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15 The burden of Moab. Surely, Ar of Moab was destroyed, brought to silence in a night. Surely, Kir of Moab was destroyed, brought to silence in a night.
2 He shall go up to the Temple, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. For Nebo and for Medeba shall Moab howl. Upon all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.
3 In their streets, they shall be girded with sackcloth. On the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl and come down with weeping.
4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh. Their voice shall be heard to Jahaz. Therefore, the warriors of Moab shall shout. The soul of everyone shall lament in himself.
5 “My heart shall cry for Moab. Its fugitives shall flee to Zoar, as a heifer of three years old. For they shall go up with weeping by the mounting up of Luhith. And by the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 “For the waters of Nimrim shall be dried up. Therefore, the grass is withered, the herbs consumed. There was no green herb.
7 “Therefore, what has been left, and their substance, they shall bear to the brook of the willows.
8 “For the cry went all around about the borders of Moab, its howling to Eglaim, and its shrieking to Beer Elim,
9 “Because the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood. For I will bring more upon Dimon, even lions, upon him who escapes from Moab, and to the remnant of the land.”
16 Send a lamb to the ruler of the world from the rock of the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter Zion.
2 For it shall be as a bird that flies, and a nest forsaken. The daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
3 “Gather a counsel, execute judgment, make your shadow as the night in the midday. Hide those who are chased out. Do not betray him who has fled.
4 “Let My banished dwell with you. Moab, be their shelter from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner shall end. The destroyer shall be consumed, the oppressor shall cease from the land.
5 “And in mercy shall the throne be prepared. And He shall sit upon it in steadfastness, in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.”
6 We have heard of the pride of Moab (he is very proud), its pride and its arrogance and its indignation. But not so its lies.
7 Therefore, Moab shall howl to Moab. Everyone shall howl. For the foundations of Kir Hareseth you shall mourn. Yet they shall be stricken.
8 For the vineyards of Heshbon are cut down, the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the heathen have broken its principal vines. Branches stretched themselves out and went over the sea.
9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer, and of the vine of Sibmah, O Heshbon! And Elealeh, I will make you drunk with my tears, because upon your summer fruits, and upon your harvest, a shouting has fallen.
10 And gladness is taken away, and joy, out of the plentiful field. And in the vineyards shall be no singing or shouting for joy. The treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses. I have caused the rejoicing to cease.
11 Therefore, my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my core for Kir Heres.
12 And when it shall appear that Moab shall be weary of its high places, then shall it come to its temple to pray, but it shall not prevail.
13 This is the Word that the LORD has spoken against Moab since that time.
14 And now the LORD has spoken, saying, “In three years (as the years of a hireling) the glory of Moab shall be despised in all the great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and feeble.”
17 The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, for it shall be a ruinous heap.
2 “The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken. They shall be for the flocks. For they shall lie there, and no one shall make them afraid.
3 “The fortification also shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus. And the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says the LORD of Hosts.
4 “And on that day the glory of Jacob shall be made clean.
5 “And it shall be as when the harvester gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm. And he shall be as him who gathers the ears in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 “Still, a gathering of grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the upmost boughs, four or five in the high branches of its fruit,” says the LORD God of Israel.
7 At that day, a man shall look to his Maker. And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the works of his own hands. Nor shall he look to those things which his own fingers have made, as groves and images.
9 On that day shall the cities of their strength be as forsaken boughs and branches, which were forsaken because of the children of Israel. And there shall be desolation.
10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the God of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and shall graft strange vine branches.
11 In the day, you shall make your plant grow. And in the morning, you shall make your seed flourish. But the harvest shall be gone on the day of sickness, with desperate sorrow.
12 Ah, the multitude of many people! They shall make a sound like the noise of the sea. For the noise of the people shall make a sound like the noise of mighty waters.
13 The people shall make a sound like the noise of many waters. But God shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far away and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And lo, in the evening, there is trouble. But before morning, it is gone. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
18 Oh, the land, shadowed with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
2 sending ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of reeds upon the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and plundered, to a revered people from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled!”
3 All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers in the Earth shall see when He sets up a sign in the mountains. And when He blows the trumpet, you shall hear.
4 For so the LORD said to me, “I will rest and behold in My Tabernacle, as the heat drying up the rain, as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For before the harvest, when the sprout is finished and the grape is ripening in the bud, then he shall cut down the branches with hooks, and shall take away and cut off the branches.
6 They shall be left together for the birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the Earth. For the bird shall summer upon it and every beast of the Earth shall winter upon it.
7 At that time, a present shall be brought to the LORD of Hosts (a people who is scattered abroad and plundered, and from a revered people, from their beginning onward, a subjugator nation whose land the rivers have spoiled) to the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts: Mount Zion.
1 Paul, an Apostle (neither of man, nor by man; but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, Who has raised Him from the dead),
2 and all the brothers who are with me, to the Churches of Galatia:
3 Grace be with you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God, even our Father,
5 to Whom be glory, forever and ever, Amen.
6 I marvel that you are so soon lured away to another gospel from Him who had called you in the grace of Christ,
7 which is not another gospel. Yet, there are some who are agitating you, and intend to pervert the Gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we, or an angel from Heaven, preach to you any other gospel than that which we have preached, let him be accursed.
9 As we have said before, so say I now again: If anyone preaches to you any other gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.
10 For as of now, do I preach man’s doctrine, or God’s? Or, do I go about to please man? For if I were still pleasing man, I would not be the servant of Christ.
11 Now let it be known, brothers, that the Gospel which was preached by me, is not according to man.
12 Neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For you have heard of my former way of life in the Jewish religion; how I persecuted the Church of God extremely, and destroyed it,
14 And advanced in the Jewish religion above many of my countrymen and was much more devoted to the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God (who had set me apart from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace)
16 To reveal his Son in me; that I should preach Him among the Gentiles immediately. I did not communicate with flesh and blood.
17 Nor did I return to Jerusalem, to those who were Apostles before me. But I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.
18 Then, after three years, I came again to Jerusalem, to visit Peter; and stayed with him fifteen days.
19 And I saw no other Apostle except James, the Lord’s brother.
20 Now the things which I write to you, behold, I testify before God, that I do not lie.
21 After that, I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. For I was unknown by face to the Churches of Judea which are in Christ,
22 Who had only heard some say, “He who formerly persecuted us, now preaches the faith which before he destroyed.”
23 And they glorified God in me.
58 Is it true? O congregation, do you speak justly? O sons of men, do you judge uprightly?
2 Indeed, rather, you imagine mischief in your heart. Your hands execute cruelty upon the Earth.
3 The wicked are strangers from the womb. From the belly, they have erred and speak lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; like the deaf adder that stops its ear
5 It does not hear the voice of the enchanter (though he is most expert in charming).
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths. Break the jaws of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt like the waters. Let them pass away. When he shoots his arrows, let them be broken.
8 Let them proceed as a snail that melts, and like the stillborn child of a woman who has not seen the Sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns, let Him carry them away as green, with a whirlwind, in His wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men shall say, “Truly, there is fruit for the righteous. Doubtless, there is a God Who judges on the Earth.” To him who excels: Do not destroy. A Psalm of David on Michtam, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him
12 Apply your heart to instruction; and your ears to the words of knowledge.
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