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c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 69
c3content:
According to their ability they gave to the treasury room for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly tunics. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 70
c3content:
The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the seventh month drew near and the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were in the cities, so the people gathered as {one}Literally "one man" in Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers the priests stood up, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers built the altar of the God of Israel, in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They set up the altar on its foundations, because {they were in terror}Literally "in terror before them" because of the peoples of the lands. And they offered burnt offerings on it for Yahweh, burnt offerings for the morning and the evening.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered burnt offerings day by day in number according to the ordinance {as described for each day}.Literally "the daily word on its day"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
After this, they presented the daily sacrifice of burnt offerings, the offerings for the New Moon Festival, and for all of the appointed times consecrated for Yahweh and for all who gave a freewill offering to Yahweh.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh. But the temple of Yahweh was not yet founded.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So they gave money to the stone craftsmen and skilled craftsmen, and food, drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the authorization over them of Cyrus king of Persia. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
In the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jehozadak began their work, and the remainder of their brothers the priests and the Levites and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem. They appointed the Levites {from twenty years and older}Literally "a son of twenty years and above" to direct the work of the house of Yahweh.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Jeshua with his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons--the sons of Judah--together directed the workers in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers the Levites. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, and the priests in their apparel with the trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with the cymbals, were positioned to praise Yahweh, {as described by}Literally "by the hands of" King David of Israel.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And they {sang responsively},Literally "they answered" with praising and thanksgiving to Yahweh saying, "For he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting for Israel." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But many of the elderly priests, Levites, and heads of the families who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house, but many {shouted aloud with joy}.Literally "exalted with voice in joy with a shout"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
No person could distinguish the sound of joyful acclaim from the sound of people weeping, for the people shouted with great joyful acclaim and the sound was heard from afar. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the {returned exiles}Literally "the sons of the exile" were building a temple for Yahweh the God of Israel.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the {families},Literally "fathers" and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of Israel said to them, "It is not for you but for us to build a house for our God. For we ourselves alone will build it for Yahweh the God of Israel, just as Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then the people of the land discouraged {the people of Judah}Literally "the hands of the people of Judah" and made them afraid to build


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and bribed officials against them to frustrate their plan for all the days of Cyrus king of Persia until the reign of Darius king of Persia. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In the reign of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Rehum the royal officer and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
(then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites)


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and the rest of the province Beyond the River) and now


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now since we eat the salt of the palace and the dishonor of the king is not proper for us to see, we send and make this known to the king,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
so that it may be investigated in the book of records of your ancestors.Or "fathers" You will find in the book of records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and they have rebelled in its midst from ancient times. Because of that this city was destroyed.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
We make known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, you will have nothing in the province Beyond the River." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The king sent a reply: "To Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and the rest of the province Beyond the River, greetings. And now


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And {I issued}Literally "by my means made" a decree, and they searched and found that this city from ancient days revolted against kings, and rebellion and sedition has been made in it.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, duty, and tax has been given.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So now, issue forth a decree that these men stop and this city not be built, until a decree is issued from me.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then when a copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates they returned in a hurry to Jerusalem against the Jews and they stopped them by force and power.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped, and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in {Judah}Literally "Jehud" and in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak set out and began to build the house of God that is in Jerusalem. And with them the prophets of God were helping them. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
At the same time Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: "Who issued you all a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then weHebrew is first person plural asked them this: "What are the names of the men who are building this building?"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report came to Darius, and then answer was received. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his associates the envoys who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They sent to him the report {in which was written as follows}:Literally "and like this was written in its middle" "To Darius the king, all peace.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then we asked those elders and said this to them, 'Who issued forth to you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?'


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
We also asked them their names to make them known to you, that we might write down the {name of their leaders}.Literally "name of the men at their head"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And this is the answer they returned to us: 'We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house that was built formerly many years ago, which a great king of Israel had built and finished.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But because our ancestorsOr "fathers" angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon's reign he issued forth a decree to build this house of God.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Also, the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took away from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylonia, King Cyrus removed them from the temple in Babylonia and they were given to Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He said to him, 'Take these vessels. Go put them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be built on its site.'


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem. And from that time until now it is being built, but not yet finished.'


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And now, if it seems good for the king, let it be investigated in the house of the treasury of the king in Babylonia to see if a decree was issued forth from King Cyrus to build this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send to us his desire on this matter." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then King Darius issued forth a decree, and they searched the house of the treasury of scrolls being stored in Babylonia.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
But it was in Ecbatana in the province of Media, in the citadel, that a certain scroll had written on it, "A record.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued forth a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifices are offered and let its foundations be raised. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
with three layers of great stones and a layer of timber. Let the new expenses be paid from the house of the king.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Also, let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylonia, be returned and brought to the temple in Jerusalem to its place. Put them in the house of God." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Now then, Tattenai governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates, the envoys who are in the province Beyond the River--keep far away from there.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Leave this work of the house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God on its site.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I issue forth a decree for what you should do for these elders of the Jews to build this house of God. The full expense will be paid to these men from the riches of the king from the taxes of the province Beyond the River, without delay.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Whatever may be needed--{young bulls},Literally "the sons of young bulls" young rams, sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil for the priests in Jerusalem--let it be given to them day by day with no negligence,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
that they may offer incense offerings to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his children.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Furthermore, I issue forth a decree that if any person violates this decree, let a beam be pulled out from his house and let him be impaled on it. And let his house be made a pile of rubble on account of this.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
May the God who has set his name there overthrow any king or people who sets his hand to alter or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, issue forth a decree. Let it be done with diligence." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates consequently did with diligence what Darius the king ordered.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So the elders of the Jews were building and prospering, through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building by the command of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the {returned exiles}Literally "sons of the exile" celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And they offered during the dedication of this house of God one hundred young bulls, two hundred young rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering for Israel according to the number of the tribes of Israel.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the work of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
For the priests and Levites together had consecrated themselves; all of them were clean. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice for all of the returned exiles, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" who returned from the exile and all those who separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the earth to seek Yahweh the God of Israel, ate.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 22
c3content:
With joy they celebrated the festival of unleavened bread for seven days, because Yahweh had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them in order to help them with the work of their hands on the house of the God of Israel. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
After these things during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh the God of Israel gave. The king granted him all his requests, for the hand of Yahweh was upon him. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Some of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" some priests and Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For on the first day of the first month he began the journey from Babylonia; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, to do it, and to teach the regulations and judgments in Israel. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
This is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the scroll of the words of the commands of Yahweh and his statutes for Israel:


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Artaxerxes, the king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens. Peace. And now


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I issue forth a decree that any of the people of Israel, their priests, or their Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem may go with you.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For you are sent from the king and his seven counselors to enquire about Judah and Jerusalem concerning the law of your God, which is in your hand.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Also, bring the silver and gold that the king and his advisors have freely offered to the God of Israel whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and all of the silver and gold that you will find in the whole province of Babylonia, with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests giving willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
With this money, then, with diligence you must buy young bulls, young rams, lambs, and their offerings and libations. You must offer them on the altar that is in the house of your God in Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
You may do whatever seems best to you and your brothers to do with the remainder of the silver and gold according to the desire of your God.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the vessels that were given to you for the service of the house of your God you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the remainder of the needs for the house of your God that falls to you to provide, you may provide from the house of the king's treasury." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in the province Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred measures of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and {unlimited salt}.Literally, "salt that is not specified"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
All that is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done with diligence for the house of the God of heaven, otherwise wrath will come on the kingdom of the king and his sons.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
You also should be aware that it is not permitted to place tax, tribute, or duty upon all of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, and other servants of the house of God. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who can judge all of the people in the province Beyond the River who know the laws of your God. And you will teach those who do not know.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 26
c3content:
All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Blessed be Yahweh the God of our ancestors,Or "fathers" who put this in the heart of the king to glorify the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 28
c3content:
and who extended to me loyal love before the king and his counselors, and before all of the mighty officials of the king. I took courage, for the hand of Yahweh my God was upon me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These were the heads of their {families}Literally "fathers" and the register of those returnees from Babylonia who came up with me in the reign of King Artaxerxes:


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Phinehas: Gershom. From the descendantsOr "sons" of Ithamar: Daniel. From the descendantsOr "sons" of David: Hattush.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Shecaniah, from the descendantsOr "sons" of Parosh: Zechariah and with him one hundred and fifty registered males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Pahath-Moab: Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Zattu:Commentators and translators agree that there is a name missing from the Masoretic text. Zattu has been restored from the LXX Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Bani:Commentators and translators agree that there is a name missing from the Masoretic text. Bani has been restored from the LXX Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Azgad: Jehohanan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Adonikam, those who came last, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, Shemaiah, and with them sixty males.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
From the descendantsOr "sons" of Bigvai: Uthai son of Zabud,Or "and Zabud" and with him seventy males. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I gathered them by the river that goes to Ahava and we camped there for three days. And I looked at the people and the priests, I found no one there from the sons of Levi.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were family heads, and for Jehoiarib and Elnathan who were wise.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I sent them to Iddo, the head of the place called Casiphia, and I placed in their mouths what words to say to Iddo and his brothers the temple servants in Casiphia, to send to us ministers for the house of our God.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
With the good hand of our God before us, they brought us a man of understanding from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel--Sherebiah and his sons and brothers, eighteen in total.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah, the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty in total.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And from the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set up to serve the Levites, two hundred and twenty in total. All of them were registered by name. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them."


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
I set apart twelve of the official priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then I weighed out to them silver and gold and the vessels, the offering of the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his commanders, and all of Israel who was present offered.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred vessels of silver, one hundred talents of gold,


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 27
c3content:
twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics, and two vessels of good polished bronze as precious as gold.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh and the vessels are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, God of your ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Guard and look after them until you weigh them before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh."


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So the priests and Levites took over the weighed silver, gold, and the vessels to bring to Jerusalem for the house of our God. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 31
c3content:
On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 33
c3content:
On the fourth day, the silver, gold, and vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of priest Meremoth, the son of Uriah, and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas. With them were the Levites, Jehozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 35
c3content:
The exiles that returned from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel; twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve goats as a sin offering. All was a burnt offering to Yahweh.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 36
c3content:
They delivered the customs of the king to the king's satraps and to the governor of the province Beyond the River. And they supported the people of the house of God. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
After finishing these things the officials approached me saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated from the people of the lands with their detestable things, and from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For they have taken from their daughters for themselves and their sons. So the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the officials and prefects were foremost in this sin.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When I heard this I tore my garment and my robe, and I pulled the hair out from my head and beard, and I sat appalled.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the sin of the returned exiles were gathered around me and I sat appalled until the evening offering. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
At the evening offering I got up from my mourning posture and, with my garment and robe torn, I fell down on my knees and I spread out my palms to Yahweh my God


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
From the days of our ancestorsOr "fathers" until this day we have been in great guilt, and because of our sins we ourselves, our kings, and our priests have been handed into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to utter shame, as it is this day.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But now for a brief moment mercy has been shown by Yahweh our God, who left behind for us a remnant, and given us security in his holy place--for our God to brighten our eyes and to give us brief relief in our bondage.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For we are slaves and in our bondage our God did not forsake us, and he has extended to us loyal love in the presence of the kings of Persia, to give to us deliveranceOr "preservation" and to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
which you commanded by the hand of your servants the prophets saying, 'The land that you are entering to possess is a land of impurity with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their detestable things which they have filled from end to end with their uncleanness.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace and prosperity so that forever you may be strong and eat the good of the land and may give it as an inheritance to your sons.'


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt--you, our God, have held back less than our guilt deserved and you have given us a remainder such as this.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who practice these detestable things? Would you not be angry with us until you destroy us with no remnant or remainder?


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Yahweh, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all of these women and their offspring, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Ezra stood up and made the chief priests, Levites, and all of Israel swear to do according to what was said. So they swore this oath. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Ezra rose from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat food nor drink water because he was mourning over the sin of the exiles.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they sent a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to all the {returned exiles}Literally "the sons of the exile" to assemble in Jerusalem.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Anyone who did not come within three days, by decision of the officials and elders, all of his possessions would be devoted to God, and he himself would be excluded from the assembly of exiles. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the public square of the house of God trembling because of this matter and from the rains.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now make a confession to Yahweh the God of your ancestorsOr "fathers" and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women." 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then all the assembly answered with a great voice and said, "It is so. We must do according to your words.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But the people are many, and it is the time of rain; we are unable to stand outside. The task is not for one day or two, for we greatly rebelled in this matter.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us."


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Only Jehonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and the Levites Meshullam and Shabbethai supported them. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The {returned exiles}Literally "the sons of the exile" did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They finished investigating all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month. 


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{They pledged themselves}Literally "they gave their hand" to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And from Israel, the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah.


c0book: Ezra
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 30
c3content:
From the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
and one of my brothers, Hanani, came with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped the captivity and about Jerusalem.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They replied to me, "The survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I said, "O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and awesome one who keeps the covenant and loyal love for the ones who love him and for those who keep his commands.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and confessing the sins of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, 'If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.'


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name. Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
It happened in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. And I had never been sad before the king.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad since you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." And I was very much afraid.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city of my ancestors'Or "fathers'" burial siteHebrew "sites" is ruined and her gates are consumed by fire?"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your presence, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors'Or "fathers'" burial sites, so that I may rebuild it." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
With the queen sitting beside him, the king said to me, "How long will your journey be and when will you return?" So it pleased the king and he sent me, and I set for him an appointed time.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then I said to the king, "If it is good for the king, let letters be given to me for the governors in the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Also, a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king's land reserve, that he should give me timber for laying the beams for the gates of the citadel of the house and for the walls of the city, and for the house which I will enter." And the king gave permission to me, according to the good hand of God on me. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and I gave them the letters of the king. Then the king sent troop commanders and horses with me.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard this, {they were greatly displeased}Literally "it was a great disaster for them" that a person had come to seek the welfare of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal was with me except the animal that I was riding on.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I went out during the night at the gate of the valley by the Dragon spring and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls in Jerusalem and its gates that had been destroyed by the fire.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I crossed over to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no place for {my mount}Literally "the animal under me" to cross over.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So I went up by the valley during the night and was examining the wall. Then I returned and came to the Valley Gate and returned.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The prefects did not know where I had gone and what I was doing. I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the prefects, and the rest of the workers. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then I said to them, "You see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
I told them of the good hand of my God that was upon me and surely the words of the king that were spoken to me. And they said, "Let us arise and build!" And they strengthened their hands for this good work.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then I answered and said to them, "The God of the heavens himself will let us succeed, and we his servants shall arise and build. But for you there is no share, right, or memorial in Jerusalem." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Eliashib the high priest and his brothers the priests arose and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and erected its doors. They consecrated it up to the Tower of the Hundred and up to the Tower of Hananel.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And {next to him}Literally "at his hand" the men of Jericho built, and {next to him}Literally "at his hand" Zaccur son of Imri built. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{Next to them}Literally "At their hand" Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired. {Next to them}Literally "At their hand" Meshullam son of Berekiah, son of Meshezabel, repaired. {Next to them}Literally "At their hand" Zadok son of Baana repaired.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{Next to them}Literally "At their hand" the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam repaired the old Yeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Next to them}Literally "At their hand" Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah who were under the rule of the governor of the province Beyond the River, repaired.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Next to him}Literally "At his hand" Uzziel son of Harhaiah (goldsmiths) repaired. {Next to him}Literally "At his hand" Hananiah son of the perfume-makers repaired. They restored Jerusalem up to the Broad Wall.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{Next to them}Literally "At their hand" Rephaiah son of Hur, commander of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{Next to them}Literally "At their hand" Jedaiah son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. {Next to him}Literally "At his hand" Hattush son of Hashabneiah repaired. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{Next to him}Literally "At his hand" Shallum son of Hallohesh, commander of half of the district of Jerusalem, repaired with his daughters. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall up to the Dung Gate. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Malkijah son of Recab, commander of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, the commander of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and erected its doors, its bolts, its bars, and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, right up to the steps going down from the city of David.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, commander of half of the district of Beth Zur, repaired up to a point opposite the burial sites of David, and up to the artificial pool and to the house of the mighty warriors. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
After him the Levites repaired; Rehum son of Bani, and next to him Hashabiah, commander of half of the district of Keilah, repaired his district.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai son of Henadad, commander of half of the district of Keilah,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{next to him}Literally "at his hand" Ezer son of Jeshua, commander of Mizpah, repaired a second section of a wall opposite of the ascent of the armory at the angle.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
After him Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired a second section of a wall from the angle up to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
After him Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired a second section of a wall from the doorway of the house of Eliashib up to the end of the house of Eliashib. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, repaired beside his house.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
After him Binnui son of Henadad repaired a second section of a wall from the house of Azariah up to the angle up to the corner.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Palal son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle at the tower that juts out from the upper house of the king, at the courtyard of the guard. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
and the temple servants who were living on Ophel repaired up to opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 27
c3content:
After him the Tekoites repaired a second section of a wall opposite the projecting tower that goes out as far as the wall of Ophel. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 29
c3content:
After them Zadok son of Immer repaired opposite his house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 30
c3content:
After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berekiah repaired the wall opposite his room.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 31
c3content:
After him Malkijah, {one of the goldsmiths},Literally "the son of the goldsmith" repaired up to the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Enrollment Gate and up to the upper room of the corner.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Nehemiah 4:1-23 in the English Bible is 3:33-4:17 in the Hebrew Bible Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore these things for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?" 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him and said, "Their wall of stone that they are building would break down if a fox went on it!" 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn on their head and give them over to plunder in the land of captivity.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have {provoked the builders to anger}.Literally "provoked anger before the builders" 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half its height. For the people had a heart to do it. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But Judah said, "The strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then our enemies said, "They will not know nor see until we come upon them and will kill them and stop the work."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When the Jews who lived beside them came, they said to us ten times, "From all of the places where they live, they will come up against us."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I stationed the people behind the deepest part of the wall in the open places according to their families, with their swords, spears, and bows.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
It happened when our enemies heard that their plan was known to us, that God had frustrated it, and we all returned to the wall--each to his work.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
From that day, half of my servants were working on craftsmanship, half were holding spears, small shields, bows, and breastplates. The commanders were behind the whole house of Judah.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The ones who were building the wall and the ones {who carried the materials}Literally "who carried the burden" were carrying in one hand while doing the task, and with the other hand were grasping a weapon.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Each of the builders had his sword tied to his side while building. And the man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
I said to the nobles, to the prefects, and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widespread, and we are spread out over the wall far from each other.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So we labored at the work, and half of them were holding the spears from dawn until the stars came out.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
At the time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one kept his weapon even in the water. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
There were those who were saying, "Our sons and daughters, we are many. We must get grain so that we may eat and live."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And there were those who were saying, "We have borrowed money on our fields and our vineyards for the tax of the king.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. {We are powerless},Literally "There is no power in our hand" and our fields and vineyards belong to others." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and I said to them: "We ourselves have bought back our brothers the Jews who were sold to the nations as we were able. But now you yourselves have sold your brothers so they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the disgrace from the nations, our enemies?


