely he Will Blaspheme Thee To Thy Face.' And The Lord said
unto Satan, 'Behold he is in thy hand; Only Spare his life.' So
Satan went forth From The Presence Of The Lord, and smote
Israel from the sole of his foot, even unto his crown; as from
his beginning, and ending there with His Dominion.
And The Lord Said unto me,
'Son of man, Stand upon thy feet, And I Will Speak with thee.' And
Spirit Entered into me When He Spoke unto me, And Set me Upon
my feet; And I Heard Him That Spoke unto me. And He Said unto
me, 'Son of man, I Send thee To the children of Israel, to rebellious
nations, That Have Rebelled Against Me; they and their fathers
Have Transgressed Against Me, Even Unto This Very Day; and the
children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I Do Send thee unto
them; And thou Shalt Say unto them, "Thus Sayeth The Lord G-d.
And they, whether they Will Hear, Or whether they Will Forbear--,
for they are a rebellious house, Yet Shall Know That There Hath
Been A Prophet among them". And thou, Son of man, be not afraid
of them, neither be afraid of their words, though defiers and
despisers be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions; be
not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they
are a rebellious house. And thou Shalt Speak My Words unto them,
Whether they Will Hear, Or whether they Will Forebear; for they are
most rebellious. And thou Son of man, Hear What I Say unto thee:
Be Not thou Rebellious, like that rebellious house; Open thy mouth
And Eat That Which I Give thee.' And when I looked, Behold, A
Hand Was Put Forth unto me; and lo, A Scroll Of A Book Was
Therein; And He Spread It before me, And It Was Written Within
And Without; And There Was Written Therein, Lamentations, And
Mourning, And Woe. And He Said unto me, 'Son of man, Eat That
Which thou Findest; Eat This Scroll, And Go And Speak unto the
house of Israel.' So I Opened my mouth, And He Caused me To
Eat That Roll. And He Said unto me, 'Son of man, Cause thy belly
To Eat, And Fill thy bowels With This Scroll That I Give thee.' Then
Did I Eat It; And It Was in my mouth As Honey For Sweetness.
And He Said unto me, 'Son of man, Go, Get thee Unto the house
of Israel, And Speak With My Words unto them. For thou Art Not
Sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue,
But To the house of Israel; Not To Many peoples of an unintelligible
speech and of a slow tongue, whose words thou canst not
understand. Surely, If I Sent thee To them, they Would Hearken
unto thee. But the house of Israel Will Not Consent To Hearken
unto thee, For they Consent Not To Hearken Unto Me; for all the
house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart. Behold, I
Have Made thy face Hard Against their faces, And thy forehead
Hard Against their foreheads. As An Adamant, Harder Than Flint
Have I Made thy forehead; fear them not, neither be dismayed at
their looks, for they are a rebellious house.' Moreover, He Said unto
me, 'Son of man, All My Words That I Shall Speak unto thee,
Receive in thy heart, And Hear with thine ears. And Go, get thee to
them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, And Speak
unto them, And Tell them, "Thus Sayeth The Lord G-d, And
Whether they Will Hear, And whether they Will Forbear--".' Then A
Spirit Lifted me Up, And I Heard behind me The Voice Of A Great
Rushing, Saying,
'Blessed Be The Glory Of The Lord From His Place'.
This Became The Holy Evangel, Received by the nations of
the Gentiles. Who then is that faithful and wise steward, Whom
Lord Shall Make Ruler Over His Household, To Give portion of
meat In Due Season? Blessed, that servant, Whom His Lord When
He Cometh, Shall Find So Doing. Of A Truth I Say unto you, That
He Will Make him Ruler Over All That He Hath. But, and if, that
servant say in his heart, "My Lord Delayeth His Coming", and shall
begin to beat the men-Servants, and maid-Servants, and to eat and
drink, and to be drunken--. The Lord of that servant Will Come In A
Day, when he looketh not for, And At An Hour when he is not aware,
And Will Cut him In Sunder, And Will Appoint him his Portion with
the unbelievers. And That servant Which Knew his Lord's Will, And
Prepared Not, Neither Did According To His Will, Shall Be Beaten
With Many Beatings. But he That Knew Less, And Did Commit
Things Worthy Of Stripes, Shall Be Beaten With Few Beatings.
For unto whomsoever Much Is Given, of him Shall Much Be
Required; and unto whomsoever Less Is Given, of him Shall Less
Be Required. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors:
the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when
they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Therefore,
which of them will love him most? Shall not him to whom men have
committed much, of him shall they ask the most? For unto
whomsoever Much Is Given, of him Shall Much Be Required; and
unto whomsoever Less Is Given, of him Shall Less Be Required.
And The Voice Which I Heard From Heaven Spake unto me Again,
And Said, 'Go Take The Little Book Which Is Open in the hand Of
The Angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the Earth.' And
I went unto the angel and said unto him, 'Give me The Little Book.'
And he said unto me, 'Take, And Eat It Up; And It Shall Make thy
belly Bitter, But It Shall Be in thy mouth Sweet as honey.' And I
Took The Little Book out of the Angel's hand, And Ate It Up; And
It Was in my mouth Sweet as honey, And As Soon As I Had Eaten
It, my belly Was Bitter. And That Which Was Eaten, This Is The
Holy Koran. And they To Whom It Was Given, being of the seed
of Abraham, needed not much To Be Given, over what they had
already received of righteousness by Abraham, their father.
Yet, The Lord Divided The Righteousness
Between The Evangel And The Koran.
And There Was Found Evil Within The Evangel,
like unto a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in
his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when grown, it
is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
And There Was Found Righteousness Within The Koran,
like unto a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took and sowed in
his field; which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when grown, it
is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
And those who were not of The Dispersed Of Israel among the
Gentiles, found that grain of mustard seed in The Evangel, and did
magnify it. And likewise, those who were not of The Dispersed Of
Israel among the Assyrians, found not that grain of mustard seed
in The Koran, and did not magnify it. So wars, and injustice, and
unrighteousness flourished between religion and Within The Name
Of The Lord. From Between these twain Hath G-d Called All His
Children, Israel; For they, Having Received Faith as a grain of
mustard-seed, shall say unto this mountain, 'Remove hence to
yonder place'; And it Shall Remove With Shoutings Of Grace,
Grace unto it, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Hear, O Israel:
The Lord thy G-d,
The Lord Is One;
And I Have:
Looked And Heard,
Wrestled And Judged,
Hired And Brought Fortune,
Dwelled With And Made Happy,
Joined And Added To The Praise
Of The Son Of The Right Hand, Israel;
And I Will Betroth thee Unto Me Forever;
Yea, I Will Betroth thee Unto Me In Righteousness,
And In Justice, And In Lovingkindness, And In Compassion,
And I Will Betroth thee Unto Me In Faithfulness, And thou shalt know The Lord;
And thou shalt love The Lord thy G-d with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might;
For Then Will I Turn To The Peoples, A Pure Language, That they may all call Upon The Name
Of The Lord, to serve Him with one consent. And These Words, Which I Command thee
This Day, Shall Be Upon thy heart; and thou Shalt Teach Them diligently unto thy children;
and Shalt Talk Of Them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up; And thou Shalt Bind Them For A Sign
upon thy hand; and They Shall Be For Frontlets between thine eyes;
And thou Shalt Write Them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

GRACE

Praise be to G-d, Our Father,
Lord Of The Worlds which art in Heaven;
The Compassionate, The Merciful, Hallowed Be Thy Name;
King On The Day Of Reckoning;
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done, In Earth As In Heaven;
Thee only do we worship, and To Thee do we cry For Help;
Please Give us this day our Daily Bread;
And Guide Thou us On The Straight Path,
The Path of those to whom Thou Hast Been Gracious;
And Forgive us our Debts, as we forgive our debtors;
with whom Thou Art Not Angry, and who go not astray;
And Lead us Not Into Temptation,
But Deliver us From Evil In The Name Of G-d;
For Thine Is The Kingdom;
The Compassion And The Power;
The Mercy And The Glory;
Forever.
Amen.

I did Strive with G-d;
I am Christian toward men;
I will be Submissive To G-d;
And I will betroth Thee unto me forever;
Yea, I will betroth Thee unto me in righteousness,
and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in compassion,
and I will betroth Thee unto me in faithfulness; and I shall know The Lord.

