The One Year Bible KJV (115 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1
 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2
 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou
art
God.
3
 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4
 For a thousand years in thy sight
are but
as yesterday when it is past, and
as
a watch in the night.
5
 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are
as
a sleep: in the morning
they are
like grass
which
groweth up.
6
 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
7
 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8
 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret
sins
in the light of thy countenance.
9
 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale
that is told.
10
 The days of our years
are
threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength
they be
fourscore years, yet
is
their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11
 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear,
so is
thy wrath.
12
 So teach
us
to number our days, that we may apply
our
hearts unto wisdom.
13
 Return, O L
ORD
, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14
 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15
 Make us glad according to the days
wherein
thou hast afflicted us,
and
the years
wherein
we have seen evil.
16
 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17
 And let the beauty of the L
ORD
our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
91:
1
 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2
 I will say of the L
ORD
,
He is
my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3
 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
and
from the noisome pestilence.
4
 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth
shall be thy
shield and buckler.
5
 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night;
nor
for the arrow
that
flieth by day;
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Nor
for the pestilence
that
walketh in darkness;
nor
for the destruction
that
wasteth at noonday.
7
 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand;
but
it shall not come nigh thee.
8
 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9
 Because thou hast made the L
ORD
,
which is
my refuge,
even
the most High, thy habitation;
10
 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11
 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12
 They shall bear thee up in
their
hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13
 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14
 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15
 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I
will be
with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16
 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
24
 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
25
 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
10
 And also all that generation [of Israel] were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the L
ORD
, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11
 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, and served Baalim:
12
 and they forsook the L
ORD
God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that
were
round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the L
ORD
to anger.
13
 And they forsook the L
ORD
, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
14
 And the anger of the L
ORD
was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
15
 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the L
ORD
was against them for evil, as the L
ORD
had said, and as the L
ORD
had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
16
 Nevertheless the L
ORD
raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
17
 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the L
ORD
;
but
they did not so.
18
 And when the L
ORD
raised them up judges, then the L
ORD
was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the L
ORD
because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
19
 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead,
that
they returned, and corrupted
themselves
more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
20
 And the anger of the L
ORD
was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
21
 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
22
 that through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the L
ORD
to walk therein, as their fathers did keep
it,
or not.
23
 Therefore the L
ORD
left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
3:
1
 Now these
are
the nations which the L
ORD
left, to prove Israel by them,
even
as many
of Israel
as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2
 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
3
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namely,
five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
4
 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the L
ORD
, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5
 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6
 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7
 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, and forgat the L
ORD
their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8
 Therefore the anger of the L
ORD
was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.
9
 And when the children of Israel cried unto the L
ORD
, the L
ORD
raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them,
even
Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
10
 And the spirit of the L
ORD
came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the L
ORD
delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim.
11
 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
12
 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the L
ORD
: and the L
ORD
strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the L
ORD
.
13
 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
14
 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
15
 But when the children of Israel cried unto the L
ORD
, the L
ORD
raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
16
 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
17
 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon
was
a very fat man.
18
 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
19
 But he himself turned again from the quarries that
were
by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
20
 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of
his
seat.
21
 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
22
 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
23
 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.
24
 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour
were
locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.
25
 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened
them:
and, behold, their lord
was
fallen down dead on the earth.
26
 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
27
 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
28
 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the L
ORD
hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
29
 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
30
 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
31
 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