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop taking this interest.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
So they said, "We will restore it and will not request anything more. So we will do as you say." Then I called the priests and made them take an oath to do this promise.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Moreover, from the appointed day I was made their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes--twelve years. My brothers and I did not eat the food allowance of the governor.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I also devoted myself to the work of this wall, and we did not buy land. All of my servants were gathered for the work.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, were at my table.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now what was prepared each day for me was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds. And every ten days all kinds of wine were made. But for this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor because the slavery was too heavy on this people.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no gap was left in it--though up to that time I had not erected doors in the gates--


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I am not able to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you all?"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Sanballat sent his servant with an open letter, another word like this to me a fifth time, in his hand.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In it was written, "It has been reported among the nations, and Gashmu also is saying it, that you and the Jews are considering rebellion. Therefore, truly you are building the wall and you are becoming their king, according to these words.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, saying, 'There is a king in Judah.' And now it will be proclaimed to the king according to these words. Now, come and we will plan together."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So I sent to him saying, "None of these words you have spoken has happened. You are indeed saying things created in your own mind"--


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
for all of them sought to frighten us, saying, "their hands will not do the work." And now, God, strengthen my hands. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined at home, and he said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you--during the night they are coming to kill you."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But I said, "Should a man like me run away? And would a man like me go into the temple so that he can save his life? I will not go in!"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then I look and realized God had not sent him; rather, he had spoken the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For this reason he was hired: to frighten me so that I would act and sin, so that they would have a bad report so they could taunt me.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to their works, and also Noadiah the prophetess, and the remainder of the prophets who were frightening me. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When our enemies heard of this, all of the nations surrounding us were afraid and {lost their confidence}.Literally "fell much in their eyes" They knew that this work had been done with the help of our God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Also, in those days the nobles of Judah increasingly sent their letters to Tobiah, and letters from Tobiah returned to them.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jehohanan took as a wife the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
They also were speaking of his good deeds in my presence, and they were sending my words out to him. Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now when the wall had been built and I had erected the doors and appointed the gatekeepers, singers, and the Levites,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I gave command over Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled. I found the book of the genealogy of those who first came back, and I found this written upon it: 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
These are the people of the province who came up from captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
These came with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Pahath-Moab, of the descendantsOr "sons" of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 39
c3content:
The priests: The descendantsOr "sons" of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 43
c3content:
The Levites: the descendantsOr "sons" of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the descendantsOr "sons" of Hodaviah, seventy-four.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 45
c3content:
The gatekeepers: the descendantsOr "sons" of Shallum, the descendantsOr "sons" of Ater, the descendantsOr "sons" of Talmon, the descendantsOr "sons" of Akkub, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hatita, the descendantsOr "sons" of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 48
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Lebanah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hagaba, the descendantsOr "sons" of Shalmai,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 49
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Hanan, the descendantsOr "sons" of Giddel, the descendantsOr "sons" of Gahar,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 50
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Reaiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Rezin, the descendantsOr "sons" of Nekoda,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 51
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Gazzam, the descendantsOr "sons" of Uzza, the descendantsOr "sons" of Paseah,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 52
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Besai, the descendantsOr "sons" of Meunim, the descendantsOr "sons" of Nephushesim,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 54
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Bazlith, the descendantsOr "sons" of Mehida, the descendantsOr "sons" of Harsha,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 57
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Solomon's servants: the descendantsOr "sons" of Sotai, the descendantsOr "sons" of Sophereth, the descendantsOr "sons" of Perida,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 58
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Jaala, the descendantsOr "sons" of Darkon, the descendantsOr "sons" of Giddel,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 59
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Shephatiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hattil, the descendantsOr "sons" of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the descendantsOr "sons" of Amon. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 61
c3content:
These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their ancestral houses or their descent, whether they were from Israel:


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 62
c3content:
the descendantsOr "sons" of Delaiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Tobiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 63
c3content:
And from the priests: the descendantsOr "sons" of Hobaiah, the descendantsOr "sons" of Hakkoz, the descendantsOr "sons" of Barzillai (who had taken as a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 64
c3content:
These sought their record among those enrolled in the genealogy, but it was not found there, so they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 65
c3content:
So the governor said to them that they could not eat the most holy food until a priest could come with Urim and Thummim. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 67
c3content:
besides their servants and female slaves--these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And the male and female singers were two hundred and forty-five,After this verse, some versions add verse 68: "Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five"; compare Ezra 2:66


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 69
c3content:
Nehemiah 7:69-73 in the English Bible is 7:68-72 in the Hebrew Bible there were four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty male donkeys. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 70
c3content:
Now some from the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 71
c3content:
Now some of the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 72
c3content:
And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 73
c3content:
So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were in their cities. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
All of the people gathered as one to the public square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the lawHebrew torah of Moses that Yahweh had commanded Israel.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So Ezra the priest brought the lawHebrew torah before the assembly for each man and woman to hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.Hebrew torah


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden podium that had been made for the occasion. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right. On his left was Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, because he was above all of the people. When he opened it all the people stood up.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all of the people answered, "Amen! Amen!" while lifting their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped Yahweh with their noses to the ground.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were teaching the people from the lawHebrew torah while the people were in their places.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So they read the book from the lawHebrew torah of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that they could understand the reading. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of the people, "This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Do not mourn nor weep." For all of the people wept when they heard the words of the law.Hebrew torah


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, "Silence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
All of the people went to eat, to drink, to send a share, and to have great joy because they understood the words that they had made known to them. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
On the second day the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered together to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law.Hebrew torah


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They found written in the law,Hebrew torah which Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and that they should proclaim and give voice in all of their cities in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the hill and bring olive tree branches, olive oil wood branches, myrtle shrub branches, palm tree branches, and other leafy tree branches to make booths, as it is written."


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the house of God, in the public square of the Water Gate, and in the public square of the Gate of Ephraim.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And all of the assembly of those who returned from captivity made booths and lived in the booths because the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" had not done it from the days of Jeshua son of Nun until that day. And there was very great joy.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he read from the scroll of the lawHebrew torah of God day by day from the first day up to the last day. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was an assembly according to the rule. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
On the twenty-fourth day of this month the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Those of the seed of Israel separated themselves from all of the foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They stood up in their place and read from the book of the lawHebrew torah of Yahweh their God for a fourth part of the day, and for a fourth they were confessing and worshiping Yahweh their God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani stood on the platform of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "Stand up, bless Yahweh your God from everlasting until everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name that is being exalted above all blessing and praise! 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"You alone are Yahweh. You alone have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all of their army, the earth and all that is in it, the waters and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the army of the heavens worship you.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite--to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"You saw the misery of our ancestorsOr "fathers" in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
You led them by day with a column of cloud and with a column of fire by night, to give them light on the way that they were to go.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
You made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments, regulations, and lawHebrew torah by the hand of your servant Moses.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You gave them bread from heaven for their starvation, and you caused water to go out from a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in order to take into possession the land that you have sworn by your hand to give to them. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"But they and our ancestorsOr "fathers" acted arrogantly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion {determined}Literally "they gave head to" to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, {slow to anger},Literally "long of nose" abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Even when they made for themselves a molten idol of a calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you out from Egypt,' and committed great blasphemies.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But you in your many mercies did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud that was over them in the day did not cease to leave them on the way, and the column of fire by night that gave light to them on the way that they went.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Forty years you sustained them in the desert--they were not in need. Their clothing did not wear out and their feet did not swell.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And you gave them kingdoms and nations and allotted them a portion. They took into possession the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
You made their childrenOr "sons" numerous like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you told their ancestorsOr "fathers" to enter in order to take possession.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
So the childrenOr "sons" went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites; you gave them into their hand, and their kings and the nations of the land to do with them according to their pleasure.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land and took possession of houses filled with every good thing: hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves, and many fruit trees. They ate and became full, and they became fat and took delight in your great goodness. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your lawHebrew torah behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemy, and they brought trouble to them. Then in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard from the heavens, and according to your great compassions, you gave them saviors, and you saved them from the hand of their enemies.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
But when they had rest they returned to doing evil before you, and you abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, and they ruled over them. Then they returned and cried out to you, and from the heavens you heard and many times rescued them according to your compassions.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 29
c3content:
You warned them so that they would return to your law.Hebrew torah Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to your commandments but sinned against your judgments that a person must do so that they may live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not listen.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 30
c3content:
You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 31
c3content:
But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"And now our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God who keeps his covenant and loyal love, do not belittle in your presence all of the hardship that is found in us, our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors,Or "fathers" and all of our people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 33
c3content:
You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestorsOr "fathers" did not keep your lawHebrew torah and did not listen to your commandments and statutes that you declared to them.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And in their kingdom and in the greatness you gave to them, and in the wide and fertile land that you gave before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their evil deeds.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Behold, we are slaves to this day, and the land that you have given to our ancestorsOr "fathers" to eat its fruits and enjoy its goodness--behold, we are slaves in it!


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have given over us because of our sins, and they are ruling over our dead bodies and our livestock at their pleasure. We are in great trouble. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Nehemiah 9:38-10:39 in the English Bible is 10:1-40 in the Hebrew Bible "Now because of all of this we make a binding written agreement and are writing on the sealed documents the names of our commanders, our Levites, and our priests." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to observe the lawHebrew torah of God--their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who know and understand--


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
are helping their brothers, their nobles, and entering into a solemn oath to walk in the lawHebrew torah of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all of the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and his judgments and regulations.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the peoples of the land who bring merchandise and any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not accept it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will forego the crops of the seventh year and cancel every debt. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"We put on ourselves the commandment upon us to yearly give a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 33
c3content:
for the rows of bread, the offering of the daily sacrifice, the continual burnt sacrifice, the Sabbaths, the new moon festivals, the appointed festival times, the holy objects, the sin offerings that make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And we have cast lots for the contributions of the wood offering of the priests, the Levites, and the people to bring it to the house of our God, by our fathers' houses, at designated times, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God--as it is written in the law.Hebrew torah


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 35
c3content:
We also bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all the fruit trees, year by year, for the house of Yahweh.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And the firstborn of our sons and beasts--as it is written in the lawHebrew torah--and the firstborn of our cattle and sheep, to bring to the house of our God and to the priests serving in the house of our God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And we bring the best of our dough, our offerings, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and olive oil to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring the tithe of our soil to the Levites, for the Levites receive the tithes in all of our rural towns.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And the priest, the descendantOr "son" of Aaron, will be with the Levites during the tithe the Levites receive. The Levites will bring up a tithe of the tithes for the house of our God to the chambers of the storehouse.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 39
c3content:
For the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and the {Levites}Literally "sons/children of Levi" will bring to the storerooms the offering of grain, new wine, and olive oil. These are the objects of the sanctuary and the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God." 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the commanders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the remainder of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, the other nine's place was in the other cities.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
These are the heads of the province who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each one lived on his property in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendantsOr "sons" of Solomon's servants.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And some from the descendantsOr "sons" of Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. From the descendantsOr "sons" of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, from the descendantsOr "sons" of Perez;


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and Maaseiah son of Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Jehoiarib, son of Zechariah, sonOr "descendant" of the Shilonite.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
All of the descendantsOr "sons" of Perez who were living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight able-bodied men. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
These are the descendantsOr "sons" of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Joel son of Zicri, their chief officer; and Judah son of Hassenuah, second in command over the city. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Seraiah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub--the leader of the house of God--


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two. And Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and his brothers, heads of the {families},Literally "fathers" two hundred and forty-two. And Amashai son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and their brothers; mighty warriors of strength, one hundred and twenty-eight. The chief officer over them was Zabdiel son of Hagedolim. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, sonOr "descendant" of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving prayer, and Bakbukiah the second of his brothers; Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, the keepers of the gates, one hundred and seventy-two.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the remainder of Israel, the priests and the Levites, in all of the cities of Judah, each in his inheritance.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The chief officer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, from the descendantsOr "sons" of Asaph, the singers over the work of the house of God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
For there was a command of the king concerning them and a regulation concerning the singers, required {day by day}.Literally "a word for a day on his day"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, from the descendantsOr "sons" of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the hand of the king in all matters concerning the people. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
As for the villages in their territories, some from the descendantsOr "sons" of Judah lived in Kiriath-Arba and {its settlements},Literally "its daughters" Dibon and {its settlements},Literally "its daughters" Jekabzeel and {its settlements},Literally "its daughters"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Zanoah, Adullam and {their settlements},Literally "their daughters" Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and {its settlements}.Literally "its daughters" So they camped from Beersheba up to the Valley of Hinnom.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Benjamin from Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and {their settlements},Literally "their daughters"


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These are the heads of the priests and their brothers in the days of Jeshua. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah and his brothers who were in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now in the days of Jehoiakim the priests and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 22
c3content:
In the days of Eliashib, Jehoiada, Jehohanan, and Jaddua the Levites were recorded as heads of the {families}.Literally "fathers" So these were the priests during the reign of Darius the Persian.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The descendantsOr "sons" of Levi and the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" were recorded in the scroll of the Annals until the days of Jehohanan son of Eliashib.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks by the command of David the man of God, section alongside section.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storerooms of the gates.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 26
c3content:
These were in the days of Jehoiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 27
c3content:
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites from all of their places in order to bring them to Jerusalem to do the dedication with joy, thanksgivings, song and cymbals, stringed instruments and lyres.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The {singers}Literally "sons of the singers" were gathered from the circuit all around Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathite,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 29
c3content:
from Beth Gilgal, from the field of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers built for themselves villages all around Jerusalem.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people, the gates, and the wall. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then I brought the commanders of Judah up on to the wall. I appointed two great choirs; one went in a procession to the right on the wall to the Dung Gate.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 35
c3content:
and the {priests}Literally "sons of the priests" with trumpets; Zechariah son of Jehonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 36
c3content:
and his brothers Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani with the instruments of the songs of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe went before them.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 37
c3content:
At the Fountain Gate opposite them they went up the steps of the city of David, at the assent to the wall, over the house of David, and up to the Water Gate to the east. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 38
c3content:
Then the second choir went the opposite way. I followed after them with half of the people on the wall, from over the Tower of the Ovens up to the Wide Wall


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 39
c3content:
and over the Gate of Ephraim, at the Old Gate, at the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, and to the Sheep Gate. And they stopped and stood at the Gate of the Guard.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 41
c3content:
and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah with the trumpets;


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jizrahiah the chief officer.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 43
c3content:
They offered on that day great sacrifices and rejoiced because God brought great joy to them. And the women and children also rejoiced. The joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 44
c3content:
On that day men were appointed for the storehouse rooms, the offerings, the first fruits, and the tithes, in order to gather in them from the fields of the cities the requirements of the lawHebrew torah for the priests and Levites; for the joy of Judah was upon the priests and Levites standing there.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 45
c3content:
They kept the responsibility of their God and the responsibility of cleansing, and the singers and gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 46
c3content:
For in the days of David and Asaph from ancient times there was the head of the singers and a song of praise and thanksgiving to God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 47
c3content:
So all of Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily food portions of the singers and gatekeepers. And they set apart that which was for the Levites, and the Levites set apart that which was for the descendantsOr "sons" of Aaron. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
On that day the book of Moses was read in the hearing of the people and it was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
because they did not come to meet the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them--but our God changed the curse into a blessing.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So it happened when they heard the lawHebrew torah that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Before this, Eliashib the priest who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God--the one related to Tobiah--


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had formerly put the grain offering, the frankincense, the temple objects, tithes of grain, wine, and oil commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
During all of this, I was not in Jerusalem because in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. At the end of some days I asked permission from the king to leave.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So I came to Jerusalem. And I came to learn of the wrong that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by making him a room in the courtyard of the house of God.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
It was very displeasing for me, and I threw all of the objects from the house of Tobiah outside of the chamber.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And I spoke in order, and they cleansed the chambers. Then I returned the objects of the house of God--the grain offering and the frankincense. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So I quarreled with the prefects, and I said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them and set them at their station.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I appointed as treasurer over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah from the Levites, and as their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered faithful. The responsibility given to them was to distribute to their brothers.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Remember me, my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my loyal acts which I have done in the house of my God and in his service. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
In those days I saw in Judah people treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing it all to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Tyrian men who lived in Jerusalem brought fish and every kind of merchandise and sold it on the Sabbath to the descendantsOr "sons" of Judah and in Jerusalem.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So I quarreled with the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the day of the Sabbath?


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Did not your ancestorsOr "fathers" do this also, and our God brought on us all of this disaster and on this city too? Now you are adding fierce wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath!" 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So when it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors be shut and said that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I appointed some of my young men over the gates to prevent any {goods}Literally "burden" being brought in on the day of the Sabbath.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But I warned them and said to them, "Why are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands against you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Half of their children spoke Ashdodite and could not speak Judean, but only the tongues of other nations.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 25
c3content:
So I quarreled with them and cursed them and beat some of their men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath by God: "Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in this way? And among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet the foreign women made even him sin.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?" 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 28
c3content:
One from the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, who was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonote was there. I chased him away from me.


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Remember them, my God, because of their defilements of the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. 


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established responsibilities for the priests and Levites, each in his own work,


c0book: Neh
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 31
c3content:
a contribution of the wood offering at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to CushThat is, "Ethiopia"--over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces.Hebrew "province"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
In those days as King Ahasuerus was sitting on the throne of his kingdom, which was in the citadel of Susa,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
he gave a banquet in the third year of his reign for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and officials of the provinces were in his presence


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
as he displayed the wealth of the glory of his kingdom and the glorious splendor of his greatness for many days, one hundred and eighty daysHebrew "day". 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And when those days were completed, the king gave for all the people that were present at the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet in the courtyard of the king's palace garden that lasted seven days.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
There were curtains of finely woven linen and blue cloth tied with cords of fine white linen and purple cloth to silver curtain rings and pillars of alabaster, and couches of gold and silver on a paved floor of alabaster, precious stone, mother-of-pearl, and costly stones.Hebrew "stone"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Drinks were served in goblets of gold and {goblets of different kinds},Literally "goblets from changing goblets" and there was {plentiful royal wine according to the bounty of the king}.Literally "much wine of the kingdom according to the hand of the king"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed every official of his palace to do as each one pleased.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in {the palace}Literally "in the house of the reign" or "in the house of the kingdom" that belonged to King Ahasuerus. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven of the eunuchs attending King Ahasuerus,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
to bring Queen Vashti before the king {with her royal crown}Literally "with her headdress of the kingdom" to show the people and the officials her beauty, {for she was very attractive}.Literally "for she was of good appearance"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that was {conveyed by}Literally "by the hand of" the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his anger burned in him. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the king said to the wise men, {the ones who know the times}Literally "the knowers of the times"--for it was the procedure of the king before all those who knew law and rights;Or "custom and legalities"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
and those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who {had access to the king}Literally "saw the face of the king" and sat first in the kingdom--


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she has not done the command of King Ahasuerus {conveyed by}Literally "by the hand of" the eunuchs?


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Memucan said before the king and the officials, "Not only has Queen Vashti done wrong to the king, but to all the officials and all of the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For this deed of the queen {will be known}Literally "will go out" to all the women, causing them {to look with contempt on their husbands},Literally "to despise their husbands in their eyes" as they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him but she did not come!'


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
This day the women of nobility from Persia and Media will respond to all the officials of the king and there will be no end to contempt and anger.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{If it pleases}Literally "If it is good to" the king, let {a royal edict}Literally "a word of the kingdom" go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it will not be altered, that Vashti cannot come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to her neighbor who is better than she.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And let the king's decree that he will make be proclaimed in all his kingdom, because it is vast and all the women will honor their husbands, great and small."Or "high and low" 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{This advice pleased the king}Literally "The word was good in the eyes of the king and the officials, and the king acted according to the word of Memucan.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And he sent letters to all the provinces of the king, to each province according to its own script, and to every people in their own {language},Literally "tongue" that every man should be the master of his house and who speaks in the {language}Literally "tongue" of his people. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the {harem}Literally "house of the women" in the citadel of Susa {under the care of}Literally "to the hand of" Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give them their beauty treatment.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And let the young woman {who is pleasing}Literally "who is good" in the king's eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king's eyes, and he acted accordingly. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
There was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
who was deportedOr "exiled" from Jerusalem with the exilesHebrew "exile" who were deportedOr "exiled" with JeconiahA variant spelling of "Jehoiachin" the king of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported.Or "exiled"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
HeThat is, Mordecai was raising Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter,That is, his cousin for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman had a beautiful figure and was very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it happened, at the proclaiming of the edict of the king and his law, when many young women were being gathered to the citadel of Susa {under Hegai's care},Literally "to the hand of Hegai" Esther was taken to the {king's palace}Literally "house of the king" {under the care of}Literally "to the hand of" Hegai who was in charge of the women.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{The young woman pleased him}Literally "the young woman was good in his eyes" and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the {king's palace},Literally "house of the king" and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the {harem}.Literally "house of the women"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Esther did not disclose her people and her family because Modecai had charged her that she must not tell.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And every day Modecai would walk up and down in front of the courtyard of the {harem}Literally "house of the women" to learn {how Esther was doing}.Literally "the peace of Esther and how it does/does with her" 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
in this way, the girl goes to the king and all that she asks is given to her {to take}Literally "to go" with her from the {harem}Literally "house of the women" to the {king's palace}.Literally "house of the king"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the {second harem}Literally "second house of the women" {under the care of}Literally "to the hand of" Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his {palace},Literally "house of the reign" or "house of the kingdom" in the tenth month that is Tebeth in the seventh year of his reign.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a {royal crown}Literally "crown of the kingdom" on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his officials and servants. And he granted a tax amnestySee HALOT 252-253 s.v. to the provinces and he gave gifts with royal liberality. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther {did what Mordecai told her},Literally "did the word of Mordecai" just as when she was brought up by him.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
In those days Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired {to assassinate}Literally "to send a hand against" King Ahasuerus.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the matter became known to Mordecai and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told it to the king in the name of Mordecai.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And the matter was investigated and found to be so; and the two of them were hanged on the gallows, and it was written in the scroll of the events of the days before the presence of the king. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he exalted him and set {his position}Literally "his throne" above all the officials who were with him.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And all of the king's servants who were at the gate of the king were kneeling and bowing down to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him, but Mordecai did not kneel and bow down.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the king's servants who were at the gate of the king said to Mordecai, "Why are you transgressing the command of the king?"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They spoke to him day after day, but he did not listen to them, and they informed Haman to see if {Mordecai's resolve would prevail};Literally "the word's of Mordecai would stand" for he had told them that he was a Jew.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But {he considered it beneath him}Literally "he despised it in his eyes" to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai's people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
In the first month, that is, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasurus, he cast pur--that is, the lot--before the presence of Haman {for the day and for the month},Literally "from day to day and from month to month" untilThe Septuagint adds, "and the lot fell on the thirteenth day of" the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all of the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from every other people, and they do not {observe}Literally "do" the laws of the king; it is not appropriate for the king to tolerate them.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will payOr "I will weigh" ten thousand talentsHebrew "talent" of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
So the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you and to the people to do with it {as you see fit}.Literally "as the good is in your eyes" 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the king's secretaries were called in the first month on the thirteenth day, and a decree was issued, according to all that Haman commanded, to the satraps of the king and to the governors who were over all the provinces, and to the officials of all the people, to each province according to its own script and to all people according to their own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and was sealed with the king's ring.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Letters were sent by couriersOr "by runners" to all the provinces of the king to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, {both young and old},Literally "from young to old" women and children, on one day, the thirteenth day of the month, that is Adar, and to plunder their goods.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
A copy of the edict was presented as law in every province making it known to all the people to be ready for that day.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The couriers went out quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered.Or "disturbed" 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry;