And they that found wickedness, though it were but the weight of
a grain of mustard seed, and hidden in a rock, or in the Heavens,
or in the Earth: G-d Is Subtile, Informed Of All. And who is more
Righteous: he Who Glorifies the smallest part of Righteousness;
Or he Who Glorifies the smallest part of Evil? The evil has been
sown, but The Time For Reaping is not yet. Until the crop of evil
Has Been Reaped as well as sown, until the ground where it was
sown has vanished, there will be no room for The Field Where The
Good Is Sown. A grain of the evil-seed was sown in the heart of
Adam from the first; how much unholiness it has produced already!
How much more will it produce before The Harvest! If one grain of
evil-seed has produced so great a crop of unholiness, how vast A
Harvest will there be when heads of grain without number have
been sown! But the likeness of those who expend their wealth For
The Cause Of G-d, is that of a grain of corn which produceth seven
ears, and in each ear, a hundred grains; And G-d Will Multiply to
whom He Pleaseth: G-d Is Liberal, Knowing! They who expend
their wealth For The Cause Of G-d, and never follow what they have
laid out with reproaches or harm, Shall Have their Reward With
their Lord; No Fear Shall Come upon them, Neither Shall they Be
Put To Grief. A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms
followed by injury. G-d Is Rich In Clemency. O ye who Believe,
make not your alms void by reproaches and injury, like him who
spendeth his substance to be seen of men, And Believeth Not In
G-d, And In The Latter Kingdom. The likeness of such a one, is
that of a rock with a thin soil upon it, on which a heavy rain falleth,
but leaveth it hard: No Profit From their Work Shall they Be Able
To Gain; For G-d Guideth Not The Unbelieving people. And the
likeness of those Who Expend their Substance From A Desire To
Please G-d, And For The Establishing Of their Souls, is as a
garden on a hill, on which the heavy rain falleth, and it yieldeth its
fruits twofold; and even if a heavy rain fall not on it, yet is there a
dew: G-d Beholdeth your Actions. Do they Not See That We Have
Established A Safe Precinct, while all around them men are being
spoiled? Will they Then Believe in vain idols, And Not Own The
Goodness Of G-d? But who acteth more wrongly than he Who
Deviseth A Lie Against G-d, Or Calls The Truth When It Hath Come
to him, A Lie? Is there not An Abode For the Infidels In Hell? And
Whoso Maketh Efforts For Us, In Our Ways Will We Guide them:
For G-d Is Assuredly With Those Who Do Righteous Deeds. By
my religion Shall I Own The Goodness Of G-d, Or By my Faith
Shall I? For All That Was Received By The Evangel, Together With
All That Was Received By The Koran, Is Not Enough For Peace
On Earth. By These, you Are Not Without Forgiveness, And Mercy,
And Remission Of Sin; But Neither Are you Without Sin, because
you Had Not Obeyed The Laws That Govern men, Given To Moses
and the children of Israel; you Could Not, Since you Had Not
Received Them All. Which Of The Laws Of G-d May you Break that
you shall not bring death upon all men for it; Yet May G-d Still Have
Mercy on you Anyway. Sin And Death Came Upon All men By
Adam And Cain; Even As Righteousness Began To Come By Noah
And Abraham, Isaac, And Israel. But Freedom From Sin For men
May Come Only By Strict Adherence To All The Laws, Statutes
And Ordinances Given to the children of Israel Directly By The
Hand Of G-d, And There Is But One G-d. Shall you have many
'g-ds', many wives, and many religions? You Shall Not. Yet Shall
you Live, Or Die, By The Law. These Are Laws Given For All men,
But Were Rejected By My People Israel. They Were Not Divided
Over Its Righteousness Or Authority; But Its Complexity caused
some to choose the 'g-ds' of their neighbours, 'g-ds' of stone, and
of wood, for these were not making any Demands.
And The Law Was Made Of No Consequence.
So evil flourished.
Christ Did Not Take The Law Away from you:
'Think not that I am come to destroy The Law, or The Prophets;
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, "Till Heaven and Earth pass--,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from The Law,
till all be fulfilled".
Whosoever therefore Shall Break one of these least
Commandments, And Shall Teach men so, he shall be
called the least in The Kingdom Of Heaven; But whosoever
Shall Do And Teach, the same shall be called great in The
Kingdom Of Heaven.'
At the same time, came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, 'Who Is
The Greatest In The Kingdom Of Heaven?' And Jesus called a little
child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, 'Verily I
say unto you: Except ye be Converted, And Become as the
children of Israel Before G-d, ye Shall Not Enter Into The Kingdom
Of Heaven. Whosoever therefore Shall Humble himself as this little
child, the same Is Greatest In The Kingdom Of Heaven. And whoso
Shall Receive one such little child In My Name, Receiveth Me. But
whoso Shall Offend one of these little ones Which Believe In Me, it
would be better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world
Because Of Offences! For it must needs be That Offences Come;
but woe to that man by whom The Offence Cometh! Take heed that
ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you: That In
Heaven, their Angels Do Always Behold The Face Of my Father
Which Is In Heaven. For the son of man Is Come To Save That
Which Was Lost. Even So, It Is Not The Will Of your Father Which
Is In Heaven, That One of these little ones Should Perish, and
whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup of
cold water only, in the name of a Disciple, verily I say unto you, he
Shall In No Wise Lose his Reward. Come unto Me all that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls, for My Yoke is easy; and My Burden is
light.
And there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which
Believed, saying, 'That it was needful To Circumcise them,
And To Command To Keep The Law Of Moses.
And the Apostles and
elders came together for to consider of this matter. And when there
had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, 'Men
and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago G-d Made Choice
among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth, Should Hear The Word
Of The Gospel, And Believe. And G-d, Which Knoweth the hearts,
Bare them Witness Giving them The Holy Spirit, Even As unto us;
And Put No Difference between us and them, Purifying their hearts
By Faith. Now therefore, why Tempt ye G-d, To Put A Yoke Upon
the neck of The Disciples, Which Neither our fathers nor we Were
Able To Bear? But we Believe That Through The Grace Of The Lord,
Jesus Christ, we Shall Be Saved, Even As they.
And The Law Was Made Of No Consequence.
So evil flourished.
Neither did Muhammad say The Law Was Fabricated;
But The Koran Is A Confirmation That All Of The Law Was
Given To Israel Beforehand.
Say: I am no Apostle Of New Doctrines, Neither Know I What Will
Be Done with me or you. Only What Is Revealed to me Do I Follow,
And I Am Only Charged To Warn Openly. Say: What think ye? If
From G-d, And ye Believe It Not, and a witness of the children of
Israel, Witness To Its Conformity, And Believe, While ye Proudly
Disdain It--? Ah! G-d Guideth Not The people Guilty Of Such A
Wrong! But the Infidels say of the Believers, "If It Were A Good
Book, they would not have been before us In Believing It". And not
having submitting to guidance, they proceed to say, "It Is an old
lying legend!" But Before The Koran Was The Book Of Moses, A
Rule And A Mercy; And This Book Confirmeth It, in the Arabic
tongue, That Those who are Guilty Of That Wrong May Be Warned,
And As Glad Tidings To The Doers Of Good. Say ye: We Believe In
G-d, And That Which Hath Been Sent Down to us, And That Which
Hath Been Sent Down To Abraham And Ishmael, And Isaac And
Jacob, And The Tribes, And That Which Hath Been Given To
Moses And To Jesus, And That Which Was Given To The
Prophets From their Lord. No Difference Do we Make Between Any
Of Them; And To G-d Are we Resigned. Had G-d So Pleased, He
Had Made them One People; But He Bringeth whom He Will
Within His Mercy; and as for the doers of evil, no patron, no helper
shall there be for them. Had thy Lord Pleased, He Would Have
Made mankind Of One Religion; but only those to whom thy Lord
Hath Granted His Mercy, will cease to differ. And Unto This Hath
He Created them: 'I Will Wholly Fill Hell with Djinn and men', For
The Word Of The Lord Shall Be Fulfilled. Moreover, When G-d
Entered Into A Covenant with those to whom The Scriptures Had
Been Given, And Said, "Ye Shall Surely Make It Known to
mankind And Not Hide It," they Cast It behind their backs, And
Sold It for a sorry price! But vile is that for which they have Sold It.
Say: Will ye Dispute with us About G-d, When He Is our Lord,
And your Lord? We Have our Works, And ye Have your Works;
And we Are Sincerely His. And Though All These Laws, Statutes,
And Ordinances That G-d Had Given To Moses we Affirm To Be
Of G-d, we need not Search The Laws For Any Additional That G-d
Might Require Of us Beyond The Koran. Now therefore, why Tempt
ye G-d, To Put A Yoke Upon the neck of The Muslims, Which
Neither Jew nor Christian Were Able To Bear? But we Believe That
By Islam, And In The Name Of G-d, The Compassionate, The
Merciful, we Shall Be Saved, Even As they.
And The Law Was Made Of No Consequence.
So evil flourished.
And I Seek Not To Take Any man From The Koran, Or From
The Evangel, Or From The Law, But That All Be United Under
The Law.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole Was Leavened.
Warning Came By The Koran, And Salvation Also
By The Evangel, But Peace On Earth Comes By The Law.
And I Would Have Every man Search The Law, And Say In
his Heart Before G-d: I Shall Not Accept This. Though you are
Muslim, and Christian, and Jew, yet is there no end to all the
evil in the Earth.
And were you neither of these, or of No Firm Belief, Yet Was There
A Dew From Heaven; and even the dogs Ate Of The Crumbs Which
Fell From Their Master's Table. And G-d Established The Laws,
With The Single Purpose that men would Live In Peace By Them,
As He Intended from the beginning, For He Placed In Them All
Righteousness, And Withheld Nothing. Just As He Allowed Joseph
To Become Dispersed in Egypt For The Greater Good, He Allowed
His Children, Israel, To Be Dispersed Among many nations, For
This Greater Good Also; And He Created The Evangel, And The
Koran To Guide them and All men with them, Back To The Laws
they Rejected. This Is The Mother Of The Koran, And The Evangel.
By These Have you Tried To Complete The Law, From The Memory
of your hearts, And Have Herein Succeeded. His Children Are
those That Keep All The Laws Rendered unto Moses. With Islam
And Christianity being also, as it were: Children of Israel. What
Therefore Has Prevented you From Keeping My Laws That I Set
Forth By My Servants, Abraham and Moses? Set thou thy face
then, as A True Convert, Towards The Faith Which G-d Hath Made,
And For Which He Hath Made man. No Change Is There In The
Creation Of G-d. This Is The Right Path, but the greater part of men
Know It Not. And Be ye Turned To Him, And Fear Him, And
Observe Prayer. And Be Not of those who Unite 'g-ds' With G-d.
And of those who Have Split Up their Religion, And Have Become
Sects, where every party Rejoices In What Is their own. For This
Commandment Which I Command thee This Day:
It Is Not Too Hard for thee, Neither Is It Far Off.
It Is Not In Heaven, that thou shouldest say:
'Who Shall Go Up for us To Heaven, And Bring It unto us,
And Make us To Hear It, That we may Do It?'
Neither Is It Beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say:
'Who Shall Go Over the sea for us, And Bring It unto us,
And Make us To Hear It, That we may Do It?'
But The Word Is Very Nigh unto thee, In thy Mouth,
And In thy Heart, That thou mayest Do It.
See, I Have Set Before thee This Day,
Life And Good, And Death An Evil,
In That I Command thee This Day,
To Love The Lord thy G-d, To Walk In His Ways,
And To Keep His Commandments,
And His Statutes, And His Ordinances;
Then thou Shalt Live And Multiply,
And The Lord thy G-d Shall Bless thee.
Wonderful In Counsel Is G-d, The Mighty, The Everlasting
Father, The Ruler Of Peace.
I called out of mine affliction Unto The Lord, And He Answered me.
Out of the belly Of The Netherworld cried I, And Thou Heardest my
voice. For Thou Didst Cast me Into The Depth, in the heart of the
seas, and the flood was round about me. All Thy Waves And Thy
Billows Passed-Over me, and I said, 'I Am Cast Out From Before
Thine Eyes'. Yet Will I Look Again Toward Thy Holy Temple. The
waters compassed me about, even to the soul. The deep was
round about me, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went
down to the bottoms of the mountains. The Earth with her bars,
closed upon me for ever. Yet Hast Thou Brought Up my life From
The Pit, O Lord my G-d. When my soul fainted within me, I
Remembered The Lord. And my Prayer Came In Unto Thee, Into
Thy Holy Temple. They that regard lying vanities, Forsake their own
Mercy. But I Will Sacrifice Unto Thee With The Voice Of
Thanksgiving.
Suffer The Little Children To Come Unto Me.
That Which I Have Vowed, I Will Pay.
Salvation Is Of The Lord.
In Sitting Still, And At Rest, Shall ye Be Saved;
In Quietness, And In Confidence, Shall Be your Strength.
And He Said unto me, 'Thou Must Prophesy Again, In The
End Times Before Many peoples, and nations, and tongues,
and kings.'
Noises and confusion, thunders and earthquake, tumult on the
earth! Then two great dragons came forward, both ready to fight,
and they roared terribly. At their roaring, every nation prepared for
war, to fight against the righteous nation. It was a day of darkness
and gloom, of tribulation and distress, affliction and great tumult on
the Earth! And the whole righteous nation was troubled; they feared
the evils that threatened them, and were ready to perish. Then they
cried to G-d, and their outcry, as though from a tiny spring, there
came a great river, with abundant water; light came, and the sun
rose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured those held in
honour.
Then again, I lifted up mine eyes and Saw, And Behold, A Flying
Scroll. And He Said unto me, 'What Seest thou?' And I answered, 'I
See A Flying Scroll; The Length Thereof is twenty cubits, And The
Breadth Thereof is ten cubits.' Then Said He unto me:
'This Is The Curse That Goeth Forth over the face of the whole land;
For every one That Stealeth Shall Be Swept Away On The One
Side Like It; And every one That Sweareth Shall Be Swept Away
On The Other Side like It. 'I Cause It To Go Forth', Saith The Lord
Of Hosts, 'And It Shall Enter into the house of the thief, And into
the house of him That Sweareth Falsely By My Name; And It Shall
Abide In The Midst of his house, And Shall Consume it with the
timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
Those who would Deny The Law:
Are as the serpent who told Eve,
"She need not Obey The Law:
That she would not die:
for G-d Was Lying".
Those who would Deny The Law:
Are as Cain, wanting things that are his brother's:
-things that you believe you should have,
-faiths that you believe you should have,
-wives that you believe you should have;
and that your brother could just be buried.
Those who would Deny The Law:
Are A Curse on their parents,
and an Insult To G-d, for they Are All Liars,
Thieves, And Murderers.
Woe to them that call evil good, and good, evil;
that change darkness into light, and light, into darkness;
that change bitter into sweet, and sweet, into bitter!
Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!
Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine,
and men of strength, to mingle strong drink;
that justify the wicked for a reward,
and take away the righteousness of the righteous!
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble,
and as the chaff is consumed in the flame,
so shall their root be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust;
Because they Have Rejected The Law Of The Lord Of Hosts,
And Contemned The Word Of The Holy One Of Israel.
Yet, The Vision Of All This Is Become unto you as the words of a
writing that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned,
saying, 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith, 'I cannot, for it is
sealed'; and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned,
saying, 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith, 'I am not learned.'
Weep not:
Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David,
Hath Prevailed To Open The Book,
And Loose The Seven Seals Thereof.
Behold: I Will Bring Forth My Servant, the shoot of Jesse,
Zemah.
Behold: The Stone That I Have Laid Before Joshua; Upon
One Stone Are Seven Facets;
Behold: I Will Engrave The Graving Thereof, And I Will
Remove the iniquity of that land In One Day.
In That Day shall ye call every man your neighbour, under the vine
and under the fig tree.
Behold: My Servant, Whom I Uphold; Mine Elect, In Whom
My Soul Delighteth; I Have Put My Spirit Upon Him, He Shall
Make The Right To Go Forth to the nations. He Shall Not Cry,
Nor Lift Up, Nor Cause His Voice To Be Heard in the street. A
Bruised reed Shall He Not Break, And the Dimly Burning wick
Shall He Not Quench; He Shall Make The Right To Go Forth
According To The Truth. He Shall Not Fail Nor Be Crushed, Till He
Have Set The Right In The Earth; and the isles Shall Wait For His
Teaching. And I Will Cut Off the chariot From Ephraim, And the
horse From Jerusalem, And The Battle Bow Shall Be Cut Off, And
He Shall Speak Peace unto the nations; And His Dominion Shall
Be from sea to sea, and from the river To The Ends Of The Earth.
For as the lightning cometh
out of the east, and shineth even unto the west;
So Shall Also The Coming Of The Son of man Be.
Hear Attentively The Noise Of His Voice,
And The Sound That Goeth Out Of His mouth;
He Sendeth It Forth Under The Whole Heaven,
And His Lightning Unto The Ends Of The Earth.
After It, A Voice Roareth;
He Thundereth With The Voice Of His Majesty,
And He Stayeth Them Not When His Voice Is Heard.
The Lord Doth Roar From On High,
And Utter His Voice From His Holy Habitation;
He Doth Mightly Roar Because Of His Fold;
He Giveth A Shout, as they that tread the grapes,
Against All the inhabitants of the Earth;
For The Lord Hath A Controversy With the nations,
He Doth Plead With All flesh;
As for the wicked, He Hath Given them To The Sword.
Behold, Evil Shall Go Forth from nation to nation,
And A Great Storm Shall Be Raised Up
from the uttermost parts of the Earth.
And The Slain Of The Lord Shall Be At That Day,
from one end of the Earth,
even unto the other end of the Earth;
they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered, nor buried:
they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.
The Lion Roars, And who Shall Not Fear?
Whosoever Having Read These Words, Has
Just Received It; And This Obligation Is Now Sealed.
He That Is Not With Me, Is Against Me; And he That
Gathereth Not With Me, Scattereth Abroad.
x18.27 Moses let his father-In-Law depart, and he went his way
into his own land. So shall a man leave his father and his mother
for his wife, or his G-d, And they Shall Be One.
Thus Sayeth The Lord, The King Of Israel, And His Redeemer, The
Lord Of Hosts: 'I Am The First, And I Am The Last, And Beside Me
There Is No G-d.'