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
he went up to the entrance of the gate of the king, for he could not go to the gate of the king in sackcloth.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
In every province each place where the king's edict and his law came, there was great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, and sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Esther's maids and her eunuchs came and they told her, and the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he might remove his sackcloth--but he did not accept them.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Esther called Hathach from the king's eunuchs {who regularly attended to her},Literally "who stood before her presence" and she ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what was happening and why.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the public square of the city, which was in front of the gate of the king,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he gave him a copy of the edict of the law that had been issued in Susa for their destruction to show Esther, and to inform her, and to charge her to go to the king and make supplication to him and entreat before him for her people. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Esther spoke to Hathach and {she gave him a message for Mordecai}:Literally "she charged him to Mordecai"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman who goes to the king to the inner courtyard, who is not called, he has one law, to be killed, except if the king extends to him the gold scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king {for thirty days}."Literally "these thirty days"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved in the palace of the king more than all the Jews.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For if indeed you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and the family of your father will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to a royal position for a time such as this."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which is not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened, on the third day, and Esther put on royal clothes, and she stood in the inner courtyard of the {king's palace},Literally "house of the king" opposite the {king's palace};Literally "house of the king" the king was sitting on his royal throne in the {throne room}Literally "house of the reign" or "house of the kingdom" opposite the doorway of the palace.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard she found favor in his eyes, and the king held out the gold scepter that was in his hand to Esther, and Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It will be given to you--even half the kingdom."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Esther said, "If it is good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the king said, "Bring Haman quickly {to fulfill}Literally "to do" the request of Esther." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the king said to Esther {while they were drinking wine},Literally "at the meal of wine" "What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even half the kingdom, it will done.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
If I have found favor in the eyes of the king,Or "I have won the favor of the king and if it is good to the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them tomorrow, and I will do according to the word of the king. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Haman went out on that day rejoicing and {feeling good}.Literally "good of heart" But when Haman saw Mordecai at the gate of the king, and he did not rise or tremble before him, Haman was filled {with rage toward}Literally "rage to" Mordecai.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But Haman controlled himself and went to his house, and he sent for and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth and the number of his sons and all the ways that the king had honored him and promoted him above the officials and king's servants.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{And Haman added},Literally "And Haman said also" "Esther the Queen did not let just anyone come to the banquet that she prepared with the king except me, and I am also invited tomorrow to her banquet with the king.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But all this {fails to satisfy me}Literally "it is not sufficient for me" {when}Literally "at every time" I see Mordecai the Jew setting at the gate of the king."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, "Let them make a gallows fifty cubitsHebrew "cubit" high, and in the morning tell the king, "Let them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily." The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
During that night the king's sleep escaped him, and he gave orders to bring the {scroll of records and chronicles},Literally "the scroll of remembrance and the events of the days" and they were read before the king.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it was found written how Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold who had conspired {to assassinate}Literally "to send a hand against" King Ahasuerus.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the king asked, "What has been done to bestow honor to Mordecai for this?" And the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the king asked, "Who is in the courtyard?" Haman had just come to the courtyard of the king's outer palace to tell the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the king's servants said to him, "Look! Haman is standing in the courtyard." And the king said, "Let him come."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Haman came, and the king said to him, "What is to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?" And Haman thought to himself, "Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
let them bring {royal clothing}Literally "clothing of the kingdom" with which the king has clothed himself, and a horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal head-dress has been given.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And let the clothing and the horse be given {to the man}Literally "to the hand of the man" by the officials of the king's nobles; let them cloth the man whom the king wishes to honor, and let him ride on his horse through the public square of the city, and let them proclaim before him, 'Thus, it will be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.'"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the king said to Haman, "Quickly, take the clothing and the horse, just as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the gate of the king; you must not leave out anything from what you have said."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai and let him ride through the public square of the city; and he proclaimed before him, "Thus, it is done to the man whom the king wishes to honor." 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then Mordecai returned to the gate of the king, and Haman rushed to his house mournful and with his head covered.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends all that had happened to him. And his advisers and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is {from the descendants of the Jews},Literally "from seed of the Jews" you will not prevail against him, but will certainly fall before him."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
As they were still speaking with him the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the king again said to Esther, on the second day {while they were drinking},Literally "at the meal of wine" "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What is your request? It will be given to you--even half the kingdom."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, "If I have found favor in your eyes,Or "If I have won your favor" O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request;


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because thisHebrew "there" is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."See HALOT 1437, s.v. NRSV translates, "but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who {gave himself the right to do this}?"Literally "has filled his heart to do so"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman!" And Haman was terrified before the king and queen. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The king rose in his anger {from the banquet}Literally "from the banquet of wine" and went to the palace garden, and Haman stood to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for {he realized that the king was determined to make an end to his life}.Literally "that evil had been determined for him from the king"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the king returned from the palace garden to the {banquet hall},Literally "house of the meal of wine" where Haman was lying prostrate on the couch that Esther was on, and the king said, "Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?" As the wordsHebrew "word" went from the king's mouth they covered Haman's face.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, "Look, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good for the sake of the king stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the king removed his signet ring that he had taken away from Haman, and he gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Esther again spoke before the king, and she fell before his feet and wept, pleading for his grace to avert Haman the Agagite's evil plan and the plot that he devised against the Jews.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and she said, "If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him,Or "if I have won his favor" and if the king is pleased with this matter, and {I have his approval},Literally "I am good in his eyes" let an edict be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the provinces of the king.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For {how can I bear}Literally "how am I able" to look on the disaster that will find my people, and {how can I bear}Literally "how am I able" to look on the destruction of my family?"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I have given Haman's house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he {plotted against}Literally "sent his hand against" the Jews.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Write {as you see fit}Literally "as it is good in your eyes" concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring cannot be revoked." 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the secretaries of the king were summonedOr "called" at that time, in the third month, which is in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to CushThat is, "Ethiopia"--one hundred and twenty-seven provincesHebrew "province"--each province according to its own script and to every people in their own {language},Literally "tongue" and to the Jews in their own script and language.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and he sealed the letters with the king's signet ring and sent themHebrew "the letters" by couriers on horses, riding on royal horses {bred by}Literally "sons of" racing mares.See HALOT 1244 s.v.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
In them the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and {defend their lives},Literally "to stand for their lives" to destroy and kill and annihilate any army of any people or province attacking them, including women and children, and to plunder their spoil,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
in one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
A copy of the {edict}Literally "writing" was to be given as law in each province to inform all the people, so that the Jews would be readySee HALOT 902 s.v. on that day to avenge themselves from their enemies.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The mounted couriers on the royal horses went out without delay, urged by the king's word. The law was given in the citadel of Susa. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in {royal clothing}Literally "clothing of the kingdom" of blue cloth and white linen, and a great crown of gold and a robe of fine white linen and purple, and the city of Susa was shouting and rejoicing.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
In every province and city, wherever the king's edict and his law came, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a banquet and a {holiday},Literally "day of good" and many of the people from the country were posing as Jews because the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In the twelfth month, that is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, on which the edict of the king arrived and his law was enacted, on the day in which the enemies of the Jews had hoped to gain power over them but was overturned, and the Jews gained power against their enemies,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
the Jews gathered in their cities in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus {to strike against}Literally "to send a hand against" those who sought their destruction, and no one could withstand them,Or "stand in their presence" as the fear of them fell on all the people.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, governors, and {those who did the work of the king}Literally "the doers of the work who were for the king" were supporting the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For Mordecai was high-ranking in the {king's palace}Literally "house of the king" and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as {Mordecai grew more and more powerful}.Literally "the man Mordecai was going and becoming great"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The Jews struck down all their enemies with {the sword},Literally "the striking of the sword" killing and destroying them; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not {touch}Literally "send their hand to" the plunder. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
On that day the number of those being killed in the citadel of Susa {was reported to}Literally "came before" the king.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the king said to Queen Esther, "In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? What is your petition? It will be granted to you. And what further is your request? It will be done."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Esther replied, "If it is good to the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let them hang Haman's ten sons on the gallows."


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the Jews were gathered who were in Susa, and on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed in Susa three hundred men, but they did not {touch}Literally "send their hand to" the plunder. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered and {defended their lives}Literally "to stand for their lives" and {found repose}Literally "rested" from their enemies. And they killed seventy-five thousand of those that hated them, but they did not {touch}Literally "send their hand to" the plunder.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. They rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day of feasting and joy.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day, and rested on the fifteenth day. And they made it a day of feasting and joy.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Therefore the Jews in the rural areas, living in the rural towns, made the fourteenth month of Adar a day of joy and feasting, a festive day of giving gifts to each other. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Mordecai wrote down these things and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all of the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
to impose on them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day, {every year},Literally "and every year and year"


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
as the day that the Jews {found relief}Literally "rested" from their enemies, and the month which changed for them from sorrow to joy, and from a mourning ceremony to a {festive day};Literally "a day of good" to make them days of feasting and joy, and giving gifts to each other and to the poor.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and he had cast pur, that is the lot, to rout them out and destroy them.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
But when it cameOr "she came" {to the attention of}Literally "before" the king, he {gave orders in writing}Literally "said with a scroll" that his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Therefore they called these days Purim, because of the name Pur. Thus because of all the words of this letter, and of what they faced concerning this, and of what had happened to them,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
the Jews established and adopted it for themselves and for their offspring, and for all who joined them. They did not neglect {to observe}Literally "to be doing" these two days every year as it was written and appointed to them.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
These days are to be remembered and are to be kept in every generation, and in family, province, and city; and these days of Purim are not to be neglected among the Jews, and their memory shall not come to an end among their offspring. 


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So Queen Esther the daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Jew wrote in full authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 30
c3content:
He sent letters of words of peace and truth to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provincesHebrew "province" of Ahasuerus' kingdom,


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 31
c3content:
to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had imposed, and just as they had imposed on themselves and their offspring regulations of the fast and their lament.


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
All the work of his authority and his {powerful deeds},Literally "power" and the full accounting of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written on the scroll of the {chronicles}Literally "the events of the days" of the kings of Media and Persia?


c0book: Esth
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For Mordecai the Jew was second-in-command to King Ahasuerus. He was great for the Jews and popular with many of his brothers, for he sought good for his people, {interceding for the welfare of all his descendants}.Literally "spoke peace for all his offspring" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
There was a man in the land of Uz whoseHebrew "his" name was Job. ThatHebrew "And that" man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairsHebrew "pair" of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And his sons used to go and hold a feast {at each other's house}Literally "at the house of a man," or "at the house of each" on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{Then when}Literally "And it would happen that," or "And it would happen when" the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send},Literally "and Job would send" and he would sanctify them. ThusHebrew "And" he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought,Or "said" "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed}Literally "blessed"-- negative meaning by context God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.Or "always"; literally "all the days" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And it happened {one day}Literally "the day" {that}Literally "and" the sons of GodOr "the heavenly beings," or "the angels" came to present themselves before Yahweh, and SatanHebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" also came into their midst.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Yahweh said to Satan,Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" "From where have you come?" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Yahweh said to Satan,Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" "Have you {considered}Literally "set your heart" my servant Job? Indeed,Or "For," or "Because" there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" SatanHebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" answered Yahweh and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Have youEmphatic personal pronoun could be translated "you yourself" not put a fence around him and his household and around {all that belongs to him}Literally "all that is his" {on every side}?Literally "from around" You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestockOr "possessions" has increased in the land.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But,Hebrew "And" on the other hand, stretch outOr "please" your hand and touch {all that belongs to him}Literally "all that is his" and see {whether}Literally "if not" he will {curse}Literally "bless"-- negative meaning by context you to your face." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Yahweh said to Satan,Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" "Look, {all that belongs to him}Literally "all that is his" is in your {power}.Literally "hand" Only do not stretch out your hand {against}Literally "to," or "unto" him." SoHebrew "And" SatanHebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" went out from Yahweh's {presence}.Literally "faces of" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And then there was one day whenHebrew "and" his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding {beside them}.Literally "on their hands"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" the Sabeans {attacked},Literally "fell upon them" and they took them, and they slew the servants {by the edge of the sword}.Literally "with the mouth of the sword" ButHebrew "And" I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
While this one was still speaking, {another}Literally "this" came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
While this one was still speaking, {another}Literally "this" came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three divisions, and they made a raid on the camels, and they carried them away, and they struck your servants {by the edge of the sword},Literally "with the mouth of the sword" but I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
At the timeHebrew "Until" this one was speaking, {another}Literally "this" came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And behold,Or "Look" a great wind came from across the desert, and it struck the four corners of the house {so that}Literally "and" it fell upon the young people, and they died. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" Job arose and tore his outer garmentOr "robe" and shaved his head; {then}Hebrew "and" he fell upon the ground and he worshiped.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed."


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
In all this, Job did not sin and did not {charge God with wrongdoing}.Literally "give unseemliness to God" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it came to be," or "and it happened" one day the sons of GodOr "the heavenly beings," or "the angels" came to present themselves before Yahweh, and SatanHebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Yahweh {asked}Literally "said to" Satan,Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" "From where have you come?" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Yahweh {asked}Literally "said to" Satan,Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" "Have you {considered}Literally "set your heart" my servant Job? Indeed,Or "For" or "Because" there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though}Hebrew "and" you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" SatanHebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that}Literally "the" man has he will give for his life.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But stretch outOr "please" your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see {whether}Literally "if not" he will {curse}Literally "bless"--negative meaning by context you to your face."Hebrew "your faces" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
SoLiterally "And it happened the/one day" Yahweh said to Satan,Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" "{All right},Literally "Look" he is in your {power}.Literally "hand" Only spare his life." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" SatanHebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary" went out from {Yahweh's presence},Literally "the faces of Yahweh" and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{So}Hebrew "And" he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes. 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? {Curse}Literally "Bless"--negative meaning by context God and die." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, butOr "and" not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
ThusHebrew "And" Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. SoHebrew "And" each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they metOr "they agreed" together to come to console him and to comfort him. 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
ThusHebrew "And" they lifted up their eyesOr "they gazed" from afar, butHebrew "and" they did not recognize him, soHebrew "and" they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garmentOr "robe" and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.Or "in the air"; literally "to the heavens"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, butHebrew "and" no one spokeOr "there was no speaking" a word to him because they saw that {his}Literally "the" suffering was very great. 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
{Afterward}Literally "After thus" Job opened his mouth and cursedA different term than that employed in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9 his day.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let cloudsLiterally "cloud" settle on it; let themMasculine plural referring to all three entities mentioned in this verse terrify it with the blacknessLiterally "blacknesses" of day.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Let darkness seize that night;Literally "That night, let darkness seize it" let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light butHebrew "and" there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, norHebrew "And" did it hide trouble from my eyes.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}Literally "it would be at rest for me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
or with high officials {who have gold},Literally "gold is for them" who fill up their houses with silver.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the {weary}Literally "weary of strength" are at rest;


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
who wait for death, butHebrew "and" {it does not come},Literally "it is not" and searchOr "dig" for it more than for treasures,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Why does heMost likely God give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
ForOr perhaps emphatic, "Indeed" my sighing comes {before}Or "in place of" (NET); literally "to the faces of" my bread,Or "food" and my groanings gush forth like water


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 26
c3content:
I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thusHebrew "and" turmoil has come."


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? ButHebrew "And" who can refrain from speaking?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope evenHebrew "and" the integrity of your ways?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{Think}Literally "Remember" now, who has perished who is innocent? OrHebrew "And" where are the upright destroyed?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
ByOr "From" the breath of God they perish, and byOr "from" the blast of his anger they come to an end.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The roar of the lion and the voice of a lion in its prime, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
It stood still, butHebrew "and" I could not recognize its appearance; a form was {before}Literally "to before" my eyes; there was a hush, and I heard a voice:


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Between morning and evening}Literally "from morning to the evening" they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer--


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
whose harvest the hungry eats, and he takes it {from behind}Literally "to from" the thorns; and the thirsty pants after their wealth.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft}Literally "they make high to fly" like {sparks}.Literally "children of flame"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He is doing great and {unsearchable}Literally "there is no searching" things, marvelous things {without number}Literally "until there is no number"--


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
the one who is giving rain on the {surface of}Literally "faces of" the earth and is sending water on the {surface of}Literally "faces of" the fields,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
AndOr "Thus," or "So" he saves from the sword ofLiterally "from" their mouth, {even}Literally "and"; the entire verse could be translated "So he saves the poor from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the strong" the poor from the hand of the strong.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"Look, happy is the human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 18
c3content:
for he himselfEmphatic personal pronoun wounds, butHebrew "and" he binds up; he strikes, butHebrew "and" his hands heal.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{From}Literally "In," or "By" six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven evil shall not touch you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the {power of}Literally "hand of" the sword.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid ofHebrew "from" destruction when it comes.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
At destruction and famineHebrew "at famine" you shall laugh, and you shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
For your covenant will be with the stones of the field, and the wild animalsCollective singular of the field will be at peace with you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And you shall know that your tent is safe, and you will inspect your fold, and you shall not be missing anything.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And you shall know that your offspring are many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"Look, we have searched this out--it is true; hear it and know it {yourself}."Literally "you for yourself"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Can tasteless food be eaten withoutHebrew "from without" salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{I refused}Literally "My soul/throat refuses" to touch them; they are like {food that will make me ill}.Literally "the illness of my bread/food"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
thatHebrew "and" God would decide thatHebrew "and" he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and {kill me}.Literally "he would cut me off"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in {unrelenting}Literally "he/it does not have compassion," or "he/it does not have pity," or "he/it does not spare" pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that {I should hold out}?Literally "I should make my self long," or "I should lengthen my self"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"Loyal loveOr "Kindness" should come for the afflicted from his friend, even ifHebrew "and" he forsakes the fear of Shaddai.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadisA seasonal stream that is often dry they flow away,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came {here}Literally "up to it" and they are confounded.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"For now youPlural throughout the rest of this chapter have become {such};Literally "to it," or "for it" you see terrors, and you fear.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Teach me, and I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
How painful are {upright words}!Literally "words of uprightness" ButHebrew "And" what does {your reproof}Literally "reproving from you" reprove?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Do you intend to reprove my wordsOr "Do you intend to reprove with words" and consider the words of a desperate man as wind?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"{Therefore}Literally "And now," or "And so then" be prepared, turn to me, and I surely will not lie to your face.Hebrew "faces"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed,Hebrew "and" turn, {my righteousness is still intact}.Literally "still my righteousness is in it"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Does not {a human beingOr a collective singular, "human beings" have hard service}Literally "hard service for a human being" on earth? And are not hisOr a collective singular, "their" days like the days of a laborer?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
So {I had to inherit}Literally "I am allotted to me" months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When I lie down, I say,Hebrew "and I say" 'When shall I rise?' ButHebrew "And" the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, thenHebrew "and" it gives way again.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.Literally "with nothing hope"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, butHebrew "and" {I will be gone}.Literally "there is not me," or "I am not"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"EvenOr "I on my part" I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self'sOr "soul's" bitterness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
thenHebrew "and" you terrify me with dreams,Or "the dreams" and with visions you terrifyOr "dishearten," or "frighten" me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
SoOr "And" my inner selfOr "soul" will chooseOr "I will choose" strangling-- death more than my {existence}.Literally "bones"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"What is a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},Literally "you set on him your heart"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
so thatHebrew "and" you visit him {every morning},Literally "for mornings," or "at mornings" you test him {every moment}?Literally "for moments," or "at moments"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{How long}Literally "Like what" will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallowOr "my swallowing" my spit?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so thatHebrew "and" I have become a burden to myself?Some translations translate as "you" (e.g., ESV, NRSV, NIV, NET)


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, butHebrew "and" {I will be no more}."Literally "there is not me," or "I am not"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{How long}Literally "Until when" will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
If your children sinned against him, thenHebrew "and" he sent them into the {power}Literally "hand" of their transgression.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
If you yourselfEmphatic personal pronoun would seek God, thenHebrew "and" you would plead to Shaddai for grace.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
If you are pure and upright, indeed,Or "even," or "yes" now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"Indeed,Or "For" please inquire of former generations, and consider {what their ancestors have found},Literally "as to the finding of their fathers"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Will they themselvesEmphatic personal pronoun not teach you and {tell you}Literally "they will say to you" and {utter}Literally "they will bring out" words from their heart?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water?Or "where there is no water"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yetHebrew "and" it withers {before}Literally "to the faces of" all grass.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He will lean himself against his house, butHebrew "and" it will not stand; he will take hold of it, butHebrew "and" it will not endure.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
He is {thriving}Literally "soaked," or "well-watered" {before}Literally "to the faces of" the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
If he destroys him from his place, thenHebrew "and" it deceives him, saying, 'I have never seen you.'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked {will be no more}."Literally "there is not it," or "it is not"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He is wise inHebrew "of" heart and mighty inHebrew "of" strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?Literally "he succeeded"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He is the one who commands the sun, and it does not rise, {and he seals up the stars}.Literally "and behind the stars he seals up"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He is the one who does great things {beyond understanding}Literally "until there is not understanding" and marvelous things {beyond number}.Literally "until there is not number"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"{If}Literally "Look" he passes by me, {I would not see him};Literally "and I would not see" and if he should move on, {I would not recognize him}.Literally "and I would not recognize him"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{If}Literally "Look" he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{How much less}Literally "Also for" can I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun answer him? How can I choose my words with him,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He will not allow me to {catch}Literally "return," or "regain" my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
If {it is a matter of}Literally "for"; see NASB, NIV, NET strength, look, he is mighty. ButHebrew "And" if {it is a matter of}Literally "for"; NASB, NIV, NET, NRSV justice, who can summon me?Or "arraign me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; even though I am blameless, yetHebrew "and" it would pronounce me guilty.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"I am blameless; I do not care about myself;Perhaps the meaning is "but it makes no difference to me" (NLT) I loathe my life.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the face of its judge-- if it is not he, then who is it?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
ThoughOr "If" {I say},Literally "my saying" 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 32
c3content:
"ForOr the emphatic "Indeed" he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him, that {we can come to trial together}.Literally "we come together in the justice," or "we come together in the judgment"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 35
c3content:
then I would speak and not fear him,Hebrew "and I will not fear him" for {in myself I am not fearful}.Literally "not so I with me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"My inner selfOr "soul" loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint};Literally "I want to let go upon me my complaint" I want to speak out of the bitterness of my inner self.Or "soul"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of the wicked?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{Do you have eyes of flesh}?Literally "Are eyes of flesh for you" Or {do you see as human beings see}?Literally "as seeing of human beings you see"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Your hands fashioned me and made meHebrew "they made me" {altogether},Literally "together all around" thenOr "and" you destroyed me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
PleaseOr an untranslatable particle expressing urgency remember that you made me like clay, butHebrew "and" you turn me into dust again?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
" 'YetHebrew "And" you hid these things in your heart; I know that this {was your purpose}.Literally "was with you"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If I had sinned, thenHebrew "and" you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
If I am guilty, woe to me! ButHebrew "And" if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; I am filled with shame, and just look at my misery!