Proverbs Chapter 30

21 For three things the earth doth quake,

and for four, it cannot endure

:22 For a servant, when he reigneth;

and a churl, when he is filled with food;

23 For an odious woman, when she is married;

and a handmaid, that is heir to her mistress.

THE SEVENTH SEAL

It Is The Glory Of G-d To Conceal a thing,
but the honour of kings is to search out a matter;
Take away the dross from the silver,
and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner;
take away the wicked from before the king,
and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

Through them that are nigh unto me,
I Will Be Sanctified;
and before all the people,
I Will Be Glorified.
For Thou Hast Delivered
my soul from death,
mine eyes form tears,
and my feet from stumbling.
I Shall Walk Before The Lord
in the lands of the living.
Seven Times a day Do I Praise Thee,
Because Of Thy Righteous Ordinances.
Great Peace Have they That Love Thy Law,
and there is no stumbling for them.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,
and see The Recompense of the wicked.
For thou hast made The Lord Who Is my Refuge,
Even The Most High, thy Habitation.
There Shall No Evil Befall thee;
Neither Shall Any Plague Come Nigh thy tent.
For He Will Give His Angels Charge Over thee,
To Keep thee in all thy ways.
They Shall Bear thee upon their hands,
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp;
the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.
What man is he that liveth and shall not see death;
that Shall Deliver his soul from the power of the grave?
Thy Vows Are Upon me, O G-d.
I Will Render Thank-Offerings Unto Thee.
For Thou Hast Delivered my soul from death.
Hast Thou Not Delivered my feet from stumbling
that I May Walk Before You in the light of the living?