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And if my head grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; {and you repeat your exploits against me}.Literally "and you do again you display marvelous powers against me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; {relief forces}Literally "substitute and forces" are against me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.Literally "and an eye should not have seen me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
to the land of darkness, like the darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos},Literally "and not order" so thatOr "and" it shines forth like darkness.'"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk}Literally "a man of lips" be vindicated?Hebrew "should he be vindicated"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?Literally "And you will mock there is not putting to shame"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But,Hebrew "And but" {O that}Literally "who shall give" God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for {insight has many sides}.Literally "double to sound wisdom" And know that God {on your behalf}Literally "for you" has forgotten {some of}Literally "from" your guilt.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Can you find out the essence of God, or can you find out {the ultimate limits}Literally "up to the limit" of Shaddai?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{It is higher than the heaven};Literally "heights of heaven" what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"If he passes through and imprisons someoneHebrew "and he imprisons" {and summons the assembly},Literally "and he summons" thenHebrew "and" who can hinder him?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
For he knows {those who are worthless};Literally "men of worthlessness" {when he sees}Literally "And he will see" iniquity, {he will not consider it}.Literally "and he will not consider"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 12
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" {an empty-headed person}Literally "a man hollowed out" will get understanding whenHebrew "and" a wild donkey's colt is born as a human being.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 14
c3content:
if iniquitySee v. 11, where the same word is used is in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents--


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
surely then you will lift up your face withoutHebrew "from" blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear.Hebrew "and not will you fear"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For you yourselfEmphatic personal pronoun will forget your misery; you will remember it as water that has flowed past.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"{And your life will be brighter than noon};Literally "And from noon lifespan will arise" its darkness will be like the morning.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected--{you will sleep in safety}.Literally "you will lie down securely"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you will lie down, and {no one will make you afraid};Literally "there is not making afraid" {and many will entreat your favor}.Literally "and they will appease/implore your faces many"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 20
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" the eyes of the wicked will fail; and refuge will be lost to them, and their hope is {to breathe their last breath}."Literally "the expiring of soul"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{I also have insight}Literally "Also for me heart" like you;Plural I am not more inferior than you.Plural And {who does not know things like these}?Literally "and who there is not like these"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I am a laughingstock to my friends:Hebrew "to his friends" 'He calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{Those at ease have contempt}Literally "Contempt is according to the thought of the complacent" for the thought of {disaster},Literally "a torch" but it is ready for those unstable of foot.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The tents of the destroyers are at peace, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whom God brings into his hand.Or "power"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"ButHebrew "And" askOr "ask now," or "please ask" the animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you;


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
In whose hand is the life of all living things and {the breath of every human being}?Literally "the breath of all the flesh of man"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If he tears down, thenHebrew "and" it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, thenHebrew "and" he cannot be freed.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look, if he withholds the water,Or "waters" thenHebrew "and" they dry up; and if he sends them out, thenHebrew "and" they overwhelm the land.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He leads priests away stripped, and he overthrows {the members of ancient families}.Literally "the constant"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
He makes the nations great, thenHebrew "and" he destroys them; he expands the nations, thenHebrew "and" he guides them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 24
c3content:
He strips away the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.Literally "in a wasteland not a way"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
They grope in the dark {without}Literally "and not" light, and he makes them stagger like aHebrew "the" drunkard.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{What youPlural know},Literally "Like your knowledge" I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun also know-- I am not more inferior than you.Plural


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"ButOr "And but" youPlural {whitewash with lies};Literally "coverers of lies" all of youPlural are {worthless healers}.Literally "healers of worthlessness"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{O that}Literally "Who shall give" youPlural would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.Plural


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Will youPlural show partiality for him}?Literally "his faces will you raise" Or do youPlural want to plead God's case?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Will it be well, if he examines you?Plural Or can youPlural deceive him like deceiving a human being?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Surely he will rebuke youPlural if {youPlural show partiality}Literally "faces you lift up" in secret.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"{Let me have silence},Literally "Be silent away from me" and I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun will speak, and let come over me whatever may.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth andHebrew "now" putOr "should I put," or "will I put" my life in my hand?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Look,Or "Though" though he kill me, I will hope inOr "for" him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.Literally "to his faces"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Moreover, this is salvation to me, that the godless would not come {before him}.Literally "to his faces"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Please look,Or "Look here" I have prepared my case; I know that I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun will be vindicated.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"Only youSingular; the antecedent is God must not do these two things to me; then I will not hide from your face:


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 22
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" call, and I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun will answer; or let me speak, thenHebrew "and" reply to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"{How many}Literally "Like what" are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 26
c3content:
"Indeed, youSingular write bitter things against me, and youSingular make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And youSingular put my feet in the block, and youSingular watch all my paths; you carve a mark on the soles of my feet.Or "You mark/note my footprints"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And he himself Emphatic personal pronounwastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like aOr "the" shadow, butHebrew "and" he does not last.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, thenHebrew "and" it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"ButHebrew "And" a man dies, and he dwindles away; thusHebrew "And" a human being passes away, and where is he?Or "where is he then?"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{so}Literally "and" a man lies down, and he does not arise. {Until the heavens are no more},Literally "Until not heavens" they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"{O that}Literally "Who shall give" you would conceal me in Sheol, that you would hide me {until your wrath is past},Literally "until the return of your nose" that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You would call, and I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away the soil of the earth; soHebrew "and" you destroy the hope of human beings.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You overpower him forever, and he passes away; you change {his countenance},Literally "his faces" {then}Hebrew "and" you send him away.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 21
c3content:
His children may come to honor, butHebrew "and" he does not know it; orHebrew "and" they may become lowly, butHebrew "and" he does not realize it.Or "them"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
He feels only the pain of his own body,Hebrew "his body on him" and his inner selfOr "soul" mourns for him."Or "for himself"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"{What is worse},Literally "Also," or "Even" you yourselfEmphatic personal pronoun are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation {before}Literally "to the faces of" God.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before}Literally "to the faces of" the hills?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Both the gray-haired and the old are among us-- {those older than your father}.Literally "more aged than your father in days"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{How much less}Literally "Also for," or "Indeed for," or "Indeed that" he who is abominable and corrupt,Or "he who is corrupt" a man drinking wickedness like water.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 19
c3content:
{to whom alone}Literally "to them to alone them" the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 20
c3content:
"All of the wicked one's days he is writhing, evenHebrew "and" through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{He cannot trust that he will return}Literally "He cannot trust to return," or "He is not certain to return," or "He cannot be sure to return" (compare NJPS) from darkness, and he himselfEmphatic personal pronoun is destined for the sword.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"He is wandering for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready {at hand}.Hebrew "at his hand"; the meaning seems to be, "his ruin is certain"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 26
c3content:
he {stubbornly}Literally "with neck" runs against him {with his thick-bossed shield}.Literally "with the thickness of the boss of his shield"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{he will dwell}Hebrew "and he will dwell" in desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 29
c3content:
He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.See HCSB, ESV; or "will not reach to the earth"; perhaps "his possessions will not go to the underworld"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 30
c3content:
"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 32
c3content:
It will be paid in full {before his time},Literally "in not his day," or "without his day" and his branch will not flourish.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"I have heard many things like these; all of you are {miserable comforters}.Literally "comforters of trouble"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun; also could talk as you, if {you were in my place};Literally "there is your soul in place of my soul" I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I couldOr "would" encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips wouldOr "should" ease the pain.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ThusHebrew "And" you shriveled me up;Or "you have seized me" it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"I was at ease, thenHebrew "and" he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck; thenHebrew "and" he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He breached me {breach upon breach};Literally "breach upon the faces of breach" he rushes at me like a warrior.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no placeOr "do not let it become a place" for my cry for help.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 21
c3content:
and it arguesOr "but may someone argue" for a mortal with God, and as {a human}Literally "a son of man" for his friend.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Indeed, after {a few years}Literally "years of number" have come, thenHebrew "and" I will go the way from which I will not return.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Surely}Literally "If not" mockery is with me, and my eye {rests}Literally "spends the night" on their provocation.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand?Or "who will give security for me?"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Indeed,Or "For" you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"And he has made me a proverb forHebrew "of" the peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}.Literally "and spitting to the faces I am"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are allHebrew "all of them" like a shadow.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" the righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands}Literally "the clean of hands" increases in strength.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
ButLiterally "And but" {all of you must return}Literally "all of them you must return"--{please come}!Literally "and please come," or "come on!" ButHebrew "And" I shall not find a wise person among you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They make night into day, saying, 'Light is {near to darkness}.'Literally "near from the faces of darkness"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
whereHebrew "and where" then is my hope? And {who will see my hope}?Literally "my hope who will see it"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{How long}Literally "Until when" {will youPlural hunt for words}?Literally "will you set a snare for words" Consider,Or "you should consider"; plural second person and afterward we shall speak.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"You who are tearing {yourself}Literally "his soul," or "his individual self" in yourHebrew "his" anger, will the earth be forsaken because of you?Singular OrHebrew "And" will the rock be removed from its place?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{His strong steps}Literally "The steps of his power" are shortened, and his own schemesCollective singular throw him down,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted},Literally "his trust" and it brought him to the king of terrors.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"{Nothing}Literally "From not" remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
His roots dry up {below},Literally "from under" and its branchesSingular collective wither away above.Hebrew "from above"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
There is no offspring for him norHebrew "and not" a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Those of the west are appalled over {his fate},Literally "his day" and those of the east {are seized with horror}.Literally "they seize horror"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Surely these are the dwellings of the godless, and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God."


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{How long}Literally "Until when" will youPlural torment meHebrew "my soul," or "my self" and crush me with words?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
These ten times youPlural have disgraced me; youPlural are not ashamed that youPlural have attackedOr "astonished" me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
If indeed youPlural must magnify yourselves against me, and youPlural must let my disgrace argue against me,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' butOr "and" I am not answered; I cry out, butHebrew "and" there is no justice.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.Literally "he has counted me for him as his foes"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampartOr "siege works"; compare NRSV against me and have encamped around my tent.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have onlyOr "completely" turned aside from me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The sojourners inOr "of" my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I call to my servant, butHebrew "and" he does not answer; I must {personally}Literally "with my mouth" plead with him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to {my own family}.Literally "to the children of my womb"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
All {my intimate friends}Literally "the men of the circle of my confidants" abhor me, and these whom I have loved have turned against me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
My bonesCollective singular cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"{O that}Literally "Who then shall give and" my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!Literally "Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 25
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun know that my redeemer is alive, and at the last he will stand up upon {the earth}.Literally "dust"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, butHebrew "and" fromOr "without" my flesh I will see God,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 27
c3content:
whom {I will see for myself},Literally "I myself will see for myself"; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger.Or "another" {My heart faints within me}.Literally "My kidneys fail in my lap"; see NRSV


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 28
c3content:
"If youPlural say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,Or " 'The root of the trouble is found' in him"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 29
c3content:
be afraid for yourselves {because of the sword},Literally "from the faces of the sword" for wrath brings punishment byLiterally "of" the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment."


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back {for the sake of}Literally "and in because of" my inward excitement.Or "my inward haste"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
that the rejoicing of the wicked is {short},Literally "from near" and the joy of the godless {lasts only a moment}?Literally "is until a moment"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The eye that saw him {will not see him again},Literally "and it will not do again" and his place will no longer behold him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
in his bowels his food is turned, the venom of horned vipers is {within him}.Literally "in his entrails"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He swallows riches, butHebrew "and" he vomits themHebrew "it" up; God drives themHebrew "it" out from his stomach.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{He will not enjoy the streams},Literally "He will not look on streams" the torrents of honey and curds.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Returning the products of his toil, he will not swallow;Hebrew "and he will not swallow" according to the profit of his trade, {he will not enjoy},Literally "and he will not taste"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 19
c3content:
for he has oppressed; he has abandoned the poor; he has seized a house butOr "and" did not build it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, {he lets nothing escape that he desires}.Literally "in his desire he does not let be saved"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{There is nothing left after he has eaten};Literally "There is not a remnant at his eating" therefore his prosperity will not endure.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 22
c3content:
In the fullness of his excess {he will be in distress};Literally "it will be in distress for him" all of misery's power will come upon him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{When his stomach fills up},Literally "It will be to fill up his stomach" God will send {his burning anger}Literally "the blaze of his nose/anger" upon him, and he will let it rain down upon himOr "them" as his food.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 25
c3content:
He draws it forth, and it comes out from his body, and the glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{Total darkness}Literally "All darkness" is hidden for his treasures;Or "His treasures are hidden by total darkness" {an unfanned fire}Literally "a fire not fanned" will devour him; the remnantOf his treasures {will be consumed}Literally "will be evil," or "will be bad" in his tent.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The products of his house will be carried awayOr "the produce of his house will go away into exile" like gushing watersOr "by gushing waters" on the day of his wrath.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 29
c3content:
This is a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."Or "and the inheritance decreed for him by God" (compare ESV, NJPS)


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Bear with me, and I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun will speak; thenHebrew "and" after my speaking you can mock.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 8
c3content:
With them their offspring are established {before them},Literally "to their faces" and their descendants before their eyes.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They {sing}Literally "they lift up their voices" to the tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to the sound of the long flute.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Who is Shaddai that we should serve him, orHebrew "and" what would we benefit when we plead with him?'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Look, their prosperity is not in their hands; the schemes of the wicked are repugnantOr "the plan of the wicked is repugnant" to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? HeThe antecedent is "God," or possibly "the Almighty" distributes pains in his anger.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 18
c3content:
How often are they like straw {before}Literally "to the faces of" the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
'God stores up his iniquity for his children'?Or "You say, 'God stores up his iniquity for his children.'" Then let him repay it to him thatHebrew "and" he may know.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
for what {does he care for}Literally "his joy in" his house after him, when the number of his months isHebrew "are" cut off?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, sinceHebrew "and" he himselfEmphatic personal pronoun judges high ones?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
This one dies {in full prosperity},Literally "in the vigor of his prosperity" {completely}Literally "all of him" at ease and secure.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 28
c3content:
For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where are {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'Literally "tent of dwelling places of wicked"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 33
c3content:
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before}Literally "to the faces of" him {they are innumerable}.Literally "there is not number"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 34
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" how will you comfort me with emptiness, whenHebrew "and" fraud is left in your answers?"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Is it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, orHebrew "and" a gain if you make your ways blameless?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the land {belongs to the man of power},Literally "man of power for him" and {the favored}Literally "lifted up of face" lives in it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Is not God in the height of the heavens? ButHebrew "And" see how lofty are {the highest stars}.Literally "top of stars," or "head of stars"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
who were snatched away {before their time},Literally "and not time" whose foundation was washed away by a current?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
YetHebrew "And" he himselfEmphatic personal pronoun filled up their houses with good things, butHebrew "and" the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Surely}Literally "If not" our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.Or "their wealth"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; {in this way},Literally "by them" good will come to you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 25
c3content:
thenHebrew "And" Shaddai will be your gold ore and {your precious silver}.Literally "silver of the best for you," or "silver of the best belonging to you"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and {you will expect that God will be good to you}.Literally "you will lift up to God your face"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 29
c3content:
When they are humiliated, {you say},Literally "and you say," or "then you say" 'It is pride,' forHebrew "and" he saves {the humble}.Literally "downward of eyes"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{O that}Literally "Who shall give" I knew and that I might find him; O that I might come to his dwelling.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I want to know the words with which he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No, but he himselfEmphatic personal pronoun would give heed to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"When I go forward, {he is not there},Literally "and there is not he," or "and he is not" orHebrew "and" backward, I cannot see him.Hebrew "and I cannot see him"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{When he works}Literally "At his working" on the left, {I cannot perceive}Literally "and I cannot see" him; he turns to the right, butHebrew "and" I cannot see him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 12
c3content:
From the commandment of his lips, indeedHebrew "and" I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"ButHebrew "And" he is {alone},Literally "as one" and who can dissuade him? And {whatever he desires},Literally "his inner self desires," or "his soul desires" {indeed},Hebrew "and" he does it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For he will carry out {what he appoints for me},Literally "my portion," or "my allotment" and many things like these are with him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; when I consider, I trembleHebrew "and I tremble," or "then I tremble" because of him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness},Literally "from the face of darkness" and because of me heOr "it" conceals thick darkness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
TheyOr "Some" (NASU, ESV) or "Men" (NIV, NET) remove border stones; they seize flocks, and they pasture them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Look, like wild donkeys in the desert theyThat is, the poor go out to their labor as searchers for the prey; the wilderness isOr "provides" {their}Hebrew "for their" food for the young.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They spend the night naked, {without}Literally "from not" clothing, and they have no garment in the cold.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,Or "from the mountain rainstorm" and they cling to the rock {without}Literally "from not" refuge.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"TheyThat is, those who oppress the poor snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy.Or "And they take the child of the needy as a pledge"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
TheyThat is, the poor go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves.Or "and they carry the sheaves though hungry"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the presses, butHebrew "and" they are thirsty.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
From the city people groan, and the throatOr "soul," or "inner self" of the wounded cries for help; yetHebrew "and" God does not {regard it as unseemly}.Literally "he puts offensiveness"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"Those are among the ones rebelling against the light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{At dusk}Literally "At the light" the murderer rises; he kills the needy and the poor, and in the night he is like aOr "the" thief.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'}Literally " 'An eye will not see me'" and he places a covering on his face.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"He himselfEmphatic personal pronoun is swift on the water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.Literally "He does not turn toward the path of the vineyard"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away thoseOr "they/them" who have sinned.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like aOr "the" tree.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
YetHebrew "And" heThe probable antecedent is God carries off the tyrants by his strength; if he rises up, thenHebrew "and" heThe antecedent of the singular here probably changes to the wicked person cannot be certain of life.Hebrew "the life"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
HeThe probable antecedent is God gives security to him, and he isOr "they are" supported, butHebrew "and" his eyes are upon their ways.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 24
c3content:
They are exalted a little while, thenLiterally "and" {they are gone}.Literally "he is not" And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others, and like the heads of grain they wither away.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Indeed,Hebrew "And" how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Look, even the moon {is not bright},Literally "and it is not bright" and the stars are not pure in his sight.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{How much less}Literally "Also" for a human being who is a maggot, and {a human}Literally "a son of man," or "a son of Adam" who is a worm?"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"How youSingular have helped {one who has no power}!Literally "for not power" How youSingular have assisted the arm {that has no strength}!Literally "not strength"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
How youSingular have advised {one who has no wisdom}!Literally "for not wisdom" And what sound wisdom youSingular have made known {in abundance}!Literally "as far as the multitude," or "for multitude"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{With whose help}Literally "With whom" have youSingular uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you?Singular


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He stretches out the north over emptiness; he hangs the earth {over nothing}.Literally "over not what"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He ties up the water in its clouds, and the cloud is not torn open beneath it.Hebrew "them"; antecedent for "them" is "water" (literally "waters")


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He covers the face of the full moon;Text reads "throne"; "full moon" is based on a change of the vowels he spreads his cloud over it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{He has described a circle}NRSV; literally "a limit he has circled" on the face of the water {between light and darkness}.Literally "at the end of light with darkness"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
By his breath {the heavens were made clear};Literally "heavens clearness" his hand pierced the fleeing snake.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Look, these are the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word}Literally "how whisper of word" that we hear of him! ButHebrew "And" who can understand the thunder of his power?"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{As God lives},Literally "The life of God" he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner selfOr "soul" bitter.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Far be it from me that {I would say that youPlural are right};Literally "I would declare you as in the right" until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"I will teach youPlural aboutOr "concerning" God's hand; I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world}Literally "why this" {have you become altogether vain}?Literally "vain you have become vain"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"This is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring {do not have enough to eat}.Literally "they are not satisfied with bread"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 15
c3content:
TheirHebrew "His" survivors are buried throughOr "because of" the plague, and theirHebrew "his" widows do not weep.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
He goes to bed with wealth, butHebrew "and" {he will do so no more};Literally "he will not do again" he opens his eyes, and {it is gone}.Literally "it is not"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place {for gold to be refined}.Literally "for the gold they refine"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits for the ore in gloom and deep shadow.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell};Literally "from with dwelling" those who are forgotten {by travelers},Literally "by feet" they dangle, they sway far away from human beings.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
As for the earth, from it comes food,Or "bread" butHebrew "and" underneath it, it is turned up as by fire.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Proud wild animals}Literally "The sons of pride" have not trodden it; the lion in its prime has not prowled over it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"ButHebrew "And" from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world}Literally "where this" is the place of understanding?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution cannot be an ornament of refined gold.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Indeed,Hebrew "And" from where does wisdom come? And {where in the world}Literally "where this" is the place of understanding?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 24
c3content:
for he himselfEmphatic personal pronoun looks to the end of the earth; he sees under all the heaven.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{when he made}Literally "at his making" a rule for the rain and a way for the thunder's lightning bolt,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.'"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"{O that I were}Literally "Who shall give me" as in the months before, as in the days when God watched over me,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The voicesHebrew "voice"; collective singular by context, governing a plural verb of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
because I saved the needy who cried for help, and I savedSupplying the elided verb from the preceding parallel line the orphan for whom there was no helper.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I was a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's}Literally "the one I knew not" legal dispute.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
My glory was new with me, and {I was revitalized regularly}.'See NJPS; literally "my bow in my hand was new"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 24
c3content:
I smiled for them when they had no confidence in anything, and they did not extinguish the light of my face.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 25
c3content:
I chose their way, and I sat as head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like one who comforts mourners.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"But now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Moreover, {what use to me is the strength of their hands}?Literally "the strength of their hands what is for me" With them, vigor is destroyed.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{A senseless crowd},Literally "sons of good-for-nothing" yes, {a disreputable brood},Literally "sons of no name" they were cast out from the land.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 11
c3content:
because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me, and they have thrown off restraint {in my presence}.Literally "from my face"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
On the right hand the brood risesHebrew "rise" up; {they put me to flight},Literally "my feet they send away" and they build up their {siege ramps}Literally "the ways/paths of their disaster" against me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{At night I am in great pain};Literally "night my bones he pierces upon me," or "night pierces my bones upon me" my pains do not take a rest.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He seizes my clothing with {great power};Literally "much of strength" he grasps me by my tunic's collar.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 24
c3content:
"Surely someone must not send a hand against the needy when, in his misfortune, there is a cry of help for them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"If I have withheld the desire of the poor from them, orHebrew "and" I have caused the widow's eyes to fail,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
(for from my childhood heProbably referring to "the orphan" {grew up with}Literally "reared" me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided herProbably referring to "the widow"),


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing orHebrew "and" that there is no covering for the poor,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
if his loins have not blessed me, orHebrew "and" by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Indeed, the disaster from God was a dread for me, and {I was powerless}Literally "I was not able" because of his majesty.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and {I was secretly enticed},Literally "it was gullible in the secrecy of my heart" and {my hand threw them a kiss},Literally "my hand kissed for my mouth"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"If I have rejoiced at the ruin of the one who hated me orHebrew "and" have exulted when evil overtook him--


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 31
c3content:
{Have the people of my tent not said},Literally "If the people of my tent have not said" '{O that}Literally "who shall give" someoneOr "he" had not been satisfied with his meat'?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 33
c3content:
{Have I concealed}Literally "If I have concealed" my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 34
c3content:
because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of the doorway?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 35
c3content:
{O that}Literally "Who shall give" {I had}Literally "for me" someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for}Hebrew "And," or "But" the written communication that {my adversary}Literally "the man of my indictment" has written,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 39
c3content:
if I have eaten its yield without payment, orHebrew "and" I have caused the breath of its owners to die,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 40
c3content:
let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}.Literally "the nose of Elihu became hot" {He became angry}Literally "His nose became hot" at Job because he justified himself rather than God,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and {he became angry}Literally "his nose became hot" at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak}Literally "in words" because {they were older than he}.Literally "they were older than he as far as days"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, {he became angry}.Literally "his nose became hot"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I thought,Or "said" 'Let daysCompare the idiom of "as far as days" in vv. 4 and 6 speak, and let many years teach wisdom.'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
It is not {the aged}Literally "many in days" who are wise, orHebrew "and" it is not the elders who understand justice.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"Look, I waited for yourPlural words; I listened for yourPlural insight, until you searched out {what to say}.Literally "words," or "sentences"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And I directed my attention to you;Plural and, look, there is no one for Job who refuted, answering his words among you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 14
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" he did not direct his wordsOr "sentences," or "what he said" to me, and I will not answer him with yourPlural words.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"They are dismayed; they no longer answer; {they have nothing to say}.Literally "words fail from them," or "sentences fail from them," or "what to say fails from them"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
for I am full of words;Or "sentences," or "what to say" {the spirit within me}Literally "the spirit of my stomach" urges me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Look, my internal organs are like unopened wine, like new wineskins itAntecedent is "wine" is ready to burst open.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Let me speak {that I may find relief};Literally "and let it find relief for me" let me open my lips, and let me answer.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{Please let me not show partiality to anyone},Literally "Not please I will lift up face of a man" and let me not show flattery to human beings,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
for I do not know how {to flatter},Literally "I will flatter" else my Maker would {soon}Literally "like little" put an end to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"But now, please hear my speeches,Or "my sentences," or "what I have to say" Job, and hearOr "give ear to" all my words.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 3
c3content:
My words declare my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak {what my lips know}.Literally "the knowledge of my lips"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"If you are able, answer me. Present your argument {before me};Literally "to the face of me" take your stand.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Look, before God {I am like you};Literally "I am like your mouth" I myself was also formed from clay.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words:Or "sentences," or "what you say"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Indeed, God speaks in one way, evenHebrew "and" in two,Or "time and again" (NJPS, HCSB) yet someone does not perceive it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
then he opens the ear of men, and {he frightens them with a warning}Literally "with their warning he frightens"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, evenHebrew "and" with the strife of his bones continually,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{so that}Hebrew "and" his life loathes bread, and his inner selfOr "soul" loathes {appetizing food}.Literally "food of desire"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 23
c3content:
"If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand,That is, "unique," or "one of a kind" to declare to a human being his uprightness


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{so that}Hebrew "and" he is gracious to him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into the pit; I have found a ransom.'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 27
c3content:
"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted what is right, and it was not paid back to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 28
c3content:
He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, soHebrew "and" {I will enjoy the light}.'Literally "my life in the light will see"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Look, God does all these things twice, three timesOr "time and again," or "oftentimes" (NASB, NASU), or "several times" with a person


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 30
c3content:
to bring his life back from the pit {so that he may enjoy the light of life}.Literally "to be lighted with the light of the life"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 32
c3content:
If {you have anything to say},Literally "If there are words," or "If there are sentences" {answer me};Literally "return to me" speak, for I desire {to justify you}.Literally "your righteousness"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Should I lie concerning my justice? Though I am without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
"Therefore, listen to me, {people who have sense}:Literally "men of heart" far be it from God {that he should commit wickedness}Literally "from wickedness" and that Shaddai {should do wrong}.Literally "from wrong"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Indeed, he will repay according to a human being's deeds, and according to a man's way he will let it happen to him.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 16
c3content:
"ButHebrew "And" if you have understanding, hear this; listen to {what I say}.Literally "the voice/sound of my words"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Shall he who hates justice really govern? Or will youSingular declare the Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?--


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 19
c3content:
who {shows no partiality to officials}Literally "he does not lift the face of officials" and who {does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant},Literally "he does not regard the eminent to the face of the poor/insignificant" for all of them are the work of his hands?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 20
c3content:
In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night the people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away the mighty {effortlessly}.Literally "not by a hand"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 22
c3content:
There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night {so that}Hebrew "and" they are crushed.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 26
c3content:
He strikes them {where the wicked stood},Literally "among the wicked" {where there are onlookers},Literally "in the place of seers"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 28
c3content:
so that they cause the cry of distress from the helpless to come to him, and he hears the cry of distress from the needy,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 29
c3content:
but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides his face, and who can behold him? YetHebrew "And" he is over a nation and over a person alike,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 32
c3content:
teach me yourself {what I cannot see};Literally "apart from what I can see" if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it'?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 33
c3content:
{According to your judgment},Literally "from with you" must he repay it because you rejected this? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, soHebrew "And" declare what you know.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 37
c3content:
for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.'"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 3
c3content:
If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'Literally "from my sin"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I myselfEmphatic personal pronoun {will give answer to you}Literally "will return you words" and to your friends with you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Because of the multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 11
c3content:
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 12
c3content:
There they cry out, butHebrew "and" he does not answer {because of the pride of evildoers}.Literally "from the face of the pride of evildoers"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{How much less}Literally "Also for" when you say that you do not see him, that the case is {before him},Literally "to the face of him" and you are waiting for him!


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 15
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 16
c3content:
{therefore}Hebrew "and," or "so" Job opens his mouth in empty talk-- without knowledge he multiplies words."


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"Bear with me a little longer, and {I will explain},Literally "I will show you" for {I still have something to say on God's behalf}.Literally "yet on behalf of God words/sentences"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 4
c3content:
for truly my wordsOr "what I have to say" are not falsehood; one who has perfect knowledge is with you.In other words, "Somebody who knows what he is talking about is addressing you"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Look, God is mighty butHebrew "and" does not despise anyone; he is mighty and {good in understanding}.Literally "strength of heart"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, butHebrew "and" he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 9
c3content:
thenHebrew "and" he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 10
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 11
c3content:
If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" if they do not listen, they perish by the sword, and they pass away without knowledge.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{They die in their youth},Literally "It dies in the youth of their self" and their life ends among the male shrine prostitutes.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And what's more, he allured you {out of distress}Literally "from the mouth of distress" into a broad place, where in place of it was no constraint; and what was set on your table is full of fatness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 17
c3content:
ButHebrew "And" you are obsessed with the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Yes,Or "Indeed" it is wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let the ransom's greatness turn you aside.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Will your cry for help sustain you without distress, orHebrew "and" all the efforts of your strength?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 29
c3content:
"Moreover, {can anyone understand}Literally "if he can understand" the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Indeed, he judges people by them; he gives food {in abundance}.Literally "as far as providing in abundance"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 33
c3content:
His thundering tells about him; the livestock also tell {concerning what rises}.Literally "about going up"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 4
c3content:
After it, his voice roars; it thunders {with his majestic voice},Literally "with the voice of his majesty" and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth'; and {the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain}Literally "the shower of rain and the show of rains of his strength"--


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{he stops all human beings from working}Literally "on the hand of all man he seals" {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.Literally "to know all men of his work"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And {they}Collective "clouds" in the first line takes the singular "it" here with the plural meaning turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on the face of {the habitable world}.Literally "world of earth"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Do you know {how God commands them}Literally "at the putting of God upon them" and how he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, {the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge}?Literally "the marvelous works of perfect knowledge"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of the presence of darkness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So then, they do not look at the light when it is bright in the skies, whenHebrew "and" the wind has passed and has cleansed them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 23
c3content:
As for Shaddai, we cannot attain him; he is exalted in power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Therefore people revered him; he does not regard anyOr "all" {who think that they are wise}."Literally "the wise of heart"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man},Literally "Gird up like a man your loins" and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 7
c3content:
when the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of GodOr "heavenly beings" shouted for joy?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 11
c3content:
and I said, 'You shall come up to here, butHebrew "and" you shall not go further, and here it will set a boundary {for your proud surging waves}'?Literally "for the pride of your surging waves"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"Have you {ever in your life}Literally "from your days" commanded the morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"Where thenOr "Where exactly" is the way where the light dwells? And where thenOr "where exactly" is its place,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, orHebrew "and" have you seen the storehouses of the hail,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Where thenOr "Where exactly" is the way where the light is distributed, where he scatters the east wind upon the earth?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 25
c3content:
"Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for the {thunder bolts},Literally "bolt of thunders"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 26
c3content:
to bring rain on a land {where no one lives},Literally "not a man" a desert {where no humans live},Literally "not humans in it"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, orHebrew "and" can you lead the Bear with its children?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Who has put wisdom in the ibis,Or "inner parts" or who has given understanding to the rooster?Or "mind"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and they wander around {for lack of food}?Literally "for no food"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 1
c3content:
"Do you know the time when the goats of the rocks give birth? Do you observe the doe deer's giving birth?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.Or "deliver their fetuses"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and that it will gather it to your threshing floor?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 13
c3content:
"The wingsHebrew "wing" of the female ostrich flapOr "flaps"-- are theyOr "if," or "or" the pinions of the stork orHebrew "and" the falcon?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg,Hebrew "it"; or a collective singular ("them") referring to "eggs" in v. 14 and {a wild animal}Literally "an animal of the field" might trample it.Or a collective singular ("them") referring to "eggs" in v. 14


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 16
c3content:
It deals cruelly with its young ones, as if they were not its own, as if without fear that its labor were in vain,


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 22
c3content:
It laughs at danger and is not dismayed, and it does not turn back from {before}Literally "from faces of" the sword.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 24
c3content:
With roar and rage {it races over the ground},Or "it paws the ground"; literally "it swallows the earth/ground" and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 25
c3content:
{Whenever}Literally "At enough" a horn sounds, it says, 'Aha!' And it smells the battle from a distance-- the thunder of the commanders and the war cry.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 28
c3content:
It lives on the rock and spends the night {on the rock point and the mountain stronghold}.Literally "on the tooth of the rock and the stronghold"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man},Literally "Gird up like a man your loins" and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 10
c3content:
AdornThe particle sometimes translated "please" is present, but an almighty God or sovereign king does not say "please" when commanding his subjects yourself with pride and dignity, and clothe yourself with splendor.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Look at all the proud, humble them, and tread down the wicked {where they stand}.Literally "in place of them"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"Look, Behemoth,Some interpret as a hippopotamus which I have made just as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 19
c3content:
"It is the first of God's actions; the one who made him furnishes it with his sword.See NET; nearly all other English translations: "Only his Maker can draw the sword against him" (NJPS; compare NLT), or "only its Maker can approach it with the sword" (NRSV, NIV, ESV, HCSB, NASU)


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all {wild animals}Literally "all the animals of the field" play there.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The lotus trees cover it with their shade; the wadi'sA seasonal stream that is often dry poplar trees surround it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Job 41:1-34 in the English Bible is 40:25-41:26 in the Hebrew Bible "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? OrHebrew "And" {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?Literally "with a cord can you press down its tongue"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"Look, {the hope of capturing it}Literally "its hope" is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand {before it}?Or "Who is he thenwho could stand before me?"; literally "to the face of me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Who has come to confront me, thatHebrew "and" I should repay him? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.Literally "to me"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs orHebrew "and" concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Who can strip off {its outer covering}?Literally "the surface of its garment" Who can penetrate its double harness?


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 16
c3content:
They are close {to one another}--Literally "one to one" evenHebrew "and" the air cannot come between them.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 17
c3content:
They are joined {one to another};Literally "a man to his brother" they cling together and cannot be separated.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 18
c3content:
"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are {red like dawn}.Literally "like eyelids of dawn"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 22
c3content:
"Strength abides in its neck, and dismayOr "strength" dances {before it}.Literally "to the face of him/it"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 25
c3content:
{When it raises itself},Literally "From his/its rising up" the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, orHebrew "and" the javelin.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{An arrow}Literally "A son of a bow" will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake};Literally "it lights up the path" one would think that the deep has gray hair.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 33
c3content:
"{On the ground it has no equal}Literally "There is not on the ground its likeness"-- aHebrew "the" creature without fear.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 3
c3content:
'Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, butHebrew "and" I did not understand; {things too wonderful for me},Literally "wonderful things from me" but I did not know.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{And then}Literally "And it happened" after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled}Literally "My nose became hot" against youSingular and against the two of your friends, for youPlural have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{So then},Or "And now," or "Therefore" take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you,Plural for {I will certainly accept his prayer},Literally "if his face I will lift up," or "indeed his face I will lift up" ("if" used as an oath particle) so that it will not be done with youPlural according to your folly, for youPlural have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has." 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 9
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.Literally "Yahweh lifted up the face of Job" 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 10
c3content:
ThenHebrew "And" Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. ThusHebrew "And" Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.Literally "all which for Job to twice"


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 11
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him {before}Literally "to faces" came to him, and they ate breadOr "food" with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disasterOr "evil" that Yahweh had brought upon him. ThenHebrew "And" each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold. 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 12
c3content:
SoHebrew "And" Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had}Literally "And it came to be for him," or "And it was for him" fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{And he had}Literally "And it came to be for him," or "And it was for him" seven sons and three daughters.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk.