Enoch

Inscribed In Scripture:
There was a man born upon the Earth named Enoch, surnamed
Seth. This same Enoch was he who fathered Methuselah, who
fathered Lamech, who fathered Noah before The Flood. Mercy
And Forgiveness Were Found In Enoch, And he Turned To G-d So
Completely by age sixty five, That he Walked With G-d upon the
Earth for three hundred years. His heart was So Receptive To the
Spirit Of The Lord, That he Overcame The Constraint Of his Cage,
that of his earthen body, And G-d Took him Into Heaven. As a man,
he Had Been Formed In The Image Of G-d, like any man. But now,
he Had Both Image And Form As G-d. Though he was not G-d, he
Was Like Unto Him. Unique among all men, having never
descended into the pit in death. As such, death and hell have no
hold on him.

A time came forward in the history of man:
The Lord Spoke to Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah king
of Judah Saying, ‘Ask thee A Sign Of The Lord Thy G-d; Ask It
either in the depth, or in the height above.' But Ahaz said, ‘I Will
Not Ask, Neither Will I Try The Lord.' And Ahaz Prophesied, ‘Hear
ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men,
That you Will Weary my G-d Also, By Asking For Signs?
Therefore, The Lord Himself Shall Give you A Sign: Behold, the
young woman Shall Conceive, And Bear a son, And Shall Call his
name Immanuel (G-d Is With us). Curd and honey shall he eat
when he Knoweth To Refuse the evil, And Choose The Good.'
And a time came forward when the young woman, Mary, Did
Conceive, And Bear a son, and called his name Jesus. And he
was Enoch. And G-d Also Was With us, For He Was With Enoch.
But now, Enoch was again constrained by earthly form; and born
unto Jews, he inherited the animosity that idolaters had placed on
the Jews. This, for trying to impose upon them The Laws That G-d
Had Given them For The Peace Of All men. And as a paradox: For
keeping Those Laws to themselves, when there were Hanyfites,
those who, Like Abraham, Worshipped Only G-d, who Would Have
Obeyed Them Willingly.

Jesus Studied The Law When he Knew To Refuse the evil, And
Choose The Good. And It Was Clear to him That A Sacrifice of
himself Must Be Made, for man To Refuse Lawlessness, And
Choose The Law. G-d Allowed Satan To Tempt Jesus by offering
him an alternative to his Sacrifice. And had he accepted it, no
Gentile Would Have Received Any Part Of The Law, For G-d Would
Have Given Jesus The Koran instead, And Spared him this
Sacrifice. But his Mercy And Forgiveness was even towards
idolaters, though these same had caused his mother to Give Birth
in a barn with animals, rather than, in an inn for Gentiles only.
Taking On The Extra Burden Of The Sins of the Gentiles upon
himself, he Allowed his own Sacrifice To Proceed by the hand of
Jew and Gentile alike.

Every man that ever lived had a hand in his death because hatred
without cause had existed since the days of Cain, and continues
on to this day. Any Christian who is not complicit in the death of
Jesus, has no part in him, nor he in you. For he died in vain
concerning you, because you Never Received The Law in your
heart.

And of those who Received The Koran:
G-d Made Easy The Burden Upon Believers, By Not Forcing All
The Law upon them At Once, But Gradually, And In Stages.
‘Verily, We Have Made This Koran Easy, and in thine own tongue,
that thou Mayest Announce Glad Tidings By It To The G-d Fearing,
And That thou Mayest Warn the contentious By It.'
‘G-d Will Not Burden Any soul Beyond its power, It Shall Enjoy The
Good which it hath Acquired, And Shall Bear the evil For The
Acquirement of which it laboured.'

G-d's Promise Is The Same For All men:
All Who Have His Law Written in their hearts Shall Have Eternal
Life, And The Light Of G-d before them Always.
Yet among men, only Enoch Stands With G-d. And The Brightest
place of the pit, The Light therein Is Only From The Light Of The
Law within the hearts Of The Most Righteous there. This is barely
equal to the light of the living on its darkest day. Yet Most men Will
Never Behold Even That Much Of The Light That Emanates From
G-d.

All too soon, the pursuit of their vain desires, shall one day find
them in the darkest recesses of the pit, and the terror of it,
because they are not alone---

As Jesus,
From men to Take;
The Blight,
That wanted Able;
Seven Stars,
Returns to them;
The Right,
He did Enable;
And Restores to man,
His Light;
Upon that Blessed Table
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A FAITH BASED INITIATIVE

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and
they said to the olive-tree: Reign thou over us. But the olive-tree
said unto them: Should I leave my fatness, seeing that by me they
honour G-d and man, and go to hold sway over the trees? And the
trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us. But the fig-
tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good
fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees? And the trees said
unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said
unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth G-d and man,
and go to hold sway over the trees? Then said all the trees unto
the Bramble-Bush: Come thou, and reign over us. And the Bramble-
Bush said unto the trees: If in truth ye anoint me king over you,
then come and take refuge in my shadow; and if not, let fire come
out of the Bramble-Bush, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what The Spirit Sayeth unto the
churches: I Have This Against thee, because thou hast left thy first
love which is Peace. Remember therefore from whence thou art
fallen, and repent, and do the first works.

But you said: Lord, suffer me first to go and save my unborn children.

I Said: Follow Me, and let the dead bury their dead: but go thou
and Preach The Kingdom Of G-d.

But you said: The 'publicans will give us thirty pieces of silver for
Your churches, and we may have already won six hundred, and
three score, and six talents of gold annually: a king's ransom.

I Said: Lay up for yourselves Treasures In Heaven where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through,
nor steal; for where your Treasure is, There will your heart be also.
---Ye are the cedars of Lebanon.

If ye love Me, Keep My Commandments. And I Will Pray The
Father, and He Shall Give you Another Comforter, That He May
Abide With you For Ever: The Spirit Of Truth, Whom the world
Cannot Receive Now, Because it Seeth Him Not, Neither Knoweth
Him; But ye Know Him, For He Dwelleth With you, And Shall Be
In you. I Will Not Leave you Comfortless; I Will Come to you. He
That Hath My Commandments, And Keepeth Them, he it is That
Loveth Me; And he That Loveth Me, Shall Be Loved Of My Father,
And I Will Love him, And Will Manifest Myself to him. But The
Comforter, The Holy Spirit, Whom The Father Will Send In My
Name, He Shall Teach you All Things, And Bring All Things To
your Remembrance, Whatsoever I Said unto you. This also Is My
Commandment: That ye Love one another As I Have Loved you.
Greater Love Hath No man Than This: That a man Lay Down his
Life for his friends. But When The Comforter Is Come, Whom I Will
Send unto you From The Father: The Spirit Of Truth, Which
Proceedeth From The Father, He Shall Testify Of Me. And ye Also
Shall Bear Witness, Because ye Have Been With Me From The
Beginning. Nevertheless, I Tell you The Truth, It Is Expedient for
you That I Go Away; For If I Go Not Away, The Comforter Will Not
Come unto you; But If I Depart, I Will Send Him unto you. And
When He Is Come, He Will Reprove the world Of Sin, And Of
Righteousness, And Of Judgment:
Of Sin:
Because they Believed Not On Me.
Of Righteousness:
Because I Go To My Father, And ye See Me No More.
Of Judgment:
Because the prince Of This world Is Judged.
I Have Yet Many Things To Say unto you, But ye Cannot Bear
Them Now. Howbeit, When He, The Spirit Of Truth Is Come, He
Will Guide you Into All Truth: For He Shall Not Speak Of Himself;
But Whatsoever He Shall Hear, Shall He Speak; And He Will Shew
you Things To Come. He Shall Glorify Me, For He Shall Receive Of
Mine, And Shall Shew unto you All Things That The Father Hath,
That Are Mine. Therefore Said I, That He Shall Take Of Mine, And
Shall Shew unto you.

Here is wisdom: Let him that hath understanding count the number
of the beast: For it is the number of a man: And his number: six
hundred, three score, six. Now the weight of gold that came to
Solomon in one year was: six hundred, three score, six talents of
gold, beside that which came of the merchants, and the traffic of
the traders, and of all the kings of the mingled people, and of the
governors of the country. Men that would aspire to such great
riches without also possessing the wisdom of Solomon, of
compassion, and lovingkindness, do bear the mark of the beast,
in the work of his hand and the thoughts of his head. And he
caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name. For from the least of them,
even unto the greatest of them, every one is greedy for gain, every
one dealeth falsely, but his hand is stretched out still. The leech
hath two daughters: 'Give, give'. The elder and the man of rank, he
is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. And
his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them
to the Earth; for they that lead this people, cause them to err, and
they that are lead of them are destroyed.

In my distress I called Unto The Lord, And He Answered me. O
Lord, Deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. What
Shall Be Given unto thee, And Shall Be Done More unto thee, thou
deceitful tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.
Woe is me, that I sojourn with Meshech Japeth, and I that also
dwell beside the tents of Kedar Ishmael! My soul hath full long had
her dwelling with him that hateth peace. I am all peace; but when I
speak, they are for war.