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers. 


c0book: Job
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his {grandsons}Literally "the sons of his sons" for four generations.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked; nor does he stand in the way of sinners; nor does he sit in the assembly of mockers.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its fruit in its season; its leaf also does not wither. Therefore all that he does prospers.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
The kings of the earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspireOr "make themselves firm" together against Yahweh and his anointed:


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish on the way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Many are saying about my soul, "There is no deliverance for him fromOr "in" God. SelahMeaning uncertain; probably a musical or liturgical direction


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
With my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from {his holy hill}.Literally "the hill of his holiness" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked you break.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness.Or "vindication" In trouble {deliver me}.Literally "make wide for me" Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
O sons of man, how long will my honorOr "glory" be a disgrace? How long will you love vanity? How long will you seek lies?Or "falsehood" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But know that Yahweh has set apartOr "treated specially" for himself the faithful one.Or "pious, godly one" Yahweh hears when I call to him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Be disturbed but do not sin. Commune in your heartThat is, "think it over" on your bed and be silent. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Many are saying, "Who will show us something good?" Lift up overOr "upon" us the light of your face, O Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You have put gladness in my heart more than {when}Literally "the time of" their grain and their wine abound.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once},Literally "together" for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will set forthOr "present" my case to you and I will watch.Or "look expectantly"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You destroy speakers of lies.Hebrew "lie" {A man of bloodshed}Literally "a man of bloods" and deceit Yahweh abhors.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{But as for me},Literally "And I" through the abundance of your steadfast loveOr "covenant love" I will enter your house.Or "temple" I will bow downOr "I will worship" toward {your holy temple}Literally "the temple of your holiness" in awe of you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For there is not anything reliable in his mouth; their inner part is destruction.Hebrew "destructions" Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit.Or "flattery; smooth words"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But let all who take shelter in you rejoice. Let them everOr "perpetually" sing for joy, {because}Literally "and" you spread protection over them; And let thoseOr "So that those" who love your name exult in you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life.Or "my soul"; same word as in v. 3 Save me for the sake of your steadfast love.Or "loyal love"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I am weary with my groaning; {I flood}Literally "I make my bed float" my bed every night. With my tears {I drench}Literally "I cause to melt" my couch.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All my enemies shall be ashamed and shall be very terrified. They shall turn back; they shall suddenly be ashamed.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
if I have repaid {my ally}Literally "one being at peace with me" with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrathOr "outbursts" of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocenceOr "righteousness" and according to my integrity within me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 12
c3content:
If heThat is, a person does not repent, heThat is, God will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung}Literally "prepared" it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
See, heThat is, the wicked travails withOr "conceives" evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who put your splendor above the heavens.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
From the mouth of children and infants you have foundedOr "ordained" strength on account of your enemies, to silence the enemy and the avenger.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place--


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings,Or "than God" and with glory and with majesty you crowned him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The enemies are destroyed in ruins forever, and you have uprooted their cities; their very memory has perished.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And those who know your name will trust in you, for you do not forsake those who seek you, O Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
for he who {avenges bloodshed}Literally "seeks bloods" remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of the afflicted.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. HiggaionHebrew musical term Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
In arrogance the wicked persecutesOr "pursues" the poor. Let them be caught in the schemes that they devised,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
for the wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart},Literally "soul" and the one greedy for gain curses and treats Yahweh with contempt.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{With bald-faced pride}Literally "According to the height of his nose" the wicked will not seek God. There is no God in any of his thoughts.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
His waysAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) endure at all times.Hebrew "time" Your judgments are aloof from him. As for all his enemies, he scoffs at them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations},Literally "for a generation and a generation" during which I will have no trouble."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent. His eyes {lurk}Literally "lie hid" for the helpless.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He lies in ambush {secretly,}Literally "in the secret places" like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize the poor; he seizes the poor by catching him in his net.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
He is crushed;Or "and he the wicked stoops" he is bowed down;Or "he the wicked crouches" soOr "and" the helpless hostAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) falls by his {might}.Literally "mighty ones"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call me to account."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take it into your hand. The helpless abandons himself upon you; you have been the helper for the orphan.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The longing of the afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will {listen attentively}Literally "cause your ear to hear"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
to render judgment for the fatherless and the oppressed so that a mere mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For look: The wicked {string the bow}.Literally "tread the bow," that is, placing the foot on the bow to bend and string it They have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot from the darkness at the upright of heart.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh is in the heavens on his throne. His eyelids see; they test the children of humankind.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He will rain coalsAccording to Symmachus (compare also Targum Psalms) a form slightly different from the MT's "snares" on the wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of humankind.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They speak falseness {to each other}.Literally "each with his companion" With flattering lips, with {a double heart}Literally "a heart and a heart" they speak.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put them in the safety for which theyHebrew "he" long."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The words of Yahweh are pure words like silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 2
c3content:
How long must I take counselHebrew pl.; with a slight modification of the Hebrew this reads "set pains" in my soul, and sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
ConsiderLiterally "Look" and answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love.Or, "loyal love" My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In the Hebrew Bible, the previous verse continues I will sing to Yahweh because he has dealt bountifully with me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 3
c3content:
All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 4
c3content:
All who do evil--do they not know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
There {they are very fearful}Literally "they feared a fear" because God is with the generation of the righteous.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Oh that from Zion}Literally "Who will give that from Zion" would come salvation for Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up}Literally "lift up" a disgrace against his neighbor.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
In his eyes a rejected one is contemptible, but he honors those who respect Yahweh. He takes an oath to his own injury and does not retract it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Oh my soul you have saidReading a feminine singular verb; some Hebrew manuscripts and translations read "I said" to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Those who hurry afterOr "they who acquire" another god increase their sorrows. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor take up their names on my lips.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, my inheritance is delightful for me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I will bless Yahweh who advises me; yes, at night my {innermost being}Literally "kidneys" instructs me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 11
c3content:
You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You have tried my heart; you have examined me by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided that my mouth will not transgress.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words.Hebrew "word"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right handOr "saving by your right hand those" from those who rise up against them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Keep me as {the apple of your eye}.Literally "the little man of the daughter of your eye" Hide me in the shadow of your wings


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
from the {presence}Literally "face" of the wicked who destroy me, those enemies against my life, they that surround me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now they surround us at our every step. They {intend}Literally "set their eyes" {to pin}Literally "to stretch" me to the ground.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{He is like}Literally "His image" a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Rise up, O Yahweh, confront {him}.Literally "his face" Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of this world. Their share is in {this life},Literally "the life" and you fill their stomach with your treasure. They are satisfied with children. They bequeath their excess to their children.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering was a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.Literally "clouds of clouds"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice with hail and coals of fire.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he shot his arrows and scattered them,That is, the enemy and many lightning bolts and routed them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then the channels of the sea became visible, and the foundations of the world were uncovered by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the {blast}Or "breath" of the wind of your nose.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 17
c3content:
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me because they were stronger than I.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
ThisHebrew "The" God--his way is blameless. The word of Yahweh is flawless.Or "refined" He is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 35
c3content:
You also gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your humility made me great.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And you {made my enemies turn their backs},Literally "turned to me my enemies' neck" then I destroyed those who hated me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And I ground them like dust {in the wind},Literally "on the face of the wind" I emptied themMany Hebrew manuscripts, the LXX, Syriac, and 2 Sam 22:43 read "I crushed them" out like mud of the streets.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 43
c3content:
You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 44
c3content:
as soon as {they heard},Literally "hearing of ear" they obeyed me. The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 45
c3content:
The children of a foreign land {lost heart},Literally "sunk down" and they came trembling from their strongholds.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 48
c3content:
who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than those who rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 49
c3content:
Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh, and I will sing the praise of your name:


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 50
c3content:
the one who makes great victories for his king, and who shows loyal love for his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Every day}Literally "day to day" they pour forth speech, and {every night}Literally "night to night" they tell knowledge.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Yet in all the world their lineLXX "line" goes out, and their words to the end of the world. In themThat is, the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and it is like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run its course.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Its rising is from oneHebrew "the" end of the heavens and its circuit to the other endHebrew "ends" of them; and nothing is hidden from its heat.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 7
c3content:
The law of Yahweh is perfect, reviving life.Or "soul" The testimony of Yahweh is firm, making wise the simple.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The precepts of Yahweh are right, making the heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The fear of Yahweh is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh are true; they are righteous altogether,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Also, keep back your servant from arrogant sins;Usage elsewhere might suggest "arrogant people" let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your presence, O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protectThe sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
May he remember all your offerings, and your burnt offering may he {regard favorably}.Literally "find to be fat"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 4
c3content:
May he give to you {your heart's desire},Literally "according to your heart" and your every plan may he fulfill. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God may we set up banners. May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed.Hebrew "messiah" He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{Some boast in chariots and others in horses},Literally "These in the chariots and those in the horses" but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 1
c3content:
O Yahweh, the king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help.Or "victory"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 5
c3content:
His honor is great because of your help.Or "victory" Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Because the king trusts Yahweh, and through the steadfast loveOr "loyal love" of the Most High he shall not be moved.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You will destroy their {offspring}Literally "fruit" from the earth, and their {descendants}Literally "seed" from among the children of humankind.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Though they have {plotted}Literally "spread out" evil against you, though they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For you will {turn them to flight};Literally "make them a shoulder" you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"{He trusts Yahweh}.Literally "Commit to Yahweh" Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted {within me}.Literally "in the midst of my intestines"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 15
c3content:
My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking to my jaws; and you have placed me in the dust of death.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lionOr "they gouge out" or "they bind." Not the same word for "lion" found in vv. 14(13), 22(21). The Hebrew text presents such problems that any interpretation must be lightly held. they are at my hands and my feet.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 23
c3content:
You who revere Yahweh, praise him! Glorify him, all you seed of Jacob, and be in awe of him, all you seed of Israel,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 24
c3content:
because he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May yourPlural heart live forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 27
c3content:
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 29
c3content:
All the {healthy ones}Or "prosperous"; Literally "fat ones" of the earth will eat and worship. Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 30
c3content:
DescendantsHebrew "Descendant" will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 31
c3content:
They will come and tell his savingOr "righteousness" deeds to a people yet to be born, that he has done it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He restores my life.Or "my soul" He leads me in {correct paths}Literally "paths of righteousness" for the sake of his name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup is overflowing.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will stayHebrew "return" in the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh {for a very long time}.Literally "for length of days"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Such is the sort of those who seekAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) him, those who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Lift up your heads, O gates, and rise up, O ancient doorways, that the king of gloryLiterally "the king of the glory" may enter.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Who is the king of glory?Literally "the king of the glory" Yahweh, strong and mighty; Yahweh, mighty in war!


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift up, O ancient doorways, that the king of gloryLiterally "the king of the glory" may enter.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Who is the king of glory?Literally "the king of the glory" Yahweh of hosts, He is the king of glory!Literally "the king of the glory" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you {all day long}.Literally "all of the day"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me if you will, for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All the paths of Yahweh are loyal love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant and statutes.Or "covenant statutes"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my {innermost being}Literally "kidneys," the locus of intense thoughts and emotions in biblical Hebrew and my {mind}.Literally "heart"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
O Yahweh, I love the dwelling of your house,Or "temple" and {the place where your glory abides}.Literally "the place of the dwelling place of your glory"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Do not destroy meOr "gather my soul for judgment" with the sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 2
c3content:
When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh-- my adversaries and my enemies who drew near to me-- they themselves stumbled and fell.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, even in this I will remain confident.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to considerOr "inquire in" his temple.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and each breathing out violence.Or "and each a witness of violence"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
SurelyHebrew text is uncertain I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to the pit.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Do not drag me away with the wicked or with the workers of evil, who speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil is in their heart.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Give to them according to their work, even according to the evil of their deeds. Give to them according to the work of their hands; repay them their rightful due.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh, nor the work of his hands, he will destroy them and not rebuild them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The voice of Yahweh causes deerA slightly different Hebrew word here yields, "makes the oaks tremble" to give birth and strips the forests bare. And at his temple all in it say, "Glory!"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down According to the Kethib; the reading tradition (Qere) reads "so I would not go down" to the pit.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones, and give thanks {to his holy fame}.Literally "to the fame of his holiness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 7
c3content:
O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"What gain is there in my {death},Literally "blood" in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 12
c3content:
so that {I}Literally "my glory" may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 1
c3content:
In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Incline your ear to me. Quickly deliver me. Become my rock of refuge, {a fortified keep}Literally "a house of strongholds" to save me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.Or "soul"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, along with my soul and my {body}.Literally "belly"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who see me in the street flee from me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
I have become forgotten like one dead, out of {mind}.Literally "heart" I am like a destroyed vessel.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 15
c3content:
My timesOr "destiny" are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 17
c3content:
O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them go silentlyOr "let them with wailing enter" to Sheol.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against the righteousOr "the innocent one" unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
How abundant is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before the children of humankind.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You will hide them in the protection of your presence from the plots of man. You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 22
c3content:
As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before your eyes." However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones. Yahweh preserves the faithful but repays abundantly the one who acts arrogantly.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore let all the faithful pray to you at the time for finding you. Surely at the flood of many waters they will not reach him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You are my hiding place; from trouble you preserve me. With cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 8
c3content:
IYahweh is speaking in vv. 8-9 will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. I will advise you with my eye upon you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding; that needs his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint or he would not come near you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For {he himself spoke}Literally "he, he spoke" and it came to pass. {He himself commanded}Literally "He, he commanded" and it stood firm.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Yahweh brings to nothingOr "breaks" the plan of nations; he frustratesOr "nullifies" the intents of peoples.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever, the intents of his heart {from one generation to the next}.Literally "to a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
From his dwelling placeOr "the place where he sits enthroned" he gazes on all the inhabitants of the earth,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The king is not saved by the greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by the greatness of strength.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Behold, the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear him, on those who hopeOr "wait expectantly" for his loyal love


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall not be ashamed.Or "and let not their faces be ashamed"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The young lions are in want and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug it for my life.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Let {unforeseen ruin}Literally "ruin he does not know" come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 10
c3content:
All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from one stronger than he and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}.Literally "upon my lap it will return"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
I {behaved}Literally "walked about" as though he were a friend or as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Among the ungodly of the mockers at feasts,With a slight change the Hebrew might read, "The ungodly boldly mocked" they gnashed at me with their teeth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 17
c3content:
My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages,Or "roaring" my only life from the young lions.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Let not those who are wrongfully my enemiesOr "those who oppose me with falsehood" rejoice over me. Nor let those who hate me without cause wink the eye.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 21
c3content:
They also made wide their mouthsHebrew "mouth" against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Do not let them say in their hearts,Hebrew "heart" "Aha, our desire." Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Let them shout for joy and be glad, who delight in my vindication; and let them say continually, "Yahweh is great, who delights in the welfare of his servant."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 1
c3content:
An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of hisReading with a few Hebrew manuscripts and some versions; MT reads "my" heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For he flatters himself in his eyes, hating to detect his iniquity.Or "when finding his iniquity and when hating"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Your righteousness is {like the mighty mountains},Literally "like the mountains of God" your judgments like the great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
How precious is your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They are refreshed with the {fullness}Literally "fatness" of your house,Or "temple" and you give them drink from the river of your delights.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds in his way, about a man making plots.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 10
c3content:
AndOr "But" yet a little while and the wicked will not be, and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 14
c3content:
The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow to throw down the poor and the needy, to kill those upright in their way.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 19
c3content:
They will not be put to shame in distressing times,Hebrew "time" and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 20
c3content:
But the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh will be like the splendor of the pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 25
c3content:
I was a youth, but I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children {begging for}Literally "searching" bread.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 28
c3content:
For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But the children of the wicked will be cut off.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then he passed onDead Sea Scrolls and the versions read "I passed by" and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 39
c3content:
AndSome manuscripts omit "and," preserving the acrostic the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh, their refuge in the time of trouble.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 3
c3content:
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 10
c3content:
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And my enemies without causeOr "vigorous" are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfullyOr "those who hate me with falsehood" are many.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin}Literally "from sinning" with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as the wicked are before me."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I am."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Look, you have made my days mere handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm is complete vanity. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Surely a man walks about as a mere {shadow};Literally "image" surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up possessions but does not know who will gather them in.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 11
c3content:
When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, youHebrew "and/then you" {consume}Literally "cause to melt" like a moth his delightful things. Surely everyone is a mere vapor.The word translated "vanity" in vv. 6, 7 Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I am an alienOr "stranger" with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And so he brought me up from the roaring pit,Some read "pit of destruction" from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to the proud and to those who fall away to a lie.Or "false god"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done-- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I tried to proclaim and tell of them, they would be too numerous to count.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 6
c3content:
A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}.Literally "Ears you have dug for me." Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 8
c3content:
'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is {deep within me}.'"Literally "in the midst of my intestines"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I have brought good tidings of righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.Literally "you, you know"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from the great congregation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 11
c3content:
As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me. Let your loyal love and your faithfulness continually preserve me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Let them be shamed and abashed altogether who seek to take away my life.Or "soul" Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "Yahweh is great!" --those who love your salvation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But I am poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You are my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive; he is blessed in the land, and you do not give him into the willHebrew "soul" of his enemies.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Yahweh sustains him on his sick bed. In his illness, you {restore to health}.Literally "his every bed you change"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 4
c3content:
As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious to me. Heal me,Or "my soul" for I have sinned against you."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 7
c3content:
All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the {worst}Literally "evil" for me:


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Even {my close friend},Literally "the man of my peace" whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 2
c3content:
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?Some Hebrew manuscripts and versions read "and see the face of God?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 4
c3content:
These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them in procession to the houseOr "temple" of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why are you {in despair},Literally "bowed down" O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, for the salvation of his presence.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 6
c3content:
O my God, within me my soul is {in despair};Literally "bowed down" therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Deep is calling to deep atOr "to" the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 8
c3content:
By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 10
c3content:
As with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me {all day},Literally "all the day" "Where is your God?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Why are you {in despair},Literally "bowed down" O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation}Literally "the salvation of my face" and my God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Judge me, O God, and plead my case againstOr "because of" an unfaithfulOr "disloyal" nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 2
c3content:
because you are the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Send your light and your truth; they shall leadOr "let them lead" me. They shall bring me to {your holy mountain}Literally "the mountain of your holiness" and to your dwelling places.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 4
c3content:
ThenOr "And" I will go to the altar of God, to God, {my surpassing joy},Literally "the joy of my gladness" and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why are you {in despair},Literally "bowed down" O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, {my salvation}Hebrew "the salvation of my face" and my God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 1
c3content:
O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestorsOr "fathers" have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You with your hand drove out the nations, but themThat is, Israel you planted. You harmed the peoples, but themThat is, Israel you let spread out.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Rather you have saved us from our enemies,Or "made us victorious over our enemies" and have humiliated those who hate us.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You have caused us to pull back from the enemy, and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 12
c3content:
You have sold your people {cheaply},Literally "for what is not wealth" and did not profit by their price.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 15
c3content:
{All day long}Literally "All of the day" my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face covers me,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 17
c3content:
All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long};Literally "all of the day" we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 1
c3content:
My heart is moved with a good word; I recite my {compositions}Literally "works," that is, the song he has composed to the king. My tongue is the pen of a skilled scribe.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You are the most handsome of the sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And in your majesty {ride victoriously},Literally "Succeed! Ride!" because of truth and humility and righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 7
c3content:
You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions with festive oil.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 8
c3content:
All your robes are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Hear, O daughter, and {discern}Literally "see" and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Let the king desire your beauty.Or "Should the king desire ... then bow down ..." Because he is your lord, thereforeHebrew "and" bow down to him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Even the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift. The rich from among people will seek your {favor}.Literally "face"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The king's daughter is all glorious within;That is, within her bridal chamber her garment is of gold embroidered cloth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 14
c3content:
She is brought to the king in colorful garments. The young women behind her, her attendants, are being brought to you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 16
c3content:
In place of yourThe pronouns and verbal forms are masculine in this verse fathers will be your sons. You will make them princes in all the land.Or "earth"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Therefore we will not fear though the earth change, and though the mountains totter into the {midst}Literally "heart" of the sea,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 4
c3content:
There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 5
c3content:
God is in the midst of her; she will not be made to totter. God will help her {at daybreak}.Literally "at the turning of the morning"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts off the spear. The wagons of war he burns with fire.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The princes of the peoples are gathered together with the people of Abraham's God. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is very exalted.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise in the city of our God, in his {holy mountain}.Literally "mountain of holiness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is {Mount Zion},Literally "the mountain of Zion" {in the far north},Literally "far of north"; the word translated "north" could refer to Mount Zaphon the city of the great king.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{They themselves saw}Literally "They, they saw" it, so they were astonished. They were terrified; they ran off.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 7
c3content:
With an east wind you shatterA few Hebrew manuscripts read "like an east wind that shatters" the ships of Tarshish.That is, ships that can sail to Tarshish, i.e. well built, able to traverse great distances


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 8
c3content:
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish her forever. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 10
c3content:
As is your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Let {Mount Zion}Literally "the mountain of Zion" rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{Consider well}Literally "Set your heart to" her ramparts. Go through her citadels so that you can tell the next generation


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 14
c3content:
that this is God, our God forever and ever. {He himself}Literally "he, he will ..." will guide us until death.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Why should I fear in {times of calamity},Literally "the days of evil" when iniquity surrounds me at my heels,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For he sees that the wise die, together with the fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next generation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Within them they think their houses are forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name}Literally "call" their lands by their own names.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 13
c3content:
This is the journeyHebrew "way" of those who have foolish confidence, and those after them who accept their sayings. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms will be for Sheol to consume, far from his lofty abode.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Surely God will ransom my life from the {power}Literally "hand" of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and people will praise you when you do well for yourself--


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned the earth, from the rising of the sun to its setting.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 8
c3content:
It is not concerning a lack of your sacrifices that I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings are before me continually.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth},Literally "take my covenant on your mouth"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 21
c3content:
These things you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 23
c3content:
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he who orders his way; I will show him the salvation of God."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For {I myself know}Literally "I, I know" my transgressions,Or "rebellions" and my sin is ever before me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evilHebrew "the evil" in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts you make me to know wisdom.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit {within me}.Literally "in my inner parts"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 51
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices, burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then bulls will be offered on your altar.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God endures {continually}.Literally "all the day"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 3
c3content:
You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}.Literally "righteousness" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 5
c3content:
but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from your tent, and he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"Look, the man who would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the houseOr "temple" of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 52
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I will give thanks to you forever, because of what you have done, and I will wait on your name, because it is good, in the presence of your faithful ones.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 1
c3content:
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 2
c3content:
God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 3
c3content:
{All of them}Literally "The whole of it," i.e. all of humankind have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Do not evildoers know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 5
c3content:
There {they are very fearful}Literally "they feared a fear" where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 53
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{Oh, that from Zion}Literally "Who will give that from Zion" would come salvation for Israel! When God returns the fortunesOr "captivity" of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless men seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 4
c3content:
See, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who sustain my life.Or "The Lord is the sustainer of my life."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He will repayAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) my enemies for theirHebrew "the" evil; in your faithfulness destroy them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 54
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction on my enemies.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 3
c3content:
because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 6
c3content:
So I say, "{Oh, that}Literally "Who will give that" I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 12
c3content:
For it is not an enemy that taunts me, or I could bear it. It is not one who hates me that magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 14
c3content:
We who would take sweet counsel together; in the houseOr "temple" of God we would walk with the throng.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil is in their home and {heart}.Literally "inward part"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 17
c3content:
{Morning, noon and night}Literally "evening and morning and noon" I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 18
c3content:
He safely redeems my life from the battle against me,Or "my battle" because those standing against me are among many.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 19
c3content:
God will hear and answer them,Or "and humble them" he who is enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He has put forth his hands against {his friends};Literally "those at peace with him" he has defiled his covenant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 21
c3content:
The {buttery words}Literally "butter" of his mouth were smooth, but there was battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they were drawn swords.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.Or "shaken"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 55
c2verse: 23
c3content:
But you, O God, you will bring them down to the pit of corruption. The men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They attack,Or "they stir up strife" they hide, they watch my {steps},Literally "heels" as they lie in wait for my life.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then my enemies will turn back {when}Literally "in the day" I call.i.e., call on God This I know becauseOr "that" God is for me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 56
c2verse: 13
c3content:
because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 4
c3content:
My soul is among lions. I lie down among those who devour-- the childrenOr "sons" of humankind whose teeth are spears and arrows and whose tongues are sharp swords.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 57
c2verse: 6
c3content:
They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Do you really speak what is right when silent?A slight emendation of the Hebrew text yields "what is right, O gods," or "O mighty ones" Do you judge fairly the children of humankind?Or "Do you judge fairly, O sons of humankind?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 2
c3content:
No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the landOr "on the earth" you weigh out the violence of your hands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Let them run away like water that runs off. When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.Or "as though they were withered stalks"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or {dry},Literally "burning" he will sweep it away.The Hebrew of this verse is difficult to interpret


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 58
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And peopleHebrew "a person" will say, "Surely there is a {reward}Literally "fruit" for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land."Or "on the earth"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. ProtectThe sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress me from those who rise up against me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For look, they lie in wait for my life.Hebrew "soul" The mighty attackOr "stir up strife" against me, not because of my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And you, Yahweh, God of hosts, are the God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Do not be gracious to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 9
c3content:
O my strength,Reading with a few Hebrew manuscripts and the LXX, Targum and v. 17 I will watch for you, because you, O God, are my (high) stronghold.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 10
c3content:
MyAccording to the reading tradition (Qere), some Hebrew manuscripts and the LXX God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them to wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 12
c3content:
By the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for the cursesHebrew "curse" and liesHebrew "lie" they proclaim.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more, so that they may know that God is ruling in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 15
c3content:
As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.Or "then they growl"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 59
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But as for me, I will sing of your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my high stronghold and a refuge in my {time}Literally "day" of trouble.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You have rallied those who fear you round a banner {out of bowshot},Literally "from the presence of the bow" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 6
c3content:
God has spoken in his holiness, "I will rejoice; I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the {helmet for}Literally "protection of" my head; Judah is my scepter.Or "commander's rod"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 60
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Moab is my washing pot; over Edom, I will cast my sandal. On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 2
c3content:
From the end of the earthOr "the far reaches of the land" I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock that is higher than I.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 6
c3content:
You will add days to the days of the king, his years like those of {many generations}.Literally "a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 7
c3content:
May he liveOr "be enthroned" forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 61
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So I will sing the praise of your name forever, that I may fulfillOr "pay" my vows {daily}.Literally "day, day"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 3
c3content:
How long will you attack a man? All of you will be shatteredOr "All of you shatter him" like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They onlyThis word appears first in the Hebrew verse. plan to thrust him down from his high position; they are pleased with deception. With their mouthsHebrew "his mouth" they bless, but {inwardly}Literally "in the midst of them" they curse. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Only a vaporOr "breath" are men of low degree, a deception are men of high degree. {Weighed}Literally "To go up" in a balance, together they are lighter than a vapor.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 62
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain confidence in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 1
c3content:
O God, you are my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you as in a dry and weary land without water.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 5
c3content:
My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food, and with joyful lips my mouth will praise.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Because you have been my help, thereforeHebrew "and" in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 10
c3content:
They who would {deliver him to the sword}Literally "pour him out to the hands of the sword" will become a portion for jackals.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 63
c2verse: 11
c3content:
However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because the mouth of the liars will be stopped.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 4
c3content:
to shoot fromHebrew "in" theirHebrew "the" hiding places at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They encourage themselves in the evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 6
c3content:
{They carefully plot}Literally "They search out" injustices saying, "We have perfected {the perfect plot}!"Literally "a plotted plot" Both the {inner thought}Literally "inward part" and heart of a man are deep.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 8
c3content:
The Hebrew of this verse is very difficult And they who would cause himThat is, the psalmist to stumble, their own tongue will be against them. All who gaze on them will shake.Perhaps a shaking of the head; a similar Hebrew form could be translated "will flee"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And thenHebrew "and" all menHebrew "man" will fear, and will declare the working of God, and will understand his doing.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 64
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him, and all the upright in heart will boast.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 3
c3content:
IniquitiesHebrew "matters of iniquities" prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will {forgive}Literally "provide atonement for" them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Blessed is one whom you choose and bring near, that he may abide in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 5
c3content:
By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us, O God of our salvation, you who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of the far-off seas,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 8
c3content:
so thatHebrew "and" the inhabitants of the farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You care forOr "visit" the landOr "earth" and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God is filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 11
c3content:
You crown the year with your {bounty},Literally "goodness" and your wagon paths drip with {richness}.Literally "fatness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 65
c2verse: 13
c3content:
The pasturelands put on flocks, and the valleys clothe themselves with grain. They shout in triumph; they even sing.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Say to God, "How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 4
c3content:
All the earth will bow in worship to you, and sing praise to you. They will sing the praise of your name." Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Come and {consider}Literally "see" the works of God; he is awesome in his dealingsHebrew "dealing" with the children of humankind.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 7
c3content:
He rules by his might forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.According to the reading tradition (Qere) Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 12
c3content:
You let menHebrew "man" ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.A slightly different Hebrew word yields "a broad place"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you, with the smoke of rams. I will doThat is, "offer" cattle with rams. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 66
c2verse: 17
c3content:
I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.A slightly different Hebrew word yields "his exaltation was under my tongue"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 67
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 2
c3content:
As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off. As wax melts before fire, the wicked will perish before God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds--his name is Yah--A shortened form of "Yahweh" and rejoice before him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 6
c3content:
God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 8
c3content:
the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain at the presence of God who was at Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Though you men lie down between the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 15
c3content:
A mountain of GodOr "A mighty mountain" is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? ThisHebrew "The" mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, with thousands doubled. The Lord is among them at Sinai, distinctive in victory.Or "as at Sinai, in the sanctuary"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 18
c3content:
You have ascended on high; you have led away captives. You have received gifts from among humankind, and even from the rebellious, so that YahA shortened form of "Yahweh" God may dwell there.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits,Or "daily carries our burden" the God of our salvation.Or "victory" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of the one who {continues on}Literally "is walking about" in his guilt.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 22
c3content:
The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 23
c3content:
so that your foot may shatter them bloody for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 24
c3content:
They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory.Or "into the sanctuary"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between them young women playing tambourines.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 27
c3content:
There is little Benjamin ruling them, with the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, by what you performOr "you who have worked" for us.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Rebuke the beasts inHebrew "of" the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, trampling the pieces of silver.Or "until each humbles himself by offering pieces of silver" Scatter the nations who delight in battles.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 31
c3content:
AmbassadorsReading with the LXX; meaning uncertain will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 68
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary.Hebrew "sanctuaries" The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people. Blessed be God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and the torrent floods over me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 4
c3content:
More numerous than the hairs of my head are those hating me without a cause. Those who are destroying me--my enemies wrongfullyOr, "those who oppose me with falsehood"-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 5
c3content:
O God, {you yourself know}Literally "you, you know" my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 9
c3content:
because the zeal for your houseOr "temple" has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the watery depths.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or the deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 19
c3content:
You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. {Fully known}Literally "right in front of" to you are all my adversaries.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 21
c3content:
They also gave me gall for food,Or "they put poison in my food" and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 26
c3content:
because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 27
c3content:
{Add guilt on top of their guilt},Literally "Give guilt on their guilt" and do not let them {be acquitted}.Literally "come into your righteousness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 29
c3content:
But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protectThe sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress me, O God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 69
c2verse: 31
c3content:
For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull, horned and hoofed.That is, mature and ritually clean


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 70
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 70
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "God is great!" those who love your salvation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 70
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But I am poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You are my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordainedOr "commanded" to save me, because you are my rock and my fortress.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 4
c3content:
My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, from the {grasp}Literally "palm" of the evildoer and the oppressor,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Upon you I have leaned {from birth}.Literally "from the belly" It was you who {took}Literally "cut," that is, the umbilical cord me from the womb of my mother. My praise is of you continually.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Let them be ashamed; let them perish who are {my adversaries}.Literally "adversaries of my soul" Let them wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace who seek my harm.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 15
c3content:
My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long},Literally "all the day" though I do not know the full sum of them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I will come in to tell the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh. I will {make known}Literally "bring to remembrance" your righteousness, yours only.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength}Literally "arm" to this generation, your power to every one that comes after.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You who have caused meAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me.According to the reading tradition (Qere) And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 21
c3content:
You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around.A slightly different vocalization yields, "... comfort me again"; compare the LXX.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 22
c3content:
On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, and your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 71
c2verse: 24
c3content:
My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 4
c3content:
May he provide justice for the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 5
c3content:
May he live longThis presupposes the reading, suggested by the LXX, that might indicate that two of the Hebrew root letters have been inverted. The Hebrew reads "They will/Let them fear" {while the sun endures}Literally "with the sun" {as long as the moon}Literally "in the presence of the moon" {for all generations}.Literally "generation of generations"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And may he rule from sea up to sea, and from the RiverThat is, the Euphrates to the edges of the land.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Let the kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 14
c3content:
From oppression and from violence he will redeem their lives, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him, and may prayers be offered for him continually. May blessings be invoked for him {all day long}.Literally "all the day"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 16
c3content:
May there be an abundance of grain in the land even on the top of the mountains. May his cropOr "May his descendants" sway like the trees of Lebanon, and may those from the city blossom like the grass of the earth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 17
c3content:
May his name endure forever. May his name increase {as long as the sun shines},Literally "in the presence of the sun" and let them be blessed in him. Let all nations call him blessed.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 72
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They do not have {ordinary trouble},Literally "the trouble of man" and they are not plagued as other people.Hebrew "humankind"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Their eye bulges from fat.A slightly different Hebrew reading might be reflected in the LXX's "their iniquity comes out of fatness" Imaginings overflow their heart.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Therefore his people turn there,That is, toward the wicked and abundant waters are slurped up by them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 15
c3content:
If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.Or "image"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 26
c3content:
My flesh and heart failed, but God is the {strength}Literally "rock" of my heart and my reward forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 27
c3content:
For indeed, those distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 73
c2verse: 28
c3content:
But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Remember your congregation that you bought long ago, when you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. Remember {Mount Zion}Literally "the mountain of Zion" where you have dwelt.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They areHebrew "He is" known to be like those who {wield}Literally "lift up" axes in a thicket of trees.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And nowAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) itsThat is, the temple's carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They have said in their heart, "We will completelyHebrew "altogether" oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your bosom;According to the reading tradition (Qere) destroy them!


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You split open spring and wadi.A seasonal stream that is often dry You dried up ever-flowing rivers.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by the foolish {all day long}.Literally "all the day"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 74
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 75
c2verse: 1
c3content:
We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told.Hebrew "They tell your wonderful deeds"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 75
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"I will indeed set an appointed time; I will judge fairly.Hebrew "I, I will judge" might be emphatic


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 75
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking;Or "melting away" I steadyHebrew "I, I steady" might be emphatic its columns. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 75
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Do not lift up high yourPlural horn. Do not speak with {arrogant pride}.'"Hebrew "an unrestrained neck"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 75
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For it is not from the east or the west and not from the southHebrew "wilderness" that lifting up comes,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 75
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh withHebrew "and" wine that foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all the wicked of the land {will quaff it down to its dregs}. Literally "they will drain, they will drink its dregs"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 76
c2verse: 2
c3content:
His denOr "shelter"; but the image of the lion appears in view has been in Salem, his lairOr "refuge" in Zion.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 76
c2verse: 4
c3content:
RadiantA possible change in the Hebrew text yields, "You are feared, majestic ..." a form found in vv. 8(7), 13(12). This is possibly reflected in the reading of Theodotian you are, majestic, fromOr "more than" the mountains of prey.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 76
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all the able men cannot {use}Literally "find" their hands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 76
c2verse: 7
c3content:
{You, indeed, are to be feared},Literally "You, feared you are" and who can stand before you when you are angry? A slight change in the vocalization of the MT yields, "from the strength of your anger"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 76
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Make vows and fulfill them to Yahweh, your God; let all surrounding him bring tribute to the one to be feared.Hebrew "to the fear"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 77
c2verse: 2
c3content:
In the day I have trouble, I seekOr "make supplication to" the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually};Literally "it does not grow weary" my soul refuses to be comforted.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 77
c2verse: 11
c3content:
I will remember the deeds of Yah.A shortened form of "Yahweh" Surely I will remember your wondersHebrew "wonder" from long ago.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 77
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The clouds poured out water. The skies {thundered}.Literally "gave voice" Your arrows also {flew about}.Literally "walked back and forth"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 77
c2verse: 18
c3content:
The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;Or "in your chariot wheel" lightnings lit the world; the earth shook and quaked.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 77
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Your way was through the sea, and your pathAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) through many waters. Yet your footprints were not discerned.Hebrew "were not known"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 4
c3content:
We will not hide them from their children,Or "descendants" telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a lawHebrew torah in Israel, which he commanded our ancestorsOr "fathers" to teach to their children,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 6
c3content:
so that the next generation might know-- children yet to be born-- that they might rise up and tell their children,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 7
c3content:
that they might set their confidence in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 8
c3content:
and not be like their ancestors,Or "fathers" a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful to God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 9
c3content:
The sons of Ephraim, {armed with archers},Literally "armed with shooters of the bow" turned back on the day of battle.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 12
c3content:
In front of their ancestorsOr "fathers" he did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Yes, he struck the rock and water flowed and streams gushed out, but can he also give food or provide meat for his people?"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Therefore Yahweh heard and he was very angry, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and his anger also rose up against Israel,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Humankind ate the bread of {angels}.Literally "mighty ones" He sent them food enough to be satisfied.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 31
c3content:
the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down in death.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And he consumed their days with futility Or "he ended their days like a breath" their years with terror.Or "and their years suddenly"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 38
c3content:
But he was compassionate; he pardonedOr "covered," or "atoned for" their guilt and did not destroy them. And many times he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 42
c3content:
And they did not remember his {power}Literally "hand" {when}Literally "the day that" he redeemed them from the enemy,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 44
c3content:
when he turned their riversNormally the word for the Nile, with the plural here suggesting perhaps it and its canals to blood so they could not drink from their streams.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.Two different words translated "locusts"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 47
c3content:
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet.The word for "sleet" is only used here, and the translation is a guess based on context


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 49
c3content:
He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of {destroying}Literally "evil" angels.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 50
c3content:
He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare themHebrew "their soul" from death but handed their life over to the plague.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 54
c3content:
So he brought them to his holy territory,Hebrew "border" this mountain his right hand acquired.Or "had created"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 55
c3content:
And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 57
c3content:
And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors.Or "fathers" They twisted like a crookedOr "deceitful" bow.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 65
c3content:
Then the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep, awoke like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.Or "like a warrior shouting because of wine"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 71
c3content:
He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 78
c2verse: 72
c3content:
And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 1
c3content:
O God, the nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 2
c3content:
They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us and forgiveHebrew "make atonement for" our sins for the sake of your name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let itThat is, God's name be known among the nations before our eyes, by the avenging of the blood of your servants that was poured out.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your {power},Literally "arm" spareOr "leave a remnant of" the children appointed to death.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And return to our neighbors sevenfold {upon them}Hebrew "into their bosom" their taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 79
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture, we will give thanks to you forever. {Generation after generation}Literally "to a generation and a generation" we will tell of your praise.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 80
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, you who sits enthroned above the cherubim.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 80
c2verse: 4
c3content:
O Yahweh God of hosts, {how long will you be angry}Literally "until when your anger smoke" against the prayer of your people?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 80
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You have fed them the bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.The Hebrew "threefold" or "a third of a measure" is difficult


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 80
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You prepared a place before it, and {it took deep root}Literally "its root rooted" and filled the land.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 80
c2verse: 15
c3content:
eventhe stalk that your right hand planted, and concerning the shootHebrew "son" you strengthened for yourself.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 80
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of humankind whom you made strong for yourself.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 81
c2verse: 5
c3content:
He made it a statuteHebrew "testimony" or "witness" in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, where I heard a language I did not know.The meaning of this line is uncertain. The above is based on perhaps a similar thought in Psa 114:1


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 81
c2verse: 7
c3content:
In thisHebrew "the" trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within the secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 81
c2verse: 10
c3content:
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 81
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But he would feed himThat is, Israel from the choicest wheat,Hebrew "the fat of wheat" and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 82
c2verse: 1
c3content:
God stands in the divine assembly;Or "assembly of El " he administers judgment in the midst of the gods.Hebrew elohim


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 82
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}?Literally "lift up the faces of the wicked" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 82
c2verse: 5
c3content:
They do not know or consider.Or "understand" They go about in the darkness, so that all the foundations of the earth are shaken.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 82
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inheritOr "receive an inheritance" all the nations.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 83
c2verse: 3
c3content:
They devise cunning schemesHebrew "scheme" against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.Or "your treasured ones"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 83
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from being a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 83
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For they have consulted together {with a unified purpose}.Literally "with a heart together" They have made a covenant against you:


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 83
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Assyria also has joined with them. They {provide help}Literally "they have become an arm for" to the children of Lot. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 83
c2verse: 18
c3content:
that they may know that you, whose name is Yahweh, you alone, are the Most High over the whole earth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 84
c2verse: 2
c3content:
My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 84
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, near your altars, O Yahweh of hosts, my king and my God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 84
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Passing through the Valley of Baca,Or "Valley of Weeping" they make it a spring. The early rain covers it with blessingsA change in vocalization of the Hebrew yields "it with pools" as well.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 84
c2verse: 7
c3content:
They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.Or "the God of gods will be seen in Zion"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 84
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Because better is a day in your courtyards than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be at the threshold of the houseOr "temple" of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 84
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 85
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You took away the guiltOr "You forgave the iniquity" of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 85
c2verse: 8
c3content:
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful ones,Hebrew "and to his faithful" but let them not return to folly.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Watch over my life because I am faithful. You are my God; save your servant. I am the one who trusts you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Make glad the soul of your servant, because {I desire you},Literally "I lift up my soul to you" O Lord.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal loveHebrew "and great with respect to loyal love" for all who call to you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 9
c3content:
All the nations that you have made will come and bow downOr "worship" before you, O Lord, and glorify your name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, that I may walk in your truth. Unite my heartThat is, give singleness of heart to fear your name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 13
c3content:
because your loyal love is great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from SheolThe nether world, the place of departed spirits. below.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 14
c3content:
O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them.That is, they do not factor God into their actions


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, {slow to anger}Literally "long of nostrils" and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant, and grant victory to the sonOr "Save the son" of your maidservant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 86
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Do a sign that benefits me, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame, because you, O Yahweh, have helped me and comforted me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 87
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I will recordOr "mention" those who know me in RahabThat is, Egypt; compare Isa 30:7 and Babylon, behold in Philistia and Tyre with Cush, "This one was born there."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 87
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But with respect to Zion it shall be said, "{Each one}Literally "A man and a man" was born in her," for the Most High himself will establish her.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a manThe Hebrew suggests a strong, vigorous man without strength,Or "without help"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 5
c3content:
set freeOr "forsaken" among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 8
c3content:
You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestableHebrew "an abomination" to them. I am confined and cannot go out.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 9
c3content:
My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my handsHebrew "palms" to you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Do you work wondersHebrew "wonder" for the dead? Or do the departed spiritsHebrew rephaim, sometimes translated "shades"; the weakened state of those who have died rise up to praise you? Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Is your loyal love told in the grave, or your faithfulness in the underworld?Hebrew abaddon, the place of destruction


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Are your wondersHebrew "wonder" known in the darkness, or your righteousnessOr "deed of justice" in the land of forgetfulness?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 88
c2verse: 15
c3content:
I am afflicted and perishing from my youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught.Hebrew meaning uncertain


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I will sing forever of Yahweh's acts of loyal love. {From generation to generation}Literally "To a generation and a generation" I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For I say, "Forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 4
c3content:
'I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne {from generation to generation}.'"Literally "To a generation and a generation" Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And so the heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh, even your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For who in the skyHebrew singular collective "clouds" is equal to Yahweh? Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 8
c3content:
O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Yah, withHebrew "and" your faithfulness surrounding you?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, {you yourself still}Literally "you, you calm" them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{You yourself crushed}Literally "You, you crushed" Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 11
c3content:
The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulnessOr "truth" come before your face.That is, enjoy continual access