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the
neighing of his strong ones, the whole land trembleth. 'For behold,
I Will Send serpents, basilisks, among you, Which Will Not Be
Charmed; and they shall bite you', Saith The Lord. And there arose
a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the
sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke of the pit, the like of locusts for
sheer multitude upon the Earth: and unto them was given power,
as the scorpions of the Earth have power. And their torment, as the
torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. And the shapes of
the locusts, like unto horses prepared unto battle, for vanities sake,
and hair like unto women, not for Consecration, but for vanities
sake. On their heads were crowns like gold, for single mindedness
of thought. And their faces, the faces of men, but their teeth were
as of lions. And the sound of their wings, as the sound of chariots
of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto
scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. And the name of
their king is America. And he doeth great wonders, so that he
maketh fire come down from heaven on the Earth in the sight of
men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the Earth by those miracles
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them
that dwell on the Earth: That they should make an image to Liberty,
the beast which had the wound by a sword on September Eleventh,
and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause
that as many as would not worship the image of the beast, should
be killed. For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers
and thorns; yea it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll
upward in thick clouds of smoke. For all nations have drunk the
wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the Earth have
committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth are
waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies

There is a generation, that curse their father, and do not bless their
mother. There is a generation, that are pure in their own eyes, and
yet are not cleansed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O
how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up. There is a
generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their great teeth as
knives, to devour the poor from off the Earth, and the needy from
among men.

Come Out of her My People, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached
unto Heaven, and G-d Hath Remembered her iniquities. Therefore
Shall her Plagues Come In One Day, Death, And Mourning, And
Famine; And she Shall Be Utterly Burned With Fire; For Strong,
The Lord G-d Who Judgeth her.
The Lord Shall Set His Mark Upon The Foreheads Of His
People, Israel. Thou Art Come Forth For The Deliverance Of Thy
People, For The Deliverance Of Thine Anointed; Thou Hast
Crushed The Head out of the house of the wicked, uncovering
the foundation, Even Unto The Neck. Thou Hast Stricken Through
with his own rods, the head of his rulers, that come as a whirlwind
to scatter me; whose rejoicing is as to devour the poor secretly.
Yet I will Rejoice In The Lord, I will exult in the G-d Of my Salvation.
Great And Marvelous Thy Works, Lord G-d Almighty; Just And
True Thy Ways, Thou King Of Saints. Who Shall Not Fear Thee, O
Lord, For Holiness Only: For All nations Shall Come And Worship
Before Thee; For Thy Judgments Are Made Manifest.
Turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with
weeping, and with lamentation; and rend your heart, and not your
garments, and Turn Unto The Lord your G-d; For He Is Gracious
And Compassionate, Long-Suffering, And Abundant In Mercy; And
He Will Not Lie Nor Repent; For He Is Not a man, That He Should
Repent. 'Yet Even Now', Saith The Lord, 'Who knoweth whether
"he" will not turn and repent, and repenteth him of the evil, and
leave a blessing behind him, even A Meal-Offering and a Drink-
Offering Unto The Lord your G-d?' Blow the horn in Zion, Sanctify a
fast, call a Solemn Assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the
congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children, and those
that suck the breasts; Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber,
and the bride out of her pavilion. Let The Priests, The Ministers Of
The Lord, Weep between the porch and the Altar; and let them say,
'Spare Thy People, O Lord, And Give Not Thy Heritage to reproach,
that the nations should make them a byword: Wherefore should
they say among the peoples: Where Is their G-d?' Return O Israel,
Unto The Lord thy G-d; for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity.
Take with you words, and Return Unto The Lord. Say Unto Him,
'Please Forgive All iniquity, And Accept That Which Is Good; so
will we render for Bullocks, The Offering of our lips. Asshur shall
not save us. We will not ride upon horses. Neither will we call any
more the work of our hands, our 'g-ds'. For In Thee, the fatherless
Findeth Mercy.' Then Was The Lord Jealous For His Land, And
Had Pity On His People. I Will Heal their backsliding, I Will Love
them Freely, For Mine Anger Is Turned Away from him. And The
Lord Answered And Said Unto His People, 'Behold, I Will Send
you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith.
And I Will No More Make you A Reproach among the nations;
But I Will Remove Far Off from you, the northern one, And Will
Drive him Into A Land Barren And Desolate, with his face toward
the eastern sea, and his hinder part toward the western sea; that
his foulness may come up, and his ill savour may come up,
because he hath done great things'. I Will Be As The Dew unto
Israel; he shall flower like the lily, and cast forth his roots like the
Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as
the olive-tree, and his fragrance like the Lebanon'. They That Dwell
In His Shadow Shall Return; they shall revive like corn, and shall
blossom as the vine; the scent thereof shall be like the wine of
Lebanon. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall Call On
The Name Of The Lord Shall Be Delivered.

Noises and confusion, thunders and earthquake, tumult on the Earth!
Then two great dragons came forward, both ready to fight, and they
roared terribly. At their roaring, every nation prepared for war, to fight
against the righteous nation. It was a day of darkness and gloom,
of tribulation and distress, affliction and great tumult on the earth!
And the whole righteous nation was troubled; they feared the evils
that threatened them, and were ready to perish. Then they cried to
G-d, and their outcry, as though from a tiny spring, there came a
great river, with abundant water; light came, and the sun rose, and
the lowly Were Exalted and devoured those held in honour.

I Am, The Great King: to the governors of the hundred and twenty
seven provinces from India to Ethiopia, and to their regional officials:
As Ruler Over all nations, And Lord Of The Worlds; It Is My Will-
not in the arrogance of power, but Because My Rule Is Equitable
And Mild:
· To Ensure For My Subjects a life permanently free from
disturbance,
· To Make My Kingdom Quiet And Safe for travel to its
farthest limits,
· And To Restore the Peace that all men desire.
I Have Enquired Of My Councellors How This Object Might Be
Achieved. Among Us, Jesus Is Eminent For Sound Judgment,
One Whose Worth Is Proved By His Constant Goodwill And
Steadfast Fidelity, And Who Has Gained The Honour Of The
Second Place In Our Court. He Has Represented To Us That There
Is, Dispersed Among All the races of the world A Disaffected
people, Opposed in its laws to every nation, And Continually
Ignoring The Royal Ordinances, So That Our Perfected Plans For
The Unified Administration Of The Empire Cannot Be
Accomplished. We Understand that this people, and it alone,
Stands Constantly In Opposition to every nation, Perversely
Following A Strange Manner of "life and laws", And Is Ill-Disposed
To Our Government, Doing All The Harm they can So That Our
Kingdom May Not Attain Stability. Accordingly, We Have Given
Orders That All those who are Designated to you In The
Indictments Drawn Up By Jesus, Our Vicegerent And Second
Father Shall, with their wives and children, Be Utterly Destroyed
by their enemies' swords Without Pity Or Restraint, on the
fourteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar, of this present year, So
That those who have long been Disaffected, Shall in a single day
Meet A Violent End, So That Our Government May Henceforth Be
Stable And Untroubled.

I Am, The Great King: to the governors of the hundred and twenty
seven provinces from India to Ethiopia, and To All Our Loyal
Subjects: Greetings. Many people, the more they Are Honoured
With The Most Generous Kindness, Of their Benefactors, the
More Proud Do they Become, And not only Seek To Injure Our
Subjects, But, Unable To Keep their Insolence Within Bounds,
they even Undertake To Scheme Against their own Benefactors.
Not Content With Destroying Gratitude among men, they Are So
Carried Away By the Presumption of those who are strangers to
good breeding That they even Suppose they Will Escape The
Avenging Justice Of The All-Seeing G-d. And often, Many of
those who Are Set In Places Of Authority Have Been Made in part
Responsible for the shedding of innocent blood, And Have Been
Involved In irreparable Calamities, By the persuasion of friends
Who Have Been Entrusted With The Administration Of public
Affairs, when these persons, By the False Trickery Of their Evil
Natures, Beguile The Sincere Goodwill Of their Sovereigns. What
Has Been Wickedly Accomplished Through the Pestilent Behavior
of those Who Exercise Authority Unworthily, can be seen, not
only in the accounts handed down to us from the past, as from
investigation of matters close at hand. In the future, We Will Take
Care To Render Our Kingdom Quiet And Peaceable For All, By
Changing Our Methods And Always Judging What Comes Before
Our Eyes, With More Equitable Consideration. Now Jesus, son of
Joseph, a Gentile, an alien in fact, with no Persian blood, And Not
A Trace Of Our Kindly Nature, Was Accepted By Us And Enjoyed
So Fully The Benevolence Which We Extend to every nation, That
he Was Given The Title Of Father, And Was Continually Bowed
Down To By All, As The Second To The Royal Throne. But this
man, In his Unbridled Arrogance Schemed To Deprive Us Of Our
Kingdom And Our Spirit; And With Intricate Craft And Deceit,
Asked For The Destruction Of Muhammad, Our Savior And
Perpetual Benefactor, And Of Israel, The Blameless Partner Of
Our Kingdom, Together With The Whole nation. He Thought, by
these means, To Catch Us Without Support And Transfer to the
Gentiles, The Sovereignty Now Held By the Persians. But We
Find That the Jews, who Were Consigned To Annihilation By This
Thrice-Accursed man, Are Not Evildoers, But Are Governed By
The Most Righteous Of Laws, And Are Children Of The Living G-d,
The Most High, The Most Mighty; Who Has Directed The
Kingdom both for us and for our ancestors, In The Most Excellent
Order. You Will Therefore Do Well, Not To Put In Execution, The
Letters Sent By Jesus, son of Joseph, Since he, the Contriver Of
All this, Has Been Hanged At The Gate Of Jerusalem With All his
household-- For G-d, Who Rules Over All things, Has Speedily
Inflicted on him The Punishment that he Deserved. Copies Of This
Letter Are To Be Posted In All public Places. The Jews Are To
Live Under My Own Laws, And Be Given Every Assistance, So
That on the very same day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth
month, they May Defend themselves Against those Who Attack
them At The Time Of Oppression. For G-d, Who Rules Over All
things, Has Made This Day To Be A Joy For His Chosen People
Instead Of A Day Of Destruction for them. Therefore, you Shall
Observe This With All Good Cheer, As A Notable Day among
your commemorative festivals, So That Henceforth, It May Be A
Standing Symbol Of Deliverance To Us And Our Loyal Persians,
But A Reminder Of Destruction To those Who Plot Against Us.
And Israel Said To The King, 'Let the Jews Be Allowed To Do The
Same Tomorrow. Also, hang up the bodies of Jesus' ten sons.'
Any city or country whatsoever Which Does Not Act Upon These
Orders, Will Incur Our Wrath And Be Destroyed with fire and
sword. It Shall Be Made not only Impassable for human beings,
But Also, Most Hateful to wild animals and birds For All Time. Let
Copies Of The Decree Be Posted Conspicuously In All The
Kingdom, And Let All the Jews Be Ready On That Day To Fight
against their enemies.

BORN AGAIN

JOHN 3
1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus,
a ruler of the Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him,
'Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from G-d:
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest,
except G-d be with him'.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, 'Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, Except a man be Born Again,
he cannot See the Kingdom of G-d'.

MATTHEW 1
2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob;
and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar;
and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson;
and Naasson begat Salmon;
5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab;
and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king
begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia;
and Abia begat Asa;
8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram;
and Joram begat Ozias;
9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz;
and Achaz begat Ezekias;
10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon;
and Amon begat Josias;
11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren,
about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
12 And after they were brought to Babylon,
Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim;
and Eliakim begat Azor;
14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim;
and Achim begat Eliud;
15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan;
and Matthan begat Jacob;
16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,
of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David
are fourteen generations; and from David until
the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations;
and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ
are fourteen generations.
So Joseph, the father of Jesus, was himself the son of Jacob.
So Jesus came to be born
MATTHEW 2
1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea
in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came
wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, 'Where is he that is born King of the Jews?
For we have seen his star in the east, and are come
to worship him'.
3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled,
and all Jerusalem with him.
4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests
and scribes of the people together,
he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea:
for thus it is written by the prophet,
6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda,
art not the least among the princes of Juda:
for out of thee shall come a Governor,
that shall rule my people Israel.
7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men,
enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said,
'Go and search diligently for the young child;
and when ye have found him, bring me word again,
that I may come and worship him also'.
9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo,
the star, which they saw in the east, went before them,
till it came and stood over where the young child was.
10 When they saw the star,
they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
11 And when they were come into the house,
they saw the young child with Mary his mother,
and fell down, and worshipped him:
and when they had opened their treasures,
they presented unto him gifts;
gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
12 And being warned of God in a dream that they
should not return to Herod, they departed into
their own country another way.
13 And when they were departed,
behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream,
saying, 'Arise, and take the young child and his mother,
and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:
for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him'.
14 When he arose,
he took the young child and his mother by night,
and departed into Egypt:
15 And was there until the death of Herod:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord
by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men,
was exceeding wroth, and sent forth,
and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem,
and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under,
according to the time
which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,
saying,
18 'In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping,
and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children,
and would not be comforted, because they are not'.
19 But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord
appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
20 Saying, 'Arise, and take the young child and his mother,
and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead
which sought the young child's life'.
21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother,
and came into the land of Israel.
22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea
in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither:
notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream,
he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth:
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets,
'He shall be called a Nazarene'.
Then Joseph was Born Again, with a new father, Heli, and a new lineage.
LUKE 3
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age,
being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna,
which was the son of Joseph,
25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos,
which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli,
which was the son of Nagge,
26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias,
which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph,
which was the son of Juda,
27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa,
which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel,
which was the son of Neri,
28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi,
which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam,
which was the son of Er,
29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer,
which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat,
which was the son of Levi,
30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda,
which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan,
which was the son of Eliakim,
31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan,
which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan,
which was the son of David,
32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed,
which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon,
which was the son of Naasson,
33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram,
which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares,
which was the son of Juda,
34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac,
which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara,
which was the son of Nachor,
35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau,
which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber,
which was the son of Sala,
36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad,
which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe,
which was the son of Lamech,
37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch,
which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel,
which was the son of Cainan,
38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth,
which was the son of Adam, which was the son of G-d.
Now since Joseph was Born Again, Jesus likewise, Born Again,
under different circumstances.
LUKE 2
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree
from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,
into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem;
(because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there,
the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son,
and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger;
because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field,
keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them,
and the glory of the Lord shone round about them:
and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you;
Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel,
a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men'.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven,
the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem,
and see this thing which is come to pass,
which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph,
and the babe lying in a manger.
17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying
which was told them concerning this child.
18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things
which were told them by the shepherds.
19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising G-d
for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child,
his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel
before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the Law of Moses
were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
39 And when they had performed all things according to the Law of the Lord,
they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
Judas (of course) betrayed Jesus
MATTHEW 27
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver
to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, 'I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood'.
And they said, 'What is that to us? see thou to that'.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed,
and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said,
'It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury,
because it is the price of blood'.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field,
to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued,
whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Then Judas also was born again, only to die again under different circumstances.
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1
15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said,
(the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
16 'Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled,
which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas,
which was guide to them that took Jesus.
17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity;
and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst,
and all his bowels gushed out.
19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem;
insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama,
that is to say, The field of blood'.
A dead again sinner.

JUDGMENT:
I felt inclined to condemn Simon bar Jona (son of Jona), Surnamed Peter,
as he denied Christ at every opportunity
-but he was sleeping when the lynch mob came,
and Christ was betrayed by one who greeted him with a kiss.
Now Simon was the husband to Martha who was the sister to Mary called Magdalene.
And Mary was the wife to Jesus, and mother to Judas Iscariot.
Iscariot being her maiden name
MATTHEW 8
2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, 'Lord,
if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean'.
3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, 'I will; be thou clean'.
And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
This was Simon called Peter
MATTHEW 8
14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house,
he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her:
and she arose, and ministered unto them.
LUKE 10
38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village:
and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet,
and heard his word.
40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said,
'Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?
Bid her therefore that she help me'.
41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha,
thou art careful and troubled about many things:
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part,
which shall not be taken away from her.
But Mary was also an adulteress, later brought before Jesus by his enemies,
whom he spared from being stoned.
JOHN 8
1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple,
and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery;
and when they had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, 'Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses in the Law Commanded us, that such should be stoned:
but what sayest thou'?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground,
as though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her'.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience,
went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last:
and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman,
he said unto her, 'Woman, where are those thine accusers?
Hath no man condemned thee'?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, 'Neither do I condemn thee:
go, and sin no more'.
Jesus later forgave Mary as she wept at his feet at Simon's house in Bethany.

JOHN 12
1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was,
which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served:
but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly,
and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair:
and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
MARK 14
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat,
there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious;
and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

LUKE 7
36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him.
And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner,
when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping,
and began to wash his feet with tears,
and did wipe them with the hairs of her head,
and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself,
saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known
who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee.
And he saith, 'Master, say on'.
41 'There was a certain creditor which had two debtors:
the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.
42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.
Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most'?
43 Simon answered and said, 'I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most'.
And he said unto him, 'Thou hast rightly judged'.
44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, 'Seest thou this woman?
I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet:
but she hath washed my feet with tears,
and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
45 Thou gavest me no kiss:
but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint:
but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.
47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven;
for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little'.
48 And he said unto her, 'Thy sins are forgiven'.
49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves,
Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.
JOHN 11
1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany,
the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment,
and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying,
'Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick'.
4 When Jesus heard that, he said, 'This sickness is not unto death,
but for the Glory of G-d, that the Son of G-d might be glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
LUKE 16
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen,
and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate,
full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table:
moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died,
and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom:
the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus,
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue;
for I am tormented in this flame'.
25 But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst
thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted,
and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed:
so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot;
neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence'.
27 Then he said, 'I pray thee therefore, father,
that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment'.
29 Abraham saith unto him, 'They have Moses and the prophets;
let them hear them'.
30 And he said, 'Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead,
they will repent'.
31 And he said unto him, 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
So Judas Iscariot "died" and was born again into a new identity,
-as Simon's adopted son: Lazarus.
In time Judas surnamed Iscariot came to represent all Jews,
and they were made to suffer for it.
JOHN 13
21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
and said, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me'.
22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples,
whom Jesus loved.
24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him,
that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.
25 He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, 'Lord, who is it'?
26 Jesus answered, 'He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it'.
And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him,
'That thou doest, do quickly'.
28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag,
that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of
against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.
Judas then roused Jesus' father: Joseph of Aramathea,
who had sought to protect his son from Temple mercenaries
who were planning to kill Jesus.
Joseph had been promised that Jesus would be incarcerated for tax evasion,
but would not be harmed.
LUKE 23
1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
2 And they began to accuse him, saying,
'We found this fellow perverting the nation,
and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar,
saying that he himself is Christ a King'.
When the mob came for Jesus, Judas followed:
MARK 14
51 And there followed him a certain young man,
having a linen cloth cast about his naked body;
and the young men laid hold on him:
52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
When Temple officials gave the bounty money to Joseph
and told him they wanted him hung, he threw the money down and left the Temple.
JOHN18
15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple:
that disciple was known unto the high priest,
and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.
16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple,
which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door,
and brought in Peter.
17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter,
'Art not thou also one of this man's disciples'? He saith, 'I am not'.
Then later, when Jesus was on his way to be executed,
Jesus identified Judas to his own mother, as his son.
That knowledge formerly kept hidden for his safety.
JOHN 19
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister,
Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by,
whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, 'Woman, behold thy son'!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, 'Behold thy mother'!
And from that hour, that disciple took her unto his own home.
Then after it was done, Jesus body was given to his father for burial.
JOHN 19
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews,
besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus:
and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night,
and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus,
and wound it in linen clothes with the spices,
as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden;
and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' Preparation Day;
for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Peter and Judas arrive at the sepulchre.
JOHN 20
1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark,
unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple,
whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them,
'They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre,
and we know not where they have laid him.
3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple,
and came to the sepulchre.
4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter,
and came first to the sepulchre.
5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying;
yet went he not in.
6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre,
and seeth the linen clothes lie,
7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes,
but wrapped together in a place by itself.
8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre,
and he saw, and believed.
9 For as yet they knew not the scripture,
that he must rise again from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
JOHN 21
4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore:
but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
5 Then Jesus saith unto them, 'Children, have ye any meat'?
They answered him, 'No'.
6 And he said unto them, 'Cast the net on the right side of the ship,
and ye shall find. They cast therefore,
and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter,
'It is the Lord'. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord,
he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,)
and did cast himself into the sea.
MATTHEW 24
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known
in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched,
and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not,
-the Son of man cometh.
JOHN 21
20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following;
which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said,
'Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee'?
21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, 'Lord, and what shall this man do'?
22 Jesus saith unto him, 'If I will that he tarry till I come,
what is that to thee? Follow thou me'.
23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren,
that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him,
'He shall not die'; but, 'If I will that he tarry till I come,
what is that to thee'?