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 17
c3content:
For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises up,According to the reading tradition (Qere). The Kethib reads "you exalt our horn"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 18
c3content:
because our shield belongs to Yahweh,Or "Yahweh is our shield." and our king to the Holy One of Israel.Or "The Holy One of Israel is our king."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, "I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 34
c3content:
I will not defileHebrew "profane; treat as common" my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 39
c3content:
You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiledHebrew "profane; treat as common" his crown inHebrew "to" the dirt.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 42
c3content:
You have raised the right handThat is, given them victory of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies rejoice.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 43
c3content:
You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand his ground in the battle.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 47
c3content:
Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 48
c3content:
What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power}Literally "hand"" of Sheol? Selah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 89
c2verse: 50
c3content:
Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 1
c3content:
O Lord, you have been our helpOr "dwelling place" {in all generations}.Literally "in a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Before the mountains were born and you brought forth the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 5
c3content:
You sweep them away like a flood. They fall asleep.The interpretation of 5a is difficult In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 10
c3content:
As for the days of our years, within them are seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their prideOr "span" is trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly away.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent withHebrew "according to" the fear due you?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Return,Or "Turn back your wrath" O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion onOr "change your mind concerning" your servants.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 90
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish for us the work of our hands, yes, the work of our hands, establish it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 1
c3content:
One who lives in the secret placeOr "shelter" of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.Often translated "the Almighty," this is perhaps better understood as "God of the Mountain"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For he will deliverHebrew "he, he will deliver" is perhaps emphatic, "He will certainly deliver" you from the snare of the fowler, from the plague of destruction.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 4
c3content:
With his feathers he will cover you, and under his wings you can take refuge. His faithfulness will be a shield and a buckler.That is, a small, round shield, or perhaps a surrounding bulwark


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 7
c3content:
A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For you, O Yahweh, are my refuge. You have made the Most High your dwelling place.This is the most straightforward translation of the Hebrew, though the "you" of each line would refer to a different person. A more unusual rendering would be "Because Yahweh, my refuge, even the Most High, you have made your dwelling place ..."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Because he loves me, therefore I will deliver him; I will protectThe sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress him because he knows my name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 91
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When the wicked flourish like grass and all the workers of evil blossom, it is so they can be destroyed forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh, for behold, your enemies will perish. All the workers of evil will be scattered.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 10
c3content:
But you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; you have anointed meThe Hebrew's "that I have moistened with fresh oil" seems unlikely. The above translation presupposes the loss of a letter in the Hebrew textual tradition (ballotani for the MT's balloti) with fresh oil.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And so my eye looks on my enemies.This word for "enemies" suggests those watching for any advantage My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The righteousHebrew singular, but used as a collective. The verbs of this verse are also singular will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 14
c3content:
They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant,This is the same word used of the oil in v. 11 and translated "fresh"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 92
c2verse: 15
c3content:
to declare that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no injusticeAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) in him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 93
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh is king; he clothes himself with majesty. Yahweh clothes himself; he girds himself with might. Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 93
c2verse: 3
c3content:
The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh; the rivers have lifted up their {rumbling};Literally "voice" the rivers have lifted up their pounding.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 93
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Mightier than the rumblings of many waters, mightier than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 93
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Your testimonies are fully reliable. Holiness is fitting for your house,Or "temple" O Yahweh, {forever}.Literally "for a length of days"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{They gush words}Literally "They gush, they speak," which is probably a hendiadys unrestrained. All the evildoers boast.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 7
c3content:
whileHebrew "and" they say, "YahA shortened form of "Yahweh" does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Yahweh knows the thoughts of humankind, that {they are to no purpose}.Literally "they are a breath" or "a vanity"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For judgment will return to righteousness,That is, the court system will operate correctly and all the upright in heart will follow after it.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 18
c3content:
When I thought,Hebrew "If/When I said," that is, said to myself "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 19
c3content:
When my troubled thoughts were many {within me},Literally "in my inward parts" your consolations cheered my soul.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 21
c3content:
They band together against the life of the righteous, and declare the blameless guilty of blood.Or "condemn innocent blood"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 94
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he will repay on them their iniquity, and byOr "in" their evil he will destroy them. Yahweh our God will destroy them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 95
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For Yahweh is theThe Hebrew does not have the definite article used twice in the translation of this verse great God, and the great king over all gods,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 95
c2verse: 4
c3content:
in whose hand are the unexplored placesOr "the deep places" of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 95
c2verse: 5
c3content:
to whom belongs the sea that he made, Hebrew "and he made it" and the dry land that his hands formed.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 95
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. {Today}Literally "The day" if you will hear his voice:Or "If only you would hear his voice today"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 95
c2verse: 9
c3content:
when your ancestorsOr "fathers" tried me. They put me to the test, even though they had seen my work.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 95
c2verse: 10
c3content:
For forty years I loathed that generation, and said, 'They are a people whose heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 96
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Sing toOr "concerning" Yahweh; bless his name. AnnounceOr "bring good news concerning" his salvation from day to day.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 96
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For all the gods of the peoples are idols,This word for idols suggests something worthless or insignificant but Yahweh made the heavens.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 96
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Say among the nations, "Yahweh is king! Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved. He will judge the peoples fairly."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 96
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Let the field withHebrew "and" all that is in it exult. Then all the trees of the forests will sing for joy


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 96
c2verse: 13
c3content:
before Yahweh, for he is coming; for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his faithfulness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 97
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Cloud and thick darkness are surrounding him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 97
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 97
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Let all who serve an image be ashamed, those who boast about idols.This word for idols suggests something worthless or insignificant Worship him, all you gods.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 97
c2verse: 9
c3content:
For you, O Yahweh, are most high over all the earth. You are highlyHebrew "very" exalted above all gods.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 97
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He protects the lives of his faithful; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 97
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous, and give thanks {to his holy name}.Literally "to his holy remembrance" or "to his memorable holiness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 98
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Sing toOr "sing concerning" Yahweh a new song, for he has done wonders. His right hand and his holy arm have secured his victory.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 98
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Yahweh has made known his salvation;Or "victory" to the eyes of the nations he has revealed his righteousness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 98
c2verse: 3
c3content:
He has remembered his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvationOr "victory" of our God.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 98
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Shout joyfully to Yahweh, all the earth. Be cheerfulOr "Burst forth" and sing for joy and sing praises.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 98
c2verse: 9
c3content:
before Yahweh, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 99
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Yahweh is king; let the peoples tremble. He sits enthronedOr "dwells" between the cherubim. Let the earth shake.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 99
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the strength of the king loves justice.The interpretation of this line is uncertain You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 99
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They called to Yahweh, and he answered them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 99
c2verse: 8
c3content:
O Yahweh our God, you answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrong deeds.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 100
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Know that Yahweh, he is God; he made us and we are his.According to the reading tradition (Qere); the Kethib reads "and not we ourselves" We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 100
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For Yahweh is good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness is {from generation to generation}.Literally "unto a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 101
c2verse: 2
c3content:
I will give attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 101
c2verse: 3
c3content:
I will not set before my eyes any wicked thing. I hate the work of those who fall away;The term "those who fall away" is a rare noun. The verb from the same root is found in Psa 40:5(4) it will not cling to me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 101
c2verse: 5
c3content:
One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. One haughty of eyes and {arrogant}Literally "wide" of heart, him I will not endure.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 101
c2verse: 6
c3content:
My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may live with me. He who walks in the way of integrity, he shall minister to me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 101
c2verse: 7
c3content:
There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remainHebrew "be established" before my eyes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 101
c2verse: 8
c3content:
{Each morning},Literally "to the mornings" I will destroy all the wicked of the land, cutting off from the city of Yahweh all evildoers.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble. Incline your ear to me. In the day I call, answer me quickly,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 4
c3content:
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eatA rare homonym might yield "I am too wilted to eat" my bread.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 6
c3content:
I am like an owlThe identity of the birds in this verse is uncertain of the wilderness; I am like a little owl of the ruins.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 12
c3content:
But you, O Yahweh, abideOr "sit enthroned" forever, and your remembranceOr "name" {from generation to generation}.Literally "to a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Let this be written for the next generation, so that a people yet to be created may praise Yah,A shortened form of "Yahweh"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 20
c3content:
to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to liberate {those destined to die},Hebrew "the sons of death"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 21
c3content:
so that theyThat is, the generation that reads what is written may make known in Zion the name of Yahweh, and his praise in Jerusalem,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 24
c3content:
I say, "My God, do not carry me off from my life in the middle of my days." Your years continue throughout all generations.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 26
c3content:
They will perish, but you will endure. And like a garment they will all wear out, you will replace them like clothing, and they will be set aside.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 102
c2verse: 28
c3content:
The children of your servants will continue, and their {descendants}Literally "seed" will be established before you.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 103
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger}Literally "long of nostrils" and abundant in loyal love.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 103
c2verse: 13
c3content:
As a father pitiesOr "shows compassion to" his children, so Yahweh pitiesOr "shows compassion to" those who fear him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 103
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But the loyal love of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to their children's children,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 103
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Bless Yahweh, you his angels, you mighty heroes who do his word by {obeying}Literally "hearing" the sound of his word.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 103
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Bless Yahweh, all his works,That is, created things in all the places of his dominion. Bless Yahweh, O my soul.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You clothe yourself with splendor and majesty,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 2
c3content:
you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 3
c3content:
the one who sets beams in the waters for his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who ridesHebrew "goes" on the wings of the wind,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 8
c3content:
They ascended the mountains and drained though the valleys to the place that you establishedOr "appointed" for them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 11
c3content:
They give drink for every beast of the field. The wild donkeys {quench}Literally "break" their thirst.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Along them the birds of the heavens abide. From among the branches they {sing}.Literally "give voice"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 13
c3content:
You are the one who {waters}Literally "give drink" the mountains from his upper chambers. The earth is fullOr "is sated" with the fruit of your labors:


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 14
c3content:
who causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and wine that makes glad the heart of man, so that their faces shine from oil, and bread that strengthens the heart of man.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 24
c3content:
How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 25
c3content:
This is the great and {wide}Literally "broad of hands" sea, in which are moving animals without number, living things small and great.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 26
c3content:
There the ships sail. Leviathan is there that you formed to play with.For this construction meaning "to play with," see Job 40:29 (Eng: 41:5)


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 29
c3content:
You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 33
c3content:
I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life; I will sing praise to my God while {I remain alive}.Literally "while I am still"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 104
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and the wicked {not remain alive}.Literally "they are not still" Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah.Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 6
c3content:
O offspring of Abraham his servant, you descendantsOr "children," or "sons" of Jacob, his chosen ones.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 11
c3content:
saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment that is yourHebrew plural inheritance."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When they were {few in number}Literally "men of number," that is, so few you could count them-- a trifle--and were sojourners in it,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 13
c3content:
and they wandered about {among the nations},Literally "from people to people" from one kingdom to another people,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They clampedHebrew "oppressed, hurt" his feet in fetters.Hebrew "fetter" His neckHebrew nephesh can designate the life, soul, appetite, desire, or throat/neck. went into irons.Hebrew "iron"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 22
c3content:
to obligateHebrew "to bind, imprison" The LXX's "to instruct" presupposes ysr instead of 'sr, and might be correct in light of the parallelism that is fairly tight in this psalm his officials {as he saw fit}Literally "in his desire soul" and teach his elders wisdom.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 105
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And heThat is, God made his people very fruitful. He also made themHebrew "him" stronger than theirHebrew "his" enemies.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 5
c3content:
that I may see the good done your chosen ones, to be glad in the joy of your nation, to glory together with your inheritance.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 6
c3content:
We have sinned along with our ancestors.Or "fathers" We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Our ancestorsOr "fathers" in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and so they rebelled by the sea at {the Red Sea}.Literally "sea of reed"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 9
c3content:
So he rebuked {the Red Sea},Literally "sea of reed" and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they {craved intensely}Literally "craved a craving" in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.Hebrew "soul" or "inner self"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So {he made an oath}Literally "he lifted his hand," an act accompanying an oath against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 27
c3content:
and to disperseOr "let drop" their {descendants}Literally "seed" among the nations and to scatter them among the lands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 28
c3content:
They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.Hebrew "sacrifices of dead"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 31
c3content:
and it was reckoned to him as righteousness {throughout all generations}.Literally "for a generation and a generation"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 33
c3content:
because they rebelled against his Spirit,A slightly different verbal form yields "they embittered his spirit" and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 38
c3content:
and they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and so the land was defiled with the blood.Hebrew "bloods," that is, bloodshed


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 47
c3content:
Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and boast in your praise.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 106
c2verse: 48
c3content:
Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise Yah.Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Let the redeemed of Yahweh declareHebrew "say" it, those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 3
c3content:
and gathered from the lands, from east and from west, from north and from south.Hebrew "sea" (yam), which usually means "west" in a listing of directions. The word "south" is expected (Hebrew yamin). Either the MT was corrupted early (along with Isa 49:12; the LXX reads "sea" in both) or it looks to the bodies of waters to the south (see also the Targum)


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no wayThe MT reads "way" with the previous line. to a city to inhabit.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 20
c3content:
He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits.This word is only found elsewhere in Lam 4:20 with the sense of "traps"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Those who went down to the sea into ships, doing business on the {high seas},Literally "many waters"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 27
c3content:
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and {they were at their wits' end}.Literally "all their wisdom was swallowed up"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 32
c3content:
and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 37
c3content:
and sow fields and plant vineyards, {that they may yield fruit at harvest}.Hebrew "and make a fruit of produce"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 41
c3content:
But he protectsThe sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress the needy from misery, and he makes their families like a flock.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 107
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Whoever is wise, then let him observe these things, and let them consider Yahweh's acts of loyal love.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 108
c2verse: 7
c3content:
God has spoken in his holiness, "I will exult, I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 108
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the {helmet for}Literally "protection of" my head. Judah is my scepter;Or "commander's rod"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 2
c3content:
for {wicked and deceitful mouths}Literally "a wicked mouth and a deceitful mouth" have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When he is judged, let him come out guilty, and let his prayerOr perhaps "plea of innocence" become as sin.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Let his descendantsOr "posterity"; Hebrew is singular be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the next generation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Let the iniquity of his ancestorsOr "fathers" be remembered before Yahweh, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off theirThat is, the family memory from the earth,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 16
c3content:
because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone,Hebrew "a man" poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay them.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Because he loved cursing, let it come upon him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body}Literally "his inward part" like water, and into his bones like oil.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 19
c3content:
May it be for him like a garment in which he wraps, and a belt {he continually wears}.Literally "continually he girds it"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But you, O Yahweh my Lord, deal with me for your name's sake. Because your loyal love is good, deliver me,


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 109
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, let them be put to shame, that your servant may be glad.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 110
c2verse: 1
c3content:
A declaration of Yahweh to my lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 110
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Your people {will volunteer}Literally "will be freewill offerings"; see the related verbal form in Judg 5:2 in the day of your power.Or "day of your army," or "day of battle" In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, you will have the dew of your youth.The meaning of this verse is obscure


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 110
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Yahweh has sworn and he will not change his mind, "You are a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedek."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 110
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He will judge among the nations; he will fill them with corpses. He will shatter the {rulers}Literally "head" of many countries.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 111
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Praise Yah!Hebrew hallelujah I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart, in the assembly of the upright and the congregation.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 111
c2verse: 4
c3content:
He has made his wonders {to be remembered};Literally "a remembrance" Yahweh is gracious and compassionate.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 111
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He has declared the power of his works for his people, by giving to them the inheritance of the nations.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 111
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He has sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever; holy and fearful is his name.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 111
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; all who do themThat is, his precepts (v. 7), or the stipulations of his covenant (v. 9) have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 112
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Praise Yah!Hebrew hallelujah Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh; he takes great delight in his commands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 112
c2verse: 2
c3content:
His {descendants}Literally "seed" will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 112
c2verse: 5
c3content:
It goes well for a man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his {business properly}.Literally "matters in justice"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 112
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For he will not be shaken forever; the righteous {will be remembered forever}.Literally "will be for an eternal remembrance"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 112
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{He gives lavishly}Literally "He distributes freely, he gives" to the needy; his righteousness endures forever. His horn rises high in honor.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 112
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The wickedSingular sees it and is vexed. He gnashes his teeth and {becomes weak}.Literally "and melts" The desire of the wickedPlural perishes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 113
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell as the happy mother of children. Praise Yah!Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 115
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your loyal love, because of your faithfulness.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 115
c2verse: 7
c3content:
they have their hands, but they cannot feel, their feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot utter a sound in their throats.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 115
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Yahweh remembers us; he will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 115
c2verse: 18
c3content:
It is we, we will bless YahA shortened form of "Yahweh" from now until forever. Praise Yah!Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 116
c2verse: 1
c3content:
I love him, because Yahweh has heard {the voice of my supplications}.Literally "my voice, my supplications"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 116
c2verse: 8
c3content:
For you have rescued meHebrew "my soul." If "soul" is accepted, then "death" means "the place of death," that is, the netherworld. from death, my eyesHebrew "eye" from tears, my feet from stumbling.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 116
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Ah, Yahweh, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 116
c2verse: 19
c3content:
in the courts of the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah!Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 117
c2verse: 2
c3content:
For his loyal love is mighty on our behalf, and the faithfulness of Yahweh is forever. Praise Yah!Hebrew hallelujah


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Out of my distress I called to Yah.A shortened form of "Yahweh" Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 12
c3content:
They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 14
c3content:
YahA shortened form of "Yahweh" is my strength and my song,Or "my might" and he has become my salvation.Or "victory"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 15
c3content:
The sound of rejoicing and salvationOr "victory" is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to Yah.A shortened form of "Yahweh"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. We bless youHebrew plural from the houseOr "temple" of Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 118
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.Or "made his light to shine upon to us" Bind the festal sacrificeOr "festal procession" with cordsOr "branches" to the hornsOr "and lead up to the horns" of the altar.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 4
c3content:
You have commandedPerhaps emphatic; Hebrew "you, you have commanded" your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 32
c3content:
I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart.That is, "give greater understanding"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Let your acts of loyal love also come to me, O Yahweh, your salvation according to your word.Or "your promise"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 48
c3content:
And I will lift up my handsHebrew "palms" to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 58
c3content:
I {seek your favor}Literally "entreat your face" with my whole heart; be gracious to me according to your word.Or "your promise"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 70
c3content:
Their heart is insensitive like fat;See Isa 6:10 for a similar idea, but a different word for "fat" As for me, I take delight in your law.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 78
c3content:
Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have wronged me with lies.Hebrew "lie" As for me, I will meditate on your precepts.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 79
c3content:
Let those who fear you turn to me, even those who knowAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) your testimonies.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 84
c3content:
How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute justice against those who persecute me?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 85
c3content:
The arrogant have dug pitsThat is, traps for me, which is not according toOr "who are not in accord with" your law.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 90
c3content:
Your faithfulness endures {throughout all generations}.Literally "for a generation and a generation" You have established the earth and it stands.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 96
c3content:
I have seen a limit to every perfection;The meaning of this line is uncertain. your command is very broad.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 106
c3content:
I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to heed {your righteous ordinances}.Literally "the ordinances of your righteousness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 116
c3content:
Sustain me according to your word,Or "promise" that I may live, and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 121
c3content:
I have done justice and righteousness;Or "done what is proper and right" do not leave me to my oppressors.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 133
c3content:
Direct my steps in your word,Or "through your promise" and do not let any iniquity gain power over me.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 147
c3content:
I rise early in the dawn and cry for help; I hope in your word.According to the reading tradition (Qere)


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 159
c3content:
ConsiderHebrew "See" that I love your precepts; O Yahweh, according to your loyal love preserve my life.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 160
c3content:
The {whole}Literally "head" of your word is truth, and your every righteous judgment endures forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 119
c2verse: 161
c3content:
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles because of your word.According to the reading tradition (Qere)


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 120
c2verse: 3
c3content:
What shall be given to you,That is, by God against the false accuser and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue?


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 122
c2verse: 4
c3content:
where the tribes go up, the tribes of YahA shortened form of "Yahweh" as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 122
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For there the thrones sitThat is, rulers or judges on thrones for judgment, thrones of David's house.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 123
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,Hebrew "masters" as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yahweh our God, until he is gracious to us.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 123
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of the arrogant.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 124
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Our soul has escaped like a bird from the snare of fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 125
c2verse: 2
c3content:
As mountains are round about Jerusalem, so Yahweh is round about his people, from now until forever.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 125
c2verse: 3
c3content:
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the {land}Literally "lot," that is, land allotted of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness.Hebrew "in wickedness"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 125
c2verse: 5
c3content:
But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 126
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Yahweh restored the fortunesOr "captivity" of Zion,Or "those returned of belonging to Zion" we were like dreamers.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 126
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for these people."


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 126
c2verse: 6
c3content:
He who diligently goes out with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come in with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 127
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 127
c2verse: 2
c3content:
It is in vain for you who rise early and sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, when thus heThat is, Yahweh providesHebrew "gives" for his beloved in his sleep.Or "so he gives sleep to his beloved"


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 127
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Look, childrenHebrew "sons" are the heritageThat is, gift of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb is a reward.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 127
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them.Or "whose quiver he Yahweh fills with them" They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 128
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine {within}Literally "in the recesses of" your house. Your childrenHebrew "sons" will be like olive shoots about your table.


c0book: Ps
c1chapter: 129
c2verse: 3
c3content:
On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrowsAccording to the reading tradition (Qere) long."