LAMENTATION

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!

How Hath The Lord Covered with a cloud the daughter of Zion In
His Anger! He Hath Cast Down From Heaven unto the earth the
beauty of Israel, And Hath Not Remembered His Footstool In The
Day Of His Anger.

I am the man that Hath Seen Affliction By The Rod Of His Wrath.
He Hath Led me And Caused me To Walk In Darkness, And Not In
Light. Surely Against me He Turneth His Hand Again And Again All
The Day.

How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed!
The hallowed stones are poured out at the head of every street.

5 Remember, O Lord, What Is Come Upon us; Behold, And See
our Reproach.

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;
she hath none to comfort her among all her lovers; all her friends
have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

The Lord Hath Swallowed Up Unsparingly, All the habitations of
Jacob; He Hath Thrown Down In His Wrath the strongholds of the
daughter of Judah; He Hath Brought them Down to the ground; He
Hath Profaned the kingdom and the princes Thereof.

My flesh and my skin Hath He Worn Out; He Hath Broken my
bones. He Hath Builded Against me, And Compassed me With
Gall And Travail. He Hath Made me To Dwell in dark places, as
those that have been long dead.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they
esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

10 Our Inheritance Is Turned unto strangers, our houses unto
aliens.

Judah Is Gone into exile Because Of Affliction, and because of
great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no
rest; all her pursuers overtook her within the straits.

He Hath Cut Off In Fierce Anger All the horn of Israel; He Hath
Drawn Back His Right Hand from before the enemy; And He Hath
Burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

He Hath Hedged me About, that I cannot go forth; He Hath Made
my chain Heavy. Yea, when I cry and call for Help, He Shutteth
Out my Prayer. He Hath Enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He
Hath Made my paths Crooked.

Even the jackals 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.

15 We Are Become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as
widows.

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to The Solemn
Assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh; her virgins
are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

He Hath Bent His Bow Like An Enemy, Standing With His Right
Hand As An Adversary, And Hath Slain All that were pleasant to
the eye; in the tent of the daughter of Zion He Hath Poured Out His
Fury like fire.

He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
He Hath Turned Aside my ways, And Pulled me In Pieces; He
Hath Made me Desolate. He Hath Bent His Bow, And Set me As
A Mark For The Arrow.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for
thirst; the young children ask bread, and none breaketh it unto
them.

20 We have drunk our water for money; our wood cometh to us for
price.

Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies are at ease; for
The Lord Hath Afflicted her For The Multitude Of her
Transgressions; her young children Are Gone Into Captivity before
the adversary.

The Lord Is Become As An Enemy, He Hath Swallowed Up Israel;
He Hath Swallowed Up All her palaces, He Hath Destroyed His
Strongholds; And He Hath Multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning And Moaning.

He Hath Caused The Arrows Of His Quiver To Enter into my reins.
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
He Hath Filled me With Bitterness, He Hath Sated me with
wormwood.

They that did feed on dainties, are desolate in the streets; they that
were brought up in scarlet, embrace dunghills.

25 To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.

And gone is from the daughter of Zion all her splendour; her princes
are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone
without strength before the pursuer.

And He Hath Stripped His Tabernacle, as if it were a garden, He
Hath Destroyed His Place Of Assembly; The Lord Hath Caused To
Be Forgotten In Zion Appointed Season And Sabbath, And Hath
Rejected In The Indignation Of His Anger, the king and the priest.

He Hath Also Broken my teeth with gravel stones, He Hath Made
me To Wallow in ashes. And my soul is Removed Far Off From
Peace, I forgot prosperity. And I said: 'My Strength Is Perished,
And mine Expectation From The Lord.'

For The Iniquity of the daughter of my people Is Greater Than The
Sin of Sodom, That Was Overthrown As In A Moment, and no
hands fell upon her.

30 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to have bread
enough;

Jerusalem remembereth In The Days Of her Affliction And Of her
Anguish, all her treasures that she had from the days of old; now
that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, and none doth
help her, the adversaries have seen her, they have mocked at her
desolations.

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 Lord, As In
The Day Of A Solemn Assembly.

Remember mine Affliction And mine Anguish, the wormwood and
the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and Is Bowed
Down Within me. This I Recall to my mind, Therefore Have I Hope.

Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they
were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of
sapphire;

35 Our fathers Have Sinned, and are not; And we Have Borne their
Iniquities.

Jerusalem Hath Grievously Sinned, Therefore she Is Become as
one Unclean; all that honoured her despise her, because they
have seen her nakedness; she herself also sigheth, and turneth
backward.

The Lord Hath Purposed To Destroy the wall of the daughter of
Zion; He Hath Stretched Out the line, He Hath Not Withdrawn His
Hand From Destroying; But He Hath Made the rampart and wall To
Mourn, they languish together.

Surely The Lord's Mercies Are Not Consumed, surely His
Compassions Fail Not. They Are New every morning; Great Is Thy
Faithfulness. 'The Lord Is my Portion', saith my soul; 'Therefore will
I Hope In Him.'

Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets;
their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become
like a stick.

40 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their
hand.

Her filthiness was in her skirts, she was not mindful of her end;
therefore is she come down wonderfully, she Hath No Comforter.
'Behold, O Lord, my Affliction, for the enemy hath magnified
himself.'

Her gates are sunk into the ground; He Hath Destroyed And
Broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations,
Instruction Is No More; yea, her prophets Find No Vision From The
Lord.

The Lord Is Good Unto them That Wait For Him, to the soul That
Seeketh Him. It is good that a man should quietly wait for The
Salvation Of The Lord. It is good for a man that he Bear The Yoke
in his youth.

They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are
slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for want
of the fruits of the field.

45 We get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword
of the wilderness.

The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her treasures; for
she hath seen that the heathen Are Entered Into her Sanctuary,
concerning whom Thou Didst Command That they Should Not
Enter Into Thy Congregation.

They sit upon the ground, and keep silence, the elders of the
daughter of Zion; 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.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He Hath Laid It Upon
him. Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be Hope.
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him, let him be filled full
with reproach.

The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own
children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of
my people.

50 Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of
famine.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant
things for food to refresh the soul. 'See, O Lord, And Behold, how
abject I am become.'

Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured
upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people;
because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad
places of the city. The Lord Will Not Cast Off For Ever. For Though
He Cause Grief, Yet Will He Have Compassion According To The
Multitude Of His Mercies. For He Doth Not Afflict Willingly, Nor
Grieve the children of men.

The Lord Hath Accomplished His Fury, He Hath Poured Out His
Fierce Anger; And He Hath Kindled A Fire in Zion, Which Hath
Devoured the foundations Thereof.

55 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities
of Judah.

'Let It Not Come unto you, all ye that pass by! Behold, and see if
there be any pain like unto my pain, Which Is Done unto me,
Wherewith The Lord Hath Afflicted me In The Day Of His Fierce
Anger.

They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when they
swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their
soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. To crush under foot
all the prisoners of the earth, To Turn Aside The Right of a man
Before The Face Of The Most High, To Subvert a man in his cause,
The Lord Approveth Not.

The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the
world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates
of Jerusalem.

60 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not
honoured.

From On High 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.

What shall I take to witness for thee? What 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?

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, --When The Lord
Commandeth It Not? Out Of The Mouth Of The Most High
Proceedeth Not: Evil And Good? Wherefore doth a living man
complain, a strong man, because of his Sins?

It Is Because Of The Sins of her prophets, And The Iniquities of her
priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

65 The young men have borne the mill, and the children have
stumbled under the wood.

The Yoke Of my Transgressions Is Impressed By His Hand; they
are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He Hath Made
my Strength To Fail; The Lord Hath Delivered me into their hands,
against whom I am not able to stand.

Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; And
they Have Not Uncovered thine Iniquity, To Bring Back thy Captivity;
but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.

Let us Search And Try our Ways, And Return To The Lord.
Let us Lift Up our Heart With our Hands Unto G-d In The Heavens.
We Have Transgressed And Have Rebelled; Thou Hast Not
Pardoned.

They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with
blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.

70 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
music.

The Lord Hath Set At Nought All my mighty men in the midst of
me; He Hath Called A Solemn Assembly against me To Crush my
young men; The Lord Hath Trodden as in a winepress, the virgin,
the daughter of Judah.'

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their
head at the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city that men called
the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?'

Thou Hast Covered With Anger And Pursued us; Thou Hast Slain
Unsparingly. Thou Hast Covered Thyself with a cloud, So That No
Prayer Can Pass Through. Thou Hast Made us As The
Offscouring And Refuse in the midst of the peoples.

'Depart ye! unclean!' men cried unto them, 'Depart, depart, touch
not'; yea, they fled away and wandered; men said among the
nations: 'They shall no more sojourn here.'

75 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
mourning.

'For These Things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with
water; because The Comforter Is Far from me, Even He That
Should Refresh my soul; my children are desolate, because the
enemy hath prevailed.'

All Thine Enemies Have Opened their mouth Wide 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.'

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. Terror
And The Pit Are Come Upon us, Desolation And Destruction.
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, For The Breach of the
daughter of my people.

The Anger Of The Lord Hath Divided them; He Will No More Regard
them; they respected not the persons of the priests, they were not
gracious unto the elders.

80 The Crown Is Fallen from our head; Woe unto us! For we Have
Sinned.

Zion spreadeth forth her hands; There Is None To Comfort her; The
Lord Hath Commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round
about him should be his adversaries; Jerusalem is among them as
one unclean.

The Lord Hath Done That Which He Devised; He Hath Performed
His Word That He Commanded In The Days Of Old; He Hath
Thrown Down Unsparingly; And He Hath Caused the enemy To
Rejoice Over thee, He Hath Exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Till The Lord Look Forth, And Behold From Heaven. Mine eye
affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

As for us, our eyes do yet fail for our vain help; in our watching we
have watched for a nation that could not Save.

85 For This our heart is faint, For These Things our eyes are dim;

'The Lord Is Righteous; For I Have Rebelled Against His Word; hear,
I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my pain: my virgins and my
young men Are Gone Into Captivity.

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 respite;
Let Not The apple Of Thine Eye Cease.

They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies
without cause. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have
cast stones upon me. Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I Am
Cut Off.'

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our broad places; our
end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

90 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk
upon it.

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and mine
elders perished in the city, while they sought them food to refresh
their souls.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour
Out thy 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 at the head of every street.'

I Called Upon Thy Name, O Lord. Out Of The Nethermost Pit, Thou
Heardest my Voice; Hide Not Thine Ear At my Sighing, at my cry.
Thou Drewest Near In The Day That I Called Upon Thee; Thou
Saidst, 'Fear not.'

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they
chased us upon the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the
wilderness.

95 Thou, O Lord, Art Enthroned For Ever, Thy Throne is from
generation to generation.

Behold, O Lord, for I Am In Distress, mine inwards burn; my Heart
Is Turned Within me, For I Have Grievously Rebelled. Abroad the
sword bereaveth, at home there is the like of death.

'See, O Lord, And Consider, to whom Thou Hast Done Thus! Shall
the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands?
Shall the priest and the prophet Be Slain In The Sanctuary Of The
Lord?

O Lord, Thou Hast Pleaded The Causes of my soul; Thou Hast
Redeemed my life. O Lord, Thou Hast Seen my wrong; Judge
Thou my Cause. Thou Hast Seen All their vengeance and all their
devices against me.

The breath of our nostrils, The Anointed Of The Lord, was taken in
their pits; Of Whom we said: 'Under His Shadow we shall live
among the nations.'

100 Wherefore Dost Thou Forget us For Ever, And Forsake us So
Long Time?

They have heard that I sigh, There Is None To Comfort me; all mine
enemies have heard of my trouble, and are glad, For Thou Hast
Done It; Thou Wilt Bring The Day That Thou Hast Proclaimed, and
they shall be like unto me.

The youth and the old man 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 Slaughtered
Unsparingly.

Thou Hast Heard their Taunt, O Lord, And All their Devices against
me; the lips of those That Rose Up Against me, And their
Muttering Against me all the day. Behold Thou their sitting down,
and their rising up; I am their song.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land
of Uz: The Cup Shall Pass Over unto thee Also; thou Shalt Be
Drunken, And Shalt Make thyself Naked.

105 Turn Thou us Unto Thee, O Lord, And we Shall Be Turned;

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.'

Thou Hast Called, As In The Day Of A Solemn Assembly, my
Terrors On Every Side, And There Was None In The Day Of The
Lord's Anger That Escaped Or Remained; those that I have
dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.'

Thou Wilt Render unto them A Recompense, O Lord, According To
The Work of their hands. Thou Wilt Give them Hardness Of Heart,
Thy Curse unto them. Thou Wilt Pursue them In Anger, And
Destroy them From Under The Heavens Of The Lord.

The Punishment Of thine Iniquity Is Accomplished, O daughter of
Zion, He Will No More Carry thee Away Into Captivity; He Will
Punish thine Iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He Will Uncover thy
Sins.

110 Renew our Days As Of Old; Thou Canst Not Have Utterly
Rejected us, And Be Exceeding Wroth against us!

For Thus Hath The Lord Said unto me, 'I Will Hold Me Still, And I
Will Look On In My Dwelling Place, like clear heat in sunshine, like
a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.' For before the harvest, when
the blossom is over, and the bud becometh a ripening grape, He
Will Cut Off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, And the shoots Will He
Take Away And Lop-Off. They Shall Be Left Together unto the
ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the Earth;
and the ravenous birds Shall Summer upon them, and all the
beasts of the Earth Shall Winter upon them.' Now learn a parable
of the fig-tree: When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth
leaves, ye know that summer is near; if any man Hath ears To Hear,
Let him Hear. Behold, I Will Send For Many fishers, And they Shall
Fish them; And Afterward, I Will Send For Many hunters, And they
Shall Hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of
the clefts of the rocks. For Mine Eyes Are Upon All their Ways;
They Are Not Hid From My Face; Neither Is their Iniquity Concealed
From Mine Eyes. And I Will Recompense their Iniquity And their
Sin Double; Because they Have Profaned My Land, they Have
Filled Mine Inheritance With the carcasses of their detestable
things and their Abominations. Upon All the high hills in the
wilderness, Spoilers Are Come, For The Sword Of The Lord
Devoureth. From the one end of the land, even to the other end of
the land, no flesh hath Peace. They have sown wheat, and have
reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but not profit; Be
Then Ashamed Of your Harvests, Because Of The Fierce Anger Of
The Lord. But, Israel Shall Come And Sing in the height of Zion,
And Shall Flow Unto The Goodness Of The Lord: to the corn, and
to the wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the
herd; And their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall
not languish in sorrow any more at all. Then shall the virgin rejoice
in the dance, and the young men and the old together; For The
Lord Will Turn their Mourning Into Joy, And Will Comfort them,
And Make them Rejoice from their sorrow.
Wonderful In Counsel Is G-d The Mighty,
The Everlasting Father,
The Ruler Of Peace.

Hear, O Israel:
The Lord thy G-d,
The Lord Is One;
And I Have:
Looked And Heard,
Wrestled And Judged,
Hired And Brought Fortune,
Dwelled With And Made Happy,
Joined And Added To The Praise
Of The Son Of The Right Hand, Israel;
And I Will Betroth thee Unto Me Forever;
Yea, I Will Betroth thee Unto Me In Righteousness,
And In Justice, And In Lovingkindness, And In Compassion,
And I Will Betroth thee Unto Me In Faithfulness, And thou shalt know The Lord;
And thou shalt love The Lord thy G-d with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might;
For Then Will I Turn To The Peoples, A Pure Language, That they may all call Upon The Name
Of The Lord, to serve Him with one consent. And These Words, Which I Command thee
This Day, Shall Be Upon thy heart; and thou Shalt Teach Them diligently unto thy children;
and Shalt Talk Of Them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up; And thou Shalt Bind Them For A Sign
upon thy hand; and They Shall Be For Frontlets between thine eyes;
And thou Shalt Write Them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

GRACE

Praise be to G-d, Our Father,
Lord Of The Worlds which art in Heaven;
The Compassionate, The Merciful, Hallowed Be Thy Name;
King On The Day Of Reckoning;
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done, In Earth As In Heaven;
Thee only do we worship, and To Thee do we cry For Help;
Please Give us this day our Daily Bread;
And Guide Thou us On The Straight Path,
The Path of those to whom Thou Hast Been Gracious;
And Forgive us our Debts, as we forgive our debtors;
with whom Thou Art Not Angry, and who go not astray;
And Lead us Not Into Temptation,
But Deliver us From Evil In The Name Of G-d;
For Thine Is The Kingdom;
The Compassion And The Power;
The Mercy And The Glory;
Forever.
Amen.

I did Strive with G-d;
I am Christian toward men;
I will be Submissive To G-d;
And I will betroth Thee unto me forever;
Yea, I will betroth Thee unto me in righteousness,
and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in compassion,
and I will betroth Thee unto me in faithfulness; and I shall know The Lord.